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Ravajava — USMC Ionica
Published: 2014-03-26 21:18:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1110; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 5
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Absolute must when dealing with mechs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjxo-…Done with watercolour pencils and Bristol paper.
Designed to give regular infantry the abilities of a Hybrid or other foreign combat cyborg type, MIAS (Mechanized Infantry Armoured Suit) or MAS (Mobile Infantry Suit) in the US, ultimately made combat cyborgs obsolete on the battlefield. Significantly cheaper and easier to use and produce, MIAS have become standard fair in the various military across the world. The MAS-7 Ionica in particular is the suit used by the USMC. Armed with a 20mm Gatling gun and a 40 mm electric canon, and most importantly its mobility, it`s a force to be reckoned with. Not as capable as its jump jet and recoilless rifle equipped Army counterpart, the Ionica is still a dangerous, cost efficient, first to the fight unit. charge cancellation system also makes it almost invulnerable to MIAS from other countries.
Can't wait to come up with a Rainworks story featuring these, much less figure out a way for Laurence and Ray to beat one
You can read Rainworks here, if you are so inclined: ravajava.deviantart.com/art/Ra…
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That's not a Helldiver (Patlabor anime series mech) but it would be its counterpart for USMC and the Helldiver is basically a USN name for a dive bomber but the Japanese anime group Headgear adopted the name for their military version of the AV-98 police mech or the Ingram.
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Metal ain't my thing, but the effect is the same nonetheless
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Not really mine either, but when done like this, with a good stomping beat to go with the stomping 'mechs, then yes.
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Yeah, not quite the same without all the stomping and them PPC's firing
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In my conversation with Tankaa I sort of get at that 
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Now that's the shizz. Terrifyingly effective gear, I tell you hwat! But does it also have that EM barrier thing? Just to verify. Also, Does the barrier dispel artillery sized munitions or shrapnel from nearby explosives?
The next thing is to make to counter that is a portable barrier nullifying shizz. hahaha, The race of armor counter armor continues.
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This one does. Not the best one, but a decent one. It can deal with traditional artillery and shrapnel, but rounds exist that are purpose designed for killing these and their heavier tank counterparts. Shells that burst into bomblets are dangerous because they may simply overwhelm the system. Shells that burst into bomblets and mine into the ground are especially effective because the barrier wont be told to activate; the system isn't too effective at detecting things attacking from below.
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Can the EM barrier stop a sticky bomb hand thrown at it? or a molotov bombs or flame based weapons like uhh flame throwers or napalm, just stop me when its getting too silly but anything can be turned into weapons. I'm pestering you since the EM barrier is a very interesting idea.
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On the sticky bomb, probably not. But I wouldn't want to be the guy who drew the short straw and was told to try and sneak up on a pack of 4 of these; all of the motion detecting equipment would make that a tricky mission
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You never know what fanatics are capable of.
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This is true, and I'm sure a lot of countries have gotten a taste of that in the last few years -.-
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Not bad.
They can probably beat it with an antimateriel rifle or antitank rockets. The overall practical armor protection for small walking mecha is comparable to that of armored cars and light tracked vehicles. (My military Metal Frames for Solarstorm have frontal armor resistant to 20-25mm AP autocannon rounds, with 13mm protection on the sides. Police units are typically have frontal protection against 13mm and side armor good against an 8mm rifle, their job is primarily stopping drunk construction workers or Killdozer-style incidents.)
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The thing that makes this dangerous isn't it's armour, it's countermeasures. The vehicle has a massive suit of hard and soft kill active protection systems that make actually hitting it something of near impossible feat. You would need a lot of antitank rockets to actually hit this. A lot more than your average infantry platoon would have available. An anti material rifle would be a problem if fired at close enough a range that the hard kill systems can't pick it up... land mines would also do a lot of damage because you can stop those... but I'm not here to make invincible units
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*facepalm* I forgot about active protection systems, I should throw those into the data (and artwork) for the MFs, probably as another backpack or countermeasures-mount item. It'll make the Archer recon MF a little bit less fragile. They can always be saturated, though, and the soft kill systems aren't as good against unguided weapons. (Not to mention if it has its own infantry escort, hard kill turns them into ablative meat.)
Oh, there's also the 40mm HEDP grenade (about 40mm penetration on RHA), but those require a direct hit and most units don't carry that many of them. Same goes for a recoilless gun (150mm RHA). And pitfall traps, can't forget those.
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Great at work as usual Sir. So how is it controlled exactly? Like is it a suit as the name states, or is it controlled in a drone like fashion?
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That'll be fun... not for them... but you get my point.
Generally it's a "suit", but I'd say it's much a suit as an F-16 is a suit. The pilot isn't controlling it like, say the Jaegers in Pacific Rim, but instead has joysticks, pedals and throttles with hat switches to control the movement of the arms.
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Haha I do indeed.
And alrighty, thanks for clearing that up. I figured that that was the case but just wanted to make sure I was envisioning it correctly.
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Certainly make them a heck of a lot more terrifying
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The few, the proud, the mechajock Marines!
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