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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6010930" data-attributes="member: 5868">You didn't read enough of that article.  Helmets can be sufficiently dehumanizing to make shooting someone easier -- one of the reasons US troops are now trained to go out of "Stormtrooper mode" and take off helmet and ballistic glasses when interacting with populations.Build a humanoid mech, and I guarantee it will be easier to pull the trigger -- it's a machine, not a man.Perhaps in modern naval battles, of which there have been almost none since the Falklands, or modern air-to-air combat, which is in theory a long-range icon-fest, but there has been virtually none to test that theory in over two decades.  As to ground combat -- not even close; if anything the experience of the past decade across multiple conflicts (Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Lebanon, Libya) is that ground combat remains up close and personal, with virtually all engagements within half a kilometer, and most of those within two hundred meters or so.  Terrain, particularly urban terrain, provides a strict limitation to engagement ranges.  Technology is not likely to change that soon.</blockquote>