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06-21-2007
| | | retawetihW
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Fav 360 Game: Gears Of War 2 Posts: 6,778
|  Pentagon Researches "Halo-Type" Armor
...by Halo type armor I mean self healing, see-through, invisible armor. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/future-te...mor-270589.php Quote:
DARPA, the crazy research arm of the Pentagon, is looking to make science fiction a reality. Their current goal? To create shoot-through, invisible, healable body armor.
Yeah, we're talking armor that soldiers can see and fire through on one side, but is invisible and impenetrable on the other. "Friendly forces will be able to see through it and shoot through it, but hostile forces will not. [It'll also have] the ability to 'self-heal' if necessary. The materials must be lightweight, respond instantly, and be easy to deploy and retract in confined spaces." They'll accomplish this using metamaterials, crazy compounds that I can't even begin to wrap my head around. This doesn't seem to be all that realistic at the moment, but hey, the Internet was just an insane DARPA project at one point too. –Adam Frucci
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06-21-2007
| | | uber noob
Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5
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I don't recall seeing anything like that in Halo 1 or 2 on easy, medium, heroic, or legendary. If you wouldn't mind telling me where it is? I am in fact interested. I'm pretty sure that MC's Armor isn't invisible, unless you are talking about Active Camo? | |
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06-21-2007
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Fav 360 Game: Gears Of War 2 Posts: 6,778
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Originally Posted by UkaChuka  I don't recall seeing anything like that in Halo 1 or 2 on easy, medium, heroic, or legendary. If you wouldn't mind telling me where it is? I am in fact interested. I'm pretty sure that MC's Armor isn't invisible, unless you are talking about Active Camo? | Its just a title to catch ppls attention. MC's armor is self healing. | |
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06-21-2007
| | | Gone. Vamoosed. Toodles.
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Evans, Georgia Fav 360 Game: Oblivion, Dead Rising, any ww2 game Posts: 276
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I heard about this. You know they've found a material that can make your car look invisible by refracting light or whatever? They're about 50 years off though with the armor.
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06-21-2007
| | | uber noob
Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5
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so would this be actual armor, or the covenant energy shield that stays on the ground?
btw, House Rocks, too bad it's not on 'till fall. The finale wasn't that good either | |
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06-21-2007
| | | Scotty Doesn't Know
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: t3h 740 Fav 360 Game: SR, GoW, H3, COD4 Posts: 2,912
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Originally Posted by UkaChuka so would this be actual armor, or the covenant energy shield that stays on the ground? | Think Spartan armor with active camo. Or maybe the next level of a bubble shield (deployed quickly, see through it, serves as a shield. Only differences would be the ability to shoot through it and the fact that it is opaque from the outside.
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06-21-2007
| | | uber noob
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cool, Just wondering how it will be clear on one side and opaque on the other, seems difficult | |
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06-21-2007
| | | Scotty Doesn't Know
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: t3h 740 Fav 360 Game: SR, GoW, H3, COD4 Posts: 2,912
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Originally Posted by UkaChuka cool, Just wondering how it will be clear on one side and opaque on the other, seems difficult | Not really. It's like the two-way mirrors that are used in police lineups, interrogations rooms, casinos, etc. That kind of stuff isn't really that hard. Now if they're trying to make the user invisible, then some different difficulties would be presented, but not really that many considering the project.
On a side note, if this is the kind of stuff that we're told that the gov is making, imagine what kind of stuff they're making that they don't tell us about. o.0
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06-21-2007
| | | uber noob
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so will this be like bubble shield material, or a solid piece of glass. b/c one is a solid and the other is a . . . plasma. . .gas . . .not sure but it's different from like 1 way glass, you know? | |
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06-21-2007
| | | Got range on that thing.
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Belcoville, NJ Fav 360 Game: UT3 Posts: 5,894
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They can already use heat signatures to make very small objects invisible... but to make a person invisible they'll need to use optics... something that is easily exploitable by bright light. | |
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