ITT we speculate on the future development of warfare, in the near term I would expect ground based vehicles to become faster, lighter, wheels replacing tracks. The focus will move more towards mobility.
>Faster more agile tanks etc
In the air I would expect to see the rise of a drone carrier type deployment system, that deploys drone craft from low orbit or what have you. Remember when they were testing craft profiles through atmosphere? That's part of the R&D on drone craft deployment I believe.
>Drone craft carrier systems deploy from low orbit
It's the same concept as an aircraft carrier parked off shore to engage in an air war.
As for space based weapon systems, I could see the utility of solid munitions throw-away rail gun systems. I don't believe for a second that a space laser would prove to be an efficient weapon of war in case you were curious.
>Single use disposable MAC gun satalite network
Thoughts PrepHole?
>pic
We already have rapid dragon through
shut the fuck up, rapid dragon is a turd
>We already have rapid dragon through
what about Rapider Dragon?
Foxholes
Horses
70 year old tanks
MIRVs with loitering munitions
Bio weapon that simply kills every person from your enemy's country. America knows we can do this and our enemies will be able to soon. That's the true meaning behind "diversity is our strength" because without genetic diversity it's extremely easy to simply for example design a disease that will kill every single Russian but only give other people a mild flu or nothing at all
Bioweapons are fucking stupid for the same reason chemical weapons are. You could never control that shit and keep it from not doubling back on you.
Even if you could- killing say 20% of the American population is only going to succeed in starting a worldwide depression. Soldiers are a very small fraction of the population and you're not going to be able to select to hit only the soldiers.
It's not designed to only kill soldiers. Just because you're moral doesn't mean your enemies are. Until recently it was fairly common to simply murder everybody in the country you invaded anyway, there are plenty of people who wouldn't care about taking a temporary economic hit in order to kill 100% of people in your enemy country wiping them out forever. And yes, you absolutely can design a bio weapon that only targets people with a genetic makeup specific to a single country.
Name one war in the last 200 years when that happened
Come on Anon, you know, that one war and uhhh... that other one. You know. Dont be so fucking dense.
What the fuck are you talking about we're talking about future wars. Someone would be a general that gets ass blasted because you refuse to accept ideas that haven't already happened
He said "until recently" and you said "200 years". That's the same difference.
Wiping out such a large population isn't going to be a temporary hit. It's going to cause a massive depression. And what's the point of going to war if you're gonna lose money in the long run?
And whose to say a bioweapon you unleash isn't going to mutate? The genetic markers that designate different ethnic groups are incredibly miniscule. Certainly the difference between a white guy and asian guy is much much much smaller than the difference between birds or cows or pigs and humans.
>Until recently it was fairly common to simply murder everybody in the country you invaded anyway
No, this has not ever been the norm. The reason things like Mongols killing everyone in a city that resists, or the 30 Years War leaving Mecklenburg basically unpopulated and reverting to wilderness, is that they are OUTLIERS.
There is the possibility of targeted bioweapons using some sort of genetic information to pinpoint certain groups or carriers of particular genes.
One could imagine still having blowback as most developed countries have varying degrees of admixture with other human populations.
Damn, americans have been muttifying themselves for two centuries to counter this. They truly are the world's superpower
>bioweapon
To be the devil's advocate it's entirely dependent on how much you actually control the virus and if you can make your population immune.
If aliens wanted to wipe out mankind without touching the fauna I would bet on such self-replicating weapon with a timer to ensure it isn't detected too soon.
Obviously it take a very xenophobic culture, or maybe some radical eco-warrior who think it's necessary to save Earth.
Bullshit you'd just target the part of the population worth a shit. If the US was just 85 IQ morons and 86 IQ Hispanics it would instantly collapse. They are a net economic loss as it stands.
Shhhh you're going to make the neoliberal narcissists furious
escort carriers sizeminned ryuujou-style that basically only carry, service and launch drones, printed out by the dozens
MRE pizza that won't give you indigestion or constipation
African, Indian and Central Asian infantry fighting each other
Nuclear peer to peer conflict will likely focus on delivery methods. Each side will look for the upper hand on delivering nukes faster and in ways that will cannot be detected until the explosions take place. To put it most more briefly, nuclear countries will look for any way to break the mutually assured destruction paradigm.
