Jogger Frame

"Jogger Frames" refers to a series of powered exoskeleton suits in service with the . Once a developing technology favored for heavy industry and disability care, suits also showed promise in a military role. However, the technology was slow to adopt and reserved for logistical purposes. With the advent of inhospitable environments including off-world military interests, modern Jogger Frames gained a relevant niche in combat.
Contemporary Jogger Frames are light, skeletal suits designed to encase and support a user's posture during intense exercise. Packed with body armor and excess equipment, the suits take the unneeded weight off a soldier's body and protect them during periods of long patrols. Unlike traditional armored systems, Jogger Frames focus around an encasement design, offering only minimal increases in protection and offers marginal increases of physical prowess without straining the user. For this reason and contemporary military doctrine favoring a stationary form of power projection, Jogger Frames are left to use by offensive combat units in unfavorable terrain. Airborne, mountain, mixed-mechanized, ranger, reconnaissance, and rapid reaction forces in the and display the most use out of Jogger Frames.
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==Misriah Armory PM52G==
THe PM52G is the UNSC Armed Forces standard issue and the face of modern Jogger Frames, adopted in 2525 originally for fighting the ongoing 2497 Insurrection. Part of a 2522 UNSC Ordinance Commission procurement competition for the UNSC Marine Corps' next mechanized arm-suit, the PM52G classification required a focus on enabling shock troops to penetrate tough operational environments impassible by standard UNSC ground vehicles and aircraft. No one was looking for a compact exoframe, just a free-movement suit that could carry increased loads and weaponry.
But instead, Misriah Armory in a rare moment of genius, overdelivered on their package by greatly shrinking the scale over the previous generation along with cost. Misriah Armory's PM52G offered a relatively lightweight and skeletal frame capable of fitting inside a Inner Colonies road-legal M12 Warthog FAV seat or aboard a M274 Mongoose ATV unlike many other suit offerings which required special modifications in the period before the UNSC started phasing-in vehicle designs with Spartan-scale accomodations. Imbrium Machine Complex, the other competitor, stood down their more encapsulated and vacuum-rated Series 01 MIMIC from the competition.
The PM52G weighs around 90 pounds or 40 kilograms through a Titanium-A underframe covered with synthetic-composite soft armor made with layered meshes capable of absorbing some small arms fire and absorbing heat from explosives exhaust. Much of the external protection mesh and frame are used for layering further plating or carrying gear that is freely suspended off the human body allowing the user to carry nearly three times their capable carrying weight. Subsequently other UNSC branches have adopted the PM52G for their own specialized infantry units when appropriate.
==IMC Series 01 MIMIC==
The doomed finalist offering of Imbrium Machine Complex's attempt at the PM52G competition. The Series 01 MIMIC was a more traditional design offering for a infantry combat exoframe to augment the wearers strength, speed, carry weight, and protection but the price tag did not lead to a final favor on part of the UNSC Ordinance Commission.
==Lethbridge Industrial MONSTER==
==Next-Generation M84 Hecaton==
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