How much does man-portable equipment cost for U.S. soldiers

The cost of U.S. Army man-portable equipment has tripled since 2000. The cost of a U.S. soldier's equipment, including night-vision gear, was about $7,000 in 2000 and has jumped to nearly $30,000 today.

The U.S. warfighter's equipment now covers four major areas: personal protection, survival protection, weaponry, and night-vision equipment. To a U.S. Army rifleman load, for example, in addition to man-portable weapons, he is generally dressed in anti-nuclear, chemical and biological three-proof clothing, gloves, masks, as well as the standard configuration of the bullet-proof undershirt, man-portable binoculars / scopes, night-vision devices and batteries, etc., he would also like to shoulder a sling-type carry equipment, its back frame for the aluminum alloy, which is loaded with bullets, water bottles, GPS, PDAs, reconnaissance equipment, chemical and biological weapons detector The carrier is made of aluminum and contains bullets, water bottles, PDAs, reconnaissance equipment, biological and chemical weapons detectors, medical first aid kits and even spare underwear. Counting down a soldier's back hanging a variety of equipment varieties not less than a hundred, with "armed to the teeth" are difficult to describe.

It is said that the special forces ten tens of thousands of dollars or even 200,000 dollars