Armored Fightning Vehicles MK III

[Siden Pryde]

Would hate to be the one "volunteered" to explain that to their CO.

[Feenix74]

"Sir, with all due respect, you orders were clear for us to take a hull-down position. We were merely following your orders, sir."

[DoctorMonkey]

Would hate to be the one "volunteered" to explain that to their CO.

"Sir, with all due respect, you orders were clear for us to take a hull-down position. We were merely following your orders, sir."

"Petrovski, you just transferred from the Navy, remind me which branch?"
"Submarines, Sir"
"Ah, we don't do 'hull down' quite as much here in the Guards Tank Division..."

[ANS Kamas P81]

"Vadim!  Put mop away, no need for silly thing.  Clean mud off with ERA!"

[Arkansas Warrior]

"Vadim!  Put mop away, no need for silly thing.  Clean mud off with ERA!"

;D

[Kidd]

"Vadim!  Put mop away, no need for silly thing.  Clean mud off with ERA!"

....wouldn't the mud tamp the explosion? Not sure that's all that great for the tank...

[Euphonium]

Does an elephant's hide count as "armoured,"?

[ANS Kamas P81]

Does an elephant's hide count as "armoured,"?

'Elephino!

[beachhead1985]

More stuck Ruskies:

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

There aint no party like a wash rack party!

Cause a wash rack party is *MANDATORY!*

Yeah, break it down!

 O0

[DoctorMonkey]

The Russian mud has been swallowing tanks since late 1941 hasn't it? There are lots of photos from WW2 of the same situation

[ANS Kamas P81]

If you want to consider 'anyone wearing armor' then the Russian mud's been slorping down invaders since before they had writing. 

[DoctorMonkey]

If you want to consider 'anyone wearing armor' then the Russian mud's been slorping down invaders since before they had writing. 

do we consider an armoured horseman (or woman) an armoured fighting vehicle? what about Leonardo Da Vinci's conceptual drawings of a "tank"?


anyway, here are some stuck Panzers

[ColBosch]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

There aint no party like a wash rack party!

Cause a wash rack party is *MANDATORY!*

Yeah, break it down!

 O0

"First Sergeant, aren't parties supposed to be fun?"

"Aren't you having fun, Private? If you're not, let me know, and I'll give you more fun!"

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

"First Sergeant, aren't parties supposed to be fun?"

"Aren't you having fun, Private? If you're not, let me know, and I'll give you more fun!"

[Weirdo]

Oh look, a new addition to my avatar collection!

[worktroll]

[Kidd]

Still more elbow room than a T-34....

[Liam's Ghost]

I like how the officer is poking out the top because he literally has nowhere else to go.

Also, I'm pretty sure the gun's recoil takes the face off the gunner with every shot. Also, where the heck is the ammo for that gun? That's thunder levels of non-euclidian geometry.

[worktroll]

The empyrean power op the Emperor, you mean!

And one has to include this: it's mandatory



(I have done this with an Epic Rhino as a Davion APC ...)

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I like how the officer is poking out the top because he literally has nowhere else to go.

Also, I'm pretty sure the gun's recoil takes the face off the gunner with every shot. Also, where the heck is the ammo for that gun? That's thunder levels of non-euclidian geometry.

Is the commander sitting on the gunner's shoulders?

[Moonsword]

I'm pretty sure they're offset horizontally.

[glitterboy2098]

they are on that model.. the standard kit has the hatch directly behind the gun, so that the commander's hips and the gun breech occupy the same space. i suspect the maker of the model above did some customizing.

[Liam's Ghost]

A person wouldn't have to suspend quite as much disbelief if not for that commander and hatch. Then you could just assume the undersized turret houses an autoloader for the oversized gun.

Ooh! Maybe the breech of the gun is flush with the front of the turret and the entire gun is contained in the visible barrel!  :P

[glitterboy2098]

honestly with the offset hatch it would work even with the breech partially or wholly inside the turret.. there would be room to load it, then the loader could duck down while firing.

the problem is the various fluff books put the crew at commander, gunner, loader, driver, and 2 sponson gunners. which suggests that it is a 3 man turret.. ouch.

the cutaway model looks ot have made the gunner sitting at a console in the hull, presumably controlling the turret remotely.

[Arkansas Warrior]

If the gun fires gyrojet shells or something similar, maybe it doesn't recoil.  The back of it could be designed more like a torpedo tube; you just shut and lock the door and that's that.

[Fat Guy]

Everyone here realizes that the internal arrangements of most BattleMechs would be equally preposterous? 



Just where is there room in the torso for the other 84 SRMs? And how do those missiles move through that tiny strut to the launcher?  ???

[Matti]

What was it about taking reality to fantasy/fiction?

[Liam's Ghost]

Everyone here realizes that the internal arrangements of most BattleMechs would be equally preposterous? 



Just where is there room in the torso for the other 84 SRMs? And how do those missiles move through that tiny strut to the launcher?  ???

It's not a competition. We can admire the ridiculousness of both universes.  :P

EDIT: Though if it were, I'd point out that that art is no longer valid.  :P

[DoctorMonkey]

The Warhammer has a special machine that enlarges the SRMs from the size they have in storage (about the same as a 5.56mm round) to the approximately Javelin anti-tank missile size they are when fired


Obviously

[Liam's Ghost]

The Warhammer has a special machine that enlarges the SRMs from the size they have in storage (about the same as a 5.56mm round) to the approximately Javelin anti-tank missile size they are when fired


Obviously

It's an air compressor. A lostech air compressor. Missiles are rocket powered balloons.


Random ballistic missile carrier to get things back on task