Author Topic: More fire power: US Army sets out to develop new missiles in FY20  (Read 182 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

rangerrebew

  • Guest
More fire power: US Army sets out to develop new missiles in FY20
By: Jen Judson   
 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is embarking on several new missile development programs while ramping up and accelerating other ongoing programs to deliver more fire power to the force at greater ranges, according to the service’s justification books for its fiscal 2020 budget request.

The service’s No. 1 modernization priority is Long-Range Precision Fires, or LRPF, because the Army believes it is central to future operations in environments where access to terrain may be difficult or entirely denied, or where soldiers lack the territorial advantage to counter threats.

And the LRPF capability plays an important role the service’s emerging doctrine — Multidomain Operations — where the Army and its sister services will work more in concert across sea, land, air, space and cyber domains to overtake the enemy.

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal-budget/2019/03/20/more-fire-power-us-army-sets-out-to-develop-new-missiles-in-fy20/