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Marines Reducing Weight of Radios Without Impacting Ruggedness

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Reducing the gear, including communications equipment, an individual Marine has to carry is a significant challenge due to the complexity of bridging advanced technologies into form factors conducive to the harsh battlefield environments Marines operate in, according to a Marine Corps official. As a result of lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has embarked on reducing the size and weight of the individual ground communication equipment and expanding dramatically the density of such systems,…

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