French FÉLIN system

[Water Car Engineer]

Fantassin à Équipement et Liaisons Intégrés, Integrated Equipment and Communications Infantryman is the name for the French infantry combat system of the 2000s.

It combines a modified FAMAS rifle with a host of other electronics, clothing, pouches, and body armour. The helmet is an integral SPECTRA helmet fitted with real-time positioning and information system, and with light amplifiers for night vision. Power sources will be made of two rechargeable Li-ion batteries.As of November 2009, 22,588 FÉLIN system had been ordered.

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France's newly appointed Defence Minister Gerard Longuet (L) listens to explanations relative to the 'FELIN system' (FELIN in French : Fantassin à équipements et liaisons intégrés), a new high tech gear for infantrymen aimed at increasing their efficiency during combat, on March 4, 2011 at the 1st combat helicopter regiment in Phalsbourg.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[nightcrawler]

Weren't they also being ordered by Russians