With today's science and technology, is Iron Man's armor possible?

Does science and technology today catch up with the fictional inventions of the 1963 years?

Iron Man, or Tony Stark is one of Marvel's most admired superhero characters. He is one of those rare characters who is really capable of dealing with superhuman forces only thanks to science and technology and his own superhuman armor.

Also, the feasibility of this armor is one of the topics that have been heatedly discussed for decades, especially recently when breakthroughs in science and technology are constantly appearing.

First of all, we need to thoroughly examine each of the outstanding and controversial functions present in the latest Iron Man armor in "Avengers: Ultron's era", the Mark XLV armor :

Support user power

Currently the Exoskeleton armor is being developed to be able to lift objects weighing up to 90kg.

This ability includes punches enough to subdue the "blue giant Hulk" to the ability to lift airplanes in distress. Currently, the developed Exoskeleton armor is fully capable of lifting objects weighing up to 90kg easily and supporting people in armor with jobs that require greater flexibility as tested with Anti-push without costing a sweat.

But to be able to compare with the capabilities of Mark XLV, scientists probably need research for many more years.

The Exoskeleton HULC set "coincidentally" bears the same name as the "green giant" Hulk.

Flight capability using "Repulsor Beams" jet engine

Although jet engines are one of the technologies already in use today, when people have successfully taken unmanned flights to Mars, "Repulsor Beams" is a fictional technology and Real-life technology cannot simulate the same mechanism.

But if you use a conventional jet engine, a big challenge is to include the necessary fuel to maintain the long-term flying speed faster than the speed of Iron Man's sound. And especially in the process of achieving sound speed, the circulation of blood in the operator's body will be pushed down to the feet, then the amount of blood in the brain will be limited, causing serious health consequences. .

Similar to Mark I in Iron Man Part 1, this Jetpack uses compressed air and only has vertical vertical flight.

And although the ability to fly using jet dynamics is successful, a separate technology needs to be developed to simulate the function of firing a powerful spark from an iron man's hand. Despite being far less destructive and almost unaffordable to its goal, the homemade laser device using 1000 kW was invented, partly to prove its feasibility. exam of making this device.

Persistence against terrible destructive effects

Mark XLV is made of Vibranium (also the material of the "Captain America" ​​shield), a material that only exists in the Marvel world and is one of the most durable materials besides Adamantium (made up of bones). of Wolverine) and Uru.

Although there are no kinetic properties such as Vibranium, Carbyne , one of the newly discovered natural materials has a higher hardness than diamond and has won the strongest artificial material of the planet Graphene. Although this material has no way to be produced in large quantities, in the near future Carbyne will certainly be applied in manufacturing industries.

Carbyne, the hardest material on the planet.

Also one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the dream of armor is to ensure the integrity of the person inside the armor. In the film when suffering from the real blow to be called "heaven" from the blonde god Thor or the "shocking" punch of the "giant blue" Hulk, making our "mortal" superhero flying, without the mysterious assistive technologies in the armor, when opening the armor, the inside certainly couldn't be a healthy body of a living human being.

Instant self-installing ability

Although Mark is unable to find himself and install a complete armor on superheroes, this is still one of the most impressive improvements from previous Iron Man armor versions. One thing worth noting here is that these separate pieces of armor are capable of flying and navigating similarly to today's automated drones and thus the ability to realize this function is entirely feasible.

FRIDAY (Or JARVIS)

FRIDAY is an AI software used by Tony Stark.

FRIDAY is an AI software used by Tony Stark after JARVIS completely transformed its artificial consciousness into Vision's body with the support of one of the "permanent stones". And similar to JARVIS, FRIDAY probably also possesses enough artificial intelligence to develop into an entity capable of thinking like a Vision character.

With the success of Google's artificial intelligence in the recent tumultuous game or the remarkable progress of AI in understanding human voices and especially the attention and development investment of houses Developing world-leading technologies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, an artificial intelligence with similar capabilities to JARVIS will almost certainly be created in the near future.

And the most important is probably the mobile reactor "Arc Reactor".

The blue glowing energy device, often located right in the middle of Iron Man's chest, is probably the key to overcoming many of the technology limitations mentioned above. Arc Reactor was originally invented by Howard Stark, the genius father of Tony Stark, to replace the energy produced from dangerous and toxic nuclear reactors. From this invention, Tony Stark created the smaller Arc Reactor that fits in the armor as an energy source for all of his state-of-the-art equipment.

Similar technology is in the development phase and is called "Fusion" technology.

If this device really exists and is capable of providing a tremendous amount of energy as in the film, the above jet engine may be able to use much lighter materials and still ensure thrust. of engine. Iron Man's weapons are also much easier to materialize.

And the good news here, is that a similar technology is in the development phase and is called "Fusion multiplication technology " and has the opposite way of using Fission "nuclear fission" technology (like current nuclear reactor used).

This technology provides a larger, cheaper amount of clean energy because the fuel is abundant and especially much safer. These reactors do not yet exist, but in the near future the use of this new energy source will certainly be widely used. However, in order to be able to build a compact nuclear reactor like in the film, scientists probably need to study for many more years.

Ark Reactor is the most important key in successfully crafting "massive" armor sets.

However, looking back on Iron Man first, we can comfort ourselves with the fact that super genius Tony Stark also had a "more modest" start with his Mark I armor. Only after being helped by his late father, did Tony Stark create the Ark Reactor device, which is the most important key in successfully building his more "powerful" armor sets.

And when it comes to the criteria of the Mark I, the current technology is really close to catching up, a typical example is the Raytheon XOS 2, especially the designs intended to be used for those Future versions somewhat have similarities with Iron Man's Mark I.

The current technology is really close to catching up, a typical example is the Raytheon XOS 2 .