tass.com/defense/1018735 “MOSCOW, August 27. /TASS/. An active powered exoskeleton with integrated electric motors and a storage battery tested in Russia will allow servicemen to accurately hit targets with a machine-gun held with one hand, Chief Designer for the Life Support System of the Soldier Combat Outfit at the TsNiiTochMash defense contractor Oleg Faustov told TASS on Monday.”
Their second gen Ratnik can do this. “Currently, the second-generation Ratnik combat gear that is being supplied to the Russian Army uses a passive mechanical exosuit without electrical motors. Though it does not boost a serviceman’s physical abilities, it eases the locomotive load when carrying heavy items. That means that the weight is spread across the structural elements from the shoulder hanger for a backpack of up to 50 kg through a waist fixture and the exoskeleton components along the legs to the support pads in the footwear.”
Third generation of Ratnik combat gear with active exoskeleton expected by 2025 — ministry
“Ratnik-3 will feature an active exoskeleton with servomotors and a power battery, which will increase the soldier’s force and speed.”
Reconnaissance squads in east Russia give Ratnik combat gear the ‘deep freeze’ test "While practicing combat training missions, the servicemen acted on the predominantly mountainous-woody and steppe terrain with air temperatures ranging from minus 23 degrees Celsius in the daytime to minus 35 degrees Celsius at night," the press office said.”
Although no video demonstration Invisible army? Rostec unveils chameleon camouflage for combat vehicles, uniforms
“The camouflage coating for combat vehicles and soldier’s gear is on display at the forum Army-2018. Unique electrically controlled material covering a soldier’s helmet is capable of changing color depending on the immediate environment. In the future, the material will be improved to acquire new features, such as the ability to promptly adjust color intensity and to simulate complex graphic effects, for instance, leaves swaying in the wind.”
They are also planning to increase the efficiency of the electric motors for their exoskeleton body Armour which they said will be released in 2025.
Ratnik manufacturer spells out key features of individual soldier combat gear
“Ratnik’s designers plan to create special footwear protecting personnel from land mines.
"We are considering the possibility of equipping such footwear with mine detectors and of placing a mine field suppression system inside such footwear or some other part of the gear," he specified.
Semizorov said boots capable of protecting a soldier from anti-personnel mine blasts have been created in principle and now they are going to be made lighter and more convenient.”
“The helmet protects a total area of 30 square decimeters, but at the same time remains very light - just one kilogram, which allows it to be equipped it with various instruments without overstraining the soldier’s neck. The helmet’s sub-crown system eases not only low impulse impacts (such as strikes with a stick or stone), but also high impulse ones (caused by bullets or bomb fragments).
David Foster
>implying there aren’t still Russians wearing the same gear there grandparents were wearing in Afghanistan
The Ratnik vest’s effective protection area is one of the world’s largest. Its plates can stand ten sniper rifle shots fired at a distance of ten meters. The reinforced configuration of the Ratnik vest provides extra lateral protection and anti-shrapnel protection for the shoulders, hands and groin. The Ratnik’s overalls protect the whole body from the impact of bomb fragments.”
So when is our TALOS suit going to be released? This question is more of a concern for soldiers being deployed that I would personally want them to have the most protection.
Wyatt Evans
Most of the Russian army don't even have plate carriers.
Aiden Miller
Where’s the ass flap for easy access by the Lt?
Wyatt White
Their 2nd gen is already invisible in the infrared field. this looks pretty decent in protection.
>Does the Russian government give more fucks about their soldiers than ours does? Thats a pretty asinine conclusion, considering the US has spent millions developing the same thing in the form of the talos and hulc projects, and to a lesser extent the pack mule drones like bigdog. The difference is simply priorities, the US is like Apple (release it when its done) and Russia is like Microsoft (release a gimped basic version asap, patch in the extras later).
Asher Morales
>Although no video demonstration
There is a video.
All these things are exaggerated (as usual). The exoskeleton is just a passive exoskeleton to allow certain units to carry more weight. The powered exoskeleton they're talking about will probably never go to a battlefield because no proper power source. The chameleon camouflage is just a material that can change colors, video here: youtube.com/watch?v=XTtvqmyvWU4
Plate carriers are standard issue. Everyone has it. You played too much COD4 if you think they don't have it.
