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Shimmering-Sword — Assault Tank
Published: 2011-05-07 00:30:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 45041; Favourites: 840; Downloads: 1104
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Another quick sketch. I lost my original little paper thumbnail sketch of this, but recent I had the idea to make a tank with the turret as big as the chassis
So when the request of the night was tanks, this came out.Heavy armor, huge auto cannons, anti tank missiles, and counter measures galore. This tank is designed to rumble through the urban combat environment and dish out serious damage to opposing tanks and mechs alike.
For clarification, I'm on the side that says just because mechs magically become viable doesn't mean tanks don't get to share in the same magic. This thing is a serious combatant and with thicker (more efficient) armor coverage than a mech of the same weight, face to face it has good odds of taking the win.
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Can your tank drive on a 2 lane road?
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it doesnt need too. is airlifted in and airlifted out. if it needs to move from some place to another with a range of well over 4000 miles i dont know why it would need to move. but if it did nothing would stop it. it would smash through buildings over rivers forrests anything including enemy infantry and enemy tanks
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So in a world where it's preferable to not level the citizens cities, just hide from it in the cities 
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this tanks job is to destroy the enemy...ie it levels the damn city with only 3 shells, you dont hide from this thing
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i would have called it the turtle tank haha.
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Countermeasures? What, like antimissiles and stealth?
Come to think of it, most concept artists just slap guns and armor on a pair of tracks and call it a tank. They forget that there's an armored arms race on all the fancy electronics.
No, wait. They didn't forget. They just thought, "Screw wheels; this goes better on legs."
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Haha, yea it has missile defense and antipersonel mines built in. That's the main point I made in my comments, that many artists are assuming that with the advent of mechs, tanks somehow become excluded from the arms race. Having mech technology 100s of years in the future and only modern day tanks is silly.
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yea it has missile defense OH, YES × 9001!
You tell that to the hardcore couch potatoes who don't do the research and believe everything they see on TV. ;)
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My interpretation:
100 tons
300 XL reactor
12.0 Heavy Ferro-Fibrous Armor
2x Light Gauss Rifle (turret)
2x LRM-10 (turret)
4x Streak SRM-4 (turret)
CASE
This thing would be MEAN to face. Give up slightly on firepower to get added range (Light Gauss instead of normal Gauss), if having a lot more shots to play with, and then there's the sheer variety of LRMs you can play with. And of course, anyone stupid enough to close with it is going to run headlong into a hail of "hah, I never miss" Streak missiles.
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Yep, with it armor and weapons load prioritized over speed it's pretty much an urban area denial tank. Nothing will want to be down it's alleys of fire. In realistic battle where a few hits from this thing will cripple or kill your mech/tank, you don't want to face it head on.
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Holy awesome. I want one. On my front lawn. Want your ball back, sonny? Just try it. c:<
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what close range (anti infantry) weapons does it have ? i see no MGs or mortars
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It has some anti personnel grenades on the lower rim of the turret. Wasn't sure where to place MGs but having them would be logical. It could also carry some main gun ammo for the job.
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in history tanks with no close support weapons were doomed even before battle. one thing is to fight a powered heavy mech. another thing is to fight 300 trained infantry it just take 1 or 2 of them to get close with a pack of explosive.
Germans made the mistake and the same did the Americans (WWII and Korea) the had strong tanks with a great main cannon but didn't put in a close support weapon and the tanks died quickly
I like your designs so i would love to see them as perfect in design as possible
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Would you run towards a tank covered in claymore mines?
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no i will throw 4 pounds of C4 (or what ever your world use at from my hiding. while my friends shot at it with a hand held Antitank weapon.
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Quick question. How is anyone suppost to kill this? assuming they get past the appocalyptic torrent of shooty death and all that.
Nice design by the way
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Like battles are already today, the first person to fire and hit with a big enough gun first wins. Though in the future it might just take a few shots more with all the armor and countermeasures.
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I must be more complicated than that. Or else, we would just sent a few guys with RPGs into afghanistan instead of a few thousand.
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RPG =/= big enough gun. And of course this is just the 1vs1 scenario, army size is another consideration.
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Lovin' this tank. I also belong to the same school of thought. Both mechs and tanks have their tactical uses and downfalls. No reason why tankers and mech pilots can't fight on the same side, as opposed to most shows where they always seem to be on opposing sides.
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what a magnificent machine! My superiors will be most pleased..... I always thought that Mechs would have the advantage in maneuverability and concealment. For example a tank would have little mechs literally crawling over him in an urban environment where there's lots of cover instead of the outskirts or country side were the field of view and lack of cover would give him the advantage. it's just my two cents though...
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But what makes a mech faster/maneuverable, and what makes it easier to conceal? These are among those points that a lot seem to assume a mech can do well, and also assume a tank cant do. In film and anime tanks are always depicted as slow and weak as a plot device to keep the protagonists alive. And the inverse is usually true for mechs, they are used as plot devices and so they are buffed.
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Hmmmmm....Once again the writers defy all logic...
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i want one for my drive way.....lol its really cool
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Also, I don't hold with the biped mechs. Bipeds are highly unstable and are really just walking targets. My mechs are either treaded or quadrapeds. The quadraped is my heavy sniper class, with the treads being my assault and defense class. Armor galore on those things. And yes, tanks do deserve an upgrade.
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Nice... Dual Cannons and missile array. That's a lot of firepower for a tank.
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Chasie is distantly similar to soviet ISes with a turret even battletech could envy!
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good so far
it will be better when its done
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Probably wont finish it.
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np man keep up the great work
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