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Russian Exoskeleton Suit Turns Soldiers Into Stormtroopers

posted by martyb on Friday July 07 2017, @02:34AM   
from the suitable dept.

Fnord666 writes:

In a bid to make its armed forces look even more intimidating, Russia has taken inspiration from science-fiction to create some futuristic-looking new combat suits. Developed by the state-owned Central Research Institute for Precision Machine Building, this very Star Wars-esque combat armor features a powered exoskeleton, ballistic protection from bullets and shrapnel and a heads-up display. While just a concept at the moment, the suit's designers hope it will enter full production in the next few years.

While they haven't detailed what the heads-up display would be used for, the combat armor's powered exoskeleton helps the wearer carry heavy loads, bearing some of the brunt to lower the soldiers' fatigue

Source: Engadget

Story has a video on YouTube.

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• Re:Take arms against a sea of metaphors mix'd (Score: 1, Touché) by Lagg on Friday July 07 2017, @04:33AM

  by Lagg (105) on Friday July 07 2017, @04:33AM (#536003) Homepage Journal

  RT was saying it specifically intending for it to be repeated in english. They're into that sort of thing [wikipedia.org]. They don't actually care what it looks like so long as it's sufficiently fear-inspiring. Even if not fully functional (TALOS is the only thing moving in the article video). Stormtroopers are a pop culture icon in America and The Rebels (TM) spend a lot of time running from them in fear because they're a massive monolithic empire.

  Being a pop culture icon, the engadgidiot in the article video happily repeated it in English. In video and article. Because they know that particular pop culture keyword is liek so hot right now. They get more hits, cool rusky star wars suit gets circulated.

  Edge of Tomorrow, well, I haven't even seen that :p

  I bet Putin got a raging hardon when she said "designed for toughness ... this galactic empire moment".

  Check this out, here's the source: https://www.rt.com/news/394745-russian-future-combat-suit-exoskeleton/ [rt.com]

  Google "Russia star wars suit"

  Observe masterful propagation of a rubber motorcycle helmet with tire treads on the shoulder. Still though RT showed restraint. They didn't mention NATO.

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