Why does this exist

A long time ago (a few months), I had the idea to build a tank destroyer that houses vertically launched missiles. Research lead to hellfires, I drew it up, and the rest is history.

The design changed quite a bit.

Why is it designated an experimental vehicle?

It’s effective range is at max 7km, and at minimum 6.9km against ground targets. In reality, it works much better as a SAM vehicle.

Why use just one air search type radar, rather than other systems?

It originally had a different guidance system, but I eventually went with a more SAM type design. A more complex radar system would be included as a separate vehicle, dedicating this one to VLS.

Just how unnecessarily massive is this huge thing, considering it carries 30 VLS?

Good question. It’s roughly the same size as a full MBT, with hellfires instead of a missile like the tomahawk. In game, it is loaded with 10 missiles due to lag reasons, but feel free to add more.

The TM-1982 is relatively small. So at 7.1 meters the XTD-1985 is only a little bit larger.

Controls

Pitch: drive
Yaw: turn
Trim + Act.1: machine gun up/down
VTOL + Act.1: machine gun traverse

Photo map

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