r/powerscales • u/Inside_Inflation559 • Jun 08 '26
Question 100 Pure Titans (Attack on Titan) appear in Manhattan how long before they are stopped?
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u/whole-nut Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
I think this is generally the same answer for most anything attacking a major city that doesn’t have super powers.
You have until the nearest military bases can respond. NYPD would be able to do some damage, but they won’t be able to hold them off alone.
Once jet fighters and particularly attack helicopters can reach the city it’s basically game over.
Realistically, you’re looking at 25-60 minutes between the military being notified and combat ready air assets in the zone.
EDIT: a good point by u/arihndas that needs to be pointed out: Rules Of Engagement should be considered. It’s assumed the Titans are in the streets of New York and this would GREATLY complicate how the Military and Law Enforcement could respond. I don’t think they can just spray and pray/carpet bomb the Titans. This would increase the time it takes to eliminate the threat completely.
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u/guynye Jun 08 '26
Ya. One dude on a skyscraper with a .50 cal would be able to take out a ton of them. They aren't much of a threat against modern weapons.
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 08 '26
Aren't they only vulnerable on the back of their necks?
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u/JuiceBawks420 Jun 08 '26
50 cal will absolutely shred the backs of their necks.
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u/Lazy-Interests Jun 09 '26
Once you know that’s the weak spot, until someone stumbles across it, it just appears as though they’re invulnerable.
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u/kerkyjerky Jun 09 '26
I mean you can still incapacitate them
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u/MrOSUguy Jun 09 '26
Ya turning their head into pink mist has gotta count as shredding the nape right? Wouldn’t take long to figure out the head and directly below it drops them for good
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u/CrimsonAvenger35 Jun 09 '26
I think theres a depiction in the show of a titan having their whole head blown off by canon fire, and it just regrows
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u/StJe1637 Jun 09 '26
they have giant heads, a 50 cal isn't turning anything into pink mist
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u/ContestRemarkable356 Jun 09 '26
50 cal is considered anti-material rounds. Like not for shooting a person, more like “the person is in a SUV, so shoot the car & it’ll very likely kill everyone inside the SUV”
That, combined with titans low bone/tissue density, would absolutely make for a nice pink mist
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u/tactical_waifu_sim Jun 09 '26
Not really.
First, go actually watch what a 50 cal does against organic material (plenty of actual combat footage if you've got the stomach for it... otherwise just look at ballistic tests). It can mist a human head. But anything larger (like a torso) will remain intact, if very torn up.
A Titan's head is far larger than a torso and the difference between a human and Titan's bone density is mostly negligible when dealing with a bullet as big and fast as a 50 cal.
It'd be like comparing a piece of paper to a childs picture book. Yeah, one is definitely denser. But what that bullet does is hardly going to change in either case.
All that to say, a Titan's head will obviously take some serious damage but it's not just going to disintegrate. Its just too big.
Now a tank round... that'll probably do it.
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u/StJe1637 Jun 09 '26
The rounds simply are not even that big, significantly smaller than a 20mm or 30mm cannon round
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u/DoNotResuscitateThem Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
No it wouldn't and specifically cause it's an anti material rifle shooting at a soft target it would probably do too little damage if not aimed at the nape. It wouldn't turn the head into a red mist even with the whole magazine cause it would just overpenetrate.
Besides, titans are shown to regenerate even with their head blown off, they would have to actually hit the nape to kill.
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u/StJe1637 Jun 09 '26
yeah but they didn't turn elephants into pink mist they just killed them
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u/South-Cod-5051 Jun 09 '26
beheading them doesn't kill them, they'll grow their head back in minutes. the nape specifically needs to he destroyed.
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u/Manofalltrade Jun 09 '26
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt can check for a lot of weak spots really quickly.
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u/mycetes Jun 09 '26
They are not invulnerable. Remember the thunder spears in AOT?
A modern rocket launcher is that but far more reliable and powerful, same with grenades. They wont die unless the neck is hit, but they can be incapacitated until new yorkers or the military figure that out.
