Every modern elite unit in vidya has them so why hasn't the military made this a thing yet?
We no polarized red mercury bends currents and creates a higgs field soooo.....what the fuck are we dying to bullets for again?
Also Philadelphia project...literately them exposing the tech exist.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/philadelphia-experiment
What do you think body armor is?
Something that you can still be harmed while wearing.
A shield negates all bullets and explosives by essentially warping the gravity and space around you in a dense enough wall to stop all applied damage and Force.
You must suck at vidya because I've killed every shield wearing baddy I've ever come across in a game.
Now...Apply that to yourself and you holding a gun, different story right?
I can't see myself losing a war if i had anything similar in tech.
>struggles to comprehend risk to self
i'm pretty sure that's a sign of brain damage
>implying the tech designed to help you will kill you.
>you need a brain to post here.
>gets hit by artillery
>dies because the shield is barely good enough to stop small arms fire
>gets hit by artillery
>Shield bubble may stop the blast and shrapnel from tearing you to pieces, but it still had a shitload of force dumped into it
>Retarded ShieldAnon goes shooting off for the horizon at a few hundred miles per hour
>enemy uses drone footage of this (with an appropriately cartoonish soundtrack) to raise morale among front line troops
"The cia naggers glow in the dark...you can see em if your drivin...you just have to run them over"
the original halo novels are crazy... they go more in depth as to how the shield tech works.
I recall friction on one's feet being an issue. since the shield covers your whole body, every surface is like ice, and you cant manipulate objects with your fingers. pretty crazy
Chief could also dodge bullets.
And he bitch-slapped an anti-tank missile out of the air.
And he railed Kelly so hard that she couldn’t walk for a week.
pre-343 chief is the goat
>railed Kelly so hard that she couldn’t walk for a week.
Nice. What a champ.
With how strong Chief is, something that is functionally just a dolled-up M14 feels like a comically underpowered weapon to be his standard issue
>just a dolled-up M14
The Halo AR has a 32 inch barrel and fires 7.62x51 NATO. The Halo pistol is a .50cal. The Halo shotgun is a 10 gauge. It's all pretty powerful stuff.
>boots no friction
>fixed it
why nigga why, master chief could have been gliding on land and ramp on and off at 300mph.
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NEVER forget
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I miss that damn lore it was great.
This kind of crap is why I hate extended universe shit. Who the fuck cares about that crap? I hope whoever wrote that is living under a bridge now.
Sorry gay boy but not only were the books successful, they were good
Sometimes it's good, maybe try not being a homosexual
This is the Nylund lore we're talking about. Not the faggy post 343 lore.
the pelican also had a 70mm chin gun
Chief's main problem at first was trying to use guns with his shield up. It was like his hands were twice as big as they normally were.
The Philadelphia experiment was a fictional story written by a legit and diagnosed paranoid schizo and only gained notoriety because he sent it to the Navy and they were compelled by procedure to log the receipt of his scribblings.
Red mercury is a mineral called cinnabar and has nothing to do with magnets (it's not ferromagnetic) or nuclear weapons.
Force fields are a type of vector field (as opposed to a scalar field) like the magnetic field lines around a magnet or the gravitational field holding you to the ground. They're not walls.
SF (and scientifically illiterate writers) have lied to you.
Anon, the UNSC themselves haven't discovered energy shields for spartans until their contact with the covenant.
UNSC has some good space ships, mac drivers, AI, and the Spartan Program but in general their tech is 20th century shit. There's nothing complex at all about any of the human weapons we can use in-game.
Why make a super complicated weapons system, when a simpler system such as precision metal launching can be just as effective? What weapons do you think we would have by then?
>good space ships
>ai
>spartan program
Alot of those are, while great in concept, still novel for the UNSC. even their slip space tech has issues in regards to getting the right coordinates compared to the covenant slipspace tech. And the spartan program had a high failure rates in their selections that it took them 30 years to get a spartan program that have similar capabilities as the 2s with low failure/death rates(even spartan 2s are equal to elites when it comes to strengt/speed). And that was after the UNSC made progress with their tech after getting in contact with more forerunner/covenant stuff.
the background story actually explains it logically, basically once humans reached space there was minimal war beyond putting down minor rebellions because people could just fuck off to settle a new planet if they didn't like something. So no need for advanced weapons development until Covenant show up. Spartans were needed to surgically put down rebel factions with minimal collateral damage
Same reason we don't have man-portable lasers, power-armor, wide-scale wireless circuits or any other of a number of fun things:
Battery tech sucks. The amount of power it takes to run what you're suggesting is beyond the capabilities of any device that is man-portable.
I think they're experimenting using it on vehicles, though.
https://medium.com/illumination/3m-once-created-a-force-field-f1d8567b8842
Ask 3M about it. Supposedly they made one.
at some point i do believe that as energy density of power sources and our understanding of magnetism and materials science increases, there might be a point where it could be possible to project a magnetic field around an object strong enough to deter some types of damage, like a tank (or more likely a ship) surrounding itself with a magnetic field capable of deflecting shrapnel and triggering ATGM fuses.
the problem is that a field THAT strong would also probably not be great for communications.
You'd be better off with a personal APS system.
oh they're real, what do you think our black project tax dollars are funding
They can’t even make electric cars with 1000km ranges shields will never happen in you and your great grandchildren lifetime
>They can’t even make electric cars with 1000km ranges
Not because they can't, but because they don't want pr*lescum to be able to travel 1000km in any direction whenever they want.
What would they be made of?
>magnetic or electric fields
If they’re strong enough to deflect bullets they’re strong enough to cause lots of problems and be hard to generate. Maybe a big one for protection against artillery would make sense, if you could disperse the generators and make it only turn on when incoming fire was about to hit.
>weird fluid that can rapidly condense to absorb energy
This is what halo uses. A fluid that exhibits higher density against high velocity objects is nothing new, that happens with water. But it’s hard to carry around armor made of water. So you’d need to engineer something which is very light but has an extremely strong surface tension, which can be generated and cast over a surface… im not a materials guy but that sounds challenging.
>Why doesn't U.S military use (...)
...Generating answer...
Short answer: American soldiers are fucking stupid
Second opinion: Muh too expensiv our leaders need to buy coke n hookerz