The Most Expensive Military Uniform in the World
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- For millennia, mankind has fantasized about the idea of a super warrior, and with the latest technological advances of the last few decades, it has never been so close to creating an actual weaponized suit.
Conceived in 2013, the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit is a mechanized armor that enhances the user’s performance and perception beyond human capabilities, not to mention its outstanding ballistic protection.
The ultra-advanced protective garment, boasting bewildering robotics and high-tech innovations, was a joint effort between universities, laboratories, and the industry to protect those most at risk in the frontline.
The TALOS suit was actually accelerated due to one unfortunate incident in 2012. Had something like it existed back then, the fate of heroic Chief Petty Officer Nicolas Checque might have been prevented… 
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The most unfortunate part about this was it wasn't making the suit that proved out of reach. We did that pretty well. It was trying to keep it powered for long missions. Basically, we don't have good enough batteries.
Does the government believe a soldier life isworth the cost of one suit
@@scottykonovalov4518 yes, it’s the batteries
Interesting. But, time will fix it I am sure. I remember 1st GEN night vision and the leaps forward I saw in my 27yrs in the Infantry. I have been retired a long time now and can only imagine the advances. BUT! I am old school and dont believe anybody should touch a scope or other device until they master iron sights and am not a big fan of the Armys Marksmanship Program. Take care everybody.
"we," ???
You were a part of that program?
Lol I doubt it.
I question whether socom is in the business of building armor.
They're not. They're warfighters that who's leadership can put out a want list but that's about as far as it goes.
**If and when armour of this nature is developed be assured it will be DARPA that does it not SoCom.
First thing that always pops into my mind when I see development projects like this: *The Crysis Nanosuit*
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No, this is master chief
Same.
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The US military has been researching machine augmented soldiers for many decades. They started doing it as early as the late 1960s. Most of the research programs were short lived because the basic technology was not yet available. The first thing the US Army tried was a helmet mounted night vision monoscope back in the 1970s. It was promising but the technology was way too fragile and expensive for military use at the time. 40 years later, and now it seems every 2nd soldier has some kind of night vision device or simple computer display HUD fitted wired into a smartphone sized computer and transceiver. Every 20th soldier is actually a situation representative with a lap top or tablet plugged into an advanced encrypted satellite uplink system ono their backpack. All this technology is now mainstream in NATO not just the US. The next frontier will be much harder. Body augmentation.
I always think, "we don't even know what we don't know about" when talking about TS futuristic military equipment.
Your production value has really skyrocketed. Great work as usual.
stock images lol skyrockets hahaha
@@sydneyconcerts902. I agree with you. I’m not knocking this channel but it’s a relatively simple one to put together he uses stock images so he really just needs an editing computer and a microphone to record his audio which sounds fine to me. I’ve been watching this channel since it was created and I don’t think this video is much different than it’s 1st videos
@@Evergreen1400 same i enjoy the content and will still watch it but yeah i feel not much has changed quality wise maybe his story telling abilities but video wise its the same give this guy a year a 2 and he might have some really good content
The CGI is cut from a a US Army PEO soldier video
WHaaaaaat? The writing is great, I agree with that, but they show the same clips over and over and over, and the remotely controlled white robot suit with blue eyes? What the Fu__ was that? Why was that in there??? Unrelated video of people in white jackets pointing white board markers at a flip chart or holding a tablet and swiping up and down in big movements... Production value plummeting video after video...
I think armored exosuits are definitely in the future of human combat, but our tech just isn't up to snuff yet.
The tech is there it just cost too much at the moment
Batteries are the key. Everything else robotics related we can make work, or are very close. But battery technology still sucks and holds so many things back to the testing stage.
Full body armor is nothing new. The question is when the modern armor becomes obsolete again.
@@frankjeaguer3643 No it isn't. Batteries are our bottleneck. They either need to get better or we need to develop super-caps.
@@CharliMorganMusic or micro-fusion reactor a la Doc Brown’s ‘Mr. Fusion.’
No higher sacrifice! The love this man gave to trade his life for the doctors! Legend! Thank you for your service!
