Army's Cut of 'Future Soldier' May Impact Med-Tech

docinthemachine writes "The U.S. Army has decided to axe its $500 Million 'Land Warrior Soldier of the Future' program. If this goes through, the loss of future medical technology will be enormous. Many do not realize the enormous amount of medical technology that trickles down from the military. The program was working on develops new HUDs, 3D vision systems, and bioarmor. Surgeons today are using this technology (via DARPA) to develop new robotic surgery, bioimplants, intelligent prosthetics and more." That's the downside. The reason for the program's cutting is fairly obvious: "Unfortunately, land Warrior is part of the Army's Future Combat System (FCS) Initiative. This is the roadmap for an unprecedented hi-tech modernization of the Army. What new? How about an air force of completely unmanned remote controlled fighters- it's in the budget! Unfortunately, the entire project is so far over budget it becomes a target for cuts. Originally at $60 billion, then $127B, recent estimates have balooned to $300 billion total cost (yes that's billion with a B) and some are calling it the biggest military boondoggle ever."

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USA need future soldiers !

[Rastignac]

They must go to Iran, then to North Korea, then to Irak, then to Afghanistan, etc... They need a lot of super warriors to succeed...
(Or perhaps they should instead hire Dolph Lungren, Jean-Claude Vandamme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, etc; one of these guys alone can kill thousands of ennemies !).

Nice editing

[Anonymous Coward]

I was working on develops new grammar... until me fail English