Smart and multifunctional textiles
Pays a contractor to build smart camouflage textiles that hide soldiers from drone surveillance.
Smart and multifunctional textiles is an EDF development action, run by the European Defence Agency, that pays a contractor to build a camouflage solution — both static and dynamic — that conceals a soldier from drone-based visual, radar and electromagnetic surveillance. The page's own top-line figures table lists EUR 422,000,000 against this topic's code, but that figure is the combined total for…
The European Defence Agency wants an individual camouflage solution, both static and dynamic, that conceals a soldier from drone-based visual, radar and electromagnetic surveillance. It follows up earlier EDF work on smart and multifunctional textiles, building toward updated soldier-system requirements driven by the war in Ukraine and the growing threat drones pose to dismounted troops.
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