How viable would this thing be in combat?
Also, retrofuture thread I guess.
>>30443647
I honestly don't even know.
I feel like the Freedom Bus would be very effective based on sheer confusion and terror alone, but once you figured out what to do it may become a non-issue. Also a tank would turn that into an actual tin can filled with human paste.
Everything this bus does a tank does 100x better.
>>30443647
What's not to love about a soft skinned wheeled motor carriage with no protection?
>>30443770
but a Bus is cheaper
That's dumb.
>>30443647
Give it mini nuke launchers and its fine.
>>30443799
I mean you get what you pay for.
>>30443647
pic oh so related
I love the massive fucking windows for the driver and gunner.
>>30443647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZc0mwTbgwI
>>30443647
>next stop: BERLIN
I love this.
>>30443647
>right lads we're on a secret mission
>to shoot as many nazis as we can in an unarmored bus
>who's with me?
>.....
Found a fault.
>>30443647
I could see it working in some kind of Mad Max scenario where it's all small arms combat and the occasional vehicular manslaughter.
>>30443647
I witnessed a head removed by a .50 caliber running a road block.
-82nd Airborne!
>>30443770
Can a tank carry 90 passengers?
>>30443647
>Blacks are tailgunners
>>30445685
Alright, you got me.
![latest[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/0yxRvz2.png "latest[1].png")
Give them all rpgs and sniper rifles and it'll work really well.
>>30445780
AK47s FOR EVERYBODY!!!
>>30444334
great minds think alike.
>>30443681
>tin can filled with human paste
Great, now I'm hungry.
BATTLE BUS!
BATTLE BUS!
BATTLE BUS!
>>30444334
On par with KC Green's sword-van. That's a good thing, btw.
>>30443647
>Norton Bomb Sight
>mfw I've used a Norden before
Kek.
>>30443647
>it has a Nazi bus kill count on the side
fucking kek.
>>30443647
It drops bombs?
If it was built off of the everything from a duece and a half it would be fucking awesome. Drop down steel plates from front windows, turret bubble on top, m1919 every other window with a partner in between. It could work with some expansion.
>>30443647
This better be a fucking joke... It's like those dipshit zombie flicks where they weld shit to a fucking bus for a "ultimate getaway vehicle"
>pic related, how effective this turd would be
>>30444334
Because of this video I was thinking that I need to play more missions in Arma 2 than I already do. Usually I play wasteland. Then I realized that this is a five year old video. I feel l've missed out on so much. My computer runs Arma 3, but not as well as other computers. I feel so lost.
>>30443647
Just imagine if we did this shit with the MRAP. It is big enough, already has am MG turret, it fucking armored out the ass, is built for modern combat, has the crew was capacity.
Why isn't this a thing already?
>>30445943
I'm guessing because the casualties would far outweigh the usefulness of this slow-moving RPG magnet. I'm sure everybody would be having a good time riding it until they got smeared all over the flaming bus and desert road.
This is a serious reply to a post that was probably mostly joking. I need less beer.
>>30445943
gun trucks were totally used in Iraq
vietnam too
Do Solar Auxilia count as retro-futuristic?
>>30445943
They did it with a humvee
Pretty cool if you ask me.
>>30445994
pic related, Iraq gun truck
>>30446036
>humvee
Do pushups
>>30446059
I guess if you lack dedicated vehicles for moving troops. Better than riding in the back of a lmtv
>>30443647
>>30443647
Can't understand the text on the bottom. How is this thing supposed to drop bombs exactly?
For anything besides rear echelon movement, its retarded.
>>30445994
I'm not talking about just a gun truck. I'm talking a fully enclosed driving fortress bristling with medium machine guns.
>one per window
>20mm autocannon on the roof for the reach out and explode
It would surpass metal gear
>>30446036
Pretty cool.
>>30446064
I did 30. If you want proof I'll mail you my ass sweat.
>>30443647
>next stop; Berlin
Keks everytime
>>30445659
doesnt matter how many passengers it carries if it can't protect them from utterly eviscerated
Well /k/?
>>30447265
Bet you can't think of any good reason why not!
>>30447283
This is truly the ultimate idea.
>>30447298
>>30447283
>>30447265
Gib
>>30447265
>>30447283
>>30447298
>1950's /k/
>>30447341
I've got a few of these things.
>>30447389
>>30445803
This isn't really that far off, desu. Except for foxhole diggers.
>>30447341
Just imagine some of the shitposting that could have been done in the past.
What else we got?
Here's a more sensible, down-to-earth idea from Tinsley.
>>30447389
I've never understood the walking vehicle obsession. We have roads absolutely everywhere on the globe, and where there aren't, all-terrain vehicles can find a way. Legs give an even easier failure point.
>>30447465
I like mecha but I think it's more reasonable to assume that powered exoskeletons will be walking combat units of the future.
Here's a lovely little tank.
>>30447265
nice idea but they simply be zeroed in by artillery
>>30447524
True, but what about if they had super armor like this awesome weapon of war?!
>>30447549
I...Is there a reason we don't do this for APC's?
Nothing can stand up to this weapon!
>>30447592
Presumably because it's shit against modern anti-tank weapons.
>>30447389
Metal gear?
>>30447545
I'm not sure about that placement of the exhaust vent. It seems like any shell the struck the side would end up piercing the vent and flooding the engines.
>>30447592
this >>30447624 and the realization that sloped armor is a meme.
think they use some kind of composite now.
>>30447592
the only thing I can think of is, depending on the angles of the corrugation it effectly doubles the amount of metal needed and might over complicate production. Idk i'm just spit ballin'.
