Questions tagged [military-defense]
For questions about strategies and structures for defending from a particular type of attack
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Someone just nuked your very expensive ship. What is keeping your ship intact?
So, in my setting, the (space) warships can get pretty big and tough. Some of the big ones can take hundreds of hits and still keep going. However, the problem I've run into is Nukes. Even if your ...
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What would an army with futuristic technology do to create strong defensive points [closed]
This is set about 10,000 years in the future. Armor and shielding technology have gotten so good that projectile and explosion based attacks are virtually useless. The only effective weapons are ...
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Is this an acceptable plan of engagement for a primarily defense orientated nation?
First off thank you to everyone who inputed and helped out in my last post to give me more of a clear idea on how to finalize this concept i have. This is a follow up to that as I figured that it's ...
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Why would aliens fill a quarantine space with inert gas?
While experimenting on a Mysterious Alien Artefact at a Super Secret Research Facility, the protagonists accidentally activate what turns out to be a homing beacon, and teleport everything in a sphere ...
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How to keep mermaids from invading offshore fish farms?
Reports of mermaids attacking offshore fish farms are on the rise, the govt prohibits any form of harm to the mermaids only add to the operators woe. Despite investing millions of dollars on ...
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Would an Army using a controlled fire surrounding an opposing army in a heavily forested area be an effective way to destroy said army?
Imagine a scenario where Army A has received intel of the movement of Army B in a heavily forested area. Army A decides to spring a trap where in it sets fire to the forest encircling Army B, ...
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How could one defend against a concentrated neutron beam in a hard sci-fi setting?
I'm thinking of adding a neutron beam cannon to my hard sci-fi setting (basically works by accelerating a bunch of ions and then shooting them at a beryllium foil target (see here).
However, I don't ...
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General rule to spacing towers on a medieval city wall
I'm workshopping a medieval fantasy setting and one of the primary locations is a large port city, located on a bay out to the ocean.
I'm still early in development, but since this settlement is quite ...
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What would be the primary weaknesses of massed archers?
Setting: In my world, there exists a nation that has a military primarily made up of archers. Each citizen is required to have a level of proficiency with a longbow, both in individual shooting and ...
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What is the easiest fuel a blockaded, sanctioned nation can procure/synthesize during a war?
In my world, which is partially based on a WW2-style environment, there are two large countries, namely A and B, that are fighting each other.
A is a Nazi Germany-type country with fine revised ...
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Using gravimetry to detect cloaked enemies
In the future, a variety of different technologies to evade detection are employed, such as harmful sensory input that renders one incapable of perceiving the object that attempts to evade detection ...
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What are the concerns with residents building lean-to's up against city fortifications? [closed]
In historical illustrations of cities with defensive walls, I have noticed that it is very rare for a non-defensive structure to be built directly adjacent to the inside face of the wall. A building ...
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How can a pre-industrial civilization effectively defend against aerial attacks from large, fire-breathing creatures without the use of magic?
In my fictional world, there is a pre-industrial civilization that has advanced to a level of technology similar to that of the 15th-century Earth. This civilization is under constant threat from ...
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Supersoldiers enabling man-powered vehicles
Just as an exercise in worldbuilding, imagine a world where genetic engineering (on subjects that already reached maturity, so no need to modify embryos and raise them to adulthood) creates ...
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How successful could rapidly spreading new predator be in world with today's type of development
I was rewatching Secret war from Love, Death & Robots and started wondering, would the monsters from that episode pose any actual threat in today's world?
Let's assume the monsters have similar ...
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