Seeing the Air Force sergeant enter in an Umbrella Individual Equipment system, everyone, including William, stopped their polite small talk and turned their attention to the sergeant.
Immediately afterward.
The sergeant saluted the American representatives, then stated his name and rank. After receiving approval from the three colonels, he began testing the Individual Equipment system.
First, they tested whether the system would negatively affect the wearer under maximum load, and whether it would impair agility.
This old-fashioned Individual Equipment system had a maximum load of 1.2 tons. Of course, among all the Individual Equipment weapons currently known, there was nothing that weighed 1.2 tons.
Therefore, after a flurry of work by a group of technicians in white coats on Umbrella's side, the sergeant was equipped with every useful or useless primary weapon, melee weapon, piece of ammunition, and so on.
In the end, the fully equipped load weighed 350 kilograms. Along with the massive backpack and the weapons covered in various accessories and magazines, several secondary weapons of different calibers were also strapped to his belt.
A 350-kilogram load.
Even for the US military's elite Black Operations Unit, this was an impossible challenge.
Under normal circumstances, a human who had undergone extensive load-bearing and combat training could carry roughly his own body weight at most, averaging between 100 and 150 kilograms.
Moreover, a human carrying that much weight would be unable to conduct ordinary combat operations.
The current world-record holder was Latvia's Agris Kazelniks, who had carried a 300-kilogram weight on his shoulders for twenty meters.
Twenty meters.
Three hundred kilograms.
Yet this record, which represented the pinnacle of human achievement, was easily surpassed by Umbrella's Individual Equipment system.
The Air Force sergeant walked, jogged, crouched, and made quick turns under the 350-kilogram load, without any of these basic movements