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Future Force Warrior was a futuristic research project with real deliverables folded into the Nett Warrior program. Situational awareness including the Rifleman Radio on every soldier, helmet-mounted display (similar to a HUD), location and Physiological Status Monitoring were the basic building blocks being implemented in increment 1.
Elements of the Land Warrior system, as showcased by a U.S. Army soldier in 2006. Land Warrior was a United States Army program, launched in 1989. It officially got its name in 1994, [1] cancelled in 2007 [2] [3] but restarted in 2008. [4]
Future Combat Systems (FCS) was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009. [1] Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unprecedented fast and flexible battlefield network.
Some sources state that Soldier 2025 is part of the Land Warrior program, which was terminated in 2007, and this project was terminated along with it. However, the connection between the two is unclear at this time and requires confirmation.
Future Soldier was a multi-nation military project launched by the United States and its allies in the late 1990s. Air Warrior of the United States Army , part of the Future Combat Systems Superiority to enemy ground forces will be achieved by equipping the average ground-based combat soldier with an integrated set of high-technology uniforms ...
Nett Warrior followed the Land Warrior system, which was deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2007 and then later to Afghanistan after the program had been cut in Army budgets. Land Warrior allowed combat leaders to track the locations of their men and view maps and other tactical information through a small helmet-mounted computer screen ...
An early XM8 mockup after the break up; became part of OICW Increment 1. The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the next-generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW program; the program was eventually discontinued without bringing the weapon out of the prototype phase.
After the failure to significantly improve firearms of the near future, the U.S. military is using the development of other infantry equipment to improve the effectiveness of the soldier. Most notable is the development of electronics and information technology to advance soldiers' awareness and communications (as with the Land Warrior program ...