Saturday, October 12, 2013

The United States military wants to bring super armor to real life

For generations fictional literature has had suits to give ordinary people special abilities. There were the underwater suits in 20,000 leagues under the sea, the super armor from Starship Trooper and the super suit that gave Tony Stark super abilities in Iron Man. Some of these like the underwater suit have eventually become real-life items. Soon the United States military could bring the super armor into reality. The suit, will be called Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit or TALOS for short, will provide the soldier wearing it to have super human strength, the ability to impervious to most gun fire and act as a portable tactical computer that would keep the soldier connect to headquarters through a wide area network or WAN.
"I'm very committed to this, I'd like that last operator that we lost to be the last operator we lose in this fight or the fight of the future, and I think we can get there," said U.S. Special Operations Command chief Admiral William McRaven to industry representatives gathered at Special Operations Center of Command (SOCOM) headquarters in Tampa Florida In July, according to Foreign Policy.
The U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) is currently looking into finding a contractor that can bring together the resources needed to develop all the technologies needed to create the TALOS. Considering all the aspects required for the TALOS it will take combined resources across universities, government labs and the private sector. Bring all of these different sources together will make this one of the single biggest operations since DARPA and others created the Internet in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The decision comes down to outfitting several soldiers quickly, Tinsley said. "SOCOM will try and adopt some of the more realistic things first, like integrating power supplies into the suit to reduce the need of mobile batteries," he said. "Some of the more futuristic things may be pushed off to the side."
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