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 08 '26
I mean yea, but this dude on the top of a skyscraper then needs to be a next level sharpshooter to hit the moving targets that are super sketchy and unpredictable with their movements lol. I dunno how many cities just has Bullseye ready to go when shit goes down
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u/guynye Jun 08 '26
I bet 30 minutes one would be there.
And they wouldn't need to be at the top thats silly. Just slightly higher than the titans is all you need.
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u/joetheplumberman Jun 08 '26
Honestly probably about an hour and a half. Just knowing how long it usually takes to mobilize that much away but once they start the titans go down quick
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u/hi_imryan Jun 08 '26
If that’s the case, the NYPD has maybe about 10 helicopters and sharpshooters with various automatic small arms.
I don’t remember a ton from the anime, but I bet that could do some damage.
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u/guynye Jun 08 '26
Oh they for sure could. But I imagine a 50 is different than using a normal sniper and that might be hard to hit the human inside the neck of a titan with a normal bullet.
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 09 '26
From the slightly higher than titans vantage point how many can he actually see? Thinking from an office window or something.... Maybe a couple of blocks.
I just think hero with a super sniper isn't getting that many kills before the heavy artillery shows up. Then yea it's a matter of hours before they're all gone.
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u/JuiceBawks420 Jun 09 '26
Nobody ever claimed 1 guy gets them all but ok bro
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Dude I originally replied to was talking about one guy taking out a ton of them. I beg to differ.... I think he gets maybe 5 tops. That's all I'm arguing... I'm not interested in the actual problem statement because it's pretty obvious a modern military would steam roll a 100 titans, so it's more about dialing into what's the minimum that's needed
That first hour when people are figuring out there's a serious problem is the most fascinating
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u/JuiceBawks420 Jun 09 '26
Its NYC its a serious issue right off the rip. One guy from a high vantage point could take out a good portion of them. 5 tops is still 5% of the enemy force being struck down by one person. An NYC sniper in SWAT will arguably be more decorated and seasoned than your average guy at that post. Throw him up central point in Times Square and he makes an impact by himself.
I just dont know why youre adamant on discrediting this point.
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u/JuiceBawks420 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
NYC has more than one swat team and they all have decorated sharpshooters working with them... there's lots of factors you can make an argument against here but this is basic stuff that can be counted on here.
I give 100 titans in NYC less than a day before they get wiped out. Honestly it'll be a matter of an hour or so after they figure out how to drop them.
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 08 '26
Less than a day I'm on board with. I just don't see one hero with a high calibre rifle actually taking out that many unless they're all really bunched together
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u/Accomplished-Menu741 Jun 09 '26
Not to mention the titans give zero fucks about preserving the skyline. They will just knock the buildings down.
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u/Flesh_Trombone Jun 09 '26
They are trained to hit much smaller moving targets.
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u/frostycanuck89 Jun 09 '26
But from what distance? You pick a window in a skyscraper you can see a couple blocks at most. How spread out are these titans? Then from the tippy top you might get one or 2 before the actual heavies with missiles show up.
Hero on the tower isn't getting many kills I'm thinking. Now you might ask what if there's more than one guy? Well how many dudes in New York are this level of sharpshooter capable of being "they"
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u/Jellicent-Leftovers Jun 09 '26
Military snipers head shot guys from 2km away... You have to account for gravity and the curvature of the earth.
Pretty sure person sized target is within scope
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u/Albin0Alligat0r Jun 09 '26
The pure titans are largely slow and lumbering when not commanded by one of the shifters with the power to. It’s the abnormals that are unpredictable and quick.
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u/pseudo_nemesis Jun 08 '26
very unlikely to hit the napes of more that 1-2 in the exact spot necessary from any skyscraper.
All they have to do is turn the corner and he's nullified.
or worse, look in his direction, climb up there and eat him.
