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May 2, 2024   The U.S. Army recently unveiled a new upgraded variant of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The M2A4E1 version most notably features the Israeli Iron Fist Light, a hard-kill active protection system designed primarily to physically destroy or at least disrupt incoming anti-tank guided missiles and other infantry anti-armor weapons like rocket-propelled grenades. This system could potentially also help defend against the growing threat posed by drones. You can read more about the M2A4E1 Bradley variant here.    Meanwhile, with the final U.S. Marine Corps orders for the MV-22 Osprey now having been placed, the service is looking forward to getting the most out of its tilt-rotor transport as it plans for a career that could see it serve into the 2060s and potentially beyond. Among a raft of enhancements that aim to keep it viable until then, the V-22 Joint Program Office is looking at some radical potential ideas, including optionally piloted configurations. You can read more about those plans here.   Make sure to check out highlights of all our coverage from the last week below. We are also continuing our rolling coverage of the conflict in Ukraine as it develops.    -- Oliver Parken The War Zone Must Read Articles     Marines Poised To Get Their 30mm Cannon-Armed Amphibious Combat Vehicle   Armed with a 30mm Bushmaster cannon, the ACV-30 will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with its largest direct-fire gun.       E-4B Doomsday Plane Replacement Concept Art Has Some Interesting Features   The Survivable Airborne Operations Center concept from Sierra Nevada Corp. has major similarities and differences with its E-4B predecessor.       Marine KC-130Js May Lose Their Missile-Firing Harvest Hawk Kits   The future of armed Marine KC-130Js is in question as a fight in the Pacific brews, but new electronic warfare capabilities are on the horizon.       China’s New Aircraft Carrier Pulls Away From Its Pier Ahead Of Sea Trials   China’s first domestically designed aircraft carrier will introduce the People’s Liberation Army Navy to ‘cat and trap’ naval air operations.       Marines To More Than Triple Size Of Air Defense Forces By 2029   The Marines’ growing number of air and missile defense units are set to begin receiving new Iron Dome and counter-drone systems next year.       Manta Ray Underwater Drone Even More Enormous Than We Thought   New images of the giant underwater drone prototype show it completing in-water testing off Southern California earlier in the year.       China’s H-6K Bomber Seen Firing Air-Launched Ballistic Missile For First Time   A newly released video shows the Chinese air-launched ballistic missile in action, dropped by an H-6K bomber.       From the Archive     How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum   With only minutes to prepare, CF-18 Hornet pilot Bob Wade was let loose in the cockpit of one of the Soviet Union’s latest fighter jets.       Hot Shots     U.S. Air Force F-35s deployed to Ƚask Air Base, Poland, conduct integration training with Polish Air Force F-16 jets over the Polish coast on the Baltic Sea, April 2024.     Sailors shoot with a M2 Browning machine gun while participating in a live-fire exercise aboard the Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, Red Sea, February 16, 2024.     U.S. soldiers pictured before crossing the Vistula River during Exercise DRAGON24, Poland, March 5, 2024.