How would you go about protecting a real-life mech from

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Send these guys out first.

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Make it fly

Carry replacement legs

>>15830112
Redundancy and ablative armor?

U shaped hulls

>>15830532
Wouldn't a V shape work better?

>>15830181
>>15830492
>>15830509

All of these at once. Make it as resilient as possible so as to avoid damage, give it flight capabilities to escape explosions, and make it modular like the Victory for easy replacement of limbs and things.

>>15830989
Which is very costly. Goodluck for the funding of your expensive mecha suits.

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>>15830112
Centipede mecha

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>>15830112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic&pbjreload=10

build something indestructible

>>15830112
don't step on it or not heading to the obvious trap.

>>15830112
jump above them duh

Give the mechs giant rakes.

>>15831063
I should try that at my local minefield.

>>15831246

This. Or a mine flail giant push lawnmower

More armor

>>15830989
Wont work thanks to physics plus replacement legs cant be attached like tracks

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>>15831246
>>15831697

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Go full Xabungle- ridiculous attachments.

Give the mecha the equivalent of Moon Shoes. Cheap, easily replaced foot attachments that raise the robot's foot high enough off the ground to void or lessen explosive damage.

If you're afraid of minefields destroying the shoes completely, simply make the shoes mine plows instead of moon shoes, and have the robot drag its feet around the minefield in question. Bam, done.

Alternatively just TOBE.

>>15830112
By stepping in the right places

>>15831924
Seriously this. What does a mecha have to fear about IEDs? They're devastating to vehicles because a vehicle's vital parts are all so close to the ground whereas a robots most important bits are all above the thigh. Just give it better shoes and send a few sweeper drones in ahead and you're set. Heightlets, when will they learn?

>>15831974
Obviously explosive devices designed to wreck mecha won't be the same as your typical IED. Especially if it were designed by an enemy army and not just guerrillas.

>>15831974
If it does enough damage to the legs it can cause the mech to fall which may injure or kill it's crew. If the mech has many legs that are far enough apart it may be able to restabilize itself though.
Also mechs are still just as vulnerable to efps.

>>15831974
IED's aren't dollar store firecrackers, buddy. It won't matter if your mech has its vitals a few feet higher than a normal vehicle, its still gonna be damaged beyond repair.

>>15831974
>What does a mecha have to fear about IEDs?
>Just give it better shoes
How does it feel being you? This will tell me how it feels to be retarded.

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>>15832323
>just put on new shoes bro

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>>15832335
>its okay bro a mech has its vitals all above the thigh bro

>>15832335
>>15832337
The legs are just for show.

>>15832337
>yeah bro if you blow a human leg it's okay because all the vitals are in the chest and head
>just hop away man and put on your new shoes

>>15832323
>walking down the street
>step on a leaf
>it shoots up 1-2 feet and lifts my leg
>stumble, almost trip
wew

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>>15832343
I don't get it.

>>15832034
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>>15832075
>>15832323
Lol, what are any of you even trying to say? Especially with that last image, the blast radius is no more than 5 meters or so, and your typical mecha is at least 10 meters, if not taller. Just give it some cheap meshy layered platform shoes and it would be able to dance by any IED.

Do none of you know why IEDs are so deadly in recent wars? Half the time it's because they are placed along routes that are so well traveled that there's bound to be a vehicle that will pass by eventually. Mecha won't be travelling along roads for the most part, unless they're on a vehicle, being carried.

>>15832348
>walking down the street
>step on leaf
>it blows off my leg entirely
>fall over and take even more damage from fall and self concussive dmg
ouch

ftfy

>>15832347
There's no reason why damage to a leg should cause the mech to explode like massive blood loss kills a human, even if the limb itself is still functional.

This is a fucking robot. It's metal. We can put the important or unimportant bits where we want. We can make shit more or less robust as needed. If mines are a problem, we make the legs resistant to mines, either passively (through putting non-essential shit there, using crumple zones or blast-deflecting slopes) or actively (bullshit magnetic bwoo-bwoo-bwoos whenever you step that blows up mines nearby or whatever the fuck).

>>15832359
The fucking CONCRETE is still in massive chunks. You're overestimating the damage it does to a giant death robot's superalloy leg.

>>15830112

Same way you protect tanks against IEDs

Don't deploy them in theatres where they're used.

