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A brutal, murdering dictator.
I mean, totally seriously, if you were a Manchurian Candidate, what would you have done differently than what actually has been done across the board in the last two months to completely upend what the U.S. is supposed to stand for?



I'll answer my own question: about 3/4 less than what has been done because you'd think that any more damage to the country than that would make it too obvious that you were tanking for someone.
 
How much longer before.....

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I don't think we have a plasma rifle yet :)

But seriously some of the androids they have now are pretty close. Combine with some of the LLMs , voice sythesis, LIDAR, navigation algorithms etc. and you could get pretty close.

Bu the biggest technical hurdle could be something quite mundane - power. Pretty sure they only last a couple hours at most with current tech. We need one of those fusion cores like in Fallout ...
 
so apparently that Iskander attack wasnt enough.

Now Shahed drones targeting same city.

We are approaching complete chaos in the world order .


 
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I don't think we have a plasma rifle yet :)

But seriously some of the androids they have now are pretty close. Combine with some of the LLMs , voice sythesis, LIDAR, navigation algorithms etc. and you could get pretty close.

Bu the biggest technical hurdle could be something quite mundane - power. Pretty sure they only last a couple hours at most with current tech. We need one of those fusion cores like in Fallout ...
Plasma rifles are commonly called flame throwers. I think we've almost always had them.

A navy version, much larger, was called Greek Fire, but that knowledge about how to make them is lost in time
 
Plasma rifles are commonly called flame throwers. I think we've almost always had them.

A navy version, much larger, was called Greek Fire, but that knowledge about how to make them is lost in time
Flame contains small amounts of plasma, but even it was pure plasma its not really a rifle but a short range weapon like a shotgun.

I'm not sure the "plasma rifle" as it commonly understood in sci fi is even feasible. While its possible to shoot "pure energy" like a stream of electrons, it runs into the atmosphere and dissapates fairly quickly unless the energies are massive, like a lightning bolt. Which would be extremely dangerous for whoever was carrying the thing. I don't know of anything that would be like the "travelling light ball" like they are often portrayed.

A hypersonic bullet travelling fast enough it ionized the air around it, might be the closest we could get. The damage it caused would be mostly kinetic, unless it also contained some explosive charge.

The US Navy experimented with rail guns for a while, before they found them impractical.
 
I fully expect Kellogg to be removed from Ukraine/Russia peace team now

 

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