Posted on 09/17/2014 3:51:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Jason Kerestes, a student at Arizona State University, in conjunction with the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have come up with the 4 Minute Mile or 4MM a jetpack that can help soldiers move faster without requiring them to exert more physically.
The jetpack gives the runner a boost in an attempt to shave off time with a goal of running a 4-minute mile. Early testing has shown that even carrying the jetpack equipment, the runner could complete a 200-meter run faster and with decreased exertion.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
Our soldiers would probably settle for just having bullets in their weapons.
I guess the low tech version, which we could actually afford, would be to feed the GIs a steady diet of pinto beans...
Yep, powered exoskeletons...
“Double time, march!”
BLAAAAAT!!!!!
;^)
Quote:
“...The French ought to like this.”
Post of the day!
I’m thinking Wile E. Coyote, genius.
Yep!
See the Tom Cruise movie “Edge of Tomorrow”. There is a pretty good depiction of near future soldier technology.
I wonder if it would be any harder on the knees. Maybe in urban areas you could use boots with pop down in line wheels, like those ski commando guys.
Freegards
Saw it. Pretty good movie.
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