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ProjectZephyr — UNAF vehicle overhauls

Published: 2011-03-25 19:40:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1881; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 36
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Seeing how I've decided to scrap all my gundam-related stuff, I felt all my ridiculous-looking vehicle designs were inadequate.
This is the UNAF vehicle redesigns, completely overhauling every single design, recycling almost nothing.

The tank was a complete rebuilt, keeping only the tread-wheels and barrel of the machine gun. The body is rebuilt to not be lame-looking, with the actual drive-belt being made as complex polygons instead of a flat thing with a tread texture on it. There are proper-looking reactive plates, smoke launchers, a lance array (a one-shot SABOT shotgun), and more realistic hatches.

Everything except the rudder and elevators were overhauled on the transport plane. Instead of a rotating turbo-prop, the engines on the new plane are comprised of 2 multi-stage compression turbines that divert thrust to out-board partially rotating thrusters. Also added wings to allow the plane to have more believable flight characteristics, and have the ability to mount a variety of things attached to hardpoints. There is also a tail-mounted auto-cannon operated by the gunner via camera.

Everything had to go on the fighter. The old Kestral looked so stupidly ridiculous that I felt it was easier to simply start over. The new Kestral is a twin-seater forward-swept wing fighter with angled forward canards. The old fighter had 4 small ram-jets embedded under its simpled delta wings. The new jet has two multi-stage compression ram-jets with directional thrust vector nozzles. There is still an internal weapon bay, but the increased wing surface allows the plane to carry more external weapons without hindering flight characteristics.
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thormemeson [2014-10-26 19:29:03 +0000 UTC]

nice work

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NoviceArtist487 [2011-03-26 02:58:49 +0000 UTC]

So here's what I think:
First of all, definitely an improvement with all the designs and stuff

The tank looks like a cross between a T-72 and an Abrams. Either that or it looks similar to the Israeli Merkava

The transport plane looks bulkier than the previous, and more bad-ass XD

The fighter jet looks very sexy
I can almost see an F-18 if I ignore the angled wings. Kinda reminds me of the Eurofighter though

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Felisfurtificus In reply to NoviceArtist487 [2011-03-28 04:12:56 +0000 UTC]

The tank body is just made-up generic tank-chassis, but the turret is indeed modeled after a Merkava, more specifically, the Mark IV model but with a bigger main-gun. The transport plane/dropship looks a solid and chunky, but the wing-span is only 20 centimeters wider than the old one. As for the fighter, my friend described it as "If a S-47, F-22, and a F-14 got together and had a baby" PX.

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