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I love mecha and I think they will be useful in QRF role, especially in urban environment, picture a mech just a tad larger than an infantry with powerful servos, maybe jump packs and enough armor to shrug off small arms fire, give them small arms of their own and recoilless rifles for anti-armor capability and suddenly you have very mobile very powerful unit, in close quarter. In the open though, tanks, which is basically a box with another smaller box on top of it will be able to concentrate armor more effectively, and their not so recoilless gun would outmatch any of said mech munition, even missile if available, in regard of time to target.

Really like the reasoning in this video, love the helicopter comparison honestly. One thing I'd add to this is that I think that the theoretical application of mechs done in the Battle tech universe is one of the better ones (perhaps not in terms of actual designs...). Basically larger tanks that act as weapon platforms. In my mind, "recon mechs" have always been the logical role for them. Nothing larger than a helicopter with legs that work alongside infantry as additional firepower. Slap on some large missiles and autocannons or even a recoiless rifle if you feel frisky and I'm pretty sure you have a vehicle that can mimic if not replace the helicopter in some more niche instances.

He forgot mech suits like the t60 power armor and iron man suit. He also so said mech are humanoid but it doesn't have to it can have no head,2 heads,no arms ,4 arms ,no arms ,just guns,2 arms and guns, 4 arms and guns, 2 legs,4 legs 6 legs legs, and more

I wonder what abilities In humans could be possible through genetic modification? It would be interesting if humans could be genetically modified with alternate senses from the animal kingdom.

you should take a look at the armored core series especially the latest release they got some cool concepts i personally think mechas could potentially work on zero gravity, even then the limbs would be extremely slender with a small-ish torso for ease of articulation/weight, some kind of replaceable super batteries/nuclear reactor, definitely no head unless there was something they couldn't fit into the torso, massive radiators to pump off heat and external tanks for propellant it would be used for space construction of large scale, as for the pilot part doesn't really make sense since you can just use them remotely or preprogrammed naturally with time improvements will be made allowing for further redundancy, POSSIBLY making it's way into military use in a future where laser and targeting technology advanced so much that missiles and projectiles don't work anymore and close quarters combat becomes the norm (very crazy timeline and obviously very far in the future), still doesn't change the fact it would be borderline impossible to run them on earth gravity

Having a real life MT (muscle tracer) from armored core would be crazy

Battletech mechs are more realistic

There is this one anime on youtube called "obsolete", probably the most realistic mecha anime around (though the mechs there are just barely taller than the average basketball player) A basic plot summary would be that aliens wanted to do some training with humanity. With essencially 1 ton of limestone, they would exchange one mech per ton (dubbed EXOFRAME). Some of the biggest advantages seen in the anime is how dominant they are in enclosed or urban areas, given that they are much more mobile and use reasonably high caliber weapons (like 50 cals or 50 BMGs) other than the political debates that the anime dives into and the other apliications that the EXOFRAMEs are seen being used Lemme know what you think about them

2:55 why did AI decide on bears? i like mechs

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Great video, though I would recommend not using artificially generated imagery. It is off-putting.

I also believe the strongest military use case for mecha is morale. Having a leader mech or even just a national symbol is enough to justify having just One very expensive humanoid mecha to maintain.

Mechas can stack the mobility deck by creating an environment where only they can move. This applies to urban barricades, of course, but primarily to *trenches*. Regular vehicles can dig trenches - tanks do it. But mechs could do it on a much greater scale. Imagine a mech coming onto a location, burrying a nuclear reactor deep underground, and creating a massive fuck-you trench network around it, with reinforced walls, dugouts, and even underground tunnels. It would be extremely hard to take out from the outside. Vehicles would struggle to enter pits many meters deep, and infantry trying to jump inside would all get shanked and squashed by that famed mech close comat. The mech, meanwhile, enjoys unmatched mobility in its personal maze. It can jump in and out, and it can squeeze inside tunnels. It can be everywhere at once. Recharge is not a problem since it doesn't walk far away from a massive power source. Finally, it can create this hellhole all by itself as soon as the regular forces capture the land, moving much faster than regular construction workers and even under enemy fire.

The word "Mecha" at 1:51 appears to have a trans flag inside of it. Interesting. Extremely funny.

These videos are great, they have good humor.

Mechas are the sword of military vehicles. They are really cool, but you need to have an in-universe catch to let them compete with alternatives. Ironically, giving mechs melee weapons might be the best justification, since tanks and helicopters cant use swords.

