Well, it's 'battle dress' in that some wag hung that emotive title on 'powered exoskeleton with armour'. It is technically true (much like a set of fatigues is battle dress) but it's also just dramatic sounding. The designers may never have called it that but the marketers would.

It's really a protected, powered, heavy duty exoskeleton.

Now, a Pioneer versions for breaching operations would really be 'battle dress' and one could argue that Marines on a ship in a damage control set of battle dress may have to fight in that if boarded, so it could still be battle dress. There is a fuzzy line at that point.

For search and rescue, they might call it a 'SAR exoskeleton' or 'lifesaver suit'. They'd be useful in really toxic or dangerous settings and could help with earthquake rescue or other collapse scenarios as well as fires, floods, and underwater rescues potentially.

A cyberpunkish part of my brain wants to call them 'Frames' or 'Powered Frames' because that's the core of battle dress, Alien movie-style power lifters, and every other variant of a powered exoskeleton, however protected or not.



On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 5:41 AM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2020 11:56:37 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

>Did you comment on my idea of specialized battle dress for naval damage
>control and repair I sent in email?

I have it, and had some thoughts on it, but haven't managed to get said
thoughts "down on paper" yet. One of the first thoughts, and the most
important, amounted to "This is an interesting idea, but I don't like the
idea of calling it _Battle Dress_, even with a modifier." I'm still letting
my subunconscious try to noodle a 'better' term.

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