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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: NUKE on May 31, 2003, 07:43:49 PM
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The ensemble will plug the soldier into the military's planned Future Combat System, for which the Pentagon recently earmarked $15 billion to develop.
That system envisions lighter tanks, powerful computer networks and larger fleets of remote-controlled airplanes and robotic ground vehicles. The first battalion could field the system by late 2010 - about when the Scorpion ensemble would be ready to plug human soldiers into the network.
Then comes a uniform with built-in tourniquets that one day might be tightened and loosened remotely. Body armor is built into a load carriage that holds water, ammunition, batteries and circuits to keep the soldier plugged into the network.
The most high-tech component will be the helmet, with tiny, built-in cameras to spot enemies lurking in the dark or concealed by bushes. The cameras' images will appear on semitransparent screens attached to their helmets.
Pretty soon our troops are going to look like Cylon warriors. Read the full article here:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030531/D7RCI8500.html[/URL]
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At Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, a government-sponsored lab that opened on May 22, research could lead to external skeletons carrying artificial muscles that would make soldiers faster and stronger, said Paula Hammond, a research team leader.
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Hehe some of our guys were using kneepads already 15 years ago. They were "LowTek" (made by Jofa for icehockey) but gave pretty good cover from icy ground and insulated cold pretty well.
pretty boots btw... :D
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Then some tard haX0rs the network and enables the tourniquets :D
I imagine the EM signiture on those things would be quite high. How hard is it to design an EM seeking munition?
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are they playing paintball?
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(http://www.stormtrooper.tk/Resources/gotarmor.jpg)
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what does the puke coloured power ranger turn into?
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Well you need stormtroopers if you gonna dominate the world like the evil USA!!
:)
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Has the ACIW been abandoned?
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Originally posted by Pongo
Has the ACIW been abandoned?
What's the ACIW?
Here is the new gun, the XM29 which will replace the M-16 and M4 and others soon, check it out here. It's pretty amazing.
http://www.atk.com/productsPrecision/descriptions/products/Shoulder-firedWeapons/XM29.htm
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The XM29 Integrated Air Burst Weapon, formerly the Objective Individual Combat Weapon (OICW), is a next-generation infantry rifle system that will give American fighting troops an unprecedented capability on the 21st century battlefield.
The XM29 rifle is the lethality upgrade to the Land Warrior (LW) system for the dismounted soldier. It is also an integral part of the Army's transformation to the Future Combat System (FCS).
The XM29 consolidates the needs of the U.S. Armed Forces into one rifle that will selectively replace the M16 rifle/M4 carbine in the infantry squad. This rifle substantially increases lethality and survivability on the battlefield. The system includes embedded full solution fire control that provides target acquisition capabilities, training features, and squad and individual training simulators.
The XM29 integrates ballistics computation in the full-solution Target Acquisition/Fire Control (TA/FC) system. The XM29 fires either the 20mm High Explosive Air Bursting (HEAB) ammunition or the NATO-standard Kinetic Energy (KE) 5.56mm ammunition.
The system precisely delivers air bursting munitions in all conditions, including MOUT and complex terrain. It is five times more lethal at the maximum M203 range and continues to provide lethality well beyond the M203's maximum ability. The system is designed for optimum performance at 300 meters but will perform to 500 meters and beyond.
In addition to the air bursting capability, the 20mm HEAB round also features point detonation, self-destruct, and self-neutralization functions.
This new "Future Combat System" seems like it is going to be pretty leathal combination of man and machine.
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It's too bad we have to make our combat troops look so formidable. It might be better for foreign relations if we made our soldiers wear robes and flowers.
-The Peace Activists.
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Originally posted by GScholz
Formidable? He looks like he's ready for a round of paintball. Btw. that a great looking "marker" he's got there.
Doesnt matter what they look like, as long as they are formidable.
And America's soldiers are very formidable and will be many times more so when the FCS is in place.
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seems really cool but looks heavy. real heavy. i wouldent want to carry that monster.
where you gonna get batterys three weeks in?
