| The United States Military is serious about body | | | | exoskeleton suit technologies, thus climbing up steep |
| armor for our troops, and rightfully so. Today, our | | | | slopes, and long distances without fatigue, and |
| body armor for our soldiers is outstanding, and the | | | | exhaustion will be no problem. |
| next generation will be radically and revolutionarily | | | | Even better our troops will be protected from bullets, |
| stronger; and lighter. That's a good thing, imagine | | | | shrapnel, and those who might try to get close for a |
| hiking up the hills in parts of Afghanistan, were most | | | | knife fight, well in the even they ever got that close |
| animals can't go, and vehicles are completely out of | | | | that is. A military think tank group working on such |
| the question. All of a sudden 30-40 pounds of body | | | | things must ask themselves the tough question and |
| armor is no longer in the equation. Forget the enemy, | | | | look to future materials to better what already |
| you'll die from the extra weight, altitude, and | | | | exists. |
| exhaustion. | | | | Too, they will need to look towards nature, for |
| Now then, regarding light-weight body armor and the | | | | instance; what are your thoughts on scales, as a |
| next generation of the "Future Fighting Force" | | | | potential pattern to allow flexibility, and armor + |
| exploits. Have you studied the Abalone Shells | | | | special forces for water missions? And they will need |
| (perhaps you have studied marine life) and the | | | | to be pro-nature to follow evolution to gain insight |
| processes being used to mimic them for potential | | | | into the best strategies, as many believe that even if |
| body armor? We can now grow materials in the lab | | | | we can better nature, it has a good head start? |
| that are similar, but much stronger, and lighter too. | | | | Military think thanks must also think several steps |
| Ceramics, sapphire, and all sorts of other material | | | | ahead of the game and a decade or more into the |
| have been attempted, some used, some not, today, | | | | future; for instance a question to ask yourself might |
| Kevlar is still the gold standard, that is with a little | | | | be; Do you think it is possible to build a one-man |
| extra ceramic magic, as they say. | | | | underwater craft - assisted propulsion device, which |
| Not long ago our think tank had considered that since | | | | can surface and then fly off the surface, which has |
| blood enzymes help break down carbon graphene | | | | full body armor, and can run near silent, with vertical |
| material, that it might be problematic for future use, | | | | or near vertical landing capability? |
| even if it seems a natural material to use for military | | | | How would you go about that? |
| body armor? In the future our forces will have | | | | Please consider all this. |