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    1. Karl K. Gallagher‏ @KarlKGallagher Mar 16

      Karl K. Gallagher Retweeted  🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker

      I'm looking at this and remembering @MorlockP's story of extracting his tractor from deep mud. Those tanks may be staying there until peacetime.https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1502224853746790402 …

      Karl K. Gallagher added,

      0:14
       🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker @UAWeapons
      #Ukraine: Two T-80BV tanks, which got stuck in the mud, was abandoned by the Russian army in #Chernihiv Oblast. pic.twitter.com/PS42ekjO8e
      3 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    2. Winchell Chung ⚛ 🚀‏ @nyrath Mar 17
      Replying to @KarlKGallagher @MorlockP

      I would imagine this is the reason why David Drake postulated fusion powered hovercraft tanks for his scifi Hammer's Slammers series

      2 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    3. Ad Astra Games‏ @AdAstraGames Mar 17
      Replying to @nyrath @KarlKGallagher @MorlockP

      Every tanker dreams of a hovertank that can't be disabled by small arms fire shredding the skirt. Because tank-in-mud is their deepest dismay. It turns them into low density infantry. And you don't even want to think about the ass-chewing you'll get if you get back to base...

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    4. Winchell Chung ⚛ 🚀‏ @nyrath Mar 17
      Replying to @AdAstraGames @KarlKGallagher @MorlockP

      Anecdotally somebody told me that for every design of hover tank, it is possible to design an antitank mine that will flip the tank upside down.

      3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    5. Ad Astra Games‏ @AdAstraGames Mar 17
      Replying to @nyrath @KarlKGallagher @MorlockP

      Hovertanks had a 20 year window for being Uber High Tech in SF, from 1973 to 1992 or so. Then they vanish. Now, with ATGMs, you can argue that tanks have either no place on the battlefield, since two ATGMs mean one dead tank. Sorta like battleships.

      4 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    6. Laz, Lazarou Monkiest of Terrors 3.5% 🏳️‍🌈 💙 🚀‏ @FrancisMaudeAdv Mar 17
      Replying to @AdAstraGames @nyrath and

      I'm guessing multi legged "arachnid" style tanks are also cool but impractical? I understand anime style Giant Robots suffer from being massive targets too, all the dreams of youth shown to be folly 😉

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Karl K. Gallagher‏ @KarlKGallagher Mar 17
      Replying to @FrancisMaudeAdv @AdAstraGames and

      Cube square law is not kind to legged vehicles. The weight is pressed into a smaller footprint so they drop into the mud even faster than the guys at the start of the thread.

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 17
      Replying to @KarlKGallagher @FrancisMaudeAdv and

      in my novels, I have some backpackers on the moon use a legged autonomous cargo vehicle to carry their tent and supplies ...but much harder surface, and 1/6 g

      1:41 PM - 17 Mar 2022
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        1. Karl K. Gallagher‏ @KarlKGallagher Mar 17
          Replying to @MorlockP @FrancisMaudeAdv and

          And the description sounded much lighter than a tank!

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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