Those wonderfully mad Russians have evidently decided that my beloved HALO saga is, in fact, a long-running documentary somehow sent backwards through some kind of wormhole to the present day. That would explain why they have basically developed their own version of the MJOLNIR powered armour for their own soldiers:It might resemble something out of Star…
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Powered armor is a really neat idea, but what use is it against a bunch of weaponized flying drones or terminator robots? Robots would be much tougher to take out than armored grunts.
That’s also why I don’t get the need for huge surface fleets anymore. One decent-sized nuke takes out the whole fleet or most of it.
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