Enemy tracking with £30m laser-targeting system
By Nick Heath, 18 February 2008 11:41
A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF). The Ministry of Defence has just signed a £30m contract with Thales UK to take charge of the devices, which have built-in GPS, thermal imaging and a 5km laser range finder.
Photo credit: MoD
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1. Chris Goodman
Experience from my 40+ years of infantry service tells me that the infantry front line units will not get enough (if any) and there will be no replenishment stocks to cover the inevitable breakdowns.
2. Karen Challinor
700 units of which 690 will be sat on shelves in the quartermasters store as they are much too valuable for anything but training exercises and certainly much too valuable for field use, 8 will be on a bench being repaired, 1 will be propping a door open and 1 will actually be deployed in the field for use by some general to spot squaddies sneaking beer into camp
bit like the body armour and weapons our government assures us is available for the troops then, our government knowing more about these things than the actual soldiers in the field who are wondering where these things are