Shadow Zone ForevermoreShape: ...like a cross between Storm II and Wheely Big Cheese. ;D Basically a box on wheels with static wedges at the front and sides, a Ti/V blade on the front wedge ala Firestorm to help get under bots better, and a really long and low wedge flipper at the rear.
Colour: Dark shades of green and yellow.
Weight: 98kg
Drive: 2 Lynch LEM130 motors, geared 9:1 for better acceleration
Power: 5 packs of 15 M1 A123 Li-Ion cells, 49.5v in total
Motivation: 6WD inner, like Storm II. It has the exact same polyurethane-coated wheels as well.
Top Speed: 25mph
Armour: SZF takes a large tumble in armour here, but it's not as weak as one might think. 3mm Ti/V replaces all the armour it had before, except for the underbelly which is now 5mm polycarb. The main body is a monocoque, but the flipper (made of the same material) is connected to the rear, which doesn't have any armour.
Ground Clearance: 0 at the front and rear (the rear wedge is hinged so I won't beach myself
), and 5mm at the sides.
Turning Circle: 0
Dimensions in CM (LxWxH): 175x90x20
Weaponry: Okay, SZF relies very much on its pushing power and speed, but it has a weapon. And the weapon is probably very overkill. It is a Wheely Big Cheese-style clamshell flipper, and it is used in a different manner. Whenever a robot drives on SZF's front wedge, SZF will drive straight under them, and THEN fire the flipper, like a catapult. The opponent will be shot forward and back to meet SZF's wedge again.
The flipper itself is powered by not 1, not 2, but
3 separate custom 2kg CO2 tanks all on 900psi, and each has a 100mm bore ram to go with it. It has enough power for only 10 power flips, though, that is why I don't rely too much on it and mainly just the pushing power. However, it is probably the most powerful flipper in vapourbots at the moment with enough force to topple 14, yes, 14 metric tons at the tip and can throw 2 tons over when fully on the flipper. This is around 5000kg more powerful than The Matador who could topple 9000kg. If tournament rules allow, I can switch the CO2 tanks for Nitrogen run on 2400psi, but, so they can fit, they will be only 1kg each, and I will have only 4-5 full pressure flips. Nonetheless the flipper will be far, far more powerful and can theoretically topple nearly 40 tons...
God knows how far a robot will fly if I manage to successfully launch one while Nitrogen powered...
Srimech: Invertible; can use flipper to right itself but not needed.
Notes: If powered by Nitrogen, the flipper will be shock mounted to prevent self-breakage ala Spawn Again...
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WEIGHT CHECKARMOUR
Main body - 7.3238kg + 3.1293kg (polycarb baseplate) + 623.8719g + 4.679kg + 394.5618 + 2.7619kg = ~18.9kg
Flipper top - 1.1503kg + 5.7517kg + 150.3959g + 4.9638kg = ~12kg
Flipper bottom - 4.3465kg + 2.1564 + 5.3912kg = ~11.9kg
TOTAL ARMOUR WEIGHT = ~42.8kg
DRIVETRAIN
Batteries = 5.25kg
Motors = 6.2kg
Motivation = ~15kg
= ~26.5kg
WEAPON POWER
Gas Capacity = 6kg
Rams = ~9kg
Other bits = ~3kg
= ~18kg
OTHER BITS = ~10.7kg
TOTAL = ~98kg
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BIO: It's...well, you read the stats!
Battle Record = 0 wins, 0 losses (0-0)
Time of Activity = July 2011 - present
Notable Achievements = N/A
Theme song = "H-K (Hunter-Killer)" by Fear Factory