Way too frigging time on my hands....

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PlasmaKrab said:
Wow!
Thanks for the info, that's really something!
Concrete armour makes sense, actually I recall now granite being once tested for MBT armor in some countries.
Only bear in mind the fact that police officers were in several cases able to climb on top of the dozer while it was running. Is that the kind of mobility you expect from a tank?

Don't forget, what was inside the armor was essentially unmodified dozer. And it was made by one man on a small budget in home workshop. If we are talking of the state/county scale budget and medium/small factory, some more radical design could be made. For example put two diesel on one vehicle. Russian did similar thing during WWII with SU-76. It had two parallel car engines. It was a hell to drive, but was effective enough to produce around fourteen thousand.
With two diesels, improvised NERA, composite and slate armor, TV cameras, remote controlled weapon mounts built using consumer robotics kits, night vision devices, weapon control software on the consumer laptop we are talking about serious fighting vehicle here. In fact the only important thing it luck is modern gun and stabilizer. However if insurgent got modern ATGMs and infantry SAM somehow that may be formidable foe even for regular army...