This is how you can get your hands on the Army’s new combat video game

TheTots A brand new Army-designed multiplayer combat simulator will be opening up Beta testing on Oct. 10, 2017. The new game, Operation Overmatch, will focus on tank versus tank combat. The player can operate a wide range of vehicles — currently existing, concept, or player created — as they fight over objectives in either single […]

Russian Army’s wish list: 100 Armata tanks, Terminators, mystery nuclear-related device (PHOTOS)

The Russian Ministry of Defense revealed its immediate and future plans for hardware procurement. The wish list, including conventional arms, and those “based on new principles of physics” was announced at a major military expo held near Moscow. Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said that during the Army 2017 expo, the ministry signed 23 contracts […]

The US Army’s main battle tank is getting a new, high-tech, multipurpose 120 mm round

US Army, Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II The Army is now engineering a new Advanced Multi-Purpose 120 mm ammunition round for a far-superior M1A2 SEP v4 Abrams tank variant for the 2020s and beyond — designed to be more lethal, faster, lighter weight, better protected, equipped with new sensors and armed with upgraded, more effective […]

Hackers can take a hidden test to become mid-grade officers in the US Army’s Cyber Command

GoArmy.com via Youtube As cyberattacks on the US become commonplace, disorienting, and potentially damaging to the US’s fundamental infrastructure, the US Army’s Cyber Command reached out to civilian hackers in a language they could understand — hidden hacking puzzles online. In the opening sequence of a Go Army commercial for Cyber Command, green text scrolls […]

The US Army’s new truck is silent — and driving it is surreal

High Gear Media When you’re slinking behind enemy lines, the last thing you want is to be detected. For the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), the next step in military vehicle technology marks its location with only a hint of water dripping out of its tailpipe. The only sound you’ll […]

U.S. Army’s Tactical Augmented Reality turns grunts into AR-toting soldiers

Many of the great minds in the tech industry believe augmented reality could have an incredible impact on our lives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook who believes AR could develop an audience as large as mobile phones. You can add the minds behind the U.S. military to that list now, as Next Reality News reports that the U.S. Army […]

The US Army’s wish-list includes 17,000 more soldiers

The Army is signaling to Congress it would like 17,000 more soldiers after President Trump’s recently unveiled defense budget called for zero growth in the size of the force in 2018, according to documents obtained Friday by the Washington Examiner. The $ 3.1 billion troop increase is included in a so-called wish list of the […]

Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 Concept: We Ride in the Army’s Experimental Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Truck

– If you are anything like us, the first question you have when learning about a hydrogen-powered military vehicle is basically this: “So, what happens when, you know, people shoot at the hydrogen tanks?” Charlie Freese, General Motors’ executive director of global fuel-cell activities and our driver today, assures us that the tanks—which store hydrogen […]