more urban warfare might take care of that, BattleTech fluff's assertion that anthropomorphic tanks handle extremely irregular terrain better than tracked or wheeled vehicles seems like it'd hold water once we fully master the whole walking thing
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I think it's much more likely that swarming drones will dominate future urban battlefields due to IED tech dev outpacing armor tech dev
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yeah, when you put it that way that sounds hella likely poor mecha doomed to just be a pork barrel for General Dynamics Land Systems and a parade attraction
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I could maybe see mecha as drone mothers: carrying, recharging and rearming drone swarms while handling high level command/control tasks
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Replying to @hikikomorphism @chaosprime and
this is maybe what air warfare is trending towards, single human-piloted fighter planes commanding squadrons of hunter killer/bomber drones
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Unless humans are REALLY confident in their AI, this is what space warfare will look like.
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Replying to @PomoPsiOp @hikikomorphism and
A swarm of unmanned drones controlled by a single armored gunship with a single human pilot.
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There may or may not be several decoy gunships with no pilot to serve as signal relays.
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Alternately shooting the pilot will be a war crime.
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yeah, pretty sure if we have a technical civilization in a century violence against a soft target will be contra all strategic actors' rules of engagement
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So yeah, there will be multiple armored command gunships, and even more armored decoy gunships relaying orders.
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Destroying any one of them will have little to no effect on the swarm's ability to retaliate.
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