The weapon I assume is the XM8 LAR (replacement for the M4A1) which is based off the 5.56mm part (sorry, I refuse to call it the 'kinetic energy version'- defense contractors are getting too fucking wordy) of the XM29 SABR.
"Uniforms will monitor soldiers' hearts, and helmets will be outfitted with video and other high-tech gear. The contract could be worth $3 billion."
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
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weemadando wrote:
Actually thats Napoleon, "All other things being equal the army with the simplest uniform shall win."
Oi that's the intelligent version, I'll have no high-brow stuff here!
Me like kill bad man.
Low brow enough?
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Shinova wrote:Something in me feels horribly repulsed by that outfit.
Anyone else feel the same?
it looks more realistic than the "future warrior bullshit" that gets
shown repeatedly - looks like an idiot wearing ski goggles...
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Am I wrong, or does that helmet look kind of like a motercycle helmet? If it is a fully enclosed helmet will it have air filters for B/C warfare? If it isn't then its going to be hell trying to get a mask on with that thing. Is that uniform chem/bio resistant? Looks HOT too.
OMG I just noticed even the BOOTS are cammoed? WTF? Black leather not good enough anymore eh?
Dargos wrote:Am I wrong, or does that helmet look kind of like a motercycle helmet? If it is a fully enclosed helmet will it have air filters for B/C warfare? If it isn't then its going to be hell trying to get a mask on with that thing. Is that uniform chem/bio resistant? Looks HOT too.
OMG I just noticed even the BOOTS are cammoed? WTF? Black leather not good enough anymore eh?
Replacing the black leather makes sense. Black leather shows up bright and shiny at night if the enemy is using any kind of decent vision enhancements (something to do with UV reflection, I think). For that matter, few combat boots nowadays still use black leather. Black Goretex fake leather is more like it. The camo boots are probably a regular commercial product. Camo hunting boots are common enough.
you know, if you make that outfit white and change the helmet a little. i swaer you'll be able to hear a John Williams composition of you listen close enough.
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Dargos wrote:
OMG I just noticed even the BOOTS are cammoed? WTF? Black leather not good enough anymore eh?
The USMC had already switched over to light brown boots, Shiny black is shit for camouflage. I suspect that camo is simply a pull over or something that can be removed and replaced depending on the environment, the boot under it may be black.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Vympel wrote:
The weapon I assume is the XM8 LAR (replacement for the M4A1) which is based off the 5.56mm part (sorry, I refuse to call it the 'kinetic energy version'- defense contractors are getting too fucking wordy) of the XM29 SABR.
"Join the objective force side and we will rule the galaxy together as friend and friend."
As I recall the XM8 is a lot more like the G36K both weapons are based off of then the OICW's part is, much longer barrel among other things.
"Uniforms will monitor soldiers' hearts, and helmets will be outfitted with video and other high-tech gear. The contract could be worth $3 billion."
I think you mean reading SST rather then watching, those morons didn't appear to have first aid kits for the huge gaping wounds there bulky armor couldn't do shit to stop.
Knowing military procurement, I suspect the end price tag will be well over that.
The price of Land warrior declined from 90,000 per set to about 15,000 during development and may drop lower. While development has been delayed the price of it hasn't increased all that much. Though now the whole things being redone to reduce bulk since almost every part can now be build much smaller that’s to the massive tech leaps of the mid and late 90's.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Shinova wrote:Something in me feels horribly repulsed by that outfit.
Anyone else feel the same?
Somethings definitely wrong, can't put my finger on it ...
there's a Private Murphy's Law of Combat which dictates that the side with the fanciest uniform loses.
No, you're thinking of the Sukholminov effect. The Barbarian invasions, the Crusades, the American revolution, the Civil war (to some extent)World War 1, World war 2, the several Arab-Israeli wars, the invasion of Afghanistan (by the Russians) were all lost by the side with the fancier uniforms.
Vympel wrote:
"Uniforms will monitor soldiers' hearts, and helmets will be outfitted with video and other high-tech gear. The contract could be worth $3 billion."
Imho it reads like a kit for the Colonial Marines from the Aliens movie not the movie SST.
Vympel wrote:
"Uniforms will monitor soldiers' hearts, and helmets will be outfitted with video and other high-tech gear. The contract could be worth $3 billion."
Imho it reads like a kit for the Colonial Marines from the Aliens movie not the movie SST.
But the new helmet looks a lot like the one used in Starship Troopers, at least I think so. It's been a while since I saw the movie, though.
BTW, judging by the pic, it seems like the uniform uses some sort of digital camo pattern, right?
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Oberleutnant wrote:
BTW, judging by the pic, it seems like the uniform uses some sort of digital camo pattern, right?
Yes it does, as do most of the US armed forces new patterns. They found it worked better to simply use a digital pattern to break out your outline, rather then trying to mimic foliage patterns.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Oberleutnant wrote:
But the new helmet looks a lot like the one used in Starship Troopers, at least I think so. It's been a while since I saw the movie, though.
Physical appearances its all movie MI, but the helmat-cam, suit reading and transmitting vital signs is Colonial Marine inspired tech.
i swaer you'll be able to hear a John Williams composition of you listen close enough.
