Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. The U.S. military is closing in on its high-energy laser weapon of choice for counter-drone missions. Now it needs the vehicles to support it. With the demise of its Stryker-based Directed Energy-Maneuver Short…
WASHINGTON — AM General, manufacturer of the A2 variant of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), responded today to lawmakers’ threats to pull funding from the Marine Corps’ procurement budget for the vehicle due to delivery delays, citing “complex” transition issues as the reason for such setbacks. Earlier this week, the House appropriators on the…
U.S. Marines in Okinawa this month formally received the installation’s first Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System and Marine Air Defense Integrated System, the service announced. The delivery is the service’s latest integration of modernized defenses in the increasingly contested Indo-Pacific. The two systems, NMESIS and MADIS, were welcomed by personnel from the 12th Marine Littoral…
