The complete Modern Warfighter analysis archive.
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Apache Budgets Narrow the Factory Path for the Army’s Next Radar-Detection Sensor — Oct. 17, 2026
Open analysisMV-75 Gets $200 Million for Prototypes as the CR Restricts Long-Lead Production Money — Oct. 13, 2026
Open analysisBell's X-76 and the Stop/Fold Approach to High-Speed VTOL — Oct. 12, 2026
Open analysisShield AI’s X-BAT and the Runway Problem — Oct. 9, 2026
Open analysisGrey Wolf Reaches Full-Rate Production With Its Support System Still Unfinished — Oct. 1, 2026
Open analysisThe Pentagon Slowed F/A-XX for F-47. Boeing Now Has Both — Sept. 29, 2026
Open analysisUp to 24 More T901 Engines Would Stay on the Development Contract — Sept. 26, 2026
Open analysis16 Black Hawks in FY2026, One Requested for FY2027 — Sept. 25, 2026
Open analysisThe X2 Lineage — Sept. 24, 2026
Open analysisThe Lakota After the Cockpit — Sept. 23, 2026
Open analysisNGC2 and the Fight to Distribute Command — Sept. 23, 2026
Open analysisAH-1 Cobra to AH-64 Apache: The Limits of Buying Time — Aug. 27, 2026
Open analysisArmy Awards Collins Up to $472.4 Million for Chinook Avionics — Aug. 26, 2026 Open analysis
The Engine That Outlived Its Own Program — Aug. 23, 2026
Open analysisThe 81mm That Changes the Mortar Trade — Aug. 23, 2026
Open analysisTen Pounds of Belt-Fed — Aug. 23, 2026
Open analysisReplace, Extend, Modernize: The Black Hawk Is Running on Three Clocks — Aug. 22, 2026
Open analysisThe BRRRRT Act: Congress Raises the A-10 Floor Again — July 26, 2026
Open analysisScaling the Airframe or Scaling the Software: Sikorsky’s Real Gambit Behind Nomad — July 23, 2026
Open analysisAnduril and Archer Unveil Thunder, an Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft for Future Army Aviation — July 21, 2026
Open analysisOne Navy, Multiple Crises: The Hidden Cost of the Middle East Carrier Surge — June 18, 2026
Open analysisF-47 Gamble: NGAD, CCAs, and the Future of Air Dominance — May 28, 2026
Open analysisThe Permanent Platform: Chinook Block II and the Autonomy Pivot — May 25, 2026
Open analysisCongress Passed Two Different F-14 Bills. Nobody Has Noticed. — May 9, 2026
Open analysisHow the A-10 Extension to 2030 Exposes the Strategic Gap in the Air Force’s Future Fleet — Apr. 21, 2026
Open analysisArmed Black Hawk: Lift, Lethality, and the Fight for Mass — Apr. 15, 2026; updated July 23
Open analysisGeometry of the Kill Chain: Repositioning the Apache Inside the Distributed Fight — Apr. 10, 2026
Open analysisThe Black Hawk Enters the Autonomy Era — Oct. 31, 2025
Open analysisInside the UH-60MX Autonomy Architecture — Oct. 31, 2025
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