What other tech won't evolve?
Ceiling fans apparently
>>109093557>>109093714Things engineered wihout planned obsolescence.
>>109093734Things can become obsolete / useless even if they aren't broken.
>>109093769True, when something actually better superseeds them. Not because something was built to break and get replaced by something with zero incentive to make it better than the original. So the tech won't evolve as long as the original that doesn't get obsolete is around.
>>109093557Why evolve something that already reached it's peak?
>>109093557Microwaves & toasters are solved tech. All they're doing now is slapping LED screens on them which make them worse. The same could be said about refridgerators.
>>109093557there are modernized versions but the shape remains similar due to physicsthe more modern tech you add (mainly electronics) will make it less durable in field conditionssee>>109093880
>>109093557the AK sucks. gets hot quickly. not accurate.
>>109093557any useless techonly useful infantry is engineers
>>109093557Gun tech does evolves, but we've reached a stage where 'fire' has outpaced 'armor' so the ol' reliable bullet is still king.
>>109093557I don't buy the argument that small-arms technology has plateaued. There's still *plenty* of theoretical room to grow and countless ideas remaining to be explored, it's just that modern small arms are "good enough" because infantry matters a lot less in the modern missile/drone/airstrike/artillery meta.>>109094670>the more modern tech you add (mainly electronics) will make it less durable in field conditionsI dislike this argument as well. We've gotten very good at ruggedizing military electronics to the point of absurdity (you can literally hammer nails with modern electronic optics, for example), and more and more of a soldier's kit is becoming reliant on an integrated suite of electronics anyway. No reason why their weapon shouldn't be a part of that--past a certain point, refusing to augment a soldier's kit with modern technology (especially if you design it with appropriate redundancies) out of insistence that everything is as reliable as it can fathomably be is just conservative autism that actively gimps your soldiers.
>>109093557The pointy stick. It could kill a million years ago and it still will a million years from now
Hasn't the last years proven that the obsession about old commie tech was dumb?
>>109093557the AK has been superceded multiple times. even the AK74 is considered old hat and is only still in wide deployment because they already exist and infantry weapons are more expensive to replace than you get out of them as a force. >>109095795>No reason why their weapon shouldn't be a part of that--anyone who says weapons need more "smart" shit has never used a rifle. they're already trivial to aim and the main problem with using more advanced sights is that they take marginally longer to sight in and look through. the humble reflex sight is as good as it will ever get and if you need magnification, scopes have been cheap for 50+ years. and the true problem is getting someone to identify someone else as needing to get shot and then actually shooting themall the major innovation in infantry weapons has been optimizing ammo loadout (i.e. optimizing boolet and powder charge for carrying the most of them possible, but average range changes every 10 years or so so will never be solved overall, making it more of a logistics problem to swap common rounds in and out fast enough on administrative times) and just making the gun itself ultra-reliable. but even reliability has plateaued with modern machining practices and so it really is mostly "how can we make a gun that is agile for bean-counters who can't predict whether the next war is gonna be room-to-room fighting or volley fire over deserts and plains"
>>109096257nice to see that at least some things improved in the 2020s
>>109096269most notably the 2020s gun guy has a gun
>>109093849We aren't there yet. If they can make the GM6 not suck, then we're pretty close to peak. Ressurect Ron from the dead and get us some fucking M82A2s as standard and then we're truly at the top
People are mentioning their favorite gun but really what's *solved* solved is the bullet itself.
>>109093557Tech has advanced past the AK. Literally useless against the cheaper drone spam.
>>109097016we still haven't really figured out a good caseless system tho
>>109097037The AK was born useless against explosives and planes, what are you trying to prove here?By your logic the tank rendered walking troops obsolete.
>>109093769> obsolete doesn't mean broken, it means replaced. keep up.
>>109097049That's the supersonic passenger plane of the gun world. The moment you figure it out you'll have to start justifying its existence. Chemistry is probably one of the best stem fields to get into if you're a smart but not once in a century genius that wants to discover new things so I'm confident cook-off can be solved but thermodynamics and geometry are significantly more calcified and they're pretty explicit the limits.It'd be pretty much restricted to emergency guns. The kind that needs to be as harmless to anything not in front of it as possible, has as few moving parts as possible and isn't intended to be fired often cause heat & particulate buildups are pretty fucked with something that's meant to only open in the front.
>>109097059>By your logic the tank rendered walking troops obsolete.No because the tank was less economically viable than troops.Modern dogshit drones cost less, if not the same as an AK and they have changed warfare forever. The ground troop fears the shit drone spam. You are retarded if you missed the point of my message.
>>109093557Ethernet.10G still not commonplace.
>>109097037Then why does almost every soldier in every army in the world still carry an assault rifle?
wish i could build/collect/play with gunsunfortunately fuckass australia think that's a threatall thanks to our glowniggers pulling off the biggest mossad job.NO i will not find a gf.
>>109097151Why does the library have so many books when retards like you can't read?
>>109096302>we need a CQB .50 BMG semiauto>also maybe a fiber optic scope system to hipfire it while movingWhat the fuck were they even expecting to use it against?
>>109093557We have evolved beyond the AK tho, the design itself is outdated
>>109098103Children with rocks probably or woman.
>>109093902> muh smart fridge that sends me notifications when i'm out of milkfr, just give me a box that stays cold and doesn't beep at me for leaving the door open 3 seconds
>>109099854Even worse, they have an Android OS built-in. You can watch youtube and shitpost on 4chan from your smart fridge. Great for colossal fat asses, but retarded for everyone else. Just extra shit that can fail and cost you repairs.
