Max, Dunedin New Zealand wrote:
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).
Do you think a sixty ton mech could do the same thing? Or, if it could,
could it do it with any amount of ease? And finally, would the mech be
in any sort of condition (sixty tons of armored beast falling to the
ground is going to cause internal damage and break things...)?
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.
It isn't the shell I'm worried about, it's all the goodies inside the
shell that need to deal with the sudden shock of slamming into the ground.
--
Kurt Feltenberger
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http://www.casademon.org
“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me
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