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"Pushkan Defense Council, public press conferenss concerning the innovation of Pushkan infantry equipment"

-A reporter Anna Koroleva, for Pushkan "Vremia" newspaper stands up from the crowd of the reporters and camera men to ask a question to the committee of eight generals that sit on a podeum, behind a half-circular desk.-

Anna: What are some of the projects that have been approved?

General Kutuzov: Where were several, but there is one that we are particularly exited about. Due to our recent advancements in using human brainwaves to control specially designed devices, we call Neuro Computers, or NCs, we have been able to design a very safisticated army helmet. Its code name is HS-213. Its outter layer is composed of specially reinforced mix of aluminum and pyroplast, as well as some secret materials, which will provide an effective shielding from direct hits from far distances and recoshes.
This helmet has many other features, the bullet proof glass section of it has a specially designed computer interface. The CPU of the HS-213 has access to the satelite and can put information about the enemy and freindly movements directly on the screen of every soldier, also thanks to our recent advancements in optic technology, the glass can magnify an object like regular binoculars would. All of this is controlled literally by soldier's mind. All a soldier has to do is concentrate his vision on one of the small icons to the side of the screen and he will be able to access the many features this helmet provides. This includes thermo vision, battelfield positions map, private or public transmission to the HQs or other soldiers, at the blink of an eye, without having to stop pulling the trigger. The project has cost us 200 billion but this covers the production cost and distribution cost. The distribution will take time because we lack the sufficient number of factories to produce the HS-213 on a needed scale, this factories are being constructed.

Before we answer anymore questions let us take a quick 15 minute break and we will tell you all about other kinds of technologies we are developing.

OOC: THe neuro stuff is Modern Tech, there is actually a special helmet right now in the real world that allows you to operate a mouse on the screen by simply concentrating on it. Being able to access the helmet features is just 5 years ahead of what we have now, it can still be considered modern tech.

-15 minutes have gone by. Another reporter got up with a question to the council, this time to General Baskov-

Reporter: We have heard that where is some addition to the infantry innovations, other the months we heard rumors of some sort of armor. Can you elaborate?

General: The fact that you heard rumors means that our intellegence is doing a bad job, maybe we should start paying them less. HA HA HA.

-Everyone in the room laughed along with the general-

General: Yes it is true such armor does exist, but still in prototype form, it is made of reinforced pyroplast. It is a full body armor, complete with an exo skeleton that goes under the main shell. The exo-skeleton increases the force of any action by up to 200 Newtons, the exoskeleton is controlled by the same CPU that is in the helmet. The outter shell of the armor is very flexible and consists of separate parts for each body section, connected together by ellastic alluminum segments, allowing free body movement. The special heat regulator has been put inside the inner shell of the armor in order to control the air flow and make our soldiers somewhat comfortable.

The whole armor weighs around 70 killograms, but because of the exo-skeleton it can be carried with ease.

Where is another very interesting feature this armor has. The exo skeleton has direct access to the CPU in the helmet, if a soldier wishes to establish that link on the helmet display, then the helmet and armor system will work together allowing the exo-skeleton move the hands and the rifle of the soldier in the optimal position for hitting the enemy. The helmet can even make triangular calculations, so if an enemy is hiding behind a wall, thermal sensors of the helmet pick the enemies body heat, soldier selects an option to assume an optimum firing position on the helmet diplay, helmet calculates the angle at which the bullet has to hit an opposite wall in order to bounce off and hit the enemy, exo-skeleton picks up the signal, and moves in the optimum position, after which it releases the grip and all thats left to do is pull the trigger. Same goes with grenade throwing, the HS-213 CPU can calculate the exact tragectory and find an optimum one.

Reporter: What is the name of this armor?

General: Code name "Rubaha", HZ-431, it is still a prototype and the development is being held back by the privotirization of funds on other projects. If this armor is ever mass produced it will be distributed to officers only at first, after which, after sufficient funds are gained, it will be distributed to regular soldiers. The use of these technologies will require a saficient amount of training for our soldiers, so purhaps we will be shrinking the scale of our military in order to make it mobile, efficient and deadly, rather then immobile, huge, and inefficient.

Next quesiton please...

-Another reporter stands up from the crowd_

Reporter: Is where any way of incorporating this new innovations into mechanized and other military divisions, as well as the infantry?

General: That is a good question, and i have to say yes, the final plan will have all the branches of our military inte-connected and sending infomration from one to another and to the HQs for analyzation of that information. Such HQs are already being set up in a certain secret location. They will analyze the date from the battelfield and control the movements of all the forces at once. The tanks, the jet fighter, will all be sending information to the HQs from where it will be sent to squad leaders and commanders, all instantly, through the air. But this is the future, it will take purhaps a decade to get to that level, maybe more maybe less, depending on the set backs and funding.

Imagine a battefield where every soldier knows exactly there an enemy is, and what is the best way to make him dead, that is while our satelites provide a transmission jam for the enemy and any action done by soldiers is choreographed by mega computers in the military head quarters thousands of killometers away from the battelfield.

A scout soldier sees an enemy target, his helmet gets the coordinates that are transfered to the HQs and minutes after to the artillery division. The artillery gets a lock verifying the enemy positions by connecting to a satelite, and hits the target, the enemy has no radio contact because of our jamming equipment, all they have left is either to die or surrender. The artillery will have a 100% hit chances, thanks to the developements in artillery shell technologies which we will talk about in a different press conffereness. Soon this will all be true, Pushka will be the safest place on earth and respected internationally as a nation that can back up its arguments with awesome military might. Let us wait, its not long now.

