Just Sumguy
First time out of the vault
With the recent success of Amazon’s Fallout series, power armor has come back into vogue as a seemingly logical extension of today’s combat technologies, but these science fiction mech suits may be more science than fiction... At least, that's what SOCOM was hoping for in its TALOS armor program. Let's talk about the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit SOCOM aimed to equip Special Operations troops with, what it would have done, and what ultimately happened to the program.
Citations:
https://www.army.mil/article/104229/army_explores_futuristic_uniform_for_socom
https://www.builtbyroper.com/ussocom-talos-c4i-engineer
https://www.army.mil/article/125325/special_operations_command_leads_development_of_iron_man_suit
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine...s-wearing-ultralight-version-of-iron-man-suit
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-ar...es-have-arrived-can-they-live-up-to-the-hype/
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/02/us-military-chopping-its-iron-man-suit-parts/154706/
https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/talos-iron-man-suit-dead/
https://www.defensenews.com/land/20...om-putting-operator-into-powered-exoskeleton/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27020867?seq=3
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD1074457.pdf
https://engineering.jhu.edu/news/alumni-spotlight-maeve-garigan/
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/emerging-technologies-1
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/raytheon-xos-2-exoskeleton-us/
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1296668/james-h-smith/
I came across this video on youtube today and thought others might be interested in checking it out given the topic of discussion the host is engaging in. I'm not affiliated with them in anyway, shape or form.