{"id":215974,"date":"2024-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=215974"},"modified":"2024-07-03T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T21:29:45","slug":"new-york-army-guard-tests-technology-to-reduce-soldier-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=215974","title":{"rendered":"New York Army Guard Tests Technology to Reduce Soldier Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Spc. Johnny Pagan, an infantryman with the New York National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, controls a soldier-borne sensor unmanned aerial vehicle in Fort Drum, N.Y., June 27, 2024. The system is portable and can be controlled by a single Soldier, allowing the drone to complete dangerous work Soldiers usually perform. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Warren W. Wright Jr., 42nd Infantry Division Public Affairs)
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FORT DRUM, N.Y. \u2013 Soldiers from the New York National Guard\u2019s 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team traveled to Fort Drum June 24-28 to get hands-on with new technologies designed to mitigate the risk to Soldiers on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

The soldier-borne sensor (SBS) unmanned aerial vehicle and lightweight laser designator rangefinder (LLDR) systems were recently fielded to various units across the brigade. Soldiers received classroom and practical instructions on operating the new tools in their arsenal.<\/p>\n

The SBS \u201cis portable and lightweight, increasing the effectiveness of our operations,\u201d said Staff Sgt. Andy Huang, a combat engineer with the 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion. \u201c… Instead of using us to do surveillance, it can do surveillance and reconnaissance and search for enemy fighting positions or friendly forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SBS mitigates the risk to Soldiers by having the miniature drone complete dangerous work Soldiers would typically perform. It\u2019s quiet and measures only a few inches, making it nearly undetectable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s small and lightweight, and with how high it can go, you can\u2019t really hear it,\u201d Huang said. \u201cSo, you can recon a lot of stuff and the bad guys can\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second system fielded and trained on during the week was the LLDR, a crew-served, Soldier-portable, long-range target locator and laser designation system. The LLDR provides Soldiers on the battlefield with highly accurate target location information while using the laser designator to call for fire using precision, near-precision and area munitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe LLDR allows you to basically have another person see what you\u2019re doing or what you\u2019re looking at without the (Soldier) having to move,\u201d said Spc. Jeffrey Anicet, a joint fire support specialist with 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery Regiment, and native of Middletown, New York. \u201cFor us, for the observers, it makes it easier for us to target rounds, especially with mortars. Then, when working with aircraft on guided ordnance, we\u2019re able to precision drop along those coordinates exactly where we want them to the tenth of a meter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The LLDR relies on advanced sensor technologies, such as thermal imaging, cameras, laser designator spot imaging, digital magnetic compass, GPS, and more, to measure everything from distance to target to the rotation of Earth. This allows Soldiers on the battlefield to relay more precise targeting data.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely going to benefit everyone across the board when we start working more with the infantry, when we\u2019re calling in fires for them, it will be a lot easier and a lot more accurate,\u201d Anicet said. \u201cIt will be a lot safer for everyone on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few Soldiers from the 27th IBCT received the training. They will bring their newfound expertise back to their units.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like a train-the-trainers course,\u201d Huang said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to train almost everyone [in my unit] on how to use this system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Spc. Johnny Pagan, an infantryman with the New York National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment, controls a soldier-borne sensor unmanned aerial vehicle in Fort Drum, N.Y., June 27, 2024. The system is portable and can be controlled by a single Soldier, allowing the drone to complete dangerous work Soldiers usually perform. (U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215976,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215977,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215974\/revisions\/215977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}