Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
Stand up on a soft surface. Then have someone push at your knee from the back and tell me how you wind up when you fall. :-) A tank simply stops. A mech falls over and goes boom, except there's no mommy there to kiss the boo-boo and let Junior go play again. ;-)
I crashed my paraglider into the side of a cliff, smashed my heel (now has plate and about seven screws in it). There I was sitting on the hill, foot buggered, no load bearing ability at all, I still managed to crawl up the hill, under a barb-wore fence to the side of road to wait for pick up.
Sure it was the heel not the knee, but we're pretty good at using what remainding body parts we have to move or posistion ourselves if necessary (dam sure hurt, may have passed out a few times while doing it though).
The tank maybe stuck where it is acting as a fire-platform, but hopefully the pilot of a mech could try to use what other working resources he has available (other leg, arms, etc) to retain a little more that stationary firing support.
It would naturally be important to try and design in a way that its armor or structure can handle a fall/tumble with minimal damage.
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