Posted on 07/02/2017 8:32:32 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I tried a pair on in a trendy outdoor sports store in my college town. At about $70 they were too pricey for me making $1.80 @ hour,
And I would have felt like a poser wearing them since I didn’t hike or do much mountain climbing in Kansas. Anyway clumping around on the carpet like ski boots (I did a little skiing next door in CO) I felt like Frankenstein’s monster. I suppose they broke in after a while, a few years?
ps I’ve got some Justin harness boots with Kevlar soles.
Stiff at first, those things are bullet-proof.
“Alexy. This suit. Is making me look fat? The truth!”
Agincourt frog: “Those limeys don’t stand a chance. We have better armour.”
Those hiking boots from the 70’s as you put it carried me around for most of my life in total safety. They had a mild rocker to the bottom of them that rolled you along across all types of terrain. The heels had a little extra width that allowed you to walk on pure ice and know you would not fall, and though heavy, they were the pinnacle of outdoor footwear. I had them resoled once and the guy doing the work was almost in tears that he was chosen to do the work. They were mountaineering boots and yes I did ski in them too. Silven wooden cross country skis with cable Silvrette bindings. I often look over at them with fond memories. That decades long durable vibram solid rubber lug has been replaced with some cheaper garbage typical of this era. The only thing that comes close are these Danner’s. http://www.danner.com/mountain-pass-dark-brown.html
LOL, those things DO feel like ski boots!
This is a mock-up, not a prototype. It is “our vision of the suit we would like to develop within the next couple of years,” per the deputy chief of weapons systems. In reality, Russia’s weak and declining industrial and technical base put them far behind similar developments planned by the US, Israel, and in West Europe.
Thanks for that picture, not for the boots, lol. Audiophiles, another dying breed.
[Screen shows target information.
Displays soldier’s health information.]
Sounds like Halo.
LOLOL
M855 5.56 was designed to penetrate Warsaw pact body armor.
It went through Somali skinnies like butter. Unfortunately some shot with it described it as being pierced by a knitting needle, then they were back in the fight.
You let the cat out of the bag, FRiend. I expect the Russians monitoring FR will now start lining their armor with Vibram boot soles.
From what I’ve seen, many of the safety shoes have some petroleum based sole. Slicker than a cats *ss in the rain. I sometimes get the feeling I’m living in a blade runner movie, lol.
LOL, I “died” years ago when it came to being an audiophile...my hearing began to go, and all that high end (for me) Denon equipment I bought back in the early eighties just stopped making sense! I finally sold my dust covered turntable two years ago, that I paid $750 for back in 1979!
(I wasn’t rich, I was going to a state college on the GI bill and commuting from home, but...music was important to me!)
I thought it funny you noticed that, because I did too...I had to go to eBay to find a picture of my old boots, and I just grabbed that one...I did notice the gear too!
Saw the video. It stands still good...real good.
You better have an A.C. unit attached to that thing.
For their sake, I hope it works better than the Star Wars stormtrooper’s gear which offers no protection at all from a blaster shot.
Blaster shots? Hell, they were taken out en masse by teddy bears using rocks and spears in Jedi.
>>“Gonna go through a lot of D cells”
>>Yes, and who is going to hump all the batteries?
That’s why they provided the exoskeleton.. to help carry all that extra load.
>>Those must be fun to trot in along the steppes.
Especially with the ankle weights of the battery packs.
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