>>30446168
Allah Ackbar
Time for a bug hunt!
>>30447592
because it doesnt work
>>30447563
damn, you beat me to it.
/r/ing that concept art for a rapid response unit that would have been deployed to anywhere on earth via ICBM
This one is kind of cute.
>>30447669
>>30447681
holy shit, hivemind
>>30447581
this shit could actually work at least for sf and paratroopers, having a birgade of troops appear through terrain that should be impassible is a pretty big advantage
>>30447563
This one's a bit more what you'd expect.
Does anyone have the "combat testicles armored vehicles" from the best of /k/ threads?
IIRC this one was completely made up.
>>30447697
This is actually one of the more "viable" things that's here.
Ye Olde Raile Gunne
>>30447283
The answer is it's more cost effective to dig out a foxhole or use sandbags to dig in rather than manufacture/haul these moving targets around.
If you're too dumb to see this you're too dumb
>>30447951
It's kind of surprising that we're only just now putting this to use.
>>30448143
Well yeah, a lot of these are fancy nonsense or people correctly coming up with an idea that might be sensible but exaggerating it to the point of overdoing it.
>>30448167
materials science wasn't there, components not efficient enough, too much friction killed barrels.
>>30447731
This seems like obvious Soviet propaganda.
I don't have old popular mechanics pages to contribute, but an anon dumped a Dillon catalog a couple months ago.
Beep beep, pillbox-chan is mobile now!
Reality wasn't too bad either desu.
Let's step it up a little.
>>30448218
>What if we built a tank to fight tanks? Then we wouldn't need to fight tanks with tanks, because we'd have tanks instead of tanks.
Panzer magnet, land mine magnet, bomber magnet.
>>30448167
>It's kind of surprising that we're only just now putting this to use.
Not really.
The ideas for many weapons are extremely old, it just takes a certain level of technology to realize them.
The ultimate bomber!
>>30443801
Great, now I need to buy a vintage bus and make a rolling armory/ /k/ommando meetup/trading post. I hope you're happy.
Clearly the best military solution is a space fortress.
>>30448454
Nice rocket.
I'm done, to finish here's a clickbait article from the 1930s.
>>30448410
Look up bread loaf vans, plenty of surplus to be found for a couple thousand even after shipping.
Hell you could probably finance it by taking a vacation to buy up a bunch of surplus to fill out the container.
>>30443647
>Looking at the details
>it's a "medium" bus
>implying there would be a light and heavy version
I can't even imagine what those would be like.
>>30447563
>Primitive Kiowa pilots
>>30446168
>How is this thing supposed to drop bombs exactly?
Its clearly a fucking joke
>>30447563
>this is what Kiowa pilots actually believe.jpg
>>30448454
I find it hard to believe anyone gave this any serious thought but the idea of a US-built death star IRL is fucking hilarious
>>30448746
Oh I forgot one. Thanks for reminding me!
It sounds like a bomber. Is this picture photoshopped?
>>30447933
Russians fielded these in the winter war against finland. using T-26 tanks with flamethrowers so you didn't have to really aim rather the controlling tank guided them in then signaled the teletank to arc in gouts of flame.
>>30447662
>it effectly doubles the amount of metal needed
I mean, this armor is retarded, but do you really think that the DoD would be like "Well, the armor works, but fuck it, we have to spend a little more on this vehicle, so nevermind"?
>>30447731
Those tank drivers went to the prometheus school of running away from things.
>>30447592
we do, anon
![600px-Death_Race-Dreadnought-7[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/j28IJVl.jpg "600px-Death_Race-Dreadnought-7[1].jpg")
What about this? rear mounted Abrams turret.
>>30443681
>>30443790
>>30445551
>>30445912
Seems like it could basically be a very large APC with poor off-road mobility. Could be useful for moving troops around on roads in rear areas where there is some possibility of ambush. And there's no reason why it couldn't be armored to resist small arms, and that's all APCs are generally resistant to anyway. Saying it would be wrecked by a tank isn't really a flaw, since pretty much anything that isn't a tank is vulnerable to tanks as well.
>>30446168
Tosses them out the sides/rear
>>30445978
With enough slat armor (which can potentially be very lightweight, with the right materials) RPGs would basically become a non-issue.
>>30448383
No matter how tiny the plane is, the bomb is still 2 tons, and that's about four times the weight of the typical dirigible-launched fighter. The USS Los Angeles (which the airship pictured here appears to be) could only carry one such fighter; the Akron and Macon could carry 4-5, which is to say they could probably carry one of these planes and a single 4,000 bomb. Also, 25,000 feet is pushing it - WWI dirigibles did reach that kind of altitude, but only after losing all ballast, payload and most of their fuel. One carrying planes almost certainly couldn't get that high (especially considering the Americans used helium).
It would probably be more practical to use radio-controlled torpedoes dropped with parachutes. Or simply use dirigibles for what they're good at (reconaissance) and leave strike missions to aircraft based off of normal carriers.
>>30443681
Idk man, depends if it's actually uparmored or simply painted green and filled with dudes. It may be like shooting a sheet, just passing through
>>30447731
Speed so amazing and impressive that it would be like a RTS game. It would get destroyed by enemy construction / engineer units walking along side it, taking it apart bolt by bolt.
>>30448746
Project Horizon was a seriously-considered plan to build a military moon base in the '50s, never underestimate Cold War insanity. These were the people who nearly put Project Pluto SLAMs into production, and developed shit that's still beyond classified today (Casaba-Howitzer, SDI bomb-pumped laser weapons, etc).
