/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

>Would metal gears actually be good weapons?
If they worked yes, kind of 4 or 6 legs is better
The height compared to a tank however is a major issue
Also they'd be very expensive to make
>If so, why haven’t they been made yet?
See above
>CAN they be made?
Maybe China in 5 years but see above

There's little practical benefit to legged vehicles over wheels/tracks. It would be no better at traversing rough terrain; if anything it would be worse, tripping and falling down hills and getting caught in trees and shit.

the mech is for anime bullshit coolness. irl we have nuclear-armed submarines that serve the same purpose

Any Metal Gear is going to be a jack of all trades master of none, especially in the mobility department. The two things it does best are things we have cheaper, more reliable alternatives for: Taking out hard targets like bunkers and emplacements can be done by attack aircraft, armored vehicles, and artillery without all the baggage that comes with nuclear capability. For warhead delivery we already have picrel. It's also so big that it could be pretty easily destroyed by laser-guided bombs, ATGMs, and big guns.

Shagohod is the only one I think could be made currently, but it would probably be too heavy to move over difficult terrain, it would also break down fairly often, as most complex weapon systems do, and again, it could be pretty easily identified and killed from the air and ground. Bipedal technology just isn't there yet even for a hypothetical.

Rapidly deployable nuclear weapons are something we've had figured out since the 50's. The Metal Gears were designed from the start as an allegory for those existing systems.

If you count the metal gears like Arsenal Gear and the Shagohod I can see those having some kind of real world applications. The walker gears also since they're infantry platforms that have the benefit of treads and legs for movement.

>>5909
it depends, if any of those designs (specially the geran copy) can use starlink or some other satellite Internet connection, then they are fundamentally different technologies. a low-cost, mass produced geran with an unjammable internet connection would be the perfect weapon for industrial warfare because it could easily counteract the logistical infrastructure of regular armies

american media likes to fear-monger about an impending prc invasion of the roc, which is extremely unlikely, but even if it were to happen, the prc would probably wait until completing their satellite constellations which are planned to support this type of weaponry

>>5910
why would satellite connection be unjammable ? GPS get jammed all the time

>>5910
>unjammable internet connection
>Unjammable anything
Well yeah that's how we ended up with glass fiber stuff. If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.

Cheapening of AI and sensors for low cost drones which could guide themselves to targets and act with some autonomy after the point where jamming is expected. Recognizing landmarks and targets along with inertial navigation and no need for remote guidance.

>>5911
for a number of reasons, the most important of which is distance. gps gets not only jammed, but also spoofed (not only is the signal from the satellite interrupted, but it is replaced with a fake signal) because gps reception is passive, unidirectional, and analogical - the technical details make it extremely easy to interfere

>>5912
>If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.
truism with no content. if you jam a fpv drone 30 meters away from a moving target, that's a problem. if you jam a geran-like long-range loitering munition 30 meters away from it's static target (once it is already diving in) it literally doesn't matter. there is a reason why ukraine uses those heavy bomber drones (that can carry both the ordinance and the antenna) and why they use them at relatively high altitudes (>100 mts) and why the videos you get from those are in 1080p while the russian single use fpv drones use 360p analog tv signal and still get partially jammed during the final approach: one platform is using satellite internet, the other is not. the underdog trick against that asymmetry is the fiber drones you mention, but that doesn't scale for things like gerans

>>5910
Pretty sure Gerans already use a satellite connection for guidance. Not that it matters much once the terminal AI guidance develops more. They generally strike static targets so they can just fly to the general area using an initially set distance/direction when launched then fly the last km or two to a pre-specified target with AI guidance.

because reactionaries are paper tigers

It’s warrior cosplay, self-assuring theatre for people who cannot come to terms with the fact that they are nothing more than a glorified neocolonial police force, stepping on the weak.

I'd just like to remind all east Asians, that if this kicks off the fascist mob in the streets won't care that you're actually Phillipino, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Mongol etc

To them you'll just be another slant eyed chink

>>5854
as someone whos half one of these nations it is annyoing when you have usually older boomer relatives thinking if tell others theyre actually filipino, vietnames, japanese, korean, mongol, and NOT chinese because if they hysterically denounce china bad, that stormfags actually care

>>5867
noooo you don't get it, you win a war by having good K/D (allegedly)!!

>>5868
Yeah, only by being fucking campers.

So, about the ukraine?

people of el R5 larping as army\marines

You call them Narco as an attempt to delegitimize the true people of Mexico.

There is no government of Mexico beyond the independent collectives of communities.

50,000 Palestinian children have been murdered.

sinaloan sovietlarpers "los rusos"