Lolwut?
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Great minds think alike.
So basically what the kurds do?
I can feel a "special" connection.
There aren't nearly enough of these. I've been thinking about different kinds of improvised armored vehicles and I thought there should be a remote-controlled suicide vehicle of sorts, loaded with either tons of explosives or some kind of saboteur gear, like a giant plasma cutter that can burn through a barricade or another vehicle. It may be able to kill a tank, but I think it fits better in here than the anti-tank warfare thread because it needs to be customized and up-armored to some extent, and because it may have other uses. An otherwise normal vehicle with similar armament would likely be destroyed before getting close enough to do whatever it's supposed to do. There should be more improv vehicle types than just IFVs and ghetto tanks. Out of all the improv vehicles I've ever seen, from Kurdish rigs to Mexican narco tanks to hobbyist armored cars, none of them have ever done anything except that.
See the benefit of an excavator-based weapons platform is that it has a big killy bit on a long arm that can reach around corners and hills. So if you attach a camera and a BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT to the arm, you can wreck shit from over the hill with a very small surface area. And just like an excavator can change heads at will, you could also change weapons at will.
Recoil.
Stabilizer legs.
Next problem.
Ammo feeding
Probably belt-fed. You could put both an autocannon and a melee weapon of some sort on the crane arm, and missile launchers on the main hull safely behind cover. This is starting to sound like a cheapo artillery piece.