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DARPA Funds Harvard's Soft Exoskeletal Suit
An anonymous reader writes: The military and private contractors have been toying with exoskeletal combat suits for a while, but Harvard's Wyss Institute has a new take on the concept. Rather than using a hard metal frame and the massively overpowered mechanical servos necessary to move it, the Soft Exosuit is a lightweight mesh of webbing combined with a series of strain sensors and basic microprocessors. "The suit mimics the action of leg muscles and tendons when a person walks, and provides small but carefully timed assistance at the leg joints without restricting the wearer's movement." The suit continually monitors its wearer's body position, movement, and muscular strain, providing small amounts of targeted support. The team has now received $2.9 million in funding from DARPA to refine the suit's design. They say they'll be working on medical applications for the suit as well as military ones.
The cheaper ways of improving endurance of soldiers is to weed out the "card wavers" during basic training, that doesn't cost anything.
Besides them, you should ask, tell, and weed out the gender confused to get an army that can trust each other more intimately, thereby working together more efficiently. Finally to improve team spirit, weed out the liberal, politically confused so all can act and think as one.
THAT is why they call it THIS MANS ARMY. No sissies, no faggots and no traitors, beyond that you get the fuckups we have today, with the drama we have today.
Purge the enemy within.