MK1 Armored Assault Tank | Star Wars
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Trade Federation had the power and wealth to ensure what couldn't be settled in the boardroom, would be decided on the battlefield. Spearheading its droid armies, and later those of the Separatists, was the MK1 AAT.
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“These tanks all have the same weakness. The droids piloting them.”
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"Great shot!"
*HIGH FIVE*
@@Sephiroth144Greatest scene in Star Wars 😂😂
@@theskullboy8700 To Crosshair's credit, I can't name any other Clone Trooper who could snipe a tank with a perfectly aimed shot down its own cannon.
I doubt ANYTHING would immediately forsee such abstract tactics. Creative thinking like this is what topples giants with mere stones.
>Turret position prevents main gun from depressing much.
Solution A: Redesign the vehicle so it can use its gun more effectively at more angles
Solution B: Add more guns and ignore the main issue
Solution C: Asymmetrically adjust the ride height of the repulsorlifts to put the vehicle in a nose down orientation, increasing the effective maximum depression angle of the main armament.
Hold up, logic isn't allowed here. @@StacheMan26
@@StacheMan26 space Type 74?
@@StacheMan26 both? both? both.
Solution C: make it so that building and crewing these things is so cheap that it doesn’t even matter.
Fr a combat operational AAT and its crew is probably less expensive than a single clone trooper
I love how Star Wars they feel. No other franchise could have had anything like this. The clunkiness, the physicality, it all just works
Warhammer as a Ton of Grav tanks
@@DCPTF2 yeah, but do any look and feel like the AAT? The design of the AAT is more then just a hover tank
@@ElysiumCreator I agree. I love the warhammer tanks but they don't feel like Star Wars. That's not a bad thing, but the design architecture is so distinct.
@@birb330 yeah, prob should have made that more clear. Love Warhammer 40K tanks (Leman Russ Class my beloved) but the AAT is so unique to Star Wars
Yeah. There is a degree of realism knowing that something is heavy and hard, or clunky and broken. Fools your brain into believing you're not watching a movie.
I hate how awesome those hull mounted rocket tubes are but NEVER get used in any media I've seen.
Star wars battlefront used them. At least the original two.
They are used, in the Phantom Menace, I'm certain we see them being fired when the Gungans start to break
Yeah literally the only time I've ever seen them used is in Battlefront II (2005) as unguided, direct-fire, high explosive rockets.
@@weldonwin Correct. I think that is the only appearance in film so far.
@@mattstorm360 I'm pretty sure the newest one also has it.
Things I wish they'd have done with the tank:
1. Show them dug-in and "hull down" since that's the point of a top turret.
2. Show them strafing while firing or going over bad terrain (water, lava, bogs, etc.), since that's the point of hover tanks.
Imo, lava is a very dangerous environmental hazarad even for hovor tanks, depending on how they're built.
The building where Obi-Wan and Anakin had their iconic 1v1 on Mustafar practically melted like a stick of butter in a microwave when their sabers destroyed vital electronics that controlled the shields that was crucial to its own integrity.
(All things considered, btw, I bet that facility was built prior to that lava river being there. Doubt any construction crew could build anything like that on top of active volcanic hazards!)
@@trumediamix1 "depending on how they're built" is doing a _lot_ of heavy lifting. You're talking around a thousand degrees centigrade, and that heat naturally warms the air to a similar temperature, and that air then goes up. To where the tank is.
It _might_ not melt the hull outright, but anything with a higher combustion or melting temperature (such as anything organic or ductile) is going to have a _very_ bad day.
You'd need to have sealed cabin (which they may have) and some impressive radiators (and, to be fair, _Star Wars_ tends to hand-wave their radiator needs away.)
Ironically the only time I've seen them strafing while firing (albeit over solid ground) was the Lego Clone Wars game, where all playable hover tanks and certain walkers could lock onto a target to do so.
roughly 9.75 m in lenght 16 m wide and 14 tall. HHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm someone forgot to recalculate feet into meters.
Oh my god, we're ruined.
@@TemplinInstitute that makes a total of two errors out of all of your videos that I’ve seen. (Considering that the other was the Imperial task force video, and was a case of getting a ship’s starfighter complement wrong, I’d say it could easily be much worse.)
