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It’s the superhuman suit that will turn special operations commandos into real-life Iron Men.

The U.S. military is developing a new uniform for troops that will be bullet-proof, enhance the wearer’s strength, heal wounds by temporarily stopping bleeding and display the soldier’s vital signs.

A prototype of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS – named after the mythological Greek automaton made of bronze that Zeus assigned to protect his lover Europa – is expected to hit the market next year.
The Army said the revolutionary armor will deliver ‘superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection’ by providing a powered exoskeleton to haul heavier equipment, built-in computers and the ability to apply wound-sealing foam.

The capabilities would make the already elite Special Operation Forces nearly invincible in the field.



‘[The] requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armor suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armor, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that — a whole bunch of stuff that RDECOM is playing heavily in,’ Lt. Col. Karl Borjes, a U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) science adviser, said in a statement.

MIT engineers are working on a liquid body armor that ‘transforms from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied’.

Super human: The Army-commissioned ‘TALOS’ will protect commandos from gunfire, enhance their strength and give them night vision

The U.S. Special Operations Command is teaming up with industry, universities and laboratories to see if such a suit can be created for the real world of combat.

‘I’m very committed to this,’ U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. William McRaven to a group of industry representatives at a TALOS presentation in July, according to wired.com.

‘I’d like that last operator that we lost to be the last operator we lose in this fight or the fight of the future, and I think we can get there.’

The high number of extremely technical and integrated challenges means the Army will draw on a broad range of collaborators from backgrounds that may have never worked together.

‘USSOCOM is interested in receiving white papers from a wide variety of sources, not just traditional military industry but also from academia, entrepreneurs, and laboratories capable of providing the design, construction, and testing of TALOS related technologies,’ said Jim Geurts, USOCOM acquisition executive, in a statement.

‘The intent is to accelerate the delivery of innovative TALOS capabilities to the SOF operator.’
Brought to life: The technology seen in the ‘Iron Man’ movies will be reflected in the new attire of the United States military

However, not everyone is enamored with the idea of super-advanced body suits for soldiers.

‘My sense is it is an up-armored Pinocchio,’ Scott Neil, a retired special forces master sergeant and Silver Star recipient, told the Tampa Tribune.

‘Now the commander can shove a monkey in a suit and ask us to survive a machine gun, IED [improvised explosive device] and poor intelligence all on the same objective.

‘And when you die in it, as it melds to your body, you can bury them in it.’

Others have criticized the absence of a power source in the sci-fi suit.

‘The acronym TALOS was chosen deliberately,’ MIT professor Gareth McKinley told NPR.

‘It’s the name of the bronze armored giant from ‘Jason and the Argonauts.’ Like all good superheroes, Talos has one weakness. For the Army’s TALOS, the weak spot is either the need to carry around a heavy pump for a hydraulic system, or lots of heavy batteries. We don’t have Iron Man’s power source yet.’

The Army hopes to have a prototype ready next year, with various components of the suit currently in development, according to NBC News.

However an advanced model won’t be developed until at least 2016.
Iron Man army: US military developing armor that allows special ops commandos to walk through stream of bullets, see in the dark, heal wounds and monitor vital signs | Mail Online
 
How much would this cost? And c'mon man why are people becoming more cowardly as technology soars....
 
How much would this cost? And c'mon man why are people becoming more cowardly as technology soars....

I think they prefer the term "Smarter." Humanity is now seen as the weak link in the armed forces now. Just look at today trends in the military. Its all about Drones, Drones & more Drones.

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I think they prefer the term "Smarter." Humanity is now seen as the weak link in the armed forces now. Just look at today trends in the military. Its all about Drones, Drones & more Drones.

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One day that warfare will come to an end.

Sure...Go to war with swords and spears and show everyone how brave you are.

Ha Ha Ha! How do equate that with criticizing a suit designed for people who have become unrealistic.
 
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that is severely cool...
 
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Great, let's start yet another arms-race with money we *really* need for non-defense purposes atm :hitwall:

Good luck dealing with the military industry....:cheesy:

They always have their way and now have become lazy at their work as they keep getting those government contracts.

The money keeps coming in for these 1%.
 
Good luck dealing with the military industry....:cheesy:

They always have their way and now have become lazy at their work as they keep getting those government contracts.

The money keeps coming in for these 1%.

Are you really from Palestine?
 
Great, let's start yet another arms-race with money we *really* need for non-defense purposes atm :hitwall:

Hahaha,i guess you're a euroliberal.Guess what buddy ...everybody else in the world is in a arms race allready while we,in Europe cut back on defence every year to spend on welfare and such crap.This will be our doom.
 
It's possible. And very much necessary in the future.

And as far as drones are concerned, we can't rely on them on every operation. And once if only machines do the fighting, then what's the point of war? War would just become a game. And that could become dangerous in many ways.
 
drones can be hacked. they can be jammed. humans and rifles can't.

Actually, drone cannot be hacked remotely, unless you have a way to hack a tier 1 2-way communication system with 24 set satellite scramble code that change by thee minute...

The only way you can hack a drone is doing a point to point hack on either end of physical location, that is the drone itself and the command station

However, you can destroy the commons and control mechanism and render the drone useless
 
Hahaha,i guess you're a euroliberal.Guess what buddy ...everybody else in the world is in a arms race allready while we,in Europe cut back on defence every year to spend on welfare and such crap.This will be our doom.

you must've missed the part where i said 'yet another armsrace' ey.

and i honestly think it'll much more likely be mass starvation or hugantic climate problems or ww3 (you build lotsa weapons, somebody's gonna wanna use 'm, especially with the average quality of political leadership on our dear planet!) that causes mass-suffering, rather than as you say cutting defense spending would (which is already at levels that would see both poverty and climate change solved).

your turn again, einstein.
 
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