Will This Weapon Change Infantry Warfare Forever?

The Diplomat ^ | April 5, 2016 | Franz-Stefan Gady

[AppyPappy]

See MP-APS(Battlefield 4)

[Billthedrill]

Yep, line infantry attacks should have ended in the American Civil War - the Europeans certainly had observers who could have told them what happens to such infantry assaults against a prepared position. Then there was the Somme...

[ThunderSleeps]

How is this different from indirect fire? Wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier just to equip the units with small mortar teams?

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[atc23]

This is the new stuff from Stark Industries

[IYAS9YAS]

I was hoping for a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

Just what you see, pal.

[huldah1776]

I was thinking the same thing when I posted “smart grenades” in reply to running targets, the way the ammo? split into smaller parts. :)

[huldah1776]

hmmm.

[huldah1776]

LOL, I’ll tell my son.

[elpadre]

Has the Obama administration already provided the plans to our enemies? You know how much I trust that guy!!

[BenLurkin]

You are approached by a frenzied scientist, who yells, “I’m going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!”

What’s your response?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That’s shoulder fired?

[SkyPilot]

I was hoping for a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

Hey, just what you see pal.

[DCBryan1]

Next thing...SMART GRENADES?

No. Smart bullets:

[AFreeBird]

40 watts doesn’t sound like much.

[KC_Lion]

You are approached by a frenzied scientist, who yells, “I’m going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!”

What’s your response?

Say nothing, grab a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head to knock him out. For all you knew, he was planning to blow up the vault.

I have question for you.

Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?

[LambSlave]

Yep, line infantry attacks should have ended in the American Civil War

As should have unobserved artillery fire.

[Cuttnhorse]

I would think that the beginning of the end of line infantry didn’t occur in 1866, but a few years earlier at Antietam, or certainly Gettysburg; the Europeans just kept it up until the Franco-Prussian War.

Exactly right...William Tecumseh Sherman was one of the first Civil War generals who openly resisted open line, high casualty infantry charges.

There are many, many good books on the Civil War, but a really informative one is, Fierce Patriot, The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, by Robert L. O'Connell.

[SkyPilot]

And Confederate General James Longstreet was way ahead of his time with defensive warfare tactics. He also advised Robert E. Lee to redeploy the army out of Gettysburg and get between the Army of the Potomac and Washington DC. If Lee had listened, the Union would’ve been forced to negotiate and sue for peace. But no. They had to have their Napoleonic Pickett’s charge

[SgtHooper]

Hair-lip dog?