@@TemplinInstitute (also, I will soon launch Operation: “Barony”. You might want to keep an eye on submissions to your ideas page.) (P.S. On a somewhat unrelated note, since I just remembered it: why in the *world* haven’t you covered anything from the universe of “Ender’s Game”?!? I checked, and no one’s even suggested it on the ideas page!) sorry this got so long, keep up the good work!
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"Wait, AATs aren't that big!"
- the guy who was trying to make a replica design of an AAT in Minecraft by the meter.
(1 block ≈ 2 meters, btw! That means Alex and Steve are roughly 6 feet tall)
@@trumediamix1 I think you mean that one minecraft block is a cubic meter. Steve and co are two blocks tall.
Possibly my favorite tank design in all of fiction.
The Phantom Menace was my favorite Star Wars movie as a kid and now, having come full circle though the originalsaga, it still is.
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As a tank nerd I'm kinda disappointed the Republic doesn't really have an MBT role hovertank. The TX-130 is an awesome looking design, but lacks firepower in the form of it's modular top turret, typically sporting relatively underpowered equipment and weapons (like beam lasers) compared to the AAT's main canon.
@yume5338 Exactly, I feel like the old Clone Wars games did a good job of portraying this. Compared to the TX-130, AAT felt like a super heavy.
...dang it, the nostalgia is growing thicker. The CIS Droid army is awesome
"Alright, when we get down there, we need t-"
*_《AIRSHOT, SKIDOOSH!》_*
"What the He-" *_[BOOM!]_*
"WE'VE BEEN HIT!"
Probably one of the most straightforward and practical tanks in Star Wars. It’s a combination of a tank and an attack helicopter. It’s got heavy armor and a FULLY ENCLOSED turret with a main cannon. Then the hull has its own set of heavy firepower with cannons and missiles.
If the AT-TE had a turret like the AAT, their gunners would’ve probably been a lot happier.
Sadly, although it's worth noting that _Star Wars_ grades 'practical' on a fairly harsh curve; they consider walkers 'practical.'
Can you imagine an alternate version of the war where the CLONES were the ones who got AATs?
@@SephirothRyu see, I think sticking droids into a one-man open top turret makes a lot more sense. The AT-TE’s convertible turret atop such a huge body is nothing but cruel.
@@darkninjacorporation Then again, it would make even B-1s a juicy target, even if they have a slimmer target profile than most humanoid bio-types.
It's not even a "chopper," it's more akin to an APC! I love the AAT's iconic design so much, and I love its arsenal similarly so, mostly in part for how much potential it offers to the crew, if they're well-enough coordinated.
YES. YES. YES. I have loved the AAT since 1999, this is perfect. :D
While not excelling in any one area, it really is a proper main battle tank, capable of many roles. That it remains a serious threat even after the fall of the Empire is a testament to its design. A more modernized version with a shield generator or some enhancements to the armaments and armor would make it incredibly powerful.
Probably my favorite sci fi tank. It’s just so unique and cool looking.
Compared to pretty much everything else in star wars, this tank is almost sensible. Infact its almost shocking how sensible this is for star wars.
Imo, the AAT wasn't just "sensible," but *_"theoretically practical."_*
The main reason it failed was the circumstances of its creation and the creators who wielded it in the fields of war.
The Clone Wars was, in Darth Sidious' eyes, a slow burn to gradually exhaust the galaxy so that the only flame left burning bright was his own.
The CIS was doomed to fail, and the Galactic Empire showed no respect to the technologies of the GAR.
@@trumediamix1 The AAT was operated by the Trade federation's security apparatus decades before the CIS existed. Im not sure the needs of the clone wars were in the mind of the tanks developers.
@@Justowner As if Palpatine had them in mind?
Imagine drunk driving one of these
That woul be funny as hell
You are definitely an insta user 😭
not sure that'd be much different than a B-1 crew operating it *normally*
*armored ram goes through a house* MY BAD
@Edge-wx7hv AIIIEEEEE
love the AAT, my favorite sci-fi tank design for sure.
I love the amount of thought put into something that was probably thought up by artists just wanting to make something that looked cool, giving no thought to function.
