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I'd love it if more people started making semi-realistic weapons. blaugh


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Well, yeah.

To be honest, the first time I read that I thought you wrote "Gun", rather than Gundamn; well, some weird kind of gun.

But yeah, you can design a Gundam all you want. 3nodding

Not saying we'll use it. xd

lol, of course.

Except likesz, don't gundams like, not fly though?

Gundans and Varitechs Fly.

Why not Transformers?

You could have a guy flying through the air, as a super awesome plane with a 30mm chain gun and like 4 cruise missiles, and then when he lands, he could turn into a Fighting Mech, with a 30mm chain gun and 4 cruise missiles- not to mention Hawt Hand to Hand combat tactics and stomping/crushing powersz.

And, if you gave it a few unorthodox, but rather lightweight weapons, say like an M240 or two (7.62mm x 51mm NATO tank/ifantry Guns) that are like 27.6 lb pounds a pop, and 55 lb for ammo, a lot for a person, but not a lot for a plane.

The few unorthodox weapons would allow for better anti-ifantry capabilities and whatnot- oh, and it would problably need some kind of sword, so it could just go around trashing stuff.

I think that a transformer would increase your versatility in application by a crap load compared to that of a Gundam.

What would be the point though?

A large amount of planes already provide dog fighting abilities and most military planes provide infantry support capabilities- in fact, I believe that pure Air-on-air planes are obsolete, as all planes are multiple role units, like, Everything past the F-15 is a definite Multi-role Fighter-Bomber.




As far as landing all of the sudden and fighting someone, an AIRPLANE styled unit would be incapable of doing so. First of all, it carries around massive amounts of jet fuel, which would make it dangerous to operate on the ground with all the heavy semi-explosive jetfuel, especially if we expect it to take hits (being huge and fighting close range); and secondly, airplanes are designed not to take hits, as if they do take heavy hits in the air they pretty much dive bomb and crash anyways due to falters in aerodynamic components or the software, hardware, or engine failing. Even if you found a way to avoid those two problems, or ignored them, airplanes need gigantic runways to land and require gigantic runways to fly, meaning that it would be relatively difficult to have a vehicle that landed and turned into a multi-role ground combat unit.

Even if it did land, it would require both Jet fuel and electric power, to power it's flight and it's mechanical parts, and it would have to carry an enormous payload to be successful in both arenas. Not to mention your concept art has a head attached, which is completely useless, and makes a sword out of the nose of the plane. Also, in your concept art lots of very intricate and somewhat delicate mechanical parts are exposed, and the entire vehicle would probably be made out of aluminum, which isn't very good armor. It would also require the wings and other parts to be made hollow and be filled with mechanical parts for movement, which would place an enormous amount of stress on the aluminum wings, causing the bend or warp; and even if something like carbon fiber was used, it would still be to thin (and carbon fiber is only good in one direction; I.E. not good for a barrel rolling fast moving change in mid-air device).



If you were to actually make it, The best option would be to go with an electrically powered helicopter, as it could easily store it's mechanical parts (most helicopters have a crew bay for empty storage anyways) are already designed for Air-To-Ground combat, wouldn't have to worry about flimsy materials (doesn't require wings and is usually made with material to stop ground attacks) and has the ability to carry, both specifically anti-tank designed air to ground missiles and air-to-air missiles (AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, and Aim-9 Sidewinders).



Although, a plane/helicopter with wheels would be a much easier design...
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