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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago

Emotional support fish is actually the commander, Lt. Gills

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was envisioning dolphins trained in tank warfare. The First Armored Cetacean Division.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

If dolphins can be astronauts they can command a tank.

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

posadas yeah, I support the troops

[-] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago
[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

they should do this but with submarines

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

They could finally use screen doors!

[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago

Water transmits sound much better than air, so the shockwave from any explosion (possibly including the tank's own gun) would rupture the eardrums of everyone inside.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago
[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, just don't get hit

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They travel further, but higher frequencies slow down due to the medium.

It'd probably muffle some of the more damaging high frequency sound waves but there'd be some shockwaves of lower frequencies involved which might do something else to you

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

No, the speed of sound through water is essentially independent of frequency. Sound is a compression wave.

You're thinking of transverse, or surface waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95sQcSulRFM

Given the high amplitude and nearness to the gun I'd guess nonlinear propagation would play a big part so that's interesting. IDK if that makes for a more intense shock front.

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was under the impression that high frequencies don't propagate well through water, but that's dumb because sonar exists lol.

Blame it on lack of sleep

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

yeah but if it transmit sounds better that means you can also hear better so ruptured eardrums aren't so much of a problem. basically a 0 sum thing

[-] MechanizedPossum@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

If you put enough life plants and filter media in, it becomes a miniature ecosystem and you can poop in there

[-] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

I mean a modernized Abrams already weighs 80 something tonnes so how much worse could this really be.

[-] driving_crooner 27 points 10 months ago

Add Sadam and re upload

[-] D61@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

But have you considered... the Piss Tank?

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Already done in Poland

[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

Fun tank fact! Due to a tendency for the M4 sherman to explode into flames when hit in the ammunition, it was devised to stow the ammo in water, coining the term "wet stowage"

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

we mwust stowe ouw ammow in wet stowage uwu

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So that's where that comes from! I'm always telling my friends about my wet stowage, now I know

that is a fun fact though, thank you

[-] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

dying instantly as an external explosion causes a shockwave in the water that ruptures everyone's organs

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago

Tank guy tank water > gamer girl bath water

[-] ultraviolet@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

over/under on when the IDF starts selling that?

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

This is literally just Evangelion

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Get in the fucking Merkava Shinji gendo-tent

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

This is just a reverse submarine

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

Makes me think of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker where the mech's cockpit fills with water for some reason

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Any ambulatory mecha would have massive motion sickness issues for the pilot whenever it walked. Suspending the operator in a fluid would possibly dampen the effects of bobbing around on the vestibular system and dampen shock from collisions or high-G turns. At least I imagine. I haven’t played Peace Walker but that’d be my reason for that to be in the design.

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Huh, that actually makes sense! It's worth pointing out that it also allows for a woman to be piloting said mech in a bikini and Kojima has terminal coombrain so that might factor in too lmao (maybe I'm not giving him enough credit idk)

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

It's not even a bikini it's just underwear. So...yeah, fanservice, just fanservice, albeit with an in-universe explanation as what Southloop said is pretty much it.

In Peace Walkers defense, you can also go on a swimsuit date with Kaz and get hot manbod so at least it's somewhat inclusive

[-] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

this is why mecha need to be smaller, agile, and well-coordinated, like a ballerina or someone taking that rich person ettiquette book-balancing-on-your-head-as-you-walk class, rather than a huge stompy brutish thing almost falling over with every step (looking at you, battletech)

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

breathing is for losers

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

"mermaids stay in the ocean, don't worry about them" :mermaid-shining:

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

What about the watermelon tank?

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