Last month, Adm. William McRaven asked the defense industry to develop a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS that will provide superhuman strength and greater ballistic protection.
DefenseTech reports:
Special Operation Command (SOCOM) wants a suit its operators can wear that features liquid body armor, built-in computers and offers super human strength. Essentially, the Pentagon wants to outfit its special operators in Iron Man suits.
Some of America’s top scientists from labs such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology are pitching in on the project. MIT engineers are working on a liquid body armor made of magnetorheological fluids that "transform from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied," according to an Army statement.
But the liquid body armor is only a portion of the suit. Leaders of the project also want the TALOS to include physiological subsystems that can monitor core body temperature, skin temperature, heart rate, body position and hydration levels.
