[ppaul]

Very cool.
But watch your taxes skyrocket as every local law enforcement agency submits funding requests for these "gotta have" high-tech outfits. Just about every little tin-pot community in the U.S. now has its own SWAT teams - men (and women) in black, armed to the teeth and wearing Kevlar body armor, that show up for the simplest drug-busts and "suspicious" traffic stops. This is next.

[dts32041]

Power Source, with all this gee whiz technology, how do you power it.

15 Years ago when powering Vinsons, Anpvs 2's and 4's ate batteries like they were going out of style.

This didn't include batteries for prc 77's etc.

[Bogey78O]

We need suits like from Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. I wouldn't mind the voting laws either....

[SkyPilot]

Amen.

[Pistias]

The Objective Force Warrior uniform could be available by 2012.

Damn, a few days too late: Mayan calendar Prophecies the end of our "AGE OF THE JAGUAR", the fifth and final in 22 of December 2012 AD. According to Cotterell's sun-spot theories, the end of the world will be brought on by the sudden reversal in the earth's magnetic field

[hole_n_one]

Soldiers of the future are expected to have
global positioning systems, clothing that
changes color with the environment, and
'smart bullets.

Isn't this stuff already standard issue for you guys over at the agency?

[Restorer]

"You can actually pour dirty ground water, even sweat or urine into this system," he said. "It will purify it and rehydrate the soldier," he said.

Sounds a lot like the Fremen stillsuits from "Dune."

[vannrox]

Click here to see an associated article; MIT to get $30 MILLION for military studies.