You are a contestant on a new Discovery Channel competition show. Think Forged in Fire, except instead of making knives, you're designing military vehicles.For reasons that are currently under investigation by the FBI, the network executives have robbed approximately 6,000 banks. Consequently, the production budget is effectively the entire American defense budget, plus a generous allowance for cocaine and catering.Each contestant gets:A dedicated team of engineers, mechanics, fabricators and military consultants supplied by the show.Access to a ridiculous industrial workshop.A generous but finite project budget.A fixed construction deadline.Complete freedom to design their vehicle, within the requirements of the round.You are judged on engineering, practicality, reliability, crew survivability, mobility, maintainability and performance.Round 1: a squad vehicleRound 2: an APCRound 3: MBT timePost your show dominating ideas. Smart innovation, rule of cool, or most universally flexible are the big money points criteria.What would you biuld?
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>>65645976So you have a favorite, or is this what can be bodged together competently?
Round 1: a ute, with stadium seats bolted to the bed rails and a bored 383 drag motorRound 2: BMP2 with a real engine and armor, relocated gas tank, and a huge rear door.Round 3: An MBT body kit with electronically controlled main gun, housing the buggy from round one like a batmobile concept, and then dramatically takes massive damage and ejects the buggy on fire. With music.
Current US issue as-is. In Damascus.
That stupid four Jenga piece rectangular robot from that dumb space movie.
>>65646054>Fires 120mm cannon>Eet weel keel
>>65645921find a way to put computer-controlled anti-drone lasers on everything we already have.
>>65646000>relocated gas tankThe gas tank placement of the BMP is fine, people harp on about it as an element of pop-milhistory without actually thinking of the alternatives.
>>65645921>Round 1: a squad vehicleThe Ford Festiva Centipede: four Ford Festiva’s attached bonnet to boot. The Front Festiva is the primary vehicle containing C&C and is armed with a RWS 40mm Grenade Launcher, the two middle Festiva’s are the primary troop carriers and each feature four GPMG’s as well a RWS HMG, the last Festiva is the EW suite and has four Fibre Optic FPV’s.>Round 2: an APCThe same concept but now extended into an eight car road train. The sides are now armoured with Kevlar and metal plates, all cars have been turned into 4x4 drives and each Festiva features an engine ripped out of a Ford truck (it’s up to the judges to figure out if the engines are actually hooked up to anything)>Round 3: MBT timeA T-72 but the primary weapon and ammunition carrousel have been ripped out and replaced by a Chlorine Trifluoride flamethrower and a fuel tank for said CIF3. The tank is operated by a crew of Russian’s promised an all expenses paid vacation to San Francisco and a bag of potatoes.Where is my money DARPA?
>>65646556A bigger exit perhaps? Drop ramp?
I build Chenowth Desert Patrol vehicle with a dodge viper engine, A gavin with dual inline turbo diesels, and a Leopard 2 stripped for weight as best as possible and again up engined-My theory is speed wins all. Trade half your armor for speed every time and see how you feel about doing it again.
>>65646909>Trade half your armor for speed every time and see how you feel about doing it againdamn an early cold-war time traveler.
behold, the ultimate infantry fighting vehicle.
>>65645921Not exactly pic related but similar to pic related.1. Truck with a bunch of AI controlled SUAS in the bed.2. Truck with a passenger cab in the bed.3. Truck with group 3 UAS or LE in the back.Logistically sound, protects against small arms, goes most places, launches drones where it can't go, poifect!
