Could this thing realistically work? The world is talking about

Fuck no it couldn't. Modern robotics are fucking kilometres away from jap space magic.

>>386646859
God dammit. Maybe rex? We got railguns. Ray is fucking magic but rex doesn't seem like the worst thing, except the VR cockpit.

>>386646675
>the world is talking about nukes
Yeah for over half a century

>>386647009
It's really revalent right now cause of the norks

>>386647009
Burgerland's president is rapidly making nukes more relevant right now, read the news.

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No, the GOTTA SPEED UP requirement for its laucn capabilities basically limits it too much.

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>>386646675
>Could this thing realistically work?
I wonder?

The concept of a mobile mecha nuke launcher is retarded anyway, I love mecha but there's no reason to put a missile launcher on legs. If you want mobile nukes then use a submarine.

>>386647092
And before that it was the Iraqis, Pakistanis and the Soviets.

>>386647261
I don't read fake news

>>386647490
le ebin /pol/ meme.

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>he doesn't know

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>>386647490
>I don't read fake news
Enjoy the good old days of 9/11, burger.

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>>386647484
IIRC MG KODOQUE basically had Stealth has its justification was a while since i played AC!D but i think it was supposed to function as a "Stealth Sub, but on land "since its huge ass armor shielded it from detection or some shit.

>>386646675
No, Archemedes screws will skid moving you fuck all on pretty much any surface except dirt.

Metal...gear?

>>386646675
Mobile nuke launcher? or what is that?
submarines can carry nukes by the way

>>386646675
>mechs
no, you underage faggot.

>>386647863
It's called the shagohod. A mobile all terrain vehicle capable of launching a ICBM for 6000 miles.

>>386647008
Mechs are a retarded concept. Even if we had the technology to build REX (debatable) we wouldn't.

>>386647698
>No, Archemedes screws will skid moving you fuck all on pretty much any surface except dirt.
And snow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRqmthe9m2k

>>386646675
Yes it can, but no it's not efficient.

>>386647971
desu REX had a pretty good justification. It's kinda hard to have any credibility in denying you launched a nuke when everyone saw it come from inside your borders.

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>>386646675
>called shagohod, is on screws

Why?

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>>386647912
To be fair, Shaggy is a Tank, not a mech.

>>386647971
Well, Ex is shitty, but it isn't like the US isn't actually developing robots, not giant ones, but the world has been in a /m/-state for over a good decade now.

And giant walkers do exist if you are autistic enough to build one or buy one.

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>>386647484
The concept of a mobile mecha anything is retarded.
>Legs are a natural vulnerability that take it out immediately
>Higher displayed area = more hits
>more mass on lower ground surface will most likely destroy roads and render any uneven ground a possible slip or legs burying into it

Treads>everything else>shit>legs

>>386647947
So in other words, it has the same range and payload of a B2 bomber but it can't fly and has no stealth capabilities.

one word:

SUBS

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>>386648005
God damn it actually fucking works. All this time since I've played the game it seemed like the stupidest fucking idea to put drill things on the bottom of the vehicle but holy it's actually doable. It's like a funky tank. Crazy fucking Russians god damn.

>>386648039
>desu REX had a pretty good justification
It didn't. If anything, a two-legged platform has LESS all-terrain capabilities than a wheeled one, not more, because of the ground pressure. The entire concept of Rex being a mech was fucking retarded, though the concept of a land-based mobile nuke platform is sound by itself and has already been executed in practice >>386647423

>>386646675
Short answer : No.
Long answer : Fuck no.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB_a5R6QjWE
>he has no idea

>>386648304
You fucking retards always moaning about muh ground pressure always assume every fucking landscape is mud.

>>386647680
Not a burger.

Again, I don't read fake news.

>>386648513
Oh good, the autism brigade is back to play "well in my scenario my magical mecha can do anything I want so I win."

>>386648513
If it won't have the capability of going through mud, it's not all-terrain. If it's not going to go through mud ever, there's no reason for it not to use wheeled locomotion.

