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Wow, I remembered this thing crashing through its own factory wall, but I forgot that Taro was just running over factory workers and sending the rest of them scrambling for safety. Those co-pilots going AWOL is making more sense all the time.
I guess the sawblades helped with the breaking out of the factory, though it looks like that cannon is big and tough enough to have hammered its way out on its own. The purpose of the arms will become clear soon enough.
I think Flo first summarized this plot to me as, to paraphrase, “This will be happening as the culmination of all the love letters to Metal Gear I’ve seeded through the series, and I need you not to try to stop me.”
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Tanks for the memories!
Someone’s trying to overcompensate for certain… deficiencies…
It’s not the size of your ultimate engine that matters; it’s how, ultimately, you use it
Do you think the workers are getting run over under orders or because the pilots who are in the machine aren’t actually trained pilots.
Like, I’ve worked on engineering planes before, but if you sat me in a cockpit with a gun to my head an told me to fly a 747 that kind of navigation would probably be on the good end of possible results.
There is only one pilot.
Taro runs them over because he just doesn’t care, and also he probably thinks it looks awesome.
Co-pilot-at-gunpoint probably has no influence over whether safety protocols are followed.
Or whether bay doors are opened before exiting.
None of the people in the tank was able to see what or who was on the other side of the wall. And I’m sure that the decision to drive through the wall was entirely Taro’s, and that he didn’t care at all. To him, I’m sure it’s simply more awesome to drive through the wall/doors than to open them and carefully maneuver the tank safely into the open.
I suspect that since the professors have developed the entire thing, including steering and control layout, and there is no simulation involved but a lot of testing, they would probably have at least *some* experience actually driving a tank, and a lot of knowledge about how it works (and how it doesn’t).
By comparison, modern-day aircraft engineers rarely treat more than one aspect/component( and if they do, it’s on a “high level”), because they are way to complicated and complex for a single person to keep on top of all the different relevant aspects. Flying it is a very different discipline than designing it. Most pilots still get taught completely wrong aerodynamics, but as I like to say: A bird doesn’t need to explain aerodynamics in order to fly, either.