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    Army soldiers exit a 30-millimeter Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle during a team fire lane at in Armavir, Armenia, in July 2024.
    John Keller
    Sept. 15, 2025
    Stryker RV offers the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3) sensor system that provides enhanced observation and target acquisition.

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    The U.S. Navy’s fourth Trident II D5 Performance Evaluation Missile was launched from the submerged USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) in December 1989, off the East Coast of Florida.
    The Greensea Systems Bayonet 250 is for explosive ordnance disposal in littoral environments in shallow water and surf zones. It provides autonomous capabilities for mine and explosive threat neutralization.
    Desktop trainers display naval aviation's new carrier-based joint air training program in a lab at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division near its Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2024.
    U.S. Marine Corps aviation ordnance technicians load an AGM-179 joint air-to-ground munition (JAGM) onto an AH-1Z M299 launcher at Kadena Air Base, Japan, in June 2024.
    This artist's concept depicts the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program to develop tactical autonomy for multi-ship beyond-visual-range air combat missions, and to enable crewed and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles to work together.
    The Burke-class destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a standard missile 2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea last spring.
    A NATO tactical director operates inside a NATO AWACS aircraft during a military exercise last June.
    U.S. Marines launch an ACV last month during training on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.
    John Keller
    Sept. 4, 2025
    The Marine Corps could end up purchasing as many as 204 vehicles over the next few years to outfit some of its 10 amphibious assault companies.
    An Army National Guard cryptologic linguist trains in 2022 on a new tactical dismounted electronic warfare and signals intelligence (TDEWS) system at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
    John Keller
    Sept. 3, 2025
    TROUT project focuses on rapidly fieldable real-time signal processing prototypes to analyze RF transmissions automatically for time-critical alerts.
    The Kongsberg RT-20 is designed to resist the corrosive effects of salt water and salt spray in the marine environment.
    John Keller
    Sept. 3, 2025
    RT-20 is a compact remotely operated weapons turret with a 30-millimeter automatic cannon, linkless ammunition handling, and advanced fire control.
    A 3rd Infantry Division Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle drives off of a barge during a wet-gap crossing exercise on Fort Stewart, Ga., in 2021.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The AMPV armored combat vehicle has several electronic subsystems that involve communications, situational awareness, and command and control.
    Maine Air National Guard airmen deploy the MUOS antennae to establish radio communications via satellite link in Montenegro in May 2023.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The MUOS system uses a 3G wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) cell phone-like service network architecture and geosynchronous satellites.