{"id":106711,"date":"2020-05-07T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-is-russias-next-generation-combat-armor-suit-and-its-straight-out-of-robocop"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:47:55","slug":"this-is-russias-next-generation-combat-armor-suit-and-its-straight-out-of-robocop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/this-is-russias-next-generation-combat-armor-suit-and-its-straight-out-of-robocop","title":{"rendered":"This is Russia\u2019s \u2018next generation\u2019 combat armor suit \u2014 and it\u2019s straight out of RoboCop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-russias-next-generation-combat-armor-suit-and-its-straight-out-of-robocop3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As part of the country\u2019s massive re-arming and military modernization efforts, Russia\u2019s defense apparatus has been quietly developing a next-generation suit that will give its wearers enhanced strength, awareness and combat effectiveness, and has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/rostec.ru\/en\/news\/rostec-for-the-first-time-demonstrates-operative-exoskeletons-for-the-new-generation-of-the-ratnik-c\/\">already tested<\/a> it in battle.<\/p>\n<p>Created as part of the Ratnik (Russian for warrior) system program, the suit isn\u2019t designed for special operations forces, but rather, general infantry use. That\u2019s right \u2014 the average Russian infantryman will step outside the wire wearing game changing battle rattle, <a href=\"http:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1018615\">likely by 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While similar to the American Land Warrior and Future Combat Systems projects, Ratnik has actually succeeded where the other multi-billion dollar programs have stalled. Up-armoring soldiers and increasing the ergonomic qualities of their gear is only a part of what Ratnik aims to do, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 As part of the country\u2019s massive re-arming and military modernization efforts, Russia\u2019s defense apparatus has been quietly developing a next-generation suit that will give its wearers enhanced strength, awareness and combat effectiveness, and has reportedly already tested it in battle. Created as part of the Ratnik (Russian for warrior) system program, the suit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106711","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=106711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}