The Army's Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, first announced in May, would provide the wearer with some of the advantages Tony Stark possessed in the film, including on-board computers (like Jarvis) and "advanced armor, power generators, and enhanced mobility exoskeletons," said USSOCOM in an appeal for proposals for the required tech in a suit.
With all of that on-board, the USSOCOM is also looking to liquid armor technology being researched at MIT to help ease some of the extra weight. The liquid armor would use "magnetorheological fluids and transform from a liquid to a solid in milliseconds with the application of a magnetic field or electrical current,
"The Marine Corps started adding more body armor to soldiers, but SOCOM is loath to do that since it'll decrease mobility," Jim Tinsley, a partner at the defense consulting firm Avascenttold ABC News. "What TALOS aims to do is to get around physics and make lighter body armor, but also make it stronger.
The technology would also allow a user to manage their own heart rate and body temperature, with systems offering air conditioning, heat and oxygen if neccessary.
"It's advanced armor. It's communications, antennas. It's cognitive performance. It's sensors, miniature-type circuits. That's all going to fit in here, too," Karl Borjes, a science adviser assigned to Special Operations Command, said in a press release earlier this year.
The] requirement is a comprehensive family of systems in a combat armor suit where we bring together an exoskeleton with innovative armor, displays for power monitoring, health monitoring, and integrating a weapon into that."
The body armor is scheduled for a demonstration Nov. 19 at the MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, according to a report by the Defense Media Network.
Special Forces hope to create a prototype within a year, with a battle-ready suit arriving in 2016.
This is turning a movie fiction in to reality.
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