Sunday, June 29, 2008

High tech gear for CF soldiers

The Canadian Press has an article about efforts to improve the equipment used by Canadian soldiers.

The average Canadian foot soldier on patrol in Afghanistan today is toting more than two-dozen extra batteries on his already overloaded body to power all the electronics he must carry.

During Operation Medusa in the fall of 2006, an offensive against the Taliban, one infantry company alone burned through 17,500 AA batteries in two weeks.

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