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Although its worth noting that cockroaches do not get sick, and they are almost immune to a nuclear fallout and subsequent radiation. - Tak |
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2007-11-06, 15:35 | Link #66 |
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It doesn't have to be living. If we can achieve it to mimic certain aspects of life, then maybe we'd have something more practical.
As for steel vs. cells, I think the primary subject matter in question is that steel is inflexible, something that could be fixed through artificial biological materials. - Tak |
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Defense Technology Symposium 2007 Ascii.jp and CNET Japan got some photos of the unveiling of the Advanced Personal Equipment System at the Defense Technology Symposium held today. Caaaaaaan't say I'm too surprised. I may have been one of the first people to go "WTF??!!", but I didn't really expect a Gundam to come from this. It was still a horrible joke to play on the otaku community, nonetheless.
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2007-11-07, 22:11 | Link #70 |
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Pfft, see, told ya'll shouldn't be all worked up by this.
As for our poor otaku friends overseas? I pity for them. Would be far less surprising if some of them committed suicide after realizing what project Gundam is. - Tak |
2007-11-08, 21:02 | Link #71 |
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I probably should've posted this in the "Gundam in real life combat" thread, but I just thought about something...
Say you have a mobile suit like a GM Sniper, a suit designed to be used from long distances, wielding a weapon like a long range beam rifle, or even a modern variant of the Magella Top Cannon. The magella top cannon is just the main gun on a Magella tank refitted to be held by a MS, so say we took a modern tank, did the same to it's gun, and put it on a MS. Do you think it would add a bit of functionality to the suit? Also, don't respond with the basic reply of "Just keep the gun on the tank". Furthermore, what do you think about Guntanks being in combat? Maybe shrink it down a bit, but keep the two cannons, and the two arm machine gun/rocket/missile launcher things. Just a couple of thoughts I'd throw out there.
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2007-11-10, 21:59 | Link #73 |
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really the idea is in the testing stages so if there were a problem it would be found and addressed, or the project would be put in the nation's "back pocket"
really putting too many weapons on a tank and stacking them like on the t35, and the M3 medium tank "lee" or "Grant" really affects the mobility of the weapons on the frame, therefore the tank wouldn't be able to use all its weapons to attack a large group of targets unless it were facing the target (t35) but if the lee and grant's configurations were used, in order to have a good shot with the 75mm gun the tank would have to move. in the t35 the want to add more guns left less room for larger weapons therefore it had an underpowered 45mm gun (weak for its time). This is why these tanks were phased out they couldn't engage multiple targets much more effectively than their single weapon counterparts. and even when the largest gunned member of this tank family the char 2c is compared it was a slow moving large target, great for dive bombers to get target practice on. |
2007-11-14, 22:48 | Link #75 |
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The creation of mobile suits in Gundam made sense in the scheme of that world. Colony repair craft -> humanoid robots for war. If we were to create something like that in reality we would need the basic concept of a humaniod mechanical frame for a human to operate. From there we can go two separate ways; Build it up or build it down.
Building Up would be making the frame into something like a MS ect... and we'd need some pretty advanced tech to make that feasible. Any large robot would have to be very fast, very durable, and very precise to out class any simpler current machine. As much as I'd love to see the world wage war on a G Gundam level, Building up will make showpiece mecha like Dai-Guard (minus the Heterodynes ;D) Building Down would be turning equipment like a combat frame into an enhanced soldier. This creates cyborgs ect... The most realistic example of this I can think of is Master Chief from Halo. The book series even mentions that Chief's Mjolnir armor descended from bulky mechanical frames. In 50~100 years, I think I can safely say the Spartan to Gundam ratio would highly favor the guys in green. |
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The most likely humanoid designs to be fielded in combat are probably going to be powered armor, which would in turn be an evolution of infantry armor kits.
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2007-11-15, 00:13 | Link #77 |
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I dunno, legs are good for climbing and stuff! Granted, they're definitely not the most efficient at anything other than climbing :O
I guess another big problem with Gundams having legs is that the bigger something is, the more mass it'll have, and therefore the bigger the legs would proportionally have to be to support something of that mass. The Zeon mobile suits actually look like they might stand though! |
2007-11-15, 23:21 | Link #78 |
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I still dunno, bipedal legs should be able to boast a few advantages over treads. I would think legs would have a greater agility than treads, being able to sidestep, turn quickly, and the possibility of jumping (actual jumping, not boosters). Impractical in the middle of a warzone but effective in a proper situation. (We could also go the Aestavalis route where we have treads *on* the legs and thus have the best of both lol).
For a practical rl purpose I could see a small sized MS being used in combat as an urban suppression unit. Fly a carrier over a city, drop ms, and then it goes to town. Immune to small arms fire and agile enough to step over cars/rubble, it could capture and hold a target point quickly, breaking down any resistance from within. A squad of soldiers in Powered armor, deployed in the same situation, aren't quite as secure as an armored machine. Being overwhelmed, crushed under falling debris/building, detoured by obstructions, ect.. |
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The only conclusion I've ever worked out is that legged mechs are useful only if your enemies have pyramid shaped forts or behind giant staircases, and the base is full of idiots who gawk at the giant robot instead of shooting at it. That's about all I've ever come up with, along with possible intimidation tactics. Other than that, you've got bupkis.
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