Real Halo suit

[Boardskater]

OK, I think I'd like to order some of these. Maybe just the base model.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TB9L2h5n8&mode=related&search=

[Kilo11]

yeah ill take one of those, lol

[Savage_Insight]

That suit's already way obsolete, poor guy.

The military already has nanotech "medics" which are little robot patches which monitor life signs through the blood, thermal contact, etc. and administer site-to-site injections.
I'm really curious about that "ballistic foam" though. Dragonskin is supposedly better, but it's an interesting concept.

Magnetic guns...not such a good idea. Especially if you have a computer on board. Velcro might work better.

I like the last words recorder though. Don't think that's been ever approved...I wonder if that's because an enemy can use it to dishonor the dead. I hope not. A simple encryption and transmission back HQ system could protect that.

Half the stuff he's built on the suit has been replaced by the Landwarrior system's computer, GPS, etc. technology.

Signaling with bright lights other than infrared strobes fashioned in a manner *not* to damage the eyes of anyone looking is pretty dangerous if you're really down in combat. A simple hi-tech locator tag would be an improvement.

Heh, I bet I could design something different and much more appealing for present-day-use. But that ballistic foam now, it's a question.

Still, even if anyone *did* come up with something, it'll be replaced in 10-20 years. A really short life span for an invention if you ask me.

It *might* be nice for a "black corporation" though. There's already a number of militant companies around. Just scares the reality out of me to know that they exist.

[VA S.T.A.R]

LOL, i saw this same exact vid, its great although, a watch where your crotch is kind akward. So much gear. 50 pounds can weigh a soldier down

[skate1989]

what if a suit could have a magnetic feild around it strong enough to slow down bullets to basiclly the speed of a pb, or to stop them midflight, but the field was sensitive enought to act only on small projectiles, and not cars ect, hey just me thinking out loud

[VA S.T.A.R]

Just get a gigantic magnet to take care the the TROJAN

[Savage_Insight]

... So much gear. 50 pounds can weigh a soldier down

Crotch watch was idiotic, I agree.

Actually 50 pounds in a suit is very light. WWII veterans carried the same thing in a pack, but a Knight with a full suit of armor actually would top over 50 pounds and could still do cartwheels in the later 1600-1700s developments when armor neared perfection.

I used to do live steel battlefield combat as my previous culture dive. Battle ready steel, full suits of armor, blunted arrows shot at 40+ lb pull bows...oh man. It felt painfully awesome, and you didn't noticed the weight with adrenaline pumping.

My friends in the Marines tell me they can carry up to 150 lbs or more with a full loadout.


what if a suit could have a magnetic feild around it strong enough to slow down bullets to basiclly the speed of a pb, or to stop them midflight, but the field was sensitive enought to act only on small projectiles, and not cars ect, hey just me thinking out loud

I don't get you guys with the Roger Moore James Bond theory.
Projecting a magnetic field is suicide. Shaping magnetic energy as a repulsive field ONLY works on pre-magnetized objects, and ONLY on objects with cobalt, nickel or iron in them (magnetic minerals).
And the ability to shape magnetic fields in the way you're suggesting is one of the holy grails of science.
We can barely do it, but it takes unbelievable amounts of power. As in over a few cities.

If you like energy fields, you might be able to capture a bullet with a reverse ionizing graviton generator and a pariah drone. Using two split second fields, it could charge, then zap the objects of any material into a pulling field that pulls them into the pariah drone. Which would likely be destroyed.

But that tech is beyond what we have.

How about just incinerating those bullets with a localized plasma field trapped by magnetism? *that* we can do these days. It'll just take 10 years to develop into a personal device.

Hmm...actually