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Army Wants Tenfold Increase In Combat System Capability

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Army Wants Tenfold Increase In Combat System Capability
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley speaks to Soldiers at Qayyarah Airfield West, Iraq, Dec. 22, 2017. The Soldiers are currently deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Avery Howard)

In pursuing its modernization goals, the Army wants bullets, tanks, radios and rifles that are up to 10 times as capable as the gear it currently fields.The Army wants leap-ahead technologies and platforms that will allow it to “shoot, move, communicate, protect and sustain” an extended land-based campaign against a technologically sophisticated foe, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Jan. 17 at a breakfast hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army outside Washington, D.C.“We want to be so…

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