Realistically, how can mechs even compete with tanks? In video games they're greatest war machine ever...

Realistically, how can mechs even compete with tanks? In video games they're greatest war machine ever, but are they really that good?

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>"Get past that mountain!"
>"But sir we only have tanks it's going to take us days!"

>Meanwhile
>"Get past that mountain!
>"No problem sir let me just jump over it real quick with my mech :^)"

Battle tech and Mechwarrior have the best tactical application for mechs, where just carting around a fusion reactor allows you to mount and power more energy weapons than a typical tracked vehicle can. This doesn't make tanks obsolete, but it makes them an ancillary support vehicle. Mechs are very very expensive to run and maintain compared to tanks, but have big advantages in cross terrain capabilities and height.

Good examples of tanks being better than mechs is in city fighting, where Demolisher tanks can cripple a mech just by setting up ambushes in alleys and streets. Or by the NARC beacon, which is a targeting probe launched by mechs that feeds telematry data to all firing support units. Not even a mech can handle having missiles rained down on it for 30 seconds

Mechs may have some advantages in mobility, but it would be a small advantage compared to tanks' ability have more armor and larger weapons with a lower profile.

why couldn't you put a fusion reactor and more guns on a tank?
why couldn't mechs ambush another mech(or tanks) in a city?

never played those games, but I think realistically it would be opposite, where mechs would be essentially scout/spotter units and the tanks would have time to move into position for an optimal fire range

The thing about Mechs is that they're mobile. Games and anime make it seem viable by having them tank a lot of hits, but realistically they would be crippled immediately as soon as a joint got damaged. Mechs will never be viable, at least not huge ones we'd want to see from fiction.

>Realistically
>mechs
Oh, it's autism thread.

Realistically in any universe where you can build a mech with the capability to fight you would have the technology to build a far more capable tank, aircraft or some other weapon system all together.

We live in a world where a tank or aircraft can be disabled with a single missile. The same could be done to a mech. A mech would undoubtedly be a much more expensive vehicle to build and maintain too.

>have a tank mecha
>have it transform into a 6 legged mecha for rough terrain that treads can't get over
>transform back into tank

Wow, so hard.

The ability to jump or sidestep away from hazards.

The ability to hold a giant shield.

The ability to grab anything else big and use it as a shield or projectile.

Pick up an APC and hold its entire crew hostage / hold an entire building hostage on the fly.

anything else arms and legs can do

Realistically, tanks are already obsolete.
They still have a few applications but for the most part we make them as much as we do still to keep people employed and then dump them in a field.

Realistically, how can present day technology compare to fictional future technology? In video games futuristic stuff is way better than modern stuff, but is it really that great?

Same answer to both question: because tanks are tiny. Can't mount a fusion reactor and more guns unless they're fuck-huge Shagohod-tier things, but the smaller size makes it easier to hide around buildings, or in buildings for that matter.

You fly over mountains user. Unless your mech has 500 foot tall stilts.

Tanks still have applications. Things like fighter aircraft and surface combat ships will disappear long before tanks.

Table top kinda mixes the roles. And their are a ton of variety of both. There are tanks in battletech that even assault mechs would think twice before attacking.

>Tank
>Mech

Who cares. Both are shit.

Or just build a land crawling vtol flier.

>Getting shot down by an old man using a 500 year old Mosin Nagant
Nice Gunship, fag

So they are going to make a resurgence based on what?
I fail to see them competing against all the ground drone vehicles they will be pumping out in the next few years.

You could make the argument for mechs on swamps and other impassable terrain for tanks. Tanks really shit the bed when things get wet.
t. experience

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>ground drone vehicles they will be pumping out in the next few years
Their a whole lot cheaper and armies needs jobs for their recruits.

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Frontline airborn vehicles will be extinct immediately after laser tecnology becomes widely used. It'll just be a matter of whether you can stay undetected or not. And we all know countries have been working on those for decades now.

Tanks are already starting to become obsolete in modern day, thanks to how effective anti-armor weapons are now. Mechs give you speed, mobility, all the firepower that a vehicle has, but less armor. It's more realistic for the future.

>Frontline airborn vehicles will be extinct immediately
No it won't big armies tends to burn up old stockpiles first. And the brass isn't really too keen on using expensive hardware on minuscule shit unless they have to burn off stock budget so they can get renewed funding. And again people need work, so the grinder would still roll.

>mechs
>realistic
wew

>It's more realistic for the future
Nigga fire and forget weapons from 100 miles away is the future, with upgraded versions what we already have being utilized for occupation and area control.

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look at this stupid shit that darpa is working on.
Take the wheels off, extend the legs, and add
>Reactor online, Sensors online, Weapons Online, All Systems Nominal
and you've got a mech
This is the future of warfare right here

They can if they're just enlarged humans with artificial muscles and stuff so they can have the same agility and capabilits the infantry does so they can use cover, go prone, etc, but with much better firepower and durability. Could be useful for urban warfare then, much less vulnerable than tanks.
On the other hand those clunky walkers from mechwarrior are a catastrophically bad idea.

Power armor is the way to go.

>why couldn't you put a fusion reactor and more guns on a tank?

They can't, and to top it off, they look really silly. Bringing mechs into any sci-fi setting immediately ruins it for me, which kind of sucks.

It just looks so fucking goofy.

Problem solved.