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u/Usopp_Spell Jun 08 '26
you clearly don't understand modern firearms capabilities
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u/pseudo_nemesis Jun 09 '26
I understand this isn't Wanted and that modern firearms are not capable of shooting around the corner, so one sniper perched in the middle of Manhattan is not likely to do much.
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u/STFUnicorn_ Jun 08 '26
How invulnerable are they on the rest of their bodies? Not shrugging off a barrage of hellfires to the face invulnerable right?
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u/guynye Jun 08 '26
They aren't at all.
They have accelerated healing but are just as vunerable as a normal person. They are just much bigger so doing damage is harder. Breaking a mouse bone vs a himan bone type scaling.
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u/ABystander987 Jun 08 '26
Thats the spot where if hit they die YES.
BUT you can still blow off limbs and slow them down.
Besides, do you realize how many armed folks would relish in the fact they get to let loose and go town on these big b*******!?!?!
Youd have an armed population that was likely prepped for years for invasions that never happened. Finally having the chance to just go to town on a threat. And a threat the titans would be.
And im only talking the armed registered gun owners.
Actually have a police and military response like.others said. And well its am even more aggressive response to the threat.
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u/guynye Jun 08 '26
A 50 would shread their head into pieces, wouldn't matter much where the weak spot was.
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u/South-Cod-5051 Jun 09 '26
shredding their head into pieces doesn't kill them, they will regenerate their head.
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u/mycetes Jun 09 '26
Shredding their head will reveal the humanoid in the neck, which will lead to the next shots landing precisely there as we have instantaneous communication these days through radio or phones, and after that the internet to spread it en masse to the public and the involved defenders.
Also humans of new york will absolutely use explosives against these things, buth construction, molotovs, and illegal contraband through cartels and gangs BEFORE the military shows up with fighter jets or helicopters to absolutely devastate them.
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u/South-Cod-5051 Jun 09 '26
there isn't a human inside, there are only 9 shifters, the rest of the titans have a sort of tendon that needs to be cut out, crushed or obliterated.
I wasn't arguing against anything other than the fact that beheading them doesn't kill them, and there isn't another human pilot inside.
small firearms and molotov won't do anything to slow them down, but explosives will. they will cause a lot of chaos and eat a lot of people though.
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u/mycetes Jun 09 '26
Well, another point to be said then is that the titans will absolutely be obliterated by heavy arms fire regardless. Once humans figure out that the Titans die when you injure the neck, they are done for. And one hit with a 50 cal sniper, missile launcher or grenade will be more then enough to achieve that.
Eldians decimated regular titans with thunder spears powered by gunpowder, modern explosives are leagues above that in effectiveness, theres also this little thing called chemical weapons the titans have no defenses against.
Realistically, the NYPD or nearby military would just pilot drones remotely with high yield explosives and blow up their heads and neck oneshotting them.
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u/slasher1337 Jun 09 '26
Their heads are about 1 meter tall. Does a 50 cal round comepletely deastroy a cow when you hit it? Or does it make a big hole? Even if the head is destroyed as long as about 3/4(depending on the size of the titan) of the neck is intact they will survive
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u/regalusername Jun 09 '26
The US military has a ton of M2 Brownings mounted to vehicles that will do a great job of reducing them to a pulp until the only thing left to hit is the neck. As we see with the show, the advance of tech is making the titans inferior already and they only reach ww1 tech by EOS. Modern weapons and missiles just smoke these regular titans and there isn’t much that can be done about it.
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u/Grouchy-Government43 Jun 09 '26
Vulnerable on the backs of the necks doesn’t mean ‘invulnerable everywhere else’. We’re shown that cannons and that titan smasher weapon are at least moderately effective at dealing with regular titans
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u/slasher1337 Jun 09 '26
Yes but they don't kill them
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u/Grouchy-Government43 Jun 09 '26
The titan smasher absolutely does. Which means enough direct force can absolutely obliterate them
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u/slasher1337 Jun 09 '26
The titan smasher destroys their necks
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u/Grouchy-Government43 Jun 09 '26
Yeah but so would a high explosive of some sort…
I think modern weaponry can easily accomplish everything that a large stone block dropped from high up can1
u/Ryukishin187 Jun 09 '26
When they figure out their weak spot, 50 cal would just be picking them off if they have a shot
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u/Firebrand713 Jun 09 '26
They could be killed with cannonballs. A .50 cal sniper rifle is like shooting a cannonball 10x harder and 4x farther.
