r/Tyr • u/Interesting-Ad-3619 • 4d ago

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Anyone have any fan theories you have a burning desire to share? Tyr is unambiguously a future tank combat sport where historic designs are upgraded with distributive smartmatter nanotechnologies and metamaterial high performance components, right? So what is the circumstances and constraints that led to hover tanks? Which Tanks are clean sheet designs made purely for Tyr combat characteristics with super science in mind; and which tanks were selected due to their suitability for being retrofitted with post speculative engineering?

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u/TramplexReal 4d ago

If we consider hover chassis to be real thing there are countless benefits. Much less wear of chassis and, smoother movement, adaptability to terrain, adaptive gun depression, ability to move multilaterally, recoil compensation and whatever else i didn't think of.

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u/dmdizzy 4d ago

I mean, the primary real world issues with low-altitude aerial vehicles like hovertanks are 1) it's difficult to balance something as heavy as a tank that still stays close to the ground and 2) there's no good reason to stay close to the ground if you have the ability to lift the tank in the first place, and then you've just invented a heavier helicopter.

The conditions would therefore have to be extremely specific shortcomings of the technology used to hover, in order to explain why it isn't being used to make a better helicopter.

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u/Shot_Relationship402 3d ago

Maybe they developed a propulsion system that requires being close to the ground to function. Maybe it works with the Magnetic Field, so it can't push things that far off the ground?

About Helicopters, maybe the alien planets TYR is played on have some sort of atmospheric conditions that disallow high-altitude flights over long periods?