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CV-30 Towing Vehicle
   
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CV-30 Towing Vehicle

In 1 collection by Alpha-5
Phobos Armoury Group Ground Vehicles
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Description
The CV-30 Towing Vehicle is a case of ‘I was so preoccupied with whether I could, I didn’t stop to think if I should’. The result of this is an ‘absolute chonker’ (or so I’ve been told) of a chassis with heavy towing equipment bolted to the rear end. It can lift up and drag other vehicles across rough terrain with relative ease.

Though this Blueprint uses a few mods and DLC bits, the majority of these are for a minor number of blocks. You can comfortably use this with just the CWP

The gimbal and jack system has been mounted on the back of a CV-30 Tracked Flatbed, with a counterweight up front and exhaust vents rerouted to keep up appearances. It has a crew of two though you could probably squeeze a few extra seats in the spacious cabin. The vehicle can be entirely remote controlled, and access to the control seats is via the roof hatch. Take control of the hull by selecting the remote control block in the toolbar (the yellow cylinder).

The vehicle is powered by hydrogen engines and a suite of batteries, the fuel tanks are replenished by a small connector on the right side of the hull (an adaptor for large grid fuelling stations can be made with an advanced rotor, a piston and an opposing 1x1 AWG Connector).

For information on how to operate the towing apparatus, see the diagrams in the pictures above
(I would hope it goes without saying but please disengage the parking brake of the vehicle you are trying to tow)

STATS:
  • Weight: 26t
  • Blocks: 454
  • PCU: 4380
  • Power: 2x AWG Medium Hydrogen engines (these are identical to vanilla H2 engine but with a more guttural sound), 6x Small Batteries
  • Armament: Swivel-mount LMG, ramming speed.

CREDITS

Thanks as always to AWG for making the fantastic mods used,
Whiplash141 for the Skid Steering script and image to LCD converter app.

10 Comments
Alpha-5  [author] 5 Feb, 2021 @ 4:52am 
The tracks are a decorative block from AWG's CWP. Since no animated track mod exists, and mechanical tracks at this scale would be massively impractical I decided to put these on to make it look a bit neater.
McMona 5 Feb, 2021 @ 12:50am 
what is the track made of?
Alpha-5  [author] 1 Feb, 2021 @ 5:01pm 
Thanks! It started off as a bootleg of the Soviet DT-30-1 Tractor, but as the design progressed it started to look like the front end of a
BvS 10 (Viking).
| n f a m o u s 1 Feb, 2021 @ 4:20pm 
love the look of this, real vehicle inspiration?
Alpha-5  [author] 1 Feb, 2021 @ 2:50am 
I knew this was inevitable xD

Troubleshooting 101:

Make sure scripts are enabled to allow the skid steering to work.

To control the vehicle, sit in the seat of your choice and then press the button for the remote control block (the yellow cylinder)

Make sure the parking brake is off.

Hope this helps :D
av.wright 1 Feb, 2021 @ 2:45am 
Great looking vehicle. But Im going to ask a dumb question. How do I get it to move?
Alpha-5  [author] 1 Feb, 2021 @ 1:21am 
Glad you like it Deathlok, if all goes to plan I might have a few variants of the chassis uploaded in the future ;)
Deathlok-L17 31 Jan, 2021 @ 1:40pm 
Slick design!
Alpha-5  [author] 31 Jan, 2021 @ 10:10am 
Thanks AWG <3
AWG 31 Jan, 2021 @ 10:08am 
A beautiful vehicle, excellent attention to detail and care clearly went into even the writeup/summary.