I mean the only thing its got wrong is what happens if you try to move up or do the ol "look ma no hands!" It will be a literal statement.

Fang

go ahead prove me wrong, i mean it COULD work in real life. It carries 4 missles and a Bomb.
Ball turret laser gun, Can Carry three people, small range, low clearence lander.

I mean the only thing its got wrong is what happens if you try to move up or do the ol "look ma no hands!"
It will be a literal statement.Other then that its perfect, practical, cheap and with better non- cannon Fodder pilots
probably very efficiant. Over all I think this might possibly the best small vehicle ever made by ANY toy manufactorer. period.

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Wow dude. Thanks.

(crunch crunch)

That's you crushing my dreams.

I didn't post in the Rattler v. Hurricane thread, because I think that the subjective values applied to the vehicles tend to outweigh the practical ones in these threads, but I did want to ask what your criteria for "best" is here. Feasability? Cool? encumbrance? Armament?

As far as feasability, it's not as realistic as you think, and the main argument against it is if it were possible, it would have been done. Helicopters are the size they are for a reason. I'm no engineer, so I don't know what the ideal length of tail boom is, to counteract the force of the main wings' rotation is, but the fang isn't it. Also, chopped off extremities aside, there's no way that you could sit directly in the prop wash of the thing with no canopy and still be able to pilot it, especially if the tiny thing was pumping enough down force to carry armament or passengers.

Cool? I think both the Sky Hawk and the trubble bubble are cooler. I actually think the ram is cooler, too, yet the first two are a little scifi (where are the lifting surfaces on a sky hawk? you ever tape a bottle rocket to a toy car?), and the Ram completely ignores the fact that firearms have recoil, and the bigger they are the more recoil they have, (I would LOVE to see one of these fired in real life. It would make an excellent insert on "Destroyed in Seconds,"), so they're not very feasible.

In any event, my personal favorite small vehicle has always been the Armadillo, but I freely admit that I have a bias for tanks, and I'm fully ware that the Armadillo has some pretty glaring deficiencies. For Instance, are those laser guns, or cannon? If they're cannon, where is the ammo stored? If the lower half of your body is in the hull, and the upper half is in the turret, what do you do if the enemy is at your 6? How do you see out of that thing?

Edit: I also wanted to ask but forgot to (because I got stuck in dick mode,) what is the upper limit for "small?" I mean the above ref'd vehicles, obviously, but what's too big, here? Relative to the other planes, the Firebat is Tiny