Yeah, we've all heard the arguments before, bipedal sucks, too tall, etc. But what about spidermechs? Picrel. This thing would be a beast in mountains and jungles.
will we ever see real military mechs
Yeah, we've all heard the arguments before, bipedal sucks, too tall, etc. But what about spidermechs? Picrel. This thing would be a beast in mountains and jungles.
>Legs sink into the ground when it tries to move
>too wide to move between trees
>so high every atgm in a 5mi radius can see it
yeah, a beast.
assuming crouched it can get as low as an abrams
Then why not just build a tank?
challenging terrain
than get drone
what if you want to take and hold ground, dipshit?
Get a shovels and some engineers.
>Sinking improves traction.
>Legs alter stance to maneuver in tight quarters.
>Drops flat to duck ATGMs.
>so high every atgm in a 5mi radius can see it
I don't think being low profile is as important as everyone thinks it is considering everyone is slapping drone cages on their tanks now.
You could say it’s Morbidly a beast
We'll see military mechs like this the day a month passes without this same stupid fricking thread getting posted. How many goddamned times do you want to get the same answers as to why it's not happening?
I figured you guys get this question a lot but this is the first time I asked this here
/k/ really fricking hates mechs, or most things imaginative and novel. You get used to it.
Still not understanding the concept of ground pressure?
Do You understand the concept of Ground Pressure? We emphasize floatation for tanks because they can easily bottom out and end resting on their bellies but a mech can adjust their chassis height and lift legs straight up out of the mud rather than crawling through it. High ground pressure works in a mech's favor, giving more traction by sinking to the bottom of the mud.
>sinking to the bottom of the mud.
Tell me you grew up in a city without telling me.
Tell me you never studdied geology without telling me.
Topsoil is the only soil that turns into gooey mud and it's typically 5-10 inches thick. Ukraine is actually unique because most of it's topsoil is Chernozems which is about 5 FEET thick. That's the exception, not the rule. Sink below the topsoil and you'll find the mineral dense subsoil which is more gravel and sand than anything else. Gravel keeps it's integrity even while submerged in water.
Construction equipment for use in real deep not fantasy mud does not look like your photo. Vehicles like that Hitachi are for tasks like selective logging in forests with soil supported by (many) tree roots or for specialty demolition etc.
Notice the NON-AGGRESSIVE TRACKS? That's actually a rather high ground pressure vehicle worthless in trench warfare or on serious mud. It looks cool but has to squat to not tip over on some terrain due to high CG and of course (the cool part) to conform to uneven ground. It is not fast for reasons which should be obvious.
We both want one but it's mostly useless for war. Something like it for 463L pallet and AAR bin handling could be handy on the airhead because it can squat and fold for transport.
I don't think that will work the way you think it will. Realistic mecha are predicated on compact nuclear reactors and lightweight structural alloys, but you will still have all the weight on one foot.
>bro.... BRO! what if we had a giant, but it was A FRIGGIN ROBOT!?!?!?!!
mechs are neither imaginative nor novel.
Build a prototype and then bribe somebody at the Pentagon. We don't have mechs because nobody has built one that is practical enough to give demonstration trials.
put wheels on the end of the legs and you've got really good suspension that also allows it to walk when the terrain gets really bad.
if I ever make a billion dollars I will build them and get some small tinpot dictator country to adopt them, watch me frickers. everybody will laugh but then it will turn out that real war is nothing like muh rpg stat sheets and these things will frick on the battlefield.
t. roboticist
If somebody invents myomers we'll see mechs, otherwise no.
No
whenever someone brings these up it's always because they've made the proscriptive decision that mechs are cool and they can only attempt to retroactively justify their utility. issues in warfare today are ones which require innovative or revolutionary solutions; mecha is a Machine of the Gaps shoehorned in because people want to believe they're useful. It's all solutions looking for a problem
>they've made the proscriptive decision that mechs are cool and they can only attempt to retroactively justify their utility
Yes. That is how it shall be. Mechs will get made and they will kick ass because they're cool, not the other way around.
One thing nobody seems to mention is how fricking slow these things would be. A lawnmower would be faster than any mech
No.
t. /m/
Vote me for president and I will hold the nation hostage until the MIC makes one.
I want to believe.
is there am odel mkit of this Lhada patlabor spider tank?
>uncle sam needs you to die jack!
When lasers are wide spread enough and capable of shooting down missiles I bet we'll start to see bigger military vehicles on the battlefield
>will we ever see real military mechs
Yes.
I think you might be the very first person to ever bring up spidermechs
no you fricking dipshit we get this thread every week
This thread is so annoying. There will never be mechs. There is no terrain that mechs are better at. They are significantly slower. They will break down 10x more often. Any tech enabling mechs are better used on tanks or planes. Mech shows are symbolism for the infantry taking back the battlefield in the modern world.
Wheels and tracks are ideal on Earth, but when eventually there will be a need to design something that can fight on the terrain of different planets then mechs will probably become the standard.
Isreal already deploys them.
Unmanned units are a string feature of occupying forces who have vastly more resources than the defeated people who are being occupied, and aren't willing to take casualties.
This already exists, it's basically a rifle with a camera duct taped to it and mounted on an OED bot as a sentry. One eye Omar wants to shoot at the sentry bot all day that's exactly what the sentry bot is for. Isreal even used one for an assassination in Iran the other month and they've done that a few times.
Oh and a key point to consider.
The only reason these are mechanised at all is that they're too heavy to be man portable. They're usually deployed all of five meters from the truck that delivered them, they've only got hydraulics to make them less of a pain in the ass to position, anyone who's moved furniture gets this.
>put it on a trolley
>wheeled luggage
>wheeled jack
>wheel pod to get it up stairs
>pneumatic wheel pod to ratchet it up stairs
>all terrain wheels
Then before you know it, you've got a 30k hydraulic leg set with a wireless controller for some piece of shit object that's only worth 5k.
Engineer makes an RPG, division makes a javelin because frick budget, unit makes a TOW because they're too fat and stupid to use javelin and would rather have 6, these decisions aren't made for combat effectiveness.
no.
>bipedal sucks, too tall, etc.
only if you listen to morons that obviously have neither any imagination or pragmatic thinking. They same kind that declared gunpowder weapons to be a passing fad back in the day btw