READING MATERIAL: Soldier and Technology 2019

If you're going to report, then it's the Military Technical Report. The new issue of the magazine brings you "Soldier and Technology 2019" - the name says it all. And all in the best quality. Focus: individual combat power and its multipliers.

We give you an insight into the magazine and also into the content structure. Everything starts with the foundations:

• Infantry - "grounded warfare" (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Locally manufactured, globally deployed - Tactical equipment from Lindnerhof (Lindnerhof-Taktik GmbH)
• Relevance and framework of air-landing operations (Gert Gawellek and Henning Reimann)
• Special forces worldwide - trends and developments (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Silent mobility (Rainer Diederich GmbH)

It then goes straight to the point, and it is best understood when the soldier takes something in hand. Here they are, the effectors:

• Increased importance of handguns - Current developments in the pistol sector (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Subcompact assault rifles - SIG MCX Rattler and FN SCAR-SC (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• SF light assault rifle (Thorsten vor der Landwehr and Ingo Eiben)
• Small arms for the Bundeswehr: Machine guns (Robin Kettel)
• Shoulder-fired infantry weapons for the Bundeswehr (Waldemar Geiger)
• Small arms ammunition (Thomas Nielsen)

The reader also recognizes one of the top models in the German defense industry in the photos. With extensive experience - he is also the author of the standard work on German infantry weapons - he expertly guides through the different chapters, from handguns (left) to subcompact assault rifles (right) ...

... up to the new assault rifles for German special forces (decision: HK416) and the German Bundeswehr (undecided).

Machine guns have not lost any importance, here is the latest state.

It's easier to hit the target with technical aids. The magazine also summarizes the current development around optics, optronics, and night vision:

• Quick and safe hits - Cross-sectional target optics for small arms (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Short waves - great luminosity - The benefits of short-wave infrared radiation for night combat capability (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Novel capabilities of sights and target devices in the short-wave infrared range (Dr. Wolfgang Cabanski, AIM Infrared Modules GmbH)
• Night vision and night combat capability (Waldemar Geiger)

Some see black there. Others are fully operational with night vision devices. And it gets even more complex, namely in the chapter leadership and networking:

• The future of the warrior - digitization, networking, autonomous weapon systems, effect chains (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Infantryman of the future - Extended system: Status and further development from an industrial perspective (Author team "Leadership Ability" Rheinmetall)
• Handhelds for the Army (Dorothee Frank)
• From GVA to NGVA - Standardization and open architectures (Matthias Renner, roda computer GmbH)

Ultimately, the soldier is always what he carries. From underwear to warm clothing for winter. Hence the chapter Clothing and Equipment:

• Teijin Aramid - Competent partner for the protection of forces (Teijin Aramid GmbH)
• Uniform follows function - Clothing and personal equipment as force multipliers (Jan-Phillipp Weisswange)
• Gore textile technologies: Reliable protection and high comfort for various operating conditions (W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH)
• Hexonia - Perform and Survive (Hexonia GmbH)

CONCLUSION: An extremely exciting magazine that summarizes the current state, compact, well-illustrated, and substantiated. SPARTANAT reading recommendation!

You can get the Military Technical Report Soldier and Technology 2019 directly from the MITTLER Verlag. The magazine costs Euro 14.80 plus shipping costs. HERE you can order it in the MITTLER Shop.

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