EOD suit and bomb defusal robot

This has probably been suggested before, but it’s not in the game (surprisingly.) An EOD suit would be a nice earlier game substitute for power armor, and a bomb defusing robot would make clearing minefields much safer. You could even add nomex or additional armor plating to the suit to make it into a juggernaut suit.

They should be suitably rare, perhaps found in military/SWAT vehicles, police stations, military bunkers, etc.

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EOD suits don’t function like you think, sure it will mostly protect you from the shrapnel of the bomb, but it if you get caught in the explosion, then you’re pretty toast, as the pressure of the shockwave can’t dissipate easily in your body, and will most likely tear your internal organs apart and outright kill you. Plus it would be like wearing a giant winter glove over your whole body, which would encumber you greatly without the plating (which the EOD already has, the jug’s suit is entirely based on the EOD suit, but can’t really function the same as the games, as kevlar, ceramics, steel, and all that don’t really make you impervious to bullets…

Anyways, it’s rare that any real person tries to go defuse a bomb, because the EOD bot is a lot more useful for that, because all you have to use is basically a super compressed airhorn that knocks a single wire out to defuse most bombs, otherwise they use a welder to weld the bomb apart if the wires are actually sturdy…