I - On Defense Podcast - EP 75: Bell V-280 Valor wins Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Competition + Army Plans to Almost Triple 155mm Artillery Ammo Production by 2025

EP 75: Bell V-280 Valor wins Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Competition + Army Plans to Almost Triple 155mm Artillery Ammo Production by 2025

12/06/22 • 19 min

Two big stories.
Future Vertical Lift (Army Modernization Priority #3) contract awarded to Bell V-280 as the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA).
Army plans to increase production of key munitions including: 155MM ammo; Javelins; Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (munitions); and NASAMS (systems).

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undefined - EP 74: Potential Combined Arms Training (Infantry & Artillery) for Ukraine by US + Germany to Provide Unmanned Ground Vehicles to Ukraine + Poland Continues Modernization Efforts + US FY23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

EP 74: Potential Combined Arms Training (Infantry & Artillery) for Ukraine by US + Germany to Provide Unmanned Ground Vehicles to Ukraine + Poland Continues Modernization Efforts + US FY23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

EP 74 is the 2d episode within 24 hours. Just getting to stories that I could not get to in EP 73. Two good stories from The Defense Post- one concerning possible combined arms training provided by the US (in Germany)- and the 2d discusses Unmanned Ground Vehicles that will be provided by Germany to Ukraine for the purposes of Route Clearance & Casualty Evacuation. Finally, we (try to) discuss defense funding- first with Poland's modernization efforts and then- the ever contentious US National Defense Authorization Act (and subsequent Appropriations Bill).

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undefined - EP 76: Foreign Military Sales to Taiwan - South Korea - Poland + US Army Infantry Weapons Mod Strategy + Directed Energy (DE) - MSHORAD Fielding Update (Fort Sill, OK) + FY23 NDAA Approved by House; now on to Senate

EP 76: Foreign Military Sales to Taiwan - South Korea - Poland + US Army Infantry Weapons Mod Strategy + Directed Energy (DE) - MSHORAD Fielding Update (Fort Sill, OK) + FY23 NDAA Approved by House; now on to Senate

Busy episode (37 minutes plus). We manage to cover three Foreign Military Sales as reported by the Def Sec Cooperation Agency plus the latest news concerning the FY23 NDAA. We also discuss a great article from National Defense (Nov issue) on the Army's plans to modernize Infantry weapons (rifles, machine guns, mortars, & shoulder launched munitions). Finally-somewhere in there- we talk about the 50 kw Laser equipped DE-MSHORAD (Stryker).