Land Warrior

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Land Warrior was a United States Army program, launched in 1989. It officially got its name in 1994, cancelled in 2007 but restarted in 2008. It has used a combination of commercial, off-the-shelf technology (COTS) and current-issue military gear and equipment designed to: integrate small arms with high-tech equipment; provide communications and command and control at the infantry soldier level; look at the individual infantry soldier as a complete unit rather than as a segment of a larger force. While technology had long been a primary focus of the U.S. Armed Forces, very little of it had actually been adopted by the U.S. Army infantry soldier. With growing concerns of urban warfare and dismounted infantry actions, the U.S. Army recognized the need to upgrade an individual infantryman. The Land Warrior program drew upon many wearable computer concepts, and maximized existing technologies to correct most infantry soldier limitations in the short term. The SI (Stryker Interoperable) version...

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