The "Air Balleles" (probably a corruption of Barrel, from the Alternate History name for tanks used in the works of Harry Turtledove) of The Five Star Stories.The rebel Maguanac Corps also had a hover-based Mobile Suit called the Oliphant, which was apparently used as an unmanned drone since all 40 members of the Maguanac Corps pilot the eponymous Maguanac mobile suits. With a couple of attachments it can transform into a hover-tank mode, especially useful for navigating desert terrain. The Tragos mobile suit from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing in it's walker mode is basically the tank of mobile suits, a huge beast with massive armor plates, huge twin shoulder cannons, and a rifle for close combat.It's oversized forelegs contained jet engines that it used to "skate" across the ground. Mobile Suit Gundam introduced the Dom, a heavily-armored Hover- Humongous Mecha.Finally, there's Battleloid Mode, which is more a humanoid robot configuration is used when the pilot needs more maneuverability for combat. To use its maximum firepower, it must go into Guardian Mode to engage its heavy cannon, but at the cost of being highly restricted in movement. The vehicle trope is played with in Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross/ Robotech: Southern Cross/The Robotech Masters, where the VHT-1 Spartas is a hovertank, but only in its tank mode for the purposes of transportation.Contrast with the Spider Tank, for cases in which the conventional treads have been traded in for legs instead of a floating propulsion. They ride on a mundane air cushion, barely lift off the ground, and have a difficult time operating on non-flat terrain. Vehicles in the style of real-world military hovercraft aren't included. Another advantage, seen particularly in third-person vehicular shooter scenarios, is the ability to 'strafe', or move from side to side while still pointing the same way and firing, which most tracked or wheeled vehicles can't do, and which allows the Hover Tank to dodge incoming slow-moving projectiles and attack while moving in and out of cover.
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They are usually amphibious and can travel over water at full speed. In strategy games, they may be faster and more maneuverable than their land-bound counterparts, but more fragile. However, this can also be averted by giving the tank in question a more-or-less realistic energy weapon, soft launch systems, or bazooka-like barrels, which would give little to no recoil. Though that still leaves the tank ramming itself into the ground every time it fires. Of course, all that usually doesn't matter in fiction, though some settings do restrict hovertanks to lighter designs. The amount of armor and equipment they could carry would also be severely limited. They would suffer from recoil issues (due to not having ground friction to push against), or have to burn more fuel to counteract it. Hover Tanks would be utterly impractical using real world technology, as they would burn a lot of fuel just to stay up and yet wouldn't clear most terrain obstacles. Oddly enough, even when a Hover Tank can float/fly high off the ground, it's usually still built like a ground tank, with its turret and weapons all only covering the top of the vehicle. They may also turn from a hover tank to a normal tank and back again, possibly in a similar way to Hubcap Hovercraft. Many may have a variety of Anti-Gravity drive, rather than air-powered thrust like real-world hovercraft. They usually hover inexplicably only a few feet off the ground, often bobbing slightly. Powered by Applied Phlebotinum, Hover Tanks are the go-to Rule of Cool war machine. So what happens when you make a Cool Tank float? You get a Hover Tank of course! And everyone knows that Cool Tanks are power incarnate.
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