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We all have seen the change in naval warfare shift from gun based systems to missiles.
I appears to me that a few rules is general:
1. Armor is effective against guns, ineffective against rockets. Guns are difficult to scale up often require entirely new platforms, a bigger rocket to defeat armor is trivial in comparison.
2. The primary means of passive survivability against rockets is increase of volume, robustness and redundancy. A warhead have finite volume of effect. Defensive "material" can be spread apart since it absorbs the damage all the same.
Using these rules, one can predict future vehicle designs:
1. Land vehicles become big as other transport allows (air/ship). Packaging constraints means it would be cuboid. Even if it serves no "function", stuffing with aerogel or something is likely to improve things. There may even be attempts for "fold out" vehicles that increases in volume in field operations.
2. Distributed electric propulsion becomes the name of the game, and multiple engines/backup power with armored compartmentalization would be a thing.
I appears to me that a few rules is general:
1. Armor is effective against guns, ineffective against rockets. Guns are difficult to scale up often require entirely new platforms, a bigger rocket to defeat armor is trivial in comparison.
2. The primary means of passive survivability against rockets is increase of volume, robustness and redundancy. A warhead have finite volume of effect. Defensive "material" can be spread apart since it absorbs the damage all the same.
Using these rules, one can predict future vehicle designs:
1. Land vehicles become big as other transport allows (air/ship). Packaging constraints means it would be cuboid. Even if it serves no "function", stuffing with aerogel or something is likely to improve things. There may even be attempts for "fold out" vehicles that increases in volume in field operations.
2. Distributed electric propulsion becomes the name of the game, and multiple engines/backup power with armored compartmentalization would be a thing.
