Thinking about it from another perspective, there might be a TLP here - My initial thought is Form Follows Function Failure - this is where creators get carried away by Rule of Cool and fail to understand why things are designed and constructed the way they are in Real Life - a form of Artistic License – Physics.
The only thing that makes it more advanced is the neural interface, but this has it's own problems - if anything happens to the lone operator, the tank will simply grind to a halt whereas a typical four man modern MBT crew allows for redundancy - if your driver is injured, you can still fire in place and if required one of the other crew members can take over and get the tank the hell out of dodge. So we have a tank that's supposed to be five hundred years more advanced that is much larger and taller, making it a much bigger and more exposed target, has inferior armour and armament and while it's faster, this is at the expense of having four separate tracks making it much more mechanically complex and increasing the potential points of failure. M 1 A 2 - 42mph (dual track conventional setup) M 808 B - 60mph (quadruple single track 'bogie' setup) M 1 A 2 - 120mm firing Depleted Uranium Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding-Sabot (APFSDS), High Explosive Anti Tank (HEAT) or Canister shells M 808 B - 90mm (some variants 105mm) firing Tungsten Armor Piercing Ballistic Capped (APBC) shells or Canister Anti-Personnel ammunition Main Gun / Ammo (both guns have similar rates of fire, assuming the M 1 A 2 has a fast and well trained loader) M 1 A 2 - Ceramic Depleted Uranium composite plus optional reactive and slat armour
M 1 A 2 - 67 tonnes, 26-32 feet long (depending if gun overhang included), 12 feet wide, 8 feet high. M 808 B - 66 tonnes, 33 feet long, 26 feet wide, 14 feet high. except in the neural interface allowing it be single manned. Inferior Future Technology without justification Videogameĭo we have this? This is where a work is set in the future of humanity, but the technology on show, despite being perhaps hundreds of years in advance of our current tech is either only equal to or is actually even worse than what we can currently do.Īn example is the M 808 B "Scorpion" Main Battle Tank from the HALO universe which by any metric is actually inferior to our current Main Battle Tanks such as the M 1 A 2 Abrams etc.
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