Jackson Bell
>Plate carriers are standard issue. Everyone has it. You played too much COD4 if you think they don't have it. No, we know they don’t have them because the Ruskies can’t afford them.
Wyatt Rogers
Does anyone have more information on TALOS suits or any other kind of shit of their release dates or features. It seems all their news reports are about reducing visibility and offering a lot of protection in much fields as possible.
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I was looking for that fucking video everywhere.
Landon Roberts
It doesn't look like anything the US doesn't already have, and you can't outfit a whole army with exoskeletons that actually do what they are supposed to do with Russia's economy, so that program is probably going to permanently stay in its testing phases like their remote controlled tank program is currently.
It's obvious bait. Russian army still uses fuel-based rations. Fighting during the night-time or low-light conditions where lighting a fire would give away your position? Oh well, guess you're not eating lol
Brody Ortiz
>Their 2nd gen is already invisible in the infrared field Treatments to cloth that reduce the IR signature is decades old shit. It isn't anything close to invisible.
Carson Howard
Were you able to afford bread this week Vasiliy?
Elijah Richardson
That's a nonfunctional prototype, the tiles are literally rubber.
the talos photos otoh is covered in wear marks.
Russia does have to care more about their soldiers than in the past, due to a crashing population/fertility ratio. But there's only so much an economy smaller than Canada can do.
Its more about being completely invisible to infrared sensing technology than just reducing IR signatures as the main concern here. They stated completely invisible to IR nothing about reduced IR cloths.
Bentley Bennett
Invisible like harry potter wizard cloak metamaterials nah. But if Russia has caught up in a limited way to what US companies put on unlisted youtube videos I wouldn't be surprised.
The Russian military has new camouflage that can conceal a fighter's visibility in the infrared spectrum, says Oleg Faustov, a senior engineer with the Russian industrial design bureau TsNIITochMash who works on personnel life support systems.
The infrared remission materials are already implemented in the newest Russian "Ratnik" gear. The Russian military expects to procure 50,000 "Ratnik" sets every year. By 2022, a new generation of military gear will be designed, the military says.
Jeremiah Jenkins
No, i'm starving.
Leo Bennett
>completely invisible to infrared sensing technology
I think you might be too stupid to realize that this would be world-changing technology and that this just makes it more Russian propaganda
Lincoln Gomez
>rubel crashing >economy smaller than Italy's >I know let's fucking invade syria >invade syria >send """"pmc"""" >pmc doesn't have anti-air >get raped by the allmighty fat cock of the United States Airforce >100s die
Grayson Brown
>DOES OUR ZIONIST-JEW RUN GOVERNMENT CARE ABOUT WHITE MALE CHRISTIANS WHO ARE THEIR #1 ENEMY AND TARGET????
dead white soldiers deserve it. fighting in jewish wars for a jewish world government.
so glad you fucks kill yourselves. whew. relief.
Brody Smith
>implying any politician give any fucks about the dumbshits who volunteer to die for them
Zachary Brooks
>I think you might be too stupid to realize that this would be world-changing technology
And I might think you are too stupid to realize how infrared stealth has changed.
Parker Roberts
>volunteer Russia has conscription, familia.
Luis Martinez
You should join Putin's "Shitpost for Borscht" program. A couple successful bait posts and you have yourself a meal. It's quite popular.
Isaac Gonzalez
ok sweetie
Owen Gutierrez
>Assad still in power >Iskander missiles in syria >no Russians targeted yet >cry and bitch about other countries purchasing s-400s.
Ian Turner
>Jews crying about a s-300pmu2 being possibly sold to syria.
Samuel Gutierrez
Maybe use that feeble mind to Google what the current state of in-service thermal camouflage is.
Thomas Martin
Some Russian units are still being issued ssh40/60 and ssh68 helmets.
Andrew Howard
ESL-kun estimates were already given of what the latest infrared stealth technology could do. Meaning enough stealth to not get noticed by thermal or night vision which was not possible in the past.
