I guarantee you won't Fallout of this APC
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I am happy that The Dockmaster has created the new objective standart for vehicular design quality:
"Is this something Dolly Parton would ride around in?"
I hope he applies this more ofthen in his ship's analisys
I guarantee you there's an "M1 camp bed, folding" out there somewhere, and probably an "M1 latrine, portable" right next to it.
M for Model.
It's for Mark, or Model.
I like the old commonwealth model better: Cot, Folding, Troops for the use of. C1
@@snorrithorfinnsson8230 Understood sir, but we're talking about the US's predilection to name everything starting with an M and the first model being a 1, which is highly confusing when you start talking about firearms. There's an M1 Garand rifle, an M1 Carbine, an M1 Thompson Submachine gun, an M1 Rocket Launcher (Bazooka,) and an endless number of other M1 weapons. Right on up to the M1 240mm Howlitzer. And yes, there are M2 and M3 and M4 models as well. And so forth. Everybody knows what an M16 rifle is these days, and the carbine version of it is the M4.
Of course it was not always so. Prior to the 1930s firearms and other things were designated by the year of adoption. Hence the M1911 Colt, M1918 BAR, the M1917 Revolvers, the M1903 Rifle, and so fourth.
@@tarmaqueOh, God, thr US Navy "Mark Model" system (Mk 2 Mod 1, etc.) Can get confusing as Hell, because you'll have Mark Mod numbers for widgets, a different Mark Mod number (entirely unrelated, amd often duplicated in use for other categories of equipment) for a subassembly of several of these widgets working together, amd a Mark Mod number (again, unrelated, often duplicated) for the overall system.
Imagine if your M16A2 rifle was instead called the Mark 16 Mod 2 rifle. And that rifle was made up of the Mark 2 Mod 0 stock assembly, Mark 42 Mod 4 trigger group, and a Mark 3 Mod 7 sight assembly.
But if you swap the rear aperture and front sight for the glow in the dark "night" post, well that's a Mark 5 Mod1 sight assembly, which changes the entire rifle designation to a Mark 18 Mod 3.
suggestion on purpose for the back "awning"
The attachment points pull double duty. They're also there so a PA trooper can be hoisted up to standing position or a damaged PA can be held there for repair in the field. Its a mobile Power Armor dock, basically
At least thats my take
a respectable, and honestly believable take. If you look at Fallout 4's opening scene, there is a bit where some poor sod has to STAY in his power armor while a pair of mechanics go at it with grinders, probably to cut away a section of armor that's damaged.
Treating the rear lifting lugs as a chain hoist hooking point, combined with the overly heavy front end, it makes a lot of sense for it to be a makeshift mobile PA bay.
Considering the demonstration in the Live action this is most certainly one function.
Ghoully Parton, armed to the teeth, singing about cheating jerks and teaching raiders to read
I'd watch it.
Sounds somewhat similar to a serial from "The Outer Worlds".
The plow is probably for keeping blast pressure from nukes getting under it to keep it from flipping. See a nuke go off, nose in and drop plow. The aerodynamics of the rest might explain its shape.
The front screans "Danger will robinson"
The ball turrets are the arms and the viewports are the eyes.
I would say it's a little more Robbie the Robot in style. Although there's probably some other early TV/Movie robot that is an even better fit. It certainly has that 50's / 60's style.
My father was an armor officer. According to him, infantry were meant to grease the treads.
Did you need the entire company or could you run over a smaller enemy force to keep up the maintenance cycle?
@@MichaelRainey Depends on the vehicle, really.
Wheeled Combat Vehicles like Humvee's or MRAPs are satisfied with about a rifle squad a day, as they only have to keep their 2-3 Axles going.
Tracked Combat Vehicles like the M2 Bradley or M1 Abrams on the other hand require about two infantry platoons on a quiet day and between 2-3 times the amount on a hectic day with moderate to high amounts of combat, due to them needing to lube up not just their countless roadwheels and the sprockets but also the entire length of their tracks.
While both kinds don't really care about if it's friendly or enemy infantry and gladly feast on both, a responsible Driver always feeds their Pet Armor OPFOR infantry, as it is much cheaper and less controversial to use than BLUEFOR infantry.