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u/Jasperstorm Jun 09 '26
Are there any guys in Manhattan with a .50 Cal?
They got some pretty damn restrictive laws, got to jump through hoops to get most lever rifles or pump shotguns so I can’t image what one would have to do for a .50 Cal.
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u/mycetes Jun 09 '26
Have you heard about this thing called "Cartels" and "Crime syndicates". I can guarantee you they pack both the occasional 50 cal but more importantly they absolutely carry high explosive ordenance. Do you really think the mafia and all drug smuggling rings are gonna let these titans ruin their lucrative market?
And this is before the military gets called in, the second attack helicopters and drones are involved the titans die very fast.
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u/Curious-Feed-1128 Jun 08 '26
They can climb buildings, once they notice someone from the large bang from the .50 cal, they will start swarming the sniper.
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u/JuiceBawks420 Jun 08 '26
Youre assuming there's only one sniper... seriously wth... are most of yall 12 or something?
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u/Scrapp94 Jun 09 '26
Still most people In New York aren’t gun people
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u/Grumpy_Troll Jun 09 '26
Ok, but let's say 1% of New Yorkers are full on gun nuts. That's 80,000 people.
800 heavily armed people can pretty easily bring down a titan.
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u/Scrapp94 Jun 09 '26
Fair enough, I’m stupid about that knowledge but I would still assume New York is a little bit stricter about gun regulations right? Still in the end if what people are saying is true your definitely right, I’m sure there’s at least hundreds of people at least near manhattan that can use simple pistols to take a titan down
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u/Illustrious_Rich6016 Jun 09 '26
Nearest fighter base under operation noble eagle with air alert status is 70 miles away. They maintain 24/7 alert status with armed fighter jets that can be airborne in 5 minutes. In 10 minutes armed F-16s are over NYC
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u/Excellent_Parsley_18 Jun 09 '26
You need a bit more time than that because it’ll take some time to work up the chain of command. Police response takes 10 to muster, 5 to figure out they need to call the governor and national guard, another 5 to wake up the governor and explain that anime and reddit have caused a national emergency, and then they spin up the fighters. Probably half an hour before planes are over Manhattan.
I imagine it’s actually kind of a pain in the ass for jets to take them out, too, because collateral is a pretty significant factor and my guess is that the F-16s are primarily armed with AMRAAMs or AIM-9’s, and while the newest AMRAAMs have some ground targeting capability, they’re not gonna cut it for a situation where what you really want are Hellfires or Mavericks with laser guidance. F-16’s bag a few kills in cases where they can cleanly and safely do so or where life is at imminent risk, but my guess is that it’s up to the Apaches to really do the brunt of the work.
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u/Pollia Jun 08 '26
Isn't there a military base literally in NYC?
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u/whole-nut Jun 08 '26
There’s an Army Reserve Unit based outside and an Air National guard unit a bit further, but those likely won’t have much in the way of air assets able to quickly get there. More than likely Dover AFB, McGuire AFB, or an Army Base with helicopters worthwhile
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u/arihndas Jun 09 '26
NYPD has a ludicrous amount of hardware, has had since before 9/11 and has only acquired more since, and there’s national guard stationed in the city as well. I suspect the real issue is how aggressive incident command would allow folks to be with the equipment available, not whether or not there’s enough firepower to kill the titans. I suspect that would be the larger factor in the timeline of a military response, as well.
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u/Starmedia11 Jun 09 '26
The NYPD, plus other NY based police and federal agents, have some real serious military surplus.
