The document discusses new technologies and concepts that the US Army is exploring to transform land warfare over the coming decades, including: 1) Tanks controlling air-ground robots, AI-enabled targeting, self-guiding ammunition, and autonomous drone swarms. 2) Real-time, multi-domain networking allowing vehicles and aircraft to attack targets in milliseconds. 3) The US Army's Futures Command is analyzing expected operational environments, weapons, and warfare maneuvers through 2040 to develop new concepts of mechanized warfare involving overlapping technological factors.

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Expected new weapons and networking will help Army chart a
course for land warfare decades into the future
The idea is new technologies for new concepts of war, changing maneuver formations, multi-
domain attack, and adaptations to mechanized warfare.
Jun 19th, 2020
WASHINGTON – tanks controlling air-ground robots, AI-enabled targeting and reconnaissance, attacking in
milliseconds, vehicle and aircraft- red lasers, self-guiding ammunition, morphing swarms of autonomous drones and
fast, real-time, multi-doman networking are all anticipated elements of warfare in 2040. Kris Osborn at The National
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The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
19 June 2020 -- These prospects, involving a wide swath of overlapping factors, are capturing the attention of future
concepts experts at Fort Eustis, Va., with Army Futures Command.
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2. They are analyzing the kinds of operational environments, weapons, technologies, and warfare maneuvers expected to
characterize warfare decades from now.
Army Futures Command Combat Capabilities Development Command calls it “Team Ignite,” a special future-oriented
force of scientists, weapons technology experts and warfare strategy and concept developers.
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John Keller, chief editor
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