First APC was used by the ancient Celts. They had chariots that could carry around 6 warriors, including the "driver". They would dash up to the front line, off-load the fresh fighters, gather the exhausted wounded ones, and dash back to safety. Over and over again.
The more you know... ;-)
Dolly's library is probably the best thing she's ever done, in a lifetime of doing great things.
Sevierville resident here. Dolly can do no wrong around here, and for probably the only time in my life, I will totally roll with that.
I'm not a country fan, but give her mad props on general principle.
And the book program is great, we did it for our daughter, and donated to the cause as well.
I’ve tried her boxed cake mix, shockingly good, arguably one of the best on the market.
m1? you mean the gun the tank the flamethrower the plane the boat the radio or the ration pack?
On the "too many M1" thing--that was started because we had to many Model of 1917s, shortened to M1917. M1917 Machine Gun, M1917 Rifle, M1917 Colt revolver, M1917 Smith & Wesson revolver (yes, 2 revolvers in 1917--none of the parts were interchangeable), M1917 bayonet, M1917 trench knife, M1917 Light Tank, M1917 75mm Howitzer, M1917 155mm Howitzer, M1917 helmet... the list goes on. By going to M1, M2, M3 et cetera you could at least adopt broadly different items of the same type of thing in a year and not have the same designation.
And then by WWII everything was the M3. Light tank, medium tank, truck, armored car, gun motor carriage, aircraft MG, submachine gun, 37mm AT gun, 105mm Howitzer, fighting knife, tripod for the M2 HMG... there is more but the point is made.
Designation hell
Soviet small arms designation remains superior
PPSh-41 - Pistolet-Pulemyot (Submachine Gun) Shpagina (Designed by Georgy Shpagin) 41 (introduced in 1941)
RPD - Ruchnoy (Hand-Held) Pulemyot (Machine Gun) Degtyaryova (Designed by Vasily Degtyaryov)
AK-74M - Avtomat (Automatic Rifle) Kalashnikova (Designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov) Obraztsa 1974 goda (Model 1974) Modernizirovanniy (Modernized)
And so on and so forth
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StG-44 (Sturmgewehr [Assault rifle] 1944), MG34/42 (Maschinengewehr [Machine-gun] 1934/1942) and 8.8cm FlaK 37(8.8 centimeter FlugabwehrKanone [Anti-Aircraft Artillery] 1937) have entered the chat.
XD
@@carebloodlaevathein6732 What if there is more than one weapon of the same type made in the same year
@@JoetheDilo1917 You mean like the MG34 for ground level use and it's aerial counterpart? Then the latter simply gets another name i.E. MG151. Or like in the case of the many different PAKs(Panzerabwehrkanone [Anti-Tank-Gun]) it'll simply be named after it's caliber(and Barrellength) like the PAK 40(Panzerabwehrkanone 40 millimeter), PAK 75 (Panzerabwehrkanone 75 millimeter) etc. And due to proper Standardisierung of parts any two guns of the same caliber from two different manufacturers can interchange parts from each other like the aforementioned MG34 and MG151(and for the most part the MG42) which as a interesting side note extended even up to heavy-duty machines like steam locomotives. The famous Baureihe 50, aka Kriegslok, used almost entirely the same spare parts as the much smaller Baureihe 86 and Baureihe 89 which made (spare) parts production immensely easier and faster than if every single Baureihe would use different parts. But I digress.
If a finer example of humanity exists than Dolly Parton I have not yet been made aware of them.
Mr Rogers
Keanu Reeves
@@MrDj232 came here to say this, lol.
I'd say that Princess Diana could stand beside her.
Lecherous much?
Personally my headcanon on the controls for it is it also has a robot built in like a mister gutsy system that controls the weapons systems at the command of the driver who handles aiming etc.
I've always thought the Fallout APC just looks kind of ungainly. Also the ball turrets being conventional cannons threw me for a bit of a loop, I expected those to be like... Rapid fire lasers? That way the battle bus there would have some anti-infantry capability as opposed to three different flavors of boom
Plus lasers match up with the "Running out of resources" narrative, because all they need is power.
