U.S Marines get issued T-60 Power Armor in 2001

[Scooby Doo]

Each suit costs $50,000 to be produced and $10,000 a month maintenance (Fusion cores are included with the maintenance).

Based on the Fallout TV shows new feats (and other games in general) how many do you think will be issued and how effective would they be?

 

[Zachowon]

I mean, an RPG still kills them. Mines do the same.
Unless you have feats showing that things made to go through armor way thicker then that if the T60 can withstand....

 

[Scooby Doo]

I mean, an RPG still kills them. Mines do the same.
Unless you have feats showing that things made to go through armor way thicker then that if the T60 can withstand....

I mean an RPG can go through infantry body armor too, doesn't make it useless
;p

Main advantage would it basically being a smaller profile armored vehicle that can use cover

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Honestly, these wouldn't go to Marines first. I mean...they never get the good stuff 1st.

I mean, an RPG still kills them. Mines do the same.
Unless you have feats showing that things made to go through armor way thicker then that if the T60 can withstand....

Sure, but that requires a direct strike. All those near misses won't do much but maybe knock the PA down. The real benefit will be if the armor protects the wearer from blast pressure and all the TBIs that result from it.

They'd hit special Army units. Likely deployed with Ranger Batts, and possibly used to replace the heavy weapon teams inside line units.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Honestly, these wouldn't go to Marines first. I mean...they never get the good stuff 1st.

Sure, but that requires a direct strike. All those near misses won't do much but maybe knock the PA down. The real benefit will be if the armor protects the wearer from blast pressure and all the TBIs that result from it.

They'd hit special Army units. Likely deployed with Ranger Batts, and possibly used to replace the heavy weapon teams inside line units.

Imagine power armor invading Osama Bin Laden compound.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Imagine power armor invading Osama Bin Laden compound.

We already saw the inverse of that in the first IronMan movie... AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!

 

[Scooby Doo]

We already saw the inverse of that in the first IronMan movie... AND IT WAS GLORIOUS!

Do you think the highly patriotic armor could stop what happened at BENGHAZI??!?!?

 

[Husky_Khan]

Do you think the highly patriotic armor could stop what happened at BENGHAZI??!?!?

Oh my liberty, Thirteen Hours was already metal asf with Michael Bay directing the action. A T-60 Power Armor would've just made it more patriotically glorious.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Oh my liberty, Thirteen Hours was already metal asf with Michael Bay directing the action. A T-60 Power Armor would've just made it more patriotically glorious.

Megan Fox in power armor???

 

[Red_Tornado]

Somewhere out there an marine practicing with that weapon yelling
SsEMPler FFI!

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

It's full-body NBC equipment that doesn't tire you out, and in fact makes you stronger and able to last a long time without water, not to mention proving excellent protection against anything short of a heavy machinegun.
The things could cost a ten million a piece and the US government would still give them to every sub-100 IQ tard they recruit.

 

[Scooby Doo]

It's full-body NBC equipment that doesn't tire you out, and in fact makes you stronger and able to last a long time without water, not to mention proving excellent protection against anything short of a heavy machinegun.
The things could cost a ten million a piece and the US government would still give them to every sub-100 IQ tard they recruit.

But can they stop the tragedy of BENGAZi????

 

[Husky_Khan]

I mean an RPG can go through infantry body armor too, doesn't make it useless
;p

Main advantage would it basically being a smaller profile armored vehicle that can use cover

The other advantage is being able to carry multiple heavy weapons. Machine Guns, Anti-Material Rifles, Automatic Grenade Launchers, antitank launchers, mini guns and so forth.

And can even carry three or four different weapons depending on loadout. Get a machine gun, some antiarmor launcher, and a backup weapon or two. Plus some grenades or a C-UAS Gun or whatever.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Guys don't forget technically the versions of the show can fly or have a limited version of flight too.

 

[SpaceOrbis]

Each suit costs $50,000 to be produced and $10,000 a month maintenance (Fusion cores are included with the maintenance).

