You guys gotta see this!!

[paradoxb3]

even if it was affordable I don't see why you'd spend the money. Isn't there something to be said about hauling your own gear with your own strength?

considering the source (military.com) and its intended purpose (battlefield), no. Why should it? If it were a consumer retail product featured in backpacker magazine, then perhaps yes. But I wouldn't imagine a soldier would make any complaints (or care) about how a much needed gear/ammunition resupply arrived.

[BAG "o" TRICKS]

Suit was in popular science mag year or so ago.

[Fannypack]

Suit was in popular science mag year or so ago.

BOT, make sure u logoff your acct because there are some persons who will post using your acct...

Enjoy the AT, see ya in May....

[Darwin again]

There's nothing politically left or right about objecting to piles of taxpayer money thrown down a flaming rat hole, like for this nonsense.

Raytheon thanks you!
link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...on+cost+overun

[MintakaCat]

There's nothing politically left or right about objecting to piles of taxpayer money thrown down a flaming rat hole, like for this nonsense.

Raytheon thanks you!
link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...on+cost+overun

Wait a minute, the original post was about a Lockheed Martin project, not Raytheon. LOL, did I miss something?

[Powder River]

They've already invented this- it's called slackpacking!

[take-a-knee]

There's nothing politically left or right about objecting to piles of taxpayer money thrown down a flaming rat hole, like for this nonsense.

Raytheon thanks you!
link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...on+cost+overun

Would you say the same for the space program?

[take-a-knee]

They've already invented this- it's called slackpacking!

Good point, there is however, no one available to slack pack your .50 caliber Barrett for you in the Hindu Kush (also enough food and water to live for a month), hence the development of the exoskeleton.

[ColdFire]

If it helps benefit the troops I'm all for it.

[dmax]

With my luck it would get stuck in burst speed going through the smokies.

[Darwin again]

Would you say the same for the space program?

Which space program?
The shuttle?
Absolutely.

It was all cool and rah-rah, etc., but the thing is a poorly designed money pit with two of the five orbiters destroyed in accidents and their crews killed. Success like that speaks for itself. And where's the technological benefit? Zippy doo dah.

Blah, blah blah. There's a reason you're on my ignore list...