Jan 15 2007Inventor of bear suit makes real life Halo suit
The inventer of a bear-protection suit has created a much slimmer version which has been designed to stave off bullets, explosives, knives, and clubs. The suit is called Trojan and the inventer describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour" and he hopes to get it deployed for Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and US soldiers in Iraq. The suit has stood up to an elephant gun, and is made from high-impact plastic lined with ceramic bullet protection over ballistic foam. Included in the suit are compartments for emergency morphine and salt, a knife and emergency light. Built into the forearms are a small recording device, a pepper-spray gun and a detachable transponder that can be swallowed in case of trouble. The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms and overs everything but the fingertips and the major joints, and could allegedly be mass-produced for about $2,000. Plus, if you saw an army of these things coming at you you wouldn't even fight. You'd just give up and pray the space robots haven't come to anally probe you.
Reader Comments
1. mark - May 3, 2007 1:48 PM
I read about this guy in backpacker magazine back in the day for the bear suit. Interesting stuff. He also had some video then of being hit by a truck at a slow speed to test that suit.
2. Rob Hiengler - May 5, 2007 1:50 PM
Looks interesting, but really if he wants to get it deployed he would need to make a slimmer lightweight version with the same ballistic properties, with possibly some sort of heat exchange mechanism/material because you're going to generate a lot of heat wearing that thing, perhaps something similar to the under-suit that astronauts wear with a small heat dissipating radiator on the back which could run off the latent heat energy .
Integrate a HUD and communications unit into the helmet. However its about time someone got the ball rolling on this, the technology is already there just seems governments (UK and US) would rather throw away the money on bad ideas and stealth jet interceptors than protect the grunts on the ground.
3. Roger That - May 17, 2007 5:31 AM
How´s about chemical cooling? Electrically-modulated endothermic chemical decompostion? Liquid-crystal technology? How´s about external dry-ice packs with external chill-channels. Pyrolitic graphite conduction channels. Nice compact heat exchanger is to spiral wind a length of aquarium hose (in the flat ´pizza-disk´ configuration) now pump cooled brine through this arrangement. Nice and pliable (and thermally reasonably responsive). How about body panels that open (partially) with electric muffin fan-augmented cooling. Snaps shut with a click. Just some kwik thoughts. Thanks for sharing.
4. Ribit - August 15, 2007 1:10 PM
Looks like Bobby Ball of Canon & Ball fame
5. Gary Ripper - December 20, 2007 3:01 AM
All suggestions for addons are a nice thought, but something else came to mind. A while back I remember reading an article about a man that supposedly implanted a chip into his body and a similar one into his wifes'. From what I remember, when he preformed actions his wife copied the exact movments-she was in a separate room-and recently, a woman has developed a skin tight astronaught suit. I'm thinking with the right amount of engineering and some massive funding...you could in theory create a movement responsive suit to wear inside the armor, which would enhance the owners reflexes and strength ten fold. I am just going out on a limb here, but is there a chance that all of this could be accomplished with todays modern technalogical advances? Could a cpu be installed into the suit itself and bring about tremendous changes? It seems very likely to me that this idea is sound...I'm joining the marines and I was tossing this idea around in my head...any feedback on this subject would be excellent.
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