I quite like how they did mechs in Code Geass, they are extremely mobile weapon platforms, they are not very durable but can avoid tank fire through sheer mobility, and can be deployed very quickly on any terrain, especially urban environments, leading to them becoming the dominant vehicles for active combat.

When does the cyborg become an Android?

Not to be confused with the religious Mecca.

I actually disagree with a point here. Tanks are pretty fast for weighting 60 tons, tracks aren’t notably slower than wheels- and mechs- well they’re going to struggle with running at high speeds for a number of reasons. This is why GITS style spider tanks take the plus over either, they can either run on wheels for speedy movement, or six+ legs for maneuverability during combat with redundancy

No fusion has produced enough energy to make up for the energy used to start the fusion unfortunately. Hopefully this changes soon

I would really like to see a video about spider-like mechas. Especially about the ones from "Eighty Six" anime siries. They are much closer to real tanks, and some of them autonomous and don't require pilots inside

Machines can not wait especially if left in stracturally compromised test.

Small mechanical might make great anti tank units in urban combat.

Excellent video as always. All of those video topics interest me, though I have a definite fondness for both weird humans and nonhuman sapients, so androids seem tailor-made to fascinate me. I'd choose to upload myself to android body in a heartbeat to be honest. Though, may I please request that you avoid or at least limit your use of machine-generated images in the future? There's a lot of immediate ethical and exploitation issues surrounding "AI" "art", and it's pretty corrosive to the creative process in the long term. If you're not aware of the issues, I would recommend the video essay "How AI is Destroying our Dreams" by Jessie Gender. ruclips.net/video/D8xL3ol3xw8/видео.html

8:31 ironically gasoline or another expended fuel source would be the most mass efficient for power produced. Considering shielding and such as an issue. Theres a reason that robots designed for "outdoor use" have gasoline power aupplies, like bigdog. Otherwise even with lithium they simply dont have enough staying power.

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really like the video and will watch more of your content, its just the AI Art kinda throwing me off, just a small nitpick. overall tho, love the cute pixel- art 8/10

Dude ITS WHY I TELL EVERYONE JEEP FOR LEGS ARM MOUNTED CANNONS WITH 2 EXTRA ARMS TO ASSIST RELOADING WITH SECOND PILOT MAKE THE TORSO STUBBY LIKE A DWARF NO NEED TO BE TALL THATS TREE HUGGER TALK ROCK AND STONE!!! no need for walkers JUST BIG ARMS WHEELS AND MULTIPLE CAMERAS TO REMOVE ALL BLINDSPOTS!!! with extra machinegunners atop heavy armor shoulder pads Or better yet REMOVE THE PILOT SEATS AND GIVE THEM THE VR CONTROLLERS Edit: melee? WHY FLIMSY FIST AND SWORD!? USE A STAKE DRIVER *OR BETTER YET* *A PAIR OF BIG MEATY CLAWS!!!* these jeep wheels can swivel to allow sideways drive BEHOLD *CARCINIZATION* UPON HUMANITYS FIELD OF BATTLE THE ECOSYSTEM EVOLVED AND ITS CREATIONS *_PERFECTED!!!_* CRAB LOBTER AND OTHER HARDSHELLED CRUSTACEANS wheels can have a cap that serves as a propeller in water Lobster ships With camera and other sensors on legs in water Can shoot incoming torpedos Or replace that with tracks BIG MEATY ARTILJERIJA CLAWS JUST TURN ANYTHING WAR RELATED MIX WITH A CRAB AND A MECH AND BOOM *PERFECTION!!!*

However, you forgot the most important statistic: What's the coolest? Mecha clearly score a 6 while everything else gets 3 at best.

I think you should turn mecha into a whole series. Do a video on non-bipedal mecha(like spider-mecha) and do a video comparing the mecha from different anime to see which is most plausible.

Great video. Now I'm just curious about civil use mechas. Would it be worth it? In some form? Or we just better stick to excavators and cranes?

I'll keep this in mind while I build my mecha

I think mechs make great repair vehicles for space stations. Since the weight isn’t an issue. They can grab onto space stations and move between them. Already the ISS and Shuttle had arms to grab things.

