Why can’t mechs like Metal Gear Rex exist in real life? Metal Gear can go where tanks can’t reach...

>$5000 black market RPG
Lol Try 3 farmers. All with their own RPG tube and enough for 3 shots each for that much.

I'm just pulling a number out of my ass while trying to factor in that at one point in certain middle eastern areas and M4 would run you 2-4k US and adjusting my calculation based off of that
Also Black Market guys gotta eat and thus make a profit

yea ik ik. But it's funny to know just how easily a mech would fail in today's world where mom and pop who were just herding their goats can reach behind the trough, pick up their new fangeld RPG-7 with armor piercing grenade, and go back to doing their deal in less than 20 minutes after blowing a multi-billion dollar machine to hell and back. Fuck they probably wouldn't even bother to try and kill the pilot. They'd just laugh.

I love mechs though. I love mech games. I love the movies like Pacific Rim. My personal vice. Similar to how people get pumped for cape-shit. I love watching a mechanical human larger than the empire state building punch a godzilla rip off in the face.

In that same game you first defeat an Abrams as a boss. You damage it by tossing grenades on top of it to hit the boss himself who out of pride refuses to stay inside the tank. Things do not have to make sense because Kojima was probably high when he made the game.

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I've never understood this what exactly was the point of Metal Gears when subs with SLBMs were already a thing?

It was an excuse to add cool mechs to the game.

It uses a railgun, which is stealthier than an missile launch. I mean, that's bullshit since railguns are just as loud and produce a heinous amount of heat, but that's the stated reason nonetheless.

Otacon really liked mecha shows and wanted to make them IRL.

because REX can launch a nuke undetected through the power of japanimation

The tech just isn't there yet. The rest of Jow Forums isn't going to like this but the same arguments made against mech's were the same arguments made against attack aircraft, helicopters, advanced APC's etc.

The fact of the matter is this; Graphene, Carbon nanotubes and revolutions in fusion power are all happening as we speak.

With the advance of these technologies someone is going to have the autism to create a working prototype and some pencil pusher is going to be impressed enough to allocate it funding.

Once one country fields and effective mobile unit and finds a combat role for it, all other nations will follow suit.

You'll see. Just wait a decade or so I imagine.

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>Metal Gear can go where tanks can’t reach.
Has their ever been a scene in an MG game where that was actually demonstrated?

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RAY could swim in the ocean and make crazy jumps... so kinda ?

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Actually it only takes one guy with 6 rockets to the radome to disable its targeting capability and effectively any nuclear threat it would've had. It takes about another 6-7 rockets to the cockpit if you want to disable it completely.

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is this that retarded mech from nu-halo

Square cube law

>giant mechs
I cannot see a role or gap such machines would fill today.
This might change, though.

>small mechs/robot/powerarmor
If it is small enough to anywhere an infantry squad goes but powerfull enough to carry things like a .50cal machine gun, or a 20mm autocannon, or an automatic grenade launcher, or a bunch of AT munitions...
Yeah, I think that could be a thing.

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bad balance. tall and large target for low profile tanks and rpgs (example mgsv boss battle with sahelanthropus). you'd need to have severe eye problems to not hit it within a safe firing distance.

Yeah, I wonder what kind of ground you need for 100T Battlemech heavies to not sink all the way to their knee joints.

>Costs significantly more than tonks
>Far more points of failure than tonks
>They have far stricter limitations when it comes to weight because bipedal and comparable vehicles don't distribute their weight as well and they have a very real risk of sinking into terrain or making bridges collapse
>Taller means you are a bigger target
>Legged design means that it's harder to integrate high recoil weaponry because on treads you just roll backwards a bit but on a legged design you either need hydraulics compensating or taking steps backwards in extreme scenarios
>Can't provide as good of a cover for advancing infantry because legs aren't thicc enough compared to the sides or the back of a more conventional vehicle
>Field maintenance is significantly harder than with tonks

I'm probably forgetting something but we all knew that mechs don't really work anyway.

To be fair, in 4 all it needs is a firmware update and is nearly fully capable again.

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Probably this but I doubt they will be shaped like humans more likely spiders or something like that. Probably not piloted either.

Square Cube law.

>mechanical legs
There’s your problem buddy

Also, submarines exist and are much easier to move and conceal

Oh man we haven't had a mech thread in a couple days, I was almost getting worried.

100t standing on an area of say 2m2 (1m2 seems a decent size for a foot)
Newton says that's a ground pressure of 500.000pascal or 5bar.
This is actually less ground pressure than a bicycle can produce. (up to 620kpa)

I'd conclude that a 100t mech would be confined to paved roads.
But why would a mech need to weigh 100t when a MBT comes in at 60t?

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What nobody else has mentioned is the fuel. Even if you ignore the fuel cost, the fuel tank needs to be accessible from the exterior, which makes it vulnerable. Electric and diesel power would be inefficient, and nuclear power would be too dangerous for a battlefield.

In peace walker kinda, the last boss of that game is a four legged mecha running along an airfield and it's as dumb as it sounds.
In MGSV it also does it as well with you actually fighting one in Afghanistan, its funny too as it actually has an advantage with you fighting it in an area with multiple levels of elevation which it can actually traverse easily.

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Trillions? You're a dumb fucking nigger or a child aren't you? Let me explain this as best as i can to get through that thick dumb nigger skull of yours.
To get to a hundred, you need a hundred ones. To get to a thousand, you need a hundred hundreds. To get to a million, you need a thousand thousands. To get to a billion, you need a thousand millions. To get to a trillion, you need a thousand billions. And then you made that shit plural with an S. You couldn't begin to fathom the ammount of money you think is going towards this project. On a budget of 3k I could make a bilingual, bi pedal, bisexual robot out of a system of tubes, pogo sticks, 2 tape recorders, and a system of sexual inanimate objects that I borrowed from your mom. Because if you haven't caught on, I fuck her.

Tl;DR you took this thread to seriously and look like a Mormon moron.