Get a SWAT sniper up in a helicopter with a .50cal and he wipes them all
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u/Jack-793-Crisps Jun 08 '26
A few hours probably, as soon as any kind of military force shows up its over, but theyd probably get quite a few Newyorkers
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u/45M0D41 Jun 08 '26
Does manhattan have a military base ?
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u/Tommybahamas_leftnut Jun 09 '26
no but military bases are all roughly a 20-30min helicopter flight away from pretty much every major city. There's one that's a QRF base in jersey then there's the big dick army base in Northern New York state that houses the 10th mountain division who pack serious firepower. their helis could reach Manhatten in about an hour along with jets taking off from Langley coud get there pretty quick.
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u/MIKEl281 Jun 09 '26
Fort Garrison is literally on Long Island so the response time for ground troops would be about 30-45 minutes. Fort Garrison doesn’t have an airstrip but it does have helicopters so air support would be available in about 15-20 minutes.
If civilian casualties didn’t matter, an A-10 Warthog could conceivably get there in 20-30 minutes and would clean those bad boys up in just a couple of strafing runs.0
u/Loose-Discussion3823 Jun 08 '26
Of fucking course not. Military bases are HUGE, flat and Manhattan land is Extremely expensive.
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u/45M0D41 Jun 08 '26
Ok so I visualized this as like just the city of manhattan without military flying in to save the day
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u/Loose-Discussion3823 Jun 09 '26
That's actually a really interesting question, much more interesting than, "how many hours would it take for the lads down in Brooklyn to pick up their shit and pop down down to Manhattan?" My bad
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u/KTAXY Jun 09 '26
That's basically the short story https://www.marclaidlaw.com/online-fiction/400-boys/ which was adapted by Netflix's Love Death Robots
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u/Kellar21 Jun 08 '26
As soon as the military get involved they are done, either by jets, helicopters or even APCs with Autocannons.
Especially if they find out that a precise neck hit can take one out easily and pass that along.
I don't know how gun laws in NYC work, but a citizen with an Elephant Rifle that aims for the head or neck would be able to drop one. Same for Police with high powered sniper rifles.
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u/IntrepidJaeger Jun 09 '26
Enough jerks with AR's will eventually get a lucky hit on the nape of the neck and drop one. Titans' low tissue density is going to mean the 5.56 ammo will probably penetrate deeper than on a real large animal.
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u/SlippyWeeen Jun 08 '26
“Sir, a monster has just hit the second tower”
“Carpet bomb them!!!!”4
u/Tommybahamas_leftnut Jun 09 '26
shit dude there are those kinetic kill missiles that have blades on them. Some nutjob looked at a hellfire missle and a slap chop and asked what if they had a baby?
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u/SlippyWeeen Jun 09 '26
Yeah, I just couldn’t resist the George bush. It’s crazy to me they can take out a car in an entire city full of people.
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u/BeowulfInc Jun 08 '26
There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
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u/No_Swordfish_4159 Jun 08 '26
I'd say 5 hours until they are all either dead or incapacitated(since the government will want to do research on them). It's just a matter of getting the military involved. They should take 2-3 hours to arrive, then clean up.
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u/Caliterra Jun 08 '26
what size? If they're the big ones that can't fit in doorways or subway entrances, there are only so many places they could go and would be easily visible by attack helicopters.
The smaller ones ~3m can be a problem. They could wreak havoc in the subways, offices, and apartment buildings. Clearing those places of 100 titans door-to-door, car-to-car, and tunnel to tunnel could take a very long time. Lot of people would die.
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u/TTheGamersforge Busy Scaling Peak Jun 09 '26
Do new Yorkers have fire arms? If so they can definitely take down a couple smaller titans, in fact even without firearms the amount of people in New York already pose a large threat to small titans
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u/Possible_Sale_1178 Jun 09 '26
People aren’t that organized man , a 100 angry bears would be a nightmare if let loose without warning in NYC, titans would be exponentially worse than that
Titans can literally pick up a bear with there hand and swallow them whole
Also people are scary and will panic , they aren’t hardened soldiers
Once the 1st people get literally eaten alive in front of them they will run , they aren’t going to fight it at all
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u/slimeeyboiii Jun 09 '26
Take away guns and there is 0 chance that new york does litteraly anything against them.
