User blog comment:WhiteSeraph/Alternate Timeline Idea That I'm Really Psyched About/@comment-76.217.129.118-20110926200043/@comment-25033299-20110926232408

The strength of a terminator actually follows a rule of technology, which I'll summarize here: No matter how efficient something is, in a matter of years something twice as compact and twice as efficient will be made. Basically, compare an iPhone to an 80s computer. And that's only 30 years. Mk12 would debut sometime in M40