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I'm stuck here wondering at what sort of military budget where building modular fighting vehicles like this makes sense. Perhaps a waterlogged nation that needs a lot of amphibious vehicles. Also, the roof of the rear cabin makes me think the missiel variant should go with VLS cells in back...

Just about anything that burns if your maintenance crew knows how to adjust the fuel injectors.

Instead of cylindrical pistons it has a curved triangle sliding round trying to keep a gas seal on all three corners and its sides. Theoretically it is highly efficient, but practically the gas seals take more effort than you save by combining three pistons onto a single triangle.

I just spotted the location for those two the machine gun mounts on that superheavy, and it is a doozy. A sponsoon mount would be better. Front engine mounts theoretically improves crew protection against frontal strikes, and allows you to have rear doors. Its common in APCs, and is a good...

Its important to remember that LOS works both ways, so if you want to take out a SPAAG you need a spotter. Its not insurmountable, but it is something you have to work at. The types of auto-cannons SPAAGs use a highly versatile, and are infamous for how they can be used against infantry, one of...

SPAAGs will always be viable against helicopters due to their flight profile. While they won't be a threat against most modern fighters in ideal conditions, conditions are not always ideal and they will get a surprising number of fighter kills in a real war.

It is a self propelled barracks, specifically designed to support the crews of similarly sized missile trucks. It can get where it needs to go.

That is one tall turret.

It really depends on the size of the ammunition. The reason you don't have multiple large guns on tanks is because it is impossible to store enough ammunition for multiple guns on a platform that is barely larger than the turret. If the ammunition could be shrunk to something the size of a soda...

Well, with energy weapons, the primary reason to have only one gun on a turret is moot. There are also thermal and redundancy benefits to having more than one gun instead of one bigger gun with energy weapons.

On the QQ battletech thread, we came to the conclusion that Head Hunter missiles are specialty munitions for the Thunderbolt that use the punch table to determine hit location. So a VTOL with a single TB-15 or TB-20 and headhunter munitions would be very unpleasant for mech warriors to deal with.

I'm always disappointed that these size comparison videos never contain anything battle-tech in them.

Lets say you have a bunch of drone tanks in the wilderness waiting for an ambush. Then a bear walks up, it decides one of these funny looking rocks in front of it would make a good place to take a nap, so it sits on top of the antenna for one of your drone tanks. That drone tank is now mission...

Looking up the tank, it looks more like they went all-in on a high tech tank. I wonder how maintenance intensive the In-Arm Suspension Unit is?

If you suffer from barrel ablation, it would still probably be more weight efficient to have both barrels, and possible a third, emplaced on a central rotary mount rather than duplicating so much autoloader.

That is a fancy feature that might work on a scout tank, but is a terrible idea on a super-heavy like that one because that is a lot of ground pressure. I think it would make more sense to have a active suspension system on the front of the tracks that lets you raise them over obstacles.

It doesn't help that we also have the cult of the missile constantly insisting that guns are obsolete and no longer needed anymore.

It is fairly common to re-use a tank chassis for other roles by swapping out the turret for something else.

Gun launched missiles and drones are a boondogle that only gets past the smell test by covering the odor up with buzz words. Now if you had a hull mounted mortar, that would work better as a launch system for missiles and drones. Mortars do well with low pressure and wide bore and VLS launches...

The biggest flaw with the 130 and 140 is that you don't need them. Modern arms are already overkill for modern armor, so you would be better off spending the weight and budget trying to catch up with a more effective protection scheme.