By RIA Novosti on Thursday, December 12th, 2013

A B-1B Lancer successfully struck a waterborne target with a live warhead for the primary time Aug. 27. The 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed their first of 3 scheduled live-fire tests of a protracted Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, on-board a B-1. The mission sought to guage the separation of the missile from the aircraft and monitor the weapon’s flight route to its intended target. Assessment tracked and documented the missile’s in-flight data with an F/A-18 Hornet. Designed and developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research, the LRASM relies off the Joint... Read More »

Brigade and battalion command posts, the guts of battlefield operations, are more mobile and agile than ever before, and during ongoing improvements in network capability, the military is increasing their ability to maneuver forward inside the fight while retaining commanders’ critical situational awareness. Current technologies equivalent to Warfighter Information Network Tactical, called WIN-T, Increment 2, the Army’s mobile tactical communications network backbone, and emerging solutions just like the Modular Integrated Command Post, or MiCP — a vehicle that efficiently provides networking equipment and tool to support a command post — are enhancing a commander’s ability to steer from anywhere at... Read More »

By Raytheon on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013