M88M4 GRAM Infantry Battle Armor

The latest in UNSC personal armor technology introduced in 2573 but wasn't produced on a truly mass scale until 2587 due to economic and logistics issues, the M88 GRAM is a major improvement over the Pre-War and During-War BDU's.
Replacing the M52B Battle Armor, which served in the UNSCDF for the entirety of the Great-War, the GRAM is the standard issue body armor for the average frontline soldier and supporting personnel since 2587 to currently 2632. It incorporates standard line UNSC HUD technology, existing but heavily refined and enhanced very light power augmentation technologies and protection methods molded by experiences and hard data gathered from the Great-War.
== Armor Plating Components & Protection Methods ==
The primary protection that the GRAM provides to the wearer is a composite armor. This details an outer shell of molybdenum-zirconium-titanium alloy, a highly heat resistant material, reinforced with a special high young modulus steel formulation that has been treated with nanoparticles in order to gain higher performance. This shell with fused with a network of ablative carbon ceramic tiles, further reinforcing it, and an inner layer of nanocrystalline-boron-aerogel polymers that added additional heat and thermal protection. 
Underneath this shell was a single walled carbon nanotube mesh layered over liquid crystal, which had both heat dissipation and anti-ballistic abilities, bonded to a thick packet of shock-absorbing non-Newtonian liquids, forming a layer that was dedicated to shock-absorbing and ballistic protection, as well as providing rigid reinforcement when necessary. 
Each armor piece of the IBA, except for the armored boots, is made of this composite, with pieces in more critical areas being slightly thicker than the others. This was further backed up by packets of a special flexible foam material that, upon being exposed to breaches in the armor plating, would instantly expand, filling in the breaches, and become as hard as a crystal, not only sealing possibly critical breaches but also limiting the amount of structural integrity lost.
As for the armored boots, these were made up of a titanium-tungsten shell packed with carbon ceramics and heat-resistant gel along with a inner layer of spall liners and padding.
Moving onto the bodysuit component of the armor itself, its constructed of flexible bonded layers of moisture absorbent carbon nanotubes and a liquid nanocrystal mesh, laminated with ablative gel in order to provide anti-DEW protection. Though these only form the outer layers of the suit, with underlayers themselves consisting of spall liners, gel-padding, aerogel polymers and bundles of electroactive polymer nanofibers. While the bodysuit isn't nearly as strong as the armor itself, it's durable enough to stop six kinetic projectiles and three plasma bolts, though what will be left after that sort of attack will most likely be a slagged one-piece that's fused with the skin of the wearer because of the pure heat emissions from the plasma bolts.
The final protection method of the M88 is an Electromagnetic Plasma Deflector Emitter. A refined technology based off the "Plasma Window" experimented and developed in 21st and 22nd century, the deflector operated by filling volume of space with plasma tightly confined in a magnetic field. The field acted as sort of barrier against both kinetic projectiles and DEW attacks. The military-grade deflector installed on the GRAM is strong enough to reflect, stop, or outright slow down atleast five projectiles, both directed energy and kinetic, before failing, with its power source being the Liquid-Cooled Hydrogen Boosted Battery Pack stored into the back torso peice of the armor.
== Electronic Suite & Modular Systems ==
== Power Generator ==
== Physical Augmenting Technologies ==
The primary augmenter component of the GRAM is the bodysuits EAPNF musculature. Through reacting to electrical stimulation, these EAPNFs act as a sort of synthetic muscle that greatly expands the wearers physical abilities, allowing for feats like being able to lift 2.1 times their own body weight and run at bursts of speeds at 24 mph. 
While certainly not as powerful as the MJOLNIRs Liquid Metal Crystal Piezoelectric augmenter, the abilities of the EAPNF have proven very useful for Marines, especially when carrying heavy weapons, breaching rooms, and facing down stronger enemies like the Sangheilli and Jiralhanae. 
== Models & Variants ==