MOUT: Technology - Weapons - Equipment

"If anything is certain about the future, it is that we will face a bewildering array of technology choices. Choosing intelligently demands an understanding of future context and concepts. These give us logical backboards against which to bounce various technology alternatives and make operationally sound choices"

The requirements and progress on the joint effort underway to better equip our Soldiers and Marines for urban combat can be found at the MOUT Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) web site.

A potentially significant capability in future MOUT is the employment of Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW). For the latest on NLW technologies visit the Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Non-Lethal Weapon Program web site. The Commandant of the Marine Corps is the DOD Executive Agent for this program.

MOUT/MOOTW: Technology - Weapons - Equipment Sites:

TF Ranger: A Case Study Examining the Application of Advanced Technology in Modern Urban Warfare (PDF)
Crowds, Mobs and Nonlethal Weapons (Military Review)
Israel's Rifle Launched Entry Munition (Journal of Aerospace and Defense Industry News)
DOD Eyes Sensors to Give "Urban Canyon Visibility" (Janes)
Innovative UK Hand Grenade Defeats Body Armor (Jane's)
Science and Technology - New Options for the Warfighter (MOUT related technologies - AMC)
Training Marines for War in the City - Drills in Simulated Urban Zones Underscore Need for New Equipment (John Stanton - NDIA)
Organizational Change and the New Technologies of War (Col. Charles Dunlap - USAF)
Thermobaric Weapons: A Weapon of Choice for Urban Combat (CALL)
Backgrounder on Russian Fuel Air Explosives (Human Rights Watch - Chechnya)
Mounting Siege on Urban Warfare: Creating Technology for Kicking in the Door (Army Magazine)
Battlefield Automation: Performance Uncertainties are Likely When Army Fields its First Digitized Division (GAO - PDF)
The Special Osprey: Impact on Special Operations Doctrine (Air University - PDF)
Urban Warrior AWE Technologies (MCWL)
MOUT ACTD to Give Soldiers Tools for Urban Warfare (TRADOC News Service)
Combat Shotguns are Back (Janes)
Simon Door Breaching Rifle Grenade (Rafael)
MCCDC Requirements Division (Approved requirements)
Army Technology (UK commercial site)
MCCDC Requirements Division (Proposed requirements)
Small Arms Annual Conference (NDIA - PDF)
Small-Caliber Ammunition Identification Guide (DIA - under FOIA)
Selection and Application Guide to Police Body Armor
The Bunker Busters Come Knocking (Missiles*Munitions*Armor Web Site - shoulder fired bunker busters)
Smoke Operations in the Joint Environment (Air University - PDF)
DOD Force Protection Equipment Demonstration (3-6 May at Quantico Marine Corps Base)
Overkill: Obsession With Expensive Weapons (GovExec.com)
Field Artillery to be Replaced with Shmel Flamethrower (Military Parade)
Armored Russian Combat Vehicles
Army After Next Technology: Forging Possibilities into Reality (Military Review)
Trust, Not Technology, Sustains Coalitions (Parameters)
Bashing the Laser Range Finder with a Rock (FMSO)
U.S. Land Warfare Systems (Current - FAS)
Keeping Marines Out of the Danger Zone (Federal Computer Week)
The Story of the Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG)
A Weapon for All Seasons: The Old but Effective RPG-7 Promises to Haunt the Battlefields of Tomorrow (FMSO)
Robots Instead of Soldiers (Trooper Military Directory - machine gun that shoots around corners)
Anti-tank Weapons Vs Bunkers (CALL)
Russian-Manufactured Armored Vehicle Vulnerability in Urban Combat: The Chechnya Experience (FMSO)
Primary Sniper Weapons of the World
The SVD Draganov Sniper Rifle
Draganov Home Page (Russian site)
GUNS.RU (Russian small arms)
Snipers get Deadly New Tool (Australia - Army Magazine)
The CQB Tactical Carbine (Tac Ops Web Site)
Tactical Firearms (Tac Ops Web Site)
Defeating Insurgents With Technology (Airpower Journal)
Roping and Rapelling Safer for Crack Troops (DSTO - Australia)
High Tech Warfare Favors the Weak (Discovery Institute)
OOTW: The Technological Dimension (NDU)
Concept for Non-lethal Capabilities in Army Operations (U.S. Army TRADOC)
Non-lethal Weapons and Peacekeeping Riot Control
What Price Sticky Foam? (Parameters)
Non-lethal Weapons: Technologies, Legalities and Potential Policies
Non-lethal Technologies: Military Options and Implications (Independent Task Force)
Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts (SSI)
Why Non-lethals? (NTAR Symposium)
