The Advanced Personal Armament System -- Japan's version of the Future Soldier project, designed to modernize combat infantry units -- offers a network-linked helmet providing night and thermal vision, amongst other capabilities. It was introduced at a presentation held by the ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute titled, "Towards the realization of Gundam."
Gundam is the name of a hugely popular anime series featuring huge "mobile suit" robots, and the system unveiled at the research presentation sports features inspired by the giant humanoid robots that appear in the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam," according to officials.
The suit also contains global positioning system (GPS) technology, allowing the wearer's location to be tracked.
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