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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."
It would indeed be an upgrade from plate armor, Sir Garlon.
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.
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."
why? you live in Compton or South east LA?
... 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. . . .
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).
A swap is like a Gamer convention. Buttloads of stench and disease. Swapfunk in war will take out your entire army in short order.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
"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.