Kalashnikov unveils 4.5 tonne bulletproof walking tank - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-unveils-menacing-45-tonne-13116054?g Metal Gear?! …It can’t be!

War... has changed.

I'd buy that for a dollar! (but really robocop is wayy to relevant right now) :tinfoil:

While Kalashnikov are remaining tight-lipped on any further details at the moment, Igorek is likely to be used to magnify soldiers' strength while providing protection from military and environmental threats - just like the AMP suits in Avatar. What the fuck? It has 0 chance of working like an AMP suit, this thing looks like it would control like a (literal) tank and only be able to walk on flat surfaces. It looks like it came straight out a soviet propaganda pamphlet. This thing looks like it might even be a statue, and with the dance music + the warping plastic windows I thought it was literally a joke at first.

Metal Gear is one of the most secret black projects!

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113126/4c45c0e2-cb1e-4361-a2a8-d6efb245470d/ATST-SWBdice.png Closer to Star Wars with every innovation.

Those fucking 'shoulder' joints. Dear god, my sides.

Gentlemen, I have revolutionized warfare, by building a tank that can trip.

That thing is not combat worthy

Except tanks can travel over 50 miles per hour and have zero turning radius.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132588/f752680a-9b38-4482-82d3-9902274aec96/oh no a lee.png replace lee with this thing and that's about how i think it'll go on the field

Russia has unveiled a terrifying 4.5-tonne bulletproof robot that can walk and hold weapons in its giant claws - and looks straight out of sci-fi films like Avatar and Robocop. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/229156/490f305c-fcb2-4b67-a429-bd2ca2ba0179/image.png Terrifying

Not only would the cost of one of these be outrageous, they'd be a (literal)walking target. Walk across a swale and it could fall over decommissioning it in an instant. There are no benefits to having a armored vehicle with legs.

Yeah so given this is Russia, I'd just wager this is a cover-project for some embezzlement like Dahir Insaat's shitty pitches.

See that giant fucking retard-bot on legs? Yeah, aim this Javelin at it.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58205/78f81ae7-6dfc-4107-bd96-4ad129595d11/1499323948644.gif the horror

Ah yes, nature is the best teacher future version of the mech will pick apart dead american soldiers for fuel in its bioreactor, I can see it already.

Yeah, now that I think about it, there's really no point to mechs, is there?

Clearly a ploy to make you put your guard down. Just wait till Ivan waddles in with his crab claws.

literally tanks but with a billion more things that can go wrong that and the fact that you can slap a track back together but not a leg

I ain't buying that this is some military vehicle at all, nothing about this strikes me as being a military vehicle and there's absolutely no use in walkers for military use, Tanks in reality are WAY better for this kind of shit, you can fit all sorts of weapons on Tanks and if you want to put bigger guns on it and it needs more power? Build it fucking bigger, done, like we ain't getting some MechWarrior style shit for 100 years at the very least. For use in the industrial sector, these kinds of vehicles have applications, maybe not as much walkers as tank treaded machines with rotating torsos and multi-jointed arms for lifting or knocking things down or whatever really, not this massive target that's easy as fuck to take down.

Hovering is the way of the future, mark my words.

man when the US ups its military spending russia seems to say "da hold my vodka."

Like seriously there's nothing about this that says Military Use at all, bigass windows that'd make it easy for anything to destroy, it wouldn't be able to poke it's head/body over a hill or anything and not get instantly destroyed and have the pilot(s) murdered, tanks have armour and the viewport is small enough that you couldn't simply just shoot at it and rek the crew, this though, it's a prank basically.

The only role I could see is some kind of ED-209 sized bipedal walker for use in exclusively urban environments and even then I doubt it would be more efficient than a conventional wheeled/tracked vehicle, especially when you take production costs into account.

It's completely useless for a lot of things outside of Industrial use, wheeled and tracked vehicles can do a lot more than bipedal vehicles, they're smaller and don't require as much energy to run, you could have the upper body of something like a mech but with treads or wheels as the mobility.

I love the fucking exposed hydraulic pistons like seriously? Fucking send a .50 BMG through one of those and boom there goes your movement.

Man they're really pushing the Avatar comparisons. Avatar didn't invent Mechs.

Make fun of the concept all you want. But 10 years from now Russia will have Titans; and we won't.

Just saying we aren't going to look at this specific thing in the same way as we do old tech like 50 pound harddrives and the first phones No ones going to say "It may have worked terribly, but it was the beginnings of the future"