User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare confirmed to be set in 2054/@comment-5670680-20140503084707/@comment-3967954-20140503135617

Yes, but just because we have the capability to make these things, it doesn't necessarily mean we'll actually use them. You could literally name any zany invention and then say "People will do this in the future because we have the technology!"

Armed forces currently do not, and probably never will, want to waste millions of dollars on mechs and hoverbikes. It's not a question of whether they're possible, because I know that if we really wanted to, we could make big jumpy exoskeletons and stompy mech suits, it's a question of whether they're actually practical and what advantages they actually offer.

Why have a guy go through the trouble of piloting a clunky mech suit when you could just send in a remotely-controlled drone to do the job with twice the firepower, a la BOII?