Its called indoctrination in the military cult
He didn't intend to trade his life. He ran into a dangerous situation to silence a guard. They probably exchanged gunfire, but the guard got lucky. He is still brave to run into an unknown situation to hopefully save a hostage and his team.
(*doctor's)
"The Forever War", a book by Joe Haldeman about a future soldier fighting in increasingly capable suits against an increasingly capable enemy
I agree if you train these men to be invincible and Bulletproof and to run into direct fire ,you better make them that way!!
Well they do have part of that down. Now if only they can figure out the bulletproof part. 🤣
i really like the voiceovers for dark tech, the timbre, the pace and inflection, calming and reassuring. and the way he says: stay tuned at the end of this one was personal, so to speak.
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Some scientists at a university in the US have developed a material based on the club of the mantis shrimp that has the ability to withstand just about any caliber round and shrapnel as well. Bacteria excrete the polymer urease and combined with a few other chemicals in a lattice bouligand configuration it creates a material exactly like the mantis shrimp club. Nearly indestructible
Which university?
@@collinmanning8334 University at California Riverside and Perdue University
First thing that came to mind was, if I were SECDEF, and there was a major breakthrough, I’d make the project Manhattan level secret. The only way the world would know, is when we have no choice but to field them. Not even the Tier One operators would know, until their sent to special training, and direct to combat.
Just look at drone tech and operational success, and how quickly a determined enemy can harness such combat multipliers.
On the fringe this could be why it went bye bye.
Super interesting though.
Well the Russians built their bomb a few years after the war from the leaks in the Manhattan project😂 might wanna up that classification 🤷♂️
@@sancfireactual307 man to be fair at the time the Russians where hands down the best at HUMINT hence why they were able to get their guys inside the manhattan project
YES, YES, Sir. I love you guys and getting your input from you and others will pave the way again for total domination any were on and off the Earth. Speaking of which Musk is helping out in a lot of those things.
@@uwannakatana3990 thanks for validating my point
@@sancfireactual307 yes sir
Man you have great videos. Pleasant narrating voice and good background music. Good for you !
Over 50 companys and several gouvernment agencys that grouped up to create a somewhat working high tech military product? No way this could have worked out in a single year. Thats completly crazy to think of 😅
Right on my friend. Musk has these guys kind of under one roof maybe not physically, but Carpmentalized? doing their own projects and then to have all this fit together. All these different contractor will slow this thing down that for sure and cost more like at NASA.
2026 is right around the corner as far as the military is concerned. TALOS may have shut down, but they immediately decided to start it back up again as a long-term program designed actually procure a suit instead of just being an effort to test feasibility of the suit... Although the major caveat is that the people in the program will be a skeleton crew until 2026.
Well, they announced just days ago that the Army is receiving their first orders of headsets/goggles. The fire control system and optics are finalized and contract awarded. I would imagine the the rest is not far behind.
I remember the Future Force Warrior suit being discussed in the early 00s. Can't really consider the Talos as an original conception of such a suit
SAME. I was excited considering it included variants of the xm-8 which was clearly discontinued.
Suits of this style go back decades in rd
Every decade or so the DOD spends billions on the same projects, usually with the same results. But hey, it’s just tax dollars, not real money. 😩
Whole time they don’t have an AR/VR communications framework for the entire military lineup, so they’ll still get teamkilled by a large large payload when other allies freak out after seeing a robotic human. I figured by now the military would work with the simplicity of a video game HUD or f35 HUD for every soldier.
The problems with these things are most likely the size and capacity of batteries for power.
Figure that out first and the rest will follow.
Exactly that. Also what most people are unaware of is that we are at about the material science limits of the ability to design batteries (We need new materials to make better higher energy density batteries). Plenty of tech snake oil being pushed Iron batteries, solid hydrogen, etc, etc. But most of it at the moment is just tech snake oil.
The UNSC from Halo is starting to look more and more realistic
If the power supply gets damaged, then it becomes a liability. And you can't just drop the suit, or pieces of it out in the middle of nowhere, where they can be picked-up and analyzed by our adversaries. So now it needs to have some sort of self-destruct built into it, which will add weight/complexity.
