Quote:Yes but the military is actually less so than most modern systems because it's desinged that way (for logistics and security reasons. Harder to disrupt)
However, the tanks, airplanes and ships have limited ammuntion and fuel. Granted, they wouldn't be impossible to provide, but the support industry for all that would be complex.
Quote:It's not unbeatable, but a platoon of 4 tanks is. Most tank hatches can be locked to prevent just that. Also after your bullets and cannon balls bounce off and the tank destroys severall hundered soldiers most will probably run. but yes tanks are vulnerable to running out of fuel and ammo. the question is do they know that?
Also, the ability to carry ammunition would not be unlimited. A modern tank could inflict absolutely horrible losses on a 16th century military unit, but it would only take one soldier to pry open a hatch and shove a grenade into it, to kill most of the crew. If enough soldiers swarmed the tank, then it could be beaten.
Quote:Modern destroyer is unbeatable if the captian knows what he is doing. They will see ships from 35 miles away (which the wooden counterparts might not) and unlike the ships of the era they can hit at that distance, plus the destroyer can outrun and outmanuver anything else in the water. Plus some of the crew carry assault rifles, which is an increadible force multiplier, so even in a boarding action I expect the modern ship to win.
Equally, a modern destroyer can kill any ship afloat. But it's designed to operate against modern naval vessels. It's surprisingly difficult to sink a wooden ship - it would not be implausible for thirty or forty small ships to swarm the destroyer just to get two or three boarding parties aboard.
Columbuses ships had a top speed of about 8 knots under ideal conditions destroyers can reach in excess of 30 knots even directly against the wind. The turining radius is also smaller and it takes far less time to turn around. How is any normal fleet going to compete with that? They can't get their broadsides to bear, and they are sifficiently inaccurate that nothing else will do.
Now unconventional forces (demons, martial artists, etc) do present someting of a problem and if a 5-inch shell to the head won't solve it there is a limit to what modern military power can do.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."