US Future Land warrior and british FIST project

[Jambo_100]

the US government is in the process of making the future land warrior system for its troops. the UK also has a similar project known as FIST, I hear france has one too. does any one have any up to date news or infomation on these?

 

[usgn]

the US government is in the process of making the future land warrior system for its troops. the UK also has a similar project known as FIST, I hear france has one too. does any one have any up to date news or infomation on these?

In term of weapons, OICW & OCSW failed and the replacement XM8 program was cancel..so for now back to basic M16A4 or M4 carbine...There are still some light on the land warrior program: General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded a $70 million contract to deliver a new, lighter-weight version of the Land Warrior integrated fighting system, equipping the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team (5/2 SBCT) prior to its deployment to Iraq in 2009.

The France program is callled FELIN.....both FIST & FELIN are still on going program.....

 

[Onkel]

The Germans have the "Infanterist der Zunkunft"- IDZ (Infantryman of the future), partly in use in Afghanistan.

Read this: http://www.bwb.org/01DB022000000001/vwContentByKey/W26FS984081INFOEN

About Land-Warrior read this:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/infantry21-land-warrior-received-poor-reviews-03217/

Troopers said they didn´t use a lot of the features in combat. Have other Programes to learn from it?

 

[kato]

IdZ is considered way too fucking pricy, and a vastly reduced version ("Soldat im Einsatz" / "Soldier on deployment") has been created, lacking pretty much all the nifty computer hardware. There are only 12,000 IdZ sets.