Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise, is famous for creating the well known “Bear Suit” that was built to withstand the attack of a grizzly bear, and also proven to take to ramming of a moving vehicle. Continuing on with this legacy, he has created a HALO like suit designed for use by soldiers in the Canadian and US military(s).
He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the “first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour.”
Now that’s what I call an impressive piece of hardware. Even though he expects to make a living out of producing these suits, I’m curious what the DoD would have to say about it? Also, alot of blogs, and the such have been tagging this as a suit designed off of the popular game “HALO: Combat Evolved”. Though this may be true, a few seconds of looking at the picture above will convince you that perhaps the funcationality might be the same as intended in the game, it bears little resemblance. All that aside though, if I could afford one, and I could fit my hefty butt into it, I’d get one just to trudge around my sleepy little town scaring the heck out of people!
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