Lasers would also explain how it gets away with having that big of guns. Because there is no way it could carry more than a maybe 8 shells (unless they are *really* short, and even then), if that, for each 75mm and still have apace for the breach block, engines, autoloaders, ect). The 105mm is even worse, between the autoloader and breach block, their just isn't all that much space for 105mm shells (mostly because of that overly tall passenger compartment).
Judging by the barrel lenghts of this vehicle cannons, they _are_ primarily designed as infantry support howitzers (like armament of a lot of RL interbellum/early WW2 "infantry tanks"). That solidifies this vehicle as IFV.
Also let me defend ventilation holes shown at 17:25: from the purely frontal perspective ( see 18:29 as reference) they clearly shielded by driver's cupola, so enemy would need quite high vantage point in order to target these holes. Also, by best bet is that these holes are designed to vent off powder gasses from it's main gun turret.
The whole top part looks like a retrofit or smt... probably they had to increase the hight of passenger compartment to fit the new power armored troops and they added the turret along with it. Of course the turret has to be remote controled auto loading system which mean a lot machinery that needs cooling. Puting the cooling vents on front was the least bad choice.
Also the 6 wheel design would be much more reasonable in a pre-retrofit version that only had to carry normal troops.
Maybe the turret was added to help with the center of gravity of the vechicle...
@@DanielDracohun >The whole top part looks like a retrofit or smt
Maybe. If this thing was Fallout analogue to M113 or Bradley than it should also have a metric shitton of diferent modifications and retrofits like M113 or Bradley have😉
@@DanielDracohun Adding a turret is going to raise your center of gravity; this is rarely an improvement for a vehicle that has to traverse broken ground.
Dockmaster: Good point on the Robco involvement, my thought would be that something akin to the robots of fallout is present as driver/gunners and the one squishy is just the vehicle's commander. Also, whether it is an APC or IFV there is one big problem that you didn't mention...This machine does not have AP weapons! A pair of 75s and a 105mm sound like AT weapons or at least bunker busters but there is no defense against infantry with rockets or magnetic mines or whatnot. Another point is that in FO:76 and FO:4 we are in the US of A and near the national capital, the only time we see the front lines is in the DLC for FO:3 in Alaska so what we are seeing is not the military IFV but the national guard IFV (maybe older military surplus from 2050) so that might be reasoning behind some of the design's quirks.
Regarding Dolly, It would be great if Bethesda heard your comment and got permission to add a few of her songs into the game. In that way she would be in the universe in spirit.
Given the look of the assault rifles in F4 with their cooling shrouds, I always thought the two ball mounts at the front were for some form of water cooled automatic gun.
"it isn't meant to go toe to toe with anything else." Eh well, best laid plans and all.
11:08 Yes most of the tech in the fallout universe amount to basic ASCII gui's but they did on occasion have virtual reality interfaces, it may not be a total stretch that the 'lone crewman' had some sort of augmented reality. That's before discounting the whole design as being not based on any realistic fighting situation and that Bethesda seems to have a hard time designing even personal weapons that make physical sense. (guns ejecting cases out the left side of the weapon, feeding systems that can't possibly work, taking real world weapons and still somehow fucking them up in game)
The other bit I thought of: Fallout has all these various Assaultrons, Mr. Gutsy's, etc...why couldn't the guns be at least partially controlled by a hardwired robot? That is to say, there is no robot coming out of the IFV, but all of the systems are integrated into it. Then, the squishy human can delegate different tasks, targets, etc to the robot part.
I would also suggest that the forward guns are probably beam weapons with hardened barrels, no idea about the turret gun though. The whole thing would have an atomic engine, like the cars, so this can also provide energy for the beam weapons at the front. No ammo needed. The armour would also have to cope with plasma, laser and mininuke attacks....
The Royal Navy invented the Tank as well, the royal land ship committee under Churchill .......
WC committee
It's a very artdeco design for a ifv
The curves, way the hull is made in one cast piece, edges and such remind me of old batman cartoon
Die cast construction. It's a lost art...
kinda lives on trough plastic injection mold
I know it's just because of the Aesthetic™, but the APC kinda reminds me of the Obiekt 279. An experimental Soviet nuke-resistant tank.
