Re: GEV capabilities

>Just to throw in a monkey wrench:

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>There are some potentially very serious performance
issues/considerations
>for ground effect armoured vehicles...
>
>For example: How do you stop them once they are moving...  A tank has
LOTS
>of inertia, and a GEV is like an air-hockey puck...???

Drop an Anchor....(semi-serously)  Mount hefty spikes or something that
can
be lowered to rake the ground - create a source of ground friction where
there otherwise is none (or very little).  I have heard of something
like
this, but using side mounted 'outrigger' style arms - you drop one side
and
it imparts a significant drag on that side of the vehicle - enough that
it
helps the vehicle change direction more quickly (creating an external
pivot
point).  (don't ask for sources - I don't remember.  It has been a while
and it was probably a concept drawing anyway.)

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Jared Noble