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We are returning to a time of armor
posted 1 day ago by Butttoucha9k on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +14Score on mirror )
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With the rise of laser, microwave, and energy weapons, we are returning to a time of armor.

Copper or silver chainmail disrupts emfs.

Kevlar or silk underneath will slow projectiles.

Metal shells with ornamentation - angular lines, mirrored surfaces, rounded corners, will prevent detection and blunt force.

With all new cars being vulnerable to hacking and control, horses will become a viable option for mobility again.

So let them move towards "the future". We will become beautifully armored knights again. With purpose.
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devotech2 on scored.co
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War technology is cyclical. It will always return in a different form. The distinction between light and heavy infantry disappeared with the gun but came back with the arditi in ww1 (and has continued). Cavalry died after horses became irrelevant but came back with tanks, helicopters, and armored vehicles (although cavalry as a concept never had a real end-point. Horse cavalry became ineffective after the Civil war). Large combat ships were made irrelevant by the ironclad and submarine, became relevant again because of advances leading to the dreadnought, and then became irrelevant again after ww2. If rail guns ever become a thing, large combat ships will also come back. That one has gone back and forth many times.

I don't necessarily agree with the post. I think that if armor comes back, it will have a pretty novel form (not chainmail over Kevlar) because the reintroduction of a concept of a technology to the battlefield has always required this. But what is this? We don't know yet

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
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