#us-army

GE Aerospace 表示，如果要让黑鹰直升机整合资格测试按计划推进，陆军的改进型涡轮发动机项目将在 2027 财年需要资金支持。

美国陆军决定不将其300千瓦间接火力防护高能激光系统推进到正式计划，放弃了本应成为其最强大作战激光武器的项目，也暴露了定向能武器的雄心与战场现实之间持久存在的工程差距。

The U.S. Army has placed a $186 million order for AeroVironment's Switchblade loitering munitions, including both anti-personnel and tank-killing variants. The purchase signals the military's accelerating shift toward expendable autonomous weapons systems.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll says the service aims to purchase one million drones within 18 to 24 months and will launch a soldier-led marketplace next month where private companies can sell drone innovations directly to military units. The push follows the Army's inaugural Best Drone Warfighter Competition.

At Fort Stewart, Georgia, US soldiers who enlisted to drive tanks are now piloting drones on laptops. The Army's Transformation in Contact initiative is absorbing lessons from Ukraine's battlefield, where cheap drones are destroying armor at an unprecedented rate.

RTX's Raytheon division demonstrated a non-kinetic variant of its Coyote interceptor drone that uses electromagnetic pulses to disable multiple enemy drones in flight -- then lands safely for reuse.