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DARPA Looking Into Invisible, Shoot-Through, Self-Healing Armor

cac67 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:33:01 EDT

@ripfire4:"We're talking about challenges that deals with physics, chemistry, etc. I would compare this more to the atomic bomb."

Bah, 1940's technology.

cac67

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SpaceDizzy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:16:26 EDT

Sadly, I doubt this will ever be cost effective.

I would think that something more along the lines of Predator, protect the soldiers by making them impossible to see is more plausable and cost effective.

SpaceDizzy

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Sturm Truppen — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:23:37 EDT

You people are all thinking body armor...try thinking armored vehicle, or barriers, I think that's the implementation that they're going for here.

Sturm Truppen

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92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:05:29 EDT

@PopeJohnPeepsII

You'd think they'd want to work on healing soldiers too. But what do I know?!

With this kind of technology it's more cost-effective to heal the armor.

92BuickLeSabre

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Jeff the Riffer — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:53:32 EDT

Screw that. You want the enemy to see our
bad-ass Space Marines in full-armor so they piss themselves!

(Or perhaps eat the marines, but that's a technical glitch still being worked out)

Jeff the Riffer

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Spaceboy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:06:37 EDT

recruiting must be at its lowest level ever if they go through so much pain to protect soldiers in the battlefield.

Ahh,the good ole days of WW2 when cannon fodder was just that.....

Spaceboy

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JRo — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:42:03 EDT

Sounds like someone at Darpa is on the Halo 3 beta...

JRo

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Type-E — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:22:05 EDT

The guy who came up with these requirements just finished watching Heroes from NBC

- invisible
- shoot through?

how about also
- able to melt metal
- travel through time
- learn opponent's capability.

Type-E

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UpIrons — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:58:04 EDT

DARPA actually stands for Diversion Assisted Release of Property from Aliens.

UpIrons

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crescentdave — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:30:42 EDT

I'll do you better: one word: unobtanium.

Genius.

crescentdave

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whiskey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:02:40 EDT

Yeah, two words:
Ask Konami

whiskey

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Libtard — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:57:28 EDT

Or, perhaps we could spend some of this tax money getting real-world body armor for soldiers fighting an actual war, right now, at the very moment you are reading this.

Libtard

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v2h5a81 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:34:31 EDT

I think this will be awesome. I just hope they figure out a better way of protecting the soldiers and not have them get injured period.

v2h5a81

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ccnuggie — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:54:53 EDT

force field

ccnuggie

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mrAnderson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:18:45 EDT

@gundark: "Who the hell needs to be healthy enough to educate their own children?"

Just the parents of the soldiers behind the shield. duh

mrAnderson

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DeadPlasmaCell — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:48:37 EDT

So I wonder what kinda HD Resolution we'd be talkin about here, camo-wise.

DeadPlasmaCell

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Branlutteur — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:38:36 EDT

"Friendly forces will be able to see through it and shoot through it"

Hahahahaaaaa!!! Hadn't read anything THAT funny for years!

Like:
"Hey, isn't that squad B over there???"
"Yeah, seems like... Let's shoot thru them!!!"

Branlutteur

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sniggity — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:16:53 EDT

Simply put, they are trying to make a force field. Think "War of the Worlds" & "Independence Day". Those tripod things & UFO's can shoot out, but nothing could shoot them (until they both got virus') , whats so hard to understand about that?

Oh, & did everyone forget about Area51? HA!

I mean come on, the military has a crap ton of secret technology, no telling what they have in the works.

sniggity

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geschmidtt — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:51:11 EDT

Easy! Take 2 parts unobtainium and just add elmers.

geschmidtt

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Derrick — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:45:18 EDT

Not that this is the best source but I saw a Star Wars documentary on the History channel that talked about using plasma to create clear walls that could do things like hold atmosphere in but let ships out. This seems like an extension of that idea.

Derrick

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gundark — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:44:40 EDT

Oh yeah, this sounds totally doable. Invisibility should be a walk in the park. I say we throw billions of dollars into researching this every 6 months, rather then healthcare or schools. Who the hell needs to be healthy enough to educate their own children?

gundark

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CaseyG — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:40:45 EDT

The armor isn't worn, it's a deployed barrier, which mimics the appearance of the terrain behind it. Soldiers standing on the "friendly" side can shoot through to the "enemy" side, but not vice-versa.

