83f1ce No.584211
>The US Army isn't just looking to giving soldiers a hand, but a whole extra arm. At the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is testing a prototype passive support system called Third Arm, which evenly distributes the weight of heavy weapons, allowing soldiers to use them with less fatigue and greater accuracy.
>In the 1986 sci-fi classic Aliens, one of the signature props was the fictional M56 Smartgun, which was a dressed up MG42 machine gun stuck on a steadicam mount. This mount, which in reality connects a hand-held cine-camera to the operators body to stabilize it, made for some very cool action scenes and has now apparently inspired a real-life counterpart.
>Mechanical engineer Dan Baechle has come up with a more advanced, more articulated, militarized version of the steadicam mount that can take the weight of a weapon off a soldier's arms. Third Arm is an unpowered, articulated frame made of composite materials that helps to distribute the weapon's weight while allowing enough range of motion to be practical on the battlefield.
https://newatlas.com/us-army-third-arm/54898/
What do you know, I was right again.
d2cbd2 No.584212
Power armor would go well with 2 other arms, I approve.
63fa1a No.584215
>start taking fire
>hit the dirt
>pull gun slightly to the left while falling
>fall on the roboarm and impale yourself or shatter your ribs
I mean, you either do the overhead crane meme, or you develop an adamantium ribcage to implant into your machine gunners.
83f1ce No.584217
>>584212
>2 other arms
But that's 3 robot arms, in addition to 2 normal arms. First robo arm to shoot a gun. Second robo arm to reload. Third robo hand to masturbate. Meat hands to make gang signs with.
a276d9 No.584219
>strap a bigass 20 pound steel bar to your back to hold up a 7 pound rifle
what a great fuckin idea
769ef3 No.584221
>>584211
Would not a third leg be more intimidating?
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23ef12 No.584223
>>584217
Power armor should have 2 big fucking arms, not just 1.
04c231 No.584250
>>584211
Do you ever get the feeling that the military develops stuff like this just for the novelty of making real life of more like sci-fi?
088267 No.584254
>>584250
No. They do it soley to waste taxpayer money on corporate welfare. The US military, and the state at Large, exists to create jobs.
5935b9 No.584259
>>584211
someone needs to make a benis shop of the first image
62cc56 No.584264
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>584211
Why does Army always want to reinvent the wheel instead of adopting more effective off the shelf solution?
208123 No.584266
Dosen't US infantryman carry too much equipment anyway?
I heard US soldiers where complaining about bad cases of exploding knees.Can't imagine that this will be proactive solution to anything.
9f07fe No.584267
>>584264
That's definitely a simpler method, but the immediate problem with it is that it extends over the head, which is a bigger deal than it sounds.
People are adequately conscious of whatever bullshit they have around their middles, but anything over the head they'll completely forget about. Basically, that simpler solution is actually just a huge hook that they'll forget about multiple times a day, turning it into a highly effective surprise clothesline hazard for fun and profit. Anyone who wears a big helmet or some sort of cap/hat will know how it's always fucking bumping into shit.
As long as a soldier doesn't have to enter and exit anything, or go through the woods they'd be fine with a giant hook.
47a93d No.584270
>>584211
>second pic
No wonder the US is losing all the time.
aaaa91 No.584271
>>584270
Yeah, maybe we should stop trying to hunt you filthy gaijin with airshit. Just seems unsporting to try to take you down with lethal weapons, takes all of the thrill out of the hunt. :^)
35e32b No.584273
>>584211
>MG are too heavy.
>Decide that the solution is to add weight.
US taxpayer money at work ladies and gentlemen.
Meanwhile Singapore and Israel have machine guns that have barely any recoil and pretty much everyone not using a M240 has lighter guns.
83f1ce No.584279
Would it be feasible to put a low powered claymore on the front of a soldiers helmet? Kind of like the pratt helmet?
That would completely obviate the need for a sidearm and all its ammunition, and there are already accessories for attachment there. It might even slow down any headshot bullet because its acting like a ERA.
2229d5 No.584282
>>584250
They need to find a way to con…vince governments into funding this shit, and the two best ways to get a politician to sign off on a project are:
>Look how large your consultancy cheque will be if you approve this!
and
>You get to look cool in the press release with this awesome scifi style thing. What's that? No soldier in history would want something like this? Well wtf would they know about it, don't they understand how much money we'll make from project-Boondoggle mk5909832?
bed3d7 No.584284
>>584279
Imagine the headache you'd get from a claymore going off on your fucking forehead
69e3cb No.584286
>>584279
>that first helmet
Enjoy getting no cheekweld
0ffca4 No.584288
>>584279
>First pic
Anon that looks like airsoft helmet
83f1ce No.584289
>>584284
Not a full power one, just enough to kill people at average 25 meter engagement range of a pistol.
>>584286
>>584288
It's for helicopter gunners, to protect their face.
b55399 No.584436
Why develop a 3rd arm that can be used to hold down woman's shoulder so you only need to see one arm to pin her while giving you one free arm to grope?
031b27 No.584442
>>584436
Did African refugees really make it to Mars so quickly?
5c61fb No.584443
>>584215
The 3rd arm will be programmed to help break your fall intelligently.
031b27 No.584446
>>584443
So in addition to the weight of the arm soldiers now have to carry batteries, and the computer adds yet another point of failure to this piece of shit
6a6b0f No.584459
Would it be too much to combine this with that Russian ammo belt backpack? of course it isn't too much, there's no such thing
ae2fc9 No.584482
>>584211
The exact same thread was on 2chan
Or am I drunk
b9aaa6 No.584503
>>584482
Depends on how much sake you have been drinking strelok-san.
