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A glimpse of the future

  • 25-11-2007 11:20pm
    #1
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    How long before this type of thing is the norm...?

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  • #2
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Obviously not long judging by that clip...

    Scary stuff, I think Sarah Connor had the right idea...


  • #3
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,085 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I was waiting for them to show the guy running 60 miles per hour or something and instead they show him walking up stairs...


  • #4
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    My CQ would have a seisure if I asked to sign that fella out :D


  • #5
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Stark wrote: »
    I was waiting for them to show the guy running 60 miles per hour or something and instead they show him walking up stairs...
    Well it's only a prototype... It's still pretty impressive that it permits him to lift such huge weights while also being able to delicately tap a football, and dance!


  • #6
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    I wonder how much it cost to build....as i do not think US army will be able to afford a couple a hundred of them while also financing the rest of forces!


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  • #7
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    prtotypes cost a fortune but production models cost alot less


  • #8
    therecklessone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    I foresee a problem...you'd need a plug socket to lash the black cable into, not much use in the jungle or desert...:D


  • #9
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,085 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Tony Stark managed. Apart from the near death experiences when his battery ran out...


  • #10
    neilled
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭neilled


    Funny, I started thinking of the APU Corps from the matrix!


  • #11
    ChapOfDRyans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭ChapOfDRyans


    i would imagine that for the first couple of years it would be used more so in the engineers for lifting and moving until its advanced enough to be compact and sustain itself for a couple of days in the battle field,just my thoughts.


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  • #12
    Ross_Mahon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    I like the idea of it, But if they started the project now, the end product would be amazing and with a good bit of donated money to the thing...:D


  • #13
    bizmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭bizmark


    Looks like a small version of the forklift ripley use's at the end of alien's to kill the queen

    Stuff like that would be very interesting to speical force's id imagen if a few year's


  • #14
    Kaiser_Sma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Kaiser_Sma


    Maybe not special forces, they generally need to be inconspicuous. Unless your talking about some kind of shock troops.

    The main advantage for infantry i'd say would be the ability to carry heavier weapons and armour. But as they say it's far more likley it would be used in small numbers for carrying equipment or heavy lifting in engineering.


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