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 No.13496

Why haven't militaries invented robotic mech suits yet, despite featuring so prominently in science fiction?

 No.13497

impractical

 No.13500

a bunch of venture capitalists in the US are funding R&D into it rn. don't know if it's bullshit or not

 No.13503

Not necessary when we already developed drones and are well on the way to build robots.

 No.13506

So it's less sturdy than a tank with fragile limbs sticking out everywhere, unable to fire tank weapons better than tanks due to either needing to go stationary to fire or carrying less potent weapons in it's puny arms and it's basically an expensive , high tech coffin where there is a lot less room for hits/grazes or low caliber weapons not to mulch the pilot.

And that's assuming you can develop a sufficiently advanced vomit disposal system that can also keep the pilot's everything unscrambled after a few hours of walking.

But maybe if every country agreed to forgo other weapons of war, we could make super cool mechsuits that wield novelty sized infantry guns! Even then I doubt anyone would like to enter the mecha coffin, and if you got the tech you can probably make them autonomous or remote controlled.

 No.13507

>>13497
>>13503
We're won't have mechs until we're spacefaring. Aerodynamics of course don't apply in space so clearly we're gonna need mechs when we start killing each other up there

 No.13508

>>13507
We won't even need legs in space.

 No.13509

>>13506
tactics isn't a spreadsheet

 No.13510

>>13506
So basically it becomes viable in space. We just need psychic teenagers to pilot them.

 No.13511

File: 1644464955908.jpg (133.98 KB, 1062x1334, hexapod plus wheels tank.jpg)

>>13506
How about you combine a wheeled tank with a hexa-walker, so that it retains both the wheels and legs. It could drive fast and economical on the road and relatively flat terrain, but use the legs to pass over difficult terrain even a tracked vehicle couldn't. You have to find a way to tug away the legs while driving tho. The legs are also useful in combat because they can make the vehicle strafe sideways for dodging. And it would have propulsion redundancy.

 No.13513

>>13496
Because science fiction is retarded.

 No.13514

>>13511
And it could swim with the legs. This needs to be made.

 No.13515

>>13511
anon….

 No.13538

>>13508
Maybe not. But we will need Gundams. Why? Cause I wanna fucking Gundam.

 No.13553

>>13511
A tank with hinged treads is far more practical.

 No.13578

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>>13506
You know, maybe killing the pilot is the point of the mech suit.

 No.13581

there is no advantage to mechs that six-legged tanks wouldn't also have. In general tanks are just more practical there's no reason to stick to the humanoid form when making weapons of war.

 No.13582

>>13581
There is no advantage to six-legged tanks that a tracked tank wouldn't also have. Too bad there's no need for tanks these days. A truck mounted howitzer firing guided shells can accurately destroy ground targets from tens of kilometers away all while avoiding direct fire from enemies.

 No.13679

>>13511
The top picture is a PTL02 if anybody else was wondering what it is.

 No.16242

>>13506
>>13508
/thread

>>13509
but physics and economics often are. you either funnel TONS of money into the military to make bipedal mechs or you settle down with tanks

>>13507
>>13511
>>13514
beyond being way too complicated to mass produce beyond being a lockheed martin toy, you also need to factor in the fact that they need to fire large caliber ammunition. In space, this would send it fucking flying. The joints would constantly be under stress.

There is NO reason to have a legged mech over wheels. Trust me, I fucking LOVE mechs, but theres no chance we're seeing them in our lifetimes, if ever. Even then, it'll probably be elon musk showing off a dumb little robot to get soyboys on twitter chatting.

 No.16243

>>13538
The ScopeDog is much cooler then the Gundam. Where the Gundam has stupidly thick armor, the ScopeDog canonically only has armor as thick as a light tank where the idea is their high mobility gives them better survivability then a tank.

 No.16244

>>16243
So a man portable and easily concealable 12.7mm mg can penetrate their armor?

 No.16245

>>16244
Yes but in Votoms these are issued to all infantry even raw recruits due to them being mass produced on a insane scale to the point the army sees them as completely expendable (with both armies resorting WWI tactics of just throwing wave after wave at each other's kill zones and hoping they have more numbers to "win" the battle).

 No.16276

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 No.16371

>>16245
If it makes economic sense to mass produce something like a scopedog it also makes economic sense to produce a wheeled or tracked vehicle with better armor and better armament than a bipedal powered armor. A vehicle would have a smaller area to armor means more protection can be applied for the same weight. Wheels or tracks are easier to build than walking legs so a less powerful engine can be used while ensuring the vehicle has the same or even faster speed compared to a mech. Vehicles have better weight distribution compared to an upright mech meaning larger armaments can be mounted on the vehicle and the firing platform will be more stable too.

 No.16373

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>>16371
Okay but to be fair usually in Japanese mecha stories they are designed primary as a space weapon that can be used on the ground and a conventional tank doing combat in space seems more silly where mecha limbs means they can better direct fire in space while having a means to land on colonies. Also there are more then bipedal mechs, 4 and 6 leg mechs are a thing in anime and manga that are specifically designed to fight just on the ground rather then able to fight both in space and on the ground.

 No.16426


 No.16429

>>13578
But I.
Am already saved…

 No.16612

Robots can move in ways that would break human bodies?
Return on investment with upkeep?


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