Comments on: High-Tech Uniforms Finally Heading to War

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:52:09 +0000

It would not be hard to make a cell phone rugged, water proof but I do agree about gps giving away position, maybe a on and off switch for gps. It might be smarter if one person to put down a delayed transmission, perhaps it is load with group info and is delayed so people can move away from it, or have one tower person per 8 people who transmitter puts everything in code and sends info quickly. The milatary could send small rv’s to fly around shooting transmissions to make the enemy think there are 200 soldiers rather than 8. That would also confuse enemy because they have to decode 200 different types of code rather than just one. Maybe make one rv shoot off a different code every transmission. If shot down it does not matter because everyone codes are differentso it does not eliminate enough of them. I wish they could use gravity wave transmission because it is so high tech not many groups could even recieve it.

By: 10Mtn 11B

10Mtn 11B — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:19:36 +0000

You know what I wanted when I was serving as an Infantryman over in Iraq? A way to keep cool. In the Iraqi summers it is fricking hot!, and with the Intercepter body armor (IBA) on you literally melt in 120 degree weather. Not only in the summer either, just wearing it in 70–80 degree weather running around you end up with sweat stains all over your ACUs. And the best part is because the higher ups are so afraid of their Joes looking “out of uniform” you can’t even take your top off. Im sorry but an ACU top does not stop shrapnel or bullets, it just retains heat and makes you so miserable you could care less about a mission, you just want to go sit in the humvee and open up your IBA.
Oh and here is something funny, for future gadgets we used a tiny NASCAR handheld GPS that was power by AA batteries to find grid locations sometimes. It looked like someone bought it from K Mart, and they probably did. HAHAH Give me a break.
I think the Army needs to grow up, get its stuffy head out of its four-points of contact and realize just how stupid some of the things it does are. Their are some enlightened NCOs and officers out there, but they get swept under by the ones up top. Maybe if they got out of their nice air conditioned TOC every now and then.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:28:42 +0000

I think that anyone against these uniforms are dumb. Men and women that risk their lives to keep us and our family safe fromm terrorists need these uniforms.

By: Daniel Wiley

Daniel Wiley — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:16:18 +0000

My belief on emerging military technologies has almost yet to prove me wrong. When you are playing a game of cards and you win the game; you do not have to show the dealer and the others sitting at your table your winning cards. But when you decide to do so, you are usually fairly confident that you have nothing to worry about.
Where am I going with this? This gear is being issued to a standard battalion, not SpecOps operatives. We are just flexing our muscles and saying, “We’ll let you see this… and let you scratch you head trying to figure out what else we already have.” You cannot keep black-budgeting devices without someone approving the checks being given an tangible toy at some point. The F-117 was a stepping stone to prove we could use something smaller than the B-2 and give justification for the full green-light on the F-22, right?
P.S.> Anyone remember the acetylene powered “Aurora”? (At least, I believe it was acetylene powered…)

By: MacGyver

MacGyver — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:33:05 +0000

It really doesn’t matter what the encryption they use, you don’t need to read any data to triangulate the location of a transmitting device, the only way they could get around this kind of issue would be to have the transmitting signal bounce around the spectrum, even then the power they output could still be detected.
I would like to know if they addressed the issue of EM noise coming out of the display, if not, it might be possible for the enemy not only to detect them coming, but also see whatever is popping up on their little screens.
Before this type of stuff goes out, how about at least a GPS and radio for every soldier in the desert right now, and shiny techno gizmos for a select few in the future.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:29:12 +0000

So the military must have loads of free training time?
This is another pile of stuff dumped on an over tasked leader. Why not give a large unit a bunch of money, let the guys buy what they want, use it, lose it, throw it away and see what’s wanted and works. How about taking cues from actual field use, not a bunch of users psychologically joined the hope it works team?
I’ll give my 2 cents from my days in the Army, late ‘70s to 80’s. We bought from Canadians their commando sweaters. Illegal but we wore them in the field. Army? 10 years and then for office dress. Ditto Aim point sights. Army? 20 years. Light weight bicycle sleeping bag. Had to hide it. Gore Tex, Army 10 years and so forth. And I was in SF!
It’s nice that the Army bureaucracy is willing to spend all this time, money and manpower. However modern management techniques have long since buried such slow centralized decision-making. Smitten Eagle has given a good historical example. I get a strong hint of the top down, flow down, and deal with it on this system. And don t tell me it has had the best scientist, managers, real world field-testing. All of the failed junk the Army has had over the years has been like wise sheep dipped. I also get the feeling that this is so that more soldiers are suppose to get even more personal with our present bad guys, up close and not crack a chamber pot or disturb a page of the Koran or else an ever-present JAG team writes you a battlefield ticket for cultural insensitivity.
I am in no way against spending what ever a troop needs, or even might want to take a fly on. That is money and taxes I am happy about. I hope for the best.