If you could stop military tech development at any point in time,

When technology starts invading civillian life covertly or taking over in some insidious way, making the general population "combatants", or targets.

Are we already on our way?

Wanting development to cease?? What are you? Dark ages Catholic, Muslim, Amish?

>>32605415
2000!

>>32605474
>Wanting development to cease?
Military development, yes. Nowadays, most conflicts are either resolved with bombings from artillery/air, or through proxies. Now we're entering the unmanned drone era with both feet, and it's ceasing to be about soldiers with guns to be more about long-range missiles and expendable machines that don't need operators.

>>32605545
Wew lad!

You saying it's better to send people to die to achieve a nation's goals than send machines?

>inb4 the west shouldn't be involved in recent wars (I agree)

What of the scientific developments that carry over to civvie life that could only be funded militarily?

exactly 1961
fuckin drones can suck my dick

>>32605597
>Wew lad!
>You saying it's better to send people to die to achieve a nation's goals than send machines?
not him, but one could argue that it would force a government to think twice about actually entering into an armed conflict if there were actual lives at stake.

>>32605415

1940s, so we could still have bombers with machine gun turrets flying in formation with fighter escorts being engaged by enemy fighters like some fuckin star wars shit

>>32605629
Yeah, nah... you got me there.

>>32605624
1961? Elaborate for this fool please.
>on the year's significance - not dick sucking.

>>32605415
why on earth would i want to retard technical achievements?

you must be a liberal.

>>32605673
Fine. Enjoy your drones, constant suveillance, tax-eating Lockheed Martin projects and never EVER being deployed to operate.

The inter-war period, of course.

>>32605708
im an over 50 fudd. fuck deployment, that's for kids that wanna die in battle.

>>32605629
If that mattered, we would have never participated in a war prior to the invention of the drone.

>>32605629
>one could argue that it would force a government to think twice
Not really. The elite is too detached from normal, peasant life to care about anything that wouldn't directly undermine their power. Sure, there may be one or two good guys, but expecting anything good from any kind of organization is asking to be fucked in the ass.
A few soldiers are seen as expendable and will not stop the government from being trigger happy. That's why nukes are great, they are actual deterrents.

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The first Gulf War.

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>>32605415

The army looked 10x cooler back then, not a fan of digital camo

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>>32605415

>M16A1
>M203
>jungle style mags

Why can't we go back

>>32605415
Rhodesian civil war.

1944. That's when the first shift in the timeline happened.

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>>32605415
>You will never rape and pillage the Vietnamese countryside
Why even live

>>32607034
Holy FUCK I cannot see. Excuse my autism while I fold myself into a singularity.

>>32605415
Before the prevalence of autoloaders

It would be really interesting to see just how warfare and tactics change if everyone relies on lever actions, bolts, and revolvers

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Whatever era this is gear is. Before multicam made everyone look the same.

>>32607115
mid 00s, late Iraq Freedom stuff in other words.
UCP was a cancer tho'.

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>>32605415
I agree even the soviets looked cool in the 80s

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early 00s was IMO the best balance of aesthetics & practicality of personal mil-gear.

The term "green-collar worker" still applied to most soldiers.

>>32607056
explan

>>32607386
>budweiser hat
The cherry on top

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1999

Not just military technology.

All technology.

>fuck social media
>I miss when the Internet was myserious and fun
>cell phones control peoples lives
>superior vidya
>comfy af
>I just miss not being jaded and joyless

I still can't completely tell if I'm glad or regretful that I found 4chan

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>>32607446
You and me both.

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>>32607446
I agree, but I'd say you could go as far as 2004, and still get that kind of experience + slightly superior tech & some elder-god tier games.

That being said, late 99 would be my sweet spot for time-looped point in history.

>DVD was already a thing
>Broadband internet connections existed
>cellphones did exist & had replaced Pagers
>yet ye olde phones, including pay phones, still a common thing
>W98 is actually pretty damn gud & modern OS
>USB had became a standard
>PS1 + N64 the consoles of choice. Maybe Dreamcast if you're a lucky Jap.
>Gameboy Color & motherfucking 1st gen Pokemon boom was at full speed
>no 9/11 yet, so no extensive and systematic spying of everything
>M4A1 already a weapon of choice for western armed forces
>IBA and similar personal armors + MOLLE a thing already
>Satellite gadgets & Gen-2+ NV gear
etc.

and before anyone asks, this pic was made almost 10 years ago.

>>32605415
1898

>>32607637
>silent hill
hnnnnnng
>re 3
hnnnnnng
>ff7
dropped.

>>32607680
ff8*

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>>32607680
it's FF8, you goof.
7 came out 3 years earlier. And was the superior game.

All in all though, no matter what kind of gamer you were, the 90s had some amazing shit for everyone.

>>32607701
7 was shit too.

>no vigilante 8
shit childhood

>>32607753
>7 was shit too.
no son.

