New Toys For The DoD

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Did anyone at the Pentagon get the memo that the US is hurting for cash?

The Corps is getting a new radar, while the Army gets as many as 9,212 Land Warrior systems, 35,000 new shotguns, new $500 grand radar systems for MRAPs, a new Stryker Medical Treatment Vehicle, new parachutes and new hand-held GPS systems.





The Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five of the Corps' six radar systems. G/ATOR is built on a small trailer that can be airlifted by an MV-22 Osprey.


New expeditionary radar can multitask
By James K. Sanborn - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Oct 16, 2010 9:35:10 EDT

Called Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar, or G/ATOR, the new radar can tackle multiple missions at once, air defense and air traffic control. That means it will likely replace all five of the Corps’ short- to medium-range systems, which have been in use for 30-plus years, said Lt. Col. Peter D. Charboneau, G/ATOR’s military deputy program manager.






A soldier displays the Land Warrior (sic)systen, which is being replaced by the Nett Warrior system that centers on a small helmet-mounted computer screen.


Fight-changing gear
By Lance M. Bacon - Staff report
Posted : Saturday Oct 16, 2010 10:44:09 EDT

Whether you are a grunt kicking down doors, an engineer clearing roads or a medic saving lives, the Army has a host of cool new gear headed your way. And the gear runs the gamut — from safer parachutes and lighter, sawed-off shotguns to bomb detectors and sensors that see through walls.

[Cleanelec]

1. Good! If politicians are going to keep sending our soldiers into war

I want them to have the best gear available.

[baldguy]

2. But they just get the most expensive gear instead.