Sure, we're not talking about Mr Starks mark forty-something all singing all dancing suit. A lot of the stuff that's in the later designs is pretty out there. But the bog standard mark 1 suit he uses to get out of that cave in Afghanistan?
We could do that.
As the guy who plays agent Phil Coulson in The Avengers will now show you:
The approach these guys are taking to their XOS2 suit is in some ways very like Tony Starks, and in some ways very different. They both use an external skeleton to provide the strength a human body couldn't. But where Stark geniuses up an Arc reactor to power his, these guys are working on making the suit efficient enough that it could carry about a realistic sized battery pack.
Considering that the Tesla sports car is entirely battery powered, that may not be far off.
And this isn't the only place scientists and engineers are making progress on the superpowers front. Have you met Jet Man?
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