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The Future Integrated Soldier Technology (or FIST), sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Future Infantry System Technology or Future Infantry Soldier Technology, is a project by the British Army which aims to enhance the infantry's combat effectiveness in the 21st century as part of the Future Soldier project.
The first phase of the project involved a development of the technologies to help reduce the soldier's fighting load and power requirements and improving the soldier's protection, lethality, and environmental and situational awareness, with planned deployment in 2010, to serve the Army's short-term needs.
Military technology is the application of technology for use in warfare. It comprises the kinds of technology that are distinctly military in nature and not civilian in application, usually because they lack useful or legal civilian applications, or are dangerous to use without appropriate military training .
Future Combat Systems logo. Future Combat Systems (FCS) was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009. [1] Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unprecedented fast and flexible battlefield network.
An exhibit of the "Future Soldier" designed by the United States ArmyA powered exoskeleton is a mobile machine wearable over all or part of the human body, providing ergonomic structural support, and powered by a system of electric motors, pneumatics, levers, hydraulics or a combination of cybernetic technologies, allowing for sufficient limb movement, and providing increased strength ...
Portable two-way radio communications system for military Portable radio communications – business, public safety, marine, amateur radio, CB radio: Night vision: 1939 - 1940s Nazi Germany. United States. Visibility for military personnel in low light situations Low light photography, surveillance Duct tape: 1942 United States: Sealing ...
A German Army soldier demonstrates some of the equipment of the IdZ program. Infanterist der Zukunft (IdZ, English: "Infantryman of the future") is the German Bundeswehr's program as part of the Future Soldier project. It is a modular, integrated fighting system designed to provide significant lethality, survivability, mobility, battle command ...
The Advanced Combat Helmet was first fielded beginning in 2003 [N 1] in limited numbers to eventually replace the PASGT helmet. [6] In 2006, 102,000 helmets were ordered from ArmorSource, of which 99,000 were delivered when the contract was fulfilled and properly closed.