>>386648205
If you really feel that way, why not replace your legs with treads?

>>386647008

DARPA could make a mech but it would be a piece of shit in real life. Signit jokes about this in MGS3.

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>>386648205
Perhaps military, but in construction, mining and logging there are situations where LEGS are more adventurous then threads, though it really is a question of what are the machine gonne be working gonna be in.

>>386647585
It's a shame the concept of shnekohod was ditched. They looked awesome.

>>386648650

Because human beings already made all our shit work for our body. Giant mechs aren't going to be taking staircases so they have no need for legs.

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Remember kids, everytime anon says it would be cool to have a mech with lots of joints and moving parts engineers start crying

>b-but it would be co-

ANKLES

A WEAPONS PLATFORM WITH ANKLES

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>386648717
The TimberJack was given legs only because it helped reduce the environmental impact of logging by reducing the need to clear cut roads for heavy trucks through forests, and reduce drag paths. It could walk in, harvest designated trees, and walk them back to a truck park.

>>386646675
It COULD work. Its nothing more then a mobile take with a Missile Launcher and some arms to dig in for stability.

The thing is a regular missle truck would be better

>>386648271
pretty much, yes. but in the games universe it was around 30 years earlier.

It just used a rocket booster to catapult the missile at launch, like a jet off a carrier, giving it extra range

Yes you could make it.
Yes you could get it move.
No you could not get it moving anywhere near how fast they said it was going in game (300 fucking mph). It would probably move even slower than a regular tank.

>>386648513
Ground pressure is important even in non mud areas you fucking twit. Just for starters you have to make sure your vehicle doesn't damage the fucking roads they travel on as well, because for civilised nations that give a shit it's a fucking pain in the ass to move them around if they did. Hell there's even some existing tanks that need rubber pads on each individual tread (or rubber treads) in urban areas or they'll damage the roads, what are you going to do with your faggot mecha, make two huge rubber pads that can withstand the weight and pressure exerted by the whole stupid fucking thing, which even then will probably wear down faster due to the way they move?

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>>386647971
Say it to my face motherfucker and see what happens

>>386648717
>there are situations where LEGS are more adventurous then threads
Tanks were never meant to go on adventures.

In all seriousness though even when they do use legs it's always 4 or more, never 2. It just isn't stable enough, and even if they do get the technology required for stabilisation, why spend so much on that when more legs could attain that stability for much cheaper?

>>386649278
they're building a new one because the old one is being sent to best korea?

>>386649173
We'll give the mech legs. Then we'll give the logistics vehicle legs. The infantry support already have legs so that will save us money. Then we'll only deploy to countries that we don't care about damaging the infrastructure because we can then sell road rebuilding contracts to the highest bidder after the war.

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With the range ICBMs have, what's the point of moving them across land where they're slow and exposed?

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>>386647423

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>>386649459
No attack squid on land.

>>386649142
What if you attached rockets to it? Like in the game.

>>386647585

I have to wonder how many abandoned military vehicles are just out rusting somewhere in the middle of the Eastern European/Russian wilderness.

>>386649142
The 300 mph bit made me realize it wouldn't work. DESU I made this thread cause I beat mgs3 yesterday and wanted to bait you guys into talking about it. Now you guys are fighting about mech wheels or something.

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>>386648650
I'm on it brah.

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What'd you guys think of the leaked info for snake eater remake? Konami is actually doing something right for once.

>>386649729

Too bad that's from the pachinko/slots game.

>>386649694
>requiem chevalier
shieeeeet, i never could find the issues after 10 (or was it 11?), can you hit me up with them?

>>386649645
I don't think anyone else has played the game, since no one realizes that the main part of it was a fucking hovercraft with rockets stapped to it.

>>386648304
Except you can't smuggle that through a rocky mountain pass like REX which was the entire point. You aren't moving this shit through nice roads.

You transport it via trucks and the like until you get it to where you want it to cut loose. It's entire existence is supposed to be secret as fuck. And fortunately suspension of disbelief is a concept. Fuck off armchair engineers. I'm a theoretical physicist and the only thing I get pissy about is the assumption of the existence of dark matter in almost all sci-fi.

