The Briefing Room
General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 24, 2018, 01:17:03 pm
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Introducing the U.S. Army's 5 (Future) Killer Weapons of War
You may heard of at least a few of them.
by Michael Peck
Key Point: Just as Cold War-era M1 tanks are being replaced, so are the Apache and Blackhawk helicopters that comprised Army aviation. The Future Vertical Lift program aims to develop a family of new helicopters, including an attack/reconnaissance machine.
The U.S. Army already fields an impressive array of weapons. But as the U.S. Army prepares itself for potential conflicts against high-tech Russian and Chinese armies , the Army is working on a slew of new systems ranging from tanks to missiles.
The result will be the gradual disappearance of the familiar weapons born during the Cold War -- the Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters -- that symbolize America's arsenal. In their place will be a new generation of weapons.
Here are five that we will likely see in the coming years:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/introducing-us-armys-5-future-killer-weapons-war-39667
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It's just outright ignorant to suggest that even combined Russia and China are militarily competitive with the United States. We need to be worried about economics.