Ever expanding battery requirements >Brass: We want it to last 4 hours, when how long until thats viable? >R&D: A few years, >B: Alright lets tell everyone about the soldier of the future, just a few years away! >*Few years pass* >R&D: Alright, it lasts 4 hours >B: 4 hours isn't enough, it needs to last at least 8! How long will that take?
Then repeat again for 8 hours, and then 12, and then I think TALOS was supposed to have either 16 or 24 hours for minimum viability. The technology is progressing significantly, but whats considered viable is changing. Tbh I'm just glad they have/are cannibalizing TALOS for its subsystems rather than let everything in the project die.
I'm always surprised we don't have them for short aggressive pushes and forced entry to be honest.
Soldiers usually aren't usually pushing aggressively for 4 hours or more after all. If you need to do normal stuff use regular infantry
I honestly wonder if they just don't want the tech in the hands of other countries till it proliferates more cause even in these infantry die and it would be easy to nick.
US military realized that if conceived, this invention would permanently end their time-honored tradition of disintegrating the knees and vertebrae of their servicemen by the age of 30
Either way it wold be a terrible infantry weapon. The rate of fire for both guns is 250rpm. The main reason everyone stuck with upgrading the M2 was because it achieved 500rpm without reliability issues.
Room clearing is for constabulary wars. In real wars one should destroy the structure since defended cities can only be taken by total or near total destruction by bombardment.
>"I need a power boost Private!" >aims the chargetron too high >melts sergeants brain >"Gonnammid, pribid!"
I don't know how laser energy transmission works.
What went wrong?
Batteries still suck
Needs a miniaturized nuclear reactor on the back
TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE
WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS
Just use a phone battery that's the size of a backpack.
I don't see the problem
Ever expanding battery requirements
>Brass: We want it to last 4 hours, when how long until thats viable?
>R&D: A few years,
>B: Alright lets tell everyone about the soldier of the future, just a few years away!
>*Few years pass*
>R&D: Alright, it lasts 4 hours
>B: 4 hours isn't enough, it needs to last at least 8! How long will that take?
Then repeat again for 8 hours, and then 12, and then I think TALOS was supposed to have either 16 or 24 hours for minimum viability. The technology is progressing significantly, but whats considered viable is changing. Tbh I'm just glad they have/are cannibalizing TALOS for its subsystems rather than let everything in the project die.
I'm always surprised we don't have them for short aggressive pushes and forced entry to be honest.
Soldiers usually aren't usually pushing aggressively for 4 hours or more after all. If you need to do normal stuff use regular infantry
I honestly wonder if they just don't want the tech in the hands of other countries till it proliferates more cause even in these infantry die and it would be easy to nick.
cost
Chernobyl never went supernatural
US military realized that if conceived, this invention would permanently end their time-honored tradition of disintegrating the knees and vertebrae of their servicemen by the age of 30
>What went wrong?
Nothing?
It's called the Future Soldier, not the Present Soldier, ergo why it never exists in the present.
They should have called it the 2022-And-Onwards Soldier if they ever wanted to release it.
american soldiers are too fat to fit in these
Hilarious and original
What's the gun supposed to be?
XM312, a light weight modular .50 BMG machine gun that can reconfigure into an automatic grenade launcher, and was supposed to replace the browning.
I guess you can potentially do room clearing with a .50 cal machine gun if you're wearing this gear.
>XM312
I don't know if it is. It has the muzzle device of the XM307 25mm AGL
To be clear, I understand that the XM307 converts into the XM312 and vice versa, I'm saying that its in 307 configuration.
Either way it wold be a terrible infantry weapon. The rate of fire for both guns is 250rpm. The main reason everyone stuck with upgrading the M2 was because it achieved 500rpm without reliability issues.
Room clearing is for constabulary wars. In real wars one should destroy the structure since defended cities can only be taken by total or near total destruction by bombardment.
>no robot donkey to carry ammo
ngmi
If battery life is such an issue
1) Cords from the nearest APC
2) Energy transmitted by lasers from the nearest APC (or even a drone)
why not
>"I need a power boost Private!"
>aims the chargetron too high
>melts sergeants brain
>"Gonnammid, pribid!"
I don't know how laser energy transmission works.