i didnt find any other threads like this one, so here goes. first, i am a nerd. and my friends are nerds, worse ones than me. they watch anime religiously. one of my friends sent me a clip from i think it was evangelion, or gundam wing or something i don't honestly know, but it got me thinking, i could put one of these things together with the right money. so, located below are my specs on it. its not the best, but please tell me what you think about it, or if you see a problem in one of my ideas or simply have a better idea, post it. please dont flame on this saying its a retarded idea or that i stole it from somewhere or some one because i didnt.


the biggest question: the legs. well, there are industrial grade setup, much like that seen on a bobcat, that can carry 80 tons each, and CAN be ordered non-custom 6 and 1/2 feet long (cheaper than custom). so two of those would make nice legs. arms would be roughly the same thing, but a smaller version, again non custom for cost effective construction. a 1.5 meter version, again, industrial grade, can carry up to 50 tons.

as for the gun, a nice 180mm or 200mm cannon would make a nice main weapon. but you ask how i could possibly load such a weapon without a 2 lonely men outside behind it? easy. the arm would have a macro that would have the arm form an "L" with the body as seen in the pictures.



a tube would extend from the backpack, insert into the gun through a one way hinged hatch, push in a new round via the piston, then release. the hatch would close and the gun would be firing ready. each shot would be roughly 5-7 second reload. For greater ammo amounts, as the pictures show there would be dividers holding the ammo. each would have a slide that would go back and forth, only allowing one shell out at a time. as for a close range or anti-personnel weapon, one of the slide for the ammunition could contain high fragmentation ammo, or a wrist mounted autocannon, or both, with ammo also stored in the back storage unit.

Now as for anti air uses, having shoulder mounted S.A.M. missle would be nice, but the possibility of them detonating is too great. therefore, i would say until safer missiles are around, use shoulder mounted dual AA guns, which again would be linked into the backpack ammo storage unit.

All guns would be linked into one main targeting computer. there would be no means of sight other than through optical monitoring systems to increase pilot safety, and all of these different optical systems would be located in a central "Head" behind the thickest transparent bulletproof material, as well as in other backup locations on the body.

everything so far, i think would be about 50-60 tons, after circuits are all added, and its bare structure.

so what about armor? well i figure that the entire thing will have no more than, 600 square feet of surface area. military grade steel used for tank armor is 0.283 lbs in weight. so a bare skin would weigh

600 ft * 0.283lbs = 170 lbs, rounded up.

to make it a REAL power house, it needs REAL armor. something that just cant be penetrated due to the sheer magnitude of it. most tanks that i read about have 400mm to 500mm plating, or about 1 and 1/2 feet. to make my mech unstoppable, lets give it...6 and a half feet of solid military grade steel armor. so the initial skin weight times the armor is

170lbs * 66 inches of armor = 11220 lbs, or 5.75 tons, rounded up. of course there would be areas that woul have more plating than this, for instance the feet for example would require more armor to balance the mech when still, as well as to help with recoil. so,the whole unit clocks in so far at 70-80 tons.


now for the pilot. we need to keep him from getting knocked around too much, or he might go unconscious. and that is just as bad as having him dead in combat. so to pad the cockpit, would need something that could absorb the force of impact, but be comfortable, and not be elastic. Alpha grade JETRO gel would do this.
http://www3.jetro.go.jp/ttppoas/anken/0001.../1062792_e.html

no, the last big question. how in the world do i keep it ON its feet? that is also not as hard as it sounds. having a huge full range of motion metal all, designed to weigh as much as it can and be as small as it can, more that likely made of lead encased in a different metal to stop lead poisoning. the weight would have to be located in the torso of the unit, and when one leg raised it would be swung to the opposite side, to balance out the mech, acting as a stabilizer. also, it would be linked to a computer that when the unit was hit, would swing forward to counter the affect of being blown back, thus keeping it on its feet. of course, somehow one will fall down, and there would have to be a macro to allow it to stand up. this ball would have to be heavy enough to counter weigh the mech, so a weight of 10-15 tons would work well enough if it moved Very fast, so the added momentum would increase the inertia when it moved. there is probably a better way than a big metal ball in the middle, butu im still working on it.

as for power, using a small nuclear reactor would do the trick. as for the waste, i would turn it into glass( http://redlandsapps.redlands.edu/news/archive/101700.htm ) so it couldnt seep into water supplies or anything like that. safe storage

so the whole thing comes out weighing, worst case scenario, 90-100 tons. that is still well under the 160 ton limit that the legs can hold.

so what do you all think of it?

I hate the term 'nerd'. Probably because most of my friends and acquaintances (and myself) would be considered nerds. However, without us there wouldn't be what we all have and use.
More to the point, why are you wasting your mind on this? I've been in control systems for several decades, and I guarantee we can use people like you in the field. So get your engineering degree and come join us. Just don't let your mind become too locked into the standard stuff; keep using the creativity you are showing.

I would love to watch a mech build a skyscraper i'm beting thats how it would start since its impractical to use bipedal man controlled mechs to fight wars.