20x the capability

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Fri Feb 22 02:29:38 PST 2002


|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: Charles Jannuzi

||

|| The last time they did this they found that it was impossible

|| to carry all

|| the equipment. This led to a discussion of what type of

|| soldier, physically

|| speaking, they should have. It turned out all the junk hung

|| well on the guys

|| built like football players, but these guys dropped from heat stroke and

|| exhaustion far faster than the average soldier. Like one Brit

|| solider said

|| at a NATO exercise: 'You Yanks carry too much stuff and how in the fuck

|| could you learn to use it all anyway?"

||

|| Charles Jannuzi

||

Ergo the exoskeleton. Another overpriced pie in the sky like star wars, but like the HUD helmet, it's gonna bring Silicon Valey on board the defence gravy train in a big way.

Hakki



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