Unless the dragon is fighting 1950 era Communist Chinese troops advancing in a Zerg rush, submachine guns blazing, it is also going to be in trouble.Īrtillery can strike at distances of 40km using guided shells like "Excalibur". Ground combat will be equally problematic. Ground based surface to air missiles have similar properties, so coming into the air defense umbrella isn't going to be very healthy either. Heat seeking and radar guided missiles can also manoeuvre at more than 9"G", so out turning an oncoming missile is going to be problematic as well. Since Dragons are usually depicted as being subsonic, it is highly unlikely they can outrun missiles, and opposition fighters will probably launch several at a time (either a volley from one fighter, or several fighters firing from different angles) to overwhelm any fire/acid/cold etc. Modern military forces focus on using sensors to identify the target, then sending fairly high precision weaponry to deal with the problem. The main factor, however, is that bullets can clearly damage the dragons if arrows can. A single army base surprised by the existence of dragons combined with dragons with knowledge of modern weaponry and you could have a fight on your hands. It all depends on range, what the real-world effects of shouts are (if you're including those) and the size of your modern army. Hit and run on air fields: The radar would see you coming unless you flew low but if you could hit planes whilst they're landed you have a better chance in the air.Quick fly-overs with frost or acid: Here you could damage weapons, acid potentially melting protective casing on missiles and such causing explosions. Death from above: landing ontop of a jet and forcing it downwards, potentially using it as both a weapon and cover.Several methods could make them more dangerous: Dragons would be better at maneuvering in the air than jets, however they don't seem to move at particularly high speeds during the game so whether they could catch a jet is an entirely different matter.Īs such I don't believe the dragons could do much in open combat against a modern prepared army.Some dragons can resist fire, however the force of a missile would still hurt them.Arrows in skyrim can hurt the dragons so it is reasonable to assume we don't need any special armour piercing bullets to hurt them.
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