Will guns ever become outdated? Either from armours or some weird shit. To the point where we would revert to some weird firm of futuristic hand to hand combat, or is the nature of a projectile too effective, thus they would just adapt?
Will guns ever become outdated? Either from armours or some weird shit...
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Austin Nguyen
>armour
What country are you from, and why do they hate freedom?
Aaron Miller
So basically, Legend of the Galactic Heroes style combat? I hope so.
Christopher Sullivan
>nature of a projectile too effective
this, however it depends not on the creation of new weapons but the creation of new defenses. if every dude was dressed like iron man, conventional guns would be much less useful. however as it stands, humans are very soft and delicate so guns work fine. there are fighters still using muskets for instances.
Sebastian Reed
We're just throwing rocks. That's all a firearm is. Rock throwing taken to it's technological extreme. Since accelerating small masses to extreme velocities is very effective for eliminating almost all life on this planet, no they will never be "outdated".
Jacob Richardson
Can’t wait until we have mass drivers like in halo, then we’ll be throwing very big rocks, very very fast.
Josiah James
I don't think they'll ever become completely outdated.
However it is possible that armor or other defense technologies can advance to the point where they aren't the ultimate equalizer and it won't be as easy to go down from just one lucky shot anymore.
In which case hand to hand might become more viable again.
Kevin Hughes
For the past few decades it’s been a constant battle between cartridges and armors beating each other. And this will likely continue on forever until laser weaponry becomes more readily available and able to be mass produced.
Camden Clark
Has there really been “a constant battle”? Militaries haven’t changed their main rifle round in decades, and hotter DMR and sniper rounds can still cut through armor with little issue.
Ayden Garcia
>like in halo
lol ok kid
Jacob Butler
Sure militaries haven’t changed the cartridge of their main infantry rifles in decades but the bullet that they use has been updated at least a couple times for better armor penetration since most militaries field some form of body armor.
Eli Evans
>Mfw Halo 1 was released in 2001 and it’s of voting age
Easton Stewart
I guess the only way that could happen is if energy shields became a thing. Probably would imagine they could only stop fast moving projectiles, so only shootings could be done a near point blank/directly on them. In that case we'd probably need some kind of lazer/electric melee energy weapons, assuming we can't do phasers or blasters right.
Ryan Adams
Moving from statistical weapons to guided weapons was a massive revolution for big guns. It probably will be for personal weapons too.
Joseph Watson
We have railguns already, it could happen.
Oliver James
Maybe when firearms can track targets and make it so you have a perfect shot every time. I swear I saw something close to this before but they got shut down or something cause “muh unfair competition”
Joshua White
Would a hand held energy weapon be considered a gun
Hudson Davis
Lucas Gomez
Tracking Point did it but they were future warrior huge scopes on custom built rifles and you had to use their branded ammo to ensure accuracy.
Luis Kelly
Elijah Morris
Both passive armouring and chemical propellants have (mostly already achieved) hard limits due to how much energy chemical bonds can supply to the projectile/can absorb before the armour fails.
And if glow in the dark DARPA types can magic up some newtech electric energy storage it'll be equally applicable to electrically driven weapons and energized reactive armor.
And lasers are a huge meme and dogshit at defeating armor.
If space warfare even happens it'll be nuclear thermal propelled missiles carrying nuclear warheads shooting at ships riding Orion drives for propulsion so all bets are off.