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That makes it all the more fascinating to ask exactly how it could play out in a future-historically realistic way. The current DoD doesn't build a single huge $10-trillion-dollar F-35000 Death Cloud, so what needs to change further for the trend to continue further?
The trend has always been toward buying smaller numbers of more expensive planes. Eventually you end up with one plane(t) that's the whole budget.
Star Wars hasn't gone there, but it would be hilariously realistic if the Empire were portrayed as super bureaucratic.
There is a long cycle of armies getting smaller and more professional, then an abrupt swing to large and low skilled, at least in the West
Yes. I believe this was when the Swiss showed that, with sufficient discipline, pikemen can defeat mounted knights.
Actually this is much more reasonable in space combat where space-fighters aren't-actually-a-thing™, and the optimal combat configuration (for a single encounter) *is* actually single vehicles optimised for ∆v armament capacity.
Why it needs to be a giant laser that takes a significant amount of time to 'charge' instead of billions of atmosphere igniting bombs, or precision strikes on military targets, is a whole 'nother question.
I think this trend is bound to having pilots in each aircraft. Many cheap craft yields many casualties. Trained pilots are hard to replace in large numbers. This scarcity is solved by automation - 'droids are easy to replace. The economics of small ships would assert themselves.
Please accept a company into YC who’s goal is to build a “Death Cloud”
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