British engineers have created a military uniform of the future

Equipment of the modern soldier in many countries around the world include electronic devices, significantly increase the combat capabilities of troops. For some units it became customary to use high-power communications systems and communications, satellite navigation, night vision devices and so on. However, numerous wires and batteries pose any inconvenience. However, soon they will go back in time - they will replace uniforms woven with conductive fibers.

Back in 2009 the company's specialists Intelligent Textiles think about what the various devices and sensors reduce the mobility of a soldier, and together with wires and batteries pose an additional burden.

The new uniforms with integrated conductive fibers designed to solve this problem. Designed by British engineers, the prototype has a power source and is a kind of local area network that can connect various devices. If now for each device requires its own battery, then through the fabric of the new form can be connected to one power supply as many devices.

Conductive fibers woven into the fabric itself, is designed to reduce not only physical but also mental strain on troops. Previously, cable failure often resulted in the inability to use the device to complete the operation, and in embodied a new form of the concept of forward signal on alternative routes.

"The problem of conventional cable is the wire that the gap is becoming a catastrophe. Anticipating this, we embedded conductive fibers in excess, and if the tissue is damaged or broken, you can always redirect the signal," - BBC reports the words Thompson Asha (Asha Thompson), Chapter of Intelligent Textiles.

The conductive fibers may carry not only electric current but also to transmit data. Clothing made from specialized tissue might eventually become "worn by a computer." Now experts are working on Intelligent Textiles in the creation of a flexible fabric keyboard.

Testing of the prototype is scheduled for completion in May. By the end of 2012 form may appear "in service" soldiers of the Royal Air Force (RAF). And for years 2014-2015 to obtain the mass distribution.