Wired Blogs: High-Tech Soldier Suit, Crawling Back From the Dead
OptimusPrime
28 Mar 2008
Now it seems that the Land Warrior Project of the US Army is now back to life again as reported at the Wired Blog Network... "The Army's soldier suit of the future, once left for dead, appears to be crawling back to life. After 15 years and a half-billion dollars in development, the Army officially cancelled the Land Warrior program, and its collection of electronic maps, GPS beacons, digital radios, and next-gen rifle scopes for infantrymen. All kinds of configurations of the wearable electronics were tried. But the gear always wound up being too bulky to justify the seemingly-modest help it provided frontline soldiers, the Army decided."
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