Russia showed off its new "Star Wars-like" combat suit on Thursday at a science and technology university in Moscow, state-owned media outlet RT reported.
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Russia just released a video unveiling its new 'Star Wars' combat suit
The suit features "cutting-edge" armor, an exoskeleton, a helmet and visor and more.
Russian "Star Wars" combat suit.
The "next-generation" suit comes with a "powered exoskeleton" that supposedly gives the soldier more strength and stamina, along with "cutting-edge" body armor, and a helmet and visor that shields the soldier's entire face, RT said.
The suit also has a "pop-up display that can be used for tasks like examining a plan of the battlefield," Andy Lynch, who works for a military company called Odin Systems, told MailOnline. There's also a light on the side of the helmet for inspecting maps or weapons.
Russia hopes to produce the suit "within the next couple of years," Oleg Chikarev, deputy chief of weapons systems at the Central Research Institute for Precision Machine Building, which developed the gear, told MailOnline.
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It should be noted, however, the video only showed a static display of the suit, and it's still an open question of whether it actually has any of the capabilities that are claimed.
Still, Russia is not the only country developing such technology, Sim Tack, a Stratfor analyst, told Business Insider in an emailed statement.
The US hopes to unveil its own Tactical
But given how much effort countries are putting into developing these suits, "we may well see some type of them reach the battlefield at some point," Tack said.
Check out the "Star Wars-like" suit below:
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