True Adamance wrote:Fizzer XCIV wrote:None.
Without a clone body, all Dropsuits will kill you in a matter of days, just for putting one on for e few minutes. They release some insane levels of radiation and heat.
Aesthetically though? Amarr Medium. The Seraph Logi in particular. Assault Ak.0 is a close second.
If we were to say that all the lethal qualities were removed somehow...
I probably pack a Assault Scrambler Pistol, and reroute any power from shields to power the pistol indefinitely for infinite ammo.
A Scrambler Pistol running on auxiliary power would still fry an M1 Abrams, so yeah. Energy weapons FTW! Ammo is for scrubs!
A pistol because I prefer the mobility and maneuverability they have over a rifle, and the extra power a rifle has would just be overkill in the modern era. I mean, even a scrambler pistol would be overkill, but it would still be less overkill.
You do have to consider that there is not way to functionally operate a Dropsuit without being 8-9 feet tall......so clone body is part of the assumption.
And yeah you bring up a very good point even one of the basic weapons we use in Dust 514 could decimate current military assets like tanks and attack helicopters...... but I doubt a drop-suit would walk away from a direct hit from a tank shell or missile.
Actually, I doubt even a modern 120mm sabot rounf would down a dropsuit. It would probably hurt one, but I doubt it would destroy it. I'd gesss it would do about 4-5 damage worth.
Look at the 20GJ Railguns for instance. They barely do enough damage to destroy a light dropsuit in a single hit, and they are vastly more powerful than any conventional tank guns we currently have.
GJ stands for Gigajoules, in case you didn't already know...
How do I know a 20GJ is more powerful than a 120mm? Because our most powerful 120mm sabot rounds don't even reach 5GJ... Not even 2... Not even 1GJ. They have 7MJ.
We currently have 35GJ railguns. They are insanely more powerful than any other guns we have. However, they must be mounted to the ground, and powered by a reactor, which are things that any modern military just cannot do with a tank.
If my dropsuit can withstand multiple hits from a 20GJ, I doubt anything that only outputs a fraction of the energy at a much slower rate is even a threat.
I bet a Rail Rifle round has more kinetic energy than a 120mm sabot.
TL;DR any modern military weapons aren't even a threat to a dropsuit. You'd need to somehow hit one with hundreds of 120mm sabot rounds at the same time, or nuke it. Anything else would just slow it down. Small arms fire wouldnt even register...
TL;DRTL;DR Dropsuits are insane.