Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Exoskeletons are the future of body armor" video.

Every few years some fancy new weapon or fancy new armour or fancy new uniform or some combination of the above comes out that's supposed to show us what the soldier of the future, the soldier of the 21st century will look like. And huge amounts of taxpayer money certainly goes into this stuff, but it never seems to ultimately lead to a soldier actually wearing or carrying any of it into battle though, instead when the sound of actual real battle calls it always, without fail seems to ultimately go back to sending in a dude in camo gear and a helmet with an M4, or some pretty small variation thereupon. If it ain't broke don't fix it I guess?
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@Taskandpurpose isn't just you guys though, I'm a Brit myself, and I'm sure somewhere out there there's probably some small country whose entire military is equipped with rejected British Army equipment haha
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@Taskandpurpose true but I bet they're just the bits that were considered most usable out of larger programs with the rest discarded, that whole business with the 'XM-8' family of modular weapon systems for example, led to the grenade launcher part being adopted (for a while anyway) and literally nothing else being didn't it (by the US I mean although I think one other country adopted the rifle part too)
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