Missile Base team and BGH251F2

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Has anyone here ever looked at tanks? Tanks are designed with incredibly thick front and bottom armour, this is so 1) they survive being shot at and 2) they survive tripping any undiscovered landmines. Now sure sometimes a landmine destroys a tank, anti-tank landmines can if they catch the sweet spot do this. Mostly however Anti-tank mines are designed to "immobilize" tanks by blowing a track off, no tracks = no movement, no movement = no threat, why waste time destroying something not threatening when the crew will need to abandon it if the battle goes bad, allowing your own engineers to repair, re-paint and re-crew a fully operational tank for you probably replacing the ones you lost in the costly tank battle?

The ironclad is essentially a tank, so it is safe to assume it has good armour, Selphie's team (if you bothered using junctions on them) could summon very capable GF's not to mention that no one here has complained that the Ironclad is the second tank they destroyed and harmed with melee attacks remember the spider tank (I forget the proper designation sorry) thunder spells and lightning elem-atk junction ftw there. The first tank kept repairing and in the end was finished by a catastrophic assault by Quistis with an anti-tank machine gun. Based on the experience of the Dollet mission it is also safe to assume the ironclad too had "self-repair" programs allowing it to function even with some pretty heavy damage but going by the crew's abandoning the machine they're not so advanced as the spider tank's. So how does Selphie and team escape detection? Well c'mon guys how'd they get in? They just stole uniforms probably from some poor G-soldiers they kicked the crap out of and left tied up in the desert or perhaps, they managed to find another bunch of uniforms or more believable yet though they even kept their previous disguises "just in case" because after all they were in an enemy country let alone missile base disguises like that could be useful when the government wants you dead or locked up. So they pose as G-soldiers probably letting one of the guys on the mission assume "the command" role for the ironclad since Selphie obviously doesn't have a manly voice.

How does the Iron-clad survive? Well firstly they quite probably just blew their way past the bulkhead doors of the missile base allowing them to escape the big blast but to be caught inside the blast radius so perhaps a lot of insignificant damage. I didn't notice the ironclad (same can be said for the masses of other enemy veichles you see fleeing the base before the ironclad battle) in the FMV nor did I notice a distinct lack of the ironclad I'm sorry but heck it was pretty much "ooh pretty fmv lets see *boom* HOLY COW!" so lets roll with my idea they blow the doors wide open and drive the ironclad out.

The ironclad is found by a G-army column and picked up obviously there was some deception involved here so that the G-army believes the 3 of them to be actual soldiers this could be anything from "sorry sir my documents got destroyed heres my name and rank look me up" to carefully falsified information bear in mind we're dealing with SeeD fully trained SeeD who are taught the intricacies of espionage, combat and infiltration it's a safe bet to assume they can cook something up here. So anyway the column picks the ironclad up, under pretense of repairing it's armour ect the missile base team stay inside the tank for atleast 99% of the time heck whats safer, giving the people outside the chance to put two and two together or being "buried under a mountain of work" fixing the tank.

Eventually our Ironclad and missing team wind up in FH where they meet up with Squall and his squad. Trying to get his attention they actually end up in combat with him and so he kicks their asses for being dumb and not realizing how to operate the ironclad properly they climb out, dump their uniforms and violla you have the safe arrival of the ironclad and the missile base team.