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Podcast: Defense & Aerospace Report
Episode: DEFAERO Daily Pod [Apr 02, 25] Hanwha's Pak & Poppe on K9 Thunder and Army's Quest for New Artillery
Description: Jason Pak and Carl Poppe, the senior director and director of business development for land systems at Hanwha Defense USA who are both West Point graduates and retired US Army artillerymen, join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss the recent conclusion of the US Army’s trails as the service seeks a new, more mobile self-propelled howitzer; nature of the test conducted by the five entrants; how the Ukraine war has changed now land forces will use artillery; role of unmanned air systems to better direct and coordinate fires as well as technologies that will increasingly automate future ho...