Your Nation's Main Battle Mech (No Tanks)

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

GAH! Kill it with fire! Lots of fire.

Hey that is the closest thing to a practical mech IRL.

But it's frreeeaaaakyyyy....

[The Anglo-Saxon Empire]

Hey that is the closest thing to a practical mech IRL.

But it's frreeeaaaakyyyy....

Oh yes, it is bloody terrifying. I have considered using them as assault troops, giving them sentry guns on their backs and using a smoke screen as they advance.

[Nekoland]

Hey that is the closest thing to a practical mech IRL.

But it's frreeeaaaakyyyy....

Seconded...

[Bionui]

Type 33 MBM


Type 77 Kardas TCV


Type 01 Little Iron Wolf IS AIM


Type 66 TLRIM

All are being in construction.

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

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Type 33 MBM

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Type 77 Kardas TCV

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Type 01 Little Iron Wolf IS AIM

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Type 66 TLRIM

All are being in construction.

NOW I RECOGNIZE YOUR FLAG!!

[Bears Armed]

i would go for batteries, as im not sure that a fission/fusion reactor would enjoy being flung around a battlefield

PS: (i am happy you when for a "realistic" battery life)

You're right; batteries make more sense, especially since a similar but smaller version (about the size of a 1l bottle) already gets used in my marines' regular power armour. It lasts longer - up to about a day, but it also powers their antigrav parachutes on combat drops. After slowing the marine from terminal velocity to something approximating a safe landing speed the battery's nearly drained and usually has to be replaced as soon as the marine can find decent cover. The ones in a Heinlein suit would be about three shoeboxes big but last a lot shorter because the suit drains more power and is constantly bouncing around on an antigrav-based jumpjet.

I suggest that that if you go into any details then this should be a "battery" as in some sort of high-tech 'super-capacitor' or similar primarily Physics-based concept (maybe, just as an idea, with its description including technobable about room-temperature superconductors?) rather than an actual electrochemical cell like the ones for which we use the term 'battery' today, because [1] electrochemical batteries actually have lower energy-densities than the best chemical fuels and [2] something like a capacitor would be better than a chemical cell for producing the sudden bursts of increased power that you'd need both for the "jumps" and for firing directed-energy weapons.

[Ularn]

You're right; batteries make more sense, especially since a similar but smaller version (about the size of a 1l bottle) already gets used in my marines' regular power armour. It lasts longer - up to about a day, but it also powers their antigrav parachutes on combat drops. After slowing the marine from terminal velocity to something approximating a safe landing speed the battery's nearly drained and usually has to be replaced as soon as the marine can find decent cover. The ones in a Heinlein suit would be about three shoeboxes big but last a lot shorter because the suit drains more power and is constantly bouncing around on an antigrav-based jumpjet.

I suggest that that if you go into any details then this should be a "battery" as in some sort of high-tech 'super-capacitor' or similar primarily Physics-based concept (maybe, just as an idea, with its description including technobable about room-temperature superconductors?) rather than an actual electrochemical cell like the ones for which we use the term 'battery' today, because [1] electrochemical batteries actually have lower energy-densities than the best chemical fuels and [2] something like a capacitor would be better than a chemical cell for producing the sudden bursts of increased power that you'd need both for the "jumps" and for firing directed-energy weapons.

All my infantry weapons are kinetic-based so the directed energy thing's not such a big deal. What's the best way to get most energy density by volume in a capacitor; one big one or lots of little ones?

[Bears Armed]

What's the best way to get most energy density by volume in a capacitor; one big one or lots of little ones?

Sorry, I'm a zoologist by main education (and quite widely read in other aspects of the biological sciences, too) who works with chemicals, but you need a physicist or an electrical engineer to answer that question...

[Ularn]

What's the best way to get most energy density by volume in a capacitor; one big one or lots of little ones?

Sorry, I'm a zoologist by main education (and quite widely read in other aspects of the biological sciences, too) who works with chemicals, but you need a physicist or an electrical engineer to answer that question...

Bugger. For a minute there it sounded like you knew something useful!

