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Drake Blower Tank

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This is a hover tank concept that I envision every time I read Hammer's Slammers (the military SF of David Drake...). I was using a reference of an M-60 Patton tank, and decided to turn the hull into a hover tank. Considering that Mr. Drake was with the 11th ACR in Vietnam, and that they used the M-60 Patton... I figure its pretty close to the authors intent for what Hammer's hover tanks would look like. They are not super science anti-gravity vehicles by any means, they are just Ground Effects Vehicles (GEV) that use a cushion of air to lift them off the ground, but they are fusion powered! You would need a good power source to lift 70-100 tons of metal off the ground...
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"Rolling Hot" was one of the best military Sci-Fi I've ever read! It's so cool that someone else digs Drake's work. I've read all the Slammers stories...great stuff! Now for a Combat Car and one of those SP howitzers!