Fedoras Get In Here:

>Those eerie CIA leaks reaffirmed it to me

You actually believe the things the CIA "leaks"?

Nah bro, but one can dream.

Hacking. IE instead of using a nuke to destroy an enemy's industrial base, one can simply take out the power grid

EMPs

There are very few developed countries where less than 95% of the population depends on electricity even for the most basic necessities such as light and food preservation. An EMP could bring a city to it's knees begging to be taken over.

Seeding hurricanes to kill your neighbors.

We will likely never find a better handheld way of killing mans than by hurling chunks of metal at them at high speed. Laser rifles are a meme.

That's what archers thought with their arrows

Light travels largely unaffected by gravity. Enjoy being sniped from miles away while you struggle to account for gravity and wind from a few hundred feet away with your "bullets"

Biological warfare by far
e.g. dissolving your enemies via retrograde virus

>Fedoras

>>>/reddit/

>future of weaponry and warfare

in all seriousness

Mecha

Atmospheric haze.

too bad light traveling through air is fucking garbage, enjoy getting raped by my kinetic rail gun faggot

Probably some super inventive IED's

Android war.

We already told you that automation is going to take all the jobs.

The future is not fighting with weapons.

The future is weapons fighting.

>using Android when iOS exists

kek

>Lasers seem like a logical next step
They're very illogical. It's very challenging to produce a portable laser than can do anything useful. Conventional firearms will most likely always be superior in 99% of ways. "Lasers" of some kind will likely eventually have a very specialised role, used for something specific and not portable. You could pour billions of dollars into laser weapons development for 100 years and conventional arms would still be better and most of all more feasible from a: logistics, training, supplies (note the huge stockpiles of ammo and weapons around the world), cost and resources perspective.

>nastier chemical, bio, and nuclear weapons
Not happening, would be internationally shunned as they are today. Nukes are a safeguard against escalated conflict, not really usable. All of these things are too imprecise and dangerous to actually have a good application. You need efficiency and finesse in a military operation, not memey and clumsy weapons of mass destruction, which would just destroy shit without serving any specific objective.

>GITS-esque robotic implants and such
Again no, they don't serve a purpose. You can simply have a piece of gear that enables such functionality in a far better and more efficient manner. There is no reason to do implants and doing so causes lots of issues and inefficiencies.

>The scifi nerd in me likes to think one day we might see telekinesis and remote viewing more. Those eerie CIA leaks reaffirmed it to me. Who knows what the human mind is actually capable of, especially as we evolve and combine our physical and cognitive might with technology...
All of this is retarded.

You do know that the military has functional offensive lasers, right? They intend to use them for anti material purposes if/when it becomes feasible.

youtube.com/watch?v=jIxugT-QiEI

Cimputers. Objects of physical destruction will become obsolete. You wage war for two reasons, you want something of theirs or they are trying to do something to you. You don't need to destroy a nation if you want it's resources. It's far better to just destroy their ability to defend their economic assets. If they have a first world economy this is computers. Attack their economies ability to function. Disrupt their ability to counter with their infosec and you can dictate terms. There will always be a place to kill a motherfucker with a gun, but thats tactics. Strategy and long-term war is now impossible with out weponized computer infrastructure.

droids with swarm AI

youtube.com/watch?v=GIEhi_sAkU8

The SALT treaties specify orbital explosives. So technically kinetic lances are allowed. But I hear the technology just isn't there yet. It's not very cost effective.

Increased usage of aerial drones for both recon and offensive purposes. We'll probably see ground drones. These will most likely start off as remote operated tracked vehicles, but we may see Boston Dynamics style quadrupeds (they're funded by DARPA, remember?) being utilized as well.
I don't expect to see any serious changes as far as handheld weaponry goes unless there's a really radical technological breakthrough at some point. Conventional firearms are just too cheap and effective. The military purchases M4s for like $500 a piece and the rifle will remain functional for 50 years as long as it's maintained properly. Plenty of grunts (mainly Marines and National Guard) are using weapons older than they are.

IIRC the only real (practical) concern with rods from god is the cost. The thing is that maintaining the platform would be very costly, and if you actually used it then you'd have to spend a fuckload more reloading the satellite. I suppose you could always just say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire though.

Consider the following

>connected to two nuclear reactors
>can't shoot down icbms due to the spin and thermal shielding
>somehow this bulky navel weapon is supposed to minimize down to man sized despite armor being similar to current aircraft while having to juggle logistics of the battery or grid hookup.
>laser technology has been cold for awhile
>you could shoot gamma waves but then you'd be playing with a whole new round of international law.

Long story short, bullets are here to stay.

I didn't say anything about man portable lasers. I expect that they will only be used as fixed weapons for knocking SCUDs and drones out of the air.
There has also been at least one aerial test when a laser mounted on an aircraft was used to strike a vehicle on the ground. I suspect that that sort of thing isn't really feasible due to the power restrictions. Like you said, an aircraft carrier has a nuclear reactor to work with.

Just pointy chunks of metal on the end of a rod

>tfw when not mod

5 second wars with bombs and drones like in Anthem