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No need for batteries, just put piezo generators in the boots that are always applying a charge as you walk. You don't need full combat electronics on the whole time, just when there's trouble.
The rest of the time, you're trickle charging.
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Don't want to be moving out in this thing ... 50 miles in 3 days march in a battle field environment .... the guy better have a truck of water following him :D
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Don't want to be moving out in this thing ... 50 miles in 3 days march in a battle field environment .... the guy better have a truck of water following him :D
What do you mean Frenchy? The gear is almost half the weight of today's gear.
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Originally posted by GScholz
Formidable? He looks like he's ready for a round of paintball. Btw. that a great looking "marker" he's got there.
Now these guys look formidable:
Yeah I guess our guy needs more scary makeup. :rolleyes:
:D
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g3 g3 sweet sweet g3 how i love you so. :) thats my favorite "big stick" hands down.
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by 2020 we might see Full Macross Style Mecha,oh that's be so great(o) :-D
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Can it play Mp3s?
Better hope the operating software doesn't have M$ software engineers for it's creators... "Your virtual battlefield has performed an illegal action, you must reboot the system. Any unsaved battle equipment will be lost."
-SW
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Oooh, oooh! A Microsoft joke about illegal functions and errors. How wonderfully new!
Good job, sir! I don't think anyone has ever made any type of crack like this before, good show.
I for one am astounded, I've never seen a joke like that before. How wonderful!
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Oooh, oooh! A Microsoft joke about illegal functions and errors. How wonderfully new!
Good job, sir! I don't think anyone has ever made any type of crack like this before, good show.
I for one am astounded, I've never seen a joke like that before. How wonderful!
Hey, I thought it was funny. Not quite as funny as your response, but funny nonetheless.
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Chairboy works for MS.
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Originally posted by Engine
Chairboy works for MS.
LOL Well done, Engine- funnier than both of their posts. :D
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That's why dutch marines know how to improvise much better than USA marines.
If u depend totaly on technology. Ur gonna have a problem when it doesn't work. (or hacked)
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could tell by chairboy's knee jerk reaction that he worked for ms.
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Nope.
It's just that every time I see some neat new technology, some wag makes the crack "hope it isn't running windows, then it would blue screen and kill the person! ^_^ kekekeke i am the funniest!".
C'mon, it might have been funny the first 100 times, and maybe it was still amusing the next 500 times, but there's a point where even a funny joke just gets old. Next, he'll be making zingers about President Reagan and the Ayatollah, THAT will be fresh!
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REUTERS, Dec 2080:
'The US army has been defeated by a 12 year old hacker operating from the Vatican. The US Sec. of State stated in his telegraph to Reuters '...its a minor setback. STOP huh what do you mean say STOP. ok i get it. STOP. MS ViaVoice was so much better no no dont type that STOP. END'
Accordingly, the British parliament has entered a month long debate, the French have opened economic ties with the Vatican, Germany begins mandatory marching band classes and the Japanese have begun tax free export of sex toys.
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I had a great reply worked out, but when I was about to hit reply- I got a Windows Exception Error and lost all my work.
Go figure.
-SW
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
That's why dutch marines know how to improvise much better than USA marines.
If u depend totaly on technology. Ur gonna have a problem when it doesn't work. (or hacked)
and you base the above on what fact or facts? (to make it easy, I'm referring to the first of two statements in the above)
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'I want proffessionals. The kind of person that will notice and ask what the little red button in the gun is for"
;)
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Nope.
Next, he'll be making zingers about President Reagan and the Ayatollah, THAT will be fresh!
ROFLMAO Ronald Reagan and the Ayatollah?? :D :D :D
Stop it Chairboy you're freaking KILLING me!!! LMAO :D
Oh God, I'm crin here. Anyone heard any good Billy Carter jokes lately? :D
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OHMFG I found it!
(http://www.dilbert.com/editoons/schorr/archive/images/schorr2003052439131.gif)
:D :D :D