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Subject:	Re: Tanks or Power Armor
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:41:20 GMT
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When hover technology is improved in the future, I’m not sure we’ll see tanks floating above the ground, since I imagine the recoil of weaponry would send them flying backwards for some distance. Maybe there’s some kind of braking involved for hover vehicles?

--Ry

When I think of what happens when a hover tank fires, i remember a little scene from star wars a phantom menace, the entire tank kinda glides back from kickback and the barrel has telesoping action to help in the kick back

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