2025 Victory Day parade thread (workup, 3rd Sept)

[Temstar]

Minor interesting thing noticed by Yankee:


During practice DF-61 had its number painted at the exact same location as DF-41 in 2019, yet when it came time to do it for real they had the number adjusted so it's ahead of the air conditioning ducts instead.

 

[plawolf]

As of now there are no longer any technological constraints preventing the 2029 or 2035 parade be made up of humanoid combat droids formations followed by large walking battle mechs and PLA troops in power armor, of course in practice we're more likely to see quadrupeds, maybe large hybrid electric ones with cannons, which would still be cool.

Personally I think the first true power armour deployment in the real world will be in the form of power armoured troops riding quadruped mounts.

Currently the key limiting factor for true power armour is in making a power source compact enough. The mount side steps that issue by allowing you to use the mount to carry the primary power source, with the power armour itself only needing a secondary power source that only needs to last for a few hours instead of days or weeks.

The mounts also solves the speed problem with power armour, as slow prodding suits will get absolutely obliterated by ATGMs and FPVs.

But sadly, in the world of FPVs, power armour might become obsolete before its even developed, as no level of protecting such power could realistically provide would be enough to protect against FPVs with shaped charge warheads.

 

[mack8]

As of now FPVs are quite slow so an active defense system would it be too much of a stretch to go with power armour? Either MW or kinetic or maybe both. Something like Predator's laser gun (i don't mean an actual laser gun, not yet anyway) but arranged for widest possible FOV.

Again, i kinda grin like an idiot seeing that we have serious discussions about PLA fielding stuff that it was literally sci-fi until recently. It's just mind-boggling.

 

[Blitzo]

Sigh, I'm going to delete all the posts from the Bill Sweetman article and afterwards, because people seem to not be literate and are more focused on trying to score silly "wins" when there aren't any to begin with.

@Maikeru, in future can you be more selective about articles that you post?
If you feel like you post an article that has the capability to generate responses like "look at them coping" then consider not posting them in future. It is getting tiresome. Or at they very least give a justification/description to pre-empt and prevent others from responding in that manner.

I am also deleting a couple of the posts about the ridiculous submarine matter. I'm not sure who would believe in the modern age that noises made by crew inside a submarine would be the decisive factor in acoustic silencing.