Not gonna lie. LOVE the armor of Starship Troopers here.
Kevlar clothing already exists and has existed since like the 90s, the presidents of the United States suit is made out of it.It is modular
AFAIK not made and not possible.
But basically modular design is how things are th3se days
And I like the new armor. Fits the kinda layered stuff you get with modular
That's what I always what I thought Spartan armor should have looked like imo.Not gonna lie. LOVE the armor of Starship Troopers here.
Not to the scale the US Military would need, and suits are diffrent.Kevlar clothing already exists and has existed since like the 90s, the presidents of the United States suit is made out of it.
The idea was to give some protection to the arms and legs without it being super cumbersome. All sorts of research from the sandbox showed that most soldiers would forgo wearing the additional armor parts and stick with the bare minimum because of weight.Not to the scale the US Military would need, and suits are diffrent.
How breathable do you think that suit is compared to what we wear?
We have to wear a lot ontop of our clothes
And anything that gets through our armor would go through the Kevlar anyway
Plus the new armor has all sorts of unnecessary groves and edges. Much more complicated to produce for no benefit and just begging to get caught on something.I think the newer stuff dumb, like part infantry fighting vehicle part poor bastard who has to carry it.
That's what I always what I thought Spartan armor should have looked like imo.
Not gonna lie. LOVE the armor of Starship Troopers here.
I've always thought spartan armor should be like the crysis nanosuit with armored plates ontop then the regular soldier should use more traditional style exosuits. There is a lot of shit about Halo tech that's dumb for instance why aren't they using EMGs instead of gunpowder weapons.Honestly I'd have thought ODSTs would get something like that. Compared to Mjolnir it's a light powered armored system but would radically improve their combat effectiveness and survivability. Though likely increasing cost as well.
This ultimately comes down to "the designers were clueless about contemporary military practices and recent technological developments". The UNSC had infantry-operated railguns and all the tech needed for mini-mechas ready to be a pain for the Covenant, but instead shoveled the black budget into the bottomless pit of force-concentratipn via Spartan-IIs and waited like a decade to do any "monkey model" research.There is a lot of shit about Halo tech that's dumb for instance why aren't they using EMGs instead of gunpowder weapons.
I believe the UNSC has all the necessary technology for pure robot armies. Although I could imagine a lot of good in universe arguments against doing that. Well before the war with the covenant went south anyways.This ultimately comes down to "the designers were clueless about contemporary military practices and recent technological developments". The UNSC had infantry-operated railguns and all the tech needed for mini-mechas ready to be a pain for the Covenant, but instead shoveled the black budget into the bottomless pit of force-concentratipn via Spartan-IIs and waited like a decade to do any "monkey model" research.
The moist important one is "Smart AIs are already a pain in the ass to manage when kept to rare mainframes", because anything less than a Smart AI, even if "basic", is going to be child's play to fuck over with one. Smart AI-powered robotic infantry vs. Spartan IIIs are a bit of a tossup in cost-effectiveness as emergency Covenant measures.Although I could imagine a lot of good in universe arguments against doing that.
I believe the UNSC has all the necessary technology for pure robot armies. Although I could imagine a lot of good in universe arguments against doing that. Well before the war with the covenant went south anyways.
An AI like Cortana could probably manage entire divisions of robots, kind of like how the monitors controlled all the sentinels.The moist important one is "Smart AIs are already a pain in the ass to manage when kept to rare mainframes", because anything less than a Smart AI, even if "basic", is going to be child's play to fuck over with one. Smart AI-powered robotic infantry vs. Spartan IIIs are a bit of a tossup in cost-effectiveness as emergency Covenant measures.
Edit: Cortana's tiny chip is primarily a very expensive storage unit, with most of the computation done in the "comparable price tag to a frigate" power armor, which combined with the "norm" for Smart AI use being Big Iron implementations paired with a specific ship or building indicates the economics lean heavily against infantry-scale use.
The funny thing is that the closest thing we've got to book Marauder suits is from an anime of all things:I like the armor though it doesn't look particularly movie Starship Troopers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. It was a novel before after all. And Roughnecks and video games were a thing.
Perfect armor does not exi...
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