BrokeSnake The Soldier as a System… is it Hype?
May 24th, 2009 by BrokeSnake
A story ran in the New York Post… when you quit laughing I will continue.
The subject of this story is the Soldier of the Future.
I read it and it is full of the year 2030, with us soldiers in "IronMan" suits and 737's with lasers in the nose cones. Â It makes for a cool story, I will admit, but it is hype?
What visions were our Vietnam era brethren given about how the soldier of today would appear? Â I often wonder that when I read these pieces of the projects our military is said to be working on. Â For one, over the past several years, there has been a rifle that looks like something out of Starship Troopers that was going to quickly replace the M16 and M4. Â Hasn't happened. Â We still use the Abrams, and for good reason. Â We still have a fleet of F16s and F15s and F18s, but have scrapped the F22, for what, the JSF thingy? Â
Please, Â I am calling out the Vietnam vets to let me know if there are parallels to the hype or is some of this really going to happen?