It's the curves.
Maybe the Chrysler TV-8 too.
Early variants of M4A1 Shermans also had curvy casted hulls, untill they swapped it for more cheaper and easier to make angular welded hulls.
How'd an APC get onto an orbital shipyard anyway
Savs
A lot of explosives and a dream
Someone probably wanted it cubed, it's really not a good design.
In a CUBE
Specialists.
Not sure if this worth a notable mention but their is also a tracked version of the APC, with a machine gun turret that is a Survival Tent skin.
5:43 30 decades? I didn’t know we’ve had MRAPs for 300 years. 😆 Also, regarding the Treaty On Conventional Armed Forces In Europe, keep in mind that Fallout takes place in an alternate timeline. This is pure speculation, but maybe that treaty never existed in the Fallout universe. Therefore, there would be no distinction between APCs and IFVs based on caliber of armament. Might explain why an APC with a 105mm gun is still referred to as an APC. And, just as an aside, the barrel on that 105mm gun seems awful short and there doesn’t appear to be enough room in the turret for the breech. Oh well, it’s only a video game. Very few weapons in Fallout actually make sense when you stop and think about them.
The barrel length is fine. If it's ment to be a howitzer/mortar (whch would make sense for an infantry support vehicle). Same goes for the 75mm. Would make a lot more sense for them to be lazer/plasma weapons, but since when does Bugthesda care about things making absolutely any sense? And before you go off about Fallout not making sense in general, that is mostly a Bethesda addition. The originals made at least some degree of sense
The only thing that makes sense to me, this was originally some sort of Assault Gun/Tank Destroyer that was converted into an APC for Power armor troops probably as a Stop-Gap until a more optimum design was provided. In its original role it would have had a crew of 4-9 (Driver, Commander, possibly a Radio operator, 2-3 gunners and possibly 1-3 Loaders) and carried a lot of shells. They were then converted in to APC's by trading the ammunition storage and most of the crew capacity for a passenger compartment, leaving the driver and maybe 1-3 shots per cannon. Granted this is all speculation on my part, but, that's what makes the most sense in my head
The APC front, with the two openings for cannons, has a resemblance to late 1950s GMC trucks.
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It reminds me a lot of British heavy tanks, like the Churchill series and how they were designed to support infantry while being heavily armored
Front of it looks like a train from 1920s-1970s.
Which makes sense since Fallout has the Retro-Futurism of the 1950's.
My theory for the Fallout APC is that it was designed and built some time very close to the Great War (maybe around 2070-2075) to be able to survive and continue fighting after a nuclear strike, allowing the US Army to carry on the war effort after both governments have effectively destroyed each other. This would explain the excessively thick armor, which probably contains a layer of lead to shield the crew from radiation, as well as the overhang off the stern.
You know, I JUST realized that the Sacred Cow Shipyards logo is an 'S C S' with a halo staked on.
I guess that's what I get for barely paying attention to it for over a year.
If I understand correctly, it's meant to be a monogram, an anchor above waves, and an upside-down abstract cow's head, all at the same time.
The US had at least some manner of working computer intelligence that can take voice commands in the fallout timeline so computer assistance for that one driver?
Technically the IFV predates the APC by centuries. In Europe during the 1420 there was a war in Bohemia called the Hussite War/Revolution (Protestant vs Catholic) . The Hussite forces used a "War Wagon".
A heavy wagon given protective sides with firing slits and heavy firepower from either a cannon or a force of hand-gunners, archers and crossbowmen, supported by infantry using spears, pikes and flails. Groups of them could form defensive works, but they also were used as hard points for formations or as firepower in pincer movements.[6] This early use of gunpowder and innovative tactics helped a largely peasant infantry stave off attacks by the Holy Roman Empire's larger forces of mounted knights.
During the battle of Sudomer on March 25th 1420, a force of 700 (300 heavy knights and 400 cavalrymen) attacked a Hussite force of 400 Hussites (peasants including women and Children) and 12 war wagons. Terrain and the "wagon fort" tactic allowed the poorly armed Hussites to inflict heavy casualties and defeat the Catholic force.
Damn! Not an Aero Gavin.....