-The press confereness ended, a half an hour later it was all over the news and internet-

:mad: Nice stuff..but I didnt bother reading.. its too long.
:sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :mp5: :mp5:

OOC: How is the helmet connected to the neural signals of the soldier? Do you use electrodes or something new? I personally don't like the idea of putting a soldier in a fully autonamous machine, in essence, it sound like your making a robot using a human soldier for movement. Am I wrong in this assumption? or does the human have a degree of control in his actions?

OOC: How is the helmet connected to the neural signals of the soldier? Do you use electrodes or something new? I personally don't like the idea of putting a soldier in a fully autonamous machine, in essence, it sound like your making a robot using a human soldier for movement. Am I wrong in this assumption? or does the human have a degree of control in his actions?

OOC:Its not a machine, its a suit, you have a helmet, and you have armor, normal armor, you can shoot a bullet through it at a close range like at normal bulletproof vest, but it is made of a different material and covers more body area, comes in separate parts and allows free movement. Its not like a robotic suit, nothing like it at all. As for the neuron thing, thats actual technology that is present today, well where is a special helmet you can put on your head, which has a receiver, like any normal linking device, but the trigger for it is the change in your brain activity which occurs then you concentrate on an object, imagine your windows interface exept without walpaper, and there are small icons to the side, you concentrate your sight on one of the icons, the device picks up the change in your brain activity, sends a signal to the CPU and you can access that feature, may it be a thermo vision option or an link to the exo-skelton.

Exo-skeleton itself is just made of alluminum, and it doesn't cover the whole body, it only straps around wrists, waste and some other places, it is connected by the metal strips with wires in them. It is all made ellastic so you can move by making the shape of the metal strips, that are protecting the wires, more, how you say... smooth and in a flat spread out shape.

The only mechanical parts are on your wrists, and lower part of your legs and that is the part that will move your hands into the optimum position if you select an appropriate option on your helmet display and the helmet CPU triangulates the optimum firing position for your arms, and legs, the exo-skeleton won't force you to do anything, but if you relax your muscles it will guide your hands to the position after which they stop applying the pressure. Think like then you try to lift something very heavy and then let it go your arms go up by themselves, thats kind of the same thing here.

OOC:Well its nice technology. Good luck in your endevors with it

OOC: the question I have is how do you plan on powering all that...?

But how do you expect to protect from possible hackers breaking in the helmet, and taking control of all your soldiers through the exo-skeleton?

But how do you expect to protect from possible hackers breaking in the helmet, and taking control of all your soldiers through the exo-skeleton?

Thats one of the reasons where are head quarters, hacker control, plus exo skeleton as i stated previously doesn't force you, it gently directs you, of course it does give you more strength, but where is always ways to protect agaisnt access to that.

As for power, a portable, rechargable battery. A soldier is given two, while one is working, another one is recharging. I'll still have to think through a bit, i did spcify that the armor is just a prototype and it will take a while for it to come out. I was thinking of designing portable nuclear batteries or something of that sort. I'll think about this once i have more time.

What is to to stop a rogue electrical charge from the neural system from destroying all of the soldier's nerve systems? Therefore, rendering him useless, or very dead.

From,

The Oligarch of Kriegorgrad, Comrade Leader Nikolai Fedorenkov

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You don't understand how this works, the human's neural system is in no way connected to the helmet, it just sends signals to the helmet's computer, well not even that, the computer's sensors pick up a change in the brain pattern then the soldiers is concentrating his eyesight on one of the icons on the screen, the helmet's computer sends signals to the screen, so if the helmet gets broken, nothing is gonna happen to soldier's neural system, 100% electrical isolation materials were used in all the wires and parts of the system which have any chance of causing an electrical surge. Think of it as a one way radio from the neural system to the computer and from the computer to the helmet's display. As for the link with the HQs, it has nothing to do with the neural system, it jsut automatically sends the information that the helmet's sensors got, without analyzing it, after which that information is quickly analyzed by the supercomputers in the HQs and sent to the helpmet's CPU, ones again its a one way radio, from the link to the HQs, from the Hqs to the helmet's CPU.

How does this system react to EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse)?

Thank you for soothing that particular concern...It's simply that I've heard about terrible things when a neural interface goes rogue, but if you've found a way around that: well done.

From,

The Oligarch of Krieogrgrad, Comrade Leader Nikolai Fedorenkov

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How does this system react to EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse)?

It automatically shuts down to protect all the systems from any damage and reboots 4 seconds later.

This is NOT modern tech. Currently, you can move a cursor yes... you can move it up and down. In order for it to be moderntech, not only does it have to be demonstrated experimentally in a lab, but there need to be signifigant advances. What you're suggesting won't be around for 20 years.

It is however, an extremely interesting idea, and circomvents a lot of problems with other similar postmodern systems. If you were willing to make it 2030 instead of today, there would be no problem at all.

But it is possible today. We already have a prototype of a helmet which can detect the amount of persons concentration and access some kind of data. There is no mouse in the helmet, a soldier simply concentrates on one the square-icons, the computer recognizes that and opens one of the preassigned options. That is not at all post modern since we already have technology like this today.

Okay i been thinking about a few innovatios which might make this seem more like today's technology. First, the helmet's computer. We don't have fast ones that can be that small. So as to not have this counted as Post-Modern the computer will be in a special metal container on the back of each soldier. Its not gonna restrict movement, its made of alluminum and computer itself is about 20 pounds. Now about the interface. Although the technology which i am talking about (accessing stuff in the computer with your mind with help of a special deviec) is existant in today's world i will still remove it replacing it with a simpler interface so there wouldn't be any critism on your side.

The keyoboard for the password is going to be located under the slide panel on the soldier's wrist. With it he will also be able to access helmet's options. Each number (0-9) corresponds with one of the helmet's features.

I hope now you will be satisfied. Praetonia i would like to know what you think.