29 years of miltech from now and allow for a build up of hostilities to realy expand the research budgets.
Infantry, heavy. Good class body armour, probably exo suit of some form and heavy weapons. Some assualt units in full body armour mostly for static use. Paramilitary siege breakers in full body class 4 armour etc. Heavy use of electronic force multipliers.
Infantry, line. A fully functioning version or the land warrior.
Mech units. Wheeled APCs and light fighting units are great for racing up and down roads but once you get into the truely bad stuff tracks go futher. Urban warfare units mostly wheeled and fast, 20-50mm cannon and missiles plus a fair ECM set on a lightly armoured hull. Budget run downs will lead to more wheels and less tracks, once people start rattling the WMD then tracks will be back as forces build back up for war.
Heavy units with very heavy composite hulls and active hull defences, enough ECM and point defence to stand in for an Aegis class, main weapon hyper velocity cannon either electrotherm or gauss running off either a very early fussion, a mass of cells or a tiny nuke plant. Backup weapons include missiles for indirect and cannon for light targets and infantry.
KE missiles should be small enough to be squad support level or at least in hunter/killer groups on small vehicles.
Lasers will be viable in area defence but unless we get a real power generation break through they are not going to be offensive weapons for a while yet.
Close air support is going to be drones, nothing crewed should be anywhere over the battlefield except for transport and medical who will be flying grass level and as far back as possible.
Aircraft are going to be strategic rather than tactical, heavy bomber types going in behind a wave of drone fighters and launching over the horizon missile salvos.
With current research into ultra fast engines and reusable space vehicles by 2033 Aerospace is going to mean just that with craft launching from home, going low orbital, hitting the target and flying home all in a few hours.
Drones are going to be everywhere, following squads on patrol with spare ammo/supplies etc or as part of the patrol carrying heavy weapons fired/overseen by an operator in the squad. Robots standing guard scanning IFF types on every vehicle and soldier that passes or sitting along the front lines sniping at enemy units.
At the low tech end of the fighting its going to be much as it is now, at the hi tech end we may well see more bots than men doing the fighting and we may not even see that as advanced sensors and over the hill (or through the hill) weapons proliferate.
Infantry, heavy. Good class body armour, probably exo suit of some form and heavy weapons. Some assualt units in full body armour mostly for static use. Paramilitary siege breakers in full body class 4 armour etc. Heavy use of electronic force multipliers.
Infantry, line. A fully functioning version or the land warrior.
Mech units. Wheeled APCs and light fighting units are great for racing up and down roads but once you get into the truely bad stuff tracks go futher. Urban warfare units mostly wheeled and fast, 20-50mm cannon and missiles plus a fair ECM set on a lightly armoured hull. Budget run downs will lead to more wheels and less tracks, once people start rattling the WMD then tracks will be back as forces build back up for war.
Heavy units with very heavy composite hulls and active hull defences, enough ECM and point defence to stand in for an Aegis class, main weapon hyper velocity cannon either electrotherm or gauss running off either a very early fussion, a mass of cells or a tiny nuke plant. Backup weapons include missiles for indirect and cannon for light targets and infantry.
KE missiles should be small enough to be squad support level or at least in hunter/killer groups on small vehicles.
Lasers will be viable in area defence but unless we get a real power generation break through they are not going to be offensive weapons for a while yet.
Close air support is going to be drones, nothing crewed should be anywhere over the battlefield except for transport and medical who will be flying grass level and as far back as possible.
Aircraft are going to be strategic rather than tactical, heavy bomber types going in behind a wave of drone fighters and launching over the horizon missile salvos.
With current research into ultra fast engines and reusable space vehicles by 2033 Aerospace is going to mean just that with craft launching from home, going low orbital, hitting the target and flying home all in a few hours.
Drones are going to be everywhere, following squads on patrol with spare ammo/supplies etc or as part of the patrol carrying heavy weapons fired/overseen by an operator in the squad. Robots standing guard scanning IFF types on every vehicle and soldier that passes or sitting along the front lines sniping at enemy units.
At the low tech end of the fighting its going to be much as it is now, at the hi tech end we may well see more bots than men doing the fighting and we may not even see that as advanced sensors and over the hill (or through the hill) weapons proliferate.
