Timeline for Advantages of "Spider Mechs" over Tanks?
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| May 15, 2018 at 15:22 | comment | added | Monty Harder | What if each "foot" is in fact a section of tread, with an electric motor at the "heel" powering that tread (I'm thinking diesel-electric series hybrid like railroads use). When operating on relatively-flat terrain, the four "feet" on each side simply line up and become effectively one long tread (with the front "foot" on each side pitched upward a bit), but as the terrain changes, the height and pitch of each tread segment can be adjusted to keep as much as possible on the ground at any time, and to reduce the pitch and roll on the tank body as well. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | MarsJarsGuitars-n-Chars | Simple fix. Hover jets at the bottom of the feet. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 16:19 | comment | added | Graham | +1 just for quoting Douglas Adams. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 12:46 | comment | added | jsj | Space is big. Really big.... | |
| May 14, 2018 at 2:26 | history | answered | KerrAvon2055 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |