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 Post subject: Russia eyeballing predator esque backpack minigun ammo setup
PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 5:09 am 

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https://taskandpurpose.com/russia-minig ... k-predator

This is an older article but apparently they are trying to replicate the setup Jesse Ventura had in Predator...

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US Seals did this in Vietnam [with M60s]. I think it's more correct to say the Predator backpack was trying to replicate those ;)

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Point taken.

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A solider still has to hump it, and until they get power supplies figured out for untethered exo-suits, it's not worth the trouble.
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Prop-Forge wrote:
A solider still has to hump it, and until they get power supplies figured out for untethered exo-suits, it's not worth the trouble.


They are testing an exosuit now with DARPA that runs on an 8 hour battery.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/darpa-exosuit-paces/

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2014-09-16

https://www.army.mil/article/190776/pro ... erformance

The issue with the m134a was that ammo feeding was problematic as it could burn through rounds with reckless abandon and you needed to have multiple cans linked to ensure sufficient ammo.

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Having experience with DARPA and military projects, when they do a cost/benefit analysis and find out it's cheaper to just pay a few more guys to hump gear, they're going to mothball exosuits until the power supplies are far better.
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Having experience with DARPA and military projects, when they do a cost/benefit analysis and find out it's cheaper to just pay a few more guys to hump gear, they're going to mothball exosuits until the power supplies are far better.


Until that stuff hits private industry and it causes issues with opposing mercenary forces to out do our forces...

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