Weapons

US Army working with SCO on new long-range precision fires

The US Army is working with the Pentagon's secretive Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) to develop new long-range precision fires solutions, the services' vice chief of staff said.

"Long-range precision fires is certainly one of the areas where we are ready to accept any help that others can provide because … in multiple theatres that's an area of significant stress and it's a gap that we need to close as rapidly as we can," General Daniel Allyn told reporters during a 21 June breakfast meeting.

The SCO was created by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in August 2012 (Carter was deputy secretary of defence at that time) to explore new technologies or new uses for legacy technologies that would address higher-end peer competitor militaries such as Russia or China.