For real, if you're fighting an enemy that seriously uses IEDs, you're fighting an enemy where heavy armor is over kill.

>>15832363
why don't you just make the tank out of superalloy? that why you won't have to waste time and money on creating entirely new logistical lines and training programs,

>>15832379
I mean, tanks already mostly ignore IEDs, it was lighter vehicles that had a big problem with them. Then we slapped MRAP on them and put some extra underarmor on actual tanks and the problem was solved.

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>All this discussion on buried IEDs
Literally, no one does that anymore. Too easily defeated/avoided/fail-to-detonate. It's all about VBIEDs now. New Hotness.

>>15832389
Because the superalloy structure of your tank is fine, but the fleshbags inside just got turned into jelly. Thankfully, your mecha pilot is 30 feet in the air slamming dramamine so he doesn't barf from his cockpit sway.

>>15832360
what kind of retardation is this lmao
a mecha is useless if its legs are beyond fucked up, this is known as a mobility kill, because you've essentially killed the target by immobilizing it. and yes, if a blast can toss an MRAP like a tonka toy, it will render your legs beyond fucked up.

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>>15832394

>>15832397
If someone kicks a baby, it goes flying and is seriously injured.
If someone kicks my shin, I get a bruise.

I'm the giant robot, the little baby is the MRAP. I don't care about your IED.

>>15832394
>implying my mech wouldn't rollerskate away from that thing

>>15832403
>implying my mech wouldn't have seen this bitch coming as it peered over the buildings because it's fucking tall, landed its shot, and lifted up its leg to allow the vehicle to zoom past and crash into a wall while I rollerskate backwards

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>>15832394
Nah, they still buried/hidden IEDs a bunch
In Mosul, they had dozens of booby traps for every street in the last sectors which is part of the reason why it took so long to clear. Once IS completely loses ground and is forced back into a hidden insurgent role, there will be more mine-like IED attacks again

>>15832360
You're such a moron. That explosive would end a robot. The leg would be so damaged that you would need to replace it. Wow, your tin man can't move. Game over. Hundreds of millions down the drain.

And another thing, your retarded robot can be taken down by any muslim with a rocket launcher.

>>15830112
Ground penetrating radar.

Speaking of which, why aren't they standard equipment for vehicles in IED prevalent zones?

Mount one on the vanguard vehicle in a convoy or any vehicle that has to drive outside safe routes. No IED can touch them.

This one moron thinking mecha are near invincible is absolutely retarded. He HAS to be trolling.

Look at this bullshit >>15832409
Real life is not like your Gundam shows

>>15832416
I'm pretty sure they are.

>>15832413
My robot has mine-resistant legs and rocket launcher-resistant armor, as well as active defense systems to blast incoming projectiles out of the air, and charged plating to slag any kinetic penetrator fired from too close a range to stop.

>>15832416
I don't know. I guess every soldier in every military across the entire globe is brain dead. You should really tell them about your unbeatable strats. You could totally save lives, bro. You're a modern day Hannibal.

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>>15832405
No.

>>15832420
Gundams don't rollerskate, retard, that's ATs. And a Gundam would just go
>lol lunar titanium

You can't even get your cartoons straight, why should anyone trust you about actual physics? Fuck off.

>>15830112

Make it out of material that makes it take no damage from them or anything else other than the pilots designated rival.

>>15832426
>implying the soldiers have any say in this
It's the military which refuses to spend the cash on protecting people from this stuff. We could armor the shit out of everything and just throw enough gas everywhere to make it work, but we don't, because it's more expensive than a few dead soldiers.

Remember how we sent everyone into those fucking urban warzones without actual armor and their goddamn relatives had to buy them AR plates and mail them to Dirtghanistan? The military looks at "mine-foiling ground-penetrating radar for every truck" and says, eh, is this going to cost more than training another five guys? Yes? Fuck it.

>anons arguing against the practicability of mecha are steeped in realism
>the guy arguing about how mecha > everything on the battle is steeped in delusion
And so the argument will never end.

>>15832429
says the guy who thinks a mech can just sidestep a fucking IED and survive. hey jackass, what's blast overpressure going to do to the undoubtedly fragile and complicated servomotors that enable your walking deth musheen to move?
>>15832435
this is so far beyond reality, its almost sad.

