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WASHINGTON \u2014 Expensive, massive tanks destroyed by small and cheap loitering munitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drones helping artillery locate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A battlefield so flooded with sensors that it\u2019s impossible to stay hidden for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Russia invaded Ukraine<\/a> in February 2022, the Army has carefully taken note of these trends. Now those changes are reshaping the service\u2019s plans from acquisition to how to approach formations to reimagining logistics. Already, the Army has rethought its plans to modernize tanks and altering its strategies with drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe character of war is changing,\u201d Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s annual conference. \u201cIt\u2019s changed more in the last couple of years because of the war in Ukraine. And I think it will continue to change at a very rapid pace and we have to have the mindset to change with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. James Rainey, who leads Army Futures Command, the service\u2019s organization in charge of modernizing the force, said the service needs to adapt its artillery strategy based on both \u201cwhat\u2019s happening in Ukraine\u201d as well as what U.S. Army Pacific requires from conventional fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything we\u2019re seeing in Ukraine [is] about the relevance of precision fires, all the emerging technology, but the big killer on the battlefield is conventional artillery, high-explosive artillery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Army plans to issue a new conventional fires strategy by the end of the year, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine and Russia are locked in daily heavy artillery battles. The U.S. and its partners and allies have sent a wide variety of artillery weapons, including the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System<\/a>, or HIMARS, and millions of rounds of ammunition to counter Russia\u2019s firepower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has credited HIMARS with making a \u201chuge difference\u201d in liberating critical areas of the country under Russian occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine has also made clear artillery is still critical, said retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who previously led U.S. Army Europe. A layered approach to artillery in formations \u2014 meaning using towed or mobile systems with different types of munitions that achieve different ranges \u2014 is required, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man walks on top of a damaged Russian tank in Dmytrivka, Ukraine. (Karl Ritter\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The new artillery strategy will determine both the existing capability and capacity while also detailing future needs, Rainey said. The strategy will also consider new technology to enhance conventional fires on the battlefield, such as advances in propellant allowing midrange cannons to shoot as far as longer-range systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document will also address the role of robotics, such as autoloaders for munitions. The Army has experimented with technology like autoloaders, which take a burden off of artillery operators and improve firing rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army acquisition chief Doug Bush told Defense News in September the fires strategy will drive key decisions within his portfolio, including how to pursue the Extended Range Cannon Artillery requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe strategy is looking at a combination of factors,\u201d Bush said. \u201cWhere do you need towed artillery versus perhaps tracked <\/b>versus perhaps wheeled? What can you do with munitions to get range versus building new cannons?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is developing an Extended Range Cannon Artillery system that uses a service-built <\/b>58-caliber gun tube mounted on the chassis of a BAE Systems-made Paladin Integrated Management howitzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the service in 2020 also assessed available 155mm mobile howitzers seeking improvements in range, rate of fire, and mobility over the artillery systems used within Stryker brigade combat teams. The Army evaluated at least four foreign companies\u2019 offerings in a shoot-off, but ultimately did not move forward with a new capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new artillery strategy could renew the push for rapid procurement of a field-proven 155mm mobile howitzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of our NATO allies have some really good kit [and] capability that we\u2019re interested in,\u201d Rainey noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bush recently visited 18th Airborne Corps, which consist of very light units and they \u201cstill value towed artillery, because they can move it around with helicopters. … But other parts of the Army might want something different,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a new look at an off-the-shelf mobile howitzer is a part of the strategy\u2019s purview, he noted. \u201cFrom an acquisition standpoint, if I get a requirement, we\u2019ve got some options to go pretty fast, if it is acceptable, for example, to take a foreign system rather than building a new one from scratch,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe broad lesson is that you still need artillery. It is the No. 1 killer on the battlefield, still in this conflict [in Ukraine],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fresh take on tanks<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Army in September, after watching loitering munitions destroy tanks in Ukraine and observing both sides struggle to maneuver tanks on the battlefield, opted to scrap its upgrade plan for the M1 Abrams tank and instead pursue a new variant: the M1E3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Abrams tank \u201ccan no longer grow its capabilities without adding weight, and we need to reduce its logistical footprint,\u201d Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean, the Army\u2019s program executive officer for ground combat systems, said in a statement at the time. \u201cThe war in Ukraine has highlighted a critical need for integrated protection <\/b>for soldiers, built from within instead of adding on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Abrams tank \u201cwith all its hood ornaments is already too heavy,\u201d Hodges told Defense News. \u201cGetting heavier is not the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the new effort will take weight off the tank, increasing its mobility and sustainability. Today, if a tank breaks or gets hit in combat, it requires two recovery vehicles to pull it out of the fight. Reducing the tank\u2019s weight would help, Dean said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The <\/b>new design is also intended to integrate active protection capability, including protection from attacks to the roof from loitering munitions and drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Ukrainian soldier equips a drone with grenades in the Donetsk region on March 15, 2023. (Roman Chop\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dean told Defense News in a recent interview the new design will consider how to reduce the supply chain and make it easier to maintain the vehicle while on the battlefield. It will also improve reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has begun to receive its 31 M1 Abrams tanks from the U.S. military, and the U.S. Army is likely to soon learn more about how the tank holds up against the Russians, Dean said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tank \u201cremains very, very relevant,\u201d Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said at a recent think tank event. \u201cThe claims that we\u2019re seeing the end of the value of tanks were a little bit premature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports, in the first two months of the war, Russia lost well over 400 tanks, spurring a debate over whether tanks were too cumbersome for the modern battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth acknowledged munitions that can hit the top of armored vehicles and tanks <\/b>remain a challenge and said \u201cwe are working to develop capabilities to defend against that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dean, noting he could not discuss details, said the Army is working extensively on how to protect tanks and combat vehicles from loitering munitions. Loitering munitions regularly destroy tanks and combat vehicles on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have got to get