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A new installment in my ongoing series updating the technology of the classic sic-fi series UFO produced by the late Gerry Anderson. The show was about a secret organization called the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization (SHADO). Using state of the art weapons SHADO protected the planet against evil aliens who were out to destroy the human race. But the weapons were sate of the art in the seventies so being the geek that I am, I just had to modernize it.

On the series you saw three versions of the Mobiles: a radar equipped command and control configuration, a fire-support configuration armed with what looked like either an auto-cannon or heavy machine gun along with a large caliber mortar, and what was presumably an armored personnel carrier (APC) configuration. The funny thing was that you never saw anyone come out of that huge rear compartment. This was likely because of the use of models in the stop-motion animation used for the special effects in the seventies and the shows generally low budget. But I thought it was odd that you saw three men crowded into the crew compartment. So my redesign made the vehicle into a true personnel carrier capable of deploying six infantry troops as part of a team tasked with recovering crashed UFOs and dealing with their pilots. Just for fun I also designed the equipment for the SHADO infantry troops including a personal flight system (IE a jet pack.)

There would also have to be a specialized version for transporting living alien prisoners that the recovery team captures. However, since that vehicle would be externally identical to the APC except for some markings so I didn’t bother to draw it.

Here are links to my other UFO related pieces. [link] [link] [link]

And a link to the shows fan site.
[link]

Description
A new installment in my ongoing series updating the technology of the classic sic-fi series UFO produced by the late Gerry Anderson. The show was about a secret organization called the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization (SHADO). Using state of the art weapons SHADO protected the planet against evil aliens who were out to destroy the human race. But the weapons were sate of the art in the seventies so being the geek that I am, I just had to modernize it.

On the series you saw three versions of the Mobiles: a radar equipped command and control configuration, a fire-support configuration armed with what looked like either an auto-cannon or heavy machine gun along with a large caliber mortar, and what was presumably an armored personnel carrier (APC) configuration. The funny thing was that you never saw anyone come out of that huge rear compartment. This was likely because of the use of models in the stop-motion animation used for the special effects in the seventies and the shows generally low budget. But I thought it was odd that you saw three men crowded into the crew compartment. So my redesign made the vehicle into a true personnel carrier capable of deploying six infantry troops as part of a team tasked with recovering crashed UFOs and dealing with their pilots. Just for fun I also designed the equipment for the SHADO infantry troops including a personal flight system (IE a jet pack.)

There would also have to be a specialized version for transporting living alien prisoners that the recovery team captures. However, since that vehicle would be externally identical to the APC except for some markings so I didn’t bother to draw it.

Here are links to my other UFO related pieces. [link] [link] [link]

And a link to the shows fan site.
[link]