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NoSoup · 01-12-2006, 12:10 PM

I'm not really sure I agree with some of you.

If you advocate that our troops lives are worth any amount of funding required, then why send the troops in at all? We have a variety of unmanned vehicles that could be put into production that would all but eliminate ground troops. Although this is just a guess on my part, I imagine an army of 150,000 of these machines probably would cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money.

I'm not saying that it is right for troops to be sent in ill equipped, but from my limited experience (I have a couple of friends that just got back from Iraq) most, if not everyone does in fact have body armor, just not the absolute newest armor out there. If memory serves me correctly, there is some type of prototype armor out there that practically makes a person invincible to explosions/small arms/larger round fire. Additionally, it has some type of active camoflauge that instantly blends you into the surroundings via a camera and some type of polymer that changes color.

However, the cost? Nearly 60 million per suit...

My point, I suppose, is that for those saying that cost doesn't matter should really step back and see if they truely believe what they are saying...

01-12-2006, 12:10 PM	#30 (permalink)
NoSoup Non-Rookie Location: Green Bay, WI	I'm not really sure I agree with some of you. If you advocate that our troops lives are worth any amount of funding required, then why send the troops in at all? We have a variety of unmanned vehicles that could be put into production that would all but eliminate ground troops. Although this is just a guess on my part, I imagine an army of 150,000 of these machines probably would cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money. I'm not saying that it is right for troops to be sent in ill equipped, but from my limited experience (I have a couple of friends that just got back from Iraq) most, if not everyone does in fact have body armor, just not the absolute newest armor out there. If memory serves me correctly, there is some type of prototype armor out there that practically makes a person invincible to explosions/small arms/larger round fire. Additionally, it has some type of active camoflauge that instantly blends you into the surroundings via a camera and some type of polymer that changes color. However, the cost? Nearly 60 million per suit... My point, I suppose, is that for those saying that cost doesn't matter should really step back and see if they truely believe what they are saying... __________________ I have an aura of reliability and good judgement. Just in case you were wondering...