Because I'm a proponent of MOND theory.

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>>386649408
No, because they are making it, as a testbed for fully functioning 1:1 RX-78-2

>>386649453
That's not how it works, many stages in the process of manufacturing, testing, developing, training crew, and even deployment have to have significant presence in the home country itself. And it's nonsensical and highly wasteful to develop something with only foreign use in mind.

>Then we'll give the logistics vehicle legs
The combat vehicles themselves were one thing, this is completely pants on head retarded. Amplified further by the fact that for both, we already have things that work.

>>386647092
You do know they are baiting world news for like two decades about their nukes and never get everything done, right?

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>>386649628
Tens of thousands, probably a lot more. I remember an old article I read about a Russian military dump that had over a thousand old tanks and a single person dismantling them because the government didn't give enough of a shit to pay to scrap them properly. The Americans had all their scrapped B-52s lined up in neat rows out in a desert so the Russians could count them with their spy satellites so they knew the Americans weren't trying to put them back into service as part of one of the START treaties iirc.

>>386649834
>hovercraft
it was drills instead of conventional treads but it was still firmly on the ground

>>386650036
Before they had Jiang Zemin backing them, Xi Jimping doesn't like them because of their close ties to Jiang's faction in the CCP and they know it.

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>>386649015
Exactly the fact it "destroys" less when moving is a advantage since when logging you generally wanna get as much out of the area as possible.

>>386649379
Stability, technically the balancing technology for Bipeds exists and is developed (See: PetMan, ATLAS), but was still in its infancy when TimberJack was made, if i remember my timeline right anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

KOS-MOS Soon.

>>386649976
I had hoped that the name I used in my post would give away the fact I was being facetious. I'll leave it in the body of the text next time.

>>386648892
>muh realism

>>386646859
Its not even a mech. Its basically a giant drill ratte with a nuke launcher.

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>The whole point of REX is that it can sneak into unpredictable firing positions on its own

>Can't use roads because it would tear the shit out of them
>Can't use bridges because it's too heavy and/or too physically large
>Can't ford rivers because its legs would sink in the mud of the riverbed
>Can't climb mountains because accidentally stepping on anything other than solid rock could cause the mountain side to give way
>Can't travel through dense forests because too many trees would impede it's progress
>Can't travel through jungle because it would either get stuck in a bog or impeded by heavy vegetation
>Can't travel across ice flows because it would fall right through


But hey, just pray you don't run into any rivers, forests, or generally any terrain that isn't a salt flat and you'll be gold.

>>386649459
I think the proposed advantage Rex really has is launching via railgun to counter methods of missile detection, where the purpose of it walking is simply to get it close enough. I don't know shit though, so I don't know if you could just attach the railgun to a sub and have the range needed to hit a target from the ocean.

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>>386650192
That's basically exactly what happens in MGS4.

>>386648473
>>386648005
>I-it works guys!
>driver gets mashed to a pulp

>>386650039
Do you think it would be possible to start any of those or would they rusted/irradiated to shit?

Even if you scavenge parts from other tanks I wonder would it work?

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>>386649835
>I'm a theoretical physicist
You're not. You know how I know? Because you think REX is viable when REX's gimmick is based on launching a "stealth" nuke from its railgun with the nuke being invisible to modern ICBM early-warning systems, because there is no boost phase during which propellant is burnt and a lot of heat is generated, which could be picked up by satellite early warning systems that use infrared sensors. Had you actually studied physics beyond a few classes of high school, you would have known that electromagnetic circuits do not operate magically without generating heat and that the acceleration of a projectile along the rails of a railgun and in the atmosphere produces massive amounts of heat that would have been picked up by early warning satellite systems all the same, making the entire concept of a "stealth" missile moot.

TL;DR: the entire concept of REX is retarded, from start to finish. Also, stop lying on the internet.

>>386650528
Of course it's possible, but you'd need a lot of technical know how and probably a decent workshop.

