Posted on 09/28/2010 4:42:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
Technology has always defined how wars are fought, from swords to bows and arrows through the invention of gunpowder and the dawn of the aircraft and, now, to the presence of laser-guided unmanned aerial drones and bomb-diffusing robots. The U.S. military is now hoping the next decade will see a new class of warrior, a faster, stronger and more durable exoskeleton-empowered infantryman.
Such an "iron man" was unveiled Monday at a demonstration of Raytheon Company's new Exoskeleton (XOS 2) at the company's research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Is that better than a bomb de-fusing robot? Because if a cook knows the difference between the words, SA editors should know as well.
/johnny
$1000 says that someone in the White Hut will try to stop this project. The whole reason they are keeping troops in Afghanistan and Iraq is to get them killed. Barack won’t settle for live US soldiers.
Pretty cool!
Dale Brown writes excellent stories using these....could it become a reality? Perhaps so.
ping
The increased strength isn't too obvious until the part when he's breaking the boards. I am very, very impressed.
The second movie made the Skynet technology an infinity loop. It was never actually invented, it just came into being from the future, was half crushed while trying to kill Sarah Connor, and had its technology that was never invented, just copied.
The rather dumb 80’s movie “TimeRider” had the same thing. Guy wore a talisman from his grandma, went back in time, became his own grandpa, gave her the Talisman. Nobody ever made that thing! It came out of nowhere, a time anomaly!
To the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name Rodger Young!
exoshizzle
Sir Lancelot was much more stylish.
What would be even better is if they could have an AI component, and maybe link them all together with something called, I don’t know, maybe SkyNet.
How about that, 15 posts and no one sent up a pic of HALO.
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