Mantis Heavy Rover stock 0.16

[Suprablaski4]

Figured i would post up something i finished tonight, idea started from the ARC challenge to land a rover on minimus and slowly just got off track lol.

All stock heavy lander/rover, has tons of fuel cause i cant fly efficiently, can easily get to either moon.

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easy to fly and stable at all stages, i like to run it around 20 m/s to keep everything from going crazy when you hit a bump, easily capable of more and enough fuel to return though the 3 chutes are more for aesthetic cause it jsut rips the command pod off the rest of the rover lol, safe landing just not for the rest of the unit.

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so you can prolly tell i have a thing for struts to lol, make it nice and strong though, ive broken off a tank with the gear on it and had it just bounce around with the struts holding it in place.

once you do a standard landing just activate RCS and press W with a light thrust to the engines to tip forward (to make sure RCS lets you turn in the right direction), and then just raise the rear landing gear. if you land on the wrong side RCS will steer the wrong direction, just figure out which keys work and your good to go lol.

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and of course like any good Kerbal vehicle its prone to catastrophic failure when you push the speeds, which of course you will

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but what would be the point of rescure missions if you dont ever strand someone

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improvements welcome, enjoy