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Spooktoon did a video on ETC guns: TDLR: ETC guns are the next step in tank design, largely because they're the same as older equipment but are for more capable despite that. Enjoy. ;)

This isn't the case. ETC uses plasma igniters to kick-start the propellant reaction to propel projectiles down-range. This is far more effective than traditional propellant igniters, it is also safer, allows for the use of more effective (and stable) propellants, reduces the need for blowout...

Please note that this 140mm gun was an ETC gun as well. You know, just to screw with enemy tanks more.

The only reason that most 'western' nations avoided a gun-missile system is that their only real attempt (the 152mm gun-missile system) was just that bad. Israel is the only nation that has gone into it via LAHAT...

Metal is cheap, silicon (specifically, the programming) is expensive. Also, those small missiles would have crap range or firepower capability, thanks to our limited rocket engine tech. Not only that, but warhead tech also isn't as effective in firepower capability as it is heavily reliant on...

That really isn't the case, as NATO's (especially the US's) attempts at making gun-launchers is based around a paradigm of 'APFSDS (as we moderners know it) doesn't exist yet, HEAT is chucked too slow, and we've got nothing in the LR band to attack with'. The USSR's use of gun-launchers was to...

Yeah, we'll be seeing up gunning more than using ETC guns for the immediate future... that is why Russia has the 152mm in its back pocket, so to speak. Armor tech has finally caught up with gun tech, because we've incidentally kept gun tech languishing for decades while we kept putting money...

Not really, especially if you add the fun that is 'smart dust' and microsats. Can't carry out a sneak attack if the moment you try its detected... ... so that wouldn't work. Believe me, I've tried in my research into my setting. Basically, if you have a sensor density of 'yes', you can't hide...

That wouldn't be possible, as UV-pulse lasers would pwn them too. :(

That is unless UV-Pulse lasers are a thing, then ICBMs (and ballistic missiles in general) are defacto useless unless you want to simply have one nuke to every seven decoys...

The tech for 120mm micro-nukes isn't there yet, last I've checked.

Not really. We've already gotten the dart from 20mm diameter to 40mm diameter and to keep the same velocity characteristics with a 60mm diameter dart, you'll need to have a bigger gun anyway...

The sad thing is, they're not going to have much choice in the matter... given that gun-tech hasn't been improving for a while as armor tech improved... It's a sad but true cost that will have to be taken I'm afraid. We're talking two or three decades (minimum!) before ETC guns come online...

The thing is that ETC guns will take decades to supplant conventional powders in the realm of vehicle armaments. The biggest backer of the technology -the USN- was forced to abandon the US joint ETC project that kept giving them werid data due to the lack of understanding of plasma physics -and...