What if Russia invented power armor?
Then they'd have power armor.
>>28056218
What if Carl Gustavs killed them?
>>28056218
They'd spend 20+ years showing the world really shiny prerendered CGI stills while they talked about the glorious revolution in personal infantry mechanization they were making, before producing 12 suits that worked nowhere near as well as they claimed?
>>28056218
>What if Russia invented power armor?
Then it would be useless and instantly outdated because of it's lack of maneuverability/speed.
Exo-skeletons are a different story
It would look like an AK
Or it wouldnt work
>>28056218
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>>28056322
what retarded fucked up translator did you use to shitpost? I'm picking up slovenian, ukrainian and russian
>>28056356
W H E R E I S Y O U R P O W E R A R M O R?
Commies cannot into power armour
>>28056218
It depends on what type of power armor you are talking about.
If its Fallout 1-NV power armor which works by magic then it would be shit
If its like Fallout 4 where there is a large powerful exo-skeleton to explain how it carries all the weight or like Halo where it is allegedly light enough to work then it would be pretty useful as long as it didn't cost far too much for the Russians to handle.
What if my dick went in your butt?
>>28056218
The GAU-8 would actually have a niche role to fill as a power armor killer
>>28056218
There wouldn't be that kind of power-armour, OP, that'd go against standard Russian doctrine.
They'd rather invest in some light exoskeleton that would allow for improved mobility/stabilization and perhaps targeting ability.
Even Russian 'shock' troops (as in WWII and up to the modern area) are fairly lightly packing compared to other armies. They usually are there for a quick but powerful hit rather than staying for a slogging match.
They would only have one. To share. Among the entire military.
>>28056218
They probably wouldn't wear furry hats with them?
How is that guy supposed to aim his oversized deathgun without optics anyway?
>>28056218
>What if Russia invented power armor?
They'd be flat broke if they equipped more than a few troops with it.
Putin would cry each time one of those troops was lost.
>>28056218
Ergonomics: 100
You can squat while wearing it.
Should go for robots desu comrade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nc8a9gnDso
>>28056218
Every time an Arab dies in one, vatniks would cry about monkey models and that they aren't using real power armor.
Then when russian troops die in them, Vatniks would want those Troops DNA/#ID and then complain about proofs.
>>28056322
this desu
>>28056291
>Exo-skeletons are a different story
>>28056291
>Then it would be useless and instantly outdated because of it's lack of maneuverability/speed.
give it to antiterrorist guys.
>>28056970
Where did the "big heavy Russian" meme come from?
If you look at Russian equipment and doctrine, it's all light and about fast attack.
If you look at American equipment and doctrine it's all about heavy. the M1 tank is over 20 tonne heavier than the T-90
>>28056915
>If its Fallout 1-NV power armor which works by magic then it would be shit
How is it ANY different from Fallout 4's Power Armor? The frame you get to see in 4 was taken from how they work in 1-NV, you just never got to physically see the frame. Is reading in a vidya-gaem too hard for ya?
You are the personification of everything I hate in modern RPG design strategy.
>>28057744
Doctrine doesn't necessarily correlate to soldiers.
The meme probably has its roots in the fact that a lot of serving Russians had a worker's body (not toned, but heavy built). Examples including woodsmen, farmers, carpenters, and pretty much everyone outside of major cities.
Well since this has turned into a fallout power armor thread i gotta ask, did the Chinese have power armor? I know they had stealth suits
>>28057830
The stealth suits were there answer to power armor, which the americans managed to copy, and make a more portable version of. Of course there was the issue of radiation that caused slight brain damage, but you can't make an omelette without frying a few hundred thousand brain cells.
>>28056218
What if Russia was actually fighting instead of the Chinese?
>>28057830
Nope. They had some prototypes but the problem was that the US had achieved the energy density required for a fusion core to power a suit and China hadn't. If China had reliable microfusion tech, the war would have been avoided in the first place.
And as far as the stealth suits, they didn't actually have too many, as they were still an EARLY prototype at the time of the Anchorage invasion. The waves of them that attack you in the simulation were one of many embellishments from General Chase.
>>28056218
They already have, nothing has happened.
>>28056291
Power armor and a powered exoskeleton are basically the same thing, and as long as you don't exceed the weight rating on the powered exoskeleton by going full retard when adding armor it won't lose any speed/maneuverability.
>>28057891
>but you can't make an omelette without frying a few hundred thousand brain cells.
>>28056218
I guess if the average Russian troop had power armor, we would use more Pikes. As it stands, the US has developing power armor, terminators, and anti power armor and terminator weapons.
>>28057744
7.62 and 5.56. A lot of people don't know 5.45 is even a thing.
>>28056218
OP, in all the video games that feature PA in some form, their is probably the most accurate.
>>28057551
D O N T H A V E A N Y ?
>>28056218
They just into socks less than a decade ago. Into power armor? HA
Power armor is basically a tank with less capabilities, less reliability, and probably for more money.
