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05-07-2008, 07:56 PM	#1
Soren Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,682	Superhuman ? Well with this thing strapped onto your body and you're getting there!: YouTube - Human Exoskeleton __________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. - Adolf Galland

05-07-2008, 09:12 PM	#2
magnocain Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 259 Country:	It is in Berkeley, right? I wonder if they will use it to protest Marines... I want one. __________________ Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. -- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington Ra! Ra! F4U! GOOOOOO Corsair!!!

05-07-2008, 09:23 PM	#3
Matt308 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State Posts: 8,476 Country:	Nice technology that is a long way from reality for a warfighter. __________________ "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the [U.S.] Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan Master of Duplicate Posts

05-07-2008, 09:26 PM	#4
Soren Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,682	Imagine carrying 300 pounds of equipment when suddenly the thing runs out of power! Squish! __________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. - Adolf Galland

05-07-2008, 09:31 PM	#5
Soren Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,682	Still looks a lot better than SARCO's version: YouTube - Powered Exoskeleton Personal Robotic Weapon This Japanese version is pretty interesting: YouTube - HAL(Hybrid Assistive Limb) from Cyberdine __________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. - Adolf Galland

05-07-2008, 09:32 PM	#6
Soren Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,682	They'll need to make these system a LOT more compact for them to be usable in the field, and very robust at the same time. __________________ We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft (Me-262), but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. - Adolf Galland

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