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From: nak%archie@att.att.com (Neil A Kirby)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Power Armor
Message-ID: <1991May31.061459.13763@amd.com>
Date: 29 May 91 21:41:53 GMT
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From: nak%archie@att.att.com (Neil A Kirby)


fcrary@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>I think you friend's numbers are somewhat low. I know the all the
>required systems except "power augmentation" can be built today. In
>fact, there is a guy at NASA/Ames building one right now (he calls it a
>"Hard Space Suit" and has not considered any military applications...)
[rest deleted]

Power augmentation is required for a 1G environ.  It's the one thing you
cite as lacking, and on earth it's the most important (possibly tied with
feedback/control to go with it).  Space suits live in 0g.  Walking a 75-150
kg (your numbers, deleted above) suit around would be too taxing for a
human powered suit.

Neil Kirby