How does a normal person go to being 7-8ft tall just by wearing powered armour? Are they wearing powered high heels that add an extra couple of feet to their height? Or is the top of their helmet pointed like a 40k custodian which gets them to the 7-8ft height mark? Or do u mean a full on mechsuit like Iron Monger/Hulkbuster?
@@qhu3878 ok same thing applies right? Unless there's smth I'm missing about the fallout armour (I know the armour' S in the tv show but haven't watched it), the pilot steps into it from behind? Like their limbs are inside the limbs of the armour? It's not like Hulkbuster-esque mechsuit designs where the person's nestled somewhere up inside the machine and the whole thing's enormous. Do they say how tall Fallout powered armour is? Cos it cant be 7-8ft tall unless the soles of its feet are like a foot thick or the helmet is like a traffic cone Same thing with when ppl say Master Chief's armour gives him an extra 6 inches or a foot in height. Like really? How thick is the top of his helmet and the soles of his boots? Well I guess in his case he's already a giant so the height discrepancy is less egregious; who's gonna care if his boots and helmet are 3 inches thick
@@iainrickwood2623 power armour in fallout 4 and beyond (including the show) is a proper mechsuit and around 7 to 7 ½ feet tall, of course exact height varies from model to model but its still much larger than any operator inside of it
To be fair, sci-fi guns would do all the recruiting for you if it was clear they did exist but are exclusive to military use for now. So many people would enlist just to play with gyrojet guns lol
@@NSixtyFour well they are right now cuz we made like one working gun for them and decided not to continue developing things for them. Also people would still want to play with them just cuz they’re cool :P
I mean they are working on giant railguns which is impractical given we don't have any handheld ones in the field or even being produced by anyone but random inventor youtubers
Yeah. I was thinking this too. I remember when I was in highschool and seeing all the prototypes for the Comanche and Valkyrie, then they canceled the projects. My first thought is, "Okay now where's all the money? Where's the research data? Where are the working prototypes?"
@@GrimSoldat All the research made in cancelled or old projects is later given to other projects, so those spend less money on researching what was already researched.
Most of it goes into deeper than black budget projects. When you see billions being spent on HAMMERS, you know something is off. Go watch Unacknowledged.
I’d probably start conducting investigations into units with low morale and see what I can fix from there, most of the time it’s just bad leadership but occasionally there’s something a bit more going on!
Exactly what I was about to say lol. Honestly so sketch that SIG has contracts for pretty much every small arm in the US military, and that's coming from a guy who owns three SIGs.
You don't need to mothball Recruiting. Just do a proper audit and you'll have more than enough money for additional Research. (I say additional because at Aberdeen Proving Grounds they already do a ton of Weapons research.) Even better, you would also have more than enough money to get Troops better pay, better benefits and better food.
Plus I've heard we've been having a recruitment crisis for a while now and with our population about to shrink over time I don't think our country can really afford to just up and cut recruitment all together so anime conventions and gamers it is
I can't tell if the Army using a Misato cosplay for recruitment is either the best bit of media compression or the worst And I can't quite decide which would be worse
We are actually so advanced that we could be making handheld gauss/railgun rifles but for whatever reason we're skipping a few steps and making them for artillery and ship mounts
It sounds counterintuitive, but, at least in my deployment experience, people wear as little armor as they can get away with. Not only do people take it off the second (in vehicles, in towers, etc), but they also regularly just take plates out. If they think they can get away with no side plates, they do. I even knew a guy who replaced his chest plate with a tablet. Not even getting into how much troops complain about the armor, and how many have back and knee issues from it (myself included). It's just going from level 4 armor to level 3-but it helps morale, makes sure troops actually wear armor, and helps prevent some of the most common military injuries.
@@MarcusVanceagreed. It's all about finding a balance. Plus, until we figure out MJOLNIR armor or something similar, ballistic armor really doesn't cover that much, so its already just a little bit of a mental protection in some ways. Get a direct shot to the helmet by a rifle within 300 meters? Dead. Shot in the face from any distance? Probably dead. Bullet misses armor plate by half an inch vertically? Throat, spine, or clavicle shot, quite dead. Bullet misses tiny side plates? Very dead. Pelvic girdle? Wanting to be dead, then probably dead soon. Antimateriel round? Doesn't matter if the plate somehow catches it. Heart is ded, organs mush. I own both a soft level IIIA concealable armor vest and a pair of level IV ceramic plates. Pretty much only plan to wear the plates if I'm somehow forced to go door breaching for a couple hours lol. If a drone is about to drop a frag on me I'd be better off being more mobile.