I'd imagine most of the thought came afterwards. Which is one reason it is such an absurd design.
Welcome to star wars lore
These things are so cool and I love how they're clearly designed by and bought by people who don't fight wars, like positioning all the rocket launchers a couple feet from the ground. But they look dope as hell so it's win-win for the manufacturor and buyer
It's more sensible if the rockets are indirect fire weapons; like Javalin. That way mounting them lower down protects them from incoming fire, and you have to have a part of your hover-tank stuffed full with dozens of javalins, you really want to protect it from incoming fire.
AATs are pretty awesome. You have to respect the clankers for making it a literal floating pile of guns.
Really good music selection for this one. Makes the thought of going up against them daunting, and later, the flaws of its implementation rather tragic.
Does anyone know the name of the songs? I really like this music selection.
I would love to see an analysis of the Providence-class Dreadnought.
One thing I never understood, why the B-1's would put their "fingers" to the side of their head during comms like they have an earpiece in like an organic being.
Because they were made so cheaply, the comms system that some B1s have is an extra attachment that they have to equip. They are toggling the comms like an organic would because their comms aren’t built in.
Because otherwise we (the audience) wouldn’t know that they were talking over comms
Watsonian and Doylist explanations on display.
More sensibke than majority off Star Wars tank designs.
“I still can’t seem to hit anything!”
They are one of the best vehicles in star wars, the problem Is that it was crewed by droids and also a little bit of plot armor
(Loses head to Grievous' anger)
AT-TE gunners:
"Hold my plasma coated apfsds"
More like full caliber AP shells
AATs are better
God these things are hell to fight in EA Battlefront 2 co-op.
For some reason, the AI controlled droid are allowed to use the main gun and side guns at the same time while moving, but players can only use the main gun while static.
One of my favourite vehicles in Star Wars thank you very much! Lovely suprise!
I love this tank to death, easily one of if not my absolute favorite in sci-fi
When was the last time we got a Star Wars vehicle designed with this much care and logic?
Would love to see it reimaginated by the Institute
Nice seeing more Star Wars content once again
Another great video to add to the playlist when I want Star Wars specifications told to me on repeat while I paint
the more I learn about real world tank design and military acquisition, the more I understand that this completely impractical design could be very real
It looks like a tank designed by a commitee, and it's likely was (almost given with TF).
Man now I long for the AAT's revenge where some galactic partisan group lights up some old AAT factory and trains some competent tank crews. I bet in the hands of skilled operators these platforms could perform well above their weight class even well into the future.
They'd definitely need to pile some modern upgrades onto those aging models, which were only as effective as they were in the clone wars due to being mass-deployed and up-to-par with the tech of the time, but the potential for the AAT to become a viciously effective battle tank even in later Star Wars eras is definitely there.
Hell yes! More Separatist videos!
2:17 for a 14m tall tank the 2 humanoids standing right in front of it sure seem normal-sized.
I always imagined it could use the repulsors to depress the front and elevate the rear to get more gun depression.
Can't believe this is one of my favorite tanks and heavy support units alongside the TX-130.
“Local insurgents” - That’s a strange way to describe the Grand Army of the Gungans. 🤔
Yo this was straight up the hardest video ever of yours
The MK1 Tank is really cool. I liked them, ever since first watching Episode 1
One of my favourite sci-fi vehicles. Very Star Wars, it feels clunky and very physical, but still uses tech we can't dream of.. but like it was everyday, similar to tank treads and wheels.
One of my favorite fictional tanks. The design and use of the vehicle is great.
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Please make videos about the armored core series and gears of war
I love this vehicle for its simplicity. A hover tank with forward facing guns and a rotary cannon.
The one thing I would love to see is the AAT in black.
I wonder if maneuver warfare tactics exists in Star Wars; from the capital ships to the troop transports, everything is designed to shoot from and be shot from the front. A squad of pickup trucks with a blasters turrets mounted in the beds would literally run circles around them.
Second baby! Love the Templin Institute. Cover so much in so much detail.
The T-55 from a galaxy far far away
Prequel era tech is so cool!
