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One of the tanks I cooked up in 3ds max. This one is the Astron X-Weapon, an American light tank design that never went past the stage of being a scale mockup. The link below has what I've written about this tank (information courtesy of Mr. Hunnicutt).
http://pastebin.com/dqDnB4jE
More of the tanks I made can be found in my little collection here:
http://imgur.com/a/BKxyu#0
http://pastebin.com/dqDnB4jE
More of the tanks I made can be found in my little collection here:
http://imgur.com/a/BKxyu#0
Category Artwork (Digital) / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 2.9 MB
The T110 was being developed at pretty much the same time as the ASTRON project. The MBT-70 was made only about decade later. While all were developed under different philosophies, they manage to look quite alike (like how most Soviet tanks look like the T-54/55). It is kind of funny how this sort of thing happened.
Do you happen to know if the same, or similar people were involved, or is it just one of those evolution things where they know what works, and what doesn't and keep trying to play around with what they're more aware of? Like how the turret fits certain things or allows enough depression, ect, ect.
It's kind of complicated. The X-Weapon was made purely by General Motors, the T110 series was devised completely by Chrysler, but the MBT-70 was made up of a rather diverse group (which included contractors from GM as the American branch). Appearance wise, they are pretty similar, but functionally they are rather different. The X-Weapon has little armor but would be very mobile, the T110 series would be much less mobile (comparable to the Soviet tanks it was built to counter, if not faster) but sport armor designed to resist HEAT shells. The MBT-70 was an odd mix of both, featuring the siliceous cored armor of the T110 tanks and the mobility of the X-Weapon (but it did have more modern features as well, being built ten years later).
I'd imagine that it's a mix of the two. You did have the same people working on two of those tanks, but the third was made completely independently at the same time as the first. I should note though that the T110E5 was the only T110 with its main gun in a turret, meaning all of the other T110s looked nothing like the X-Weapon. But then again, one of the early MBT-70 drawings was also a casemate design similar to the Jagdcheiftain (in the link below).
http://arcaneafvs.com/jagdchieftain.....eftain_001.JPG
/aimlessrant
Also, I'll update my description above to feature my abridged version of the specs of this tank.
I'd imagine that it's a mix of the two. You did have the same people working on two of those tanks, but the third was made completely independently at the same time as the first. I should note though that the T110E5 was the only T110 with its main gun in a turret, meaning all of the other T110s looked nothing like the X-Weapon. But then again, one of the early MBT-70 drawings was also a casemate design similar to the Jagdcheiftain (in the link below).
http://arcaneafvs.com/jagdchieftain.....eftain_001.JPG
/aimlessrant
Also, I'll update my description above to feature my abridged version of the specs of this tank.
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