For comparisons sake, the nukes dropped in WW2 are 76 years old. As far as tech goes, that’s ancient. They’ve done prototype nuclear reactors for airplanes and while shielding was an issue(dead pilots are rather unreliable), using pilotless drones makes things easier. Aircraft carriers are old tech too. But add a nuclear propulsion system to an aircraft carrier in the sky, to launch and resupply unmanned aircraft and you have a nightmare for some. This is just looking at technology we KNOW about and adding the two together.
Now add in tech they haven’t told us anything about. Most cool military tech is skunkworks and black budget and we only get to “know” about it after leaks or accidents. If they didn’t have to disclose anything, normies would have no idea what a stealth bomber or fighter are. The microwave oven most people have in their house is from the Japanese betting on a “death ray” in WW2 and it having very shitty range. Having a chip track everyone is something no one would want, until it’s built into their cellular phone and offers too much confidence to not have and ignore what else it’s doing in the background.
Sadly, the reality of the situation is large scale super weapons are usually of limited use and a huge resource cost. The German super guns were cool and all, but limited in use, huge target for cheap energy aircraft to ruin, required tons of men and resources to move, shoot, and protect. It’s far easier to just shut off the power grid. The elites have their own generators and installations but the normies have no fridges no freezers, no way to charge their electric cars if they were foolish enough to only own electric cars, only local communication, no electrify for water pumping and purification plants, etc. Whole country or even the world goes to shit very fast when the power goes off. And it’s easier to destroy crucial infrastructure and ruin the power grid than it is to move around superweapons silently and without getting caught.
Don’t get me wrong, we CERTAINLY have super weapons. There’s just no real point to having a massive amount of them to the effect of Jon Q Redneck having a direct energy cannon next to his railgun next to his shotgun in the trucks gun rack.
For comparisons sake, the nukes dropped in WW2 are 76 years old. As far as tech goes, that’s ancient. They’ve done prototype nuclear reactors for airplanes and while shielding was an issue(dead pilots are rather unreliable), using pilotless drones makes things easier. Aircraft carriers are old tech too. But add a nuclear propulsion system to an aircraft carrier in the sky, to launch and resupply unmanned aircraft and you have a nightmare for some. This is just looking at technology we KNOW about and adding the two together.
Now add in tech they haven’t told us anything about. Most cool military tech is skunkworks and black budget and we only get to “know” about it after leaks or accidents. If they didn’t have to disclose anything, normies would have no idea what a stealth bomber or fighter are. The microwave oven most people have in their house is from the Japanese betting on a “death ray” in WW2 and it having very shitty range. Having a chip track everyone is something no one would want, until it’s built into their cellular phone and offers too much confidence to not have and ignore what else it’s doing in the background.
Sadly, the reality of the situation is large scale super weapons are usually of limited use and a huge resource cost. The German super guns were cool and all, but limited in use, huge target for cheap energy aircraft to ruin, required tons of men and resources to move, shoot, and protect. It’s far easier to just shut off the power grid. The elites have their own generators and installations but the normies have no fridges no freezers, no way to charge their electric cars if they were foolish enough to only own electric cars, only local communication, no electrify for water pumping and purification plants, etc. Whole country or even the world goes to shit very fast when the power goes off. And it’s easier to destroy crucial infrastructure and ruin the power grid than it is to move around superweapons silently and without getting caught.
Don’t get me wrong, we CERTAINLY have super weapons. There’s just no real point to having a massive amount of them to the effect of Jon Q Redneck having a direct energy cannon next to his railgun next to his shotgun in the trucks gun rack.