Originally Posted by 5.56X45mm

KEVLAR!!!!!!

IT KEEPS OUR BOYS ALIVE.

What's a Kevlar? And for me, I would say that body armor and medicine are two of the most benificial in the military.

NVG
Kevlar
instant communications (satcom)

Originally Posted by BaZoOkAzNgReNaDeZ

What's a Kevlar? And for me, I would say that body armor and medicine are two of the most benificial in the military.

Kevlar is a flexable ballistic filler for body armor, it's made by DuPont. A good by product of Kevlar is Nomex.

http://www.dupont.com/afs/

http://www.dupont.com/kevlar/

http://inventors.about.com/library/i...s/blkevlar.htm

Helicopters medicine and radios were the three we came up with.

I'm not disputing that Kevlar is not a good thing but we considered it a use of know materials just as wooden shields, leather, plate and chain mail where also a use of materials.

Even though night vision has been round since the 40's it was not used on a large scale untill GW1 (?)

One of the things I thought had a pretty profound effect (although didn't fit into our criteria) was barbed wire as since its invention 1874
it has been used to shape the battle field, canalising the enemy into your
chosen killing ground and when employed correctly can even stop armour.

But then again.......... I am an Engineer

Originally Posted by UBIQUE

Helicopters medicine and radios were the three we came up with.

I'm not disputing that Kevlar is not a good thing but we considered it a use of know materials just as wooden shields, leather, plate and chain mail where also a use of materials.

Even though night vision has been round since the 40's it was not used on a large scale untill GW1 (?)

One of the things I thought had a pretty profound effect (although didn't fit into our criteria) was barbed wire as since its invention 1874
it has been used to shape the battle field, canalising the enemy into your
chosen killing ground and when employed correctly can even stop armour.

But then again.......... I am an Engineer

Night vision's first major use was in Vietnam. It's most wide speard use was in ODS.

Landmines and grenades too. They have been in use since about the same time as barbed wire.

Yeah Wire is great. I had a mate who had Cat 4 wire running all around his property in preparation for y2k. Lets see a suicide bomber get through that.

Night vision's first major use was in Vietnam. It's most wide speard use was in ODS.

Was it issued to every soldier in every Bn?? I still don't think it has as far reaching versatility as the radio/comms. It only increases the operating window to potentially 24hr Ops.

Anyone think of GPS????

Even the Rupert's can't get lost with that!

Originally Posted by UBIQUE

Was it issued to every soldier in every Bn?? I still don't think it has as far reaching versatility as the radio/comms. It only increases the operating window to potentially 24hr Ops.

Anyone think of GPS????

Even the Rupert's can't get lost with that!

It wasn't issued to everysoldier but it was in most platoon's inventory.

Originally Posted by UBIQUE

Was it issued to every soldier in every Bn?? I still don't think it has as far reaching versatility as the radio/comms. It only increases the operating window to potentially 24hr Ops.

Anyone think of GPS????

Even the Rupert's can't get lost with that!

How can GPS be, it hasn't been around that long.

Radio also for me....