Japanese Firm Invents Armored AT-ST Scout Walker For Combat

[RINGLEADER]

The prototype in the video is slow but it's still pretty cool.

http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/LW.htm

<img src="http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/images/LW_sam.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />

[Taco John]

We all know that Lucas invented this already... And his look much cooler...

[the Talking Can]

I'll take Robocop and the over for $1,000.

[wazu]

"Giant walking robots?! WE SURRENDER!"

-France

[Bwana]

Put a rack on that thing and gochiefs is in love. :)

[Hammock Parties]

While the video is downloading I'll just say that this is a stupid idea. How do these things give anyone an advantage in battle?

[Bwana]

While the video is downloading I'll just say that this is a stupid idea.

Dude, admit it, if it had a rack, you would hit it. :hmmm:

[Frazod]

While the video is downloading I'll just say that this is a stupid idea. How do these things give anyone an advantage in battle?

Especially if they're up against teddy bears with logs. :spock:

[wazu]

While the video is downloading I'll just say that this is a stupid idea. How do these things give anyone an advantage in battle?

Put down your weapon! You have 15 seconds to comply!

[Hammock Parties]

Put down your weapon! You have 15 seconds to comply!

That part always scares the shit out of me. Giant self-governing automatons with destructive capability are my second greatest fear.

[wazu]

That part always scares the shit out of me. Giant self-governing automatons with destructive capability are my second greatest fear.

Right after Carneys?

[Saulbadguy]

Yup..especially after they become self-aware.

[Redcoats58]

The walking on that thing looks fake. How come they only showed an inside view of it walking and an above view? They never showed a shot from away from it? If those things were in real combat they would be so easy to knock over.

[ChiefGator]

What a piece of shit...

Doesn't even walk.. just rolls on its feet.

Dumb.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Put a rack on that thing and gochiefs is in love. :)
Who are you kidding? We all know it wouldn't need a rack.

[Hammock Parties]

Who are you kidding? We all know it wouldn't need a rack.

You're both wrong. I've been madly in love with the AT-AT Walker ever since I laid eyes on it:

http://www.starwars.com/databank/vehicle/atat/img/movie_bg.jpg

[Fire Me Boy!]

You're both wrong. I've been madly in love with the AT-AT Walker ever since I laid eyes on it.
Like the big gals, huh?

[SBK]

"Giant walking robots?! WE SURRENDER!"

-France

ROFL

I thought it was "there's as much as a rumor of a fight? WE SURRENDER!"

[Valiant]

Oh this is old... It is a homemade walking maching.. only can walk on flat surfaces... And if fires nerf balls out of the cannon... It is just a giant machine...

[RINGLEADER]

You're both wrong. I've been madly in love with the AT-AT Walker ever since I laid eyes on it:

http://www.starwars.com/databank/vehicle/atat/img/movie_bg.jpg


Maybe you can answer me this: How come the snow speeder lasers can't get through the armor while they're walking but then, after they tie one up and it falls to the ground, all they have to do is shoot it with lasers to make it go ka-blooowy?

25 years later and I still can't figure that one out...

[Hammock Parties]

Maybe you can answer me this: How come the snow speeder lasers can't get through the armor while they're walking but then, after they tie one up and it falls to the ground, all they have to do is shoot it with lasers to make it go ka-blooowy?

25 years later and I still can't figure that one out...

Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they were just better able to hit a vital spot when the Walker was down, immobilized and not firing at them.

[Redcoats58]

Maybe you can answer me this: How come the snow speeder lasers can't get through the armor while they're walking but then, after they tie one up and it falls to the ground, all they have to do is shoot it with lasers to make it go ka-blooowy?

25 years later and I still can't figure that one out...
Shame on you for questioning your god. Lucas is very disappointed in you child. "Don't be seduced by the darkside"

[Judge Smails]

Was that Err from Aqua Teen they were shooting at?

[RINGLEADER]

Shame on you for questioning your god. Lucas is very disappointed in you child. "Don't be seduced by the darkside"

Please. Lucas hasn't directed a good film for almost thirty years...

[Logical]

We all know that Lucas invented this already... And his look much cooler...

I hate to say it, but I would bet almost any amount of money that the Japanese stole the basic concept from Star Wars. During my time living in Japan and working every day with their engineers they were the most uninventive people I ever met, brilliant at reverse engineering and improving on others designs but just terrible at creative thinking.

[Redcoats58]

Please. Lucas hasn't directed a good film for almost thirty years...
Who said anything about Lucas directing a good film? I said he was GoChiefs god. The guy has a hard on for starwars. Am I wrong?


Lol sorry I just realized Gochiefs didn't post it I jumped the gun. ROFL

[Logical]

Who said anything about Lucas directing a good film? I said he was GoChiefs god. The guy has a hard on for starwars. Am I wrong?


Lol sorry I just realized Gochiefs didn't post it I jumped the gun. ROFL
LOL I wondered if you had become confused.

[Redcoats58]

LOL I wondered if you had become confused.
I'm so used to GoChiefs making comments about Star Wars. Oops :banghead:

[Hammock Parties]

Who said anything about Lucas directing a good film? I said he was GoChiefs god. The guy has a hard on for starwars. Am I wrong?


Lol sorry I just realized Gochiefs didn't post it I jumped the gun. ROFL

Lucas being my god and me having a hard on for star wars are two very different things. The best Star Wars movies are the ones where Lucas has the least control.

[Fire Me Boy!]

But he's the creator, no?

[Hammock Parties]

But he's the creator, no?

You can say that again. :)

[Fire Me Boy!]

You can say that again. :)
But he's the creator, no?

[Hammock Parties]

But he's the creator, no?

ROFL

[Fire Me Boy!]

Why is it so slow tonight? I'm really friggin' bored at work, and this isn't making my night go any faster.

[Hammock Parties]

Why is it so slow tonight? I'm really friggin' bored at work, and this isn't making my night go any faster.

Uh, it's 3:47 AM central time. I was watching a movie for the last two hours, so that would explain my absence.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Uh, it's 3:47 AM central time. I was watching a movie for the last two hours, so that would explain my absence.
But it's not usually this slow, even for damn near 4 a.m.

What did you watch?

[Hammock Parties]

But it's not usually this slow, even for damn near 4 a.m.

What did you watch?

Pipe Dream. Some shitty chick flick on Starz romance. It was about a plumber who poses as a film director to meet women.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Maybe you should post that in things you wouldn't want your S/O to disclose...

[RedDread]

Pipe Dream. Some shitty chick flick on Starz romance. It was about a plumber who poses as a film director to meet women.

that sounds like the plot to a crappy porn flick

[Saulbadguy]

Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they were just better able to hit a vital spot when the Walker was down, immobilized and not firing at them.
Yep. They hit its neckmeat.

[Braincase]

Round 1 to House Kurita.

[the Talking Can]

what's Japanese for "Sitting Duck"?

or maybe they could call it "Target Practice"....

[KCWolfman]

As an urban control vehicle, maybe.

In military applications, it and the driver would be slaughtered.

[NewChief]

Round 1 to House Kurita.


Someone's played a little Mechwarrior/Battletech