【2月3日】看軍聞學英語

原文：

U.S. Army and British soldiers will participate in a force-on-force experiment next month to test out battlefield techs ranging from thermal-defeating woobies to exoskeleton knee braces.

The Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Benning, Georgia, will host the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments 2020 from Feb. 4 to March 17. A platoon of British soldiers will join two platoons from Benning's Experimental Company to fight against an OPFOR made up of a platoon from the 4th Infantry Division in an effort to create a realistic environment for evaluating dozens of prototype technologies, such as unmanned aerial systems, communications gear and sophisticated sensors.

中譯:

美陸軍和英國軍隊將在下個月以實兵對抗方式測試戰場應用科技，品項囊括去溫毛毯及外骨骼護膝等多種裝備。

喬治亞州班寧堡的機動戰鬥實驗室將於2月4日至3月17日主辦2020年陸軍遠征戰士隊對抗賽。英國將以一個步兵排，連同班寧堡實驗連的兩個排，共同對抗由第4步兵師一個排所組成的假想敵，營造戰場實境用以評估數十種原型技術，諸如無人飛行系統、通信設備、精密感應器等。

關鍵軍語：

※force-on-force：

Problem-solve and fight, either as an individual or member of a team, against live adversaries in realistic encounters.

※Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments：

Abbreviated AEWE, established to showcase how small businesses can serve the US Army with modernized capabilities, integrations and developments - which assists in the vision for the future.

※OPFOR：

Opposing force, a military unit tasked with representing an enemy, usually for training purposes in war game scenarios.

例句：

Modernizing the U.S. Army's OPFOR program is an unremitting endeavor, because threats continuously change and technology relentlessly revolutionizes the art of war.

美國陸軍假想敵計畫必須與時俱進，因為威脅不斷變異，而科技也讓戰爭藝術不停地革新精進。