>>386650528

I would imagine there are some usable parts in there somewhere, but those vehicles have been left out there exposed to the elements with no maintenance whatsoever for decades, so most of the stuff is too degraded/irradiated to be of any real use beyond scrap.

>>386650167
Too bad all of these are a non-issue

REX itself was never suppose to leave US soil since it can launch a nuke from Shadow Moses to China
It can also shoot down incoming nukes with the railgun and move around if enemy tanks were within firing range

>>386650621
>>386650702
It would be pretty cool to ride around in some soviet tanks.
I'd imagine trying to fly one of the helicopters would be suicide.

>>386649729
I'd prefer a remake of MGS 1 with the original controls minus the digital control. Twin snakes added features and ruined others. I want the original game mechanics but updated graphics and shit

>>386650039
>Take internals out of decommissioned b52s
>Commission new external b52s
>Put internals into new external b52s

START treaty status = KEKKED

>>386650107
>Stability, technically the balancing technology for Bipeds exists and is developed
Yes, but the point stands that it would still be more expensive even at that size, let alone if you were to scale it up to the size of a building. Those bipedal robots are also if further developed, likely going to be used for civilian purposes like construction, manufacturing, warehousing and the like. I cannot see a military purpose those things can serve that cannot be done better by other things. Hell there already exists developing robots to use on the field for things like carrying equipment, defusing bombs, etc. and all of them are wheeled.

>>386650135
I had a feeling from the way it was typed, but thought I'd just give it a serious answer anyway. Also no one uses the name field other than attention seeking tripfags so I don't usually pay attention to it.

>>386650774
>It would be pretty cool to ride around in some soviet tanks.
Some protesters stole a t34 during a protest in Budapest in 2006. All you need to do is find a museum piece that hasn't been left to rot.

>>386647423
>4 fire extinguishers

shit must be legit

>>386650991
That's what they did. Russia was only concerned with sheer numbers of bombers that could be put into the air in short order.

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>>386647092
i just hope the norks finally do it.
and everyone else just unleashes their arsenal to glass this planet 10 times over

>>386651004
>Some protesters stole a t34 during a protest in Budapest in 2006
Thats pretty cool.
Though if you had cash to burn you could buy one for 20 grand +.

>>386650558
Let me paste you a paper I've got sat about for referees to reject because of assumptions made that can't easily be justified outside of "they work, and everyone uses them so we can actually do things" because our case is very fringe and the typical physical based justifications don't work.

"Propagation of dark optical surface waves:
interfaces with χ3 defocusing nonlinearity"

REX isn't efficient in any way, but the story literally says that all of that is undetectable, so it is. It's that simple. Because this is fiction. In the real world the stealth missile concept still has some merit (granted not a lot) because no one is watching bumfuck nowhere, and we don't actually have permanent 24/7 perfect coverage of the entire world.

And no shit, I can tell you half the problems BAE had with their railgun melting (that are just basic physics and not secret) and ejecting plasma because I know one of the guys working on it, he was doing his PHD when I was an undergrad and he was a madman that built a coilgun has his Bsc project. The railgun functioning more than once without having rails replaced is spurious for sure.

Could you make it? probably yes, would it do what it says in the story? no, because as you said, that's silly. But that's not really the question.

>>386651265
I can just see it now. The norks launch a missile, the Indians and Pakis decide to settle their grudge and unleash everything they have at one another, the nork missile does it's best challenger impersonation, and nothing of value is lost.

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>>386651265
>i just hope the norks finally do it.
You don't. Dying from radiation is a trip to hell nobody deserves or wants.

>>386646675
Was that back part always that big? I remember the base being mostly treads

>>386651003
>I cannot see a military purpose those things can serve that cannot be done better by other things. Hell there already exists developing robots to use on the field for things like carrying equipment, defusing bombs, etc. and all of them are wheeled.

Yep, i should note that im aware that the endgame is clearly JIBUN WOOOOOO~/Scopedog "roller skates" like with Handle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c) my point was more that there ARE machines with legs and Threads arn't the end-all--be all, especially when taking in account civilian machines, a machine should have it mode of transport be what best fits what it is going be utilized for.

>>386646675
Building that thing would cost the same amount as feeding and arming 100,000 soldiers for a year, and be about as effective as sending a handful of tanks at whatever problem you're dealing with. Possible, yes, but a resounding "hell no" for "likely"

>>386651585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4L5WQZCt6g

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>>386651470
It detaches the back at the end of the chase sequence and the start of the "proper" boss fight.

>>386650086
I mean the ass end of it, only the cabin was on screws

>>386651470
It detaches the back part for the actual boss fight

>>386651301
>In the real world the stealth missile concept still has some merit (granted not a lot) because no one is watching bumfuck nowhere
It doesn't. You cannot fool a combination of over the horizon radars and early warning satellites with infrared sensors, both of which have tremendous coverage zones and protect all possible approaches to both Russia and US.

>because no one is watching bumfuck nowhere, and we don't actually have permanent 24/7 perfect coverage of the entire world.
They actually do and we actually have, you are spouting nonsense. Google over the horizon radars.

>Could you make it? probably yes,
No, you couldn't, you fucking mongoloid, because then it wouldn't be a "stealth missile".

The first sign of an actually intelligent man is not to talk about shit you have no clue about and you definitely don't look smart by spouting nonsense like this.

>>386651960
Would the railfun make it so that the delay between launch and impact is too short to effectively act upon?

>>386652084
If you were within the blast radius of the nuke, sure.

>>386651960
>It doesn't. You cannot fool a combination of over the horizon radars and early warning satellites with infrared sensors, both of which have tremendous coverage zones and protect all possible approaches to both Russia and US.

Yes this is definitely true. But as far as I know the point wasn't to be totally invisible, now I might have not played MGS for a long time but I recall it being mainly to make it hard to stop because they assumed missile defence was quite good.

Low radar cross section =/= no radar cross section. (well, long wavelength radars also help reduce the usefulness of small cross sections but those have limited range)

And that's not accounting for other countries that don't have such good radar.

Now if I'm wrong and it was supposed to be totally invisible in MGS then yeah fair enough. It's been a long ass time since I played it. Hell I was sure the original idea was to frame other countries by walking into their borders.

>>386652084
ICBMs have several trajectory phases when they can be shot down with different degrees of difficulty. Thing is, interception of an ICBM in the terminal phase is becoming or has already become a reality, so the delay between launch and impact makes no difference, since it will be quite large in any case due to the intercontinental nature of the launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

>>386652084
No, if it was that fast it would melt the missile itself.

>>386651585
Oh yeah definitely, I agree with that.

>>386651436
>The two technicians who received the higher doses, Ouchi and Shinohara, died several months later. Ouchi suffered serious burns to most of his body, experienced severe damage to his internal organs, and had a near-zero white blood cell count. Shinohara received numerous skin grafts, which were successful, but he ultimately succumbed to infection due to the damage his immune system sustained in the incident. Ouchi died on December 21, 1999, while Shinohara died on April 27, 2000.
Jesus fucking christ. Shit like this makes me, if nothing else, see where the anti nuclear power fags are coming from.

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>>386651436
if you American and its coming to it, you better second amendment yourself if you are not near a detonation hypocenter before ending up like that.

>>386652342
What about ablative shielding? The ceramic stuff thing used on the space shuttle?

>>386651436
>>386652349
>Ouchi
Indeed

>>386652339
>rathergood

damn that's old

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>timberjack
>the British Mantis
>Jap v US shitfest
>China's monkey king
Patlabor soon guys

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>>386652508

>>386651810
>snake can support the weight of this machine with his bare hands.
>Meanwhile on /v/, people are crying about the realism of legs

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>>386649278
>it may transform

>>386651265
pls no. If we're all gonna die, let it be in a fashion that doesn't turn the world into a cockroach-populated desert.

>>386646675

Realistically you have to consider the tech it was going up against. Soviet tanks and military was the best there was during WW2 and after Truman and the bomb things changed drastically. It was a rush to see who could prevail first, and it was the US not Russia, so the design is probably flawed on purpose.

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>>386652396
>tfw 5 minute drive to the SAC of Offut AFB
>probably the place to be most nuked in a nuclear exchange
if it's any solace I'll just get vaporized, no dying of rad sickness or suffering from the hell that come after the mushroom clouds start to settle

everyone's fucked either way, I just get the instant death nerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCTKcd2Ko98

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>>386652693
Reality already is Cyberpunk.

>>386652863
BOSS STRONK!

>>386651434
They managed to not launch when Jr lieutenants had control of the launch.

I'm not making this shit up, there were low ranking officers in India/Pakistan that had the authority to fire nukes.

>>386653525
Honestly most people probably survive. Remember modern concrete cities absorb a hell of a lot of the fallout and explosion. It'll just lead to a huge regression in society because the infrastructure that keeps it going will be fucked.

>>386653513
They never made more because of the events of MGS3. The guy who made it burned his production notes and the only prototype was destroyed

>>386649628
I remember reading an article about how MIG-29s and Su-27s are out rusting on airfields while the Russians have entire heated warehouses full of WW2-era anti-tank guns that will never be used again.

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>>386652249
no, we cant shoot down a warhead in the re entry phase, these things go hyper sonic, you would have to launch an interceptor missile straight at it to get a small chance of reaching it before it reaches its detonation altitude. we just do not have anything fast enough, and mirvs are to small when they split up to accurately aim at them. and when they split up and enter the atmosphere its already to late to intercept them, they go so fast, the compression shock turns the atmosphere around them into a plasma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WagAKBuc_o
looks slow on the video, but these things are many times faster than rifle bullets, modern russian mirvs can reach re entry speeds of 27000 - 35000 kilometers per hour. the thaad anti missile system can do 10080 km/h, its just suitable to intercept launched missiles, its quite useless against incoming mirvs

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>>386653649
the documentary gets into that, saying that all the fires and smoke created from even 10% of the 1980's arsenal would BTFO the entire planet's ecosystem from global cooling, well except, deep sea life, tardigrades, and cockroaches.

>>386653937
It's debatable, a lot of more recent stuff IIRC says "that's kinda unlikely" much like how people thought one nuke would blow the fuck out of the atmosphere.

>>386653135
it is confirmed to transformable

>>386647008
Oh, yeah. A mobile nuclear platform tank that walks on 2 legs. That's a great idea. It's not like it'd be as easy to knock over as a human would be, or that the joints wouldn't be critical weak points. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

>>386647261
Meh, it's just one idiot (trumpf) responding to another idiot (fatty mcslanteyes)

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>>386646675
about as well as this could

>>386653937
>from global cooling
Fuck the Paris Agreement, we found the solution for (((global warming)))

>>386653728
And let's be honest, It wasn't exactly a Warthog in term of performance either, it was taken out by 2 people on a motorbike and basically destroyed its own base.

God that thing is such a fucking legend.

>>386654121
Ah but you don't understand, the enemy will be so over awed by how cool it looks they won't be able to bring themselves to destroy it. :^)

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>>386654016
they didnt fear that it would blow off the atmosphere, they had valid concerns that a hydrogen bomb strong enough could ignite the atmosphere by splitting up the moisture in it into hydrogen and oxygen, causing a chain reaction

>>386654256
The guy driving it was a total nutcase though. He'd probably cause massive damage with a regular tank

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>>386654362
adding even more hydrogen to a hydrogen fusion bomb detonation sounds not like a good idea indeed

>>386654362
Yeah but, hindsight changes stuff. I think it's overblown but I'm no expert in this at all. Documentaries especially like to sensationalise things.

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>>386654016
it was theorized by some people that a nuke would ignite the atmosphere, but what happens when you're detonating thousands of nukes at once, it's like having volcanic eruptions all over the globe, and if they're blowing up fuel reserves causing massive plumes of smoke it would get to the point it would send even Nassau, Bahamas below freezing for months or even years from even 1/10th of the nuclear arsenal. it gets to that topic around the 20 minute mark.

