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Mecha's are stupid fucking childish bullshit
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2017-04-30 at 8:12 PM UTCWhich is the best giant robot?
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2017-04-30 at 8:21 PM UTCWar is completely pointless. Use motivation and inspiration to get what you want /thread.
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2017-04-30 at 8:26 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-30 at 8:30 PM UTCThere are new Voltron episodes on Netflix?! See ya...
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2017-04-30 at 8:40 PM UTCI bet a future conflict between Great Powers/Peers with actual conventional capabilities (before it goes nuclear of course) would have all the high tech shit used up in the first year> and then it would come down the shit that still works, is cost effective and easy to produce, downgrades. And keep in mind everything costs money and people are cheap.
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2017-04-30 at 8:47 PM UTCHe is made out of other Lion robots and is a fucking spaceship with a sword.
I don't think there is a better giant robot. -
2017-04-30 at 8:47 PM UTC
Originally posted by Nil I bet a future conflict between Great Powers/Peers with actual conventional capabilities (before it goes nuclear of course) would have all the high tech shit used up in the first year> and then it would come down the shit that still works, is cost effective and easy to produce, downgrades. And keep in mind everything costs money and people are cheap.
None of the "great powers" will ever engage in a direct conventional war... Ever. That time is long last. You will see a bunch of proxy wars and destabilisations around the world as a means for the big guys to gain political advantages. For example what you see happening in Syria... Is all about co trolling the gas. The high tech next generation shit is not for taking on Russia, it is for making sure that Russia and us won't ever want to fight. No sane power will ever fuck with the United States, it is a logistical impossibility to defeat our military. Less so for the other big boys, but that is still the case. Nobody will win in direct war, someone will just lose less. -
2017-04-30 at 8:50 PM UTCVoltron would ruin Russia.
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2017-04-30 at 8:51 PM UTCAnd jedimerica wouldn't even surive him landing.
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2017-04-30 at 9:36 PM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon None of the "great powers" will ever engage in a direct conventional war… Ever.
Just because we live in the shadow of the bomb right now doesn't mean this state of affairs is eternal. currently a 70 year bubble? 70 years is nothing. and not everyone is rational, fuck man the US are fighting a bunch crazy religious zealots that blow themselves up, so they can have the power to ban porn, smokes and booze. not saying they're powerful just that motivations can be fucking insane. and to presume everyone is rational can be a mistake.The high tech next generation shit is not for taking on Russia, it is for making sure that Russia and us won't ever want to fight.
I thought it was to line the pockets of the job creators.No sane power will ever fuck with the United States, it is a logistical impossibility to defeat our military
In a total war the US is supreme, but you don't need to defeat the whole to claim victory, regional superiority with limited political aims that can be achieved utilising credible violence would probably make them back down, do you really want to die in a nuclear holocaust for the baltics?
Nobody will win in direct war, someone will just lose less.
And who has the most to lose? -
2017-04-30 at 9:56 PM UTC
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2017-04-30 at 10:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by Anal Scratch Hemorrage battlemechs will definitely not work for combat. ….why use those when a drone costing 1/10th of the money could do a lot more?
that. within the forseeable future the technology and cost to produce something like battlemechs isnt feasible, in comparison to other means.
more advanced versions of 'bomb disposal robots' is about as robotech-esque as it's going to get any time soon -
2017-04-30 at 11 PM UTCsPACE DRONES
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2017-05-01 at 2:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by The Self Taught Man What war are you talking about?
World War II
Originally posted by Captain Falcon None of the "great powers" will ever engage in a direct conventional war… Ever.
I'm not so sure. There are powerful groups within the US that would rather see the world burn than lose their status as 'the indespensable nation', and the recent missile/antimissile deployments indicate that they think a nuclear exchange is 'winnable'.
As for drone/mech techh, modern warfare is scaling down - the focus is on small teams establishing strategic objectives over large forces completely destroying one another... Kind of like a scalpel vs. a hammer. It's cheaper and invites less political backlash. This approach would be highly situational if used against a peer-army though.
Drones specifically - like I mentioned before the Yemenis have been using them to great effect against KSA, but that's not specific to drones... It's using a cheap weapon to force the enemy to expend their expensive weapons; financial attrition.
In general I've been thinking drones won't be especially effective in warfare. They're relatively short range, slow, carry small payloads and aren't able to carry the defensive equipment or perform the maneouvres of traditional planes. They're also generally unshielded, leaving them open to EM or HERF warfare.
Their real benefit is political and psychological. Their use allows the user to essentially 'go to war' without sending troops - the general populace doesn't historically care about participation in foreign conflicts until soldiers, ie. people they know, start dying. In that sense, drone warfare begins to blur the line between peace and war - even today, drone operations are carried out in countries that the military hasn't officially been deployed to and as such, worked around the need to officially go to war before launching attacks on 'enemies'.
In a more personal sense, using a remote controlled weapon allows the user to distance himself from the responsibility of killing. Drone operators are generally given a target and told to terminate - they have no input or knowledge of the acquisition process. -
2017-05-01 at 4:19 AM UTCI definitely do not think any of the major world powers will ever go to all out war with each other.
The first reason is of course nukes. But more importantly, we all have the most to lose. If any of them ever put boots on the ground, it will be against groups like Daesh, not versus each other.
But the most important reason is economics. This is the reality of living in such a global economy as we do; China kings up manufacturing, Europe is the world's second bigger market, Russia supplies it with all its thermal resources and is itself a giant market, the United States is the biggest market in the world for everyone. Every single party in this game wants everyone else alive.
What they are playing for and will continue playing for is strategic edges in this global economy. Going to war is just flipping the chess board over. -
2017-05-01 at 4:31 AM UTCyeah, that's the rational position
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2017-05-01 at 4:39 AM UTC
