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[Hex Pallett]

Think about it: anti-missile technology is developing so fast, scaling from as large as Isreal's Iron Dome to individual units like America's airborne/marine anti-missile lasers. It can be as complex as calculating incoming missiles and blasting debris against it like Trophy system, or as simple (relatively) as shooting lots of bullets over that general direction (I heard that's how CIWS works and the technology is pretty common now).

Eventually it would reach the point that singled-out missile would become completely useless, and the most cost-effective way of missile-tossing would be just rain down a bunch of explosives from above the target. Good luck intercepting 20 projectiles at the same time.

[Heffay]

Helmstif, on 15 December 2014 - 01:51 PM, said:

Think about it: anti-missile technology is developing so fast, scaling from as large as Isreal's Iron Dome to individual units like America's airborne/marine anti-missile lasers. It can be as complex as calculating incoming missiles and blasting debris against it like Trophy system, or as simple (relatively) as shooting lots of bullets over that general direction (I heard that's how CIWS works and the technology is pretty common now). Eventually it would reach the point that singled-out missile would become completely useless, and the most cost-effective way of missile-tossing would be just rain down a bunch of explosives from above the target. Good luck intercepting 20 projectiles at the same time.

With lasers and automated targeting systems in general, the future promises very VERY short life-spans for anything on the battlefield.

[Sam Slade]

Look at the Sol weapons system in the old Japanese film Akira

[StompingOnTanks]

Heffay, on 15 December 2014 - 01:55 PM, said:

With lasers and automated targeting systems in general, the future promises very VERY short life-spans for anything on the battlefield.

Which is also probably the reason why the military wants battle-ready robots so bad.

[Raggedyman]

StompingOnTanks, on 17 December 2014 - 02:06 PM, said:

Which is also probably the reason why the military wants battle-ready robots so bad.

I think the main reason is "IT WOULD BE SO DAMN COOL!!!!"

[StompingOnTanks]

Raggedyman, on 23 December 2014 - 12:14 PM, said:

I think the main reason is "IT WOULD BE SO DAMN COOL!!!!"

Most of them look pretty boring to me.

RC mini tanks with a machine gun and flying wing drones that fly in circles and drop bombs on whatever you tag with a laser pointer.

Where are the Terminators? The mechs? The gunship drones? All that cool stuff. That's what I wanna see.