Not much... Angry Play-Doh is relatively lightweight, especially when compared to the overall weight, that is going to be moved by said machine, so in all reality, the added weight of self destruct is not relevant.
Too late... He mentioned universities. Everyone knows US universities are fully infiltrated by China, who now have the tech
I'm sorry, but are you suggesting a super soldier won't have one single grenade on them to eliminate the suits existence in milliseconds? Lol
@@B01 Yes, during operations where stealth is of primary concern, blowing-up grenades is not an option.
@@sabatheus very true, not rly many options in that sense. I'm waiting until we have true active/reactive camo. That'll be the best, you'd think we would have already got there having foldable/wearable displays now for quite some time
Great video!!! This topic interests me a lot. I hope you can produce more videos about exo-skeleton technologies. 👍🏻
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Great content, thanks for sharing.👍
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Glock 19, black balaclava and abseiling rope and you have your Super Army Soldier ' as Ross Kemp would say. 😂
i wish i could be that brave ...what a man . no cap
one step closer to the Mark VI suit
Once you have armored suits, then the enemy will build a bigger weapon to overcome, it never stops!
Yes, but those 'bigger weapons' become all the harder for insurgent forces and small militaries to afford or otherwise aquire. Even the presumptive greater powers like Russia and China might not be able to afford sufficient quantities of them or for that matter get them to work easily enough for their non powered soldiers to operate them.
We’re gonna need that to liberate Anchorage.
By the time mech suits are viable for warfare they'll probably be full of robots instead of people.
Gotta love those double nods on some the clips :)
You need a small quiet suit giving range but they need to get closer to the enemies before using suit to have your troops run over rough terrain
We need to develop technology that allows us to mimic human muscle better. If we could develop human muscle type fibers that be huge.
Or harvest them from bodybuilders?
This is just the next step of humans turning into crabs.
Hats off and hands on hearts 4 the kelly gang, hard fugitives show us how its done.
I hope he ran in screaming "LEROOOOOY JENNNNKIIIIIINNNNNS!"
When I was in the Corps I was part of a study with a private contractor that involved field testing a suit. I wore it on several deployments.They had exoskeletons, but I wasn't part of that, although I watched them and they weren't for combat per say ..rather they were testing manual labor ie lifting bombs and missiles onto hard points and loading/unloading equipment and supplies. The suit I was working with was similar to a wetsuit except for the interwoven Kevlar, a layer of some sort of jell that kept my core temperature steady regardless of the ambient temperature or exertion..I don't know how. The same jell or a second layer acted like silly puddy ? It was the consistency of allow Vera unless there was a sudden fast increase of kinetic force. Then it would behave like a solid. They called it a derivative of (Oobleck?) not sure on the spelling. The suit
( was referred to as skin ie how's the skin performing) it also had sensors that would detect intact and could tell if there was blood and they were working on it's ability to detect how much and how fast then the skin would tighten around the injury
( apply pressure) and was supposed to release something called quick clot, but they didn't have that done at the time. The outside was made of carbon fiber-ish graphite? Scales that would shatter on impact kinda like a clay Pigeon but stronger and wrapped in some kind of fiber so that all of the fragments wouldn't fly out like pottery shrapnel. It stopped 4 7.76
rounds to my chest and 2 in my back. The armor was very light and flexible I think that the outside was called dragon something and after an impact you could trade out individual scales rather than the whole thing. All in all it was a very cool idea . We even purchased the Dragon body armor for ourselves although I heard that the company shut down.. Never heard anything about the skin again. The skin and dragon Scales armor were separate items from different companies I think but were tested as a unit.
It's cool to read about it from the experience of others, I remember watching a video about the mere concept of this technology many years ago.
On another related topic, I wouldn't be surprised if most secret tech made even some characters in movies and video games look obsolete, I love this shit lol.
