Off Topic: US Military Wants To Build Powered Armour

October 14, 2013 7 Comments

US Military TALOS Suit

Don’t you love it when “real life” tries to catch up with (science) fiction in one funny ways.

This one may well be such a case. The US put out a tender for somebody to build them a “TALOS” Battlesuit for their Special Forces: T.A.L.O.S. stands for Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit.

And they want it with an exo-skeleton and advanced body armour!

Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit

Of course, it’s not even build yet. It may never be build. But the features the U.S. Government is looking for in this armour in their tender sound fun. They include:

Technologies may include, but are not limited to:

Advanced Armor

  • Materials to support next generation ballistic protection.

Mobility/Agility

  • Enhancement platforms such as powered/unpowered exoskeletons.

Situational Awareness (SA)

  • Technology that promotes timely, relevant, and accurate assessment of friendly, enemy and other operations within the battle space in order to facilitate decision making.

Light/Noise Discipline

  • Technology that aids in concealment from the observation of the enemy.

Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4)

  • Technology supporting conformable & wearable antennae and wearable computers.

Individual soldier combat ready displays

  • Technology supporting information display, and potentially utilization of cognitive thoughts and the surrounding environment to display personalized information.

Power generation and management

  • Technology includes soldier power generation systems, power scavenging, renewable energy, power distribution, power management, and power storage solutions that are light weight, and soldier portable/wearable.

Thermal management of suit occupant

  • Technology to manage heat to reduce the soldiers’ metabolic rate and prolong endurance.

Medical

  • Embedded monitoring, oxygen systems, wound stasis, electromechanical compensation.

Of course, with stealth-stuff and all, it’s not making Carab Culln proud yet.

Camouflage is the colour of fear… I have no need to hide from my foes… I have no fear of death. My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, “I am proud to live – I am proud to die”.

But it’s getting there!

Z.

Image: Hulc exoskeleton design prototype by Lockheed Martin
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  • Yggdrasil

    I wish they made that through Kickstarter… I’d definitely buy one of those ;)

    • http://pinsofwar.net/ Zweischneid

      Lol.

      I’ll call Washington and ask :)

      • Yggdrasil

        I’m sure they’ll understand our point ! :D

  • Mephisto

    Good luck! Without money and a national debt of nearly 1.700,00 Billion Dollars (17 Trillion!), maybe it’s enough for a pair of new shoes!?

  • Panagiotis Galanis

    Saw this story a few days ago -from a technological perspective, very cool stuff indeed!

  • hambilton

    Total Codex Creep. THANKS MATT WARD! ;)

  • schnuersi

    As with all the last high tech gadgets they will dump a couple of billions into development and declare it can’t be done once the research contracts are running out…
    or if there is more money dumped into this project they will come up with a working prototype but after evaluation they declare its simply to expensive to field.

    After all the US armed forces are still using small arms designed more than 40 years ago. As are their AFVs.

    This is just another plot do get rich by leeching tax money. The only thing I am glad about is that its not my tax money… wich is wasted elsewhere… guess all citizens of a western country are milked only the reasons and the people who get fat from it are different.

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