Comments on: It’s not science-fiction anymore https://didacticmind.com/2017/01/its-not-science-fiction-anymore.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: LastRedoubt https://didacticmind.com/2017/01/its-not-science-fiction-anymore.html#comment-2839 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:36:23 +0000 #comment-2839 I agree on the ground pounder…. that said, I'm not sure we're going to see the death of aviation, though we likely will see the death of _manned_ aviation unless there's a way to make drones or other aircraft survive for more than a few minutes on speed an agilty.

For that matter, I think we'll be seeing the death of much of anything airborne including artillery within line of sight of the enemy assuming a rough technical parity and ground AA support. That said, some will likley be kept around for when the enemy screws up, or gets its anti – air support knocked out or b

]]> By: Unknown https://didacticmind.com/2017/01/its-not-science-fiction-anymore.html#comment-2838 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:15:02 +0000 #comment-2838 The advent of high energy weaponry, combined with the already existing railgun technology, means that, like leo's books "A Boy and His Tank", if it is VISIBLE, it is DEAD.

However, unlike those books, I believe future warfare will have come circle around, just as it always seems to, to the individual soldier on the ground. He will be able to easily destroy any vehicle on the sky or ground, carry charges capable of cracking nearly any physical defense, and his greatest enemy will be other soldiers… who can hunt him down as individuals.

It's like war grew in battles over the last two thousand years, peaked for mass death during world war 2, and since then it's been slowly regressing back down to the individual warrior.

I don't know about you, but I see great potential.

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