Would the scaled armor have been Dragon Skin? From what I've read about it, that's what it sounded like.
dragon scale layered over dragon skin? I know there was a major blow up over dragon scale flack vests that were more flexible and cooler than the hard chestplates they still have. I wouldn't be suprised if the controversy on one took out the other. The concept of a flexible kevlar and quickclot underlayer that worked against baseball bat impacts sounds awesome. That would make kenetics from the hardscale or chest plate being hit by bullets a lot less bruising or inconsequential.
@@watchthe1369 dragon skin is long defunct. The blow up proved lethal to Its maker. The bonding agent and small ceramic disks in testing failed against ballistic threats.
Back in the late 80s a magazine Combat Arms had a detailed article about the 21st Century Soldier. It sounds exactly like what you were writing about.
It's still baffles me to think that the military for so long thought that cheap animations would work as advertisement. no it just looks terrible
The only problem with this I see is that militaries have become way too reliant on technology, when that million dollar piece of equipment goes down in the field you're trying to fix it with what you have on hand, which could be a $2 bag of zip ties and a $4 roll of duct tape, and until you get that piece of equipment fixed you deal with out it and go with rudimentary skills, I've noticed the more we get dependent on technology the less we use or train on the rudimentary skills. For example bayonet training was a big thing and now they don't do it anymore at least for the Marine corps. Land navigation and counter surveillance is done more often electronically, to the point of where the compass is not even being taught as much as it used to be or trained on really at all. We need to keep up with training our military to the basics with the simple items because those simple items have been used for hundreds of years and have not failed.
Inching closer to a Spartan like master chief .
People do understand that the Chief, had he had a suit like this, it would have not been a sacrifice nor would he have been brave. He would have been a robot.
This Chief was a warrior who sacrificed his own life to save someone else's life and the lives of his SEALs. He was a real hero and a damn fine American. He was already a superman.
Would be nice to see the Crysis Nanosuit become real.
Seems more like the suit Master chief wears in halo
Apparently the Pentigon has no idea what they are doing. All they had to do was contact Hacksmith Ind. and see the creations that simulate Iron Man armor parts and they would have what they were looking for.
I’m excited to see the future of bullet proof armor👌
Which will be almost immediately followed by armor proof bullets/rounds. While the short-term advantage is good, it would be short lived. Bigger drones, bigger planes, bigger bombs and future-suits may just mean more conflict (and more citizens just hooped).
There is a sci fi book called Armor. It’s good. It’s about a guy who finds a combat suit. He takes the memory coil from it and finds out that the user had become a bad ass over time. He found out who that guy was.
I’m not a fiction fan or big into SciFi but that actually sounds pretty good, lol 🤙🏻
Considering the general public doesn’t have a clue until at least a decade or two later when we see the technology realized in Movies & TV; I’m confident that TALOS suits are already available, albeit limited in supply due to cost or training requirements.
Creating and/or developing Super Soldiers has been a priority of Military Forces Worldwide since at least WW2 and even earlier in Germany.
Forgot the Aliens help.
Chris Beck's interview with Shawn Ryan brought me here down a rabbit hole.
Now, we need 1000 of these and we can have a Brigade of them.
It'll get done when China rolls out something similar and everyone freaks out and demands we close the battle suit gap. *sigh*
Bring in the master chief. His mjölnir armor will lead us to victory
Can’t wait for the aliens to go with the halo suit
Sounds like one of them read a Halo book and wanted Mjolnir armor irl. We need a light weight self sustaining power source that's also small enough to mount on the suit, which is probably one of the reasons why it's not possible.
The "robot" at 00:30 had me laughing
Hey! Thats the Oppenheimer team in that Lab. Those guys can do anything.
Dale Brown's tin man suits come to mind.
First thought was how will this be used against its own population.
motion sensors, ir, nvg, automatic tourniquets, monitoring, noise location, laser and GPS designators, radio, a HUD, and climate control. if you could make that alone lightweight enough with full body movable armor i think it would be doable and a major game changer. maybe mix in a bobafett rocket for fun 😁
the biggest problem was the requirement for the battery's to last for 96 hours, battery Companys got to 72 hours at the time, maybe they will make 96 hours soon, but the next biggest problem was the Solders asking were is the escape hatch, or how do I get out of it if it falls, or is damaged or I am wounded and bleeding out.
well done
Wow,that’s awesome
Not sure if this applies or not, but there's a game I've played in the past named "The Telos Principle" and I've got to say the imagery in this video is very similar to that in the game. Of course the two are completely unrelated but the Imagery is worth taking a look at. You've got the Robot and Exoskeleton that closely resembles that used in the game. Check it out, it's worth the view.
