M7-a6-h-hover-tank

**Lachezar** · #1 06-21-2021, 03:56 AM

Hello! I don't know which subforum I should be in, so I'm starting here. The model is my development in one photo. I will be glad to hear your opinion.

**Lachezar** · #2 06-21-2021, 04:08 AM

A few final photos.

**southwestforests** · #3 06-21-2021, 05:33 AM

Interesting thing. Is that a 4 barrel tail gun between the propulsion devices?

**FRD** · #4 06-21-2021, 05:58 AM

That looks like it turned out quite well...

**SinDiPaper** · #5 06-21-2021, 06:42 AM

Wow.. is that a hover tank?
What a beutiful work!

**Vermin_King** · #6 06-21-2021, 06:43 AM

A mighty pretty beast

**JohnM** · #7 06-21-2021, 07:59 AM

Nice model, but a flawed concept methinks ... unless you land it to gain some grip on the ground, the recoil of that main gun is gonna act like a reverse rocket if it is fired "in-flight".

Did you not wonder why aircraft don't carry big guns? Puff the Magic Dragon's rotary cannons violently knocked it sideways. That's why they didn't point forwards.

**Jubotron2060** · #8 06-21-2021, 06:56 PM

The hover tank looks great are you going to sell it?

**TomW** · #9 06-21-2021, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnM

Nice model, but a flawed concept methinks ... unless you land it to gain some grip on the ground, the recoil of that main gun is gonna act like a reverse rocket if it is fired "in-flight".

Did you not wonder why aircraft don't carry big guns? Puff the Magic Dragon's rotary cannons violently knocked it sideways. That's why they didn't point forwards.

John: The size of the gun isn't the only thing to consider, the muzzle velocity, weight of shot, fired on the move or from static point. Also does the anti-grav provide opposite force pulse equating to equal mass at equal velocity but in a negative orientation. Most SF stories usually manage to find some handwavium to correct for minor thiings like the laws of physics.

TomW

**SJPONeill** · #10 06-21-2021, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnM

Nice model, but a flawed concept methinks ... unless you land it to gain some grip on the ground, the recoil of that main gun is gonna act like a reverse rocket if it is fired "in-flight".

Did you not wonder why aircraft don't carry big guns? Puff the Magic Dragon's rotary cannons violently knocked it sideways. That's why they didn't point forwards.

The guns point to the side on a US-style fixed wing gunship so that the pilot can keep them continuously on target during what's known as a pylon turn.

Many aircraft have mounted large forward-firing guns, the largest I can rec all goping into servcie being the 102mm on the Piaggio P.108. The Germans and US mounted 75mm on the Hs-129 and B-25 respectively and the RAF had a 56mm on a Mosquito variant.

The largest forward firing cannon in current service is the GAU-8 on the A-10 with a recoil force far in excess of the three 7.62mm miniguns on the AC-47.