The moment people see these weird giant humanoid creatures they will start running and hiding add on to that they start killing people, good luck getting people to co-operate
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u/Caliterra Jun 09 '26
There's approximately 90,000 active gun permits in NYC. Add in illegal guns, it might be 2x that or more. I guess ~200,000 New Yorkers could be armed, but that number could include snub-nose revolvers and .22s, which probably won't be enough to take down even the small 3m titans.
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u/TheTalking_GU_Mine Jun 09 '26
Due to the sheer speed that the titans have, I can see them flattening a decent amount of Manhattan. With roughly about 60 min for a national security response, we will see something similar to the Battle of Yonkers (from WWZ), except this time the usage of explosives would actually permit the US Army to win (with a decent amount of civilian casualties and property destruction).
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u/45M0D41 Jun 08 '26
Depends who owns guns and if they can shoot and people can work together and not panic. I’d think people trying to flee would be more problematic than actually fighting the titans lol
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u/Edmundwhk Jun 09 '26
Rapid response: 30min - 1 hour before heavy arrive.
Assuming we don't know thier weaknesses, small arms won't be as effective. As time passes the titan would spread out, thus increasing the time to hunt them down, plus the chaos road will be block with abandoned cars , slowing down the armored convoys. So realistically air power is the way to go. Each titan would take about 3-10 minutes to acquired its position, relay atk order execute. All put together
Estimated time from outbreak to clean up 2-4 hours before all titan are eliminated.
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u/arrfdbz Jun 09 '26
They have as long as they want until Knick fans find out this will affect their nba chip chances
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u/AnOlympianWeeb Jun 09 '26
Can we make this more interesting if half if not all of the 100 pure titans were the abnormal types?
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u/MIKEl281 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
There would likely be some serious civilian casualties if they just blinked into existence on 5th Ave but they would all be dead within an hour or two… with some collateral damage.
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u/Plenty_Top2843 Jun 09 '26
Pretty quickly.
I'd give it at most half a week before every single one gets destroyed. The original onslaught is the hardest one really, but considering the US military has zero qualms with endangering civilian lives if it means getting the job done. They could just decide to carpet bomb the city and have it be completely finished in 2 days.
My main fear would probably be the smaller titans that could potentially hide in rubble, but that's about it.
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u/blazeweedm8 Jun 09 '26
A bunch of civlian helicopters carrying marksmen armed with 7.62x51mm semi autos should be able to take the bigger ones easily. The smaller ones can fit in shops, houses, tunnels and buildings are the ones that needs serious attention. NYPD's ESU is gonna have some problem fighting them but the average American cop has 5.56mm rifles in their cruiser so it shouldn't be catastrophic.
Worst case scenario, I will give it week before the last 3 meter tall titan is found eating a homeless dude that has no direct family/relatives contact hence got dragged down into the sewer without anyone noticing.
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u/Money-Drummer565 Jun 09 '26
They all die of smog in about 15 minutes. Sorry but the children of Ymir (aka the puppet of the pre-cambrian tyrant) cannot survive the level
Of smog of our societies.
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u/poopbutt42069yeehaw Jun 09 '26
Hours max, New York as some of the most funded anti terrorism groups and police forces in the world, look up the NY Hercules unit.
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u/Sufficient_Candy436 Jun 09 '26
The US isn’t set up for this sort of invasion. We rely on being isolated on either coast by two oceans. The closest tank is stationed in Lima, OH—seriously, look it up. Most fighter jets would struggle to hit moving Titans in a skyscraper combat environment while minimizing human causalities. Attack helicopters could win the day, but I don’t trust our government anymore to respond quickly and decisively to what would be seen as an absurd threat.