better at top-attack inbound defeat,\u201d Rainey said at the AUSA Warfighter Summit in July. \u201cIt\u2019s solvable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the service has long focused on protecting combat vehicles from the side and has integrated Rafael\u2019s Trophy active protection system on the M1 Abrams tank, the protection has decreased the tank\u2019s mobility. The same problem applies to the APS kits, which provide protection from anti-tank weapons. The service has yet to field APS on either the Stryker combat vehicle or the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving in minutes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Army has long set up elaborate command posts on the battlefield, putting up climate-controlled tents equipped with generators. The service has said these tactical operations centers must get smaller, both in size and in electromagnetic signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the war in Ukraine has put more pressure on the service to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGone are the days where you\u2019re setting up a whole [tactical operations center]. And two hours is too much time,\u201d George said. \u201cWe need to be able to move in minutes. We need to be able to command and control on the move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted the war has also proven the need for open architecture that is mobile and can be rapidly updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army \u201chas to fix what it has and then pivot to what the C2 architecture is going to be in the future,\u201d George added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told Defense News he was struck recently by watching a unit going through a large exercise and only relying on five Stryker combat vehicles and 35 people to provide command-and-control for the entire brigade combat team. The Strykers, equipped with commercial, off-the-shelf laptops, tablets and radios, never had to be together physically as they were connected through a network operating as one node, George said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth also recalled a similar visit to a training rotation at Fort Johnson where a unit had designed its TOC to be \u201cmuch more mobile\u201d and could break down and set up within two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something that we\u2019re going to be spending time on, developing the capabilities to do that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has taught the Army it is going to have to learn how to \u201cfight under constant observation of commercially available space, the electromagnetic spectrum, social media,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cWe are going to have to figure out how to fight when the enemy\u2019s going to know where we are or prevent him; so concealment, deception, camouflage, constantly good tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth also noted the Army must be able to operate even if command posts are cut off due to failed signals or enemy jamming. The Army is experimenting in this type of environment regularly during events like Project Convergence, a large exercise focused on developing a modernized force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote logistics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. quickly faced a challenge early in the war in Ukraine. It was sending complex equipment to Ukraine \u2014 but without the experienced maintainers to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a parking lot in Poland just months after the war began, the U.S. Army started answering the call for help, offering remote maintenance support. Army maintainers virtually demonstrated maintenance to their Ukrainian counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the Army has expanded its use of remote maintenance support to nearly every platform sent to Ukraine, including those of allies and partners. The service built a facility and a repair parts warehouse in Poland and began offering expertise through text message, prerecorded video or live stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This effort is now providing a road map for future logistics. George said at a recent event Ukraine is changing how the service \u201cis looking at things on the logistics side,\u201d citing virtual maintenance and 3D printing of parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. soldiers offload M1A1 Abrams tanks needed for training Ukrainian forces at Grafenwoehr, Germany, on May 14, 2023. (Spc. Christian Carrillo\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Army now weighing how to apply tele-maintenance to the Indo-Pacific region, George told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the Army, watching Ukraine, is preparing for what it calls contested logistics, meaning its logistical efforts would be under constant attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a theoretical recognition that logistics were going to be contested, but the Ukraine conflict, I think, has really made that very real to all of us,\u201d Wormuth said at a recent event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army has established a new cross-functional team for contested logistics under Army Futures Command focused on this challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparing for the future<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine has, according to service leaders, validated many of the Army\u2019s modernization priorities, laid out a little over five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army was already focused on countering unmanned aircraft systems because of operations in the Middle East and had set up a joint office at the Pentagon. The use of drones on the battlefield in Ukraine has accelerated efforts to come up with a layered approach to defeating the systems, both big and small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe scale of [drones on the battlefield] has been sort of astonishing and it has reinvigorated this focus on the lowest sort of short-range air defenses that would be needed for that,\u201d Stacie Pettyjohn, a defense analyst at the Center for a New American Security, told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ukrainian servicemen fly a drone on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on Dec. 30, 2022. (Sameer al-Doumy\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And not all technology used to defeat drones needs to be exquisite. While the Army is working on directed-energy and high power microwave capabilities to defend against drone swarms, \u201cyou\u2019re seeing that the Ukrainians need things like a smart shooter, a sight that they can put on a rifle that allows them to use [artificial intelligence]. It\u2019s still pretty advanced, but it\u2019s this tech that improves existing guns and allow them to take out some of the smallest quadcopters,\u201d Pettyjohn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formations may also need to change, Wormuth said. The Army \u201cneed[s] to probably have organic air defense with our fires in our maneuver units so that they can protect against drones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air and missile defense for threats beyond drones is also receiving new attention. Russia has shown it will use multimillion dollar rockets and missiles against apartment buildings, Hodges said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth said the Army is beginning to grow the air and missile defense force. The service is in the process of building an additional Patriot battalion, but it\u2019s not dedicated to a specific combatant command yet. The Army also wants to grow additional Indirect Fire Protection Capability units as well, she noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These new units will be able to defend against cruise missiles and drones along with rockets, artillery and mortars at fixed and semi-fixed sites. The Army is still developing prototypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having the ability to see or sense as much as possible at all times, is another way the Army is changing because of Ukraine. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of interest in drones to be able to provide us with [persistent sensing],\u201d Wormuth told Defense News. \u201cBut we\u2019re going to have a layered approach to that … we\u2019re investing in the [High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System], fixed-wing platform. … I think you\u2019ll see aerostats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing from Ukraine, \u201cthere\u2019s no shortage of observations that we should think about,\u201d Rainey said. And the Army is \u201ccommitted to turning those observations genuinely into lessons learned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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