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Originally Posted by Panther Al
While most of those can easily be put in your average medium (30t) chassis, I think that the last might be a bit much, unless...
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No you misunderstand.
Not as equipment that would go into an APC, but as something like a Platoon Level M577.
I conceive of it as a support vehicle for Dismounted Troops. Not as a Direct Support vehicle but, as a C3I with onboard water purification and a fuel cell power generation system. So at best it would have a ROWS, maybe as a place to coordinate GSR and REMBASS.
Driver and a TC only. Operates as a Patrol Base. In this way all the Platoon needs is food. They can get their water, and refresh their batteries in charging stations. The machine would carry in externally accessible bins Small Arms ammo.
Maybe a dozer blade to dig itself in, then deploy IR Screening nets.