Non-lethal Force: The Slippery Slope to War? (Paramters)
Non-lethal Programs (U.S. Army Military Police School)
Alternatives to Antipersonnel Mines (NLW, CELL)
Non-lethal Weapons (UK draft report)
Other Military Operations and Technology (NDU, Strategic Forum)
Partnership for Peace Emergency Prepardness Program (Civil Defense Technology Workshop)
The Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb - A Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction
Peace Operations: Effect of Training, Equipment, and Other Factors on Unit Capability (GAO report)
The Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment (MOLLE) (ALICE replacement)
Hands Free Water Bottle to go on Trial (DSTO - Australia)
Military Police Night Fighting Equipment Package (Military Police School)
Imaging Laser Altimetry (Direct height and elevation measurement from an aircraft or satellite - 3D mapping)
McKenna MOUT Facility Flythrough (3D Visualization - STRICOM)
DWN Test Plan (3D 2 squad assault on building - STRICOM)
NRL OVPFCOBRA Prototype (Object-oriented database)
U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)
Military Operations in Built Up Areas Terrain Database Project (Access restricted to DOD and DOD contractors)
Terrain Modeling Project Office (NIMA)
Scanning Project Puts Three-Dimensional City Models on the Map (MIT Tech Talk)
MIT City Scanning Project
U.S. Army Terrain Visualization Center
Final Report of the Military Operations in Built-up Areas Database Project (NIMA - 1995)
MOBA Terrain Data Base (TDB) Project (TASC)
Terrain Visualization (CELL)
Terrain Visualization: The Challenge for the Whole Team (CELL)
Urban Terrain Zone Based GIS for MOUT
Topographic Engineering Center (3-D Model Library)
Warren's GIS Page
Virtual Reality Technologies at the Turn of the Century (Military Parade)
The City (urban) Simulator
City Scenes: "Cities of the World" (Currently U.S. only, interactive overhead imagery)
Microsoft TerraServer (Commericial interactive overhead imagery)
Full Circle (360 degree interactive image examples)
Holography: Technology that Promises the Realism for Tomorrow's Simulations
Modeling and Simulation of Military Operations Other Than War
Simulation Visualization System - Dismounted Infantry (Updated!)
Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice (Crime Mapping Research Center)
JCATS Gives Military and Law Enforcement One-Up on Bad Guys (Quantico Sentry)
Road Map for Close Combat Light (Tech integration plan)
Casualties, Technology, and America's Future Wars (Parameters)
Combat Identification Quick Fix Devices (CALL, users guide)
How to Enhance an Ambush (DSTO - Australia - intra-section/squad communications)
The SISU Ambulance (Norwegian Medevac Vehicle)
Military Adds Unmanned Flying Robots to its Ranks (Robotics - entomopters)
A Reciprocating Chemical Muscle (RCM) for Micro Air Vehicle (Entomopter) Flight
Tiny Spies in the Sky (Discovery)
Microbots and the End of Secrets? (DSTO - Australia)
MOUT Vignette: Clearing an Enemy Occupied Village/Building (Interplay between manned units and UGVs)
Robots Out Front (MOUT UGVs)
Tacical Unattended Ground Sensors - A Military Police Necessity (PDF)
Robotics (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center)
Robotic Technologies for Clearing Unexploded Submunitions and Mines (Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division)
Robotics Insertion Technology (CELL)
Marines Hope Drones Will Harass Urban Wargame Foe (Military Robotics Newsletter)
UAV's: New Paradigms in Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance (Marine Corps CCSC)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: DOD's Demonstration Approach has Improved Project Outcomes (GAO - PDF)
Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems: Today and Tommorow (Russia - Military Parade)
Multipurpose Security and Surveillance Platform (MSSMP) (SPAWAR)
White Shirts and Ties: IBM Experts in Vietnam (THN)
From Sandbags to Computers: Whats New in Field Fortifications and Protective Structures (CELL)
Modular Pack Mine System
A Mechanical Means of Mine Detection
Bees as Land Mine Detectors
Land Mines and Demining: 1970-1996 Technical Reports (NPS)
Unexploded Ordnance and Clearance Technology Development (OSD)
Precision Guided Mortar Munition (PGMM) ATD
Problems Using a Wearable Computer (DSTO - Australia)
Individual Portal (IPORT) for Infantry Training and Analysis (Sarcos Research Corporation)
Soldier Systems Modernization Roadmap

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