Iron Man army: US military developing armor that allows special ops commandos to walk through stream of bullets, see in the dark, heal wounds and monitor vital signs
Truther
It’s the superhuman suit that will turn special operations commandos into real-life Iron Men.
The U.S. military is developing a new uniform for troops that will be bullet-proof, enhance the wearer’s strength, heal wounds by temporarily stopping bleeding and display the soldier’s vital signs.
A prototype of the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS – named after the mythological Greek automaton made of bronze that Zeus assigned to protect his lover Europa – is expected to hit the market next year.
Iron man: Army researchers are developing an advanced military uniform – the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit – to deliver ‘superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection’ to soldiers
The Army said the revolutionary armor will deliver ‘superhuman strength with greater ballistic protection’ by providing a powered exoskeleton to haul heavier equipment, built-in computers and the ability to apply wound-sealing foam.
The capabilities would make the already elite Special Operation Forces nearly invincible in the field.
‘[The] requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armor suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armor, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that — a whole bunch of stuff that RDECOM is playing heavily in,’ Lt. Col. Karl Borjes, a U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) science adviser, said in a statement.
MIT engineers are working on a liquid body armor that ‘transforms from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied’.
Super human: The Army-commissioned ‘TALOS’ will protect commandos from gunfire, enhance their strength and give them night vision
The U.S. Special Operations Command is teaming up with industry, universities and laboratories to see if such a suit can be created for the real world of combat.
‘I’m very committed to this,’ U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. William McRaven to a group of industry representatives at a TALOS presentation in July, according to wired.com.
‘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.’
The high number of extremely technical and integrated challenges means the Army will draw on a broad range of collaborators from backgrounds that may have never worked together.
‘USSOCOM is interested in receiving white papers from a wide variety of sources, not just traditional military industry but also from academia, entrepreneurs, and laboratories capable of providing the design, construction, and testing of TALOS related technologies,’ said Jim Geurts, USOCOM acquisition executive, in a statement.
‘The intent is to accelerate the delivery of innovative TALOS capabilities to the SOF operator