Are powered armoured suits for each individual soldier the way forward now that tanks and IFVs have become obsolete due to drones?
Its incredibly easy to make plastic mockups of things like this when the only purpose is to look cool.
>>64251898Yes.
>>64251903Oh say can you see
>>64251898Yes, obviously the solution to AFVs without anti-air coverage being vulnerable to the drone menace is to put every single soldier in their own personal man sized AFV without anti-air coverage that costs about as much as a regular AFV and only has a fraction of the capabilities or mobility on open ground. Great thinking, you may have cracked the code.
>>64251919Viva la Solo Nobre
>>64251919Idk who's crazier between corvids in their death traps or loyalists still on mongoose.
>>64251919I want a Touro so fucking bad bros,
>>64252164I'd rather be in a MOG, than out of it.
>>64252180Fair enough. Personally I'd rather be outside of any corvid vehicle than inside.
>>64252314I agree with you. MOGs might be ancient, beat to shit scrap heaps, and haunted, but I'd rather be in one than anything a corvid "engineer" built.
>>64252314The Eightball might not be terrible. And there's some charm in just being a flying fortress on horribly, horribly overburdened Tauro legs in the Rat King. Still, the mog is hard to beat for charm.
Is this the suit that that Chinese furry engineer was working on after being hired by the PLA?
>>64252314The Rope Kid is probably the best Agrav you can get. Put the old reliable on it as a main and any stun gun you can think of as a second.
Yes. You might think otherwise of feel like you have compelling reasons we shouldn't, but they're all wrong.
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>>64251898We don't know. As of now, even the US with it's ability to plant a Burger King on the othet side of the world day 1 of a war, does not want to bother with suits and shit. It took years of R&D and bitching to get basic combat googles with a nice hud and the ability to ping shit. What most likely is going to happen is more and more drone logistics. The US will have the coolest and most capable drone carriers and some kind of modular exoskeletton to help grunts lift heavy shit with ease.Also something like Delts will be really good and give the US and Nato almost mystical powers of foresight. The latter will be mocked by the global south for ages until one cunt gets uppity and the US casually murders a few thousands because some guy blew up a tower in Florida.
>>64257940A DJI quadcopter can already ping and do better recon than any human grunt can do on the ground: https://youtu.be/1ucIm6g9llg?t=130
Fuck off chinkshill
>>64251898All that effort on making useless flip up panels like a Marvel movie and he couldn't work out how to make a good armored knee joint.
>>64251898They are already countered by FPV drones.Like in the the standard Ukrainian FPV drones warhead is 2 kg thermobaric charge in plastic case, pure blast. No amount of body armor will save against that.
>>64251898Not until we have man portable fusion power generators.
>>64258562RTG's already exist
>>64258304I don't disagree with ur point, but thermobaric is pretty bad against armor. It's must be dispersed to work. While you need to achieve fragmentation or some other means to pen
>>64251898No, just letting the infantry drudge forward without armour is
>>64258588It's the power output issue, not fancy-schmancy sci-fi mumbo-jumbo. Even a motorcycle engine hooked to a generator is less of a brainded option
>>64258588Making them takes a significant fraction of our total plutonium production. And they don’t make much power for their weight. And when somebody wearing this suit gets shot or blown up, now you have radioactive material scattered everywhere.
>>64258588But they're not up to the task, nor what he specifically asked for.
>>64258617You should have told NASA that they should've installed a motorcycle engine onto their Mars rover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mission_radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
>>64258617That, and most importantly power density.>>64258634You're such a fucking retard holy shit, you're the definition of Dunning-Kruger.
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>>64251898Powered suits would be crazy expensive for something that cant outrun your average drone
>>64259587Neither tanks, IFVs nor APCs can outrun drones either
>>64251898I think powered armor is going to become inevitable now that the enemy can drop mortars on you at any time.
>>64251898>now that tanks and IFVs have become obsolete due to drones?Retard.
>>64258588Oh good, we can turn on the lights for the next fifty years.
>>64252071Exactly. These "Drones have made tanks and IFVs obsolete" retards don't have a clue about how combined arms work, or even the basic threat that drones present.Hell, I don't think they even understand that the threat drones pose to tanks isn't even that different from what has existed for 50+ years with ATGMs, artillery and landmines. The only reason these retards think drones are notable is because they're 90% of war footage these days because they have cameras on them and automatically record the video.
>>64259664Yeah but putting the money on more vehicles makes sense instead of power armor
>>64259723Power armor would be more of an infantry replacement than a vehicle replacement. Think of it as a way to make infantry more durable in the face of drone spotted artillery.
>>64251919https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d0w6UnuRgBA&pp=ygUQYnJpZ2Fkb3Iga2lsbGVycw%3D%3DThe audiobook is amazing too.
>>64259725Yeah I can see that happening in the far future, but im pretty sure by that point we will have the ai and pathing problem solved
>>64251919But in the book drones reigned supreme too
>>64259725Power armor is a concept invented before the transistor-guided weapon. Of course it's great for fighting dumb weapons from its own era. But against guided weapons, it makes less sense because no level of man-portable armor is stopping a 100lb artillery warhead that explodes 1 meter away instead of 100 meters away. Or stopping a 1lb EFP warhead taped to a drone for that matter.
>>64251898>That webmImagine trying to fit people with this shit and having to deal with dudes who are giga-nigga huge or just fat fucks.That being said, I could only imagine sophisticated exo-skeletons and primarily for logistical uses. Not having to pay soldiers for wear and tear on their backs and kness and shoulders seems like it would be worth the investment.
>>64259763Arguably we're already at that point and still using infantry. At least a powered exoskeleton will let us mount measures that might keep a man alive.
>>64251898Just think of when it fails and locks you in place, breaks your bones or both. Best of all, it wk,l be hacked, so someone can just brick you from 200 yards away without firing a shot.
>>64261515There's nothing that annoys me more than scifi settings where literally everything is connected to raw wifi for some reason and a hacker can wave his arm to turn off your gun and explode your cyberballs. It's just magic.
>>64251898>retarded question based on a retarded asumptionGo away.
>>64251898nowar has to be efficienthuman life is worthless (to our leaders) so spending so much just to protect soldiers better isn't worth it
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