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Re:My Underground Warfare Wish List by chrisseaton on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @05:02PM (#19203295)
No integrating the power distribution into the vest - the cables. So power goes down your sling to your rifle to deliver power for optics, lasers, torch etc, and up a cable to your helmet for more optics, and so on. The battery lives on your belt kit I think in prototypes I've seen.
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Re:My Underground Warfare Wish List by bootlooped on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:25PM (#19205501)
I don't think you would want a power cord going from your vest from your rifle. If it gets caught on something you either get stuck or your rifle loses power.

There is a lot of work on making a powered accessory rail for rifles though, so that everything on it would share the same battery. I thought that battery would always be on the rifle though.

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Re:My Underground Warfare Wish List by jmrobertson on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:25AM (#19208513)
Fight w/o a weapon slinged for a ton of reasons, 'locking' a cable set into a rifle usage creates many problems w/o going into specifics
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