Papsis

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Specification for Powered Armor Portable Stealth Invasion System

PAPSIS

Thesis

Modern combat involves a blend of speed, stealth and firepower, no matter the mission.

Until recently, nothing was available to improve the lot of the infantry soldier.

In the last 20 years, we have seen the outgrowth of miniaturized NVG, light weight composite body armor and significant improvements in field communication for command and control. See A View of Land Power, from the US Army War College

Still, the SOC soldier does not possess sufficient firepower to engage armor without personal risk.

The PAPSIS unit is intended to correct this lack. In theory, this can be built with off the shelf by aerospace system integrators.

Chassis: Carbon Fiber composite with embedded titanium/diamond weave skeletal members. 3 meter tall chassis overall, 2 meters in torso/cockpit, .5 meters in head, 1.5 meters in leg section. Embedded 25MM Cannon, naturally the range of this gun is limited by barrel length and physical endurance of pilot while said weapon fires. Ammo probably limited, but grenade or armor penetrates are possible, giving a wide range of area affect or anti armor modes. Field replacement should be simple, given unit is bipedal and has arms for combat re-supply.

Legs are composed of standard servos with extra torque provided by memory metal myomer strips. Standard 3 point claw feet for grip and speed. University of Tokyo has developed the guidance routines for bipedal robots, as this unit is piloted, this should allow for human correction of balance. Pilot is in cockpit in semi relaxed position. Remote piloting is a possibility, but the lag factor would limit combat reaction times, in the designers opinion. Top speed should be similar to a 3 meter human in full run, but, should speed bursts be necessary, compressed air could be used for short range hops. This would be a detachable backpack tank/thruster assembly. Possibly quite useful for helo drops given ability for soft precision landings.

Arms similarly configured with end effectors instead of feet. End effectors would be modular to fit mission profiles. Standard is embedded 50 caliber sniper rifles, one per arm, with see and shoot targeting system from Apache chopper integrated into system.

Head is the Sensor package and a 5.65 suppressed minigun for close range antipersonnel situations. Again, see and shoot mode for target acquisition and fire.

The Stealth aspect of this unit relies on 3 factors: Fuel cell operation for power. Entirely electro mechanical drive system. A Micro Electrical Motor System for skin, giving a 3 or 4 sided prism which can give a RAM , Normal Parkerized, Anti-IR, or micro tri color LED facing to the surface of the PAPSIS unit.

CPU and power overhead naturally limit field operational time, but given the inherent need for a built in life support system given need for high altitude drops, or water insertions, PAPSIS should not be required to engage in field ops for more than 24 hours. If this becomes necessary, unmanned HELO drops can do field re-supply.

In summary, a relatively lightweight anti armor/ anti personnel combat suit for the 21st century soldier.

It is likely this unit would be deployed in squads, but it also is a force multiplier with similar potential to the SAW weapon for ordinary infantry platoons.

First Draft proposal, Robert Wayne Hullock Needs a lot of work, Engineers invited to specify off the shelf components. Aerospace Integrators welcome. And of course, actual combat veterans needed.

This document is placed into the public domain under the GNU General Public License Version 2.

Note: This document is a SEED, it is difficult to provide references for a document I just created. I have placed it into the public domain, in the hope that others will build upon it, and make the device actual. Please consider this when you begin tagging it for deletion.

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[edit] See also

• Powered exoskeleton