Suit won't stop a .50 cal,or an explosion just small arms
give it to skunkworks. They'll figure it all on their own instead of getting 50 organizations stuck in development hell
Why doesn’t this channel have 1 million subscribers?
Many of the features are straight up impossible without nanotech (straight from 'Crysis'), or something as advanced (and bulky, not to mention pretty damn heavy) as seen with the mechanical augmentations in 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' and 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' (the games take place far in the future, though, and it could very well be that anything remotely as advanced can't be done for 10-15y at minimum), and there's already been a slow, powered exoskeleton for some years.
They should dial down the requirements: ignore the strength assist and most others, just go for a suit which can take a 7.62mm anywhere to the torso and fragments elsewhere.
The advanced NVG already exists as the USA Army IVAS or the Lockheed-Martin F-35.
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Thank you for sharing
"I was uhhh complex for medicine"
I remember when I was a RN Clearence Diver being told I had been volunteered to be the dummy for wearing a a new prospective IED suit, for a presentation by the supplier to a bunch of inter-service big-wigs. It was a very thick, heavy kevlar head to toe suit, with a huge helmet equiped with twin screen pexi-glass visor. During the show the presenter made a issue of the visor; tapping it right between my sweating eyes and stating " the visor is so tough you could detonate a pound of TNT right here on the visor and it wouldn't break ..... Blow his head right of his shoulders mind you; but it wouldn't break!" ... I just gave him my "please do it now " look!! Seen something very similar to that suit on modern police bomb operatives on news films recently.
The material has to be so light that we dont notice we are wearing it. It cannot affect target acquisition either. No one operates better with more weight.
I expect to be in a full suit of T-51 power armour by 2030
I never hear how these full body iron man suits will handle the excess body heat from exertion of the wearer. Even space suits account for it.
Good call, especially out in the desert, 🍻
It doesn’t matter what we create, American leadership just leaves our technology in countries like Afghanistan.
When everyone is an invincible soldier, people make bigger guns… it is the story of humanity.
Even a reduction of 10% shock or a 10% increase in targeted and short term strength, adds soooo much weight that it's just not practical for all the time it needs to be carried when not needed for that 10 min of complete chaos. Focusing on ballistic protection and situational awareness is the way to go short term. If we had a system to deliver operators or the equipment directly to the point of contact, without having to hump it all the way in, now we're getting somewhere. Sometimes that's doable now actually. Maybe build the impractical for very specific situations, which I'm sure is what's happening now.
Fabulous
I think in order for an expensive exosuit like this to become realistic it must outperform traditional soldier(s) by parity in cost, performance and mission flexibility.
Even if the technology exists, there still needs to be an impotus to adapt it towards warfighting capability exceeding what the US is already able to achieve.
Your comment tells me you have never worn body armor in a combat zone… you forgot about survivability! Shit point those men and women are not just expendable pawns. Anything we can do to increase our soldiers chances of winning the fight and coming home hole is not something you should put a price tag on..
@@txsscubadiverunfortunately any time government has to buy something, a price tag gets put on it. And I did say performance of the armor is important so what are you on about?
So, in simple terms:
Titanium ballistic shell
Oobleck gel for additional ballistic protection
Onboard HVAC
NODS
Titamium exo skeleton w/servos
200lb li-ion battery
60 lbs. In comms/data monitoring
That can all be disabled with a small EMP device or a network error. Or a .5OBMG. Or a hacker turning off the suit remotely. Or battery drain because the op took 8 hours longer than expected.
