Hell NO! Spelling ####! <Smile>. Do not play the validate your argument by a spelling/grammar test, I am not playing that game (because I will lose, I am terrible at spelling and grammar, but not bad at everything else <smile>. I found your posts to others opinions to be condescending (happy) that is what got me fired up. But calmer now.
I wasn't invalidating your argument based on bad spelling. I just found the malpropism amusing.
I am sorry, but I think the greatest combat weapon platform, is a bipedal, AKA the human being. Now if you give that human being an armour exoskeleton, to protect it from small arms and a weapon that is capable of engagement range and that human being witht he same fluid of movement as human does without the suit. Then IMHO it would be better than a tank as a weapons platform, the articulation and view and movement responsiveness to acquire and engage a target would be far faster then a metal box with a rotating turret.
That's actually a really good insight into the mind of the meca believer, but I don't think it holds up. Big things are slow because they are big, and it's really hard to make them move fast and fluidly. Tank turrets slew at the rate they do because it's the best mechanical compromise. If you get better mechanisms for your mecha, I can put them in my tank, too.
Now the size of that armour exoskeleton, may only be double that of a human to deploy a weapon system capable of knocking out that coffin box.
Have you ever heard of the Javelin missile? You don't need an armored exoskeleton to deploy that, and yet it hasn't made the tank obsolete.
If that platform has the ability to climb, step over objects, crawl, surprise and flip over your turtle tank, in close combat, grab the turret gun in urban combat and bend it.
The last two are really big asks. Look at armored recovery vehicles. They're not small and dainty. This mech shrinks or grows as needed for your argument. Sketch one size, and we can do actual work on it.
yeah you may have straight speed and possible range on the mech, but put that into a urban or close quarters environment. My money is on the Mech you can have your turtle.
I'll gladly take that bet. You can have your awkward vehicles.
This whole bogging thing, thinking a mech would be worse in a bog is incorrect
What can a Mech do that a tank cannot, it can lay down and still get forward momentum by using it arms and feet, much like a human . So it may sink then it would hit a form of solid ground at some point. When that solid ground is too deep so it will fall forward, and then use arms and legs to extract itself. What will a tracked do when it get bogged oh yeah wait for it recovery vehicle to pull it out.
I'm having trouble seeing how this would work. People work on a rather different scale from your proposed mechs. And a mech that's mired in mud is a really good target for anyone with an ATGM. So's a bogged tank, but I would generally try to avoid such places.
I am really not sure what your mech looks like in your head or the ground clearance it has over a tank, but I am imagine mine to have more ground clearance then a track vehicle. Even swamp at some point has a hard bottom, also extracting a foot out of the ground to move forward after hitting solid ground, take less effort then a tracked tank.
And that's why it's easy to move through waist-deep mud. Oh, wait. It isn't.
There's a reason why swamps are generally not militarily useful terrain for anybody. It's too hard for infantry to move through them, much less vehicles. We have made vehicles which work better than people in swamps, but they didn't see much use.
Let look at the War or the World mechs, they hard three legs, are you telling me that it would get bogged, with those narrow spindly legs, imo that the type of mech I would be sending to a swamp world not tanks.
No, you don't get to praise bipedal mechs in one post, then switch to tripedals in the next. Pick one.
I know this was a joke, but let call humans those 38 million mech that died in the mud in WW1 they were at the hands of other million of mechs, tracked or wheeled due to numbers did cause many deaths. Also those mechs aka human traversed the grounds where those tracked/wheeled could not go. My money still on the mech in wet/mud terrain. So I felt it was not a good point for tanks.
You are aware that the earliest tanks were explicitly built for the exact terrain in question, right? Yes, they did sometimes bog, but they were still tremendously useful. I can't see a scaled bipedal form working better.
I figure power armour in real life is going to be used less for making the infantryman protected like a tank and more like making him armed like one.
That's a point I've never seen brought up. That said, there's a big gap between modern infantry and tanks.
Armour-wise, I don't imagine power armour (if actually genuinely trialled today) would give that much protection over the armour that infantry usually wear aside from having greater coverage.
Actually, the problem appears even when you limit it to armor equivalent to that worn by soldiers today. I did my scaling from existing armor plates.
One big benefit though is that you can use the exoskeleton to put far heavier guns on the guy, and the optics to successfully engage targets with them without need for a second man to spot for you.
The advantage to the second man is that he's another pair of eyes hooked up to another brain.
With stairs though, it really depends. If I'm going to be using powered armour I'm going to probably make all of my buildings and fortifications out of fairly solid stuff to make up for it, so defensively we're okay, and offensively it mostly depends on whether or not he's using it as well.
But why would you bother? The other side loads up with slightly heavier weapons, rendering all the money you spent on improved armor useless.
What? Can you imagine the government setting a mandate that all homes and offices have to upgrade their stairs to let supersoldiers use them?
I actually cant imagine highly advanced armies caring that much about cities in this context. If you are fighting enemies that are wearing nuke proof plating then you aren't really going to notice concrete structures or whatever.
How would that even work?
