AUSA 2025

Branded Content: The Air Defense Light Variant packs layered counter-UAS and short-range air defense capabilities into a highly mobile JLTV.

The Army wants a platoon of prototypes very quickly to prove out its lighter-weight hybrid-electric Abrams tank concept.

Missile-armed autonomous launchers from Oshkosh Defense and Raytheon DeepFires were out in force at the Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) main annual symposium.

The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is having to drastically adapt its playbook in order to be effective in future fights against major foes.

We get up close with Sikorsky’s new U-Hawk uncrewed Black Hawk that traded its cockpit for clamshell doors.

From fielding drone defenses to an American Shahed-136-like capability, and most things in-between, the U.S. is behind, according to a top U.S. Army General in Europe.

South Korean-built Gray Eagle STOL drones will be offered to the local armed forces, as well as the U.S. military and other customers.

The Switchblade 400 leverages the larger 600 design to offer similar capabilities in a shorter-range package that a single person can employ.

Excessive weight was among the lengthy criticisms of the M7 that an Army captain put forward earlier this year, prompting widespread attention.

Boeing plans a series of new rotary-wing drones, starting with the Collaborative Transformational Rotorcraft that will be a loyal wingman for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

The new U-Hawk can lug thousands of pounds of cargo internally that would never fit in a standard Black Hawk, and launch scores of its own drones and munitions.

Northrop Grumman hopes to begin air-launched flight testing of Lumberjack, which can also drop its own small munitions, next year.

Drone boats, attack helicopters, unmanned ground vehicles and other platforms are being earmarked to carry improved versions of the anti-drone system.

The U.S. Army canceled the futuristic XM25 grenade launcher program in 2018, citing weight and cost factors.

Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing proprotor concept has evolved into a proposed family of long-endurance uncrewed aerial systems with VTOL capabilities.

Ukraine’s ability to produce massive amounts of certain kinds of drones and its experience using them in combat could come in handy for the U.S.

Typhon brings the means to rapidly deploy Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 missiles, giving the ability to put targets at risk up to 1,000 miles away.

The Israeli-designed Spike-NLOS gives Apaches the ability to hit moving targets far away with exacting precision.

The U.S. Army asks “Have you ever seen a drone drop a GRENADE?” The answer is yes.

The Army plans to field the Typhon system permanently in the Indo-Pacific, which will provide persistent long-range strike capability on China’s doorstep.

The Army’s Patriot force is inadequate to meet current demands, which would be a huge problem if a high-end fight were to break out.