@@DrygdorDradgvork I mean our toughest adversaries have always been guys in PJs with sandels and a ak varient, they might be on to something.. best way to not get injured is to not get hit
I'd do some similar things but different 1: recruiting no longer exists, that money gets split, half goes to tech development the other half goes to basic training grounds 2: everybody directly after high-school goes to basic training for 8 months, basically a 13th grade, both girls and boys. This will not be considered a military force and these people will not go to war unless they decide to enlist after, we also won't have realy pissy drill Sargents. 3: pull all troops away from current war zones and redistribute them to countries that absolutely need protection as peace operations 4: create divisions of 10-12 people of the most skilled and smart people, they will carry out essential hits, mostly individuals in power who have great potential for harm 5: completely dismantle the police and replace them with small military forces that are overseen and run by a council of 12 people consisting of 3 military high up, 3 mental health experts, 3 linguistics experts, and 2 city workers like engineers, city planners, architects, and 1 biologist whos an expert in ecosystems. At least 25% must be in a minority population 5: cut at least 15% of the current military budget and redistribute through things like Healthcare, infrastructure and social areas like parks or event centers 6: while it has nothing to do with the military i will use the military to enforce monopoly laws, businesses can only have a set number of locations, profits can't be accumulated by underpaying lower employees and higher ups can't make more that 20% more than the least payed employee for the company (if the lowest payed employee is only making $20/hour then the highest payed employee is capped at $25 per hour including ceos) Sorry got alittle outside parameters at the end there 🤣 also i will use the military to take over the country and instead of a president we will appoint a council, council members can only serve a single term of 6 years and we will have 1 election every 6 months so we cycle through instead of replacing multiple people at one time. While they're expertise don't particularly matter like the military councils in each city there should be some basic parameters, at least 30% must be minorities and the balance of left and right politics should be balances at 50% also the 30% minority council members must also be evenly split between left and right so if we have 4 minorities on the council 2 should be left leaning 2 right leaning. I'm thinking we have 24 members in total but I think anything over 12 would be acceptable.
We could have 40k pulse rifles, bolters and railguns by now. Hell, we could have the entire Cyberpunk 2077 arsenal but no, anime convention recruitment. Shame.
I'm by no means an expert on any of this stuff let alone military and government stuff but I'm pretty sure the issue with current hand held railguns is trying to make strong enough circuits and batteries for them to be made lethaly and the warship railgun idea got shelved because we need better metal that can last longer than one or two shots without the barrel exploding so now they want to focus more on things like missiles and defenses until then at least from what ive heard
Also the news said we were having a recruitment crisis a while back and our population is slowly shrinking so we are in desperate need of more people right now
First thing I would do is make it so that if you are in charge of a unit, and soldiers want to wear issued gear that protects them from the elements, you cannot stop them from wearing them. Second thing I will do is let troops wear beards as long as said beards are styled according to a set standard. Last thing I will do is everything you just said.
Also instead of recruiting, budget for retention and making actual cultural and bureaucratic changes to improve everyday life for service members. It'd end up doing double duty.
Unfortunately r&d is super expensive for the military. This is due to a lack of leverage in negotiations for contracts. When the Soviet union fell the MIC managed to scare congress that downsizing the military would lead to half of them going bankrupt and that they needed to be consolidated in order to survive. This means there are now only a few major players, who rarely compete even with each other. No competition, no leverage for contracting officers. No leverage, and companies can continually screw the DoD.
Well to play devil’s advocate, our military numbers are dangerously low for a country on the possible brink of war. So maybe don’t take ALL the recruiting funds… also maybe redirect some money to veteran welfare…they deserve more and their treatment is a large reason for lower numbers
Honestly if you wanted to be morally grey about it give incentives for veterans like free healthcare, and allow beards and fix barracks AND provide better chow for all branches
@@smugwendigo5123 beards actually seems really fair at this point. With current facial recognition software, you’re easily distinguishable from anyone else. It actually might be better to have changeable facial hair
Dropping the recruitment budget... for sci-fi weapons. If we made sci-fi weapons we would keep them secret for an advantage over the enemy and itd be in small batches
Versus getting gamers flocking to join and get a massive amount of field testing? When secret weapons will just be public the second we use them/if we don't use them we'll never know how we'll they work and might just miss out on effective tools? Nah.
