PA strength

> KH wrote:
PA, I meant the suit. If a room collapsed, the PA is harder to
> extract from the rubble.... (bigger/heavier/more awkward). Blowing

You don't need to blow your suit if you just can lift the bricks. How much
lifting etc. can a suit of power armour do? I would have thought at least a
few hundred Kilos (a trained Weight Lifter can do that), perhaps even a ton or
two (a light crane)?

[Tomb]
I don't think so. Here's why: If I've got an  Aliens cargo-lifter, I'd
believe you. It is designed to move loads. Fighting PA would be loaded to the
chassis limit probably with armour plate, comms, power plant, environmental
supplies like air, water, and weapons systems and sensors. A combat PA system
probably can't lift all that much more because it is probably outfitted to
near the limit of capacity already. Or so I suspect. You pull a lot with a
tracked bulldozer, but a tank tends to have finite limits because it is
already loaded down with armour and a turret and a main gun, etc.

It is an utterly arguable point, but it makes sense to me that you would put
as much armour and gear on your PA as was feasible.