Leman Russ: Designs, inspirations, origins, Mechanism, battle-worthyness, and my thoughs

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**Roadkill Zombie**

Page 282 of the 3rd edition 40k rulebook says it is a STC designed tank.

**Roadkill Zombie**

Laodamia wrote:
Lone Cat wrote:
And about its main gun. Does battlecannon an autoloading weapon likes Autocannon (or like ones featured in soviet M72), or manual loading like ones in a modern M1 abrams.

A Battle cannon is not an auto-loading weapon. Its shells are too big and heavy to be manipulated by an auto-loading system small enough to be fitted in a LRBT turret. In addition, auti-loading systems are complex and expensive to produce, thus, only the elite forces of the imperium have access to them (SM, who use autoloaders on predators, or the Legio Titanicus, which uses extremely complex autoloading systems on all its titans).

As a result, a LRBT requires a loader to function properly.

and can anyone give Russ a size comparision to Sherman, Chaffee, Panzer3, M41 Walker Bulldog, M113, and Hummer please.

I scanned this image from my IA vol 1 book. It gives a pretty good impression of the size of the tank.

As for the question whether or not the LRBT comes from an STC design, I would say no. The LRBT comes from a relatively recent design (it was created during the last days of the HH/early Great Scouring IIRC). I have never read anything saying that it used parts of a more ancient STC or was based on a complete STC either. Most of its variants (vanquisher, exterminator) don't come from a STC either.

Again, as I said, the 3rd edition 40k rulebook states that the LRBT does indeed come from STC technology. Why do you think they are so standardized? thats what STC was all about. They actually reference how they went back to an earlier re-discovered STC to improve on the LRBT's they were using. Without doubt, it IS from STC technology.