Exo-suit from the maker of the grizzly suit.

Of course knights had to run up and down stairs, there weren't many lifts and escalators in castles and houses in the Middle Ages unless of course you think by running up some stairs you'll escape from a knight like a dalek in Dr Who.

Knights had to fight in all sorts of weather including in the heat of the Middle East during the Crusades and in hot countries like Spain and Portugal. These had to be tough men, professional soldiers, not pampared in air conditioned offices. I bet most soldiers will have the armour if it helped them to survive and complete the mission.

There seems to be a big misconception that armour will limit your ability to fight and move. If that was the case, there would be no-one in armour at all since they would have all been killed by nimbler un-armoured opponents but obviously, that was not the case.

I don't know if people in armour can drive and get in and out of cars but I'm willing to bet they could.

I don't know how many Iraqi insurgents have .5 calibre or more like 12.7mm weapons but not many I'll bet, mostly AKs firing smaller calibres, not lugging around heavy big bore weapons.
 
It would be funny in a bad way of course if AQ got a load of this armour for the Iraqi insurgents and rendered all the US Army's M16 and 9mm useless.
 
Shing said:
There seems to be a big misconception that armour will limit your ability to fight and move. If that was the case, there would be no-one in armour at all since they would have all been killed by nimbler un-armoured opponents but obviously, that was not the case.
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if that were the case, why're we not wearing armour now?
you seem to have forgotten that we aren't exactly living in the medieval ages where action is hand to hand

but before we go into technical discussion, i have a question for you
have you served in the armed forces before? <- this is important
 
DEA said:
but before we go into technical discussion, i have a question for you
have you served in the armed forces before? <- this is important
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Obviously not, or he would not be advocating the wearing of insanely bulky and heavy armor.

But I have never served in the military myself, and can see the futility of the idea. If they could make the suit weigh ~20lbs, then it would have a chance. As it is, the helmet probably weighs that much. . .

Has the inventor walked 10 miles in the suit while carrying a full soldier's loadout?
 
You proved I was not in the Army, not the suit would not be usable by the Army.
 
I could see the value of an armored suit if one was stationed as a machine gunner in the top of an armored HumVee. If you're not lugging around 50 lbs. of water, ammo, weapons, etc., it just might work.

There was actually a story back in 2003 about a tank commander who wore an armored vest while he stood in the open hatch of his tank. His buddies thought he was nuts--"Why wear a vest when you're already in a tank?"

They stopped laughing when he was shot by a sniper. He fell back into the turret of the Abrams from the force of the round hitting him in the chest, but he lived thanks to his vest.
 
If anyone thinks soldiers won't be wearing some type of full body armour in the near future is crazy. The guy just happened to make a prototype that isn't covered up by military secrecy.
I would be very curious to see what things the military is working on with its nearly unlimited budget, when this guy made a pretty cool suit of armour with what he had lying around the house.
That said, it's probably way ahead of what he has created, and dragon skin armour is about equal in cost.
 
what 'think of the children' said it right on. That suit may be fine standing in your backyard, doin nothin in the 65 degree weather. Now strap on all the crap you wear in the military, and let it be mid august in iraq, when the weather is soo hot, your M4 heats up to the point where you cant pick it up with your bare hands anymore, after just 5 minutes in the sun.
You'd collapse after 5 minutes. Hell, on one of our teams insertions one day, the driver to an M113 passed out while driving the darn track from the heat. Straight up lost it right in the middle of the road.

Even in the winter time id like to see someone walk down Haifa street, and start to take fire. See how long it takes him to start bounding back by fire teams. I wonder how durable that suit would be, when PKC and RPG fire is raining down on top of you. That suit would get shredded to pieces.
What about gunnin a humvee, and about 2 months later, you cant see thru your lense, cuz its literally been sand blasted by riding outside of the turret? Its bulky, hot, will slow you down, and may even get in the way when someone has to do some quick emergency first aid on you after an IED just shredded your humvee out from underneath you. I think its going to get more people killed than anything. We didnt have to wear all this crazy body armor when we were there. but right as we were leaving, the body armor rules were gettin CRAZY. they were issuing supplemental strap ons to go under your arms, to protect your kidneys, little strap on shoulder protectors, neck protectors and groin protectors and some guys were even wearing riot faceplates.. I tell ya what, if you had to actually run in this stuff we seen there, youd die of heat exhaustion.
 
The difference between medieval armour and modern armour technology aside was medieval armour was tailor made to the soldier so it fitted well and hindered movement to a minimum. Modern bullet resistant body armour is off the shelf and made of layers of heavy fabric and metal or ceramic plates and may not fit as well or not as light as it could be.

I think using the same technology as that for making bespoke suits to measure the body to make a custom fitted suit, it would be possible to make bespoke body armour custom fitted to the individual soldier.
 
custom fitted to the individual eh? what happens when he gets out of the army. or gets whacked. think theyre going to spend that money on an individual?
 
Of course they will, they will have no choice. Imagine the headline "Government refuses best protection for troops". Not really a vote winner as past controversy with the effectiveness of body armour has shown. Don't forget an injured soldier cost hundreds of thousands in medical care, pension, lost to the military and social security not to mention the political costs.
 
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