I'll preface this by saying that I'd like to think I've got a decent amount of experience with the genre, and will end up talking about some of the history at relevant points... basically, I'll say three things in response to this video having watched the whole thing. First, mecha being exclusively the realm of sci-fi... that's not actually true, as while they are rare in comparison, mecha sometimes show up in fantasy settings too. There's even an example in the video with that Warcraft 3 footage, but there's also stuff like Dunbine (an anime where the mecha are built out of components of insect-like monsters), Masou Kishin or Trails (both of which have their mecha typically run on mystical power sources, and both of those IPs are games), and so on. Second: TTGL. I'm not going to argue against it being in cotton candy tier, that is exactly where it belongs. Rather, I'm going to talk about *why* it's there, that reason being... it's not even *trying* to be realistic. TTGL is an example of what mecha fans call Super Robots, a term dating back to the genre's earliest days with it being invented by Mazinger Z, which was also the first mecha to have a pilot operate it from an internal cockpit as opposed to remotely like Tetsujin 28 or Giant Robo that came before. Basically, super robots tend to be one-of-a-kind (or occasionally mass-produced) machines, typically running on super energy sources that would themselves be very soft sci-fi, many of which turning the pilot's emotions or willpower into usable energy, more akin to giant mechanical superheroes than down-to-earth military machines. It wouldn't be until 1979 with the start of Gundam that the latter would start to become a thing. Since mecha can be more of a sliding spectrum rather than a hard divide, I personally like to look at how mecha are presented when deciding if they're super robots or not. For example, I would consider Pacific Rim's Jaegers to be more towards the Super end of the spectrum because they're depicted as heroic figures, humanity's best shot at beating back the kaiju. This section has gone on a bit long but to summarise, not all mecha in fiction is trying to be realistic, so some of it will be actively aiming for the softer tiers. Third: The conclusion that if mecha have any practical purposes it'd be for police work and the like. I don't have much to add to it, all I will say is that you're not actually the first to think of this, the anime Patlabor (which I haven't seen, I'll admit) is basically an example of exactly that.

In Patlabor the mechs are smaller and used for recovery operations in rubble.

Mechs don’t exist because other machines do their jobs better. But a space faring civilization in space could just design a Gundam space craft because they’re mecha fans.

In space or low gravity worlds I could see mechs existing. More as giant uneven ground forklifts though. So like a spider forklift. Or on a space station walking on the outside with claws to grasp handle bars and/or magnetic feet. In space if you’re not flying ridiculously fast the shape of your ship doesn’t matter and you make it humanoid if you want to. Which in most Gundam series the Gundam are mostly used as strangely propertied rocket ships that duel in space.

I’d argue the Mars rovers are already mecha. They’re giant and have legs for walking over uneven terrain.

At what point does an exo suit become a mech?

Wow, these Tank things are really good at being war machines, almost like their built for it...

Ranking various mecha models in media on where each of their placement on the tier could indeed be fun, along with gynoids/androids!

Quite... iffy, with the use of AI impressions, but still a pretty solid video nonetheless & good subject to end the year off on!

You forgot about recoilless cannons! They're not so bad. We *could* put them on helicopters, but because they carry missiles we really don't need to.

Mecha have a big tradeoff when it comes to landmines. If they don't step directly on an anti-tank mine, they're probably fine, and even if they do, the pilot will almost certainly survive the mine. However, if they do step directly on one, the mobility kill will be total. Amputated foot at best. I can imagine (tank-based) Mecha Rescue Vehicles carrying around a half-dozen extra mecha feet and shins. Haha.

I’d like to you make a video on Spider mecha. I loved 86.

I think Evas from Neon Genesis Evangelion are a interesting case

It's also interesting to look at my favorite mecha media, the Lancer RPG (which is harder sci-fi in some areas than others), which seems to have some plausibility purely due to the surrounding technology around mechas like fusion actors, durablium, robotics, and 3d printing being miles more advanced than ours, as well as it being set in a galaxy where most galactic powers are post-scarcity (at least if they wanted to be) so mechanics aren't as big of an issue. It would be fun if you looked at it. But I suppose the true point is the military application increases with the limiting factors of the technology needed to build a mech being reduced by technological progress into the far future.

What if we made mechs not humanoid and more like a Bosten dynamics dog. It would then have far more stability and a wider surface area to distribute the wait. Dosing this would only reduce melee potential, but as said in the video: What melee potential?

There's one type of "biological mecha", in the police context. Horses. They certainly hit the scary spot. And that's precisely why they are used in crowd control. And a lot cheaper, too.