Lynx is designed to provide a cost-effective alternative to the Puma tracked IFV. (Photo: Rheinmetall)
Partners American Rheinmetall Vehicles and L3Harris Technologies aim jointly to develop the US Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.
American Rheinmetall Vehicles – subsidiary of Rheinmetall - and L3Harris Technologies have signed a teaming agreement to develop a solution for the US Army s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) requirement.
The OMFV will replace the Bradley IFV as part of the Army’s ‘Project Convergence’ modernisation strategy.
American Rheinmetall Vehicles is offering the Rheinmetall Lynx as an option for OMFV that is low-risk and easily upgradable. According to Rheinmetall, Lynx is highly survivable, adaptable to diverse environments, agile and holds huge payload reserves.
A US Air Force war game shows what the service needs to hold off or win against China in 2030 Valerie Insinna
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Sean Carnes/U.S. Air Force WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force repelled a Chinese invasion of Taiwan during a massive war game last fall by relying on drones acting as a sensing grid, an advanced sixth-generation fighter jet able to penetrate the most contested environments, cargo planes dropping pallets of guided munitions and other novel technologies yet unseen on the modern battlefield. But the service’s success was ultimately pyrrhic. After much loss of life and equipment, the U.S. military was able to prevent a total takeover of Taiwan by confining Chinese forces to a single area. (China considers the self-governing province of Taiwan as its sovereign territory, and has vowed to unite it with the mainland.)
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“This is a journey to see what s possible, what can we do with today s technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” $23 million.
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ALTIUS mini-drone in flight over Yuma Proving Ground.
WASHINGTON: Venture-capital backed defense firm Anduril announced today it has acquired Area-I, maker of the ALTIUS multi-purpose mini-drone.
In field experiments, ALTIUS has been launched from Air Force Special Operations AC-130 gunships and Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The mini-drone gives the larger, more expensive manned aircraft an expendable scout they can sent ahead into danger. The Army’s Project Convergence experiments in particular have used ALTIUS as a surrogate for future Air-Launched Effects (ALE).
“The ALTIUS product is incredible…the most flexible, capable platform you have in this space” of air-launched mini-drones, Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf told me. It’s been successfully fitted with multiple types of sensors and launched from multiple types of platform.