Oh dear. That's a lot of replies. Certainly more than my thread here ever managed. Oh, and adam_grif, I forgot to say that your stuff was really quite good. Not the same sort of stuff I do, but not bad nonetheless. Anyways, taking the replies in order...
adam_grif wrote:The Assault Rifle looks like the bastard Child of the Sig 550 and the HK416 (not a bad thing). The magazine looks closer to one of the 20 rounders the Swiss use than to a 30 rounder. Was that deliberate?
I guess so. The magazine is larger to accommodate larger rounds than 5.56, so I guess it would need to be longer to have 30 rounds.
adam_grif wrote:If the tank is a WiP, have you considered replacing the 50 cal on top with some kind of remote weapon station, ala CROWS? Also, is that a Quick Kill I spy behind the hatch?
If you look at the
M1A2 TUSK, you'll note that the mounting is actually between the commander's hatch and the gunner's hatch. So I guess I'll just say that the mounting is there. This is supposed to be the stock version, anyways. The APS is really pretty generic, but it's not really based off VLS types like Quick Kill. I was thinking of the israeli Iron Fist when I drew it, but this has more shots.
JointStrikeFighter wrote:The design influence is clearly russian, which would make that a 12.7mm utes or a 14.5mm
The design influence wasn't really russian, although I can see where you would think that. The skirts and the armored bit that moves with the gun were both based off the up-armored
Leopard C2. The actual turret shape was based off the South Korean
K2 MBT, and the suspension (lulzy coilsprings FTW) was based off the Merkava. The whole thing was in large part inspired by the fictional
MCA-7M tank drawn by the artist Sumer.
The HMG is actually based as much as possible on the BRG-15, which was a 15.5 x 115 HMG developed as a replacement for the good old M2HB. Unfortunately, there are a grand total of two pictures of the BRG-15 on the internet, so a lot of the details were borrowed from the good old .50 cal.
adam_grif wrote:Doctrinally the russians [and the europeans for that matter] don't really expect the CO to use their MG much; time on the MG is time not commanding. Besides in a high intensity fulda gap style armoured warfare situation an RWS [really only useful against infantry] is just pointless cost and weight.
Yeah, you're right. It might detract from their performance in all those high intensity conflicts they take part in on a regular basis against technologically and numerically comparable foes.

Considering what this is for (I did say
original, didn't I), there is a large chance this already fairly beastly tank will be going up against technologically and numerically
superior foes.
