The Army fires up a sunshine simulator. Each year, some 20 soldiers experience Afghanistan's 118°F heat for the first time not in the field but in a lab in Natick, Massachusetts. For six decades, the Doriot Climatic Chambers has created everything from deserts to blizzards to test equipment before real-world deployment--and it's the U.S.'s only military lab that uses human volunteers to do it. The chambers are divided into two areas: tropic and arctic. Josh Bulotsky, the electrical engineer who...
The Army fires up a sunshine simulator. Each year, some 20 soldiers experience Afghanistan's 118°F heat for the first time not in the field but in a lab in Natick, Massachusetts. For six decades, the Doriot Climatic Chambers has created everything from deserts to blizzards to test equipment before real-world deployment--and it's the U.S.'s only military lab that uses human volunteers to do it. The chambers are divided into two areas: tropic and arctic. Josh Bulotsky, the electrical engineer who...
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