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Is This America’s Deadliest Soldier?
Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. (1 Samuel 18:7) The web is abuzz over Dillard Johnson, a retired Army sergeant first class whose newly released memoir, Carnivore, claims he...
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Sgt. Daniels’ Miraculous Helmet & The Body Armor Revolution
Life or death in wartime is horrifically random, subject to “fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,” but sometimes that randomness generates not tragedy, but miracles. Such is the story of Army...
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The Army Gets Unreal: The Pros & Cons Of Video Games For Combat Training
This summer, the US Army’s research & development command, RDECOM, has kicked off an experiment to try infusing the latest commercial video game technology into the Army’s most important combat...
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SOCOM Wants YOU To Help Build High-Tech ‘Iron Man’ Armor
US special operators are notoriously low-profile “silent professionals.” But lately the Internet’s been abuzz over Special Operations Command’s effort to build a high-tech suit of bulletproof armor –...
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DARPA’s ULTRA-Vis Augments Reality For Foot Troops
PENTAGON: After 20 years of unsuccessful efforts to produce a wearable display to provide foot troops digital data without blocking their view of the real world around them, DARPA has invented one...
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DRS Unveils Very Small SIGINT Sensor
WASHINGTON: Imagine reconnaissance teams operating in enemy territory being able to hump in their own tiny signals intelligence (SIGINT) sensors, able to gather intel on both electronic emissions...
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SOCOM Builds Iron Man, Piece By Piece
WASHINGTON: Despite the hype, the US Special Operations Command won’t issue Iron Man-style armor to its troops any time soon. But that’s not the standard by which to assess the success or failure of...
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Trucks From The Sky: Polaris Pitches DAGOR For ULCV
On Monday, truck makers will submit data to the Army on potential candidates for the Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle. ULCV has to be big enough to carry nine fully equipped infantrymen, small enough to...
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US Airborne, UK Paras Give Thumbs-Up On Light Vehicles
Red Falcons Further Integrate LTAVTThis week we caught up with Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, Red Falcons out deep in the Fort Bragg woods integrating the LTATV’s...
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Northrop Grumman Scout Truck Is Laser-Ready; Boasts Huge Power Generation
AUSA: “There’s never been that much power on a vehicle this small,” said Jeff Wood, showing off Northrop Grumman’s new Hellhound scout car. In fact, he told reporters, standing amidst the buzzing chaos...
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Biggest Change For Infantry Since WWII: XM25
WASHINGTON: Buried in a bleak Army budget is a bright nugget of revolution: a precision-guided grenade launcher called the XM25. In difficult development for over a decade, the XM25 will finally enter...
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Robot Brains Where & When You Want ‘Em
Classic science fiction imagined evil master computers remote-controlling their mindless robot minions. It imagined good-guy droids that were basically humans in tin suits. But as the actual science of...
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Marines, NSA To Bring Smartphones To Rifle Squad
The Marine Corps and National Security Agency have joined forces to bring cellphones to the battlefield by 2019. Working with the NSA’s new Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program should let...
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Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much
Tiny drones, no bigger than your palm, were the big stars of an Army experiment in Hawaii, participants told Breaking Defense. Larger ground robots, however, struggled in the jungle. Staff Sergeant...
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Big Guns For Light Infantry: Mobile Protected Firepower
This week at Fort Benning, Ga., the Army told some 200 industry representatives from 59 companies what it wants in its next war machine, the Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle (MPF). The MPF must be...
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Gun Truck: Oshkosh Unveils 30mm Chaingun JLTV For Army Recon
After a summer of speculation and anticipation, truck maker Oshkosh is rolling out the much-awaited upgunned variant of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, meant to scout ahead of Army infantry. While...
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Oshkosh Shows Off Big Gun JLTV: 30mm Cannon
Oshkosh has just started delivering Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to replace the military’s iconic and under-armored Humvee, but it’s already got its sights — literally — on the next big thing. The...
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Drone-Killing Laser Stars In Army Field Test
During a recent Army exercise, a prototype laser shot down so many drones that its operator started losing count. “I took down, I want to say, twelve?” Staff Sgt. Eric Davis told reporters. “It was...
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Lockheed Exoskeleton Gives Troops A Leg Up, Literally
It is not Iron Man. It isn’t even Iron Fist. Lockheed Martin’s newest exoskeleton is more like Iron Leg. But for a soldier humping his weapons, ammo and body armor up a mountain in Afghanistan or a...
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Upgunned Strykers Open Fire At Aberdeen – But Fielding Will Be Slow
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Two years after the Europe-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment requested more firepower to deter the Russians, 30 millimeter shells and Javelin missiles thundered downrange here at the...
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