Future Force Warrior: A Look At The Soldier Of Tomorrow

Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Advancements in warfare and infantryman combat system have begun to blur the lines between war and science fiction. The United States Future Force Warrior program, for example, is bringing the power armor exoskeleton envisioned by Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Starship Troopers into reality. In this infographic above, Ross Crooks and Jason Lankow of Column Five Media imagined what soldier of the future would look like.

Tags: armor, exoskeleton, infographic, military, soldier, warfare

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john crow
Apr 17th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Are’nt you a bit short for a stormtrooper?
Aniest
Apr 22nd, 2010 at 2:33 am
Actually, looks like the father of the Master Chief… just add in a bit of DNA manipulation of the soldier and we will be off to Halo/Pandora/insert Sci-Fi location here…
Mike T
Apr 22nd, 2010 at 2:45 am
Lots of great technology: the soldier will know where he is, be able to move faster, lift heavier equipment, his commander will know where he is, he’ll know where he is and he’ll keep comfortable. But all that is useless unless he can take out the bad guys! One little weapon (possibly bullpup in design), small caliber (looks smaller than what we use now),no extra ammo, no grenades (unless the quad launcher in the gun is firing 15mm grenades). Lots of tech, but little battlefield power. Didn’t we learn that sometimes the guys in black pajamas with basic weapons beat us with all our tech?
MadAsHell
Apr 23rd, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Neat. How many innocentz civilians (aah, sorry, terrorists) can he kill at once?
steele
Apr 26th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Iron Man would kick his ass.
jorgy
Apr 26th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
An assortment of things taken from sci-fi books, movies, and games. I doubt we’ll see more than two of them implemented by 2010. (GPS and microphone, most likely.)

Soldiers are already using “exoskeleton” devices, particularly kneepads. Soccer-style shinguards are sometimes used, too.
brice
May 4th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
shitd idk wat to even say bout dis crazzy stuff.but it shows how the gov’t is fucked up.wat yal think?

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