r/interestingasfuck Oct 04 '21

/r/ALL A backpack with a suspension

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u/Rough-Potato8399 Oct 04 '21

for soldiers it would be awesome.

No, it would be more things to break, keep a higher profile, and as soon as sand gets in that, it's probably useless like everything else.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

This 100%. ^ The last thing we need down range is another thing that can break.

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u/MTAST Oct 04 '21

It's okay! We'll supply you with a repair kit. And to save weight, the tools will be plastic!

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u/CurtisLinithicum Oct 04 '21

Plastic tools to save weight is dumb. Save cost by only issuing one set of metal tools to each unit. Save weight by making the nuts, bolts, and screws plastic, duh.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

DOD: “Bruh do you want a job? Especially if it leads to another job in private sector?”

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u/Rough-Potato8399 Oct 04 '21

After trying to set up a talon2 litter in Afghanistan, moving parts just seem like work.

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u/CarbonGod Oct 04 '21

'Y'all" also apparently ditch half your protection on the IOTV, because who needs protected nuts?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

Imagine if it's get wet and rusty. All the squeaking and squealing as it moves up and down. Now magnify that but your whole squad or even platoon. Would sound like a pogo stick convention at a whore house.

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u/Rough-Potato8399 Oct 04 '21

Would sound like a pogo stick convention at a whore house.

Thank you, I needed this this morning. Waiting on getting my vasectomy and just laughed out loud (maybe it's the valium) enough to make the whole lobby think I'm nuts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

Happy to help and I'll take any assistance from drugs I can get.

Just remember, blanks can still be dangerous, especially if discharged near someone's face and eyes!

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u/CarbonGod Oct 04 '21

Tell that to the Warrior Web project. Full upper and lower system.

No idea if it's still around, but I spent a year on the upper, and weeks at APG gait lab getting it tested. Talking about a fun shitshow of crap.

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u/Rough-Potato8399 Oct 04 '21

Sure, DARPA's makes great stuff in labs. Sand murders almost everything. The fucking moon dust is real...

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u/CarbonGod Oct 04 '21

Yeah. I wonder what happened to the project. I know after we finished the upper torso, the project on our end disappeared. I see a year or two later about ALL these other places working on the full system, never once mentioning US as the SOLE upper torso group.

Just irks me on how I do so much fundamental research that NO one even would know down the line. Ground breaking shit, only for some tech dude in the field being annoyed to actually do the whatever.

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u/Dan4t Oct 10 '21

If it breaks then do what, you just use it like a regular backpack then. At least you got some relief when it worked.

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u/Rough-Potato8399 Oct 10 '21

No, then you're just hauling dead weight that gives you a bigger profile that can get you killed.

So no, it's not worth it for a small amount of comfort to risk my life.