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Re: Recent Mecha Thoughts
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Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:10:22 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > As I have stated before, mecha are
> > incredibely efficient and vicious machines for war, and that is so obvious in
> > any well designed military mech, that it is down rights scary. Come on!
> > Honestly, who the hell in Binocle, Space, etc, etc, has anything that can
> > match
> > mechs? Even the largest of capital ships are no match for a much smaller than
> > its size MS or mobile armor.
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> Now this is completly subjective and open to debate.
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> I personally build what most people consider "cute" and/or "little" fighters.
> To me they are able to kill almost any other fighter or mech(a) with one shot.
> Hey my "Empire" the Galactic Confederation does not govern 107 galaxies with
> flowers.
>
> Now aside from the whole "mine is better than yours because I said so"
> argument. To me mech(a)s are a small part of a well rounded military. A
> Mech(a) without fighter escort/coverage would be killed rather quickly. The
> best real world example is Tanks(with AA) vs. Airplanes. No matter how good
> the Tank is, an A-10 "Tank Killer" would make mince meat of it.
Well, you can't say that is 100% true. How about countermeasures which a
tank can employ to block the targeting mechanism of the missile? For
example, the Russian T-90 has a whole bunch of things that allow it to
survive. First off, and this is true with other tanks, it take advantage of
reactive armour which can stop deadly shaped charge weapons. Also, it has
two infrared lights which emit coded pulsed infrared jamming when an ATGM
(Anti-Tank Guided Missile) is detected. Against ground enemies, and
especially during retreats, smoke dischargers can launch grenades which can
hide a tank behind a veil of smoke. As well, they have machine guns to
protect them from both airborne and land vehicles and troops. Tanks are also
designed to deflect certain munitions that hit them. Although what you said
was quite true, it wasn't the whole side of the story. Sure, missile
technology gets better and better, but don't you think countermeasures and
armour does as well? Oh, and for the record, of course an A-10 can defeat
most tanks NOW, but how about in the near future?
Just my opinion, I guess I'm just to fond of the tank to say it is becoming
obsolete.
And if you wanna talk about mecha, than you can't say anything for sure
either. Who knows, maybe in the future mecha will be agile and swift
machines which are designed to employ hit and run tactics. Maybe they'll
have plenty of thrusters and will be decked out with the latest ECM suites.
Who knows?
Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/
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> -Mike Petrucelli
> (who builds all mech(a) for his forces with "sliding" legs like TLC does for
> better playability)
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| (...) in (...) than (...) shot. (...) Well my underlying point was that a Tank is part of a well rounded military. If one relys only on Tanks, one lose rather quickly. Same with Mech(a)s. (...) No Tanks are definately not obsolete. (...) Over (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Now this is completly subjective and open to debate. I personally build what most people consider "cute" and/or "little" fighters. To me they are able to kill almost any other fighter or mech(a) with one shot. Hey my "Empire" the Galactic (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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