Re: [RL]Will melee weapons ever return to active military use.
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:04 pm
I doubt that melee weapons will make a return in modern warfare, for the exact same reason that they left: cost efficiency.
Even if big badass exoskeleton armor is invented that makes a soldier resistant to small arms fire, I'm willing to bet that it'll be insanely expensive, and one exoskeleton armor suit would cost like... ten million bullets. Or a thousand assault rifles. It'll just be more efficient to throw more bullets at things.
Maybe we'll see it in elite special forces types like the SAS, which focus on having a few highly skilled, highly trained, and expensively equipped individuals.
Even if big badass exoskeleton armor is invented that makes a soldier resistant to small arms fire, I'm willing to bet that it'll be insanely expensive, and one exoskeleton armor suit would cost like... ten million bullets. Or a thousand assault rifles. It'll just be more efficient to throw more bullets at things.
Maybe we'll see it in elite special forces types like the SAS, which focus on having a few highly skilled, highly trained, and expensively equipped individuals.