As times change for types of warfare, so do transportation, armor, and weapons. From the caveman era with rocks wrapped with veins around a stick followed by the Renaissance era with archers and swords. Then came the conquest of the Americas with single-shot weapons and light clothing, today with multiple automatic rifles and body armor. Some wonder what the future of military technology development such as weapons and armor will be. Marvel's Iron Man takes a very detailed look from the government, after the first film where Tony Stark (main character in the comics and films) creates a suit that gives him superhuman abilities, bulletproof metal, health monitoring system, the ability to fly, and many other things. Many fans of the Iron Man trilogy dream of the day when science fiction becomes reality. U.S. Special Operations Command officials have issued a formal request to researchers to help build this suit that the military calls the Tactical Lightweight Operator Assault (TALOS). As the military prepares for future wars, it wants to research the Iron Man suit and develop a functioning suit by 2018. Even if the cost of building an Iron Man suit is too high, the armor would help protect the soldiers with serious war wounds, thanks to medical/technological advances and the capabilities it gives to the operator, war would also change. Although many people might say it would just be a waste of time due to other military development failures, the national budget is shrinking. In the late 1990s, the US government began working on a new type of spy satellite. The project cost US taxpayers billions of dollars, but none of the satellites were built. The reason for t...... middle of paper ......national, nd Web. October 21, 2013. Official Army website. Army, Oct. 17, 2013. Web. Oct. 21, 2013. .Puzzanghera, Jim, Kathleen Hennessey, and David S. Cloud. "US budget cuts begin 'slowly.'" Gentlemen. ProQuest, March 2, 2013. Web. November 5, 2013. .Robson, David. Weapons and defense research. San Diego: Landmark, 2013. Print.Yahoo: News. Yahoo, 10 October 2013. Web. 21 October. 2013. .