If we could get an unknown galaxy lore story that would make my year all love templin ❤
It's a bit wonky, but I still love the thing, lol
If I were to redesign the AAT it would be to move the turret to a better position, remove the blasters and place a Repeater turret with the command hatch, coaxial repeater with the main gun and one in the Chassis and move the troop carrying internally protecting Squads of Droids and or Organics. Maybe add a shield, move the missiles to the turret like a Bradley but with Hellfire launchers and a more powerful main gun.
Love these tanks in Battlefront
My favorite set piece from the prequels.
The CIS tank is soo cool !!!
Right off the bat, a trade Federation blockade.
You should do the C.I.S droid army next (this is just a suggestion).👍
Every time I see the opening for one of these videos i want to play command and conquer
In star wars galactic battle grounds there was a heavy mtt where it had a bigger gun and tons of extra armor and in the game oom-9 was in one as the hero unit
I would love to see a video about the ISA Tank from Killzone 2 and 3
I can never decide if I love or hate this tank. On the one hand, it's actually a tank, and was a favorite in OG Battlefront II. On the other hand, the actual design is a hot mess.
The design seems alright to me for a Star Wars thing. The problem is that B-1 droids seem to be... well, they use it the same way they do their own bodies when they do that "march in a square legion while shooting" thing.
Seriously, it has a relatively low profile main weapon, multiple smaller callibre weapons for anti-infantry, and has essentially 6 rocket launchers for firing heavy self-propelled ammunition (seemingly usually for anti-fortification shells, though B-1 droids seem to often forget the system exists). Heck, mounting the heavy launchers in the lower "shoe" actually PROTECTS what is otherwise a big magazine of shells on any terrain that is even mildly hilly, since it is too close to the ground to easily hit from range outside of completely flat terrain (you can just not carry shells for it too if you are worried about losing vehicles, especially ones piloted by B-1s who mostly forget the weapon system even exists most of the time).
Basically everything wrong with it is "they gave it to basic B-1 battle droids." It only needs frontal armor because, at least when NOT being used by a B-1, it can move sideways and backwards. It can keep its face to the enemy and move in any direction.
Imagine if the Clones were the ones who got these things. Heck, some sources even indicate that the lower "rocket ammo shoe" could be easily removed and replaced by suitable, fieldable machinery. Meaning that with the right support vehicles, you could use them in fast hit and run attacks against a heavy target where you rush forward and just shoot off everything in the shoe before backing away at maximum speed back around a hill, corner, or cliff to dump the on a special lifter with some arms or something, and have a replacement shoe "magazine" just quickly attached in its place (sources seem to conflict whether the detachable shoe actually has any of the main repulsors or not, though it likely has some auxilary ones to support the weight of the shoe seeing as damaging the shoe can cause one side of the tank to drag on the ground).
I see a Star Wars video from Templin, I like
Will you guys ever do another “Building Your Battle Group” video?
The M4 Sherman tank of Star Wars.
Please do a video about UNIT (Unified Intelligence Taskforce) and the Torchwood Institute from Doctor Who.
You could make videos about Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk Universe and the Corporations in it. It is very interesting in my opinion.
I always thought the assault tank looked a lot like the Magella tank used by Zeon
The GAR should have utilised Repulsor Jammers on the battlefield, and just ruined these with their own Walkers and Wheeled armoured vehicles.
this tank reminds me of the fifth element weapon, even the color fits😅
Shame you didn't put in the shot of the AAT taking down the assault shuttle; twas a great shot
this feels like im warching the history channel talk about conspiracy theories
"The pilot in the front hatch controls the tank, the shells, and the short range blasters. The commander in the top hatch controls the turret and the main cannon. You have to take out both chambers, otherwise the tank remain will remain operational."
-- Ahsoka Tano, on how to combat an ATT
14m tall!? That's absolutely gigantic! That's a 5 story building!
I assume he meant 4
it's feet. Freedom units are confusing.
Please do next about Trade Federation Battleship
I used to oeve these as a kid
I often wondered why the Confederacy never made a heavy tank version of the AAT tank, the standard aat was more of a medium tank
If they innovated the Tank to be more automated so it could have less crew it could have made it more efficient and likely more reliable and accurate
My guess is because the droid army was made and sustained with quantity over quality in mind. Why spend time and money changing production lines and creating new designs when that same time and money can go into putting more units in the field?
