From: Jim Webster (james.webster@iomartdsl.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 2004 - 14:04:19 PST
Mil-Veh Co. wrote:
>>From military.com, "Lopez, an infantry Soldier
> stationed at the Natick Soldier Center in
> Massachusetts, spent four days in what could be the
> Army uniform of the future at the 24th Army Science
> Conference, explaining the technology behind it.
>
> The black fabric of the form-fitting suit would be
> made through the wonder of nanotechnology, which
> involves manipulating atoms and molecules to create
> things at the nanometer scale. That's about 50,000
> times smaller than the diameter of a strand of hair.
> Soldiers wearing the suit would have the ability to
> blend into any environment, like a chameleon..."
Not quite as good as the British Army's FIST adaptive camouflage suit
scheduled to enter service in 2010
http://www.jedsite.info/misc/foxtrot/fist_series/fist-series.html
-- TTFN Jim ICQ: 58721472 *********************** http://www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment ***********************
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