{"id":104374,"date":"2020-03-27T19:52:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/news-from-sofic-special-operators-wearing-ultralight-version-of-iron-man-suit"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:52:29","slug":"news-from-sofic-special-operators-wearing-ultralight-version-of-iron-man-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/news-from-sofic-special-operators-wearing-ultralight-version-of-iron-man-suit","title":{"rendered":"NEWS FROM SOFIC: Special Operators Wearing Ultralight Version of \u2018Iron Man\u2019 Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/news-from-sofic-special-operators-wearing-ultralight-version-of-iron-man-suit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: EPNAC<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 <\/strong>When Special Operations Command set out to create what would be popularly known as the \u2018Iron Man suit\u2019 seven years ago, developers assumed that the state-of-the-art in body armor would not improve much over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>That assumption led the command down a development path that would actually make the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit resemble the comic book hero with heavy armor from head to toe and a power system and exoskeleton needed to help the operator move in the bulky suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: EPNAC TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 When Special Operations Command set out to create what would be popularly known as the \u2018Iron Man suit\u2019 seven years ago, developers assumed that the state-of-the-art in body armor would not improve much over the next few years. That assumption led the command down a development path that would actually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}