You saying touch screen gave me flashbacks to vids on the t-14 armada. Lol.
Today is a good day, a new ship on the dock...
*vehicle! lolz ship, if this ting was a ship it'd be a heavy bomber.....well that or a troop lander lol
You can see why the entire world was running out of resources if you know anything about steel. Between the APC, buildings, vaults, power armor, and robots. It's the 50s manufacturing exaggerated times 1000 with cold war era fallout resistant afterthought worked in.
Don't worry the history of the Sino America war is pretty simple. China invades Alaska, which America owns, for the last oil reserves left on the planet and if you want to know how that turned out just look at the great war that followed. I'm sure that will explain who won in the end.
No one won because of vault-tec
Ok, first off, the US probably sabotaged Chinese oil wells in the Pacific to ensure they had the last war. Second, under what definition of win?
Also after/during China invades Alaska the Us invades mainland china as diversion. Its actually crazy how far the war went before the nukes were droped... and even then its still likely that the goverments weren't responsible for starting the nuclear exchange.
I mean IRL US invasion on mainland China would go nuclear insantly...
It looks a little like a hippopotamus from the front, the turrets look like the nostrils, the windshield looks like the eyes, and the cannon... Well that looks like a cannon, there's no getting around that.
Pretty sure the treaty didn't happen in the FallOut time line.
that "IFV" looks like Thomas the the Tank ingine got nuked. then said "I have had enough!"
Regarding the single operator of the IFV, there's any number of robots in the Fallout setting, so the guns may well be controlled by voice commanded robot brain(s).
Dolly Parton certainly is one of our best flesh creatures and a treasure of a being.
Uh. In terms of conflict american troopers were in fact had boots on the ground in china and were moving in on their cities which is what caused the nukes
my guess is that each turret is an independent robot. possibly based on a sentrybot program or assaultron program.
the driver doesn't need to do more than shout at the robots what to target or if they're allowed to target anything that isn't an american and then they likely do so all on their own.
Angry Chameleon would also be a banger name.
They don't need a touch screen. They skipped them and invented VATS.
Fallout draws the aesthetic for everything in it from the vehicles to the architecture to the culture from the science fiction pulp mags and comic books of the 50s. A lot of those illustrations were more for looking cool and futuristic than for being practical or realistic. You had tanks that looked like Hot Rods and spaceships that looked like V-2 missiles.
4" thick, that's early light battle ship armor
30 decades? That's a bit longer than MRAPS were around hehehe, digital time glitch up there on the station i guess
Covered wagons like Docmaster said. Yea most of us picked up on that. The little squishies many be not so much.
@@GrantWaller.-hf6jn Covered wagons were never used is that roll, as a combat transport, they were always for supplies as 'the men can walk'.
So even in that slip of the tongue, it doesn't work.
@@xxxlonewolf49the men rode horses minus driver and shotgun lookout women and childeren rode under cover of couse it is not an apc. The infrastructure was not setup yet to make steel like that. Still mostly iron not alloys
@GrantWaller.-hf6jn NO no they did not. The soldiers WALKED. The CAV rode, a much smaller force. The average person did NOT ride the horse, the horse pulled the carts & wagons. Do please keep telling me you don't know shit about history or warfare. OR stfu & learn.
One other - well, technically two - particularly glaring shot traps I just cannot get myself to overlook are the inboard sides of the recesses for those ball turrets. If you get any sort of reasonably sized and adequately propelled projectile in there, that is going to have one of two possible outcomes, with one being catastrophically bad, and the other being just severely bad:
Best case: the shot deforms the metal and thus causes the ball turret to get essentially stuck in its then-current orientation, rendering it basically unusable unless you want to try and aim the entire vehicle.
the worse result would be a shell hitting the same spot, but actually penetrating the armor - thick though it may be. Which then in turnmay result in at least one of two - and possibly more - results: Either the now wildly careening projectile is deflected toward the centerline of the vehicle - which just to happens to be the one direction in which the vehicle's sole operator is located - resulting in an unholy mess in a very confined space and the vehicle put out of action due to loss of crew. The other direction would be toward the outboard side - right into where by necessity systems associated with the ball-turret would need to be located. These ranging from gearing and hydraulics for moving and aiming hte darn thing, all the way to spicy bits like ammo feed/hoppers and ultimately ammo magazines. Anyone wants to guess the result of impact-related ignition of large amounts of propellant and/or explosives in a very confined space? Images of HMS Hood come to mind.
