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U.S. Army awards new contracts for combined-arms squad prototypes

Lockheed Martin and CACI Inc. have won contracts to develop prototypes for a combined-arms squad valued at as much as $22 million and $9.9 million, respectively. The Department of Defense has contracted both companies to design, develop and validate system prototypes that are intended to deliver...
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bobbymike said:
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U.S. Army awards new contracts for combined-arms squad prototypes

Lockheed Martin and CACI Inc. have won contracts to develop prototypes for a combined-arms squad valued at as much as $22 million and $9.9 million, respectively. The Department of Defense has contracted both companies to design, develop and validate system prototypes that are intended to deliver...
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two, too large LSIs, so likely an inferior, closed, expensive, and clunky system
 
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Navy engineers' futuristic tech visions include invisible body suits

Engineering graduates dreamed up the future for Royal Marines' kit at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone. The exoskeleton suit (pictured right) would allow Marines to scale walls with ease.
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scenario appears to be Brit invasion of Euro mainland again, D-day 2, a Brexit gone bad.
 
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Marine Corps Taking Training Out of the Industrial Age

Marine Corps Taking Training Out of the Industrial Age
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“The Marine Corps is effectively 100 percent committed rotating forces in and out of the theater,” he said. “When do you have uncommitted capacity in your force or on your training schedule to do the sorts of things that the commandant is saying that they need to do?”

The service needs to reorient itself to open up resources for additional training, he noted. For example, the Marine Corps has been quick to accept requests from allies to engage in international exercises but that takes time and effort.

“The biggest challenge is this cultural reorientation and learning how to say no, so that it frees up attention, the resources, the people, the units [so] that you can start walking through and figuring out these new sorts of tactics, techniques and procedures that are more likely to be needed in a distributed maritime operational environment,” Wood said.
 
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Russian troops to use solar panels to power their equipment

The engineering troops have received 30, 50 and 100 Wt autonomous electric power sources, according to the top brass
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"A portable individual electric power source has been accepted for service in the Russian engineering troops. This system is a mobile compact solar charger with a photovoltaic device in the form of a folding solar panel. The first batch of these sources has arrived at the central engineering storage facilities and is now being dispatched to engineering troops’ units," the ministry’s press office said.

The engineering troops have received 30, 50 and 100 Wt autonomous electric power sources, it specified.

"As their innovative feature, the solar batteries use Russian-made photovoltaic converters manufactured under modern technology with an efficiency factor of over 20% in their design. These power sources are designed to accomplish tasks in the absence of centralized electric power supply," the press office noted.
 
panzerfeist1 said:
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Russian troops to use solar panels to power their equipment

The engineering troops have received 30, 50 and 100 Wt autonomous electric power sources, according to the top brass
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"A portable individual electric power source has been accepted for service in the Russian engineering troops. This system is a mobile compact solar charger with a photovoltaic device in the form of a folding solar panel. The first batch of these sources has arrived at the central engineering storage facilities and is now being dispatched to engineering troops’ units," the ministry’s press office said.

The engineering troops have received 30, 50 and 100 Wt autonomous electric power sources, it specified.

"As their innovative feature, the solar batteries use Russian-made photovoltaic converters manufactured under modern technology with an efficiency factor of over 20% in their design. These power sources are designed to accomplish tasks in the absence of centralized electric power supply," the press office noted.
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COD 6: Environmentally Friendly Warfare.
 
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REFILE-Landmines important tool U.S. troops need: Pentagon chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that landmines were an important tool that U.S. forces needed, as President Donald Trump's administration is expected to relax Obama-era restrictions on the U.S. military's use and acquisition of them.
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Trump eases restrictions on land mine use by U.S. military

President Donald Trump on Friday relaxed Obama-era restrictions on the U.S. military's use of anti-personnel land mines, arguing that the previous policy could put American troops at a "severe disadvantage."
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Grey Havoc said:
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REFILE-Landmines important tool U.S. troops need: Pentagon chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that landmines were an important tool that U.S. forces needed, as President Donald Trump's administration is expected to relax Obama-era restrictions on the U.S. military's use and acquisition of them.
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Trump eases restrictions on land mine use by U.S. military

President Donald Trump on Friday relaxed Obama-era restrictions on the U.S. military's use of anti-personnel land mines, arguing that the previous policy could put American troops at a "severe disadvantage."
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Smart land mines could certainly stop vehicular suicide bombers rushing checkpoints.
 
Checkpoints are usually located on roads you intend to use yourself. Land mines going off in the middle of friendly traffic?
 
As opposed to shooting at in the middle of friendly traffic or just letting it come? I assume a smart mine could have a proximity fuse mode. In any event, I would guess more traditional applications are what is being considered.
 
It would speak of considerable trust in technology to have an exploding automaton below a public road. Trust the public on that road may or may not share.
 
Indeed. Which is why I really don't think you are going to find an employment scheme like that in consideration. A checkpoint at the entry of a military base coming off a public road is another matter.
 

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