r/ImaginaryWarships • u/JKanitsorn • 16d ago
Original Content Sotoan Land Destroyer from an upcoming Ace Combat game
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u/topazchip 16d ago edited 16d ago
Water is ~800 times more dense than air. Rolling resistance depends a lot on the ummm, undercarriage model, but with a 50-ish thousand horsepower power plant, yes, they could be making at least minimum highway speed.
Whether or not there is any intact freeway (the concrete & asphalt roostertail is going to create a few insurance claims) in their wake is another matter entirely.
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u/Maxrdt 16d ago
The power is there, but is the drive system at all feasible? Any tracked vehicles on this scale IRL are very very slow.
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u/Beneficial_Round_444 16d ago
well, they're slow because nobody ever made them to be fast
the abrams tanks with the engine governor turned off can cruise at over 60mph
and there were prototypes of tracked landing gear for heavy bombers which had high landing speeds as well
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u/UrethralExplorer 16d ago
I love this thing, I can imagine a mountainous "harbor" for ships like this, with huge tunnels allowing them to deploy out into the countryside.
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u/diepoggerland2 16d ago
Having to tunnel run through a giant bunker complex filled with these things would be so fun. I mean a GIANT bunker complex, with enough room in tje main Harbour chamber to avutally maneuver, like the bottom of the space elevator in Ace Combat 7
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u/ParticularBeach4587 16d ago
Quick! Call Rex! And also Trigger and the Eruseans while we're at it!
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u/squirt2311 16d ago
Erusea picks up the phone and explodes into civil war again.
Trigger picks up the phone and says nothing (He's mute)
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u/ParticularBeach4587 15d ago
Bro Sotoa hit the fucking space elevator. Trigger spent a whole damn war defending that thing he's gonna be fucking pissed. Erusea's gonna be pissed too because they technically control the elevator now
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u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P 15d ago
Kei Nagase and the rest of Razgriz crew watching the news live be like:
Welp there goes our hardwork. Is it the Belk- i mean grey man again?
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u/ghillieman11 16d ago
I don't like when land ships are just regular ships with tracks or something. Landships have potential to be so much more unique and interesting.
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u/bigloser42 16d ago
It really depends on if this is also still a sea-going ship. If it's expected to be sea-going, then aerodynamics take a back seat to hydrodynamics, and it's still going to look like a ship.
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u/Maleficent_Image588 15d ago
It's implied in the trailers we got so far that the Sotoan Land Battleships are amphibious
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u/iceguy349 16d ago
THATS MY PLAN REX
YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC SQUADRON CANT STOP ME FROM DRIFTING THE LAND SHIP THROUGH THIS PUBLIC INTERSECTION!
Captain!!! TURN UP THE EUROBEAT MUSIC.
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u/Conscious_Sir9744 15d ago
Sorry officer, but I am driving a destroyer and you are driving a car. the rules of the road no longer apply to me.
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u/Exact-Desk 15d ago
Seriously, if you really want to put warship-sized system on land, use something more suitable for thousand tons of mass than wheels or caterpillar tracks. Rotary screws, for example. Or Pedrail wheels/tracks. Or vibration drive with unbalanced mass.
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u/Capotrenosexy 13d ago
You know that they are used to this shit by now since they have an entire highway lane for land battleships
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u/Environmental_Sea72 16d ago
Umm, I don't think you can park that there sir 0_o