>>3410Prototypes and early designs are rarely effective. The first tanks for example were big slow pieces of shit prone to breakdowns, and now we have tanks that are capable of highway speeds and hitting a moving target kilometers away. The issue is that tanks were a first of its kind and it was extremely effective in its role of breaking stalemates with no real hard threats to it. Modern war on the otherhand boils down to different ways you can launch a missile at something to explode it. Mechs have the disadvantage of not only providing no untapped niche, but also needs to play catchup for them to be practical war machines. They'll struggle for funds if designed as a weapons platform from the get-go. I do think they have a niche in a logistical capaicty, a lot of weaknesses stop mattering when you aren't intending it to be shot at, which is exactly what the guy in the video intends for them: things like disaster relief and space.
Regardless of how useful it is, they should build them anyway because big stompy robots are
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