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.

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to equip small teams of operators with advanced smart-soldier gear to stay connected with intel assets anywhere in the world -- even if they have to tap into ...

A New Zealand Army soldier reveals every piece of gear he would take on a 72-hour mission. Sam, a bombardier serving in the New Zealand Army's 16th Field Regiment, asked us not to use his full ...

Since 2016, for example, the US Army has been developing new material technology to clothe soldiers on Arctic missions, said James Murdock, a textile technologist and project manager at US Army ...