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>>15832394

>VBIED
>New Hotness

Old and busted

Drones are new hotness

>>15832437
Mecha isn't better than everything. HELs, weapon satellites, and drill tanks are way better than mecha, obviously. But no one here's talking about drill tanks. It's just a bunch of Abrams fags.

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>>15832448
Why stop there

>>15832448
A drone with a grenade is a VBIED you dummy.

>>15832409
What if the VBIED is a mech, too?

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>>15832465

>>15832465
Transform into Gerwalk mode and blast off, hoping it doesn't have a flying transformation as well.

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>all this trite shit arguing between realismfags and other fags

What a pointless argument. You people have clearly never watched Xabungle. When I say "Moon shoes" I mean fucking Moon Shoes, springy elastic and all.

Imagine a robot. Got it? Good. Now it has Moon Shoes. There, done. Now stop arguing on a Bhutanese tapestry forum about the viability of fantasy cartoon robots.

>>15832483
Right, but how many of these moonshoes do you have on hand, assuming the enemy only places IEDs of such weak strength that they only take out the feet?

kek the mech is going to punch the IED/VBIED/Tank/Jet/Nuke whatever shit you have. Conventional weaponry has no change against a giant deth masheen human rowboat. Blow off a leg? Even if you ever got that far, all the vitals are in teh chest. Check, m8.

>>15832491
omg u idiot dont be such a ridiculous retard, mechs cant even stand up w/o immediately exploding and taking out all of their designers and anyone who ever thought they were cool

its literally impossibel to make a metal box taller than 7 feet, lrn2squarecubelaw faggot

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>>15832490
You can get them for thirty bucks on amazon, do the math.

I mean seriously, damn. Is this some kind of stealth realismfag thread? Is that the mistake I made here? Are people seriously trying to discuss the practicality of fictional anime robots?

>>15832523
Yes.

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>>15832530
Disappointing.

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>>15832543
What's worse is they argue for realism without having an actual understanding of physics or technological progress.

Smart enough to know there's a problem, but too stupid to know those problems are solved or solveable.

>>15832483
>You people have clearly never watched Xabungle

What the fuck is a zabungle?

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>>15832557

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>>15832565

>Zeta below MSG
>L-Gaim above average
>Turn A not the highest

>>15832570
>I didn't read the filename and have no idea what I'm talking about
>>frogposting
I'm not even that guy.
Thread's over, everyone go home.

>>15832548
The irony of this post is palpable.

>>15832570
>biorhythm
That's not quality, that's whether Tomino is happy or depressed.

>>15832576

You though L-Gaim was aight?

>>15832585
Why would you reply without reading the filename

>>15832565
Ideon doesn't strike me as his most depressed work

>>15832588

Why would you think L-Gaim was worth watching?

>>15832447
>this is so far beyond reality, it's almost sad
First of all: learn how to use punctuation.
Second : that's the to type of response people give when they're backed into a corner and village no counter argument. You're delusional as fuck if you actually think the military gives a shit about soldiers. It's objective fact that they'd rather send in some suicide squad rather than pay a few extra bucks to provide adequate protection for them.

>>15832581
>I-I don't have anything to say so I'm just gonna pretend to be smug and condescending. T-that'll show them who won the argument !

>>15831006
remember the gundam?
yeah, that one was also costly

>>15832756
>>15832766

>I g-g-got the last p-post, so I w-win

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>Mecha sized bounding mines
jesus christ how horrible

>>15832997
Just ignore him like everyone else is doing.

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>>15832756
>It's objective fact that they'd rather send in some suicide squad rather than pay a few extra bucks to provide adequate protection for them.
So that must be why no US soldier has access to body armor, or ballistic helmets, or ear protection, or eye protection, or up-armored vehicles.

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>>15832465

>>15830112
Minovsky craft system to lift it well above jumping mine range/ heavy underside armor

>>15830112
Bombard the minefield just like the Russians did in WW2.

>>15833393
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/26/lacking-basic-gear-special-operators-stuck-buying-own-equipment.html

>>15832463
Anon, what does IED stand for?

>>15833962
Special Forces do what the fuck they want and spend their money on what they want. They literally never use standard-issue stuff. Not even nametapes.

>>15830112
AT field