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Land Warrior System

Jul- 1-2008 » Filed Under: 4/2 SBCT , 5/2 SBCT

Paul McLeary of Defense Tech International has an after action report regarding the Land Warrior system the 4-9 INF, 4/2 SBCT took into combat. Excerpt:

In February 2007—despite a cumulative $500 million price tag—the program had its funding cut, despite the fact that the 4/9 has been training with the gear and was about to start its deployment. The 4/9 deployed with the equipment anyway, and more than a year later, it looks like Land Warrior might have been saved from the dustbin of history.

According to Mark Showah, General Dynamics’ director of the Integrated Systems Group, the feedback that the company has received from soldiers has been largely positive, and the company is currently working to secure a contract to supply 1,000 Land Warrior systems to the Strykers of the 5/2, which is slated to deploy to Iraq some time early next year. This is a sharp increase from the 440 units that went to war with the 4/9.

So what changed?

Related:

We posted a video (embedded below) a while back featuring LTC Bill Prior talking about the battalion's use of the system in combat.


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