The US Army has armored up Master Chief!!

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**Breotan**

Well, the helmet at any rate.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/14/future-army-helmets-halo/?ncid=rss_truncated

Steve Dent wrote:Future Army helmets make for cooler soldiers, terrified enemies

It's hard to look at the US Army's latest helmet and not think of Halo, but the design does serve a purpose beyond gaming chic. Its latest "soldier of the future" concept would not only protect grunts in high heat and humidity, but also shield them from chemical and biological agents. While much bulkier tech already exists for that, such a model would use a fan embedded directly into the filtration system to suck air from the side of the mask and blast it across the nose. Tests done on an M50 gas mask modified with the tech proved it to be just as effective as with bigger units, but more comfortable for GI's during intense drills. The design is just a render for now, but if the army is going to look to video games for design inspiration, we think they should go bigger.

**Frazzled**

Needs a skull face.

**Breotan**

I was expecting you to say they needed to make these in wiener dog size.

**Ouze**

Pretty cool looking, but Frazzled nailed it in one.

**Nevelon**

Frazzled wrote:
Needs a skull face.

The basic shape is right for a skull. A few smears of white paint and you are there.

**Frazzled**

Breotan wrote:
I was expecting you to say they needed to make these in wiener dog size.

Team Wienie prefers to go helmetless, so that its enemies can exepreince the full terror of terrifying terrible grimace full of terrible teeth.

**TheCustomLime**

Great, now they are turning our soldiers into faceless mooks for the plucky, helmetless heroes to gun down without a second thought.

Thanks Obama.

**Paradigm**

It looks pretty cool. More ODST or Spartan IV than Master Chief, but that's just pedantry.

Now they need to build the armour that goes with it, and it needs to include a fully-functioning Jetpack. And then be made available at retail...

**Ouze**

What kind of decal is it they put on buses, where it's translucent on one side but an ad on the other? Could rock the Raynor look that way.

edit: It's these.

**Dreadclaw69**

Awesome! We just need skull heads like Frazz says, or full on Bloodletter faces

**dementedwombat**

Needs more `murika.

Spoiler:

**Mr Morden**

I was reading the biography of the SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and he talks about Punisher style logos on their flak vests and other gear when they were in Iraq................

**BrotherOfBone**

No! Hasn't anyone every read a comic book or played a video game?? The helmeted, masked grunts always get their asses handed to them by the heroes because they have no character! US Soldiers will be seriously lacking plot armour in the near future...

**Grey Templar**

BrotherOfBone wrote:
No! Hasn't anyone every read a comic book or played a video game?? The helmeted, masked grunts always get their asses handed to them by the heroes because they have no character! US Soldiers will be seriously lacking plot armour in the near future...

Don't you see?

This is merely a blank template for each soldier to draw his own heraldry and kill marks on, with a healthy dose of 'Murica thrown in!

**kronk**

dementedwombat wrote:
Needs more `murika.

Spoiler:

Exalted!

**Jihadin**

This is merely a blank template for each soldier to draw his own heraldry and kill marks on, with a healthy dose of 'Murica thrown in!

That would depend on how lax your CoC is. We got away wearing skull masks scarfs on convoys and what not. We looked damn good to. Throw in skull gloves.

**LordofHats**

If 40k taught us anything its that everything looks better with more skulls.

**Johnnytorrance**

Yeah, that's gonna suck in the heat.

**Grey Templar**

Johnnytorrance wrote:
Yeah, that's gonna suck in the heat.

Did you miss the integrated air conditioning in the air filtration system?

**Mr Nobody**

Frazzled wrote:
Needs a skull face.

If you want a skull face, go with this.

Spoiler:

Granted, it doesn't have AC or protects from gas.

**kb_lock**

Definitely buying one of these to use while airbrushing

**Nostromodamus**

Frazzled wrote:
Needs a skull face.

Are we the baddies?

**Grey Templar**

Alex C wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Needs a skull face.

Are we the baddies?

No, but we are the BAMFs.

**purplefood**

Grey Templar wrote:
Alex C wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Needs a skull face.

Are we the baddies?

No, but we are the BAMFs.

Baddy BAMF's?

**Grey Templar**

The really good baddies. We're bad so you don't have to be!

**purplefood**

That's pretty cool.

**Seaward**

Master Chief is Navy, you heathens.

**Grey Templar**

Seaward wrote:
Master Chief is Navy, you heathens.

If anything he's a Marine. There is no Navy, in UNSC.

**LordofHats**

Grey Templar wrote:
Seaward wrote:
Master Chief is Navy, you heathens.

If anything he's a Marine. There is no Navy, in UNSC.

*puts on nerd cap*

The SPARTAN II program was an undertaking by the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. Operationally, the Spartan IIs are all members of the UNSC Navy and carry naval ranks. The UNSC Marines though commonly featured in Halo are a separate branch of the UNSC Defense Force (the UNSC Army is only seen in Halo: Reach).

*nerd cap off*

**dementedwombat**

Grey Templar wrote:
The really good baddies. We're bad so you don't have to be!

But are we bad enough to rescue the president?