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Originally Posted by Expat Canuck
I wonder how functional that suit of armour is?
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Now, not very from what I know. Although US Troops are supposed to be carrying a lot more armour to combat IED blasts, although simply by watching the news one can see that different units and indeed different individual Soldiers seem to wear it all in different configurations. I see a lot of Marines in stuff that looks similar to PASGT (of course with the new MARPAT Digital Camo), but Army personnel seem to be wearing the big, heavy Interceptor gear, one thing I notice in particular is the big shoulder pads because you can see them wearing them while doing interviews. UK Troops seem to be cruising around in the same MK6/Osprey Armour combination as they did at the start of the war, whether this comes down to budget or the luck of having a relatively friendly sector (emphasis on the word relatively) I don't know.
As for the super-suits, I think the long-term goal is to have a full head-to-toe armour/hazard suit package by 2032 or something like that. There's all this crap about liquid-state body armour and stuff on the wiki page on Future Force Warrior, sounds like pie in the sky for the forseeable future but you never know.