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Well, not quite yet... but check this out
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it would be nice if just once a great technological development weren't made into a weapon.
Nice, but unfortunately not realistic.
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Very nicely worded, its like you took the words out of my mouth.
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Maybe not Ironman, but it reminds me more of the Mobile Infantry suit in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The Army's paying for it, after all...
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Still need more work before it can become a fully functional battle suit.
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Still WAY FREAKIN SWEET though.
I saw a picture of said battle suit in a popular science magazine.
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Cool story man, thanks for the link.
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I mostly think of the alien-wrestling forklift exoskeleton from Alien. I hope there's enough demand so they can start mass production eventually.
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What really would be sweet is a Predator suit.
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"It won't be"
I have done extensive research on this topic and even delivered a presentation on the army's "Future Soldier 2025". It most certainly is NOT going to be a "robot suit", but could easily be construed as such. It DOES have an "exoskeleton" of sorts, but it is NOT a suit of armor. The XO system is designed to increase the strength and duration of the soldier, NOT to make them impervious to attacks. Certainly the suit DOES have sophisticated armor. It uses ballistic resistant ceramics and nano-carbon tubes pieced together and coated with a special new "glue glass" material which is reamins flexible until it is struck with a sudden impact (such as a bullet). When that happens, the glass particles get shoved together with such force that they basically solidify into a strong armor like substance. The material returns to its original flexible state almost immediately after the impact. There are TONS more things the suit can do, but it certainly is NOT an "Iron Man" suit. For more information, try a Google search for "Future Soldier 2025".
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