[Ruskarkand]

RAVEN-RVN-3L Light Battlemech

Technical specifications
Weight: 35 tons.
Cost: 6,500,000 Credits.
Chassis: Hellespont Type R-AE
Armor: Hellespont Lite FF-AE
Engine: Hermes 210 XL Series (Fusion Engine)
Communication System: Ceres Metals Model 666 w/Guardian ECM Suit
Speed 97 km/h
Jump Jets: None.
Crew: One Dragonkinian Operator.
Armament:
2x Medium Lasers
1x SRM-6 Short Range Rocket Launcher

Support Systems:
1x Narc Missile Beacon
Target Acquisition Gear
Guardian ECM Suite

Pieced together another Battlemech for my own use,

[Ibis Galaxy Alliance]

Corsair medium assault mech. Armed with 3 20mm autocannons and 4 rocket tubes.

[Arcturus Novus]

"Ravager" Medium Assault Mech.
50 tons of pure badass.
Can go up to 35 mph. for 120 hours nonstop.
Armaments and Equipment:
Missile pods
Anit-personnel shell cannon (basically a giant shotgun)
Gauss rifle
Head-mounted anti-missile laser system
Jump jets
Sensory array
Heat-resistant, shock-absorbent armor.

[Bajireyn]

What roles would mechs fill in an army?

[Nekoland]

What roles would mechs fill in an army?

MBT Replacement,Armored Infantry,Rough Terrain Vehicle,Shock and Awe Weapon?

[Syleru]

This is our standard mech...

This is the concept art of the actual mech.

Which replaces around one hundred standard tanks (defining standard tank by one equivalent to an M1 Abrams)

The beast costs a high $3 000 000 000 ($3 Billion) to build and outfit with weaponry and is considered experimental, but can wreak havoc in combat and can effectively engage land, air and naval units.

It is heavily armed and armored and is living hell to eliminate, requiring perfect teamwork and resources to do so, and despite being large and bulky this spider can travel up to 70mph in short bursts and maintains an average of 40mph while walking and 22mph while climbing hills or traversing bumpy and difficult land.

[Marisa]

This is our standard mech...

(Image)
This is the concept art of the actual mech.

Which replaces around one hundred standard tanks (defining standard tank by one equivalent to an M1 Abrams)

The beast costs a high $3 000 000 000 ($3 Billion) to build and outfit with weaponry and is considered experimental, but can wreak havoc in combat and can effectively engage land, air and naval units.

It is heavily armed and armored and is living hell to eliminate, requiring perfect teamwork and resources to do so, and despite being large and bulky this spider can travel up to 70mph in short bursts and maintains an average of 40mph while walking and 22mph while climbing hills or traversing bumpy and difficult land.

Can this like...Swim to engage naval forces?Or does it have the range to do so without it?

Also I think this is as expensive as an aircraft carrier >_>

[Syleru]

This is our standard mech...

(Image)
This is the concept art of the actual mech.

Which replaces around one hundred standard tanks (defining standard tank by one equivalent to an M1 Abrams)

The beast costs a high $3 000 000 000 ($3 Billion) to build and outfit with weaponry and is considered experimental, but can wreak havoc in combat and can effectively engage land, air and naval units.

It is heavily armed and armored and is living hell to eliminate, requiring perfect teamwork and resources to do so, and despite being large and bulky this spider can travel up to 70mph in short bursts and maintains an average of 40mph while walking and 22mph while climbing hills or traversing bumpy and difficult land.

Can this like...Swim to engage naval forces?Or does it have the range to do so without it?

Also I think this is as expensive as an aircraft carrier >_>

1. It has the range

2. That is the point of experimental. You need to develop a more economically efficient variation and one without the glitches an bugs. It also uses quite a bit of technology to travel that fast.

P.S. In a 1v1 battle between an aircraft carrier full of bombers and fighters, the SMV11 Black Widow would emerge victorious due to superior cannons and AA defenses, and the hard armored shell.

>_>

[Marisa]

-le snip eh?-

How big is that thing?Because I'm imaging it the size of a Think Tank over here.

[Syleru]

-le snip eh?-

How big is that thing?Because I'm imaging it the size of a Think Tank over here.

About the size of a Landcreuzer P. 1000

Looky looky

Slightly taller however and more heavily armed.

[The Seven Realms]

How big is that thing?Because I'm imaging it the size of a Think Tank over here.

About the size of a Landcreuzer P. 1000

Looky looky

Slightly taller however and more heavily armed.

Ahhhh now it makes more sense.I thought it was smaller from the pic(This is the same guy I've just been cycling through puppets,and laziness strikes often...)

