Drawings of the gear – some parts already in prototype and in the field – look like futuristic “Master Chief,” the human über-soldier who battles aliens in the popular sci-fi video game Halo.

Instead of a full suit of armor, modern exoskeleton technology aims to reduce the load a soldier needs to carry into the ...

The idea of making every soldier an information node has appealed to the U.S. Army for years. It partly explains why the modern American soldier is loaded down with 90 to 140 pounds of gear.

Overloaded infantry is no new problem. In 107 B.C., Roman general Gaius Marius decided his logistics tail was slowing down his legions, so he ordered soldiers to carry all their own gear. The load ...

An curved arrow pointing right. An instructor at the US Army Mountain Warfare School breaks down every piece of gear a mountain soldier would carry on a cold-weather mission, including tactical ...