Japan's Future Soldier a Hit with Gundam Fans

[EvilRB]

Source: http://www.asianoffbeat.com/default.asp?Display=1122


http://www.asianoffbeat.com/funnystuff/Defense-Ministry's-Gundam-Kit.jpg
A high-tech armament system for infantry soldiers sparked interest among anime fans at a recent Ministry of Defense research presentation when officials announced that it was designed with the Gundam anime series in mind.

The Advanced Personal Armament System -- Japan's version of the Future Soldier project, designed to modernize combat infantry units -- offers a network-linked helmet providing night and thermal vision, amongst other capabilities. It was introduced at a presentation held by the ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute titled, "Towards the realization of Gundam."

Gundam is the name of a hugely popular anime series featuring huge "mobile suit" robots, and the system unveiled at the research presentation sports features inspired by the giant humanoid robots that appear in the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam," according to officials.

The suit also contains global positioning system (GPS) technology, allowing the wearer's location to be tracked.

Calls for the Defense Ministry to distribute GPS-equipped cell phones to ministry officials to discourage them being wined and dined by defense contractors have arisen following the discovery that former Administrative Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya was engaging in collusive relations with an executive from a major defense contractor.

In light of the system's tracking capabilities, some have suggested that the former administrative vice defense minister should have tried the equipment on.

Source: Mainichi

Hopefully next they will have full mech gundam suits!!

[BustedS13]

now... bomb ze harbor

[WERDdabuilder]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Oz-00ms2b.jpg/220px-Oz-00ms2b.jpg

tallgeese FTW!

[Farzam]

I fucking love Gundam Wing.

I kinda like anime...like not really big into it, I was when I was 10 like everyone else...

BUT

I

LOVE

GUNDAM WING

I was on tour and crashed at this chick's place and I totally put "Endless Waltz" in the DVD player when I saw it by her TV. It was her roommates or something like that. I totally blew her off and everything just to watch...but it was totally worth every second of it.

I don't really have a favorite mobile suit though. Tallgeese is good, wing zero is cool, heavy arms is cool...

[Yuri]

Wanzers next?
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x158/DKapt/front-mission-4-1.jpg

[Vision Garage]

If only these big ole piles of metal had more maneuverability and agility. We are close, but not that close!

[Farzam]

I wish Gundams were real...

Fuck an s13

I'm saving up for a White Fang Taurus...then when I get really good i'm getting Wing Zero.

[s13poop]

http://www.robot-japan.com/Gundam-Robot/gundam/endlesswaltz/images/xxxg-01hc.jpg

i'll roll with heavy arms custom then :bigok:

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[StaticX27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g

The wave of the future right there.

[azndoc]

I'd be a little freaked out if I was those people driving on the street and I see one of those ^^^ walking around.

Fuck I want to shoot balls at people from the robot.

[s13poop]

This is a Gundam thread...

edited

happy now? :coolugh:

[EvilRB]

It's all about Wing Zero!
http://www.psp-ground.net/modules/Gallery/images/test/WingZero.jpg
http://www.gearsonline.net/designers/wing-custom0.jpg

[Farzam]

edited

happy now? :coolugh:

Extremely happy :bigok:

[s13poop]

:w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

:D

[yudalicious]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g

The wave of the future right there.

cool vid but it looks like it's just "skating" along instead of taking actual steps.

[BOROSUN]

that thing is going to trip on a curb.



they need to add a rotating torso.

[SochBAT]

Your choices all suck dick. Not even gonna lie.

Deathscythe HELL FTMFW!

http://www.abysshr.com/xxxg01d2_01.jpg
http://www.abysshr.com/xxxg01d2_02.jpg
http://www.abysshr.com/xxxg01d2_03.jpg

[Farzam]

Deathscythe is pretty baller but idk

I think Thatguy deserves Deathscythe, it's flat green ya know?

[supad0rk]

I liked 08 MS Team the best.

This seems to be more like catching up with US projects. Mobile suit would be more along the lines of a multi-weapon platform with a single operator that allows him to go against any terrain and move objects quickly and efficiently. Makes sense to have a single armored unit that can switch between anti-armor, anti-air, pick up and place heavy objects, support a communications array, and jam anything radar guided. That or it just becomes an expensive, large, slow moving heat source.

[2ilvia]

The suit also contains global positioning system (GPS) technology, allowing the wearer's location to be tracked.

even by the enemy no doubt

so whats this Gundam gayness?

[Agamemnon]

I liked ....
http://www.abysshr.com/oz13ms05.jpg

[SimpleSexy180]

i give it about 100 years

[Matej]

This suit is better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1f4zrYzDz8

[jilo]

that is some sick shit!! now if only it wasnt cardboard...

[swift_style]

That's sick. Having Gundam soldiers. And that clip that Matej put up was cool.

[240_whore]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g

The wave of the future right there.
Too Tall, one hit up top with a big enough projectile and it'd tip.

The feet don't even leave the ground, so I hope the battle is on a golf course.

Too loud, they'd hear you coming before you got there, not to mention be prepared.

Looks like it was mad with tin foil and spray painted, the whole thing is shaking like it's held together with toothpicks.

That's not the wave of the future, it's the rejected entry from a middle school science fair.

[TheWolf]

http://www.gundams.net/files/html/gundam00/exia.jpg

Exia from the new Gundam 00 Series Aww the new swords are cool...

Zero Custom and Epyon are teh hawtness as well.

[WERDdabuilder]

http://www.gundams.net/files/html/gundam00/exia.jpg

Exia from the new Gundam 00 Series

ha, i just downloaded like 4 eps of that.

[Ragnarok043]

Hi Nu and EX-S FTW

http://www.neogl.com/picture/hi-nu-091.jpg
http://www.resinmech.com/mainpics/l_ex-s.jpg