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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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• "bashing each other over the head with hammers" "bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @04:37AM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @04:37AM (#536004)

  The use of airborne attacks had all but ceased by the middle of the 21st century due to advanced in anti-aircraft and anti-missile technology. Highly accurate, fast aiming laser or coil gun AA sites, coupled with the latest in anti-stealth radar/IR/laser detection systems, meant that most aircraft or missiles would never get close to their targets.

  This means most battles are now fought on the ground. Due to fullerene armour making most weapons obsolete, most of the fighting today is men in suits of armour bashing each other over the head with hammers.

  Oh how far we have come.

  http://poisonedminds.com/d/20101028.html [poisonedminds.com]

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• Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:22AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:22AM (#536011)

  Pfft, someone didn't read their 40K.

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  • Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:39AM (#536015)

    Maybe because it's an original epic work of fiction and not a crappy ripoff of 40K.

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    • Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @06:16AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @06:16AM (#536026)

      "To advanced" for me.

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      • Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:16AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:16AM (#536055)

        It's a webcomic. The guy's spelling and grammar are occasionally bad, and nobody edits for him. Yet he's kept the story going for 19 years and still manages to keep it interesting.

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• Re:"bashing each other over the head with hammers" (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:14PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:14PM (#536270)

  That doesn't make sense. If hitting someone was effective, then you can make a machine which hits the person a little harder, and now you're back to using guns. We don't have deployable tech now, but light and energy streams can be manipulated with lenses and meta materials. I expect as laser weapons improve laser defenses will improve right along with them. Lasers can vaporize physical threats, so we'll end up with large amounts of energy based weapons and a few guns which shoot tons of highly dense bullets. If meta-material structures can survive being shot out of a gun then bullets will be able to have built-in 'cloaking' from energy attacks. Chemical and bio weapons are still effective and lasers aren't a direct defense against them, but they may be effective against remote deployment.

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