Aaryq
Member
What do you think the next major break in weapons technology will be? I'm talking replacing arrows replaced by black powder muskets or muskets being replaced by brass cartridges.
*disclaimer* I know guns are more than just weapons. I just want to look at it from the weapons aspect.
Looking at Europe, you see that body armor started out as nothing and was replaced by fabrics (leather and hardened linen and for the sake of this post chain maille). The fabric armor protected the people of the day until breakthroughs in technology like metalurgy could easily defeat it. To keep up with the technology, hard armor (plates) was used in combination with fabrics (leather and maille) and worked for a while. Eventually, after more advances in technology, the fabric was deemed obsolete and plates only became the next armor. When guns hit the battlefield hard armor became obsolete and for a long time, wars were fought wearing no armor. Armor started to go full circle when it back into the scene with the advent of flak jackets and eventually bulletproof vests (fabric armor). Today, depending on the mission, people are using fabric armor, fabric with hard armor or hard armor. Looking back to the past, you see that the individual weapon and the individual armor have spurred each other forward.
So what's next in weapon technology? The hard armor backed by soft armor can stop a lot of what's on today's battlefield so obviously, the weapons need to improve. My question for you is where is it going to go?
*disclaimer* I know guns are more than just weapons. I just want to look at it from the weapons aspect.
Looking at Europe, you see that body armor started out as nothing and was replaced by fabrics (leather and hardened linen and for the sake of this post chain maille). The fabric armor protected the people of the day until breakthroughs in technology like metalurgy could easily defeat it. To keep up with the technology, hard armor (plates) was used in combination with fabrics (leather and maille) and worked for a while. Eventually, after more advances in technology, the fabric was deemed obsolete and plates only became the next armor. When guns hit the battlefield hard armor became obsolete and for a long time, wars were fought wearing no armor. Armor started to go full circle when it back into the scene with the advent of flak jackets and eventually bulletproof vests (fabric armor). Today, depending on the mission, people are using fabric armor, fabric with hard armor or hard armor. Looking back to the past, you see that the individual weapon and the individual armor have spurred each other forward.
So what's next in weapon technology? The hard armor backed by soft armor can stop a lot of what's on today's battlefield so obviously, the weapons need to improve. My question for you is where is it going to go?