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Old 09-15-2006, 08:49 PM   #1
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Metal Gears...

Hey just an opinion thread.

Do you think they should look into walking tank technology? Sort of like Metal Gears (if you played the game) or Gundams.

I'm not trying to be a geek (although I am). I'm just wondering what you guys thought.

It could be benifician for moon type assignments. Like say building a moon base or something.
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Old 09-16-2006, 10:28 AM   #2
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I think they would be too slow, cumberson, too big and too easy of a target. Atleast at first.
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Old 09-16-2006, 02:42 PM   #3
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Still that is what some people said about Tanks in WW1. Unfortunetly, the military didn't heed this warning and sent them in anyway. Many loves lost. Although your right they probably would be to slow however in space is another story as just about everything is slow up there. That's what I'm saying.

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you'll have to give a bit more info for those of us that aren't glued to a playstation............
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It's basically a free stand or walking Tank. Sort of a humanoid looking tank/tank with legs. It although at first it could be unstable when used in the earths gravity.

However, I think it could help out in space exploration. It would give a height advantage and would be able to hold a lot.
On the bottom side, like I said before it could be unstable at first. It would be an easy target, plus it wouldn't really solve any go anywhere on any terrain ability that treaded tanks all ready has.
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Metal Gears...no. Great idea for games, but completely unfeasible in the real world. Wont happen in any of our lifetimes.
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Exactly what I am saying. I do think they are part of the future of military conflicts but way off in the future. Like another 100 years or more. Right now our technology would not allow them to work.
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Not the best example, but this company or guy in Japan has ALREADY made a moving bipeadal walker. Sure, it doesn't have real guns, but do you really think a civillian would have a 120mm gun on one arm and a rocket pod on the other? Still, if I could afford it, I would buy one, just for the sake of saying I owned one, that and the cockpit and the like look awsome.

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Well yeah. I meant like off in the future. There's no way it would we would be able to have a Walker at level for worthy for combat. It would require a special armor more than we have now we'd run out of resources most just by building the factory. Plus with all that armor comes a lot of weight and with more weight means more power needed just for the thing to move. On top of that we don't really have the fuel. Although they are testing Anti-matter. I just heard it some where not sure if it's true. Of course there's also the thought about the cost. A project like this could end up being more costly than the space shuttle. In the end if the government did try to build such a thing even when teamed up with other countries in the long run it just wouldn't be worth it.

About that walker video. What is this Star Wars? All though I can see a fun game of paint ball looming. However the thing look in credibly unstable.
Plus you could probably do better with a sherman tank than with that thing.
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I think if was well armoured, had lots of weapons, and a kilt it would scare the crap out of the bad guys...

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That thing can't possibly turn fast enough. Even so that thing look's about as scary as Hillary Clinton with the entire US military at her disposle. Although I wouldn't rip the kilt those who rip off a laddy's kilt is often killed on the spot.
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do they really offer many advantages over modern tanks?
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Well if we take Metal Gear RAY, for a start its amphibious.

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