Blake Ward
12 exo suits go along nicely with their 20 armatas
The real answer is Russia is perfectly passable. The reason nobody can agree on Russias effectiveness is the wide discrepancy between units. Many regular army conscript units are poorly equipped mobs, while units in the VDV, special forces, or security, or even motor rifle divisions stationed closer to centers of power are far more disciplined and capable.
The Russian missions in Ukraine and Syria prove their competence and political savvy, quickly capitalizing on situations to their advantage and frustrating more reluctant to intervene western powers weary from the war on terror. Their navy is capable of tangling with anyone who isnt the US, GBR, or FRA, (read 99% of the world), their air force is comparable to the bulk of the US air force as F22s and F35s make up a minority, and their air defense systems are admirable.
Head to head world war 3 scenarios are so passe, on the modern battlefield where flexible units in close coordination with intelligence try to fulfill political objectives, Russia has proven to be in the same weight class as most western powers, despite their economic disadvantage.
While you're laughing at the goofy propaganda programs designed to rally the domestic populace, Russia is balls deep in Syria and Ukraine pursuing long term geopolitical goals. Could they go to to toe with the full might of the US? Probably not. Would it be easy for the US? Probably not. But that is largely irrelevant. Also it isnt 1995 anymore, while still not as prosperous as most western nations Russia is not in shambles and every year manages to claw ahead a little more. They're investing obscene amounts of money into domestic innovation and production and are poised to become largely independent of western systems of economic control in the coming decades.
>tl;dr stop thinking in memes Russia is complex and gets a lot right while still being deeply flawed and appears to be trending upwards in most regards.
Henry Rogers
the real answer is that the USN has more aircraft than the russian air force and being able to annex crimea with tanks vs a force with little to no tanks and even less anti armor equipment is not at all indicative of any improvement in russian military strength. I mean if we're just basing it off of "well at least they haven't pulled a grozny 2.0 yet!", then yeah I guess they're in much better shape now but that's not saying much. The Russian Federation is merely a shadow of its former self and will never match the level of readiness achieved by the USSR.
Hunter Campbell
yeah, vice did a video on him, i think
Ethan Ramirez
They are becoming quite technically savy with underwater drones. This is possibly the next problem the USN would have to worry about.
When you make a claim you have to prove it, you know.
Pic related: Average conscripts in 2018. And this is in freaking Sakha Republic i should mention, a backwater mess in the middle of nowhere at the end of the world. If i post Western military district conscripts they even the latest uniforms, communication equipment and balaclavas.
that's what happens when your empire gets overrun by the mongols
Leo Turner
haha fckin mongs
Camden Ward
>Serial deliveries and batch production of Ratnik began in the first half of 2015.[12] The Russian Ministry of Defence has stated it will buy 50,000 sets annually.[13] About 200,000 Ratnik sets have been delivered as of September 2017, and it is expected that 100% of the Russian Armed Forces will be equipped with Ratnik gear by 2020.
They're locals from the region, i would like to say Yakut, but i heard Yakuts are supposed to have white skin. Our military has all sorts of weird looking people that i didn't even know existed before. It's not wonder people who hate the military call it the "Golden horde". Conscripts from the Bashkiria region are some of the weirdest ones i think because they don't look neither Asiatic or North-Caucasian nor Central Asian, it's like something else entirely, almost like gypsy mixed with Asian or something.
Brody Perez
>their air force is comparable to the bulk of the US air force
The guy in your art don't really look full Asian from Siberia though, those are Siberian Asians, they usually look standard Asian. But we have people like the ones in your art.
Asher Price
>and balaclavas.
Balaclavas are VDV exclusive, in fact that's the fastest way to identify a VDV paratrooper.
I can see this being completely useless in a near-peer threat. Bitch runs on batteries, so you've gotta have that support system. When both sides have the same capabilities, ie drones/UAVs, arty, EW, counter-battery, etc., staying in one spot is going to be extremely dangerous, unless you own the space around it too. Wiki the Zelenopillya rocket attack. Uk mil was camped out in Ukraine, and Ivan spotted them with UASs and rocketed the shit out of them from 15km away. 37 killed, 93 wounded.