Based on the Fallout TV shows new feats (and other games in general) how many do you think will be issued and how effective would they be?

Given that if you shot them in one area it seems to kill my guess is we would be working on how to fix that oversight fairly fast upon the realization that there is a fatal flaw in the design of the T-60 power armor as shown in the last episode of Fallout.

The sight of one walking down your street should do a fair amount of legwork alone. Once 911 happens you can bet good money we would be dropping a fair few on some poor sods.

 

[SpaceOrbis]

Do you think the highly patriotic armor could stop what happened at BENGHAZI??!?!?

The only thing missing would be one of the T-60s waving the stars while singing our song. Needless to say, Benghazi would be best remembered as the day we beat the ever-loving shit out of hundreds of stupid people. Not going lie I would love to watch that movie.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Given that if you shot them in one area it seems to kill my guess is we would be working on how to fix that oversight fairly fast upon the realization that there is a fatal flaw in the design of the T-60 power armor as shown in the last episode of Fallout.

The sight of one walking down your street should do a fair amount of legwork alone. Once 911 happens you can bet good money we would be dropping a fair few on some poor sods.

TBF it was in a section of the armor that required precision aim, knowledge and armor piercing rounds from a power hand canon.


There's honestly no way to find out consistently with out like War Thunder esque leaks.

 

[SpaceOrbis]

TBF it was in a section of the armor that required precision aim, knowledge and armor piercing rounds from a power hand canon.


There's honestly no way to find out consistently with out like War Thunder esque leaks.

I would think we would be testing the ever-loving shit out of our new toys. My takeaway from that episode is that they didn't care enough to fix the flaw because anybody willing to do sick tests on people isn't going to be overly concerned about the ethical consequences of allowing such a weakness in their armor.

I do agree that it's highly unlikely anybody outside of us will ever know about such a flaw but if we are dropping T-60s onto the battlefield sooner or later somebody will get a lucky shot and drop one in one shot. Word gets out and more aim for that spot and drop more. A generational long war allows for more than enough time for somebody to learn about it even if by sheer dumb luck.

 

[Scooby Doo]

I would think we would be testing the ever-loving shit out of our new toys. My takeaway from that episode is that they didn't care enough to fix the flaw because anybody willing to do sick tests on people isn't going to be overly concerned about the ethical consequences of allowing such a weakness in their armor.

I do agree that it's highly unlikely anybody outside of us will ever know about such a flaw but if we are dropping T-60s onto the battlefield sooner or later somebody will get a lucky shot and drop one in one shot. Word gets out and more aim for that spot and drop more. A generational long war allows for more than enough time for somebody to learn about it even if by sheer dumb luck.

Thing is even a lucky shot isn't going to be enough you're going to need armor piercing and hit a VERY small section in addition to have a gun that already has a significant amount of KE


Remember in the observatory prior to the Ghoul fight the only Knights that were killed were by explosives or stuffing a gun barrel down the neck gap for the armor and holding the trigger, the NCR had tons of guys mass firing at power armor with little effect

FN Fals did nothing in mass numbers
M1A1 rifles did nothing in mass numbers
M14's did nothing in mass numbers
A SHIT Ton of M1918's in mass numbers did nothing as well

The odds of a lucky hit going through would require precision, power and armor piercing rounds of something like a sniper rifle which is unlikely to hit the area because it's VERY small not visible, small enough that we don't even see the hole from the killed power armor trooper, it's still a flaw but it won't be found out by all before the Government fixes it tbh.

FO America didn't fix it because it's supposed to be mass produced cheap armor

 

[Husky_Khan]

The Ghoul should've just used a Colt M1911. The .45 ACP ammo would've easily knocked down each of those power armored soldiers with a single shot. The round wouldn't penetrate obviously, it's only one of the most powerful handguns in the world, but the huge cratering it would cause with the impact would've resulted in death from the transfer of kinetic energy into the wearer regardless. Not to mention the spalling.