There’s impressive new military technology under development at the Army’s Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. It was recently featured in an article in The New York Post. In short, it’s a suit of high-tech armor designed to turn tomorrow’s fighters into more of a system than a soldier.
Some of the system’s features include a HUD inside the helmet, voice commands that unlock a weapon or set it to less than lethal force, a powered exoskeleton to increase a soldier’s movement capabilities and endurance and even “neural prosthetics” and “drugs that aid cognitive ability.” The army concedes that the latter enhancements might be “controversial now, but perhaps ubiquitous in 2030.”
It looks a bit dorky right now if you ask me but I’m sure as it improves and advances they will make it a bit more interesting and intimidating.
