Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles Image thread.

[paulobrito]

1 - is clearly two vehicles.
2 - SA wants a word (Denel G6-45)

 

[Husky_Khan]

1 - is clearly two vehicles.
2 - SA wants a word (Denel G6-45)

1. That vehicle isn't based on a Micro Machine platform like the Japanese one.

2. Also tbf I had no idea South Africa had a military with actual working vehicles anymore. 🙏

 

[PsihoKekec]

UAE also has G6 and used them in Yemen.

 

[Zachowon]

South Africa make sa bunch of....wierd vehicles

 

[paulobrito]

South Africa make sa bunch of....wierd vehicles

To be fair they have to work with the tools they can get. And for their specific needs. The G6-45 is a very good piece of hardware.

 

[Zachowon]

To be fair they have to work with the tools they can get. And for their specific needs. The G6-45 is a very good piece of hardware.

Theyiterally just put everything on wheels.

 

[Jormungandr]

UAE also has G6 and used them in Yemen.

I first came to know about the G6 because the Brotherhood of Nod used them as their artillery vehicle in C&C Renegade, instead of the American M110.

 

[Zachowon]

I first came to know about the G6 because the Brotherhood of Nod used them as their artillery vehicle in C&C Renegade, instead of the American M110.

The M109 would be better then the M110. Look wise

 

[paulobrito]

Theyiterally just put everything on wheels.

The Olifant is still using tracks /j.
The local terrain is friendly to wheels, and that gives them better range and speed than the equivalent tracked options.

 

[Jormungandr]

The M109 would be better then the M110. Look wise

It was probably for gameplay reasons, as many of the Renegade maps were tight and self-contained. On open maps? It would have been awesome to use these or the M110 to bombard GDI bases across rivers and that, lol. Red Alert: A Path Beyond, a Renegade TC, did this well with the Allied M110s and Soviet V2s.

In-universe, it wouldn't surprise me if Nod and GDI used all three initially and during the First War, given that they each had nations from all over the world allying or being pressured to support either (see GDI/Nod Alliance Breakdown cinematic).

That's not to say anything about surplus Allied and Soviet hardware being used in the initial stages, too -- I can easily see GDI Russian T-80's being bombed by retrofitted Nod MiGs, or GDI Yaks harassing Nod Rangers.

Of course, as time went on, with in-field production ramping up to replace attrition-losses, and including the rapid technological advancement we see in just a few years, would probably mean a lot of GDI and Nod's collective hardware would become standardized to the units we see in TD/Renegade (the latter especially being near the end stages, where Nod began to produce their own designs. Good TS foreshadowing, that) in the original TD.

Given that Nod and GDI had sophisticated hardware and software we're only just starting to realize now in the 90's, I'd love to see what the interior of a GDI Abrams would look like, or even just to know what they're made out of!

I mean, the Abrams in Renegade was smaller, more lightweight, yet still packed a punch equal to or superior to that of our real-life M1A2s -- plus, without additional armour kits, they can stand up to fucking lasers, energy weapons, rockets and missiles far above their real-life counterparts' explosive yields, et cetera.

Metallurgy in the Tiberium Universe is bullshit, lol.

 

[Zachowon]

It was probably for gameplay reasons, as many of the Renegade maps were tight and self-contained. On open maps? It would have been awesome to use these or the M110 to bombard GDI bases across rivers and that, lol. Red Alert: A Path Beyond, a Renegade TC, did this well with the Allied M110s and Soviet V2s.

In-universe, it wouldn't surprise me if Nod and GDI used all three initially and during the First War, given that they each had nations from all over the world allying or being pressured to support either (see GDI/Nod Alliance Breakdown cinematic).

That's not to say anything about surplus Allied and Soviet hardware being used in the initial stages, too -- I can easily see GDI Russian T-80's being bombed by retrofitted Nod MiGs, or GDI Yaks harassing Nod Rangers.

Of course, as time went on, with in-field production ramping up to replace attrition-losses, and including the rapid technological advancement we see in just a few years, would probably mean a lot of GDI and Nod's collective hardware would become standardized to the units we see in TD/Renegade (the latter especially being near the end stages, where Nod began to produce their own designs. Good TS foreshadowing, that) in the original TD.

Given that Nod and GDI had sophisticated hardware and software we're only just starting to realize now in the 90's, I'd love to see what the interior of a GDI Abrams would look like, or even just to know what they're made out of!

I mean, the Abrams in Renegade was smaller, more lightweight, yet still packed a punch equal to or superior to that of our real-life M1A2s -- plus, without additional armour kits, they can stand up to fucking lasers, energy weapons, rockets and missiles far above their real-life counterparts' explosive yields, et cetera.

Metallurgy in the Tiberium Universe is bullshit, lol.

I was going by aesthetic. The M!)( would look similar to that of the G6, and less like the M110

 

[Jormungandr]

I was going by aesthetic. The M!)( would look similar to that of the G6, and less like the M110

I dunno, I kinda like the G6's aesthetic more. Still, we each have our preferences.

 

[Zachowon]

I dunno, I kinda like the G6's aesthetic more. Still, we each have our preferences.

I just mean the M109 seems to fit the astehtic more then the M110.

 

[Jormungandr]

I just mean the M109 seems to fit the astehtic more then the M110.

...You know, now I want to see a Nod-branded M109 model. That red and urban cameo paint-job would look lovely.

 

[Buba]

Excellent photo opportunity - I hope the photographer gets a prize for that 6x6 SPG.
Of course, wheeled SPGs have been a thing for as long as I remember - Dana comes to mind - and these go back to WWI and AA on truckbeds.

 

[Jormungandr]

Excellent photo opportunity - I hope the photographer gets a prize for that 6x6 SPG.
Of course, wheeled SPGs have been a thing for as long as I remember - Dana comes to mind - and these go back to WWI and AA on truckbeds.

They were a lot more ad-hoc back in the early 20th and late 19th. Then again, so were tanks.

Some of the bizarre shit made back then, like that Aussie tank that was more like a gun-tractor, heh.

 

[PsihoKekec]

You mean Bob Semple tank? Funnily, Kurds made several similar vehicles during Syrian Civil War.

 

[Jormungandr]

You mean Bob Semple tank? Funnily, Kurds made several similar vehicles during Syrian Civil War.

Well, I suppose if you can't even get your hands on Soviet T-55s or copies, making improvised tanks is the next best thing. I mean, the Cartels in Central and Southern Americas do it all the time.

Then again, there was a hilarious video of Syrian rebels trying to attach a looted missile rack to a pick-up truck -- the back-blast from the launch set the vehicle on fire.

 

[Aldarion]

A vaporware, unfortunately, but...

 

[PsihoKekec]

It would be interesting to see how the M-84 would be modernized if the Yugoslavia stayed together via ASB intervention.