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[sneakey pete]

The US, I presume, army, does that with their vehicles, but not tanks as far as i know.

[Twi]

The US, I presume, army, does that with their vehicles, but not tanks as far as i know.

Certainly not the Abrams. But you might be able to do the trick I did with something along the lines of a Sheridan, as well as many other things that are not tanks. And of course, those things are made to be parachuted in more sane fashion.

[Lightningfalcon]

I remember seeing a Soviet designed tank that was meant to be towed be towed by another plane, and then was supposed to glide down to it's target. 
Here it is- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

[Twi]

I remember seeing a Soviet designed tank that was meant to be towed be towed by another plane, and then was supposed to glide down to it's target. 
Here it is- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

Not to be nitpicky, but technically it's a glider that you strap on to a tank.

[Lightningfalcon]

I remember seeing a Soviet designed tank that was meant to be towed be towed by another plane, and then was supposed to glide down to it's target. 
Here it is- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

Not to be nitpicky, but technically it's a glider that you strap on to a tank.

I found the link after I wrote up the first part of the post.  All I remembered was that there was a tank, it was supposed to glide, and it failed. 

[Leonon]

The US, I presume, army, does that with their vehicles, but not tanks as far as i know.

Certainly not the Abrams. But you might be able to do the trick I did with something along the lines of a Sheridan, as well as many other things that are not tanks. And of course, those things are made to be parachuted in more sane fashion.

You're pretty much dead on. The C130 Hercules (pretty sure that's the plane in the video) can't fit an Abrams inside it (just a little too wide) and couldn't take off if you did manage to get it in (Abrams is over 3x its maximum payload weight).

Now I want to go try to LAPES a rover.

[Dutchling]

So, someone carrier guy made a rotational habitat which makes Kerbals experience artificial gravity.

[forsaken1111]

So, someone carrier guy made a rotational habitat which makes Kerbals experience artificial gravity.

A few people have tried this. It doesn't 'really' provide artificial gravity because the game's physics engine doesn't recognize the centripetal force as gravity so they still can't walk around on the surface.

Still, very cool.

[Azated]

I managed to land a small Kethane refinery in Antarctica. Half of it exploded because the landed gear gave out when I hit the ground, but the drills still functioned. After I turned them on to test if it worked, I realised that I had no idea if Antarctica even had Kethane deposits.

Is there a mod that allows Kethane mining anywhere that's compatible with version 18.2?

[Dutchling]

You know you can map for kethane right ?

[Azated]

You know you can map for kethane right ?

You can, but landing a 23ton refinery on that single pixel of the Kethane map is a pain in the ass.

[forsaken1111]

You know you can map for kethane right ?

You can, but landing a 23ton refinery on that single pixel of the Kethane map is a pain in the ass.

The kethane deposits are actually rather large. I've never missed one.

[alway]

Yeah, if you do a continuous scan of the ground, you will find they are typically dozens of miles across. For an ideal kethane map, put a satellite scanner in a polar orbit, and it will then scan across the entire planet as the planet rotates.

[rhesusmacabre]

Rollin', rollin', rollin'...

Throttling down. (Anything over 60m/s resulted in carnage.)

Oh, right, the sea...

Still going!

And relax. (It kept on oscillating like that for a few minutes before I got bored.)

It would probably have kept on skimming across the water if the engines hadn't been destroyed by hitting the surface. Maybe if they were closer to the centre...

[Twi]

Damn it, do you have any idea how much I've tried to do that? :L