Ever hear of the game "Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries" 25 to 100 ton, 40 foot tall "Battlemechs". If I could fight in any "What if", that would be my choice. I was an M1A1 gunner during Desert Storm in 4th Battalion 70th Armor and fought in the battle named "Madina Ridge". My battalion destroyed an entire Iraqi Republican Guards division in less than 3 hours. I had 20 main gun kills. It was an amazing experience. Glorious chaos.
A guy built a suit is a cave with a bunch of scraps, and you are telling me that the government can't build one that works efficiently.
Does it come with an Is cooling system I'm sure it gets pretty hot
But did they build it in a cave? With a box of scraps!?
We are one step behind a flying Ironman type suit.
What about an invisibility type suit which would give a big advantage.
Think of the predator movie one could strike multiple targets then leave an area by the time the enemy new what hit them the mission would be over.
Chris Beck can Design a suit for the “Iron man” program, but the pentagon wants a real Iron man suit. Which won’t happen until 2050, because we don’t have the technology yet.
They had night vision in late 70's. Big and bulky. Litton industries made them. I had a family member work for Litton.
The moment I watched this video, it reminded me of the nanosuits in the Crysis trilogy.
I think an exosuit will be common in the military in the future but not for combat.
Unless you have a portable power source that can last a full week in a relatively compact volume and low weight (max 20kg) this is completely unfeasible, not to count the rest of the components
They came to the conclusion that it's vastly cheaper to pay out a Servicemans group life insurance claim than fielding the system.
One thing I hold very close to this day, was that in my day in the Army (27yrs, 8 AD, 19 NG) was that the first thing on my evaluation was on Values: Selfless Service, Loyalty, Courage (and Moral Courage was held in higher regard that physical) and Integrity. If I got one wrong, my apologies. I retired in 2008. Everything else is important, but secondary because if you don't have the values, you are nothing but a drain.
If they can get the weight down, it would be a great idea. The average soldier going on a mission can carry nearly 100 pounds of gear.
About time.
Armor suits will be apart of the future or it’ll be AI armor suits fighting our battles one or the other pretty badass
I think the Armor should be built around the exoskeleton! So the exoskeleton carries the full weight of the armor from the inside would allow for more heavy armor to be built around and inward! However this would definitely be larger and probably less maneuverable...
i am going to reference a video game to provide a reference for what i think you are suggesting which is power amour from the game franchise fallout
@@bescotdude9121 Infact add all those together and you basically have it! Lol just missing The Heavy Armor that covers EVERYTHING! Lmao and make that surrounding Armor out of a composite mixture of Tungsten Tetraboride, Nanotubes, and Diamond!🤯😁✌
Or just Tungsten Tetraboride lol that'd probably definitely do the trick far as the outer shell!
Btw I definitely recommend checking out those Vids I sent you, all about armor lol well except the first one is the suit...
Let me kno what ya think??
@@bescotdude9121 lol or not...
Long Live the Brotherhood. RIP Nick.
I think when battery technology increase in storage capacity by a factor of 10,000X, a force shield suit that can fly will be standard issue! It will be similar in technology to Tony Stark’s Ironman suit!
Power armor will take time to work the bugs out and give the wearer of it the trust that wearing armor would require, that is how to get it off in an emergency in order to help a wounded trooper or to escape in case the armor failed or in deep water.
these exosuits are way too ambitious. finding a way to make current body armor thinner, lighter and perhaps flexible is key to all the individual items they expect this suit to have.
Maybe not so much... The SARCOS II is a commercially available exo suit. As in, it works and you can buy them.
Sounds like they tried to make it to complicated. Should have just started with a powered armour and improved it from there as the tech improved.
Implying that power armor isn’t supinely complicated.
@@baneofbanes we already have composite body armor and we already have exoskeletons just put them together.
Many of the WWII weapons projects were never completed because they required technology that was yet to develop i.e. solid-state electronics weren’t developed until much later. The biggest holdup to the “Suit” project is battery power. There’s a point where you’re using too much battery power just to carry enough batteries to run everything, motors, HVAC, head-up display, night vision, etc. That’s a lot of power ! But there are countless companies and individuals working on better, denser batteries and lower power consumption devices. 2026 doesn’t seem that far away to me if they can actually get it done by then.