Videos of the Bear Protection Suit Body Armor


Back in January 2007, nextbigfuture covered the bear 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 years and $150,000 in the lab out back of his house in North 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 about $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 worn 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 also features a knife holster and air conditioned helmet.

The suit has many features including a solar powered air system, recording device, compartments for emergency morphine and salt, and a knife and gun holster. He estimates that the cost of each suit to be roughly $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 receive any offers to buy the Trojan, Hurtubise – now bankrupt from the expense of creating the suit – was forced to put the prototype up for auction on eBay in the hopes that it would bring in enough money to sustain his family. Unfortunately for Hurtubise, the auction’s reserve bid was not met. There was a raffle for the suit on the Mission Trojan website, whose goal is to raise money for further prototypes and testing 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 used to finance the Trojan S type armour. This new model is superior to the T model in many ways as detailed on his website and YouTube channel.

The new type S armour purports to be lighter, tougher, more flexible, cheaper to produce and provide more complete 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 likely that the body armor that they are spending a lot more money on is superior to what Troy has cooked up.

1 thought on “Videos of the Bear Protection Suit Body Armor”

  1. Pingback: 1patients

Comments are closed.