MSJ-06 "Zver" ("Beast"), 4th Guards armoured division, 2029

[pyro-manic]

Coming soon, one very large, scary armoured vehicle. Developed for heavy urban fighting, by the late 2020s large numbers of these heavy ground assault units were involved in suppressing the attempted breakaway of the oil-rich Caucasus republics.

Standard armament: AK-220 140mm gun or RPG-33 recoilless direct-fire artillery system; standard-fit carbon blade excavation equipment may also be used offensively.
Combat weight: around 120 metric tonnes, depending on armament and auxiliary equipment fit.
Armour: multi-layered composite armour of varying thickness, up to 400mm in places; adjustable 800mm shield over frontal arc.
Speed: Maximum speed 95km/h on level terrain.


Now to actually build the damn thing!

For those who might know/guess what this is, no spoilers please! 

[Captain Canada]

No idea what you're talking about but wow.....go for it !

[Dizzyfugu]

120 tons and 95 km/h sound... scary! 

[Cobra]

Have an Idea,but i Won't Let the Cat out of the Bag Hope to see Your Creation Soon. Dan

[Zombolt]

I have a good idea of what this is, but I will still awake the finished

[pyro-manic]

Dizzy: You could say that, yes...

Some progress. Cleaning up and refining parts, adding some small details.

Tidying up and drilling out some tow points/hoisting eyes:


Closing up some holes and gaps in the kit parts:


An overview of the bits that have so far been cleaned up:


Without giving the game away, does this confirm or dispel people's ideas?

EDIT: Erk, apologies for the too-big photos.... 

[Captain Canada]

Neither.....just as confused as I was when I read the title the first time !

[PR19_Kit]

That looks suspiciously like a dismantled Dyson vacuum cleaner.... 

[Rheged]

That looks suspiciously like a dismantled Dyson vacuum cleaner.... 

Kit,  you have (no doubt intentionally)set this up  expecting one of us to come back with the punch-line  "sweeping away the opposition"

[Mossie]

Without giving the game away, does this confirm or dispel people's ideas?

EDIT: Erk, apologies for the too-big photos.... 

Yep!  Knowing the kind of things you're into, I worked it out with a little Google-pokery.  Kit parts to confirm it, does have a suitably Soviet look about it.

[Father Ennis]

Looks to me like it's going to be some kind of battlemech.  Whatever it is, I'm watching with interest.

[Go4fun]

THAT much weight moving THAT fast? I hope the brakes are massive!
Klueless in Kansas

[PR19_Kit]

That looks suspiciously like a dismantled Dyson vacuum cleaner.... 

Kit,  you have (no doubt intentionally)set this up  expecting one of us to come back with the punch-line  "sweeping away the opposition"

Well actually no, but as I just recently DID dismantle a Dyson for a good neighbour its components looked suspiciously like pyro-manic's work, including all the parts being in different colours. And no, I couldn't get the darn thing back together again, at least not without downloading a manual from a handy web site!

[zenrat]

...Gundam.  When those things get going they move like s**t of a carbon blade excavation equipment...

[pyro-manic]

....It's definitely not a vacuum cleaner.