I have an idea for a modern armor suit.

>inb4 hurr no possible

Hear me out. This suit will be self supporting from top to bottom. It's structure will be in such a way that each segment or layer will be resting on the one below it.

For the segments themselves, the parts covering long parts of the body (ie calf, thigh, forearm, etc) will be made of two solid pieces of curved steel bolted together with 4 bolts at the top and bottom of the panels and on the left and right. As for mobile parts, such as the knees, waist, elbows, shoulders, it will be built in a similar fashion but "loose" in such a way that the others can move, kind of like old plate armor, kind of like a cuff, and somewhere between a joint and a bearing. It will also be immobile in such a way that it will rest on and be rested on by it's surrounding panels, and could stand on it's own.

For mobility, it would be fucking hard to move the easily 1 ton suit of armor. So it would need some kind of assisting hydraulic kind of device to assist in moving the parts of it, being a bodybuilder would also help.

The kind of steel used for it would be the closest or better to AR500 steel (the stuff they use in bulletproof plates) It would be as thick or thicker than those plates, and may even have a sub-dermal skeleton to assist in keeping it upright.

If it needs a battery pack, it could be put inside an armored box/pack on the back of the suit.

The suit of theory would be a literal juggernaut/ultra marine, which would be safe from all small arms fire, only really being vulnerable to AP ammo, large projectiles (cannons) AT rockets, high explosives, and vehicles. If designed properly it would probably be able to take a few blows from HE and vehicles too.

As for weapons you could simply use weapons of today, preferably something that won't jam, as you won't be able to do shit if it does, or by creating an actual wh40k bolter (which really is just the equivalent of an upsized 50.cal in a small arms platform)

It could theoretically also have a jetpack, although it would probably be one time use as it would be an ultra powerful rocket to get it going (landing however…)

What do you think?

>>685431

AR's were designed and intended to be used with a 20inch barrel and a rifle length gas system, along with a particular type of ammo. Using anything else for that caliber is wasting potential.

>>685471

Don't be like that anon, I just mean't a kill-all bullet for an anti-matter small arms weapon.

>>685593

Rocket propelled bullets are incredibly fucking stupid. There is literally no way for a rocket the same size as a powder charge to get a round anywhere near as fast as a conventional projectile that would be capable of penetrating ultra marine armor. Not to mention that this isn't the fucking CY+37981 where magic bullets magically work. IIRC, the size of the rounds from the lore were 75.cal which is 50% bigger than a regular 50.cal antimatter, add in some hot fucking powder and you get something that would be capable of taking on most modern armor, which at the very least would match up, or even be better than an ultra marines armor.

Space marine small arms were designed against armored opponents (things like other ultra marines, orks, and other generally hard to kill things). Lasguns however WERE designed to kill infantry, as anything that doesn't have even a slight bit of armor will have chunks blasted out of it, it won't however, do fuck all against an ultra marine who will hulk smash the faggot that shot him with it. Of course there are going to be weapons more powerful than a basic bolter (basic as in "can kill most things to some degree") that will be used when the bolter just doesn't provide adequate levels of dakka to shred your foes.

>>685762

>sysadmin

answered your own question

>>680679

Cool if it's just a couple buddies and ONLY a couple buddies, kept on the down low.

Any "established" militias are just asking for trouble and WILL have feds, so they kind of nullify the point of a militia.