NationStates Jolt Archive

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We wish to know if you can install a .50 caliber machine gun for us instead of the odd 11mm caliber.
If so, The Infantry will buy 10,000 of these tanks.
*money wired on confirm*

Order confirmed.

[OOC: Putting glass-filled holes in the glacis of a tank is really, really not a very good idea. Saying that - do you have any armour values for this?]

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your looking at slightly better than M2/M60 armor here but your getting 65mph cross country

The Kingdom of the Geletians, being on the brink of war with the Soviet Commonwealth with which it shares the continent of Geletia, is of course most interested in rearmament. Officers observing the T-7, though, returned a negative report this week.

Since it weighs more than a T-80, they are not entirely convinced by the light tank designation. As it has an engine of similar power to the baseline T-80, there are doubts over the claimed top speed, which seems to be a good ten km/h above that of the heavier T-80 on a similar engine power under governed duress.

Observers also called into question the comfort of the prone position, raising suspicions over the probability of fatigue to the neck and upper body, and generally being a bit confused about the vehicle's internal lay-out. The limited combat value of a large fighting machine in which the commander is expected also to be gunner is also cited as a good reason not to waste material and technical resources equivalent to those required for a decent battletank.

Finally, the unusual calibre of the main gun is a further blackmark, though only so far as Geletian service potential is concerned.

its called
a
PERISCOPE
periscope
p
e
r
i
s
c
o
p
e
P E R I S C O P E
E P O C S I R E P

your looking at slightly better than M2/M60 armor here but your getting 65mph cross country
[OOC: You're looking at bullshit. With that armament and weight, there is no way you are armouring the vehicle against anything more than, say, a heavy machinegun all-round, probably less on the back, so I suppose in that sense it doesn't matter, but periscopes do not look like that, nor are they so stupidly placed in a bulge that not only compromises a large area of the glacis, but also destroys the sloping.]

Guys, I gave a critique in his last thread and he just remade the thread and ignored what I said. So it's not even worth it...

EDIT: Actually, if he upped the weight to one of a T-80, he did take my critique. Soo...nevermind.