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Main battle tank

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Main battle tank​



LOCATION

Appalachia
The Commonwealth

EDITOR ID

Tank01
TS03_Tank01Obstacle

FORM ID

0019D2F7
001AB2E7 (random encounter)
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For an overview of tanks, see Tank.


The main battle tank[2] is a vehicle used by the United States Armed Forces before the Great War.


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Characteristics


Modeled on the M46 Patton which was used by the U.S. Army during the early years of the Korean War, and sporting a similar commander's cupola,[3] heavy duty conventional main battle tanks were widely employed by the United States military. The main battle tank is a behemoth that employs a pair of tracked chassis using leaf spring suspension, with a single turret mounted on the top. Its key advantage is firepower: the main battle tank is equipped with a pair of large-caliber 140mm[1] cannons using conventional ammunition.
Altogether, the tank weighed over sixty tons, making it unusable in marshlands and other soft terrains, despite the reliability that allowed for a single soldier to hotwire them and restore them to working order.[4] The armor of the heavy tank unusually uses riveted steel which actually increases spalling in the cabin from hits. It has no visible secondary armament. The powerplant is an equally heavy-duty nuclear engine, with it back pods allowing for the exposure of heat sinks for quick air cooling while stationary.[3]
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Based on the specs and details provided wouldn't the FO be a bad design or would it have some sort of good role to apply based on the context of the setting?


Using Riveted Steel makes it seems like it's a horrible design since that's WWII type armor but it also weighs over 60 tons which is going to be more than double the weight of a Sherman Tank either implying extremely thick armor or some other X factor.

Since it's also mentioned to be extremely easy to fix that one soldier can get it running in short order.


Maybe these tanks were cheap and mass produced? Hence the drop in quality


What do you think Tank experts? 😲
 
Bethesda went overboard with that stupid diesel punk aesthetic in their fallouts. That tank looks more like some kind of tractor too.
 
The purpose of the tank is probably just to be an armored assault gun with the widespread advent of Power Armor that occurred during The Great War. The dual cannons might've meant increasing the chance of a followup shot in order to plink problematic targets, like power armored infantry running towards you while you were still several hundred meters away. It does look kind of weird. The lack of secondary machine guns but addition of a Commanders cupola kind of makes me think it was meant as an Infantry Tank or something instead of a dedicated anti-armor vehicle. But the dual cannons make me think... it needs followup shots to be made rapidly, like you would want from a Double Rifle or Shotgun which would imply it was meant to be employed against armored targets, potentially fast moving ones.

The rather lack of machine guns makes me think it's obviously supposed to work alongside infantry though. I'm guessing Power Armored infantry kinda made the tank redundant, at least at shorter rangers since Power Armored infantry canonically could really do a lot of damage to Chinese tank and infantry formations as they did during The Great War. But maybe it still has utility for longer range direct fire support. Though I can't really see any obvious optics on the vehicle.

There actually do seem to be places where machine guns could be mounted, both for the Commander and maybe co-axially. So maybe these were in long term storage in the Commonwealth and West Virginia or whatever and brought out in number to deal with the various social and civil unrest going on prior to and perhaps even after the entire Great Burn and they could be lacking a lot of the extraneous gear like machine guns or added on optics and other things.
 
Scooby Doo said:
Main battle tank

tor-frick-gi2.jpg

tor-frick-gi4.jpg

tor-frick-gi.jpg

Based on the specs and details provided wouldn't the FO be a bad design or would it have some sort of good role to apply based on the context of the setting?


Using Riveted Steel makes it seems like it's a horrible design since that's WWII type armor but it also weighs over 60 tons which is going to be more than double the weight of a Sherman Tank either implying extremely thick armor or some other X factor.

Since it's also mentioned to be extremely easy to fix that one soldier can get it running in short order.


Maybe these tanks were cheap and mass produced? Hence the drop in quality


What do you think Tank experts? 😲
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Its funny because there's an otherwise perfectly-normal Sherman in Fallout Tactics lmao.

But to explain why the tank looks the way it does.
Bethesda is under the impression that Fallout is "The 50's with super nuclear tech right after a nuclear war"
When the truth is that Fallout is more elaborate than that, Fallout is "What if the 90's tried to guess what the 50's thought the world would be like after a war happened in the 2070's and several hundred years had passed after the bombs dropped"

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Additionally FO1-2-NV's game designers actually knew how guns operated, and were generally avid gun fans. Hence why there's some pretty nifty gun references and obscure weapons in the classic games. Fallout weapons are primarily just 'real gun or real gun analogue' with a handful of crazier weapons to add flavor.

So if these people cannot design a handgun or assault rifle (something game devs have been able to do since the 90's), do you really reckon they can design a tank?
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
They didn't use it for several reasons, one major reason is that you would get an environmental disaster for every lost tank.

Not much point fighting the Red Menace if you poison your own country in the process.
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He's referring to why Fallout USA (Or Game Devs) wouldn't use it...
 
ThatZenoGuy said:
Oh, lmao.
Well considering fallout cars explode like nukes, yeah that is a good question, it even looks fallout-y.
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I know. Heck, it's also why I think Battletech would work in the Fallout setting. 3 reactor hits and your mechs reactor explodes.
 
Typhonis said:
I know. Heck, it's also why I think Battletech would work in the Fallout setting. 3 reactor hits and your mechs reactor explodes.
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IIRC reactor explosions are kinda rare in battletech, they 'do' happen but most of the time the reactor just shuts off and fizzles out.
There is some pretty cool reactor explosions in the Mechwarrior 3 and Mechwarrior 5 (the OG mechwarrior 5, not the shitty one we got) trailers.
 
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