Okay faggots let's discuss what future warfare like 50 - 100 years in the future will look like. How will the infantry be equipped? Will tanks be obsolete with the proliferation of ATGMs? Will power armor render intermediate calibers obsolete?
>>28294765
This is 100 years from now.
We will bump back up to battle rifles in an effort to match increased armor capabilities. Soldiers will have slightly higher tech toys at the it disposal but nothing that changes current tactics.
Armor will stay about the same with the only increases in technology being minor changes to currently existing vehicles. The most major improvements will be done to airpower making it more efficient and the F35 project will be nearing completion.
Screencap this for reference in 2115.
In 50 years the world will have half killed itself off. There will be maybe 1 million people at most on the entire planet. There won't be any true wars. Just tribes and villages fighting over little shit. Or gangs trying to rape and pillage. Fought all with small arms assuming there's bullets and powder and some type of infrastructure.
Most will die on the fury road.
> The world unites in a "World Union"
> Peace is achieved via welfare, richer states gib free stuff to weaker states to maintain peace and the global status quo.
> If civil war breaks out, the government looses it's global n33tbux so immediately crush the rebellion with the help of the global community.
> All future wars become police actions and counter insurgency.
>>28294838
Pretty fucking morbid f@m tBnh
>helmets with visors that display a HUD
>bullpup battle rifles with optics and fancy technologies like crosshairs and round counters that show on your HUD and recoil control systems
>armor made out of polymers and spider silk that can stop 5.56
>genetic engineering allows super soldiers like in le halo
>4 legged drones that serve like baggage mules in ancient armies allow less shit that needs to be carried by infantry
>>28294821
M9 and M4 are still standard issue in the US.
You know how Israel and Friends strike empty spots in their respective desert areas with rockets or artillery? That. "We want to send a message that we are strong against our enemies, without actually doing a damn thing."
One of three things will be the case:
No standing militaries, all guns and weapon systems are museum pieces, except for recreation/hunting purposes. Closest thing to military power are riot police. Everyone largely happy living off neetbux/being filthy commies
OR
Full mad max/waterworld. Still no standing military, but people are doing the whole post apocalyptic thing.
OR
Things are largely as they are today, little social progress has been made and technological progress has stagnated.
>>28294866
>genetic engineering
not gonna happen, everybody is pussywhipped about eugenics or anything having to do with genes
Hypersonic weaponry spam.
100 years from now? Third worlders use exoskeletons, HUDs, and powered armor. They're basically Halo.
First worlders issue missions to autonomous drone armies by quantum-encrypted remote links from their subterranean VR pods. A handful of aging SF personnel packed full of retroviral engineering from before the warbot era are kept on permanent standby, guarding against the one-in-a-billion chance of a situation where humans might be better than AI.
>>28294765
>Advancement of Active Protective Systems to counteract ATGMs.
>Replacing conventional artillery and other large weapon systems such as tank guns and antimaterial rifles with railgun systems.
>Infantry will be armed with laser rifles and full exoskeleton-supported armor.
>Supplies carried by legged drones of burden.
>Development of weapons that fire homing bullets for troops in urban/ close combat enviroments.
>Heavier, faster, more powerful tanks with loads of APS's, railguns, and auxillary beforementioned homing bullet rifles.
>Faster, cheaper antiship missiles to counteract more effective laser-based CIWS's and APS's.
>Cheap drone aircraft because aircraft's fucked by all this laser and railgun shit; we don't need aircraft anyways
>Space-based orbital weapon platforms to be used when everything fails.
>>28294838
>tfw you were born too late to be a Shadowrunner
In the future everything is a god damn missile.
Everything from small calibre rifle rounds all theup to ICBMS can be guided (to a degree). The basic rifle platform doesn't change, but the level of precision increases by a huge amount with ammunition that is semi-self guiding.
Jet on Jet warfare doesn't change one bit, with the proliferation of anti-missile technology and advanced jamming systems, ultimately most missiles are now more advanced in their entirety than current generation Jets, with individual missiles carrying small micro-missiles, designed to engage enemy counter missiles, which themselves are designed to engage and defeat the main missile. Plane on Plane combat is essentially decided by radar lock and by spamming more missiles (and counter missiles) back and forth in hopes that you can get past their screen and sneak one through.
Tanks become tougher than ever with crazy advanced multi-layered armor (even more so than now) combined with anti-ATGM systems installed on every corner of them. These systems are a combination of rapid firing cannons, lazer-type systems, and, unsurprisingly, actual mini-missile systems. They aren't invincible, however, and like now, can be defeated. They are, however, much more of a threat and more self contained than ever. Their primary role is, as it still is, to shoot HE rounds at squshy targets, with operators hoping that once in their life(maybe) they'll be able to fire their several meter long solid rods of uranium at other tanks. But it never happens.
Naval combat doesn't change a bit. Welcome to missile hell, now with lasers to shoot down more missiles.
Helicopters become obsolete due to huge advances in radar and spotting technologies and are generally seen as a liability other than for delivering troops. Attack helicopters are generally replaced by lighter, cheap and expendable drones(as they already are) but aren't really deployed for the same sort of missions.
>>28295025
The average rifleman complains more, and spends less time actually maintaining his equipment- it's so complicated that university educated engineers are required to keep his kit functional. Leaves more time for the grunts to jack off, clean the latrines and complain about their fat wives.
That's my guess.
Laser defense spam vs 3d-printed hypersonic missile spam and 3d-printed subsonic drone spam.
Metamaterial-based radar and lidar everywhere, cheap and on a personal scale.
Sensor-fused weapons pass the anti-tank realm and enter the anti-personnel realm.
"Raid breaker" becomes the new assault breaker program in the third offset. Counterbattery is now conducted in the skies above, as railguns and old powder-artillery firing smart rounds shoot down incoming IRBMs and cruise missiles.
>>28294765
>Will power armor render intermediate calibers obsolete?
Power armor fags should be instab&.