You are a wordsmith of great calibre. And I fully agree with your assessment. The design is striking but... maybe not the most practical.
@@l0rf Thank you for your compliment. I don't know about wordsmith - let alone caliber, but thank you nonetheless. I merely tried to make a point and to do so as concise as possible. As for striking design, I am not so sure. it certainly is ...unique. No question about that. But that isn't necessarily a good thing either. After all the last thing you'd want on a battlefield is stand out from everything around you. Because that in turn makes you just one thing: a superbly inviting target.
I wouldnt be surprised if AI was responsible for operating the guns, by looking at how common the Robots were pre-war.
8:00 - think of it as 'Emwan;' an honorific title bestowed upon their primary military equipment.
Everything is an M1. it's terribly confusing! Yes, yes it is. That's why we do it.
They probably just let the computer decide who to kill on its own like their robots do XD
Hummies don't suck at classification! Classification sucks at hummies!
What do you mean this doesn't make any sense? You don't make any sense!
Its APC IFV, with APC being the name and IFV being the designation. Kinda like star destroyer battleship, with star destroyer being its name and battleship being its designation.
Like Chuck Norris memes, he is his own weapon, the M1 Dolly Parton model needs very little armor. She comes equipped with such at front, and in back, and also she has sonic powers.
Will have to come back for Dolly's Library because getting kids to read actual, physical paper books is awesome, and reminds me that I still haven't filled my bookcase yet...
Also this vehicle just screams "I was designed by a Moron!" to me in the voice Sergeant Arch Dornan from Fallout 2. Looking forward to what you'll cover next, maybe the M577 Armored Personnel Carrier employed by the United States Colonial Marine Corps?
Looking at its face reminds me of a miata. Death Miata
In the show they comment that PAs are about 12 tons each.
Making the overhangs on the back serve duty as cable/hook heavy equipment lift routing points for PA recovery and maintenance makes sense.... probably also for IFV self-recovery to be fair, as the proliferation of M88 recovery vehicles seems to have diminished somewhat since the kerfuffles.
No, Mrs. Parton would not ride around in this if you painted it gold.
I'd try pink; I remember some commercial of her with Elvis saying that they should take the pink Cadillac out next time.
Well quite honestly the front of the vehicle most avidly reminds me of a (very grumpy looking) RC aircraft remote.
With you on dolly, she’s an epic level human being.
War wagons, the original APC.
The 105mm on the Fallout APC (IFV) is probably a howitzer. It looks similar to the 105mm M4 (which fired HE round M1. Haha) that the M4A3(105) carried. A big HE thrower makes sense as an anti-infantry platform.
I can almost smell the enamel
That Armoured Personnel Carrier from the Mark series is the best looking. Also there are too many M1s to count.
I always thought it looked like a hippo.
Infinity when? (at this point its tradition)
I will file your naming suggestion under the M-1 naming standards category as M-1 naming suggestions line M, row 1/ Dolly's cannons (which she named "M" and "1" BTW which is why the Govt has stuck with the naming convention for so long).
17:32 That's probably the venting for the computer that controls the top turret, they still aren't great I agree.
I reckon you could get it running again, they are indeed exceptionally durable. It may take a lot of work and knowledge that is probably lost but nothing is impossible and it would very likely be worthwhile, people have built working cars and vertibirds, people still outright manufacture power armour and preposterous airships.
Nope, I think we’re going to keep naming everything in the military M1. And you better watch it, or we’ll start naming all our battle field rifles M1 again too. 😂😂
In all honestly, I haven't played the games, so I don't pay much attention to the IP very much. But back in the day, I played Emperor Battle for Dune, and the APCs were the best, and this "has a good personality" duckling reminds me of those.
Good video dock master 👏🏻
now I want a mod with a Ghoul Dolly Parton wandering the wastes in a gold AFV giving settlers books to read.
Yes please.
