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  5. Mammoth/Apocalypse Tank in real life

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    On 6/12/2019 at 2:45 AM, thedisclaimitory said:

    bruh I just gave you a history lesson also the p1000 ratte would have had a battleship cannons from either the Tirpitz or just one custom made 

    P1000 Ratte, because the Maus and the E-100 just wasn't big enough for Hitler. 

    Also apparently for propulsion, the Ratte would've used engines off of either U-Boats or whatever battleships they had going at the time. 

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  8. Mammoth/Apocalypse Tank in real life

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    11 hours ago, Threve said:

    Besides the obvious of what was mentioned above it would simply have no practical usage in today's modern day era. Say it was built however and ignore all the logics and whatever along with Maus history. Problems would arise before, during and after development.

    1. There is no point due to there not being a world war going on. Many battles today are not major nation wide but more so proxie wars fought by militant groups. The only country that could build something of this magnitude (the correct way at least and have it working) is a superpower. Russia has the Typhoon Class submarine which is the world's largest sub. They have since retired almost all 5 of them. Bigger simply just isn't better as well. The caliber of guns is irrelevant with the development of missiles, artillery and railguns. Now that I say it even artillery is going out of fashion.

    2. Actual Tank on Tank warfare is extremely rare now and days due to the fact only superpowers would really be capable of doing so. It doesn't make sense to have a super tank go up against an old soviet tank fielded by some group that just found it when you can use a less costly tank (abrams) to do the same job. It's the equivalent of buying a semi with two trailers to go pick up groceries when you could just buy a Truck or SUV.

    3. During production it would take alot of money, time and resources to develop this, not just build it. The design may be there but you have to figure out how to make sure this thing doesn't over heat, how it aims and such along with testing. You could forgo this but you dont want to do that in battle.

    4. Besides the fact we've used enough money here to build probably 150 Main USA Battle Tanks... we now have our mammoth tank. Now we have to go find a battle to get ourselves into...

    We find ourselves in Iraq, as is typical, we are going for a patrol.

    Our mammoth tank has now held up traffic due to how slow it is. We could make it faster but it would wear out the parts and put it in the shop for another 8 months (These parts have to be custom made btw and shipped). Well fuck it, we put a Nuclear Reactor inside of the Tank and it's now faster along with being efficient at letting out heat. Driving along the sandy road (and hopefully not getting stuck) we managed to hit an IED and our tracks are blown. We now require two recovery vehicles due to the weight of our tank. The nuclear reactor is also in danger of going critical and killing us all but the professional inside mechanics help mysteriously maintain half of your tanks health. You're stuck here for a day or two in the hot sun much to the dismay of the rest of the 200,000 Marines you're supporting.

     

    5. We had a hiccup but we're going hard still. We have just pulled up on our village and there are enemies in there which means we get to get some. Command just called and told us we can't use our 60mm missiles to level the place because there are civilians and it would level a football field worth of property. So infantry dismounts and we cover our APC's as the infantry clears the village. A predator missile falls from the sky precisely destroying the target as we guard our APC's. Victory is at hand but you spot an enemy vehicle from ahead. As your team loads the 120mm cannons you get ready to fire. You lock in and the target explodes... you didn't fire but your teammates M1 Abrams that uses the same 120mm ammunition scored a hit. You wanted to use the dual cannons but your friend seems to be enough to blow away a 150,000 mile Toyota with a M2 mounted on back from 3 miles..

     

    6. Your team then decides to let you become a mobile base defence because command figured out you suck at patrolling. After sitting at base for weeks on end you see a convoy coming and fire up the engines, the enemy is out 5 miles and you're preparing to give them hell. All of a sudden 5 F-35 Jets fly over head as the lock unto the tanks with missiles as an apache helicopter kills any infantry higher than you can see. Command is high fiving themselves as you take off your tank suit and tell your team to get some sleep.

     

    7. 15 Years later and you're about to retire until russia attacks trying to take back the middle east in the midst of a world wide fuel crisis. The world is at war and it's coming down to the last couple of drops as humanity struggles with themselves. Everything is to be used including your X-1 Mammoth Tank Prototype. You fire up the tank, smell the coffee and ready the guns. As you embark on the battlefield, brushing the dust off of your museum quality tank,  a missle hits the top of your tank (Weakest Armor) from a drone. It seems being so unique has made the enemy focus everything on you. The tank is hurt as another missle from a javelin strikes the top. Your sensors pick up a strike force ahead of Russi a Main battle tanks. 3 out of 5 manage to fire at your frontal armor and 1 round makes it through with the round exploding a copper shell killing 3 crew inside. You take aim and fire your cannons. You then ignite 2 russian tanks while the other 3 hit your treads and engine. With your tank on fire you run away before the nuclear radiation gives you cancer or the rounds explode. American M1 Abrams in your squad manage to cause some serious damage as well and both sides retreat. 45 Years later as humanity looks back on the war, a Russian GrandFather leans into his son and tells him "A long time ago, the world used tanks in battle." as his son wikipedia's what a tank is on his Iphone 27 and tells him to shut up. 

    You should be a historian for an alternate what ifs....

    Also hump three times a day to keep the doctor away

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  10. Mammoth/Apocalypse Tank in real life

    in Command & Conquer

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    Imagine that some nation has developed a tank that's near enough the same as the Mammoth Tank/Apocalypse Tank (twin fuck off guns with twin missile pods as well as it being four-tracked) with the same level of durability as well as the ability to conduct independent battlefield repairs. 

    How would everything work out? Would the main guns have an autoloader system similar to that of WWII-era battleships as opposed to having a four-man loader (two per gun; one inserting the round and the other inserting a charge of some sort), would the pods have to be manually reloaded? 
    More to the point, how would you steer a vehicle that utilizes four tracks instead of the traditional two? 

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