Who would like an digital orders package for use in the field?
Who would like an digital orders package for use in the field?
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I am looking at researching the use of a digital orders unit, that will be able to get up to date intelligence and show 3d maps to make he platoon commanders job easier. What are peoples thoughts and what would they like to see. Initially it would be a touchscreen LCD about the asame area as the back of a clansman 352.
Barry Kirby
Barry@siaero.co.uk





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Barry Kirby
Barry@siaero.co.uk
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jonmace@hotmail.com
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DARPA and NATICK have tried this type of order relay equipment. After serving 12 years in the Infantry with 6 of them in the 9th Inf, test bed I can tell you that the major problem is that not enough information can be passed on to the Plt Ldr to conduct an operation based on real time data. In today's forces the speed of most operations do not allow for pre-planned or canned orders. It's more of we move that away and this is your area or objectives, this are your supporting units, bravo on your left, charlie is on your right. Go Go Go...
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Dave Adkins
Airborne!
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Barry Kirby
Barry@siaero.co.uk
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Additionally, reliance on technology in tactical situations has been almost universally disastrous from a security viewpoint: check with the Germans on their experiences with ULTRA, for example. If you can send it, I can read it and mess with it. If I were going to go to war with a high-tech power, I’d use their technological reliance against them.
Finally, infantry combat was, is and forever will be a small-scale, brutal, personal, real-time activity; troops fire: fire-team leaders direct fire: squad leaders direct fire-team leaders: platoon leaders direct squad leaders, and platoon sergeants keep platoon leaders alive. Input from anyone higher is usually counter-productive. In contact, everyone else needs to send ammo and butt the hell out.