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Technical Fanfiction
The Scout Reconnaissance Vehicle was designed to fill the military's growing need for UAV bandwidth, FOB security and covert fire control. The goal was to create the smallest and lightest armoured vehicle possible while allowing for a extendible 7 meter sensor boom and deployable Tier 0 drones.
While primarily an electric vehicle the SRV does have a small on-board gas turbine engine to provide charging and backup power. The reduced sound footprint offered by the electric motors greatly aids the SRV in avoidance while allowing it to get closer to hostile forces than would typically be expected. The range of the SRV is almost quadrupled with the addition of battery skirting which double as both Electro Reactive Armer and reserve vehicle power. Each panel is isolated from one another allowing energy to be transferred even when all neighbouring panels have been breached.
The SRV's only active defences are the modular CROWS mount (Shown here with a Mk 19 grenade launcher), Smoke grenades and a missile countermeasure laser.
The Sensor mast includes a long range dish, wide band jammer and 2 bi-directional stabilized camera pods. Each pod includes a primary optic along with LiDAR, range finder, target painter and signalling laser.
Each SRV has 2 accessory slots which can store anything from liquid fuel, extra batteries or in the example above drone bays. These Tier 0 drones can run automated loitering patterns and patrol waypoints that create a realtime map of the surrounding terrain. The drones also have a retractable hook that can deploy from their top allowing them to hang from lines or branches for a low power sentry mode (not shown).
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Thank you and :iconukitakumuki: for helping me out with feedback from the earliest stages of design.
Im not that great at composition and environments so hopefully this is pushing things in the correct direction!
Here is the technical document:
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Comments: 4
CerebralError [2017-02-24 20:59:14 +0000 UTC]
It looks like Johnny 5 is still alive. And a lot meaner than ever before.
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Legato895 In reply to CerebralError [2017-03-08 21:30:26 +0000 UTC]
im seeing this in a whole new way now!
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Daemoria [2016-06-14 21:58:54 +0000 UTC]
I keep coming back to this design. This has quite a bit of personality, due to the distinctive features you gave it. The use of the mast in particular is really interesting, I've not really seen anything like it in fiction or reality. The only thing that comes close, perhaps, is the sensors mounted above central rotors on some models of the Eurocopter Tiger attack helicopter.
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Legato895 In reply to Daemoria [2016-06-15 17:56:05 +0000 UTC]
Thanks, man! So happy it can serve as intended. I always am inclined to focus on some level of authenticity and this one really let me go crazy on conservative design decisions.
That said, truth be told I can't remember if I saw reference for the LAV Coyote before or after I started gathering reference, but there is at least one armored vehicle out there that has a camera mast so I can't take credit for all of it
www.google.com/search?q=lav+co…
The drone design was something i "invented" knowing how dual rotor helicopters worked but within a few weeks or months I did see a Kickstarter with the same design as well!
people love making "the best tank" with the biggest guns and missiles etc, but I really enjoyed keeping these features somewhat grounded and conservative all things considered.
PLEASE keep posting stellar sketches, designs, and work.
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