'Iron Man' Suit Commissioned By US Military

[BRabbiT]

Inspired by Tony Stark's legendary nano suit, the US Army has commissioned a real-life Iron Man suit called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (Talos),

Talos will provide its wearer with powers straight out of a Marvel comic - including:

* Night Vision

* Enhanced Strength for lifting heavy objects

* Armoured Protection from bullets and combat injuries


The suit will be based on nanotechnology and embed an onboard computation chip, that can instantly respond to ambient conditions such as external temperature and adjust to the wearer's core body and skin temperature, besides monitoring the heart rate and hydration levels.

Currently under development at MIT, the armour suit is designed to offer full-body ballistic protection, enabling the wearer to emerge unscathed even through a barrage of bullets.

The design incorporates a special liquid armour, capable of turning solid in "milliseconds" when subjected to electric or magnetic fields, as well as basic life-support mechanisms such as heat, air and oxygen.

MIT professor Gareth McKinley has reportedly been working on the liquid armour project since 2002. His work is inspired by a US Special Operations Command (Ussocom) challenge to create a suit that combines the power of nanotechnology with the endurance of Kevlar metal in the making of the ultimate body armour.

According to DVICE, the request for superior body armour was presented at a recent US military press conference, owing to a trooper who was shot dead by the Taliban during a hostage rescue mission.

The soldier was apparently shot from the other side of the door, while he was barging in for a breach.

Ussocom has reportedly already asked several agencies from academia, science and commerce to assess and implement the Talos technology in real-life.

The nano suit development is still in its nascent stages and it may take more than a year for Ussocom to complete the project.

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Demo Video - US Army RDECOM - Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS)

[East_Stone_Ya]

[Burgz V2]

this can't be life...

[ballup]

Armored suits still has a ways to go before they are practical. The idea has been around for decades.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Looks like the Halo uniform.

[TheReal Kendall]

Looks like the Halo uniform.

Definitely a Halo suit.

Looks nothing like Iron man

[KobesFinger]

Halo + Metroid

[BasedTom]

Looks like the Halo uniform.

Because it is. Look at the assault rifle- it's the same one from the game.

And that video demo doesn't look all that official to me.

[9erempiree]

STUPID IDEA.

First of all it's going to be real heavy for soldiers to lug around that armor. We already have remote controlled drone ships that can drop bombs.

Soldiers are probably more efficient the way they are right now.

I don't see benefits of this. It's going to cost a boat load of money and it's not going to make the soldiers invincible.

If it gave soldiers super strength and speed then I'm all for it.

10 normal soldiers with gear vs 10 of these armored soldiers, there will be no advantage with the armored dudes.

[OldSkoolball#52]

Im not sure Id want even our own military to have suits of near invinsibility. Could make it that mucv easier for our own govt to implement a police state.

[Bandito]

Looks like the Halo uniform.

thats because it is.

[TheReturn]

Wait - does this thing also fly?

[rezznor]

what u posted is BS, these are the real military exoskeleton prototype and doesn't look anywhere near as cool as the Haol/Ironman one


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W23ysgWKI





Demo Video - US Army RDECOM - Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS)

TAMPA, Florida — Dial down the god-awful soundtrack and try to ignore the choppy camera work, but re-watch Lockheed Martin’s promo video depicting its two-year-old Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton. Because inside of the year, an improved version of this combat exoskeleton could be headed to Afghanistan for combat trials. That’s right: cyborg soldiers might, might just be months away from becoming a front-line reality.

At least, that’s what a Lockheed rep indicated today at a Special Forces trade show in Tampa. Asked if there were plans to deploy the HULC exoskeleton overseas following its next round of Army testing, Lockheed’s special operation program manager Keith Maxwell nodded yes and said, “after that.”

Maxwell was wearing what he described as a “smaller, lighter, more energy-efficient” version of the battery-powered external skeleton, complete with an unloaded machine gun on a pivoting mechanical arm. He asked us not to photograph the exoskeleton, but he was happy to discuss it.

In essence, HULC adds an artificial, external spine, hips, legs and the aforementioned pivoting arm to a soldier’s flesh and bones. The machine extremities, powered by a lithium-ion battery, redistribute and transfer up to 200 pounds of weight down and off the wearer’s body, allowing him to carry more, longer. “There’s a 10 percent metabolic cost for the benefit of a heavy load removed,” Maxwell says.

Add loads of food, water, batteries and other supplies, and you become a human pack mule for your squadmates. Swap them out for a heavy machine gun and you transform into what Maxwell calls a “one-man crew-served weapon.” Maxwell says he live-fired his machine gun just before the trade show and “felt the recoil eliminated down to one-third.”


Lockheed originally rolled out HULC in 2010, but in a heavier, bulkier form that tended to run down its batteries in just an hour. The current model can go for up to eight hours “on the march,” and lasts “days and days” on a single charge if you’re just standing guard with a machine gun. Lockheed is still working on a fuel cell meant to provide 72 hours of power in even the most strenuous conditions.

Two summers ago the Army paid Lockheed $1.1 million to test HULC at the Natick Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts. There, Lockheed discovered that training was critical. Maxwell says soldiers who expected to strap on the exoskeleton and leap into action without training on it first generally disliked the system. But with 90 minutes of instruction on “the right series of movements,” wearers were able to move comfortably.

In September the Army will take the improved exoskeleton out for field tests in the United States. If all goes well and Lockheed can get the required safety certifications, HULC will head to a deployed location for a front-line trial. (These days “deployed” almost always means Afghanistan.) That won’t leave HULC much time for testing in a combat environment, as regular U.S. forces are accelerating their withdrawal after 11 years of war.

But Special Forces are slated to remain in Afghanistan for years to come. If they adopt the exoskeletons, we could be seeing (one-sided) cyborg combat on a growing scale in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W23ysgWKI

[CelticBaller]

I clcicked for iron man

i saw halo

[BRabbiT]

thats because it is.

yeah, it is


it's being "commissioned", so there's no pictures i could find available on the web.