Heavy Infantry in modern Warfare

>>1780382
no duh dipshit, it's burgertech

>>1780382
Heavy infantry carries more machine guns than light infantry, because suppresive fire is the new armor.

>>1780382
The MGS example is real. That armor was used by mechanized infantry and riot control. It saw some use in Afghanistan but it's heavy as sin and exhausted soldiers wearing it. The Taliban freely took potshots at Soviet forces and ran when things looked dicey and the Soviet couldn't keep up.

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>>1780382

When the equipment+ vest and everything is something like 30kg you really wish you were light infantry

>>1780382
Heavy infantry is defined by role, not equipment.

>>1780382
The Modern Heavy Infantry are mechanized infantry units.

Ironically they carry the least amount of equipment.

>>1780382

If you wear armor like that, you're going to get exhausted pretty quickly, making you worthless as a soldier. Armor is best used on vehicles.

>>1780443
>>1780599
The exoeskeleton may change that in the near future though.

>>1780382
No it's just fantasy shit like emos running around with over-sized swords in Japanese games

>>1780382
>In Modern Warfare, avoiding damage is preferable to tanking it.

>>1780593
Not so ironic. It's pretty typical for light infantry to have the heaviest loads, because heavy infantry moves with a baggage train.

Not to any significant degree OP. Wars are a lot of walking and a lot of running and a bit of shooting in the general direction of the enemy dozens/hundreds of yards away.

Storming around all tacticool and shit like a mega CoD killer in an enemy base happens very rarely. Walking for many miles and then shooting at something for many minutes before walking again happens very often. In which case no extra BS is necessary (or welcome).

>>1781360

I dunno, I suspect a nation that has the technology and money to supply exoskeleton will also be able to keep humans out of harm's way in the first place.

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>>1781360
This. Once exoskeletons stop being a meme, soldiers will once again be able to don armor that's near impenetrable to other infantry they encounter. They'll dominate the battlefield until some innovation in ballistics makes the armor useless again, and the cycle will continue forever.

>>1781684

No they won't.

At best they will use non-powered exoskeletons that help move loads easier without actually requiring batteries. And even that is unlikely considering how easily such things could get jammed or fucked up in the field.

Powered exoskeletons wont be a thing until either we can give everyone an unlimited power source or batteries can last more or less forever. So unless the portable and light personal nuclear reactor is on the horizon, its not happening for the army.

More batteries = more weight = slower worse infantry.

That said, one area in which i could absolutely see exoskeletons being used would be for high-risk breach type scenarios. but thats more likely for police use than army use.

>>1781679
>>1781715

But muh anime...

Why even bother when wars will all be remotely-controlled?

>>1781715
This, nobody thinks about how these thing will be powered. We wont be seeing these for at least another 100 years

>>1781684
>armor that's near impenetrable to other infantry they encounter
Nah, we already have guns that can penetrate light vehicle armor quite easily. You'd have to carry something tank tier and that generates a lot of problems.

>>1781715
Well that's basically what I meant about not being a meme, because of the power it requires to carry all that armor.

>>1781731
But are those small arms that most infantry squads would have available to them?

>>1781679
You don't need to supply it to your entire army, just to some specialised units.

Heavy armored infantry would be pretty terrifying in urban warfare.

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>listen to tapes of Ocelot and Miller explaining the cold war and major events of the 80s

so comfy

>>1781731
>You'd have to carry something tank tier and that generates a lot of problems.
Nah, we'd just go back the the colonial style of lining up armies and taking turns to shoot one another.