As long as we're going sufficiently out of the box, I think that transportable high power would be sufficient. At worst, we could fire up battlefield area tesla coils for transmissionEdBecerra wrote:*shrugs* Recently, in Japan, Yoshiyuki Sankai at the University of Tsukuba has developed a functional exoskeleton straight out of "Aliens 2". Understandably, the US military's rather interested. Toyota's done the same, as have a few other companies, a side effect of finally getting the hardware/software mix of a 'walking' robot correct.TMLutas wrote:The struggle is to keep the new stuff from ballooning the load beyond the 70+ pounds soldiers carry in their normal pack. If you can substitute synthsilk for kevlar and get the same protection for one pound less weight, that's one pound of extra goodies that can add to survivability, such as more bullets, water, or adding blue force tracker to individual loads.
This is one of the reasons why the army keeps experimenting with cartridgeless bullets. These are very high tech bullets that manifest their benefit by weighing less. Losing the brass weight is such an obvious weight reducer that anybody who figures out how to crack that code is going to be a major hero.
One goof, taking advantage of the corporate discoveries, actually built a one-man 'walker' with non-functional (but quite dramatic looking) guns. It shuffles, but it's still a functional walker, and looks like something out of Battletech.
Now, it's a matter of a suitable high-density power source so we can ditch the extension cords.
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As long as the exoframes are properly insulated, with correct Tesla receivers, there should be no trouble at all.
