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Back in January 2007 nextbigfuture covered the stomach protection body armor suit made by Troy Hurtubise Troy Hurtubise has made a suit that stops bullets from 12 gauge to ELEPHANT GUN shrapnel and is light weight He spent two days and 150 000 in the lab out back of his family in Union Bay Ontario Canada designing and building a practical lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets explosives knives and clubs He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the first ballistic full exoskeleton body suit of armour The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms It covers everything but the fingertips and the major joints and

could be mass produced for approximately 2 000 Hurtubise says Trjoan Ballistic suit of armor at wikipedia In early 2007 Hurtubise made public his new protective suit which was designed to be drawn by soldiers Calling it the Trojan Hurtubise describes it as the first ballistic full exoskeleton body suit of armour Weighing in at 40 lbs he claims that the suit can withstand bullets from high powered weapons including an elephant gun Hurtubise claims that he has been unable to test the suit against live ammunition because no one is willing to shoot him in it It too features a knife holster and air conditioned helmet The case has many features including a solar powered air system recording device compartments for emergency morphine and salt and a tongue and gun holster He estimates that the cost of each suit to be around 2 000 if mass produced It has been called the Halo suit after the fictional MJOLNIR battle armor the Master Chief character wears in the Xbox game In early February 2007 after failing to have any offers to buy the Trojan Hurtubise now bankrupt from the disbursement of creating the suit was forced to put the image up for auction on eBay in the hopes that it would bring in enough money to hold his family Unfortunately for Hurtubise the auction s reserve bid was not met There was a raffle for the cause on the Mission Trojan website whose end is to raise money for further prototypes and examination of the Trojan Suit to demonstrate its abilities for military applications The suit was won by Sara Markis of West Palm Beach Florida The money raised from the raffle of the Trojan T model armour was exploited to finance the Trojan S type armour This new example is master to the T model in many ways as elaborated on his site and YouTube channel The new type S armour purports to be lighter tougher more flexible cheaper to make and allow more perfect body coverage than any other type or armour anywhere The suits look nice and are full body armor but they are not exoskeletons DARPA funds a lot of stuff and has not picked up on this so it seems probable that the body armor that they are spending a lot more money on is superordinate to what Troy has cooked up