A futuristic suit of armour

[Variola Major]

I have an idea for a suit of armour (this is for a space faring military, by the way):

First we have the under suit. I want this to be made of something that'll contract like muscle when an electrical current is applied. A microscopic computer would sense the wearer's movements, and move the suit accordingly. The idea of this is to have the soldier wearing a giant artificial muscle that'll both amplify his/her movements (increasing strength and speed a good deal) and bear the weight of his/her equipment so that the soldier can carry an enormously heavy load without breaking a sweat.

Next, we have the armour. Now, if a soldier wore that suit as is, it could cause injury. The suit needs to be have a frame supporting it to avoid this. The frame is made of the same materiel as the armour itself, and the armour can be quickly detached from the frame if necessary (in order to get to an injury to treat it, for example). The armour is a sandwich of soft armours that absorb force (such as this jelly stuff and a fabric similar to kevlar, but stronger) and hard armours that deflect force (like industrial diamond [In the future, this stuff is cheap and easy to make artificially, and highly common (Much more so than metal, in fact.) for military use. It's way cheaper and much more abundant than metals, but not heavier, and it is much stronger.]), and is very effective against a wide variety of threats, though it is pretty damn heavy (Not that the soldier can tell with the under suit bearing the weight in his/her place.). The suit has a helmet which is made of the same materiel as the armour, along with a high strength plastic face piece (It's shaped like a T), and a self enclosed breathing apparatus. This breathing apparatus normally takes in air from the atmosphere and filters it, but oxygen tanks can be attached to the apparatus for use in vacuums or atmospheres that lack oxygen. We round this out with a pair of cameras with a zoom range of 1x to 160x, as well as infrared and night vision, that can display images directly onto the faceplate. Link these cameras with your weapon (a gauss rifle), and you will never need an optical sight on a weapon again. Your helmet handles zooming for you, and even puts a crosshair onto your faceplate if you so desire. Oh, yea, the helmet can also can amplify sound if you want it to, improving your hearing. Plus, it has a comm link and can download and display images (including maps) and video on command. Oh, did I mention it's climate controlled? It can heat you up or cool you off, depending on the environment.

Finally, this suit of armour has one more trick up it's sleeve: it can sense a bleeding injury to the wearer, and respond by staunching the bleeding, applying painkillers, and calling for medical assistance, all by itself. How awesome is that? Not only will the suit bear the weight of your equipment load, protect you from enemy fire, allow you to breathe in hostile environments, increase your strength and speed, aid your vision and hearing, heat and cool your body, and provide a communication link with the rest of your unit, it'll even provide life saving first aid and call for help if you get shot.



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[ArmasTermin]

Decent ideas, though to me the most impressive thing would be to mention how these systems would work, rather than just the ideas.

That idea of superimposing a targeting reticle on the visor reminded me of an idea I had once of having a semi-translucent targeting image displayed on some sort of glasses fed from a camera mounted on an accessory rail. This could be used with akimbo weapons to actually gain decent accuracy. You know how you'll see people in movies spread two pistols almost opposite each other and shoot two people on both sides of themselves? Well with this invention it would actually be possible!

But it would require high-quality and super shock-resistant cameras.

Could allow for safe shooting around corners, or even setting some kind of remote trigger-pulling mechanism up and putting a gun somewhere as a trap, firing it remotely. Or mounting it on a remote control tripod as a turret, or on a vehicle to fire the gun from safely inside, or to fire from a remote-controlled vehicle thing.

Endless possibilities, I tell you. And I know some of these possibilities are in use, but I mean not having the camera as a specialty item for a couple purpose-suited weapons, but turning a standard infantry weapon like a SAW or M14 into a much more versatile item.

Sorry for major thread hijack.  

[CapitalistPleb]

you mean like an HEV suit from half-life? http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/30/11466-mark5_super.jpg  

[Variola Major]

Never played Half-Life. What does the suit do?  

[Tier One OPERATOR]

Variola Major

Never played Half-Life. What does the suit do?

Protect from gunfire, environmental hazards, falls, and all that jazz. Dope you the ******** up whenever you need it. Have powered sprint, long jump and other modules. Display a HUD with a zoom feature. Smartlink to the targeting of weapons.  

[OberFeldwebel]

Tier One OPERATOR

Variola Major

Never played Half-Life. What does the suit do?

Protect from gunfire, environmental hazards, falls, and all that jazz. Dope you the ******** up whenever you need it. Have powered sprint, long jump and other modules. Display a HUD with a zoom feature. Smartlink to the targeting of weapons.

Welcome to the HEV Mk 4, protective system, for use in hazardous environment conditions. Automatic Medical Systems Engaged, defensive weapons selection system activated, munition level monitoring activated,  

[Buki_Actual]

inb4 MJLONIR MK VI  

[Maddness91]

nah we're good already...

 

[Fresnel]

OG in da house.  

[Maddness91]

Fresnel

OG in da house.

Pah! that out-dated thing? it doesn;t even even protect from a single blaster shot confused and your aim is thrown off sooo badly that its near imposable to hit a person from even as close as across a single room! rolleyes  

[OberFeldwebel]

Maddness91

Fresnel

OG in da house.

Pah! that out-dated thing? it doesn;t even even protect from a single blaster shot confused and your aim is thrown off sooo badly that its near imposable to hit a person from even as close as across a single room! rolleyes

But damn, it looks good.