[Lanfang Republic (Ancient)]

Designation: "LM-1 Quadstrike"
Manufacturer: Lanfang Auto Corporation
Designer: Professor Jian Yuhai
Designed: February 2042 to November 2042

Length: 20 meters
Width: 15 meters
Height: 15 meters
Weight: 200 tons

Built: 2 mechs
Cost: 5,000,000,000 NSD
Base: Fenlong Vehicle Base
Armor: Incremental

Armaments:
- 2 x Artillery Cannons (50 km maximum firing range)
- 4 x Machine Guns (10 km maximum firing range)
- 8 x Rocket Pods (250 km maximum firing range)

Equipments:
- Radar jammer
- Data intruder

[Bears Armed]

This is our standard mech...

(Image)
This is the concept art of the actual mech.

Which replaces around one hundred standard tanks (defining standard tank by one equivalent to an M1 Abrams)

The beast costs a high $3 000 000 000 ($3 Billion) to build and outfit with weaponry and is considered experimental, but can wreak havoc in combat and can effectively engage land, air and naval units.

It is heavily armed and armored and is living hell to eliminate, requiring perfect teamwork and resources to do so, and despite being large and bulky this spider can travel up to 70mph in short bursts and maintains an average of 40mph while walking and 22mph while climbing hills or traversing bumpy and difficult land.

Nuclear land-mines at strategic locations. Even if they don't actually kill it the blast wil probably throw it over onto its side or back...

[Cyprum Xecuii]

The "Zeras-M1 Crusader" infantry support mech. while not too tall compared to the average person, that's exactly as it was planned to made, since the role was to (as almost all weapons here) support the infantry in any move they needed. while not strong as a huge battle tank, it can decisively determine certain battles where a higher amount of power is needed to advance. it can withstand 40 - 50mm auto-cannon rounds depending on the velocity, although heat rounds are more likely to do damage then sabots will. the cannon it uses is a 60mm HE shell launcher, which is to destroy fortifications and soft skins ( or scales and whatnot ), but not tanks. however if there is the prospect of having to engage a tank, the mech can use it's speed and agility to get close to a tank and fire it's own gun into the tank's barrel. if the tank is still a threat after "dis-arming" it, the driver can use the all useful suicide tactic by going on top of a tank and self destructing, causing shrapnel and crap to pew pew down to the tankers below.

while the prototype is still in the prototype stage, we've actually mass produced these machines to test them out in the battlefield. what better way to see if something works by using it there and then. and if it doesn't work that's fine, these things were expendable as any "zaku-II" mobile suit in the gundam series...

[Ularn]

-snip-

Where does the pilot sit in that thing? With the longer limbs the mech and pilot will be bending in different places and that's going to lead to broken bones.

Also, trying to rush a tank and fire at it's main gun is a silly idea, as it self-destructing to kill it with shrapnel. Tank armour can withstand blasts from a shaped charge; it can definitely take the force of a mech exploding on top of it. A better plan is to give it hands so it can use conventional infantry weapons as well, like a rocket launcher. Alternatively, give it the option of different weapon loadouts besides the 60mm cannon. You could have arms with heavy machine guns or rocket launchers as well that can be swapped out to equip the mech according to a particular mission.

[Cyprum Xecuii]

-snip-

Where does the pilot sit in that thing? With the longer limbs the mech and pilot will be bending in different places and that's going to lead to broken bones.

Also, trying to rush a tank and fire at it's main gun is a silly idea, as it self-destructing to kill it with shrapnel. Tank armour can withstand blasts from a shaped charge; it can definitely take the force of a mech exploding on top of it. A better plan is to give it hands so it can use conventional infantry weapons as well, like a rocket launcher. Alternatively, give it the option of different weapon loadouts besides the 60mm cannon. You could have arms with heavy machine guns or rocket launchers as well that can be swapped out to equip the mech according to a particular mission.

Tis a more likely a robot accidentally to say. as for the top of a tank, i doubt it can withstand that, i mean if a device like that could get on top of the tank, it can surely fire at point blank range into the hatch, killing those inside. a rocket launcher would work, but I'm still figuring out ways to keep the recoil at a good amount. besides these are just mass produced prototypes ( more like the zaku-1 perhaps ), i don't expect these to do much, but if they work, hell I'll use them until i create a better one. As for the top exploding once again and shooting the main gun, the mean weak spot is the hatch (or other outside components), the 60mm can easily break that at a 90 degree angle, point blank shot, and if you shoot the main gun and it doesn't work, i doubt it will be a threat unless it decides to run people over. and self destructing, despite whether it doesn't harm the crew or tank itself, is a great last resort rather then having it uselessly lie as a hulk of metal waiting to be retrieved and scrapped.