CaseyG

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sven_skaliberskone — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:02:42 EDT

Look at me, I'm invisible!

sven_skaliberskone

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Fbunny — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:51:40 EDT

what if a similar mentality as polarized glass would be used...hmmmmm....thanks now i wont sleep at night...i'll be thinking hehehe

Fbunny

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RedBeard — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:33:45 EDT

It sounds to me like their looking to make laser guns and ammor that allows the laser to 'pass through' it. They should be looking at some high polymer glass.

RedBeard

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BlindsidesDork — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:26:14 EDT

put it in a video game!

BlindsidesDork

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OniMirage — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:17:50 EDT

Battlefield 2142

OniMirage

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Sketchaphone — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:11:15 EDT

If this was accomplished, I'd probably join the army.

Sketchaphone

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ideaman2020 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:07:20 EDT

"Friendly forces will be able to see through it and shoot through it, but hostile forces will not."

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't want anyone to be able to shoot through my armor...

ideaman2020

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msg007 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:03:58 EDT

It would just be easier to create a robot army to fight for us.

We can call the ground troops T-800's and the flying attackers Aerial HK's.

We can just run them by remote or something.

msg007

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crescentdave — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:48:16 EDT

Always glad to see the government engaging in yet another fat-cat, taxpayer-funded debacle focused on improving our capability of either killing, torturing or imprisoning other people.

Technosexual ghouls.

crescentdave

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OldSchoolGadgetLover — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:10 EDT

I took one or two classes in physics, and it seems like it would take an awful lot of energy to try to create an invisible wall of anything that would stop incoming energy (i.e. fast moving rounds of ammo and blasts) and to "self heal" itself in case areas of that wall were overcome by too much bombardment.

Isn't the purpose of war to try to get more energy / oil? Maybe it will be solar powered?

OldSchoolGadgetLover

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theberserker22 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:38:24 EDT

I don't think this will ever see the light of day. Consider for a moment that they have yet to deploy Metal Gear REX. Let's get a cracking!

theberserker22

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Derrick — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:34:39 EDT

With such a lofty goal wouldn't it be easier to say...come up with a weapon where you can just decide who to kill?

Derrick

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schrosa — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:31:16 EDT

You don't have to wrap your head around it. It'll wrap itself around you!

schrosa

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neilmcloram — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:23:57 EDT

Ah, having read the DARPA document, it appears that there's no mention of it being 'body' armour. Which makes more sense. And makes the article misleading. Having a wall, or a panel on an armoured vehicle that you can see and shoot through seems like a cracking idea.

neilmcloram

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Klaw — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:23:57 EDT

Your healable armor and invisibility will be no match for my needlers and plasma grenades and energy swords.

WORT WORT WORT!

Klaw

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Geisrud — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:03 EDT

This whole "Internet" thing is just a fad. It'll pass, and soon be just a memory.

Geisrud

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neilmcloram — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:19:34 EDT

I'm confused as to why you'd want the material to be shot-through by friendly forces. Shot 'around', yes. Through, no. That would kill the soldier behind or inside the material. Wouldn't it be better that it stops bullets - full stop. Regardless of the direction they come from?

neilmcloram

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ripfire — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:16:04 EDT

Internet was all about information, which wasn't exactly hard to fathom. We're talking about challenges that deals with physics, chemistry, etc. I would compare this more to the atomic bomb.

ripfire

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ANoel — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:05:52 EDT

Is this like a suit of armour made out of molecular level catdoors?

ANoel

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Pope John Peeps II — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:05:34 EDT

You'd think they'd want to work on healing soldiers too. But what do I know?!

Pope John Peeps II

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ceilingFANBOY — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:37 EDT

This technology is really going to make Metal Gear Solid 5 a pain in the ass to try to beat.

ceilingFANBOY

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Windhawk — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:53:29 EDT

The Fremen want to know if it will stop the Shai-Hulud (that is a sand-worm to you and me).

Windhawk