Post any interesting motorized vehicles you got, futuristic, retro, apocalyptic, it doesn't matter...

...

I don't know what that is or what is going on with the big block on top but it looks cool

...

Any requests?

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

I'm not normally one to see faces on cars but this guy looks so friendly.

Emergency Bump

...

...

>In an age without earthquakes

...

> Gunships are nice
> But too slow to keep up with the Chinooks
> Chinooks have plenty of capacity, why don't we stick guns on one?
> LOTS OF GUNS

> Road-mobile ICBM

I want to turn one into a campervan.

> Combine two helicopters with an aeroplane
> IT CAN CARRY NUCLEAR MISSILES, IVAN!
> No, sergei, we use actual aeroplane instead.

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

>design process: jam it full of guns

> We use aeroplane to launch anti-ship missiles!
> But ships shoot you down if you go high, sergei.
> Why go high at all? Why even be able to? We use ground effect, Ivan!
> What.
> Ridiculous speeds close to sea, lost in ground clutter! Tiny wings, lots of engines, plenty of payload
> We even make mobile hospital for quick responses!

'Jam it full of guns' is a fine american design tradition!

It's a sound and well-tested design principle!

...

It's a great solution to a shortage of dakka.

> Bruh, we're getting shot at
> Bro, don't worry, I got your back. I know how to weld. We'll get some scrap metal and weld some shit together to make an armoured truck.

>bruh that's pretty sweet, but why don't we just shoot back?
>I got you bro

> You want to bring a snowmobile to a bloody DESERT?
> Sir, with all due respect, our trucks sink into the soft sand, and the bloody Russians scattered mines everywhere.
> Is it mineproof?
> No, but it just won't set off anti-tank mines. It's too light. Remember what happened last year in Norway when you got out to take a piss?
> We don't talk about that.
> No, not the frozen piss bit. You sank into the snow after you climbed out of the vehicle sat on top of the snow.
> Oh yeah. Slap some RPG cages on it and let's go.

> IT WORKED FINE IN 'NAM, JUST ASK MAH PAWPAW.

> We need a tank
> We have a bulldozer
> We have some sheet metal
> We have a gun
> Didn't they make the first tanks from tractors?
> Let's show those fucking government assholes
> But let's take the time to put a really nice paint job on it first

> It's a tank, Ivan.
> But what's that on top, Sergei?
> It's a goddamned laser, Ivan. A big fucking laser. Unlimited range, no need to lead targets.
> How does it work?
> Synthetic rubies, Ivan. Synthetic ruby lenses.
> Sergei, the motherland can't afford that.

Apparently made and driven by firefighters.

As if you needed any more evidence that they're all crazy.

> The Chinook is good, but it could be better
> Why not stick wings on it to unload the rotors?
> YEAH.
> That'll help us chopper things further!

> Self-propelled artillery is a great idea
> But conventional towed artillery has better strategic mobility due to wheels
> So, why not just stick it on a truck chassis?
> And mine-protect it, because we're south african and paranoid as fuck about mines.

> Wheeled artillery? Great idea.
> Expensive, though.
> Why not stick it on an existing truck?
> Just armour the windows against the blast.
> > Off-road mobility? Tatra stronk, keep up with tanks, go anywhere, carry loads.

>aviary tank
>show the bird empire who's boss

> Torpedo bombers go too fast to drop the torpedo
> And too slow to evade enemy fire
> I know, why don't we make one that's SO SLOW it can't go fast enough to not drop the torpedo?
> And so slow enemy guns can't track it up close?
> Wonderful idea.

>hey guys, I got an idea for a boat
>you know that big mass of trash floating in the ocean...

That cab looks cool, wedged in the middle there. Fuck 2 crew in the front, fuck visibility, but it looks neat

What one South African company does with Hinds is pretty neat - I think they were used by PMC forced, and they have a home-grown chopper similar to it too (Denel Rooivalk) - just a shame there's so few

Also there's the Marauder 4x4 and anti-carjacking flamethrowers, because driving in SA is a bit... fraught. And clearly cyberpunk af.

Proppa orky

Oh, is that South African? I never knew that.
I know there's a bunch of companies making Hind mods, though.

Comfort > mobility.

The one with the funky name that looks like a hind but isn't one is SA, not sure about the various super-hinds - I know there's at least 1 SA company that has done though, and they've been used by PMCs, but as you say a lot of people mod hinds

geigerhind - for when "we're going to get fucked by that hind" is literal!

> They're not shooting back with anything beyond infantry weapons
> We still feel the need to drop bombs on their asses
> Aeroplanes are expensive
> Let's just have a cheap one made that can take lots of bullets
> Make it cheap to run, too
> No, cheaper than the A-10, with off-the-shelf parts.
> Make it cheap enough so other countries will buy it off us

Shame it didn't go so well - mind you, I'd guess a lot of the people who wanted to buy it weren't the sort the US wanted to sell to.

The A10 is great for the design concept of:
>Hey check out this gun - it's as big as a VW beetle and eats tanks
>I want to make this gun fly
>Doesn't fit on any current airframe? I'll build one around it.
>And make that airframe ludicrously tough
>Yeah, the recoil is so powerful it slows the plane down, so what?

...

>yar m80s
>ya ever think about stealin from somethin other than ships?

> It's a truck
> But it's amphibious
> And great off-road
> No differentials, so the drive train sort of fucks itself up on roads
> Have to remember to unfuck it every so often
> So high off the ground it needs it's own crane to load itself

I think i found a picture of one.

>have a navy pilot friend
>tell him about GEV
>"yeah that sounds like the crazy stupid stuff russia does"
>he reads up on them later
>comes back with "Jesus fuck those things were horrifying"

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

Vertical takeoff?

IIRC, yes. Or a short roll. The entire point of it was to transport missiles to silos in the middle of fucking nowhere.

> Pic related
An idea whose time has come again. The US military is looking into compound aircraft again for longer range and more fuel efficiency.
Someone sold them on 'green' policies as 'if you use less oil you don't have to haul as much of it to a combat zone, and don't have to spend so much fuel hauling fuel'.

NOW WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR MASTER PLAN?

Houses?

>We are superior to capitalist scum and their "hoss-pray"

The Cheyenne is an american prototype, though.

> We live in a world where building gigantic dump trucks is cheaper than hiring another driver

And now we have a worthy successor in that department. Made by two companies with literally no experience in aerospace, no less.

whoops, forgot pic related

It looks like a BAE Hawk crossed with a Tomcat, and spliced a little F22 and F/A-18 in there for fun.

Labor can get pretty expensive in the nicer parts of the world.

>We live in a world where a powerful computer program with an array of sensors and cameras will be cheaper than a single human driver

Are those two rotors on the tail?

All I can think about is the two with jet engines starting up and immediately flipping into the ground.

One tail rotor, one pusher prop. It's a compound aircraft, designed to unload the rotor with wings and a propeller at high speeds.

The tech of the 1970s was not up to the task.

>were
They didn't cease to exist or anything.
youtube.com/watch?v=TYFEFekPzDM

>>We live in a world where a powerful computer program with an array of sensors and cameras will be cheaper than a single human driver
Considering how the truck driver lobbyists have bent the government over a barrel, this isn't surprising.