Man I like how that thing looks like someone noticed an Intern didn't have anything to do and gave him a 2 day project. I really hope Obsidian gets to take care of the next game.
To me, the frontal profile looks an awful lot like Crazy Frog.
Dolly is definitely Not a CUBE. 😮
Battle Toad or Hungry Hippo Fallout APC. Can seem the troops calling it either.
I was just replaying Fo4 and you post this... GET OUT OF MY WALLS
I'm here to claim my cube, item number ZX-9 Solar Sailor starfighter.....man that was a fast little ship, I was only late by 1 hour, damn daylight savings! 🤣
They're computers might not be very good in the Fallout Universe but they do have very good AI in the robots (not counting the Robobrains), so each gun could be controlled by ab AI.
There might have been horse drawn carriages that had metal plating or thick wood paneling in urban areas before cars but it wasn't well documented much like RC vehicles in WW1 & 2. If someone can find an old picture or documentation of one let me know. 🤔
Given the Fallout setting, that thing has a nuclear engine, and I would bet that those weapons are not cannon's but direct energy weapons. Possibly laser in the ball mounts and plasma in the turret. These would need a lot of venting, as they would produce a fair amount of heat, hence the vents all over the place. I really feel sorry for the poor driver, as you said he has to drive, spot, target, fire, and COMMUNICATE with both the squad he's carrying and his commander.
I'm guessing that the overhang is to give more protection to the troops from shrapnel, even when the IFV is buttoned up or full with your two power armor troops.
The laser weapons in-'verse have very different barrels.
Thing I never really got about the APC (apart from where exactly does all the ammo go) is why is it using projectiles, US Army in Fallout had gone full energy weapon sometime prior to The Great War, the M-series & R-Series having been relegated to National Guard use only, why are they still using convential weapons on IFV's when the infantry swaped to more power energy based weapons years before (you'd think with internal power generation the vehicles would of been a perfect platform for energy weapon use)
Good cause
Great pronunciation of "Appalachia"
Anything Infantry is welcome.
Maybe Dolly in her prime, all those back surgeries.....,.,.
Just when I thought Dolly Parton couldn't get any more impressive...
the front profile of the APC is a chameleon looking at you dead on trust me i owned one and that was the look i got before she was gonna try to slurp my for some water lol
Yeah, I agree with ya, mostly.
The designers never ever seed to think of it getting attacked from a slightly elevated position.
Or multiple other scenarios with those grills.
Even the front facing guns, (flamethrowers?) seem to be pretty useless most times I would imagine.
And who knows if those holes are as well armored as the rest either.
As for the other guns, I wonder if they are some kind of plasma weapons.
Perhaps just big regular guns, perhaps recoil less ones.
By guns I mean not cannons.
As for the armor thickness.
I wonder if it is layered, like modern tanks and such have.
Hard outer shell with perhaps some kind of more exotic inner lining.
Sprocket is a pretty good game for armored vehicle design, all mine end up looking similar to the strv 103 because I can't resist the benefits slopes offer.
Is it good? Is it bad? Who can even tell? Mostly it's _incoherent._ It's got a jumble of features that either don't work together or don't work at all; at a guess, it was probably drawn by someone who'd seen pictures of various armored fighting vehicles but without any explanations of what various features did and why they were located where they were.
Great video, Dockmaster! This reminds me of the movie "Pentagon Wars" about the controversy surrounding the Bradley Fighting Vehicle... a vehicle that was supposed to be an APC, but they kept putting weapons on it.
There's some contention about that movie.
@@SacredCowShipyards A bit of understatement there. Just a smidge. Starting with the contention the Bradley was ever supposed to be 'just' an APC.
The only reason it's called an APC is because Bethesda has no idea what an APC and an IFV are or how they're different
Yeah , I love Dolly too . She is an Institution .
I see an angry frog
That front profile always reminds me of Dolly Parton, for some reason...
Power Armor has various in-game weights depending on the game but not more than 100lbs. I expect the APC will have a "brain" like the many robots out there and the crew just commands the APC or takes over a particular duty that it considers priority while the APC takes over the rest. Pip Boys have interactable screens for VATs so you can choose targets so I expect that would be available to the crew as well.