After we nuked the Japanese into surrender, there were people in the US government who thought we should do a prememtive strike on the USSR before they acquired nuclear weapons.
They were correct, we should have nuked the USSR. Look at us now.
I would argue the opposite, with surveillance and guiding going through the roof you want ground units that are nearly indestructible even if they advance at one mile a day.
The future, as it was with the past, will be determined by Gavins
The doctrine of fifth generation warfare places an importance on electronics and information, including cybersecurity attacks and "social engineering" AKA online propaganda as a means of conducting warfare. Major online media sites get considerable traffic from military installations for this reason.
More than anything, public support shapes the outcome of modern wars. First, domestically in the outset of a war, and later internationally. Without monopolistic control of media, it is difficult for nations to control the propagandic narrative of a war.
This is described as a war of intelligence and information. With guided munitions and live satellite imagery, as well as a vast network of digital surveillance, it is easy for superpowers to identify and destroy targets extremely quickly.
Physically, the largest threat to major conventional forces is unconventional warfare. Large conventional forces are equipped for direct confrontation with large conventional enemies. Unconventional guerrilla warfare neutralizes an overwhelming technological advantage.
>Future War Speculation
Future war will be fought with sticks and stones, as Einstein or whoever put it.
And I don't even think nukes might be the cause, as this quote is usually understood. I mean, given the catastrophic effects of climate change we are steering towards a future of food shortages and lack of clean water in vast parts of the world, so a full exchange isn't unlikely.
But even if we were able to avoid nuclear holocaust, climate change itself will cause civilization to slowly regress to the point where it is unable to produce sophisticated machinery and all.
So my prediction for future war is: It will be everywhere, people will fight over petty shit like "that stretch of fertile desert" like in the olden days. And any weapons they carry will be relics of the old world. Maybe they still retain the ability to at least produce ammunition, maybe all they have is their remaining stockpiles, and once they're empty, they're empty.
>In the air, I would expect to see the rise of a drone carrier type deployment system that deploys drone craft from low orbit or what have you. Remember when they were testing craft profiles through the atmosphere? That's part of the R&D on drone craft deployment, I believe.
I thought that's basically what NGAD was? Or would that be 7th gen+?
>tires replacing tracks... emphasis on mobility
anon... the reason tracks are used instead of tires is because it gives mobility in terrain that tires kind of suck in.
>space-based single-use MAC rounds
so... Rods From God? It does the exact same thing to the target, but it doesn't require big fuck off generators. The only reason for a space-based MAC would be to shoot at things that aren't on Earth
But to answer your question, I want to see Battleships make a comeback when rail/coil guns become viable, but I think we'll need to figure out fusion energy first and maybe a superconducting lubricant as well
every grunt will have a small drone to give him and his squad real-time updates on the battlefield. From that, we'll probably get a heads-up display on a visor that protects against shrapnel. Hopefully, digital night vision gets on par with analog soon, and we can have digital and thermal overlays on the HUD without a stupid amount of weight and bulk.
I don't see energy weapons becoming viable because, according to my layman's understanding of physics, it's always more efficient to break something with kinetic energy than to use that energy to try to burn or melt something.
probably some kind of mini patriot system that can protect troops from artillery
WWI but with drones
let's be honest it's literally nothing but drones
any current countermeasures to block them just prevents you from using them as well
they can also fly a few feet off the ground to avoid your expensive antimissle shit
>cheap as fuck
>can be scaled up to a fleet of millions using AI control
>deployed in the atmosphere anywhere on the planet
>when deployed can use advanced strategies and tactics for maximum damage
>provides insanely good intelligence while blowing up your enemies
spoken like a true 14 year old hearts of iron player that does artillery/air only playthroughs. Combines arms will always be the name of the game, pipsqueak
The correct answer for drones is laser batteries that are capable of destroying the drones control surfaces for pennies on the dollar near instantly and then moving onto the next target.
This is also why the US is working on drones that don't actually make use of control surfaces at speed and just use some black magic shit to stay level using air currents or some shit.