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[Helgoland]

Airborne aircraft carriers? Just have a huge zeppelin hanging out in the stratosphere, launching a few bombers once in a while...

[Sergarr]

But normal aircraft can't reach stratosphere by normal flight... that means that the aircraft launched from there can't return back to it.

[Mech#4]

I'm sad Kirov's don't exist. Well... as sad as I could be about not having a giant zeppelin bomber.

They had small zeppelin in WW2 yes? They were anchored to the ground by cables and were designed to deter low flying planes I think.

[Chaoswizkid]

I'm sad Kirov's don't exist. Well... as sad as I could be about not having a giant zeppelin bomber.

They had small zeppelin in WW2 yes? They were anchored to the ground by cables and were designed to deter low flying planes I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon

They were not zeppelins, that is, not airships, just balloons to create artificial obstacles for enemy aircraft.

[misko27]

They were zeppelins the same way a mine is an artillery round.

[10ebbor10]

Barrage balloons aren't true airships. On a side note, there're also observation balloons.

And there have been real airships in WW II as well (Zepellin is a trademark, IIRC). The US used them with great succes to deter enemy submarine operations, and patrol trade routes.

[MonkeyHead]

Meh, AA lasers will go some way to making drones highly vulnerable. Should/will be a piece of piss to mount one on a tank hull which will make short work of any drone at ranges and accuracies most tank feasbale AA weapons are not capable of.

[10ebbor10]

Lasers are large, expensive and hard to mount. Besides it's mostly tracking technology and the ability to turn rather than beam speed, especially at those attack ranges.

[MrWillsauce]

large, expensive and hard to mount.

Sounds like your mom.

[Owlbread]

Sounds like your mom.

Hold it, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't bring anyone's mother into this.

[Descan]

And computers are large, expensive, and will never fit in your pocket. :v

[10ebbor10]

Still, by the time that happens we will probably see lasers as being used against tanks as well.

Still a point of stealth however.

[Guardian G.I.]

Fun fact: Soviet engineers have already tried to make laser tanks in the 1980s:

Spoiler: 1K17 Szhatie (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: 1К11 Stilet (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Sangvin (click to show/hide)

These self-propelled laser systems were designed to combat enemy optical sensors. They were really, really expensive - for example, a 20 kg artificial rubies crystal was made for the laser projector of 1K17. Plus, some of them required an external power generator mounted in another armoured vehicle in order to fire for a prolonged period of time.

[Dutchling]

Red Alert 2 had it all wrong. The Soviets had prism tanks, not the Allies o.o

[LordSlowpoke]

some of these days i just wish the soviet union was still alive and kicking

i mean sure, they were far behind on electronics and probably fucked in the arms race because of it but the stuff they came up with was phenomenal when they actually put their heart into it you know?