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The Great Leader now makes his speeches from his personal Iron Tiger, from were he streams his daily life, including what he eats for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not snacktime, though. Snacktime is private time.
I hadn't through to turn it into an artillery piece TBH - my plan is kind of to ignore the army and pour all our funds into the navy and air force (like any good island nation) so I was going to have it specialized as a TELAR (tractor-erect-launcher and radar) so anti-air and anti-surface missiles. That way we can take advantage of the bonuses that specialization brings when we design things for it.
The Long range SAMs and the anti-ship cruise missiles are too big to have the radar on the same chassis, so those would need a variant that carries just missiles, another that carries just the engagement radar, and a third that just carries the detection radar. The medium and short ranged SAMs on the other hand can have built in radar. (This is all based on the S-300/Buk/Tor systems BTW).
In the case of the medium and short ranged SAMs, the head could include a big ol' flap radar that deployed like a technological frilled lizard's frill.
I was also considering making the actual missile box into a literal shipping container for camouflage and ease of transport.
Edit: There is an alternative however that uses only a humanoid chassis - we build two 21ton mechs (the smallest we can build) and have them carry the missile box/radar between them, like two people would carry a stretcher. Or we put said missiles on something like a hiking trailer for the mechs to tow. Between two mechs there's 24 tons of payload capcity to spare, which is more than enough - and if we use the the trailers one mech can probably pull a whole missile box (because it doesn't have to support the whole weight). This system is pretty flexible because the mechs can help to erect and take down the equipment and do all kinds of other utility things. We could design a utility/engieering mech that's the equivalent of a Toyota Hylux and just base our entire logistical core on that. It would really give a new meaning to 'mechanized infantry'.
I had this idea of a spider-mech-artillery hybrid. Basically a multi-leg configuration that's meant to be more maneuverable than standard arty. Can traverse more uneven terrain than regular wheel-based or even track-based SP arty. Plus we build it to need much less time for setting up and packing up so that it can fire and relocate much more quickly. Problem I see though is how big a gun it can carry, though we might partially go around that with rocket or missile artillery.
On another note, have you guys heard of the Shagohod?
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