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DetlefK

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3. So, a lean, expensive specialist gets a makeover into a hulky, cheap allrounder?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 10:51 AM

Feb 2015

That sounds like really bad planning.

On the other hand, technology/tactics change so fast that construction can't stay up-to-date.

I wonder what happens when mini-drones, rail-guns, lasers... become main-stream 10 years from now.

And what happens when exoscelettons for commandos and robots become battle-ready 20 years from now? The ships will need bigger corridors, new insertion-/extraction-vehicles that can support the weight-/size-/tech-requirements of these new troops, landing-/docking-bays to handle those new vehicles, workshops that can support robotic troops...

And for what kinds of missions will these robotic troops and ships be? If only the elite gets equipped with robotic tech, then the ships will be designed for short-term missions. If this tech gets spread far and wide in the US armed forces, then the ships have to be designed for long-term missions.

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