Thursday 2 June 2022 10:46 PM Ex-Navy SEAL tells Joe Rogan the US military is building a real-life Iron Man ... trends now A retired Navy SEAL spoke to podcaster Joe Rogan about the United States' military's plan to build a real-life suit for soldiers based on Marvel's Iron Man. Kristin Beck, 55, was the guest on Wednesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience and spoke about the project, codenamed 'Carnivore.' According to Task & Purpose, it was originally known as the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS but colloquially is called 'the Iron Man suit.' The program was stopped abruptly in 2019. Beck, the first openly transgender Navy SEAL and one who has been awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, seemed to suggest that the suit was still in production. 'We've been working on it for a long time,' Beck told Rogan. 'I was on the beginning of project. It was called 'Carnivore' first and a few other names. But in the beginning it was only a small handful of us working on it.' Kristin Beck, 55, was the guest on Wednesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience and spoke about the project, codenamed 'Carnivore' Rogan was curious about the project, which Beck claimed she had to be careful how she spoke of Beck, the first openly transgender Navy SEAL and one who has been awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, seemed to suggest that the suit was still in production despite SOCOM saying it had been shut down in 2019 The modern attempts to build a super-suit stem from the popularity of Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man films Beck said the suit is made out of titanium, carbon and fiber. Rogan wanted to know if the suit was a type of exoskeleton. 'Yeah. It's much stronger. You can carry a thousand pounds, you can do a lot,' Beck said. 'If you think about that kind of a suit, an exoskeleton, how are you gonna move that exoskeleton, those people? So if you had a squad, let's just say you had 12 dudes in those exoskeletons, what airplane are gonna use? What humvees? What vehicles? How are you gonna get these guys around? What boats? It changes everything.' She claimed that the suit would be strong enough to stop a bunch of potential threats. 'I have to be careful of some of the stuff I say,' she said. 'They're always working on it,' she added with a smile. The military's attempts to build a sort of superhero-esque exoskeleton dates back to 1961, when the Pentagon asked American defense contractors to work on submissions for a 'servo soldier' that they equivocated to 'a human tank equipped with power steering and power brakes.' Models for the modern 'Iron Man' suit date back to at least 2013, when U.S. Special Operations Command started showing off the prototype According to Task & Purpose , it was originally known as the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS but colloquially is called 'the Iron Man suit.' The program was stopped abruptly in 2019 A diagram of some of the features SOCOM wanted the so-called super suit to have before it was shut down in 2019 The idea was inspired by the 1959 publication of Starship Troopers, as Iron Man was still two years away. In the decades since, with the advancements in technology, similar ideas have proliferated in the military. The TALOS suit dates back to 2013, well after Iron Man had become a box office sensation, spawning sequels and an entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. US Special Operations Command wanted the final product to be a mix of Iron Man and something from the Halo video games, capable of unconstrained movement, a heads up display and weapons integration capable of 'surgical lethality' The suit itself likely met its end when the military confirmed it had been discontinued in 2019, but parts of it will probably function within future military innovations. All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility