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.

[amathy]

Автор сообщения: ⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝

Автор сообщения: amathy oniichan uwu

Even assuming the armor technology was advanced enough to stand up to anti-material rounds, what would happen is what just happened when anti-tank rifles in real life started being outpaced by advancements in tank armor where we just started using ATGM’s instead.
If we can get through tanks, we’ll be able to get through whatever we can reasonably put on a person.

That is cause tbh tank armor has not been updated for years, I am talking types of metals.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.
As tank armor advanced throughout history, it’s always been countered by something that not only disables the tank but is also easily portable. It’s not just a recent thing? We haven’t seen many cutting edge models of tanks in production excluding the AbramsX because they’re mostly pointless considering the direction modern warfare is heading in where you can just launch unmanned drones from relative safety.

[DouglasGrave]

Автор сообщения: Dr.Abscondus

It's already in wide spread use. It's called a 'tank'. You can slap as much armor on the human body as you want, but there is no technology currently available that can stop kinetic energy from being transmitted through the armor and into the body underneath. Body armor that stops projectiles merely spreads the impact energy over a larger area so the soldier gets a nasty big bruise instead of a hole. Power armor might stop penetration of large caliber explosive rounds like 20, 30, and 40mm, but the dude underneath would be mush.

The "tank" is itself a demonstration of what you need to do; you need a protective shell surrounding the person that has its own independent solidity (so that it's not relying on their flesh for support) and have the strength and mass to not be easily deformed or knocked around. Which would be easier to achieve with an oversized framework like the one used for power armour.

There's also an upper limit on how much energy a regular person can fire without injuring themselves with the reaction of launching a shot from conventional firearms, so its a game of efficiency being played with how effectively you can accelerate and decelerate a projectile. The armour wants to be as effective at stopping a projectile as a gun barrel is at launching it. At least against human-fired stuff.

But then, if you face power-armoured opponents, the power of what projectile they can fire without injury also increases.

[Necron Monolith ₿]

https://youtu.be/UuDNc-_4v94
could it compete against an armada of chimera's on auger's that's what I wanna know. :P

[John Henry Eden]

lets just say power armor isnt a natural evolution to tanks, because youre still going to need them beside the power armor troops, but realistically, all it takes to destroy something like that is energy, so the enemy would fire a bigger and bigger round/bullet at it, until it dropped, if you cause enough damage to the human inside the power armor, you can kill them without damaging the armor at all

[John Henry Eden]

also come on guys, big magnet

[Necron Monolith ₿]

yup. that and big blankets.

[DouglasGrave]

Автор сообщения: Stevanator

lets just say power armor isnt a natural evolution to tanks, because youre still going to need them beside the power armor troops, but realistically, all it takes to destroy something like that is energy, so the enemy would fire a bigger and bigger round/bullet at it, until it dropped, if you cause enough damage to the human inside the power armor, you can kill them without damaging the armor at all

Certainly power armour is not strictly a tank replacement; stronger and tougher than a regular soldier, but smaller and more maneuverable than a tank.

Tanks will remain faster and carry heavier armour and weaponry, though it's possible that weapons like the fat man launcher could bridge the gap in raw destructive power.