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jaybone@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThey haven’t really invented anything big since gun powder.
And even gun powder, they didn’t know how to fully apply all of its potential.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
For some period of time they did.
It’s just that when all the civilized world in some relative measurement of it is one big centralized bureaucratic state, degeneracy starts.
Why make cannons if you don’t have a problem to be solved with those? Why even think about something like cannons?
Look at guerillas and combatants using FPV drones and the ways they do it, do you see developed nation states embracing that revolution? No, they still go for big expensive modern artillery, jets, big drones etc. It will be fun to watch the dynamics of power in coming decades, since stagnant rich militaries are very resistant to change and reform.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can also use rifles for protection against animals and hunting. Or you trade / sell them to nations which do have conflict and military need.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Rifles were and are a mass product. Cannons even 100 years ago were not.