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Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System

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They're going to use MS Teams for combat operations? That's going to be a disaster.

The capitalisation of headlines is making it confusing, it's supposed to mean "teams up with" and not "MS Teams" the product.

It took me so long to parse this headline. Bloomberg's weird capitalisation in headlines constantly trips me up, must be even harder for non-native English speakers.

Everyone knows a passive-aggressive "thumbs up" is a good psychological warfare technique. /s

But the title just has bad capitalization as a sibling commenter noted.

I can't help but feel like the pentagon/DoD keeps making strategic mistakes with their focus on complex and expensive options. For example, the xbox controller is more successful in submarines and other military applications than costly and more complex custom solutions.

Further more, looking at history and modern warfare as is being demonstrated in Ukraine, things that you can sustainably manufacture at large scale without crippling your economy seem to be ideal. Things like cheap but deadly drones, lighter combat gear/pack,etc.. reliance on technology seems to be a liability at times.

I'm just being an arm-chair critic, but wouldn't it be better to let robots and drones do their own thing, while humans also be prepared to face off the enemy without relying on fancy tech? Imagine having to re-orient yourself in the middle of battle because your goggle crashed or ran out of battery or the enemy managed to hack the goggle and disorient your people.

Show the drones which can do what missles can do. Recently the whole drone academy including foreign instructors have been blown away in Ukraine with two missles.[0]

0. https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...

And more recently a huge ammo dump was turned into a giant mushroom cloud with (presumably) drones.

missiles are expensive, drones are cheap. America's ability to manufacture a ton of tanks and planes won WW2. With opponents like China in play, volume and economic stability matter than concentrated firepower and technological superiority.

As the official count of victims is 58, and your source on substack says 760, if you got more precise and reliably sourced information you should update the Wikipedia page for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike

Ok in the meantime I looked at your source website, it's full of vaccine scaremongering and assorted trolling.

IVAS is still too clunky and not worth the ROI to get that level of funding, expect it to get canceled unless congress greatly increases the Defense budget or changes acquisition practices

sometimes words like "Teams" should be written like a verb... small first character.

I agree. From the heading alone, I thought: "Cannot recommend that piece of ... on your army goggles. This can only end in disaster."

But actually "teams" with small letter might also end in a disaster.

These guys are big fan of LoTR! Andúril is the sword of Aragorn, the Flame of the West