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Air Force

Boeing Combines Army Rockets With Air Force Bombs To Create Smarter Artillery Option

Mai Hanoon

Monday, September 30th, 2013

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Boeing [BA] is working to integrate the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the rocket motors from the Army’s M26 Multiple Launch Rocket System to create a smarter ground-launched artillery option for combatant commanders while creating cost savings for the Army. The M26 system is being demilitarized, with its Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition having been banned in a 2008 cluster munitions treaty. The Army must get rid of its entire stockpile of about 400,000 worldwide by 2019, leaving…

Congress

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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