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What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare

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The Army may end up going back to the drawing board with a new contractor for the futuristic "smart" goggles.

The Soldier Protection System ( SPS ) offers modern soldiers a “lightweight modular, scalable and tailorable suite of protective equipment.

The Army began replacing the M14 with the lighter-weight 5.56-mm M16 assault rifle in the late 1960s .

The Defense Department has pursued the militarized jetpack for decades .

Bell Aerosystems’s Small Rocket Lift Device (or, colloquially, the “ Bell Rocket Belt ”) for President John F. Kennedy at Fort Bragg , North Carolina .

The Army ended up abandoning development of the Rocket Belt over fuel constraints.

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