Timeline for What would a modern fortified castle look like?
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| Apr 3, 2022 at 2:17 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @VogonPoet Cost has to include labor. And your underground fortress is probably pretty easy to drop a bomb on the door. And what Russia is learning now is that the mobile fortress (tank) loses to the much cheaper missile. | |
| Apr 3, 2022 at 1:16 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | If things reduced to only monetary costs this would be relevant. No castle is an island, even Russia is learning this. At any rate, using your logic, the modern castle is one that costs less than the bombs to blow it up. Therefore, the sand and dirt fortress, or the underground fortress seem right. The island fortress also makes sense since bombs on boats are really ineffective. | |
| Apr 2, 2022 at 15:53 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @VogonPoet It doesn't matter that they are merely defending against neighbors. Blowing down fortifications costs a lot less than building them except in situations where access is severely restricted. | |
| Apr 2, 2022 at 4:50 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | The difference is these castles are not defending against first world nations, only against their neighbors. A truck full of ammonium nitrate doesn't topple a skyscraper, we learned, | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 4:57 | history | answered | Loren Pechtel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |