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Vehicle Function
Military
The military has an especially wide variety of specific roles their
vehicles are designed to fill. Each vehicle is designed for a
specialized purpose and works in conjunction with other vehicles.
Vehicles may be designed to function in a single environment, such as
atmospherically, on land, or under water or they may be designed to
cross environments. The variety of functions must generally be filled
in each environment, leading to a wide variety of vehicles being
encompassed by each of these generic definitions.
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Anti-fortification |
Vehicles designed to bring high power, direct fire onto
fortifications, buildings, and infrastructure. Bombers,
specialized tanks. |
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Anti-personnel |
Vehicles designed to remove
the threat of ground troops. |
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Anti-tank |
Vehicles designed to eliminate other vehicles,
particularly well protected ones. |
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Artillery |
Vehicles designed to deliver constant or fast-response
damage from beyond direct line of sight, generally at a
great distance. Generally supported by forward observers
in the form of satellites, recon vehicles, or infantry
troops. Ground artillery guns, atmospheric artillery
platforms, specialized attack craft. |
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Attack |
Multi-role craft generally
designed to deliver ordinance capable of disrupting or
eliminating a variety of ground-based targets. Sacrifice
some of the ability of vehicles with more specifically
focused roles in order to engage a wider variety of
targets. |
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Fighter |
Generally fast, light, maneuverable vehicles designed to
quickly engage and eliminate targets. |
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Infantry mobility |
Infantry units will have a variety of vehicles that
augment their ability to quickly move from one location to
another. |
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Infantry firepower |
Infantry units may have a variety of vehicles that augment
their firepower and capabilities. They are often built
around a single weapon system in the form of a "gun car"
or "missile car" specifically tailored to provide high
rates or fire, anti-aircraft capability, or anti-armour
capability. |
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Recon |
Vehicles designed to rapidly enter and appraise an area.
Often equipped for speed, mobility, and independence more
than firepower or the ability to withstand fire. |
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Supply |
A
variety of sizes and designs of vehicles are critical to
the military in order to carry cargo and supplies to both
dangerous and banal locations. |
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Support |
An enormous variety of specialized vehicles are available
to suppliment the activities of an army. Specialized
construction vehicles can provide spontaneous bridges and
shelter to troops. Communication and jamming vehicles can
affect battlefield intelligence. Porter vehicles can
greatly increase the amount of equipment ground troops and
special forces can carry. |
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Troop transport |
Troop transport can be small non-combat vehicles designed
to carry small numbers of troops from place to place. They
can also be heavily armoured and highly protected vehicles
capable of rapidly transporting large numbers of troops
into dangerous areas. They can be specialized, high speed
vehicles designed to rapidly insert troops from remote
locations such as distant or orbital bases. |
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Specialized
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Porters |
Small wheeled or
legged followers, carry equipment and supplies for the troops. Can
have on-board heavy weapons. Bio-computer models can head back to
base for supplies, integrate mine detection equipment, etc. Miltary,
non-military, industry
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Public Transit Systems
| MagLev |
MagLev is a
fairly common system of bulk high speed transport. It is safe,
fast, clean, and relatively cheap to install, operate, and
maintain. THere are a variety of methodologies including
Electromagnetic Suspension and Electrodynamic Suspension.
Basically, magnetic or steel rails are installed to form a public
transport network. Vehicles are mounted over or hung off the rails
and electromagnets on the vehicles cause them to run without
physically touching the rail. Magnetism is generally used to both
suspend and propel trains up to 500 or 600 kph. Some forms of
MagLev require ehicles to run on wheels below speeds of a few
km/h. Track switching is often a fairly complicated procedure;
most maglev systems use dedicated trains on dedicated lines. Some
very advanced networks on hevaily populated worlds allow personal
vehicles on the public maglev lines and track switching is
configured through the use of automated controls and operator
pre-programmed
courses.
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| G-Lev |
G-rails (gravity
rails) are laid in a G-Grid network throughout a city allowing
properly equipped G-Lev vehicles to passively levitate up to about
3 mm off the ground. The quantum pipe that generates levitative
force generally consists of a solid quantide tube that contains
and focuses a low-power, tuned quantum beam.
A second tube
of quantide-R is located immediately above the quantide pipe,
directionally focusing the gravite stimulation from the quantum
beam in a specific direction away from the quantide tube
(generally, up...).
The quantide and
quantide-R tubes are surrounded by an insulating layer of carbon
nanotube insulation, which provides physical protection and helps
orient one pipe directly above the other to maximize the focus of
the gravitational effect. Also cabled into the same insulation,
between and beside the quantide and quantide -R pair, is a
powerline that carries power to quantum repeaters, which are
located about every half mile throughout the G-Grid. Quantum
repeaters boost the power of the quantum beam back to ideal and
uniquely modulate the quantum beam, which is used by vehicles for
orientation and navigation. Both trains and personal vehicles
generally share G-Grids. They orient themselves in relation to the
emitted gravitational field, using an under-chassis, H-shaped
magnetic sensor. The uprights of the H-sensor remain parallel to
the gravitic field and the rest of the chassis is stabilized or
directionally titled in relation to base using electromagnetics.
Most systems employ vehicles which ride completely above the
G-rails, allowing simple and spontaneous switching between tracks. |
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