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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the Pen, sir, is mightier

[RunFromRobots]

Give me my country back,
we don't want your military industrial complex
ASSHOLE

Re:FUD

[Sqwubbsy]

If the U.S. didn't get into wars all the time, then wouldn't that both save lives and cost less money?

True, if the US didn't go into wars, Germany would not have invaded France 3x, Japan would never have bombed Pearl Harbor, Kuwaitis would be doing the happy dance every day and the Taliban would make sure that nothing bad ever happened to non-Muslims either in Afghanistan or abroad.
Damn, should have thought of that sooner.