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Infantry Weapons
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Tomorrow's infantry warrior.
Recent events in Iraq are already having their effect on the on-going programmes attempting to determine how to configure, arm and equip tomorrow's infantry warriors. Following Iraq, some advanced soldier equipment development programmes are no doubt having to be significantly modified.
Despite some intense fighting, the 2003 campaign in Iraq against a poorly motivated and even less well led adversary remains hardly indicative of all possible future conflicts. Yet enough operational experience emerged to indicate that tomorrow's warrior would be still able to function efficiently without all the many and various subsystems' once proposed. What are under continuing consideration are what nature of the data the communications systems will carry and how the soldiers will operate and function using communication networks. The latest Iraqi operation did prove that one lesson was not entirely learned: how to avoid fratricide. Forecasts The overall objective is to somehow make the individual soldier more combat efficient than is the case at present. Within most armed forces...See the full content of this document
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