duck55223 said
Military tech has grown, but Dinh told me stuff like your suits are still a bit of a ways away. We have lots of improvements to conventional weapons, and Rail-Guns and lasers, as well as more improvements to unmanned and air technology.
So as of right now, we have highly prototype exoskeletons that cost billions of dollars and look like this:
It's been thirty years but as of right now the regular military doesn't like them because they're big, clunky, and need lots of power. That's never going to change. Why saddle your entire land army with something that can run out of batteries and literally stick them and immobilize them somewhere? Where's the logistics for all those batteries going to come from? What happens when you've integrated your weapons into the suit so when you do need to ditch you're left defenseless? Armies would much rather invest in advanced body armor (which we're researching, mostly stuff like thermoplastics and even some exotic stuff like non-Newtonian shear-thickening fluid) that can allow mobility. The key word is mobility here.
Oh, and before you say anything about it's the future, we had prototype mechs in the 1960s:
Why don't we have AT-ATs today? Because they were impractical and nobody wanted to fun them, so we had to start over again with Bigdog and his friends.
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