>vigilante 8
eh, quite mediocre Carmageddon clone.
never was a fan of sport and racing games in general.

>>32607795
>no son.
yeh

ff6 is objectively the best ff.

>>32607839
>ff6
>best anything
oh, you're one of THOSE nostalgia morons.

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>>32607859
>unironically thinks ff7 is good
>calls other nostalgia morons
lul
post yfw squeenix butchers the remake.

JRPGs are shit in general anyway

1944. Nukes ruined everything

>>32607907
I don't think. I know.
I actually played all the main-series' FF games through for the first time within the past 10 or so years, when I found the joys of emulation. FF7 had way better pacing, more interesting world design, and all around was a superior experience than FF6, that while not one of the worst games in the series, was definitely one of the more "meh" 2D titles.

>>32605624
We had proto-drones by then.
>Source grampa worked for the Martin company in the 50-60's

>>32605474
Why are you even on this board.
>>32605597
>You saying it's better to send people to die to achieve a nation's goals than send machines?
It's pretty obviously better my dude.
>inb4 the west shouldn't be involved in recent wars (I agree)
That's just sad.
>>32605629
They wouldn't, but voters would.

Anyway, I really don't think tech would lower or heighten death rates. Chinks managed to wipe out thirty million of themselves with various forms of stick-with-pointy-bit.

>>32607962

This. Without nukes we still would have proper World Wars and almost any industrialized nation could afford develop top of the line aircraft, tanks and other "high tech" weapons.

>>32605645
>fuckin star wars shit
WW1 was closer to that than WW2

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>>32607289
god i am in fucking LOVE with 80's soviet gear

>>32605415
2001 was great. We had survived Y2K, technology started to be really cool, hentai was widely available, still could download copyrighted stuff without any problems, weed was still sold openly in my country, I was in university, the future seemed good. 9/11 fucking broke everything. Fucking Muslims, fucking Burgers.

1939.

>>32605629
>not him, but one could argue that it would force a government to think twice about actually entering into an armed conflict if there were actual lives at stake.

This is actually the main theme of Gundam Wing.

>>32609407
80s (non-American) stuff is God-tier.

Why is American stuff so hilariously unaesthetic? I mean it helped them in the long run, because it looked so goofy it "had" to be heroic, but still.
>>32609847
It's a sci-fi staple.

>>32609812
I just got a half chub remembering all that retro hentai.

At least now I don't have to hide my face at blockbuster to indulge.

>>32610010
>Why is American stuff so hilariously unaesthetic?

Because esthetics don't matter to adults.

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>at any point in time

>>32610052
>what is propaganda

>>32605415
WOW BECAUSE WE'VE REALLY COME A LONG WAY FROM THEN HAVEN'T WE WITH ALL OF OUR FANCY

M16s

>>32610067
Alright great, development will stop in a few centuries' time.
>>32610120
He's probably sperging about the death of the infantry soldier.

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Napoleonic

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>>32610278

Only possible answer

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1890.

But that just might be me wanting to be a Cowboy on a horse drawn maxim gun patrolling some shithole for the American Empire.


Also, SPANAM era uniforms were aesthetic as fug.

>>32605597
The problem is that eventually one side will lose all its machines and then it will be that sides meatbags vs the other sides machines and that wont end well for the meatbags

>>32605474
You remind the unibomber.
He wasn't wrong though.

>>32610595
His solution was wrong. Regardless of how badly it fucks us up we have to continue progressing so we spread to the stars. Being fulfilled in life untill you go extinct is not a viable endgame for a species.

>>32605415
11th Century AD
Especially if civilian technology advances regardless.

>>32605474
>wanting development to cease
>dark age catholic
>implying all christians arent backwards
spot the christfag

>>32605415
The copper age would be interesting, especially in a future scenario like a robot rebellion.

>What do you mean the robots are rebelling?
>"They have advanced spear weapons sir!"

>>32610675
>Especially if civilian technology advances regardless.
I know this is a magical "what if" scenario. but i can't imagine Civilian technology progressing much in most fields without the military adopting it.

What about things that needed the military to give it a push?
If you invent the engine driven car, what would stop the military from using it?

Airplanes?

What about things like Nuclear energy? there were no nuke plants before fat man and little boy being dropped.

>>32610707
Which is why I find it so hilarious
Just imagine 100s of 1000s of armour clad night getting on sail boat for the grand crusade chanting Deus Vult for almost a year all the while watching commercial airliners cruising overhead.

>there were no nuke plants before fat man and little boy being dropped.
The plans and theory were drawn up regardless.

>>32606604
ya fuck that shit. I still have scars on my lower back and hips from that shitty LBE.

>>32607795
>mediocre Carmageddon clone
Nigger you're gonna apologize right now.

>>32605708
>money laundering, tax eating Lockheed Martin projects

There fixed it for you