Robotic Weapons Platforms

>>30022730
> major drawbacks
80 tons with small surface area for feet, will sink into earth pretty much anyware. also if it falls, how the fuck do you get it back up

>>30022730
please take your butchered macross designs back to /m/ please.

>>30022760
In that case, would a smaller human sized version work?

>>30022730
LEEEEEEEEEGSSSS!

>>30022730
robotic weapon platforms are a thing. Even estonians have made them

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Because tanks exist.

>>30022730
I wondered this awhile back. Looked it up and found an incredible article talking about the Jaegers from the movie Pacific Rim.

io9 . gizmodo . com /5925549/ could-we-actually-build-a-robot-the-size-of-pacific-rims-massive-jaegers

Remove all the spaces.

>>30022769
Calm down fatty it was just a random google image search for a mechwarrior..

>>30022780
aren't there already human sized weapon platforms? idk how well they work

>>30022730
>Timber Wolf
MAD CAT
TRASHBORN GO IN THE TRASH

>>30022730
Legged tanks are "rule of cool"
Looks neat but in reality completely stupid. Timber wolf weighs 75 tons IIRC, how the fuck is the small surface area of those feet going to spread the load without sinking in on any surface that isn't hard?

>>30022730
I wondered this same thing awhile back. I don't want to spend the time trying to figure out how to post a link but Google for pacific rim robots possible io9 and you'll find a great article talking about why they are not possible.

>>30022819
The mad cat seems like the most realistic of these if they were to exist.

>>30022835
Literally no BT designs are realistic by virtue of them being giant bipedal war machines.

>>30022730
>More complex than a tank
>Not as good as a tank
>Not as robust as a tank
>Less capable than a tank
>Less operational range than a tank because no viable batteries and less room for fuel
>Far more vulnerable operator than a tank
>Less armor than a tank
>We already have tanks
>Real life isn't a shitty anime

>>30022819
You inner sphere faggots gonna learn today

>>30022830
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5925549/could-we-actually-build-a-robot-the-size-of-pacific-rims-massive-jaegers

This?

Btw those pacific rim robots were fucking retarded famalam.

>>30022851
I preferred playing inner sphere so I didn't have to worry as much about heat management. The weapons were heavier but better imo.

>>30022855
Pretty sure they weren't pretending to be anything else other than big stupid kaiju bashers.

>>30022780
yeah, they are called grunts, usually armed m4, grenades, sometimes rockets or some other shit, really versatile

>>30022870
It was a cringey movie to say the least.

>>30022884
It wasn't.

BT is cringey because it pretends to be realistic.
WH40K is cringey because of the fanbase.
PacRim is just some fun summer popcorn movie about big robots punching aliens with cargo ships.

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>>30022823
>how the fuck is the small surface area of those feet going to spread the load without sinking in on any surface that isn't hard?

>>30022884
Yeah it was. That main dude was treating that Asian chick like a freaking child the whole time. I was ready to dick punch him.

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ryoken ii seems like one of the more realistic mechs

>>30022916
I'd also never... do whatever the heck they called it when they shared memories to control the Jaeger with anyone, ever.

There is some shit I've thought about that should never be shared with other humans.

>>30022939
I think it was just sharing memories and not thoughts. Not like that's any worse.

>>30022851
ONE TUKAYYID WASN'T ENOUGH
GAS THE CLANS SPACE WAR NOW

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This seems like a better idea. You would think we would have all of this stuff by now.

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since it's established that mecha as we know it are impractical for war

post robutt

>>30022780
What, like powered armor or drone?

We've got the latter and are working on the former.

>>30023079
>Dick Gattling

Seriously? I though you were trying, guys.

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Wow they actually made one.

http://suidobashijuko.jp/

https://youtu.be/2iZ0WuNvHr8

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>>30023121
>fires 6000 bb's a minute

>>30022769
western trash isn't /m/

>>30023026

REMOVE SPHERE

Clan invasion best day of my life!

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Extremely slow many-leg designs are probably the best way to go for unmanned ground vehicles. I don't see walkers being useful in any other way.

>>30022819
>tubebaby still mad a about Tukayyid

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>>30022884
It was objectively a pretty bad movie with a stupid, predictable plot and shitty acting.

That being said, nobody went in expecting that. It was advertised as an hour and a half of giant robots punching giant monsters, and the plot didn't get in the way of the mindless entertainment.

>>30025976
This kinda looks like chrome hounds. What is it?

>>30022915
I RECOGNIZE THIS TERRAIN

>>30026093

MAV, it's based on Chrome Hounds

>>30026120
Holy shit that's MAV? It used to look like dogshit

>>30026118
As soon as I saw it I was like, wait crysis didn't have mechs

>>30022730
because auto balance is a bitch and we need to get that down first

>>30026136

It's in beta and looks a lot better now. Most of the maps are still the alpha placeholders, but the parts models, effects, and animations are way better.

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>>30022730
>unless there are some major drawbacks?
Bingo. Legs are needlessly complex and have negligible benefit (if there's any at all). Just look at how much work it's taking to get bipedal machines working even with all the advanced technology today.