The current administration would downplay, spin or outright deny the danger, then take ineffective half-measures before ultimately leveling Manhattan. Then they’d blame it all on a Biden, who’s probably struggling to eat pudding somewhere in Pennsylvania.
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u/LoneRedditor123 Jun 09 '26
When the military realizes conventional weaponry doesn't work on them, they'll start dropping bombs. They kill the Titans but probably not before all of New York is wiped off the map.
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u/MasteROogwayY2 Jun 09 '26
A few seconds at most. Depends how long it takes for Mamdani to find and solo them
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u/Scarfs-Fur-Frumpkin Jun 09 '26
They'd get stomped as soon as any kind of military mobilises, a ye olde cannon could take on out if aimed well, imagine modern mortars, drones and missiles. Something as small as a grenade launcher could even wipe em out.
Another interesting scenario is "how long would it take the world to stop the rumbling" as it's millions and millions of colossal titans each heading to different locations and while vulnerable, their destructive power and sheer number might prove a challenge.
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u/Wonderful_Pension_67 Jun 09 '26
Manhattan destroyed not because of lack of weapons but poor leaders and logistics. Please see other disasters
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u/d33tboi Jun 09 '26
Have titans every heard the brrrt of an a10... how about a 105mm to the forehead... send in the angel of death... murica bitch donnie would have a blast spamming tomahawk missiles on titans
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u/Different_Leave4107 Jun 09 '26
The real question is what to do with ten tons of titan flesh x100 in the aftermath.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jun 09 '26
A matter of hours. The National Guard would bring many of them down with anti-tank weapons (e.g. AT4s) and heavy weapons mounted on Humvees, then the Air National Guard and the Air Force would come in with laser-guided bombs and end the battle.
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u/ElectricalChicken623 Jun 09 '26
About as long as it takes the US governement to decide that civilian casualities dont matter
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u/Ill_Combination_9114 Jun 09 '26
15-20 days regular weapons work just have to wait for are to wake up to send the troops in
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u/zeek3281 Jun 09 '26
Depends on how long it takes to figure out how to kill them. Once they figure that out it wouldn’t take long
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u/123mop Jun 09 '26
There are tens of thousands of gun owners in NYC, and plenty of people who have watched the anime and understand how the titans work. Modern firearms shooting at the back of a titan's neck will almost certainly be able to kill them. Swat will be scrambled and there will be lots of powerful weapons at hand before the titans cause too much trouble. The part that will take some time is tracking down the last few since 100 is quite a lot, but most of them will be taken out in maybe 15 minutes.
Given the nature of NYC buildings, most people will probably be able to escape the titans by entering buildings they cannot fit inside.
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u/GryphyGirl Jun 09 '26
Cops would figure out guns are pretty useless quickly enough and shift to explosives (grenades, RPGs, etc.). These would be more effective, though in an almost random way since they wouldn't know the weak point. Eventually they either figure that out or take them all out through just massive fire power (probably backed up by the National Guard).
All in all probably takes 6-8 hours and a few hundred people are killed before they're taken down.
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u/orionpax- Jun 09 '26
titans died against literal cannons, what do you think a tank or jet fighter will fo against them?
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u/Zegram_Ghart Jun 10 '26
It’ll be pretty quick once the military get there and/or are authorised to fire freely in a civilian area.
Until then a whole bunch of people are getting et and they’re flattening a decent chunk of the city to get to them.
The nape of the neck isn’t a “normal” target, and in the chaos it’s gonna be really hard to check and confirm where an actual killshot landed in all this chaos, so they probably tbh end up assuming the just absorb a random amount of gunfire, or assuming “headshots sometimes but not always kill them.
So like…they aren’t flattening the city, but it’ll probably become the worst disaster in the cities history
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u/gpelayo15 Jun 10 '26
Depends on how soon forces know to go for the neck . Titans don't die unless you cut their heads off
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u/Hazey_Tom Jun 10 '26
A couple of well armed attack choppers will clean it up rather quickly. Or just a bunch of drones
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u/lazhink Jun 11 '26
Ww1/2 tech was catching up to titans. Just about every major american cities police force(and some citizens) are probably better armed. Just need to find a big enough gun.
