You have an unlimited budget to make the worlds first tactical umbrella. What does your umbrella do?

Unlimited budget? My tactical umbrella is capable of generating 5MW of electricity from cold nuclear fusion.

Then you will need a secondary umbrella for primary, watsr and electricity go boom boom together
- Thankfully, being shaped like an umbrella, the design already accounts for this by directing rain away from the power output located at the base of the handle. It's Type C!
  With my unlimited budget, I have also funded research to increase the official USB-C PD spec to a frankly irresponsible five megawatts of energy throughput.
Ok, but can you hold it above your head?
- Why wouldn't they be able to? It's an umbrella.

Serves as a shield against small calibre bullets. Is able to accurately fire sniper rounds

Kingsman enjoyer?
- I mean I was basically gonna comment the Kingsman umbrella lol. It just makes sense. They got guns, bulletproof, video screens, they're strong as hell, and don't they have swords in them too?

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I’d put the unlimited budget to work miniaturizing a drone fleet powerful enough to maintain position / reliably follow the user thru storm winds that hold a large umbrella-style cover over you.

I never use umbrellas cuz I feel like they’re annoying to carry and you still get wet, but if it just reliably kept me dry with no extra work on my part I’d be more interested.

the song "jesus walks" has to play full volume fron the drone speakers when this happens

Never folds the wrong way or moves unpredictably during strong winds.

Let's air pass through, but only one-way? Could potentially use it to Mary Poppins out of a situation

Thermal mask against FPV drones.

And a cool sword, that'd be sick.

To fight off said drones, no doubt

It's absolutely bananas that this would come up now, because I'm almost finished designing one in FreeCAD lol. Is it in the zeitgeist right now or something? Is it because the most recent No Kings had a yellow umbrella theme?

Mind you, I'm very untalented at CAD, just doing it for funsies and to learn the Assembly workbench. I will upload it to ManyFold when it's done and tested though if anyone's interested.

I'm hoping it'll be sturdy enough to survive blunt impacts, and able to slow down some weaker munitions, but it's gonna be on the heavy side. Expecting it to cost roughly $100 worth of parts. You could definitely build it WAY cheaper but I'm going all high quality.

Dunno, umbrellas just popped into my head -- probably to do with the rain we have here
Have fun with the modelling!
- Thanks!! It's rainy here too lol

If you did it today, it wouldn't be the first. Here are some:

The Unbreakable Umbrella is the first one I can recall hearing of. It's heavy (775g) and made of a composite material the manufacturer claims is good for hitting people.
The Streetwise Stunbrella conceals an electroshock weapon inside an umbrella.
Security Umbrella is another umbrella marketed as suitable for hitting people.
"Bulgarian umbrellas" are poison pellet guns built into umbrellas, intended for murder.
Windlass Steelcrafts sells an umbrella which conceals a rapier. There appear to be several similar products from other companies.

"Stunbrella" is great. Top name. Slap a flashlight in the bottom of the handle, which can also be unscrewed off to unsheath a tanto-knife styled blade for piercing and prying (the flashlight end would essentially be the handle/pommel of this knife.)

Found OP

Its a Mary Poppins umbrella that floats you gently to the ground. And a laser shoots from the top.

Wouldn't you want the lasers to shoot from the sides? How likely is there to be an enemy above you as you float to the ground?
- Ergonomically, it makes more sense to hold it like a rifle when it's folded.

Integrated fleshlight in the handle. Screen on the underside of the umbrella for videos. Bullet resistant outer shell that expands into a small tent.

Pump action umbrella
You got me back with the tent

It's just an RV. A regular RV. No bells or whistles. Just an RV. It has a toolbox.

How do you carry it around
- It carries you around.

It has a stash of termites inside that can be injected into wooden structures for very slow infiltration of wooden doors and structures.

Your enemies wont know what hit them.

It wouldn’t be the first… the KGB assassinated a guy with one at least once.Bulgarian Umbrella

Cover the entire thing in Molle

Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.

That could be quite handy in a survival sitation, along with another posters suggestion that it can double as a tent in a pinch

Found the middle management testing out their interview question about creativity.

I'm gonna stuff that unlimited budget between the fabric layers of mine and take it home with me.

Kill dissidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella

Somehow rain never hits you from the side even when it's windy or your running really fast.

Pretty much everything from Johnny English

Shield from rain

A hidden button pops out saw teeth at the edges and starts the whole thing spinning. I will wade through this storm, of my own creation.

Might be the ultimate zombie weapon depending on battery life

It has a detachable canopy that can stabilize and move on its own for 5-6 seconds

That's pretty cool, it could be a drone of sorts that follows where you point the shaft like a baton

My umbrella will be super light. It will connect on my back and blocks rain whichever the direction it's coming from. Think Dr Oct but only one limb holding an umbrella.

thats really cool, and I feel could be made today

Snack compartment

Was gonna say high capacity pez dispenser.

add a red button to fire the nukes
take the rest of the unlimited budget for expenses.

I add a chatbot to it.

Make it so it never rains if you have the umbrella with you.

In before all life going extinct due to a massive drought.
- What would happen if I wore my rain boots (it always rains where they are worn) and held this umbrella?
But then you have no need for the umbrella if it's not raining. It just becomes dead weight.

The unbrawlah. Any violence ends when you get within a meter or so of the umbrella when open. Not bounces off like a forcefield but like a zone of safety.

comes up with tactics as the name implies

weather forecast

It doesn't look like anything. It's an invisibility umbrella.

It also lets you walk through walls.

The umbrella from Kings Avatar.