03-26-2012, 07:05 PM
Right now, they're not too afraid of engaging dismounts, and consider it fun. With robotic creatures piloted by evil infidels that prefer to hunt at night, with no terrain restrictions, they would start to fear. Fear is a great deterrent, especially in a populace who traditionally looks forward to engaging invaders in battle. Less death is required with the night-stalking mech bots.
And the main Afghan ring road can be fully secured so that Afghan heroin will freely flow to the European marketplace, providing the necessary revenue for banks to stay afloat. 2007 was an $80 billion year for them, and the UNODC and an official with the IMF openly stated they are bailing out banks with the revenues. I'd rather our guys do it in air-conditioned mech bot cockpits, than running around playing silly games with goat rapers in the hills...especially considering the grotesque weight of the SAW.
Miniguns on your robo arms, with Javelin magazines on your back would make me much happier, than seeing good men run ragged with some BS armor on, carrying crappy machineguns forced onto them by a foreign company who buys their contracts with political maneuvering, rather than the merits of the products.
It would also be cool to have indirect fire tubes on your backs, with linked targeting systems between the robo warriors. Top the warhead array off with thermobaric charges, and we have a great recipe for vaporizing mud huts like it's cool, without ever having to call in CAS.
And the main Afghan ring road can be fully secured so that Afghan heroin will freely flow to the European marketplace, providing the necessary revenue for banks to stay afloat. 2007 was an $80 billion year for them, and the UNODC and an official with the IMF openly stated they are bailing out banks with the revenues. I'd rather our guys do it in air-conditioned mech bot cockpits, than running around playing silly games with goat rapers in the hills...especially considering the grotesque weight of the SAW.
Miniguns on your robo arms, with Javelin magazines on your back would make me much happier, than seeing good men run ragged with some BS armor on, carrying crappy machineguns forced onto them by a foreign company who buys their contracts with political maneuvering, rather than the merits of the products.
It would also be cool to have indirect fire tubes on your backs, with linked targeting systems between the robo warriors. Top the warhead array off with thermobaric charges, and we have a great recipe for vaporizing mud huts like it's cool, without ever having to call in CAS.