5f7b20 No.584530
>>584482
I don't know about 2chan, but The Firearm Blog already reported these news a few months ago, and I made a thread about that.
afc6f3 No.584531
>there is now a possibility of mobile GET SOME machines
IT'S GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER.
d247e6 No.584545
>>584531
Now we only need caseless ammunition and we can start purging the black aliens that invade our country.
b8b31a No.584562
There needs to be a serious purge of the dumbshits that infest the MI Complex.
91b7de No.584563
>>584562
Only one way to do that: Good old-fashioned symmetrical warfare. Unfortunately, it will take several thousand soldiers dying for Israel before anyone actually takes action and the brass gets purged. And even then who's to say whether it's the actual dumbshits that get purged or small number of convenient scapegoats.
b8b31a No.584564
>>584563
I don't see any other reason revolution wouldn't work, or maybe a good nuking. God knows we're overdue anyways.
91b7de No.584565
>>584564
>revolution
Ah yes, that as well. Mostly I was emphasizing that continuing to launch ICBMs at goat sex dungeons wouldn't cut it. Although if we keep that up long enough, the continued military decay would make a revolution that much easier.
d3c531 No.584586
>>584219
It's obviously carbon fiber as you can clearly see in the photos if you aren't fucking blind. A loaded M249 is more than 20 pounds. Which means you can reverse your retarded post:
>strap a bigass 7 pound carbon fiber bar to your back to hold up a 22 pound LMG
Sounds like a great idea to me, smartass.
3f3df5 No.584588
>>584586
>Sounds like a great idea to me, smartass.
It doesn't matter what the actual weight ends up being because:
>thing is too heavy and wearing soldiers down
>Idea! Give soldiers another thing to carry!
Is bass-ackwards reasoning. It only gets worse when you consider how overburdened infantrymen are as it is. Add in the fact that 9 pound LMGs are in grasping distance and this idea looks more retarded by the day… Unless your objective is to pile on as much merchandise onto every soldier as possible to keep the shekels flowing to vendors, and suddenly it all makes sense.
ef04b7 No.584590
>>584588
Cased, telescoped ammunition for new LMG > A fucking 7 pound hook
df1798 No.588553
>>584279
normal claymores have about two metres of kill-zone behind them, even with a low powered one a shot would give your prefrontal lobe enough of a hammering to turn you into a vegetable, furthermore why the fuck would you strap a two pound BOMB to your helmet for the off chance you come within 25 metres of your enemy, with no friendlies in the field of fire, on the modern battlefield
6d83ac No.588566
>>588553
>why the fuck would you strap a two pound BOMB to your helmet for the off chance you come within 25 metres of your enemy
>Not knowing about the Korean axe murder incident
<a 64-man task force of the South Korean Special Forces accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in Tae Kwon Do, supposedly without firearms. However, once they parked their trucks near the Bridge of No Return, they started throwing out the sandbags that lined the truck bottoms, and handing out M16 rifles and M79 grenade launchers that had been concealed below. Several of the commandos also had M18 Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.
000000 No.588629
>>588553
Are you really too autistic to realize he wasn't being serious? It didn't occur to you that a bomb going off right above your face would turn your brain into souffle and make it leak out your ears? That ricochet would hit you in the face and gut? That the reaction from the blast would snap your neck?
63aa6d No.588643
Or they would use autonomous robot trailers.
df1798 No.588648
>>588629
sometimes i honestly don't even know anymore, i have seen retardation you wouldn't even beleive
ed1ea0 No.588660
>>588566
why would they risk a war over some tree?
77ebf8 No.588667
>>588660
Muh ego and muh gunboat diplomacy.
>Also muh American diplomacy with communisim
b31aee No.588815
>>588660
The norks had been trying to start shit for months because norks. The US knew it was only a matter of time before things got out of hand, so they tried to ensure that all the guard stations could see each other and intervene in case a fight broke out. Afterward we arranged that massive show of force just to remind the norks that even the chinks were ready to cut them loose if they kept deliberately provoking the US.
5f7146 No.588831
>>584282
If they're okay with impractical things just to scam the government then at least make something cool instead of a boring third arm. I want cyborg ninjas already, dammit.
c2f3d5 No.588832
>>588660
The Norks beat the shit out of the first engineering team sent to trim the tree, killing two of them. The (probably completely fabricated) justification was that the tree was sacred, having been planted by Mao or Kim-Il Sung or some shit. The reality is that gooks care less about their own lives than they do social posturing and saving face.
000000 No.589127
>>588648
well, guess you got a point there bud
d0cdf6 No.589192
>>588831
But that would take a fair amount of actual work. Why would they do so much R&D when they get almost as much money doing jobs that are just one step up from rebadging an old project and claiming that the armour plating you cut off makes this the 'lightweight' upgraded version!
a6516d No.589314
>>5886607
It wasnt about the tree.
Quit being so literal….
4d44b7 No.589331
>>584279
I believe that's called a Helm of Brilliance.
7badf2 No.589467
>>584217
>Meat hands to make gang signs with.
Top fucking kek.
a6516d No.589513
28b7ea No.589526
>>584211
Does it come with a tactical master "baiter" onahole module for tactical R&R use?
e34cab No.589536
>>589526
Is it gay to jerk your battle buddy off with a robot hand?
748969 No.589552
>>584211
I actually thought of this as an idea some years back. Maybe I'll sell it and make a shit load of cash I thought, but I changed my idea because it's a fucking dumb idea.
000000 No.589608
>>589552
Don't sweat it anon, it could be the best idea in the history of warfare and you still couldn't sell it to .mil anyway without the right connections.