Felix: floo9465: AntonioZer0:current military vehicles are ofte brought up in halo discussions. Wich makes me wonder who would win Todays army or the Halo Wars Army. Personally I would say todays.
It wouldn't even be fair. John 117 would be dead yesterday and everyone of the halo-verse's military units would drop their weapons the second a wave of black hawks comes over the horizon, dodges every incoming missile, proceeds to drop units, then watched and laughed as the rangers raped. This is, of course, going by the halo games and excluding their space battleships.
Most of their "advanced" weapon technology bit the dust in our military already. On earth, we would kick their butts.
Well, you sir know nothing at all...
I'm sure you know a lot about it, reading the books and all (as pointless as the endeavour is), but I was talking about the halo games... honestlly, a warthog? A completely open moving turret with no doors. A scorpion? How large is that explosion? A Freaking Hornet?!?! gone... all of them, just gone.
Our equivalent to the warthog is an unmanned scout with treads, a titanium reinforced chassis with armor plating and a turret that can travel 60 mph and has been tested to land 50 foot spread jumps (not yet on the field). It's pretty much a tank that can keep up with hummers (how fast does the hog go in the game? 25-30 mph?).
As far tanks, we have one that can withstand a blast from a nuclear explosion from a proximity of 1/2 a kilometer (just over a quarter of a mile). Germans probably have the best tank though... look up the Leopard 2.
And as far as air (not space) superiority, neither the hawk nor the pelican has anything on us. I can't be sure about that bomber plane though.
Where do you think they get the ideas for the technology in those books? They look at ours (not the united states specifically, just human technology in general).
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