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The US Army can’t build new weapons anymore

Summary and Key Points – The cancellation of the M10 Booker in mid-2025 has ignited a rapid shift in the U.S. Army land ...
The war in Ukraine showed the US Army just how effective small drones can be. They can be more than scouts. They can be ...
The jamming cut soldiers off from commanders and limited what they could see. They located the source and took it out with ...
The Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS, would scrub vehicles, critical infrastructure and key terrain while allowing ...
With a single invisible shot, Raytheon's Coyote Block 3 UAV zapped swarms of drones out of the sky in a US Army demonstration ...
Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...
Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...
Many military weapons failed not due to poor design but because they required ideal conditions war rarely provides. Systems dependent on clear weather, secure logistics, uncontested access and ...