US Army mortar crews need fast firing solutions. Now, there's an app for that.

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Troops wearing camouflage crouch as they fire a mortar into a clear blue sky.
Troops are liking the new app, finding it modern and easy to use.

Oregon Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Matthew Kane, 115 Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

The US Army is tearing down old tech walls so its weapons can talk to each other

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Two US soldiers stand amongst trees looking at a drone controller.
A hackathon event is pushing the US Army and defense partners to better integrate systems.

US Army photo by Sgt. Nicodemus Taylor

The US Army built an exoskeleton for injured troops to stand and walk for themselves from combat

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A soldier wears an exoskeleton around his left leg while holding a gun in the forest.
The exoskeleton stabilizes the injury and helps bear the wearer's weight so they can stand and walk on their own.

Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) Military Performance Lab

The same location data that helps apps and advertisers track everyday phone users could be putting US troops at risk

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A group of military personnel walk around a helicopter on the deck of a warship.
US troops in the Middle East have been targeted via their phone location data.

US Navy photo

As the US Navy pushes to build more submarines, shipyards keep losing young workers to less demanding jobs

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A submarine sits in blue water near a coast. People stand on the submarine.
Hiring and retaining workers is one challenge, but the Navy is also concerned about the loss of institutional knowledge as workers retire.

US Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten

The US Air Force is working out how to hand the A-10 Warthog's combat search-and-rescue role off to jets like the F-35

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An A-10 Thunderbolt II flies in a cloudy sky.
The Air Force has pushed the retirement of its A-10 Warthogs back to the end of the decade.

US Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rachel Howell

With the US Army watching, defense industry operators turned a logistics drone into a flying rocket launcher

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A drone fires a rocket in the sky.
The TRV 150 fired a 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rocket during the recent test.

APKWS

Top US commander in the Middle East says he needs more bunker busters because 'everybody is going underground'

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A US Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber sits in a garage. A man stands in front of it.
GBU-57s were used during Operation Midnight Hammer to hit Iranian nuclear facilities.

US Air Force photo

US forces wargamed defending a Pacific ally from invasion with layers of firepower. Here's how the drills played out.

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A missile is fired from a truck.
Notable firsts include the use of Japan's Type-88 surface-to-ship missile system outside Japanese territory and the first launch of a Tomahawk missile from the Army's Typhon system abroad.

US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jonathan Beauchamp

Ukraine built its first-ever guided glide bomb, 'Vyrivniuvach,' as a much cheaper homegrown alternative to US-made JDAMs

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A Ukrainian aircraft drops a bomb while flying.
Ukraine has built its first homegrown glide bomb, which is now ready for combat.

Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

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