Comments by "The Immortal" (@theimmortal4718) on "Where Will Future Infantry Fight Wars?" video.

Depends on what it is. Night vision/IR lasers, antitank missiles, drones, comms equipment, and thermals allow us to fuck people up on a grand scale.
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 The average ground pounder uses all of those regularly. I've been infantry for 20 years now. Everyone is issued night vision, all machineguners have thermals, every NCO has a radio and a GPS, and every platoon has advanced ATGMs. Every weapon has an optic and an IR laser, too. These all allow us to communicate better, navigate more accurately, fight day or night, and shoot further with more accuracy. The ACOG alone doubled our range. We're a technologically advanced army. Gone are the days of blindly shooting at muzzle flashes at night with iron sights. Nowadays, my machineguners can stitch an enemy at night at 800 meters. We can get first round hits on fire missions without corrections and kill tanks at 2000 meters.
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 I know what you're talking about. That abortion of a program called the Next Generation Squad Weapon. That program should have never been started. I shudder to think if any of that garbage got selected. Drone warfare is going to change everything this decade. They'll be an integral part of how a platoon fights very soon. Recon will be done with them, so evading ambushes and not risking lives to see what's around the corner, down the block, or over the hill. With a built in GPS and LRF, we can use them to call for fire with mortars without exposing a forward observer.. We're also getting the M3E1 84mm RG with ballistic computer. That'll give the platoon a much needed replacement to the AT4, and in most cases the Javelin on the infantry platoon level. That's the only real technology leap I see coming soon for grunts. Most of the large tech jumps are going to aviation and hopefully, communications.
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Lol. Those 6.8x51mm would be next to worthless fighting in tunnels
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With planes, it's different. Many of the US like F15 Eagle are pretty good at everything, and it's been successful for 50 years. The F35 might be pretty good at most missions, but it's greatest strengths are in SEAD and high value targets on the ground or enemy air fuelers and AWACS. The F22 beats her in air to air combat.
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Tunnel fighting? Buy stock in Cyalume
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Most countries are investing in 30mm to 40 mm airburst autocannon rounds, guided by 3 sensors - day camera/FLIR/and short ranged radar in order to combat small drones. Laser guided 70mm rockets are also being fielded. More effective than machine gun fire. We also have airburst 40x53mm MK 47 rounds, with FLIR/LRF/ballistic computer.
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 I was in Iraq 03, 05, and 07/08. We didn't have any dragons in the 3rd ID. We already had the javelin in the invasion. We've had the Raven since OIF1, but that's usually a battalion asset. Now, well have quad copters down to the platoon level. What complicated systems are you talking about? The US military has been pretty conservative on the infantry side over the years. Can't think of really anything high tech being seriously pushed.its still mostly conventional arms. I would like to see us replace all of our machineguns (light, medium, and heavy) with lighter ones. The tech is out there to drop the gun weights by 50% without going to all of these stupid caseless/segmented ammo BS. The KAC LAMG and LW-AMG would he great candidates (8.5 lb SAW, 13 lb GPMG).
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 So am I. This is all infantry equipment.
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 You know that's right. Really, the only thing that's really added weight to us is body armor. That's 30 pounds that prior generations didn't have. There's got to be a big change in his we carry loads and what we carry. Soon, supply drones will precision drop much of what we use, from rucks for sustainment to speed balls for ammo/water/chow resupply (think miniature drone Chinooks) Ground drones will also be integrated in close to us. From RPVs the size of Humvees, to ones the size of remote controlled cars. If we have to fight in these subterranean environments he's talking about, much of it will be done with armed robots..Both the army and Marines are heavily invested into them. At the end of the day, though, it still takes men to operate weapons, and they have to be right in the fight doing it. These advances are being developed by many countries and we'll be facing it coming the other way, too.
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@grunyonthoughtsfromagrunt8264 Some things will need to remain simple, like our small arms. I don't want heavy weapons or ones that can fail at the wrong time. I want the lightest, most simple rifles and machineguns we can get. In the mix will be very sophisticated weapons, too. We have no choice. Countries like China and Russia are fielding some advanced weapons, too. They're both fielding a lot of drones and we're having to come up with ways to fight them.
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