Another Tank Thing

[Accra Imperiale Dichia]

Ok, I continue to seek trade with a nation outside this region. Recently he interested my in buying a proto-type tank from him. It would be modern+1 or maybe slightly more (I'm not sure)

 

 

He claims it defies gravity by using a kinemassic field generator and some super-power source... I would like a stab of input before I start boasting about this thing being in my arsenal

[Emakera]

Depending on how?s your nation in technology... from what i?ve seen, i think you wouldn?t be allowed to use it this early. If you start roleplaying that you are researching some gravity-defying vehicle, together with this foreign nation (and even with some of us), then it would make more sense. But that?s my opinion (read "bullsh*t") XD

[Accra Imperiale Dichia]

The nation I would import this from has about 20 trillion in defense, and quite a little more in education. He says he has already prdoced some and they're 'ready for export'. He might be able to clear this up better than I can. On NS he's called Capitalist Free States. Search that name...

[Tagmatium Rules]

Definately Future Tech, I'm afraid.

 

Modern +1 is modern technology, plus anything available within the next couple of decades, and anti-gravity devices big enough to lift a MBT into the air really aren't attainable in that sort of time frame. Plus, the guns on that thing are lasers and the like, again which aren't attainable within the next few decades, other than things that'll have your eyes out.

 

Well, see what the RP Moderators think.

[Akiiryu]

Mod Comment:

 

I am in complete agreement with Tag, it's future tech and, therefore, not the tech level of our region. On a side note, I am also rather leery of these cross regional trades as different regions have different rp rules and different tech levels.

[Adaptus]

i'm with Aki and Tag on this. It is possible to do this in the real world I think. But the power sources dont exist.

[Tagmatium Rules]

Plus the image used is an Eldar Falcon, an alien vehicle.

[Ide Jima]

I guess you could have that, just with wheels or tracks and no laser cannons.

[Accra Imperiale Dichia]

You recognized where that came from? Wow, I need to flip through my warhammer 40k books again.... Anyway, I didn't even know about the laser guns, I just assumed it would have ballistic weapons.

 

As for anitgravit; the kinnemassic field generator is real and was a military project (in the USA) until the media got wind of it and they decided 'now isn't the time'. you can try to look it up (I can't find the site), but I don't recommend wikipedia. Wikipedia never gives enough info for anything (other than star wars... all those geeks...)

[Adaptus]

powerlabs, possible have something about it on their website. They try all sorts of experiments like this.

[Tagmatium Rules]

If it were more of a human-looking thing, it may be a different story... something like a light tank with anti-grav engines on the under-side. It would be a damned ugly vehicle and possibly even not that useful compared to a tracked tank.

 

But that's clearly future tech thing.

[Accra Imperiale Dichia]

Ok then, I'll scrap the idea... thanks for input

[Tamurin]

Third mod comment:

I can only support what Aki and Adaptus said. This is too far into the future.

 

The kinnemassic field generator is real and was a military project (in the USA) until the media got wind of it and they decided 'now isn't the time'.

 

Well, a base scientific study isn't the same as a study of a military vehicle ready for deployment. If you're following the news on directed-energy weapons, you will know that prototype weapons of that kind have existed for more than 20 years, but there is just one of them deployed (and that is a bulky cold-war fossil in the US used for ICBM interception).

As we speak, the US is testing a very powerful and useful laser weapon (THEL), but it's not ready for deployment yet. A technology has to mature to become battlefield-ready. What happens when you deploy technology that isn't you can see in the history - German WW2 weapons...