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The AT-AT is a poorly designed vehicle. Among its design problems are vulnerability to being tripped (Which was exploited at the Battle of Hoth), guns that can only fire in the forward arc, and a large target profile. In spite of this, the AT-AT is a formidable vehicle if only due to its sheer size. | The AT-AT is a poorly designed vehicle. Among its design problems are vulnerability to being tripped (Which was exploited at the Battle of Hoth), guns that can only fire in the forward arc, and a large target profile. In spite of this, the AT-AT is a formidable vehicle if only due to its sheer size. | ||
The main guns of the AT-AT, assuming that TESB is used as a standard, appear to have an effective range of about 18 KM (the range at which Veers's walker destroyed the rebel shield generator). By comparison, the M1A2 Abrams's M256A1 120 mm smoothbore gun has a lethal range against MBTs using kinetic penetrator rounds of just over 3 KM. In a stand-up fight, the AT-AT could theoretically knock-out the Abrams before the tank crew was even close to being in range to shoot back. Of course, in reality, the AT-AT would a slow, ponderous and wide-open target that a company of Abrams vehicles could laughably outmaneuver and flank - striking with depleted uranium death from the gigantic voids in the walker's firing arcs. | |||
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Revision as of 07:52, 29 February 2008
The All-Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) is a quadrupedal armored fighting vehicle used by the Galactic Empire during the galactic civil war.
Design
The AT-AT is a poorly designed vehicle. Among its design problems are vulnerability to being tripped (Which was exploited at the Battle of Hoth), guns that can only fire in the forward arc, and a large target profile. In spite of this, the AT-AT is a formidable vehicle if only due to its sheer size.
The main guns of the AT-AT, assuming that TESB is used as a standard, appear to have an effective range of about 18 KM (the range at which Veers's walker destroyed the rebel shield generator). By comparison, the M1A2 Abrams's M256A1 120 mm smoothbore gun has a lethal range against MBTs using kinetic penetrator rounds of just over 3 KM. In a stand-up fight, the AT-AT could theoretically knock-out the Abrams before the tank crew was even close to being in range to shoot back. Of course, in reality, the AT-AT would a slow, ponderous and wide-open target that a company of Abrams vehicles could laughably outmaneuver and flank - striking with depleted uranium death from the gigantic voids in the walker's firing arcs.