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Soyuz capsules with 23mm cannon.

I reckon it'd look somewhat like this.

I imagine accuracy would be a massive issue in battles at that range, your average machinegun isn't going to land many hits at 300km distance even without atmospheric friction to worry about. You could try using the airplane approach of throwing more bullets at the problem but that'd have a nasty amount of recoil and throw both your aim and your movement off-course. I don't think you're going to score many hits without using guided missiles that can correct their course after launch or just lasers (and I mean the real light kind, not the slow moving bullet type you see in movies).

Maybe the first challenge could already be spotting the enemy with your sensors, kinda like sub warfare.

There are plenty of arguments for why we should have space based weapons.

True, but you only need one argument: They're awesome.

My favorite monster...

The Destroid Monster...

Sure thing, as long as you don't mind a little plagarism.

Robots from each country fighting each other instead of sending soldiers to war? Wasn't that the premise of G Gundam? Will my dream of finally being able to pilot Mexico's Tequila Gundam finally come true?

With this technology I shall build an army of Zakus and I will defeat Amuro Ray once and for all!!!

There's also the Zacktraeger...

...Gundanium armor...
You mean Lunar titanium alloy

...Cross the T-52 Support Dragon with the Honda Asimo maybe we'll get This?

Sounds like a knock-off of this anime: Gundam G