I could see this being great for pogs in the rear, with moving crates and boxes and shit, but at the moment, I don't think it'll affect the battlespace too much. Against talib/isis/some insurgency, maybe. But I think the wars of the future will be high-mobility conventional wars, definitely not the shit the US does now, with sitting in a FOB and pushing out patrols.
Kayden Cruz
La creatura
Alexander Smith
>Does the Russian government give more fucks about their soldiers than ours does? That's gonna be a hilarious no. Next you'll tell us how much China cares about its soldiers feelings too, right?
Elijah Evans
>only 12 Still more than LM vaporware ankle killers.
>WW4 >2040 >Front lines >Exo skeleton approaches >600 pound Jow Forums poster piloting >Has literally never used his legs before >Exo skeleton does all the work for him >Exo skeleton aims >Exo skeleton walks >Fatty browses Jow Forums and posts anime shit all day >WW4 is won by the country least infected by anime
>didnt even read thread >poorly worded OP and 47 posters for 86 posts The shilling is real. Do they pay you guys or are you doing this of your own free will?
Asher Hall
>Does the Russian government give more fucks about their soldiers than ours does?
>Ratnik Vatnik dirty old twat >69 russians died in a plot >YAY fuck
Nathaniel Bell
Welcome to the current year, now get the fuck back into your hole.
Christian Cox
La Blyatura
Bentley Robinson
Guys can we all please just fuck off with the shitposts? This is more of a if I see something Russian I gotta go shitpost on it board. With all the Nagatoro and Clementine, anime related shit like girls und panzer posts most of you fucks belong on /a/. All the metal gear posting shit makes me also suggest that most of you fucks belong on /v/. The I hate slavshit and nigger bashing on Jow Forums makes me suggest that most of you belong on Jow Forums...........But for the love of fucking god.....Please I want a thread that talks about exoskeletons, can be from Russia, US or Europe, China I dont fucking care. Anyone that is interested in the military or is in the military will at least find some good sourceful information of where countries are heading in technology
Compare the TALOS suit, European exoskeleton suit to ratnik-3 or talk about features. Just keep the shitposting to a minimum please anons.
Andrew Hill
A diamond among the pile of shits in this thread
Ryder Ross
Don't forget this the board where people gas themselves, blow themselves up and eat magic mushrooms. You are asking too much out of them
Kayden Jones
fucking this, impossible to have a discussion on here due to constant US military shilling, no impartial conversations anymore
>their air force is comparable to the bulk of the US air force as F22s and F35s make up a minority
This is funny because it's not completely wrong but in a way that completely opposes the statement you were trying to make. Just for the numbers (all aircraft are air-to-air capable multirole/fighters):
>The USAF has loosely 1000 F-16s and 450 F-15s (all variants). They also have around 500 F-22s and F-35s. >But if you're really generous with the numbers, the Russian AF has 500 MiG-29 variants and 450 Su-27 variants.
What this tells us is that no, the F-35 and F-22 aren't the bulk of the USAF, but even without them the USAF is 50% larger than the Russian AF, and therefore has a significant advantage. Not only that, but while the Russian Navy operates a whopping total of around 70 combat aircraft, the USN operates a total of 800, and then there's the Marines that have another 250 aircraft. So no, Russia simply doesn't come anywhere near the USAF, let alone the entire US aircraft capability.
Russia also has a huge ability to compete with some western powers thanks to the massive amount of Soviet equipment they inherited. Russia couldn't just produce 'Soviet numbers' of all equipment. As time goes by and their older equipment is retired, their forces and numbers will constantly diminish and will be very difficult to replace. Their current path isn't bad, since obviously you have to use what you have, but it's not sustainable.
Also, you're severely underestimating the internal issues, as well as the counter-productive measures. Reducing alcoholism isn't too hard because you just increase the standards of living. Just like spending money on innovation can help to some extent, but you can't attract a foreign intellectual elite without good standards of living, let alone retarded levels of repression/religious control/propaganda. Pic related, how much growth is really going on?
