Question is also what about armor - when armor is not able to stop a high powered shot then a classical tank will be nonsense but this would include anything that could fly too. every other weapon i can imagine (Particle beam, Rail even Grav gun) need a "huge" barrel - and this makes a vehicle with a turret important again so its a hovering egg - with lenses pointing in all directions. Is it laser? In this case you don't need a turret ring because you can have one Laser apparatus in the vehicle but several lenses all over the vehicle - so no turret is needed. Ok with grav as lift and propulsion might be one thing - but what about the main weapon?
But airplanes are more expensive than tanks, so I guess before someoen makes antigrav tnaks he would replace planes with antigrav tehc first. Unless this antigrav is so superexpensive that airplanes and usuall tanks are still the more economical choices. if you had a proper antigrav tech in a similar size as a airplanes wings and engines combined or smaller planes woudl turn into antigravity tanks. Airplanes would probably not evene exist anmyore as their concept is rather bulky, wings are rather fregile just for "staying in the air". So the main remaining forces for vehicles would be sea (as this is different physical conditions) and Space and athmospheric vehicles. antigrav isn't hivering that requires beeing near ground. once oyu had antigravitational technology there would be no real air or ground specific difference anymore.
the reason we have ground vehickle tanks is that makign them fly is a huge ressource effort (and probably impossible with out tech). I don't thing ground vehicle tnaks would exist anymore. so they might develop fast moving ground support crafts modified to take out flying targets. So the defender would need multiple SAM and heavy AA guns to take out those tanks - but those are vulnerable against orbital fire. It only helps to change from one combat theater into the next without a medium - for example when you need a drop ship to get your tanks from orbit onto the ground - they are vulnerable in the air, and while unloading - when you need a shuttle to get your tank from the ground into orbit you have issues but in the other directionĪ controlled descent of a tank that can be deployed in low orbit would not help that tank much when it got targeted by a fighter (but maybe its armor and active defense is though enough that the guns and AA missiles of a fighter would not harm it). Non of those might be interchangeable with another - of course when turbines / agrav are strong and compact enough a tank might fly - but it would not be used as a derivative of an fighter or bomber. No I wasn't asking for sense, Tarl replied that a futuristic would be fast because he seeked sense and then gave some description with the antigrav, but that description didn't make sense because such a future would look different to begin with.Īfar from the need to fight wars even in future when interplanetary or even interstellar travel is developed (don't see any reason anymor but the pure ignorant stupidy of mankind)Ĭombat would only add a fourth combat terrain maybe a fifth
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