Every Soldier an Eagle Eyed Marksman on future battefields

There a few methods for boosting vision to about 20 / 7.5. That would mean they could clearly see something at 20 feet away (6.1 meters) that mere mortals could only make out from a distance of 7.5 feet (2.3 m).

1) is a brain training exercises, which were tested on baseball players.
2) Another are improved laser eye surgery
3) Bionic lens which would be inserted into the eye. This could be availabe in 2017

Healthy young observers may have a binocular acuity superior to 20/20; the limit of acuity in the unaided human eye is around 20 / 10–20 / 8, although 20 / 8.9 was the highest score recorded in a study of some US professional athletes. Some birds of prey, such as hawks, are believed to have an acuity of around 20 / 2.

There is a limit for improving visual acuity without increasing the size of the eye.



Th US Army is developing an exoskeleton that automatically and effortlessly steadies a soldier’s firing arm.

There are of course, low-tech gun rests and other commercial devices for improving aim on the market, but the new Mobile Arm Exoskeleton for Firearm Aim Stabilization (MAXFAS) seeks to bring even more advanced technology to the process, actively sensing and canceling out even slight arm trembling, while also keeping the shooter’s arm free to point at different targets.

“Army soldiers have to be able to hit a target at over 300 yards away,” says Daniel Baechle, a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and one of MAXFAS’s creators. “That's more than three football fields put end-to-end. Prior to basic training, many soldiers have never tried to hit a target that far away.”

MAXFAS should help them get up to speed much more quickly. The system relies on a network of cables and sensors to detect movement, then pulls on the shooter's arm as if he or she were a marionette.

Braces equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes are attached to the shooter’s forearm and upper arm with velcro straps. These sensors then detect the shooter’s minute arm movements and transfer the data to microchips, where computer algorithms distinguish the shooter’s involuntary tremors from his or her voluntary motions.

MAXFAS is made with carbon fiber composite materials that weigh just 10 ounces. Future versions could incorporate lightweight motors in a backpack to make the exoskeleton mobile

The researchers found 14 of the 15 shooters shot better while wearing MAXFAS than before it, with accuracy improving by 27 percent across the group on average.

There may also be applications for MAXFAS outside the military. For example, it could help assist hunters, or even be modified to help train skills such as golf swings, tennis swings, or billiards shots.

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