Not exactly 'powerarmour' now innit?
Not to worry.
Combat suits don't use doors. They create doors of the appropriate size as needed. Anyway, the technologies described in Starship Troopers are all years away from deployment.
Except for the 30 second bomb. We could do that today and it would be way cool.
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
Not exactly 'powerarmour' now innit?
"I encounter civilians like you all the time. You believe the Empire is continually plotting to do harm. Let me tell you, your view of the Empire is far too dramatic. The Empire is a government. It keeps billions of beings fed and clothed. Day after day, year after year, on thousands of worlds people live their lives under Imperial rule without ever seeing a stormtrooper or hearing a TIE fighter scream overhead."
―Captain Thrawn
Since this thing will be controlled by a computer, if the enemy hacked into it, would they be able to make the soldiers wearing it do funky chicken dances?
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
No, not the "Funky Chicken" ...
the "Robot"
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Taking a somewhat more serious look at it
Wonder what their gonna use to pull the guy wearing it carrying 500lbs out of the soft soil after leaving the road
Any man can destroy that which is around him, The rare man is he who can find beauty even in the darkest hours
Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur
Jetpacks.Originally Posted by Ron Humphrey
Wonder what their gonna use to pull the guy wearing it carrying 500lbs out of the soft soil after leaving the road
PH Cannady
Correlate Systems
Maybe in the third generations HULCs, yes. The first generation will not be recoverable by any equipment in the US inventory. The first time a soldier gets stuck, they will try to drag him with the winch on a Hemet, which won't work, and then they'll have to hire a local national to come in with a crane while the villagers congregate and laugh at us.
"The status quo is not sustainable. All of DoD needs to be placed in a large bag and thoroughly shaken. Bureaucracy and micromanagement kill."
-- Ken White
"With a plan this complex, nothing can go wrong." -- Schmedlap
"We are unlikely to usefully replicate the insights those unencumbered by a military staff college education might actually have." -- William F. Owen
The book was a million percent better than the movie. when it came out, I was learning that putting your hands on the horizontal ropes of a cargo net ladder was not a good Idea. Especially when you were humping a base plate for an 81mm mortar.
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