Except we are NOWHERE near close to having any of that ready for war, MANY Years left
Is China really a threat to the United States Hegemony?
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Aaron Fox
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Yet they're getting prepped to deploy within the next half-decade, with the ability to be LIDAR emitters mind you.
They aren't going to be the game changers you think at this point in time. They are not at the level to make Nukes obsolete
Aaron Fox
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You would be surprised, given how fast they've been moving. It was once upon a time that megawatt grade lasers would be considered outright fiction...
We will not be like battletech for a good long while
Aaron Fox
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Given that we've developed fucking EndoSteel already? I wouldn't put money on that.
I would. Mechs are also useless and horrible designs.
Aaron Fox
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While I would agree with you on the Battlemechs being useless and horrible (if you want mecha, you're more likely to see Gears from Heavy Gear), I wouldn't be surprised that armor takes multiple pages out of Battletech at the minimum.
I again would. Because look at how modern combat is and will be fought
paulobrito
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Right now, these energy ABM weapons don't exist. And unlike in movies, is possible to armor the warheads, and is not easy to maintain the laser focused in said warhead during the necessary time - is not a slow-moving object after all.
Yes, in the future is probable that said energy-based weapons can defeat ICBMs / SLBMs but is the old battle between bullet and shield - both advance technologically.
Yes, in the future is probable that said energy-based weapons can defeat ICBMs / SLBMs but is the old battle between bullet and shield - both advance technologically.
paulobrito
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Battlemechs are impossible - just look at the ground pressure.
Sixgun McGurk
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But you can keep them out of the WTO and not invest in their rise.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
And put quotas on their goods
Not enough to stop someone. nK had USSR not fallen would be a power house.
Sixgun McGurk
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NK has no potential to be anything but Dear Leader's toybox. An army with a country is nothing but a fright mask. It takes industrial power to be a real power and we were betrayed by GHWB and company into financing the rise of China so that a tiny group of oligarchs could lay us off and make bank at our expense. We are to have a service economy and be their servants.
Eh, there is a lot more to what goes on, plus santions and everything would not have stopped China from rising, especially since they were growing in power before the USSR fell, and when thy did, they took that power vacuum that was left in Asia and used it to their advantage by making themselves a big place for cheap labor.
Nothing the US could have done would have stopped it.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Albeit we could have slowed their growth down a bit.
Sixgun McGurk
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If we were a hegemony we could have banned the transfer of our technology and kept them from infesting our universities, but we are manifestly not a hegemony. We're not even a real country by many standards, as laws are enforced selectively and there is no punishment meted out for betrayal of the nation.
I mean China has been stealing tech since the ancient times.
They get their hands on things even without it being leaked.
And treason is dealt with in a very larger part, but we are still a country of Innocent until proven guilty.
Sixgun McGurk
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Tell it to General Flynn.