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JazzLizard — Vulpesant APCRV
Published: 2010-03-06 23:45:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 3678; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 269
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The Vulpesant and Venrock armies both need to recover vehicles lost or damaged in the field, and transport troops. The Vulpesants combined their need for a troop transport and recovery vehicle into one heavily armored package. This tank is not only an APC capable of carrying 12 fully armed soldiers, but also a crane-carrier and engineering vehicle. It is armed with three heavy machine guns, a high-velocity autocannon and a four-lob main cannon. It is also equipped with a plow for engineering and mine-clearing work, and a crane capable of towing any vehicle in the Vulpesant arsenal.The vehicle is considered a medium tank due to its lack of heavy weaponry, but is armored enough to operate on the front lines supporting friendly forces. Its crew spaces can also be refitted to carry ammo, fuel or supplies for longer endurance missions.
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Much like the early tanks of WWI, the concept of mobilizing a pill-box definitely shows here, too... Except this pillbox has a crane.
I'm seeing a bit of a blind-spot issue here, though. From the rear corners, near the vents, it looks as though foot-troops could advance below and behind the line of fire, the tread itself blocking the rear-mounted gun and the tread-hoods blocking the turret.
Obviously, if it were stationary, it would have a compliment of soldiers positioned near-by, but it's worth mentioning all the same. I wonder if there are other attachments for the plow-area, following along the mine-sweeping tanks of WWII and such?
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Yeah, there are a few blind spots, but it would be getting into them that would be tricky. As you stated and was common practice, this vehicle wouldn't be deployed without an escort or three.
And yes, there are a few more attachments; a brush cutter, snow-plow and even a massive shape-charge frame to blast through walls and fortifications.
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"OH YEAH!" /Kool-Aid man
Awesome.
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Hmmm, I might code-name the breaching charge the "KAM Charge"...
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I see you using the "WW1 tank treads design"......
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Profile you mean? I've always loved the early tank designs.
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why yes......
the way the treads are shaped.....and it's overall design is like the first tanks of WW1.......
it was meant to climb up hills and overcome trenches.....
but when trench warfare became obsolete......so did the tank design.......
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This design has sufficient suspension to allow it to navigate more obstacles than just trenches and hills, though. That's why its design isn't obsolete, WW1 tanks of this kind barely had suspension, which means if they tried to climb over an obstacle, their treads would have tiny points of contact causing them to sink and get caught up easily; suspension rectifies that.
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