The muscle tissue growth and control is easy. The blood tissue growth is easy, just bathe the vat meat in angiogenesis factors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis#Chemical_stimulation The screw heart is easy, Heartmate II is a screw-based artificial heart, there is no pulse just continual flow. See pic. sphcs.org/ThoratecHeartMateII The oxygen delivery. smithsonianmag.com/innovation/artificial-lung-fits-backpack-180962826/ The filtration of wastes We can cut out the dialysis machine completely by simply adding fake red blood cells to the "fuel" solution with glucose/vitamins/electrolytes. Every few days when you replace the fuel pack, you'd also replace the blood, cleaning it. Bit like draining the oil on your car. industrytap.com/miniature-portable-dialysis-machine-fast-track-fda-approval/23979 And the glucose/electrolyte/vitamin/antibiotic to prevent infection solution is easy, trickiest part there is continual monitoring of blood so you don't make it a diabetic.
Most of it can be done with off the shelf parts and technology, from BigDog tech to medical equipment, its so ready that someone could sit down and calculate the exact amount of pounds this thing would weigh.
The only tough part is making a large enough vat to grow it in, and ensuring proper muscle attachment.
No, it's not that simple, You can make Robotic birds though, just not very large.
You're better off adding stuff to existing aircraft and adapting to a new doctrine that can overwhelm the enemy before he can fight back and thinking of ways to counter it.
Looking for one wonder weapon to do the job of something that already exists, instead of finding new ways to fight, will always limit you and remove the ability to adapt when there's a need to actually fight.
William Russell
Since Gekko can jump absurdly high, this may not be a problem for them. They don't actually have to run up mountains.
That's why this thread exists.
The concept of exosuit-using jumpjet infantry for ambushes was discussed in the other thread. Power armor is going to have a hard time getting the fuel capacity needed to perform the duties of a chopper. However, power armor seems to have replaced tankettes like the Wiesel in any setting where it exists, incorporating many of the tankette's functions. You could also give mecha or power armor tracked/wheeled assemblies to boost their speed.
So if we'd started in 1998, when MGS1 was released, we would have had it by 2002. Also, go play at least MGS1-4 immediately, and MGR if you like hack-and-slash games.
Ideally it'll do the job of several things that already exist more cheaply.
Eli Moore
Probably the deadliest part of this machine right there. What's your plan for when all your GEKKOs are immobilised due to an antibiotic-resistant disease eating their legs? What's your plan for when that disease spreads to the people responsible for maintaining the GEKKOs?
Chase Ross
does this mean that we'll get android haven troopers too?
Why, just make another one of course! Its a slab of meat, it shouldn't take any longer to make than say, a chassis. I guess the (theoretical) maintenance centers for these things would have huge beef vats to replace each legs every time they're blown up. Hell even then you'd have 'Medical' units on standby monitoring possible infections on the fleshy growth since Biological weapons (i'm talking about the microbes here) would be something to look-out for. And for the staff, just put em in a hazmat suit and operate in a sterile chamber away from the motor pool or some shit. I could see this thing needs maintenance from a twisted amalgam of a vet and a robotics technician. So you would definitely need some very trained staff to make sure this thing would ran smoothly
I actually attempted to do this for the Gekko a couple years ago based on cutscene footage from MGS4. My estimate is that a Gekko weighs 1-1.5 tons. The Gekko has a 650 horsepower engine, which is what you'd expect out of a race car of around that weight. The Gekko also uses the same artificial muscle as RAY, which is shown to be able to float, so its density must be equal to or less than the density of water. A full metal mech of a similar size would weigh in the neighborhood of 5 tons. The nearest comparable real-life vehicle, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, has a curb weight of 6.4 tons. Also, MGS4's intro scene has the Gekko standing on a second-story floor without crashing through it, and MGS4's first scene with Raiden has him throwing the Gekko into a concrete wall, which doesn't break, limiting the vehicle's weight even further.
Will a synthetic organ even be vulnerable to that?
Anthony Morris
Probably, since the organs are still vat-grown and thus, organic matter. Then again, tweaking them shouldn't be hard. Lab-grown meat must've been really alien to most of us, since it's meat that was grown in-vitro, so you could have likened them akin to plant produce, but plants are organisms unto themselves unlike the meat there. Though, relying on disease to disable GEKKOs would be pretty impractical in (theoretical) practice since delivering it is a huge hurdle and you'd be better off shooting them in the first place instead of slowly poisoning it. . . . Or you know, just cook 'em. It's still flesh down there, even with all the metallic coating
