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For the film, see F.I.S.T. FIST is a 1978 movie directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sylvester Stallone.

The Future Integrated Soldier Technology (or FIST) is a project by the British Army, which aims to enhance the infantry's combat effectiveness in the 21st century as part of the Future Soldier project. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The Infantry is the oldest and most numerous of the Combat Arms in the Armed forces, and consists The ComBat was an Aluminium Cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979. The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Future Soldier is the overall name given to a multi-nation military project by the United States and its allies launched in the late 1990s The contract was awarded to Thales in March 2003. The Thales Group ( is a French Electronics company delivering mission-critical information systems and services for the Aerospace, Defense March 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September

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The goal

The goal is to integrate a modular system of all equipment, weapons and their sighting systems, radios that the individual soldier carries or uses, in order to increase his overall effectiveness on the battlefield. System (from Latin systēma, in turn from Greek systēma is a set of interacting or interdependent Entities, real or abstract A weapon is a Tool used either in Hunting, or attack or defence in Combat for the purpose of subduing enemy personnel or to destroy enemy weapons "Sights" redirects here For the rock band see The Sights. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A soldier is a general English term that refers to a member of a land component of National Armed forces.

The programme is being managed by the Dismounted Close Combat Integrated Project Team at the UK Defence Procurement Agency at Abbey Wood in Bristol. The Defence Procurement Agency ( DPA) was an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of Abbey Wood is area and an electoral ward on the eastern edge of the London Borough of Greenwich, between Plumstead to the west and Erith to the east Abbey Wood takes Bristol ( ˈbrɪstəl is a city, Unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London

Subsystems

A major part of the FIST project is the Bowman communications system, which will for the first time give secure communications to the troops on the ground, allowing for simultaneous transmission of voice and data and having a built-in GPS equipment, as well as sending visual information direct from personal cameras. Bowman is the name of the Tactical communications system used by the British Armed Forces. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way A troop is a Military unit, originally a small force of Cavalry, subordinate to a Squadron and headed by the troop leader In Telecommunications transmission is the process of sending propagating and receiving an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or Basic concept of GPS operation A GPS receiver calculates its position by carefully timing the signals sent by the constellation of GPS Satellites high above the Earth

The kit is aimed to cover 5 main areas:

Command and Control is aimed to improve fire team and local commanders awareness of the situation. Lethality is as the name suggests and includes new weapon systems such as the new LAW and Javelin anti tank weapons and the new sights for the SA80. The LAW 80 (Light Anti-armour Weapon 80 sometimes erroneously referred to as LAW 94, is a man-portable one-shot disposable Anti-tank weapon used by the The FGM-148 Javelin is an American -made man-portable Anti-tank guided missile. The SA80 ( Small Arms for the 1980s) is a family of 556 mm small arms designed and produced (until 1988 by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Mobility includes areas such as route planning and GPS locations, survivability includes armour and stealth and sustainability includes areas such as power supplies with the system aiming to run off new next generation power cells.

The kit is also designed to be upgradeable with new technology that the MoD looks at such as the new CornerShot system. CornerShot is a special-purpose Weapon that can fire around corners

Timescales

The project aims to deploy a whole suite of digitized weapon platforms by 2008. In Music, a suite is an ordered set of Instrumental or Orchestral pieces normally performed in a Concert 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common First major trials of the FIST system were completed on Salisbury Plain in January, 2005. Salisbury Plain is a Chalk Plateau in central southern England covering. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In these trials at the Sailsbury Plain training area. 70 soldiers were equipped with the new FIST technology including GPS, communications and weapon sights and compared to the effectiveness of 70 conventionally equipped soldiers. A further FIST V2 trail is scheduled for 2006.

35,000 sets of kits are expected to be bought and issued between 2015 and 2020. This equipment is designed to bring the British infantryman up to standards and link with new technology currently employed, including the new underslung grenade launcher for the SA80 and the soon to be deployed Bowman communications network. The SA80 ( Small Arms for the 1980s) is a family of 556 mm small arms designed and produced (until 1988 by the Royal Small Arms Factory at It is not intended that every soldier be equipped with FIST: instead unit commanders will request FIST kits as necessary and so they can be tailored to the situation and mission aims.

As well as linking into the new technology for the soldier it is designed to link in with other new communications including Cormorant and Talon as well at the UK UAV project called Watchkeeper. Watchkeeper WK450 is a £800 million contract awarded in July 2005 to Thales to provide the British Army with an Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV

FIST is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Future Infantry System Technology or Future Infantry Soldier Technology.

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