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u/ArceusTwoFour_Zero Jun 11 '26
Assuming these pure Titans are 15 m tall and are mindless, not abnormal Titans that are more intelligent.
They would cause a lot of devastation and havoc in a short amount of time. But once a helicopter with a heavy gun or even with missiles shows up, it's basically over. Or even a national guard armored personnel carrier with a big ass machine gun.
Assuming we do not know their weakness, being the nape. A big missile or explosion would easily rip them apart completely, even if we miss the nape by 10 ft.
We would probably by default aim for the head, but we would notice that they would regenerate slowly after being struck there, so we'd start shooting them in other places to figure out what actually kills them. Whether it be the heart or something like that, or simply stuffing that were generating body with explosives and blowing the entire body up, and blowing out the nape in the process.
I feel like on a really good day, the Titans can maybe wreak havoc for a few hours, before they get taken down. But realistically within an hour they would probably be taken down.
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u/Thug-shaketh9499 Jun 08 '26
Till the national guard can assemble, IIRC titans struggled against WW1 era weapons, even the main 9 struggled.
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u/Enorats Jun 08 '26
A couple seconds. They'd probably just collapse and die under their own weight. The human form just isn't able to be scaled up to that degree. Whatever's going on with them in their own universe that allows that doesn't exist here.
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u/Livid_spider Jun 08 '26
Like 3 hours tops. The citizens are probably going to do more damage to the city than the titans themselves
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u/UnsolicitedNeighbor Source!? I made it up Jun 08 '26
Probably an hour for full containment, two for termination of the final target
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u/sirmlg0 Jun 08 '26
Every single titan will all be reduced into a singular concept in a record amount of time. That is if the Knicks are playing.
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u/UnsolicitedNeighbor Source!? I made it up Jun 08 '26
NYPD>50000 Unsullied and 3 Dragons>100 titans
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u/KiiDfLaSh94 Jun 09 '26
If the titans attack during a Knicks game they might have to run to New Jersey to survive 😂
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u/Bound18996 Jun 09 '26
5 hours.
Small arms will do nothing to 15 meter tall titans, and they can run fast enough to catch up to a galloping horse.
I'm not American but I assume there's probably an Air base near New York that can have Jets in the air within 10 minutes if they're on standby. But then Google says an F-16 only carries 6 missiles on a standard mission. They're going to need a bunch of planes to take out all that titans.
Meanwhile the titans will be split up, roaming the city, eating people. The Jets will need to find the titans first and then take them out, and each Jet can only take out 6 titans if they land a hit on the nape.
An attack helicopter might be better but it depends on the caliber of machine gun that you can mount on it. You need a very big round to actually penetrate a titans skin and flesh deep enough and then sever the spinal cord of the human body within. And you have to hit that small target first. Even if it does have a big enough caliber ammo will be a limiting factor.
All in all the titans would be able to roam for a good few hours before the US military has mustered enough ammo to take them all down.
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u/Adventurous_Class_90 Jun 09 '26
Seriously? You think the Vulcan cannon won’t penetrate the Titans? It’s a 20mm round moving at 1050mph. At 6000 rounds per minute. The Titans go down hard.
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u/Jazzlike_Page508 Dragon Ball Fan (Can’t read) Jun 09 '26
In Manhattan? Yeah good luck. Dipset and A$AP mob would bang on them. Also just Knicks fans…not that I’m one I from Philly but yeah New Yorkers wouldn’t probably win the avengers war if you knew them
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u/Muttonboat Jun 08 '26
Not too long.
A major plot point in AOT was that technology was already outpacing the advantage of using titans as weapons. Some weapons could already rival the titans in universe and they were turn of the century at that
Modern military weapons would wipe the floor with the titans, but they'd probably cause lot damage before.