I mean i would prioritize building a moon base on the moon and also demand drastically reduced costs to parts that we are overpaying for, but you may have it right. (Also justify using the army corp of engineers for infrastructure work and excuse it as training)
Necessity is the mother or invention. What I fear given the trend of how easy offensive weapons, with little technological improvement trump defensive systems which take much greater technological advancement, we'd see more AP rounds being used as standard issue. This is since it would be relatively cheap to do so and n would defeat the entire point of using cheaper armour. It justifies the slight additional spending if your enemy committed to a major defensive change and the logistics behind and supply requisition behind it. As for research, thats a black hole. You are researching things that doesn't exist so rhe cost will ALWAYS see overruns. The only way to streamline that to make it exponentially cheaper is pulling a China an reverse engineering existing advanced tech from your allies and or advasaries who already spent the time and billions. America as a superpower does not have this luxury. All the canceled research is always reused. A conceptual example is not having the tech required to make a working railgun and congress no longer wanting to sink money into it. However the energy storage and linkage tech is then used for a directed energy weapons platform whose components were already tested on platforms (eg railgun test on a destroyer). This speeds up r n d for a different and other subsequent projects or previous projects now having the tech they didn't 20 years ago which again congress didn't want to spend that money then; but now via diff research the tech can be appropriated. Thinking in game terms you spent on R&D, stopped researching tech B due to lack of or diverting funds, but the research points (nascent and niche tech and their applications) could be used to finish researching tech A or start researching tech C.
@@jerichohill487the problem is not jusg stop the bullet, is dissipate the energy. Actually is possible to stop .50", but the energy transfered is enough to destroy organs
@juanbenitez850 From what I can tell in the video, it woulda hurt, but not as bad as if it wasn't there. You should check out the video. Truthfully, the things a little bulky, but hey if it works it works.
Question: Why woulf you need all that in the first place? USA is the most militaristic country in the world anyways, so why not invest in something like quality of life, or reducing rent? If you're at the top, fortify your foundations before growing again...
I thought you'd pull out of middle east to de escalate tension with iran and reproposed a free nuclear deal with iran and demobilize troops from the pacific theatre to make a more sustainable trade relationship with china
Also I think it would be wiser to pull our industries out of China and re start industrialisation over here instead of giving our adversary the ability to cripple us into a new depression once war breaks out
I thought a weapon enthusiast should understand that AK-47s were never made in high amounts and are by the time you are making this videos long gone, replaced by 74 and 12
Miss me with that shit. You know what he meant. Also, the AKM is essentially a milled AK-47, and is the most-produced weapon in history. While near-peer threats use 74s and 12s, the AKM is still in use by virtually every third-world military and insurgent group.
Ah you see, if we actually adequately taxed the ultra wealthy and the bigger businesses we’d have enough money in the government to do all that. Also an economy needs cash flow in the form of initial investment from lowly peons like myself having enough spare money to be able to buy things beyond the bare necessities to keep myself alive. And if you’re poor enough you aren’t even paying taxes. The state gives you a tax return annually. But if the social services are adequate and there are few or no people living at or below subsistence level, then you have more people paying taxes and investing in things. Which between that and taxing the wealthy and big businesses, we’d have enough budget to turn the moon into the successor to the AC130 and then some
Well guy (knife hand) you're wrong. For one, the reason we dont use plastic kevlar composite plates is that after significant testing of ceramic kevlar composite with a steel core vs the layered plastic composite plates is that the plastic plates don't disperse the force of bullets as much as the ceramic with steel core. Plus, the plastic plates needed are thicker than the steel core plates and more prone to warping and softening in high heat environments like the middle east. So you are wrong. Second, the reason we target anime conventions and nerds/geeks is that most warfare is now done by drones and virtual interfacing of robots. And we are currently trying to bolster our ranks with people that are more prone to being able to handle that lvl of sophisticated combat. And if you want the military to spend more on R&D get the democrats out of the Whitehouse. They don't spend money on the military. They spend money on personal program interests and line thier pockets. We also have a MAJORITY of the weapons tech you are talking about the problem is that most of them are warcrimes and break about 3-5 accords in the geneva convention. So most of them are in lock up like the stark tech from Spider-Man. If it wasn't for democrats defunding NASA we would probably have regular combat capable space craft by this point or something close to Nightcity in 2023 from the intro scene of Johny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077. Democrats hate the military because it means having to shell out more money to vets and needing to spend money on illegal programs(theatfcough) to keep the public uninformed about thier rights and to own/bear arms. Thats why we dont use plastic, it melts in high heat and doesnt absorb bullet impacts when hot and melty. And the democrats dont want to spend money on the military because they fear us and an armed public.
@@yapflipthegrunt4687 yes, but an APC with a 30mm autocannon and a Javelin attached with duck tape will Be able to kill a tank, and while it Is much less armoured, it make up in speed and it's also much less expensive
@@user-jd1vs9tc6z They're two different doctrinal roles. APCs transport infantry and provide light fire support, while tanks provide heavy fire support and break through enemy lines.
