Listen up, Scartoe!A high-tech armament system for infantry soldiers sparked interest among anime fans at a recent Ministry of Defense research presentation when officials announced that it was designed with the popular Gundam anime in mind.
The Advanced Personal Armament System, Japan's version of the Future Soldier project (to modernize combat infantry units), was introduced by the ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute. Titled "Towards the realization of Gundam", the system offers a network-linked helmet providing night and thermal vision and GPS technology, amongst other capabilities. Personally, it doesn't look like much, considering how cool those Japanimators make their anime.
Speaking of GPS, calls for the Defense Ministry to distribute position tracking cell phones to ministry officials have been raised in an effort to discourage them being wined and dined by defense contractors. This follows the discovery that former Administrative Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya was engaging in collusive relations with an executive from a major defense contractor. See, there's corrupt relations between government officials and defense contractors overseas just like ours!
On a side note, there is an obesity scale from one to five (I think it's disgustingly obese to morbid), and it has something to do with body mass and how far down gut fat goes. Like level one is waist band curling and level five goes to the knees. Anyway, they put out commercials for Gundam model building, where the difficulty level is also on a one to five scale. Clever lads that we are, Herr Doctor and I just started referring to fatties as Gundams. And now you know.
And for those who have never dorked out to MSG, here's a taste.
2 comments:
i did see this.
no gundanium alloy
no vernier thrusters
no energy sword
lame
I knew you would be displeased...but every step is one step closer to living the Gundam dream.
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