What the latest equipments of US army that are using now? What the equipments US soldiers use during operation in Afghanistan and Iraq. Actually, those are not any fire arms. The equipments are Apple’s iPods and iPhones.
The both easy-to-use gadgets have been griped by the soldiers as they can carry safely some secure software. The gadgets can contain nearly 30,000 programs. Those are being used for all like translating to working out the route of snipers. Additionally, the devices are cheaper than developed a version exclusively for the armed forces. The iPod touch is more preferable to the soldiers for secure WiFi network. The retails price of it about 230 dollars and the iPhone price at 600 dollars.
The US forces is now working on how the gadgets could be used as control systems for different bomb disposal robots. They also try to use them to get aerial footage or video clips from unmanned drone airliner. At present, the American Marine Corps is financing an application that could allow armed forces to upload photographs of any detained suspects into any biometric database. It also helps to get written reports.
The US Army’s Intelligence Director for electronic warfare and sensors operation, Lt. Colonel Jim Ross, said the iPod “may be all that the personnel need”. He added “What gives it added advantage is that a lot of them have their own personal ones so they are familiar with them.”
