US Army Preparing For Mountainous, Battalion-Sized Test: "The U.S. Army is planning a rigorous, large-scale Limited User Test, or LUT, of its Increment 1 Early Brigade Combat Team technologies at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., later this year. The evaluation will test robots, sensors, UAVs and a battlefield network in Afghan-like mountainous terrain.
Spanning a 35-kilometer area, the 2010 LUT will be more than five times larger than the 2009 LUT which tested the same technologies on the company level scale in the five-kilometer area known as Adobe Village.
'We had a company-sized test last year - a very small footprint in Adobe Village. This year we have a battalion and we have added two more villages,' said Maj. Gen. Keith Walker, director of the Army's Future Force Integration Directorate, Fort Bliss, Texas. 'In 2011 we will spread the brigade a good 70 kilometers.'"
