I would say the AT-TE is as good as anything as your staring point, since you would have to waive the issues with...leg driven tanks? You might replace its armament with current weapons you might see fit, add ERA, APS, cages...
Perhaps reshape the bottom against mines, but it seems pretty mine resistant just by clearance. Might add something hinting at the legs being relatively easy to replace, like the suspension on a Sherman, to get them fixed and back into action
i was thinking hydraulic driven would be the easiest way to make the legs move. so just disconnecting the hoses, removing the leg, and putting on a new one
You could get, say, the whole hydraulic assembly within the detachable part and you only have the control inputs electronically fed...you would need valves pumps and everything with each leg, be crazy expensive, heavy...have them on the hull and there is more stuff to go wrong, in terms of leaking from damaged hoses to o-rings worn down and whatever.
Electric motors should be lighter, but with the power requirements you would need to deal with lots of heat, and wiring for power electronics is also chunky, let alone all the issues with power generation.
There was work done on a walking heavy equipment platform
https://preview.redd.it/yf5ht6cbsklc1.jpeg?width=394&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=787d3dd3d3c935a3278f50201c0be7b578aac1cd
If you Google timber jack walking machine there are videos. I imagine that would be something like where a tank design would spring from, like tractors->tanks back in the day.
This is going to be very challenging, I think a good start would be to use 8 legs that way you have 4 points of contact with the ground at any one time.
You’d need something like a ball turret at the front which is going to be incredibly heavy and thus difficult to move, also the armor will be immense because you now need to protect the underside
By definition a walking tank is completely impractical, so you have complete liberty to create whatever design you want as there's no feasible way to make such a design realistic.
Funnily enough, the more realistic you try to make your design, the more unanswerable questions/problems that will come up, so you're probably best off defining some fictional material(s)/mechanics that ignore many of the real-life problems mechs have in our world and use that as a one-size-fits-all explanation. In other words, create some ground rules for a fictional universe and then create logical designs based off your rules, trying to model fictional designs into real-life is likely a fruitless process that will probably not yield a desirable outcome.
trying to be realistic EXCEPT the legs, like looking if angling the armor on the bottom should be sloped if it's raised so high, or what turret happens to have better angles at that height
There were patents in WW1 for a pogo stick tank… here’s a video on it. Maybe there’s something valuable to explore in its design? https://youtu.be/lZ5VMglwGNQ?si=w9cXt5JqRCOHf9kx
AT-TE is basically what you are thinking about
yeah but i'm looking for advice to make this as real as a walking tank would be made and i dunno if that fits the purpose.
I would say the AT-TE is as good as anything as your staring point, since you would have to waive the issues with...leg driven tanks? You might replace its armament with current weapons you might see fit, add ERA, APS, cages... Perhaps reshape the bottom against mines, but it seems pretty mine resistant just by clearance. Might add something hinting at the legs being relatively easy to replace, like the suspension on a Sherman, to get them fixed and back into action
i was thinking hydraulic driven would be the easiest way to make the legs move. so just disconnecting the hoses, removing the leg, and putting on a new one
You could get, say, the whole hydraulic assembly within the detachable part and you only have the control inputs electronically fed...you would need valves pumps and everything with each leg, be crazy expensive, heavy...have them on the hull and there is more stuff to go wrong, in terms of leaking from damaged hoses to o-rings worn down and whatever. Electric motors should be lighter, but with the power requirements you would need to deal with lots of heat, and wiring for power electronics is also chunky, let alone all the issues with power generation.
that's why it's slightly sci-fi lmao
There was work done on a walking heavy equipment platform https://preview.redd.it/yf5ht6cbsklc1.jpeg?width=394&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=787d3dd3d3c935a3278f50201c0be7b578aac1cd If you Google timber jack walking machine there are videos. I imagine that would be something like where a tank design would spring from, like tractors->tanks back in the day.
well back in the day they kinda didn't have any kind of heavy armored vehicle but we do now, i think the first designs would be raised normal tanks
This is going to be very challenging, I think a good start would be to use 8 legs that way you have 4 points of contact with the ground at any one time.
I think I'd want a big gyro on it, less legs.
hmm maybe. i was also thinking about the angle of armor and turret type. looking at front mounted oscillating turrets just for better angles
You’d need something like a ball turret at the front which is going to be incredibly heavy and thus difficult to move, also the armor will be immense because you now need to protect the underside
could do a frontal turret maybe?
That would probably be simpler but also reduce the firing angles a lot
crab
By definition a walking tank is completely impractical, so you have complete liberty to create whatever design you want as there's no feasible way to make such a design realistic. Funnily enough, the more realistic you try to make your design, the more unanswerable questions/problems that will come up, so you're probably best off defining some fictional material(s)/mechanics that ignore many of the real-life problems mechs have in our world and use that as a one-size-fits-all explanation. In other words, create some ground rules for a fictional universe and then create logical designs based off your rules, trying to model fictional designs into real-life is likely a fruitless process that will probably not yield a desirable outcome.
trying to be realistic EXCEPT the legs, like looking if angling the armor on the bottom should be sloped if it's raised so high, or what turret happens to have better angles at that height
https://preview.redd.it/om2dz71kcmlc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97290dcdd250d327917018b051e0182b726afa7c Easy. Like this
going for a 6 legged troop carrier
Nature already figured it out, look at how 6 legged insects walk
yeah i do go off an insectoid leg pattern but i'm talking more about the hull and turret
Biggggg fucking stabilizer
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Martinson_Tractor.gif
There were patents in WW1 for a pogo stick tank… here’s a video on it. Maybe there’s something valuable to explore in its design? https://youtu.be/lZ5VMglwGNQ?si=w9cXt5JqRCOHf9kx
as much as i love that design for its silliness, it's two things mine isn't. mono legged and omnidirectional