>Russia makes really crappy power armor, can only afford 15-20 suits, they're revealed to be meh
>China lives up to the title of worlds best copy machine and starts making sub-par duplicates
>US develops a nice well armored suit with all the bells and whistles that eats fuel like a fat guy eats tacos
>>28056951
Not really. Unless armor thickness exceeded 25mm RHS (Spoiler: it wouldn't), even .50 BMG could penetrate from 100m. 25mm APEX HEIAP would have no difficulty.
>>28056218
What if you actually made a good thread?
>>28061800
We have like 4 power armor threads up right now, fuck off.
>>28058523
This
>>28058523
>>28058497
A modern 40mm HEDP penetrates 3" of RHA, that's a one-shot kill vs any level of AR500.
>>28062402
>40mm HEDP
Will the average unpowered soldier be able to pack many of these, with a direct hit being required to put down an enemy? This causes a whole lot of problems for an army having to face power armored enemy soldiers.
If the country is rich and willing enough, they can invest in their own power armor and HOPE that it works out, so that their soldiers can carry more 40mm HEDPs.
Otherwise they have to rely on their current small arms, now with severely diminished lethality, and hope they can carry enough 40mm grenades to get the job done against an advancing 250 man company of power armor soldiers.
>>28062556
What would happen to an army of power armor soldiers is that they would get swarmed by masses of less expensive soldiers. It happened to the Nazis when they thought that building super tanks was going to get them a 20-1 kill ratio.
>>28062596
*but yes against an enemy like the talibans or al qaedas where you're job is to lose as few people on your side as possible even at the cost of efficiency then something like power armor might be a good idea.
>>28062556
>company size attack
That means artillery is the answer, not small arms. Mortar barrage from the defending company is instant, followed a couple minutes later by the BN level heavy mortars and calls for air or howitzers.
The bigger the scale of combat, the less infantry matter; that's why you see SF pushing for exoskeletons, not Big Army.
>>28056218
If they got it, USA would make it better. Then, Russians would spend some heavy time and every scientist that can write cyrilics would be in with them, until they make a slightly shittier version of a better USA power armor, but way cheaper and easier to maintain.
Like if, USA model would use servo motors for joints and knees and heavy lifting of itself, Russians would put in springs, or suspensions in a mathematically superior way so that if a strong man can wear it and move and jump in a US model, the russian model would do the same or a bit heavier, but no needles batteries or complicated computing.
US model would be slightly better, more high tech, more apps available.
Russian would be far cheaper, far less tech, no apps available, a cooling fan in front and a child could use it.
It would cause massive butthurt among USA citizens but only NATO countries would be forced to buy it, and would be severely punished if they bought a russian one, because we control every trade deal we want in the world.
>>28056915
>If its Fallout 1-NV power armor which works by magic then it would be shit
In Fallout 1, 2 and NV they assumed players would understand what power armor by having general knowledge of sci-fi basics, makers assumed that players weren't braindead.
>>28059291
>>US develops a unholy engine of destruction that allows the user to tank anything less than a .50 and dodge everything else, immediately mass produced for every single soldier, subjugate the entire world into a massive vassal state that is not allowed to have military, do research or have a culture, only existing to serve US interest first and foremost (even before their own life), social engineering and surveillance does the rest.
>some years later a planet is detected heading for Earth, the US start a massive project to build a ark to save US citizens, every other nation literally throws men and resources into the project, going as far as demolishing every single structure to recover rebar to fuel US industry
>in the end a fleet of Orion vessels carrying US citizens, culture and technology take off from Earth.
>the fleet is just passing Neptune when a single, and last, message come from Earth
>it is a single question in Vassal Tongue (a dumbed down form of english for the unwashed non-US masses).
>"Were we... Good servants?"
>The captain of the fleet, God Emperor Donald Trump quietly says "Yes" while his personal bald eagle shed a single tear
[spoiler]Obviously every israeli/hebrew/jew got US citizenship before the vassallization, don't worry[/spoiler]
>>28057744
I blame Red Alert.
>>28057744
Red Alert games mainly.
The USSR had all the "heavy & slow" units that kicked ass once they got there.
The NATO Allies had all the "high speed, low drag" units that were great for precision strikes.
>>28064085
.. Tesla & Desolation Troopers wore power armor.
>>28056322
through google trans late
russian:
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Ukrainian:
Dobpo pozhalovat in lahep Havappo ... shtatckyy! Kak, chept pobepy, hpazhdanckyy polychyt эtoy nA baze? I bydy ymet koho-zadnytsy nA verily obed! Polychyt эty hpazhdanckyyu is from hocydapctvennoho ymyschectva!
Slovenian:
Дoбpo пoжaлoвaть в лaгepь Haвappo ... штaтcкий! Кaк, чepт пoбepи, гpaждaнcкий пoлyчить нa этoй бaзe? Я бyдy имeть кoгo-тo зaдницy нa oбeд! Пoлyчить этy гpaждaнcкyю oт гocyдapcтвeннoгo имyщecтвa!
Are you an ork?
>>28064044
>implying this isn't exactly what is happening right now
>>28064570
Yup.
The development of PA is just the "flick of the switch" for full world domination mode
Like that spurdo comic with "islamig gommunism"
