How practical would power armor be in real life?

[Sea Prince Gillywix]

Would real life governments use something like this for their soldiers? Or could it have some fundamental flaws that make it impractical. Or could it just be too expensive? We know in real life that military of the world have soldiers with tactical gear. We also know that drones are sometimes used in real life. Drones of course have the advantage of not risking a human life. To me one of the biggest flaws of using power armor in real life is that if something that
1. In real life a small targeted explosion to the leg could render any power armor useless.
Of course it cann do this with or without power armor, but with more armor there is more of a monetary loss.
2. They could be susceptible to emps or hacking depending on how built.
3. If they are electrical powered then they can be rendered useless by taking out their power supply
4. If they use fusion cores like they do in game then just shooting at the fusion core will cause a nuclear explosion. I can only imagine this isn't good for anyone's health.

[Liquid Inc]

what we have in reality will be far more advanced than what they show us, and what we know of.
The UK and other countries are already knowlingly playing around with exoskeletons.... but what about all the things they haven't disclosed?

That sniper robot dog might be pretty scary to think it could be deployed and used, but it won't be anywhere near what the military of the US, UK, EU or Eastern countries like China or Russia will have developed already. These items will be kept hidden until such a time when they are needed, such as a full scale war....

We simply won't know until there is a war that provokes their use.

They used tiny mirrors to make a car invisible (below 30mph AFAIK, might have even been slower?) for a film (i think it was a James Bond one?)
Imagine what the military scientists will have done, if a film crew can do that?


Your standard car disc brakes, are derived from developments made for a tank. War is what has always driven technological advances...

We probably already have suits of PA (probably not like Fallout ones, or Space marines from 40k) and we probably already have batteries that never die once charged, but these advances will never see the light of day until they have no choice but to disclose them.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

They have tried to actually make real life PA.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-powered-armor-iron-man-suit/

https://hackaday.com/2008/05/23/real-life-power-suits/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_exoskeleton

basicly it boils down to the best they can do with todays technology is augment exoskelotons for heavy lifting nothing that can be used in modern military combat situations.

As you said there is several reason that the PA like found in fallout would essentially be useless in a real military combat situation.

[worm_master]

I think it will vary use by use and situations, I.E PA though a forest prob isint the best idea, but on a open plane, sure, every-ones talking about now, but the basics already exist, I.E exoskeletons, whats lacking is the technology to make those suits move faster then a walk,but that tec already exsists, I.E that parkour flippy robot.

The trouble with that is, we lack the tec to upscale it for A human size an B: integrate it into the exoskeleton... IN CONCLUSION.. PA is here already, we just havent learned how to put all the parts together yet.

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by worm_master:

I think it will vary use by use and situations, I.E PA though a forest prob isint the best idea, but on a open plane, sure, every-ones talking about now, but the basics already exist, I.E exoskeletons, whats lacking is the technology to make those suits move faster then a walk,but that tec already exsists, I.E that parkour flippy robot.

The trouble with that is, we lack the tec to upscale it for A human size an B: integrate it into the exoskeleton... IN CONCLUSION.. PA is here already, we just havent learned how to put all the parts together yet.

if you know what I know there was stuff like this being done in ww2. A little dark to get into but if you look hard enough you would know what I am talking about.
it was close being completed but they lost the war.

[worm_master]

Lol during ww2 the transistors were the size of Christmas crackers, whilst i agree some-what I doubt WMD battle-bots were being produced. the size alone would have been a tad impractical to transport....

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by worm_master:

Lol during ww2 the transistors were the size of Christmas crackers, whilst i agree some-what I doubt WMD battle-bots were being produced. the size alone would have been a tad impractical to transport....

Well if you count the super tanks you will see.
I never said it would work.
It's what happens when you think big is the best lol.

[worm_master]

Originally posted by ⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝:

Originally posted by worm_master:

Lol during ww2 the transistors were the size of Christmas crackers, whilst i agree some-what I doubt WMD battle-bots were being produced. the size alone would have been a tad impractical to transport....

Well if you count the super tanks you will see.
I never said it would work.
It's what happens when you think big is the best lol.

Well a super tank is different, the basic tec was around and perfected, German tanks were THE BEST!, all they had to do was create some sort of super Armour and some sort of super weapon, but again limited by the tec of the time.

It also occurs to me, that a lot of the German "super weapons" didint actually pose much of a threat to milletry base's, rather the potential of use against civilian targets,*the terror bombing of civilians*

Us Brits were well aware of the German V weapons at that time, thank u very much.

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by worm_master:

Originally posted by ⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝:

Well if you count the super tanks you will see.
I never said it would work.
It's what happens when you think big is the best lol.

Well a super tank is different, the basic tec was around and perfected, German tanks were THE BEST!, all they had to do was create some sort of super Armour and some sort of super weapon, but again limited by the tec of the time.

It also occurs to me, that a lot of the German "super weapons" didint actually pose much of a threat to milletry base's, rather the potential of use against civilian targets,*the terror bombing of civilians*

Us Brits were well aware of the German V weapons at that time, thank u very much.

Tbh They was limited by time. Most of the stuff if they had 10 years to work on it, It would have been much different. But I am glad they was stupid in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDVDsN3q85U
Side note my family fought in WW2.
We free Holland back then.

[worm_master]

U mean if it had been any 1 other then Hitler in charge...... hahahahahahaha. he lost patients and interfered with the V-weapons, so like i said no real danger....

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by worm_master:

U mean if it had been any 1 other then Hitler in charge...... hahahahahahaha. he lost patients and interfered with the V-weapons, so like i said no real danger....

Happens when you do drugs xD
Makes you think in Fallout the ones who fired, Where they on drugs in the end xD

[worm_master]

The A.I did it? Are the robots I.E Mr Handy actually A.I?

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by worm_master:

The A.I did it? Are the robots I.E Mr Handy actually A.I?

As real A.I no.
Synths are closer to real A.I not talking gen 1 synth.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962515216

[Noodlesocks]

Exoskeletons will probably be really useful in a logistics/manual labour capacity but slapping enough armour on them to protect the person inside probably isn't cost effective and too bulky to be particularly useful in many combat scenarios.

[worm_master]

maby a Mr handy in a nuke base "accidentally" tripped a dead-man switch or summit..

[Tsai]

I mean since we have D3O and exoskeletons working, having power armor is impractical and a lot more expensive