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Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors
An anonymous reader writes "U.S. military researchers are asking industry for ideas on a futuristic uniform for Special Operations warfighters that involves agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors, communications radios and antennas, signal processors, wearable displays, and health-monitoring systems. Among the technologies Special Operations Command officials are interested in most (PDF) are advanced armor to protect warfighters from bullets, shrapnel, and other battlefield threats, while preserving their mobility. The suit also may involve powered or unpowered robotic exoskeletons to improve warfighter performance and endurance, while enabling the warfighter to operate silently and unseen."
Dude, I want a suit like that for myself!
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
Tony Stark was preceded by a few decades by Robert Heinlein's Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers.
Wearing that suit, wherever you like....
One the Army gets them, the nazis over at the DEA will want them too, and in no time at all Andy Taylor and Barney Fife will get a Homeland Security law enforcement grant so they can add this to their local sheriff's arsenal of M-16's, M-60's, and infantry fighting vehicles...so they can morph into Judge Dredd and fight the swarms of evil terrorists we see on every street corner.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
Where do you pee?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/nasa-osmotic-water-bag/
http://gizmodo.com/the-sweat-to-water-purifier-real-life-dune-still-suit-826806326
It's what we used to call a suit of armour.
Now get thee hence from mine lawne!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yes. Soldier is the term typically used for someone in the Army. As opposed to Airmen, Sailors, and Marines. Warfighter is the more general term for anyone int he military.
I'm still trying to figure out why everyone argues that we should spend the money elsewhere instead of simply using it as a reduction to our deficit-plagued budget.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
Not Grar! enough. Same reason all the Pentagon flunkies are riding the Metro in camo.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
The buzzword is meant to be inclusive. Technically, Army personnel are soldiers, Air Force personnel are airmen, Marine Corps personnel are marines, and Navy personnel are sailors. It's easier to say "warfighter" than to say "soldier, sailor, airman, and/or marine" every other sentence -- or, apparently, to risk offending anyone by leaving one or more of the service branches out. (I would think the military is the last place where one should have to worry about whiners, but whatever.)
I read an op-ed by a retired soldier who lamented the rise of the new buzzwords "warrior" and "warfighter." To be a solider implies a certain code of honor. That's why, he said, the term had become unfashionable-- a scathing commentary on military culture.
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
The military is marketed to 18-year-olds, and "soldier" is a passive term that simply doesn't convey the thrill and excitement of getting shot at.
"Warfighter" is jargon. "Service members" is the general term for anyone in the military.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
... a futuristic uniform for Special Operations warfighters that involves agile air-conditioned armor with embedded computers, sensors, communications radios and antennas, signal processors, wearable displays, and health-monitoring systems. ... officials are interested in advanced armor to protect warfighters from bullets, shrapnel, and other battlefield threats, while preserving their mobility.
Problem solved. Some mobility may be limited.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
anti-ballistic, computerized, walking.
Pick 2.
Actually, both were beat out by real devices! Powered Exoskeletons
In addition, (according to wikipedia) the first fictional reference was E. E. Smith's Lensman series in 1937, although devices were being built before then.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
The War Department didn't become the Defense Department. It became the Department of the Army and was removed from the cabinet, as was the Department of the Navy (which didn't get a name change). The Defense Department was, by necessity, a new department because it was created to oversee the Army, Navy and the new formed Air Force, whereas the War Department had been responsible for only the Army since 1798 (nine years after its founding).
And not just anyone in the military will be wearing this suit. Warfighter is used for someone who does the killing. Someone who works in admin, intel, logistics, or any other job behind a desk is a service member but not a warfighter. Warfighter is not meaningless jargon; it's the right word in this context and what we use (Defense contractor and former Marine, here).
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
And yet it's what we use in the military to distinguish between combat roles and non-combat roles.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
actually, the term is used to distinguish combat troops from their paper pushing comrades. For every single infantryman, there are 11 support soldiers - from cooks to supply to drivers. I'll leave you to judge how efficient that may seem.
...Honestly one 30Kiloton bomb on whatever city we think that scumbag running Syria is and the whole thing is over. AS soon as it drops, we need to make a world brodcast where the president says only one sentence...
"That is what happens when you fuck with us."
Uh, they're not fucking with us. We have no dog in this fight. They're basically killing each other.
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the materials are fine, what we don't have is the power to run the exosystem.
"one 30Kiloton bomb"
So, you're saying to drop a nuke on the capital so they won't use chemical weapons?
Uh...
Listen to the doctor. Take the Xanax he prescribed, look at the pretty flowers and listen to soothing music.