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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3909157" data-attributes="member: 39593">The singular problem of their introduction will be power sources.  Batteries are a no-go.  They need something more than just stored power.  There's already a small multi-fuel fuel cell for laptops in the testing phase.  A brawnier version of that would be ideal because fuel cells operate pretty much silently.  Failing that a generator and capacitor/battery backup like a small-scale version of diesel-electric subs would have to suffice.  Either way it needs to be easy to deal with the refuel/recharge issue.  And so long as it runs on a common substance like diesel or alcohol that you can potentially get just about anywhere it's good.  IDEA:  Anyone else here seen those gas-powered jump boots the Russian invented that had a soldier running better than 20mph with 12ft+ strides?  Incorporating something like that into an exoskeleton would be interesting to see.  So many uses, leaping into 2nd story window, no more breaching shotguns just activate and kick the door, etc.EDIT: Chainsaw Sword-they wouldn't be practical.  A chainsaw doesn't cut metal well and is prone to snapping or shearing under the sort of stresses involved in bashing things while operating.  What the protection and strength would make possible is something more like a chunky pick with a spike for punching through hard objects.  And something that's been one of my pet ideas, the HEAT Hammer.  There are nailguns that are on the end of a fairly long handle so you can reach inconvenient places.  Now take this idea and instead a basic t-shaped frame using a similar mechanism to feed small shaped charges up to the face of the "hammer head."  Like a nailgun you strike something and the charge goes off, only in this case its a light shaped charge that will penetrate armor or blast a hole right through an unarmored person.</blockquote>

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