i love those light wheeled armored vehicles with cannons, autocannons and/or antitank missile launchers on em. periscope visors and hatches and stuff are just so cozy. especially with external remote control machinegun turrets or at least a camera pod. and smoke launchers to GTFO in relative safety. i wanna hotbox an AFV.
I’m claustrophillic or something, I feel cozy and safe AF in a tight space, I sleep in a sleeping bag on my bed and the one time I was inside a tank I felt comfy as hell.
imagine having one of those nomad vans people like to make and live in but make it an APC or IFV. Also equip it with disco lights and a wild sound system that can vibrate the very earth as it trundles around
I’m partial to armored cars, even if they’re of dubious utility these days. There’s just something really neat about big guns on a small chassis, although I can’t really pick a favorite
tervell probably knows of better stuff to pick from but i like russian BTRs like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTR-90 (designed in my birth year even) but also the modern stryker-style IFVs that pretty much every country has a copy of (chinese Type-08 series vehicles are nice looking and with lot of variants for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_08 )
I’ll take a truck with a 120mm mortar + laser guided rounds, a quad copter to designate for 'em, and an e-bike pls. I’d rather not get hotboxed by a hypersonic copper jet that I didn’t see coming
i wanna look my enemy in the eye (through a periscope). also an autocannon or missile launcher can optimistically take out aircraft. maybe put a big 120mm or less smoothbore in the turret (that can launch missiles also) for direct and indirect fire. plus no reason i couldn’t put a mortar/drone team in the back instead of a standard infantry squad. armed trucks will always be cool tho i just want more hatches and periscopes around me personally. otherwise if ur going lightweight and indirect put whatever weapon system or drone launcher you want on a dune buggy i say. you just can’t hotbox a sandrail as well.
Can a truck’s chassis even take the recoil from a 120mm mortar? I’ve been parked next to a 120mm mortar in an M113 chassis before and watched it kick the hull into the ground every time it lobbed a basketball downrange.
I think it’d need some hoist that lowers the baseplate onto the ground, but 105mm howitzers are being mounted on humvees with stabilizing jacks & I’ve gotta assume those generate a bunch more recoil
i love those light wheeled armored vehicles with cannons, autocannons and/or antitank missile launchers on em. periscope visors and hatches and stuff are just so cozy. especially with external remote control machinegun turrets or at least a camera pod. and smoke launchers to GTFO in relative safety. i wanna hotbox an AFV.
I’m claustrophillic or something, I feel cozy and safe AF in a tight space, I sleep in a sleeping bag on my bed and the one time I was inside a tank I felt comfy as hell.
same, i yearn for the mecha cockpit.
Shinji get out of the EVA unit you’ve been in there for 72 consecutive hours and you haven’t eaten or had fluids in that time
Those are also filled with a liquid which makes it even cozier. If I could breath underwater I’d sleep there.
I’d be stomping Zakus all day
imagine having one of those nomad vans people like to make and live in but make it an APC or IFV. Also equip it with disco lights and a wild sound system that can vibrate the very earth as it trundles around
the Russians actually did make a “what if a van had a BTR turret on top” vehicle, it’s really weird (but neat) looking:
Point that thing backwards and fire it to go faster
very yes.
@Tervell@hexbear.net favorite AFV?
I’m partial to armored cars, even if they’re of dubious utility these days. There’s just something really neat about big guns on a small chassis, although I can’t really pick a favorite
i feel like 4th pic is cutest, small barrel
tervell probably knows of better stuff to pick from but i like russian BTRs like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTR-90 (designed in my birth year even) but also the modern stryker-style IFVs that pretty much every country has a copy of (chinese Type-08 series vehicles are nice looking and with lot of variants for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_08 )
I’ll take a truck with a 120mm mortar + laser guided rounds, a quad copter to designate for 'em, and an e-bike pls. I’d rather not get hotboxed by a hypersonic copper jet that I didn’t see coming
i wanna look my enemy in the eye (through a periscope). also an autocannon or missile launcher can optimistically take out aircraft. maybe put a big 120mm or less smoothbore in the turret (that can launch missiles also) for direct and indirect fire. plus no reason i couldn’t put a mortar/drone team in the back instead of a standard infantry squad. armed trucks will always be cool tho i just want more hatches and periscopes around me personally. otherwise if ur going lightweight and indirect put whatever weapon system or drone launcher you want on a dune buggy i say. you just can’t hotbox a sandrail as well.
Can a truck’s chassis even take the recoil from a 120mm mortar? I’ve been parked next to a 120mm mortar in an M113 chassis before and watched it kick the hull into the ground every time it lobbed a basketball downrange.
I think it’d need some hoist that lowers the baseplate onto the ground, but 105mm howitzers are being mounted on humvees with stabilizing jacks & I’ve gotta assume those generate a bunch more recoil
I’ve heard of towed howies… gonna have to look up
with big guns…
Well, I’ll be…
Don’t knock the old M113’s. They’re like the minivans/stationwagons of little light armored tracked vehicles. They aren’t sexy but practical.