>>386654245
better layer up in parkas, and stock a lifetime worth of MREs because there's no promise we'll just det a couple nukes and keep global warming away for a few years.

>>386650702

A lot of those vehicles have been scrapped or maybe refitted for use by Ukrainians.

Caveat emptor!

http://englishrussia.com/2016/02/22/hundreds-of-radioactive-combat-vehicles-disappeared-from-chernobyl/

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>>386646675
Fuck no, the Shagohod is one of the most jaw-droppingly stupid fictional weapons in any game ever.

>one (1) IRBM on a giant tank
>requires a 3-mile long runway to launch this one missile
>150-ton tank needs to accelerate to 300 mph just to launch a single IRBM
>purportedly stealthy because spy sats won't be looking for 3-mile long runways(???)
>literally has no advantages over any other kind of nuclear weapons delivery system

>>386646859
>Modern robotics are fucking kilometres away from jap space magic.

But it's nothing ordirary, just a dumb inefficient colossus

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>>386654393
Yeah, but that is basically the only combat data they have which isn't exactly flattering, meanwhile this qt-Planefu had its production reinstated despite being 40 years old.

It is THAT good.

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>>386653937
Of fucking course the cockroaches will survive. Fuck those pieces of shit.

>>386654780
Slow and steady and indestructible wins the race

>>386654536
>>386654362
But water splitting requires just as much energy as it releases so the total sum is zero (excluding inefficiencies)

>>386654780
Fucking T*rks

>>386654648
Been a while since I played MGS3 but I think it's purpose was massive range due to the speed it gains. And it probably doesn't need a literal runway, any flat terrain that's long enough should be sufficient.

>>386654560
its what happened to the tsar bomba, the detonation yield was way larger than anticipated, since they ignored atmospheric conditions. prior to the test they reduced the 3 stage detonation system to deliver just 50 instead of 100 megatons since the plane would not have been able to escape anymore. when it went up it produced nearly 65 megatons, the mushroom cloud was rising past the stratosphere

>>386647261
>hi, i get all my info from the (((mainstream media))), and you should too!
Good one, my post-modernist human.

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>>386654648

While the shagohod was definitely a poor design that wouldn't work in reality, the core concept behind it is what you are missing. Back in the 60's nuclear missile ranges were limited, the whole cuban missile crisis was because a nuclear missile facility there actually did have the capacity to launch to key targets in the USA.

The shagohod was designed as a slingshot, it would reach very high speeds on the ground before launching a missile to extend the effective range of the nuke. It could also (in theory) operate on almost any terrain due to the screw threads and semi-walking ability (particularly useful on things like frozen lakes).

The shagohod wasn't designed like other Metal Gears: i.e. a robot that could walk on any terrain and launch nukes, letting it 'sneak' into another country and launch short range nukes. The shagohod's purpose was to allow a nuclear strike from mainland Russia to the USA that didn't need a huge facility to be set up for launches, just a long enough region of relatively flat land.

>>386650039
Just imagine how much money is in this picture, damn

>>386647781
fires... nukes?

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>>386656078
50 bucks, that's the best I can do

>>386650991

US is actually updating internals on B52s now. I can't believe it, but that airframe is going to be flying for over 100 years. Incredible.

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>>386652396

>live 20 minutes away from Barksdale AFB

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>>386656542
>Barksdale AFB
>auxillary tac nuke target
>20 minutes
RIP anon, dies from radiation sickness

I'm Offut AFB anon, and I've done a lot of autistic research on this,
I even have prep gear should I somehow survive

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>>386656542
>seriously contemplates to live in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust


better end yourself right now, this isnt a fallout game

>>386647971
Imagine you are a fighting a tank the size of a pig or dog. You could just jump around and flip it over.

The future is going to be like zone of the enders.

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>>386652508

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>>386649729
This will never not make me mad