Global Soldier Modernisation Market 2010 Worth $546 Million

• Armed Forces Around the World Are Increasingly Choosing to Concentrate on Professionalising Their Infantry Units

Visiongain calculates that the global market for soldier modernisation is currently worth $546 million in 2010.

Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan being increasingly technologically sophisticated, they have continued to demonstrated the vital importance of infantry in military operations. Governments are increasingly aware of the importance of up to date soldier systems in supporting increasingly all-arms and mixed-nation missions. During the next decade, the soldier modernisation industry is therefore expected to exhibit corresponding growth, driven by a mix of counter insurgency and peacekeeping operations.

Despite the current economic climate restricting defence budgets - particularly in the US and UK, governments globally continue to invest in long term programmes to upgrade their infantry combat capability in the digital battlespace. The intention is to produce next generation soldiers, with improved Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) capability, and integration into the modern Network Centric Warfare (NCW) environment to deliver fully coordinated all-arms military operations.

New commercial developments in satellite navigation technology, computing and communications are also driving equipment upgrades in many military forces. The observations of NATO Topical Group 1 is encouraging interoperable upgrades to infantry modernisation programmes. Soldiers must be safe in the knowledge that their location is known to friendly units and that they have access to the most up-to-date local intelligence to enable them to avoid, or engage, potential threats. To achieve this in the modern digital battlespace, it is important to provide network access to the soldier both individually and as a small unit.

To make the most of declining defence budgets, armed forces around the world are increasingly choosing to concentrate on professionalising their infantry units, investing a significant portion of their budgets in the force multiplication provided by soldier modernisation. Elite units in particular will be provided with increasingly advanced technology as the decade progresses.

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