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Also, while I don’t think that oceans or mountains make a compelling
argument for hover tank desirabilty,
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They do. It’s called AAAV-7. Done with a AFV already. Not Hover, but SES on
the water, tracks on land.
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rivers, and bridge destruction do.
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It would certainly be more convenient, but we’ve got bridge-laying
technology, so it would still be a matter of whether the hover-tech would be
durable enough to warrant using hover tanks instead of or in combination with
treaded tanks.
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I’d suggest reading “Hammers Slammers” by David Drake. He’s ex armor, has lots
of neat ideas and cool fighting scenes. Imagine hover tanks, using fusion
bottles for power, with a LOS cannon system based on a cartridge based system.
They don’t float. A 170 ton item takes a critical surface pressure to
support...regardless of how it is supported on the surface, it still weighs 170
tons.
ACE has been used for exceptionally heavy haulage vehicles in the past. In one
of my heavy haulage books, there is some photos of the kit being used in the UK
for moving transformers. It still doesn’t alleviate the problem of weak
bridges, but it works well every where else.
James Powell
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