Future soldier technology (modified thread)

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https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10...eiling-eagleeye-mixed-reality-device-at-ausa/
Luckey has been teasing EagleEye for quite some time and has now snagged one of two development contracts with the Army. The company, he explained, is actually working on four EagleEye variants, all in various stages of development. That includes an 80g (2.8 oz) Oakley standard issue glasses design, as well as a ballistic, full-face shield option that is being designed in-house.

Two such EagleEye variants will be on display for the first time this week at the Association of the US Army’s annual conference, along with a new company product line — body armor.

“EagleEye is less one product, and it’s more a platform that other people can build products on top of,” he said, explaining that the lighter glasses could be used by soldiers working in logistics roles, while the full-face shield could be better suited for soldiers on the frontlines.
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“The full-face ballistic shield fully encapsulates your head to protect primarily [from] blast force,” Luckey said. “Now, that’s a much wider field display. It’s over 200-degrees wide and over 100-degrees tall. It’s a very different display system that’s more like a night vision pass through system. It’s not optically transparent. It’s a full reprojection system.”

While initial EagleEye prototypes for the Army will use the existing Integrated Head Protection System helmet, Luckey said that helmet is not ideal for a mixed-reality heads-up display, in part because they are designed to have rotational slip to help protect soldiers’ heads. That rotational slip is a challenge when it comes to keeping the device in place, so the company is working on a new helmet design.

A new ballistic plate is also being designed to protect a soldier’s chest and lighten the load when the EagleEye computer, battery and radio are added in.
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https://www.defensenews.com/news/yo...ld-the-army-bring-back-the-pentomic-division/
But 70 years later, the Army faces a similar dilemma. Instead of atomic bombs, the threat now comes from drones, as vividly demonstrated in the Ukraine war. To survive, Ukrainian and Russian forces have learned to operate in dispersed groups — sometimes as small as four to six soldiers — for fear of attracting the attention of a drone swarm. But lack of mass foregoes the possibility of decisive maneuver — and victory — and the conflict has degenerated into a grinding war of attrition.
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Actually, tactical nukes are more of a threat than ever, it can be argued.
 
leiter said:
Since the cool transition effects for the UI are incredibly distracting for me, let alone a soldier in a battlefield, I'm 98% sure that's not what it looks like in reality. I wonder how simplified and stripped down it'll have to be in the real product.
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Alternatively, just hand one of these per squad, and relay simplified info to others via other cues.
I heard about sleeves or "bracelets" that vibrate in different patterns based on input. Could be a complementary item.
 
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Old hunting adage hunting is about 3 things,, recoil recoil & recoil. Lighten the weapon reduce the barrel recoil goes up on an already massive recoil. ..was under impression the contractor was to reduce recoil.

Level 4 & vehicle penetration is ridiculous to even discuss but Level 3 at 600m and the recoil must be near non existent in 21st century.
 
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jsport said:
Frozen tablets and downed drones: Army’s 11th Airborne learns to fight in the Arctic - Breaking Defense https://share.google/OYwB6ptcW8QBUsAEO
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It is well known that batteries get weak and many plastics brittle, in the cold. And lightweight tracked vehicles are more mobile, when there is significant amounts of snow.
 
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Though a direct fire grenade launcher is needed, a indirect fire 40mm has its place @ the squad.
This PGS is too heavy (15lbs) + has too much recoil, even the presenter said it was not for room clearing..
The screaming demand for a lighter & drastically recoil mitigated PGS are proof there is clearly short term-ism going on here.
The usg is too risk/cost adverse to develop a genuinely revolutionary (cliche) Precision Grendier System.
30mm may fit the direct fire role but truly affording squads 'mortar like fires' requires a 40mm semi @ platoon level @ least. Indirect fire tms can be tasked out to squads.
The USMC is looking at 4xpax UAS teams. Maybe a 4xpax 40mm indirect fire tm @ the platoon. Mixing 40mm grenadiers able to engage @ 1km. teamed w a 2xpax drone team might revolutionize the Dismount capability.
The squad @ fire tm derivatives the Ukrainians are likely trial ing might be worth looking at. One standard the Ukrainians seem to keep to is a RPG gunner at the squad. Light weight, US mil-spec, RPGs should be @ the squad level in addition to a Precision Grenadier System.
 
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sounds like a squad/tm medic kit collective standard is needed. Likewise plenty of grenades, and leaf suits r key.
Care of optics would seem to be self evident.
Better ballistic armor is always going to be concerning.
How often gear needs chamging and or has to be replaced was telling. NATO armies probably r not even ready for that.
 
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https://www.defensenews.com/news/yo...anufacture-meatless-proteins-in-combat-zones/

The U.S. Army is looking for meatless proteins for field rations. It also wants to manufacture such proteins on the front lines to ease burdens on the supply chain.

The service, according to a Sources Sought notice from the Combat Feeding Division of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, “is exploring how the emerging alternative-protein sector can help meet several objectives, including enhancing food supply chain resilience, enabling biomanufacturing of foodstuffs in combat-forward environments, and providing tailored, high-quality nutrition to the warfighter.”

Titled “Alternative Protein Technologies for Military Field Feeding,” the notice, which lists a deadline of May 15, is aimed at industry and academia that can work with the Army to develop technologies for manufacturing alternative proteins that soldiers will actually eat.

One track seeks “advanced technologies and processes, involved in fermentation, precision fermentation, or other novel biomanufacturing methods, that enhance the production of alternative proteins,” the notice reads.

“These technologies should focus on creating lightweight and nutrient-dense ration solutions to reduce logistical burdens and physical load on warfighters while maintaining or enhancing nutritional value and operational performance.”

Another track is to explore product development to create meatless proteins that are lightweight, nutritious, shelf-stable and “palatable.”

The Army also seeks partners who can help with consumer research, such as focus groups and tasting panels, to determine what military personnel like.

Also wanted are contractors who can provide food samples of alternative proteins that the FDA has classified as Generally Recognized as Safe, or GRAS, products.

“These prototypes will be provided to the government for sensory acceptability and other performance characteristics and will be consumed by our test panel of experts,” the notice said.

The alternative protein project is part of an Army Broad Agency Announcement published last year. It included research into combat rations, personal protective gear and other equipment.

It follows an Army plan announced last year to offer plant-based MREs, a decision that delighted vegan and animal rights groups.

In response to a mandate by Congress, the Navy began testing plant-based meats on its menus in 2023, while the Air Force offers meatless dishes.

While military rations have unique requirements such as remaining edible under harsh conditions, they do have to follow culinary trends in the larger society.

Thus, coming to the 2026 MRE menu are Buffalo Chicken, Cuban beef picadillo and Thai red chicken curry, meals that would have been regarded with disbelief — or appreciation — by GIs eating C-Ration meat stew in WWII, or the infamous ham and lima beans in Vietnam.

Plant-based meats, such as Beyond Burger, and non-dairy cheeses soared in popularity a decade ago. However, sales of plant-based meats have recently slumped as prices rose and consumers became concerned that faux-meat products are heavily processed.

Meanwhile, demand for beef soared in 2025.
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Forest Green said:
I've seen a vest stop a .50cal rifle round in a test but that does not mean that a person inside would survive.
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I mean, it's better than a .50cal hole in the chest, but it's still like getting hit by a car. 20kjoules.



MadRat said:
Aimbots for infantry are next level. Seems like the targeting of people will be next. Headshots every trigger pull won't be just for the Unreal game engine on the PC soon. Absolutely scary the direction this technology is going.
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Marines were doing that in Fallujah.
 

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