U.S. Army’s Futures Command Experiments In Arizona Desert

U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk served as a surrogate for the service’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, testing the new Modular Effects Launcher during Project Convergence 21 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
Credit: U.S. Army
For seven weeks this fall, the U.S. Army’s vision of a future conflict in the Pacific played out over the American Southwest with the goal of testing emerging technologies to the point of breaking them and guiding modernization programs at a time when the service’s boss said it needs to make...

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