That said, the Confederacy did once create a much heavier tank with shields strong enough to comfortably survive AV-7 artillery canons, however to my knowledge these "super tanks" (as the Lego Clone Wars game called them) were only built in one factory on Geonosis and only saw combat once, in the same battle that said factory was destroyed.
The tanks themselves proved incredibly effective in that battle, only destroyed by either taking out a bridge to drop them into a chasm, or collapsing the factory itself on top of them (and the latter was merely enough to disable the tank without killing its crew).
So as for why the Confederacy never deployed these incredibly effective tanks again anywhere else...I have no idea.
Why does the laser-cannon have a recoil? And how does a sniper, who shoots into the barell, destroy the tank, when there should be no ammunition, which could ignite?
In Star Wars, it is a name for a plasma cannon.
Star wars blasters and cannons use a gas called tibanna that gets ignited not lasers that's why they have recoil, and that shot into the barell of the tank probably hit whatever the liquid tibanna is stored in.
I kind of want to like this thing. And it being a hover vehicle could perhaps let it tilt forward to compensate for the lack of turret depression (there's actually a Swedish tank that aims up and down by tilting back and forward, it's adorable). Though, the side-mounted guns, as funky as they look, feel like they make no sense. If there's already a set of less hull-mounted guns, then why add 2 more, if they have no ability to aim aside from up and down? Why not make them more fully articulated? Or why not have a co-axial anti-personal gun on the turret? According to my old illustration book, it kind of looks like there's a passage between the main crew compartment and the turret, but it doesn't seem possible to get inside the turret basket. Having the reactor right beneath the commander may also cause issues.
Activate the droids
Get ready for the clone Force 99 team to take droid
Ah yes, the original hover tank
To be fair the frontal armour of the ATTE does feature a huge fricking window.
Do a video about Copper 9, the main planet of Murder Drones!
The greatest insult Star Wars gave us is not letting these guys reach their potential. You almost NEVER see them use any of their weapon systems besides the main gun.
Will there ever be a stellaris invicta season 3?
Will you talk about the factions in The New Order: Last Days of Europe?
I was wondering if you can do a breakdown video about the World Government from One Piece please
Can you please do a video on the commando droid, octotara tri droid, and the patorian guard.
With the turret so far back, gun depression is abysmal. I doubt it's more than 3°.
The rockets in the lower hull will also be very short ranged and only of marginal use.
The extreme hight and width of the tank make it very easy to spot and it's difficult to make temporary emplacement for it.
Not having shields make it far more vulnerable. They're on droids, why not on tanks?
Having the commander being the main gunner is a TERRIBLE idea. It distracts him from his main job of commanding the crew.
Clearly a tank designed primarily by a committee thinking "we know best" and not by proper military engineers...
But as seems to be the way with almost everything in the CIS droid army, quantity over quality is taken to extremes:
A decent tank being mass produced and deployed en-mass nearly everywhere in the galaxy, is deemed better than an excellent tank that costs more (not least in designing it and changing production lines for it) to be deployed on fewer battlefields in smaller numbers.
love this thing!
Say what you want about the prequels, the world design was on another level.
The problem wasn't the tanks. The tanks are badass. The problem lies with the tank operators, aka droids. On the few rare occasions that clones stole a tank and used them, they tore the battlefield apart dancing around their foes like a professional skater on ice.
Does anyone know the names of the music used during the video? I really like this music selection want to listen to it more.
Victory to the free and independent people of the CIS!
Heya! Will there ever be a time you'll do the Cyberpunk factions such as Arasaka Corporation or Militech?
Could we please have some variety? You've done GATE, so you may as well bite the bullet and do something from Gundam or other anime!
The RX-78-2!
The GM!
The Earth Federation!
Zeon!
The VF-1 from Macross! (And no, I will NOT accept use of Robotech)
Or even the Minovksy Particle and its impact on warfare.
Is this one of those vehicles tat have the word "assault" in its name for no reason, or does given the luckluster Trade Federation arsenal this vehicle really is better on offense than anything else they had?
SPACE!!!
All my homies hate repulsors. Legs are where its at
Could you talk about sulis from battlefield 5 and 2042