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If you research back to around 1960, Mechanix Illustrated had an article about a suit of armor the Army was supposed ot be experimenting with. Their article was much more complete than this one. The suit of armor could completely seal the soldier off from the atmosphere, in the even of biological or radiation dangers. They could parachute and cut loose from the canopy 30 feet from the ground and land, They could brace themselves on a berm and act as a launching pad for a missile. They carried supersized grenades they could throw 3/4 of a mile or drop at their feet. Some time later, a scifi writer brought out a series of books about a secret group of soldiers who conducted SEAL-type missions using suits of armor the same as described in the MI article. Later, on, the series was expanded to a group of Russian soldiers in Russia's version of the suits. It seems PopSci was scooped by MI and a scifi writer. "In it's most basic form the right to keep and bear arms is nothing less than the right to maintain the means of one's own self-defense. If a man chooses not to arm himself, that is his choice and right. It is NOT his right to force HIS choice upon ME."