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2005-09-13 Home Front: Tech

Soldier Demands Spur Development of New Gear

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-13 09:37|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They are being used in Afghanistan and Iraq, and can grab video feeds from army, marine and air force UAVs and bomber targeting pods

I sincerely hope it also includes a half-pound of C-4 so it can be remotely destroyed if lost or captured.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-09-13 10:17|| 2005-09-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Why can't border patrol use them? After 9-1-1, as an experiment,law enforcement and the media went to the remote mountainous area of our northern border and monitored how many came across on little used paths from Canada and were quite surprised at the regular smuggling. I bet they would be useful to those on the ground in a terrorist attack, too.

Posted by Danielle 2005-09-13 10:54|| 2005-09-13 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I love to see bottom-up procurement like this. The fact of the matter is that we have highly intelligent soldiers, many of whom are "cross-trained" and experienced both in science and technology, and military science and military technology.

If not hindered with either a tight purse from above or inter- and intra-service rivalries, these personnel will develop extraordinary innovations and in record time.

Their great limitation is fabrication. That is, unless these soldiers could direct civilian expert engineers to fabricate larger and more complex systems, those systems will remain top-down. That is why it is unlikely that even a special forces division will ever get a vehicle truly tailored to their wants and needs.

While organizations like DARPA and ONR can somewhat act as a bridge, this fabrication issue is still a major dilemma that needs to be resolved in the future.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-13 11:15|| 2005-09-13 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 They should rename this the ROVE, watch the moonbats blow a couple of gaskets...

Posted by Raj 2005-09-13 17:38|| 2005-09-13 17:38|| Front Page Top

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