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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.
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?