Development of optoelectronic technology for individual soldiers

The development of sophisticated combat equipments for individual soldiers in the postindustrial era is described. It is proposed that the soldiers′survival and attack capability can be effectively enhanced with better battlefield awareness. In order to decrease the volume and weight of the equipments, and improve the practical applicability, the effective couplings between all the functional modules of certain system was investigated emphatically. The conceptual variation of weapon platforms (individual soldiers have become the important combat platforms) was analyzed. The development techniques, such as relevant information acquisition, transfer, processing, control, display and countermeasure, is elaborated. The feasibility to develop the optoelectronic technology for individual soldiers is revealed. The construction of information platforms, lightweight of optoelectronic systems, improvement of systematic accuracy, decrease of response time, development of "information weapons" and development of light weapon training equipments, etc. are discussed. The priority in the recent development of optoelectronic technology for individual soldiers is put forward in this paper.