I know in Black isles FO3 the chinese had some sort of stealth power armor, but that's it. Was the US the only country that had any?

The Chinese also had their own power armor prototypes reverse-engineered from the American original, but they weren't that effective.

MFFFF. they never covered this issue, since the US got engaged in a cold war with this one, and apparently teh soviets collapsed there as they did here I GUESS there could be some soviet power armor or british power armor, since they were still allies.... as well as power armor in othe rnations...

then again if you're a stickler for canon and scream "NO!" at any remote speculation I suppose only the chinese had power armor besides the states... since after all FO has never taken placve in any other nation.

The Soviet Union did not collapse in the Fallout Universe

I say Israel had power armor. If anyone scoffs, note that the Pentium M/Centrino/Core (Duo) that you're using now was developed in Israel. Along with half of the medical technology you've eve used in your life and 2/3 of the medical technology that you've never been sick enough to need.

:P

All lot of which never existed in the fallout universe.

We could assume that the Soviet Union would have had some form of power armor...just think Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

we cant know that none of it would exist there is differences in the time frames but there could be similarities

Computer technology developed in an entirely different way in Fallout.

The Integrated Circit (Silicon Chip) never happened. So there is no Pentium, much less its dirivates.

It quite possible the formation of Israel could have been completely different - as its formation was at the close of WW2, and we cant be 100% certain when things started to divulge; Or, it could have been wiped out by its arab neighbours (as their power and strength would have temporarily increased as the oil began to slow and prices rise... Until of course it went dry...)

my post was deleted?

It was deleted for a reason. Reposting it is NOT a good plan.

yeah, things in fallout look more like if they were still running with tubes ^_^

Of course the Pentium M doesn't exist in Fallout! My point is that if in our universe, half the Information Technology comes out of Israel, then perhaps (not certainly, but all the same, still plausibly), so too in Fallout, whatever that IT happens to be. So if Fallout's IT is vacuum tubes, then fine; Israel in Fallout makes the best vacuum tubes. Apparently Israel wasn't wiped out by the Arabs in the 1950s, however, as Tel Aviv was blown up in December 2053.

Sigh...there goes that joke, in the over-explained joke cemetery...

Doesnt mean that Israel exists, just that the city of Tel Aviv does.... Although it suggests that Israel does. Israel could have developed more in line with the original UN plan for the region (which I'll avoid discussing further due to the rules)

We have no idea what the economy of that region was like in the fallout universe... So to say that it must be X because in the real world it developed that way isnt neccesarily the best way of doing things - In the real world, the US and the UK have a very close relationship and share military and nuclear secrets, so we'd expect the US to share oil with its best friend, right? - Didnt happen.

What was the Isreali economy doing in the 1950's? What nations were on friendly terms? You need to start there and move forward, not start at today.

For crying out loud, I was just trying to joke! Of course we cannot be sure what Israel is like in the Fallout universe! I was just trying making a patriotic quip, that "Israel rocks!! Wooh go Israel wooh!!".

As for Israel's economy in the 1950s, I'm not sure, and I couldn't readily find anything good online. I know that Hebrew University (Israel's premier university) was founded in 1918 and Technion (Israel's equivalent of MIT) in 1924, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1934, and Bar-Ilan and Tel Aviv universities in 1955 and 56 respectively, so I suspect that Israel's scientific capabilities were not small in the 1950s, but I'm not sure. Wikipedia's articles on Israel's economy and technology are either very general (avoiding dates), or focus on the 1980s and onward.

Israels economy is basically:

Tiny (but impressive) high tech sector

Agriculture

Subsidy from the US

Military spending

Large portion of the Jewish population entirely non-productive (immigrants and orthodox)

And off topic we go...

Heh, anyway I think by the time the US unveils Power Armour, they were the only ones - that's why they cut a swath through the Chinese I imagine (walking tanks, never before seen, etc.), and probably the only ones that could at that point. The EU had pretty much shattered itself with war with the Middle Eastern states (and vice versa), the USSR..well ok I'm not sure if they were included in the "European Commonwealth" but I'll assume they still could research & produce powered armour.

it could be possible given the circumstances of the FO3 universe that technology was invented in more of a war curve then our leisure/convenience way like ours did. so i guess that other countries could have power armor .


what do u guys think each countries PA looked like i mean ours was all industrial and sich so ya...

I believe the idea was that when Power Armor was unveiled it was so cutting edge that no one was ready for it, hence the solid beat-down that was laid on Anchorage by the US.

But that was in 2066, there were 11 more years until the bombs fell, it's possible someone else developed it.

If you look, generally, this is the way it is based on in game.

U.S. : Power Armor, Laser Weapons, Plasma Weapons.

China : Chinese Jumpsuits, Chinese Pistol ( Hardly better than a .32 Pistol ), and Chinese Assault Rifle ( Better than American Assault Rifles, but far less than the Energy Weapons. ).

China also had stealth suits, Gauss Rifles and Gauss Miniguns.

In my opinion, it is most likely, the U.S. are the ones who had the actual, bulky, powerful power armor.

China, stealth power armor, and other countries, perhaps weaker power armor.

Actually, China also worked on their power armor prototypes according to Fallout Bible, but they were years behind the US.

Yeah the Fallout Bible said when the US first introduced PA the Chinese tried in vain to develop it to counter the Americans but failed since they were far behind