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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact
Posted by: Zero_Patience
Posted by: hotshot revan II
You realise that the UNSC stopped at improving weapons because of space colonisation.The cost of thousands of war ,supply ship,FTL drives,colonizing 800 planets,...is massive.It's wise that they stopped focusing on war or else they would still be stuck in the solar system like us.
The only ones improvving weapons are ONI who had awesome secret tech at their disposal.
Why would you need AR's with a range of 500 if that range isn't needed in urban warfare,during the innsurrection.
The encyclopedia stated that it's 200 meters but i wouldn't trust the encylopedia that much with it's errors .
An AR having better range then a marksmen weapon doesn't makes any sense.
- First question, the UNSC has stopped making improvements after the 20th century? That's a terrible excuse, as even now we have weapons programs that exceed UNSC small arms in modern field tests, and in the space of 500 years we progressed from the Musket to the almighty Carbine, chambered Rifle and even mitigation in small scale Gauss technology. Are you sincerely telling me that the UNSC made no such advancements in a similar time frame?
- ONI aren't producing military small arms, and haven't produced a mass scale weapon that has advanced significantly since the 20th century. Your argument is invalid.
- Urban combat has also been a major consideration in modern warfare since Panama and WWII (which occurred in the mid 20th century), does that mean we should handicap our weapons just because almost every major war has been fought in cities? Despite the fact that the weapons that performed so well in said wars (possessing superior ranges to UNSC small arms) were universally praised for their capacity to perform in urban environments (such as the M16 or M60).
- The Encyclopedia is still canon, and still rationalizes any contradictions by stating that the Battle rifles used on Harvest were prototypes, unlike the mass produced variant.
And again, it doesn't matter if it makes sense. UNSC weapons generally don't make sense (.50cal pistols? Assault Rifles that perform like WWII rifles?), so why should the BR be exempt from this?
-I already explained why they did so,they focused on colonisation.A single FTL drive alone is the most expensive tool built by men,the UNSC built thousands of them.
Do modern day humans focus on colonisation??I think not, US spends alot of their budget on war alone.
I'm sure that if you want to colonise hundreds of planets you will have to use all your resources for that and not war.There wasn't even war during the colonisation till the innies showed up,then the UNSC went back to war businness like building space weapons.
History looks upon this time as an unfortunate (and perhaps inevitable?) misunderstanding between Earth and her colonies, but those fighting for the last decade also realize that it was the most amazing piece of blind fortune the human race has ever stumbled upon. Had we not been armed and learning how to fight in space... what would have happened in the years that followed, when we faced an enemy a hundred times worse? Oblivion, no doubt.
-I wasn't only talking about small firearms,but about all the things they did like MJOLNIR,spartans,pulse lasers,bubble shield etc.
-*sigh*
The UNSC don't need AR's with that kind of range,the AR's were developped during the innie war,the battles only took place in urban and the AR's did well.Which idiot would need an AR with a range of 600 meters on a open wield unless you charge into enemie lines (star wars style aotc)
M16 fail in some environments,you can savely throw a MA5C in a river and mud and it will still work.