[nonameiguess]

Sounds awfully pie in the sky. My own experience matches Jonathan Wong's. An individual ground Soldier is carrying a lot of gear already and the helmet as-is is quite heavy. Regular night vision and ballistic glasses are not comfortable. Ruggedized laptops are already bulky and adding in the ability to run a local LLM is only going to make them bulkier. Computing and electronics in general are unreliable in the field, easy to lose, difficult to keep charged, and nobody likes carrying them. It needs to add quite a bit of value to be worth it, and calling in airstrikes or indirect fire is not all that difficult as it stands.

Projects like these always feel like people whose experience of combat is video games imagining how cool it would be to have better tech, and I can't help but wonder what the guys at the top buying this shit are thinking. They too were once at the platoon and company level, even if it was decades ago. Cynically, they might just hope to end up like this Quay Barnett guy. Buy shit you don't need and will never field from a vendor today, then get a 7-figure job from the same vendor when you retire.