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Is it possible for any military to build a mobile suit like the ones seen in the Gundam Episodes?

Like if they put a lot of money into developing a piloted robot fighting machines…kinda of a random question but do you think the military have given it much thought :P?

Interestingly enough, last year when Iron Man came out, the cover story on Popular Mechanics was on the Army’s new exoskeleton. At the same time, Fusionman made history by being the first to fly across the English Channel on his wearable jet-wing. So truth is catching up to fiction all the time. (I don’t think we will see anything as big as Gundams or Evangelions soon, because they make such good targets.)

The biggest limit to the Army’s exoskeleton is that it can’t carry its own power source. It can plug into a Humvee that has a generator on board.

I think that Fusionman might still have a video of him flying on youtube, check it out. He’s also in wiki. Air forces all over the world have offered him contracts, but he want to make it a civilian product. But they are salivating and probably several nations already have some models in development. I wouldn’t be surprised.

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3 responses to “Is it possible for any military to build a mobile suit like the ones seen in the Gundam Episodes?”

  1. Reynaldo Avatar
    Reynaldo

    Right now they are working on Robotioc Exoskeleton. Look it up on Youtube.
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  2. cdf-rom Avatar
    cdf-rom

    Interestingly enough, last year when Iron Man came out, the cover story on Popular Mechanics was on the Army’s new exoskeleton. At the same time, Fusionman made history by being the first to fly across the English Channel on his wearable jet-wing. So truth is catching up to fiction all the time. (I don’t think we will see anything as big as Gundams or Evangelions soon, because they make such good targets.)

    The biggest limit to the Army’s exoskeleton is that it can’t carry its own power source. It can plug into a Humvee that has a generator on board.

    I think that Fusionman might still have a video of him flying on youtube, check it out. He’s also in wiki. Air forces all over the world have offered him contracts, but he want to make it a civilian product. But they are salivating and probably several nations already have some models in development. I wouldn’t be surprised.
    References :

  3. Ron.Chae Avatar
    Ron.Chae

    There is a difference between a mobile suit and a Gundam. Gundam is far more advanced compared to a standard "mobile suit". However, obviously in the anime/manga, the gundams are insane having been equiped with beam rifles and such. Possibly, in the future we are able to make one, but it would just far too expensive if you were to compare it to the fictional ones.
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