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Trade Federation's AAT (Armored Assault Tank) appears to be floating MBT - but is actually somewhere between tank, UCV and gunship.

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Another one is described in supplementary materials: gravitic anomalities of repulsorlifts allow reliable identification and target lock, and appropriate sensors are used even in missiles of portable launchers. However, the repulsorcraft also have common disadvantages: the Battle of Naboo also demonstrated the problem when AAT, unlike ground vehicles and droids, were stopped by shields. Or rather there's no strict borders between 'tanks', 'gunships' and 'planes'.

Star Wars A lot of repulsorlift battle vehicles from the franchise.

They are actually capable of genuine flight, but prefer to stay close to the ground and generally behave like real tanks to avoid enemy anti-air fire.

The Five Star Stories have the 'Air Balleles' (probably a corruption of Barrel, from the Alternate History name for tanks used in the works of Harry Turtledove).

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, 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.They ride on a mundane air cushion, barely lift off the ground, and have a difficult time operating on non-flat terrain.Ĭontrast with the Spider Tank, for cases in which the conventional treads have been traded in for legs instead of a floating propulsion.

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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. Of course, all that usually doesn't matter in fiction, though some do restrict hovertanks to lighter designs. The amount of armor and equipment they could carry would also be severely limited.

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a 30-mm autocannon is several tons of average thrust force, plus lots of vibration - and it's going to be applied badly off center, too). They would burn fuel just counteracting recoil (recoil of e.g. They 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 Hovertank can float/fly high off the ground, it's usually still built like a ground tank, with it's turret and weapons all only covering the top of the vehicle. Many may have a variety of Anti Gravity drive, rather than air-powered thrust. 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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