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[ScientificMethod]

Steelo, on 25 June 2012 - 05:01 PM, said:

This is pauls ride

MadCat Mk-Jr. ?

I'm loving this thread personally. Wouldn't the lighter mechs be better off within the confines of a city though? At least compared to tanks and whatnot having a limited ability to fit down streets/turn/etc.

[Dirk Le Daring]

Battle armour will become a reality.

[Haroldwolf]

Not quite there yet but maybe within a decade.

[ScientificMethod]

I fully expect that DARPA has some power armor hidden in its backpocket. haha I've considered joining the military/R&D fields just to try to make a bit of battletech happen.

[The Vogfather]

rich kids get all the cool toys
http://youtu.be/nNbj2G3GmAo

Edited by The Vogfather, 25 June 2012 - 05:44 PM.

[BlackAbbot]

ForestryMech anyone?

Edited by BlackAbbot, 25 June 2012 - 05:31 PM.

[Schlifer]

Our future is here...



Now it needs expanding!

[Future Perfect]

There has been japanese mechs since the 1950s... in the cartoons.

So sixty years and more of dreams and still nothing and didn't the first mech in the BattleTech universe appear until the 25th century?

Edited by Future Perfect, 25 June 2012 - 05:41 PM.

[David Sortek]

So I just want to thank all the mech fanatics who have enough time to find those awesome videos and photos they were amazing. Bravo

[Nexus Trimean]

They are constantly trying to be developed.
Look up Electro-Active Polymers. This is the real life versions of Myomer.
You can easily find info on Rail/coilguns, Missile systems, and Smoothbore High calibur cannons.

We have some of the pieces, but we aren't there yet.

[TheBigBadMoon]

Yea, We're not going to have anything that you could actually call a "Battlemech" until we come up with something comparable to the battletech. "Reactor"

Something like Fission. But we'll probably sooner invent something else that works better.. My guess is in the next 25 years.

Edited by TheBigBadMoon, 25 June 2012 - 05:59 PM.

[Cole Christensen]

The problem with any mech with today's technology is a major lacking in the power source. Even those powered exoskeletons in earlier posts would last, at most, a few minutes with the best batteries we have available. A full-up armored suit with weapons, ammo, electronics warfare suite...would last minutes. Traditional gas/diesel engines would be too large and heavy to fit on a bipedal chassis. We really do need to develop portable nuclear power (fusion) to make mechs viable. Give it about 80 years, haha.

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

There was a mech back in the cold war. Actually, it was a prototype made by the USAF. It could pick up an egg without cracking the shell [this was the demo they did with it]

http://kotaku.com/55...real-metal-gear

[TimberJon]

Ducks Guts, on 25 June 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

Ok, its a stretch, but I heard the "loaders" in James Cameron's movie Aliens were real. The only issue with the particular invention was stability. So in the movie they were being held up by large cables that had been edited out. Was this a beginning to something bigger? Not yet... What do you know about this?

There are a few large walkers -one of which like greyrook posted- is in my sig. And many exoskeletons. The kid's ride is a great ride, but the articulated 'Mech faustian posted is a scaled up version of a robotics kit. Excellent though!

[Melcyna]

They are not trying to develop frontline combat mech though, since there's no room for it in actual military practicality.

Thus far the focus are on:
A. infantry exoskeleton
Designed as the logical evolution of infantry capability that demands more performance from infantry

B. Robotic mules to carry supplies (of which there's never enough) for the ground forces.

Large bipedal mech design will NEVER be utilized for frontline combat vehicle purpose since they are counter productive to logical military sense (the equivalent of soldiers standing in machine gun field), and it's highly unlikely for even the multi legged mech design to be utilized for frontline combat.

[Glasswlkr]

This guy in Alaska has been working on real mech projects for a while: http://neogentronyx....id=12&Itemid=26 (all very simple and such, but cool either way lol)

[Dirk Le Daring]

Ducks Guts, on 25 June 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

Ok, its a stretch, but I heard the "loaders" in James Cameron's movie Aliens were real. The only issue with the particular invention was stability. So in the movie they were being held up by large cables that had been edited out. Was this a beginning to something bigger? Not yet... What do you know about this?

This is pretty close.

http://www.google.co...jdNWxVrjHEAPe1g

Edited by Dirk Le Daring, 25 June 2012 - 06:36 PM.

[vjaggers17]

The Vogfather, on 25 June 2012 - 05:28 PM, said:

rich kids get all the cool toys
http://youtu.be/nNbj2G3GmAo

actually when i was in school last year i went to Trumbull career and technical center. I went to a engineering convention where people showed of what they were working on and i got to spend an hour or so playing with this little bot it was a lot of fun. It told the story of star wars (shorten version of course) just kind of surprised to have actually played with one of the things on this thread. everything else is new to me. i heard of the concepts but did know we were as far as we r.

[cinco]

Ducks Guts, on 25 June 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

Ok, its a stretch, but I heard the "loaders" in James Cameron's movie Aliens were real. The only issue with the particular invention was stability. So in the movie they were being held up by large cables that had been edited out. Was this a beginning to something bigger? Not yet... What do you know about this?

you need to develop your critical thinking skills. otherwise you'll buy into a lot of lies.

[Colonel Fubar]

A scary future awaits!
Until That Day!