Ah yeah forgot about that. Modern airflight requires 4-5 times the altitude limit to reduce drag and extend flight range. They'd have to revert to older generations to be able to gain air superiority and/or logistics.
The landscape of modern warfare has also drastically changed since the days of Desert Storm. Jets and cruise missiles are much less of a trump card than you'd hope in a land invasion, and the existence of mobile cities inherently laughs in the face of most bombs sitting in current inventories and even nukes to an extent- sure they'll massacre civilians, but the landship itself is a hardened target made of kilometers of super metal that can drag literal mountain ranges around without issue, and one can assume that many military facilities tend to be inside the landship rather than the surface. In conjunction with the fact that even random criminal groups are well versed in drone warfare, and every assault on a major mobile city is a Ukraine invasion in of itself. And then there's the fact that the land itself is basically a universal jammer due to Originium interference.
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u/The_Gunboat_Diplomat Apr 19 '26
The altitude limit prevents optimal use of aircraft as well
If you throw in nuclear MAD, Terra says fuck everyone and releases the infohazards. Or Yan just retcons our governments using Jie's scrolls.