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yeth
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 Posted on: 2004-04-15 08:38
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Not to nit-pick, I*m just trying to defend humanity.
The one man tank's tanker sure has his hands/claws full of things to do. As auto'loading can decrease persons inside the tank by 1, on the other hand the tanks of that race might be used differently and you speacies may have better hand/eye/brain/stuff coordination to spot targets, shoot, use radio, load and drive the vehicle by himself (by loading I mean ensuring that there are no amfunctions in the loading process, because if there were then the tank would be useless until the one man crew can repair it). It might be better to have two man crew. Jsut insure survivability and combat effectiveness.
And with your nuclear strikes, you might want to consider the effects it will have on the flora and fauna (yes strange word, took me sometime to know what they mean, but they fit perfectly in this) Because anything that isn't immune to radiation will get severe mutations, scknesses and probably die eventually.
Then there's the nuclear winter It will have severe effects on the nature. The problem is that using nuclear weapons on massive scale is same like falling a domino block, you might fall only one, but then it falls another and the another another and so on. Many effects are linked in that way.
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Crazy Alien Lord
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Posted on: 2004-04-15 10:54
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also. for your electricuting sword. an idea might be that you have somesort of batery pack in the handle of the sword. instead of using magic. but its your fic. you are the author. and the ultimate choices are always yours.
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Razortech Xeno ...
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Posted on: 2004-04-15 11:47
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The tanks ar mostly automated so it tells the driver/gunner where the enemy is and as for controling they do it with two separat joy sticks, one for the main body the other for the turret. The driver is usualy extreamly trained to use it. The tanks ar also fast, they would easaly drive surcles around an abrhams. but the only flaw is it's high heat signitur and it easaly shows on radar, but it has more advantiges than disadvantiges. As for the swords, batterys don't recharge them selves in the feild, mana does.
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Posted on: 2004-04-20 18:42
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When I ment high heat I mean when firing. Another thing is the ammo is caseless so the rounds don't need to be removed.
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hardkoreUSMC
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Posted on: 2004-04-23 23:08
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The US actually has self loading tanks. The shells are stored in a magazine. Therefore they probably are no larger than 155mm. Chances are they're smaller. It has an auto-eject system too. The theory of unmanned vehicles is becoming more of a reality in today's modern warfare. Look at the aircraft (unmanned drone spy planes.)
Personally, I wouldn't trade 1 dollar for a fully automated tank. NOTHING BEATS WELL TRAINED/ HIGHLY MOTIVATED CREWS.
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yeth
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Posted on: 2004-04-24 05:20
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Most countries nowadays have self-loading tanks, it usually reduces the crew by one. The shells, if you mean abrams, are about 120mm.
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Razortech Xeno ...
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Posted on: 2004-04-24 17:21
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The abrehams still has a loader, and they have to take the shell out by hand. Casless ammo means the shell itself is the propelant, this means the shell is used up at detonation and the chamber can be loaded more quickly with out the need to be empted and it also means the shells have a slight more power because of all the propelant. Also the shells in the tank in question have a secondary charge that goes off when the shell reaches the midle of the berrel.
from RT Dragon Commando: I did a project on the m1a1 abrehams M.B.T the info that my bro gave is correct and the tank has a crew that consists of : A driver, a loader , a guner,
a spotter, and a tank commander.
the abrehams has: 120mm smoth bore main gun, a coaxial meshinegun and two other meshinguns. (one for the commander and one for the spotter)
there are guns with auto loading mechanics but those guns are on ships and the shell egects out the bottome of the gun and into a "catch pan". the auto loader uses a chain driven clip system the shells sit in a container and are picked up by the chain. the expended shells are either repacked and refinished or stored untill the ship comes to port. (the repackingrefinicsing makes more sence becaus that means you don't need to carry 4000 shells just the propelant and the projectiles so the shell can be rebuilt.) The auto loaders for tanks are in development at the moment and have bean tested over and over.
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hardkoreUSMC
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Posted on: 2004-04-24 23:14
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I saw a special on the M1 today on the History Channel.
It's got three .50cal Brownings.
They wouldn't get me to pilot an automatic loader. If it malfunctions, then your SOL. If the loader dies, then another tanker can take his place and continue the fight.
Ever thought of mounting a couple of huge vulcan cannons on some tanks. As an anti-personel vehicle.
What I can't understand, is why they banned flamethrowers.
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TIKI
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Posted on: 2004-04-25 03:26
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Maybe they are higly flameable when a tank gets hit!?
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yeth
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Posted on: 2004-04-25 06:29
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Small guns odn't affect it that much as the tanks are inside the tank and if something is powerful enough to get inside the tank, well then the tank is fucked up anyway.
I'm not sure, but I believe it is for the fact that they are "inhumane" just like mines.... Boy aren't I glad that Finland didn't stop using mines, I mean c'mon, they are defensive weapons, they wouldn't be deployed against civilians nor like in kosovo or other civil wars. And the fact that I couldn't care less about the enemys humanity if they ever attacked here.
The way I see it, the moment they set their foot on this soil with the inent of war, they have lost their humanity in my eyes.
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Razortech Xeno ...
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Posted on: 2004-04-25 21:54
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Now back to the Lizards abilitys, oh and i finaly came up with a name for them, during the prosess I tride to remember the name i gave them but always forgot but I finaly got one that I can easaly remember but please tell me if you heard this before because i think i have and just forgot where it's from. there name is the Durrazzel. Now to there abilitys the one I think you'll be interestid in is there ability to breath under water for short pierods of time, up to Nine hours before the lack of oxigen starts to take a toll on them. If you think nine hours is not short I've created things that can breath for a few days, I didn't make them able to breath forever because ther only have normal lungs well not exacly normal but you get the idea. Another is that if one has higher mana than the other the one with the higher mana can basicly rase the level of the other to it's own level but it has to be male with female or the other way around because of the way it's done, which I will not explane on the forums.
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Posted on: 2004-04-25 21:57
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I have to say sorry to Robert because I practicly comendered his thread.
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Posted on: 2004-04-25 22:01
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Flame throwers were baned because of the tank on the troopers back is an easy target for snipers and if you hit one it will probably kill a cauple dozen other troops with the pore guy who blows into giblets.
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TIKI
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Posted on: 2004-04-26 17:17
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If you want info on guns look for the weapons locker on Ebay, I use it when I need to know things for my novel.
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yeth
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Posted on: 2004-04-27 08:56
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Ugh, I thought you meant a flamethrower tank, not the fuel containing tank 
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Da'Yeyinde
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 Posted on: 2004-04-27 09:47
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I personally like the Jane's Handbooks. They have tons of info great pictures and are updated for all the international weapons for every country.
Combat Fleets of the World, Modern weapons..
Those books are also cataloges for countries to peruse to say.. Well this country has them.. And they are not that expensive!!
LOL
Just my opinion,
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TIKI
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Posted on: 2004-04-27 10:40
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I found the weapons locker on ebay but it ships only in the united states and well i live in Estonia! 
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Posted on: 2004-04-26 09:10
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