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Bookmark or Share- Army Aviation’s $20B Pivot - The MergeThe Merge’s Take: Weapons R&D never ends, but it’s been a long time since the US military got serious about fielding new generations of weapons. With the F-35 on solid footing and the B-21 on the horizon, the US is long overdue for an air-launched weapons renaissance .
- $1.4B Hypersonic Test BedThe Merge’s Take: This is the first new operational airborne electronic attack (AEA) capability in nearly 50 years—which tells you just how overdue this mission is for modernization. This NGJ-MB pod is augmented 2 other initiatives—an upgraded pod called NGJ-MBX (expansion) and a complimentary pod called NGJ-LB (low band).
- Chips on the Line - The MergeThe Merge’s Take: Project Eagle looks into the future, but it directly impacts planning and programming decisions today. The timing of the events comes just before the FY26 budget release, which is probably not a coincidence.
- BUFF 2050 - themerge.coThe Merge’s Take: The explosion of easily accessible space-based commercial capabilities has knocked down barriers to warfighter access to intel and threatened plenty of DC rice bowls in the process.
- Merchant Marine - The MergeThe Merge’s Take: That’s a lot of acronyms to sift through, but here’s the takeaway: The PrSM Inc 2 missile, designed to integrate with existing ground launchers, has requirements to hit moving maritime targets 250+ miles away and is planned to field in 2028.
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