<Command sends in a Delta Farce squad to extract the hostage and show the superiority of globalist technology
<Delta Farce Osprey crashes.
<The end.
That's a much more realistic scenario.
It's even more insane when you realized we used slanted armor for centuries and that a lot of them where intended specifically to be bulletproof as swordprofing was way easier and everyone stopped using them once guns were introduced fairly rapidly.
Pic related it took a canon ball to stop the guy wearing that one. You can clearly see the bullets impacts on it that barely made a dent on that brass + mild ("proofed") steel slanted cuirass.
It's one of the reason Napoleonic armies were so scary, everyone was fighting with gun but the french heavy cavalry was virtually bulletproof (their cuirass were considerably heavier and the heat treatment very good for the time and were borderline mass produced).
Also it's a composite bi-metalic armor, elastic w/ good heat/friction dispersion brass on thick steel plate.
Russia is definitely making miniaturized nuclear reactors. They have them on ship they have them on subs, we're gonna make them on land, it's the only way big laser weaponry or rail guns (that everyone has on R&D) are ever gonna be viable.
Putting them on a strategic system is different than putting them on first line infantry granted, but I wouldn't say never.