So much guesswork would be involved as to the performance and effectivness of these mentioned emerging weapon technologies.
that being said, it would be pretty cool to see a quasi sci-fi naval sim set 50-100 years in the future. (maybe 100 is pushing it!)
supercav torpedoes and bullets, railguns, chemical and solid state lasers. by this point in time, most naval combatants would be subsurface since it would afford the only real means of detection avoidance at all. 'stealth' would be defeated by the myriad of advanced sensors on the surface leaving only the medium of water to limit and slow the types of energy to foil senors. I imagine that these future subs will be able to surface and essentially act as surface combatants as they once had in history, if the need arised.
picture Seaquest DSV, without all the gayness. Roy Scheider could stay, but the dolphin goes!
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