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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6011165" data-attributes="member: 2518">All those recent conflicts you list are asymetrical warfare and in those combat mechs aren't used anyway. In battle between equal forces the distance increases a lot as both sides have modern weapons with high range. And as mechs tend to be larger than smaller houses, urban terrain doesn't help here.Also, a reason why ground combat is rather short ranged is that humans are small and hard to hit at 2km distance. A mech on the other hand isn't and our current tanks can already shoot accurately over kilometers.And of course air combat is long range as ever, that includes air to ground engagements. You mentioned Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq. The pilots there certainly had no much qualms to drop bombs and fire missiles into (suspected) enemies. Remember "Shock & Awe" or the infamous wikileaks helicopter video? A mech would only make it a bigger target without any advantages over tanks.</blockquote>