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until its plated in ruby armor and flying through space .. meh.
Doesn’ your argument prove the non-existence of tanks?
Wrapping a person in .5″ thick armor plating should cover most all small arms fire and come in under 300lbs. And look pretty cool. I bet most the engineers played a lot of Mech Warrior back in the day.
Hopefully, any version carrying a crewed weapon will come in more subtle colors than canary yellow
So this looks like their hardsuit, and there were noises SOCOM was still waiting on a viable softsuit.
Armor is easily a loosing proposition beyond shrapnel protection. The guns can penetrate it with far less mass increase than increases in armor mass, can protect.
You want to be more nimble, smarter, more aware/informed, less detectable, and a smaller target. This thing does none of that. Drones can do all of that conceivably.
Not the best use of resurrected mammoths, but it’d work. Could make a fortune televising it.
If you can easily carry 200lbs of dead weight it could be armor and a shoulder mounted gun. I’d be surprised if a company like Bobcat or Caterpillar doesn’t make a hydraulic attached construction site version at some point.
Maybe, but I’d avoid tangling with the Alien Queen until it’s had some upgrades.
It will be difficult to make such a suit light enough to be practical, but at the same time durable enough for field use. I’d say the best actuators would be ballscrews, driven by polyphase motors.
Will this by any chance aid me in combating some form of deadly megafauna?