Future Soldier

Future Soldier was a multi-nation military project launched by the United States and its allies in the late 1990s.

These will be linked to an array of real-time and archived battlefield information resources.

Soldiers will require not only enhanced versions of existing equipment (rifle, pistol, knife, helmet, armour, clothing), but also new forms of equipment that will become possible as new types and combinations of technologies become viable for battlefield deployment.

[1] Future Soldier Exhibition is an international exhibition mainly focused on the question of individual components of the "Dismounted Soldier" project, on the results of research, new technologies and materials, concepts and opportunities for international cooperation in the implementation of the integrated system of the soldier of the future and for the securing of the interoperability of its individual components in wartime and peacetime operations.

[2] The event was organized under the aegis of the National Armaments Director within the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic.