I love this quote: "If we are really good, and we are, the soldier of 2025 will be as effective as the tank of 1995." - LTG Paul Kern, Military Deputy Director, 1997
While not a Landmate... yet... it's a start!!!
Gotta love DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ): makin' the military's dreams a reality!!! Check out their Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation (EHPA) Program here: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrust/matdev/ehpa.htm
This guy did a great job of collecting exoskeletal resources! Go here... http://theblog.hypermart.net/thurstonia/ex...skeletons.shtml
...& he even zipped his reference articles here... http://theblog.hypermart.net/thurstonia/bin/EHPA.zip
WIRED magazine has a preatty cool article here (Quote: "Battlefield armor is making a comeback...DARPA expects the first trials by 2005, according to its site. If the trials are successful, it will be the first appearance of battlefield armor since the 17th century.")...
Misc. Links:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/exoskeleton.htm
http://www.sciencenews.org/20010630/bob8.asp
http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/story/0...3371422,00.html