And the Garlics... I want to like a Salamander Shilka with a RADAR and IR sensor, but that's going to be a VERY HARD roll for just a revision. I'm getting superstitious seeing how often we've been crit failing revisions. As flawed as our current Shilka is, it's probably good enough for now especially if the SAM lives up to its promises. The NVD is something we should have made long ago instead of trying to steal the Aswang. Unfortunately, knowing how those geeks are with electronics, they'd just roll out light amp NVGs the next turn.
We already have the radar and capabilities of linking it, it's just a matter of putting it inside the vehicle, which we should be able to, considering we put it on planes. The only difficulty comes from the IR sensor. If they roll out light amp, they probably need to roll well on a design, and... then we can steal that.
Now the RPG is something we literally haven't touched this entire war. It was great for it's time, but doesn't hit hard enough against modern armor. It's obsolescence why the HKII is being forced into some really insane solutions (see eS's research credit story). Now we've made Sarukh rockets, Artemis rockets, Piracy Warning missiles, Saltseeker missiles, and Noose missiles. We should be able to make a dumbfire manportable AT rocket in our sleep. Maybe we'll roll a 1 and just get a bigger warhead on the old launcher. I'd be happy with that.
This is my problem, we are good at missiles, so... I think we should dedicate a design to it. Unless something big happens, even next turn design. Make radar-guided ones, with interchangeable guidance in IR for Bulls, maybe even capable of shooting down the goddamn helis.
If we roll 1 at the Garlic, we will probably... at worst get either the turret on the Salamander and maybe some armour on the gun, which will already help the vehicle IMMENSELY, as it will now be able to be used against ground targets without endangering the gunner that much. If we roll a 2, we might get the radar inside it, so we now have a proper Shilka firing on the move. If we get better rolls, we will probably make the IR thing easily... or maybe we will get the IR thing on low rolls, but won't be able to put it on Salamander, who knows.
The primary reason that modern militaries use AFVs as light tanks is cost. They don't want to pay for yet another armored platform. That doesn't bother us, unless we have problems with action economy, which we don't really seem to.
Except... we do. We have tons of things that we probably should have (Night Vision, amongst others) because Cannalans are insane with the stuff they put out, so we have tons of tech to catch up to, and we will need designs and revisions to counter their things each turn. We are the ones behind, not them, because we failed so many designs, not them.
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Topic: Intercontinental Arms Race: Finale (Read 602418 times)