Pursuit of Cobra HISS

So, thanx to my friend Tom, I own 2 of these now. So how does the 10 year old in me like them?

Well, first, MARS industry has once again produced an amazing piece of gear to Cobra's spec.
Amazing if you like an armored death trap. Seems they forgot what they were intending to. The thing is massive! and while better than the FURY, it is begging for a LAW,Hellfire,TOW, DRAGON or just a hard poke with a sharp stick and it's game over. The weapons can't defend it from in close fighting, there's no depressing or elevation of the weapons. The heavy gun is a 1 shot weapon, the automatic weapon is fairly fixed. There is this really neat feature, if the the really tall vehicle isn't TALL ENOUGH, it can pop up and become taller. Which is cool looking, but then exposes the soft under belly to that sharp stick I was telling you about. BUT the trade off is at least in the pop up, it makes up for lack of a turret, and the whole massive body rotates. The HISS has a crew of 2, but the gunner has to be gymnist to mount up. The driver is fully protected by a windowless cab. As a weapon of war, it's a failure. As a weapon of terror and oppression? It works. Black is evil, brown is practical. I say go EVIL!!!!

Does the 47 yr old man in me like this thing? HELL YES! It's too cool. In a Falling Skies kinda of a way, it ROCKS! It even reminds me of Rock'em sock'em robots,see below.
Does the 10yr old like it? Hell YES! It rolls, it transforms, shoots, it carries dudes,and mine are black! But.....I have 2.....and 1 doesn't like to stay tucked in. They both pop up like champs, almost pop up and over. I'd hate to be in the thing when it pops up....BAM! we put more HISS crews on sick leave than any othe viper. And then my #2 HISS, doesn't tuck back in. It takes a lot of effort to lock it in place. You think you got it, and BAM! it's pops up again. That's ok, since when it pops up, it fires it's 1 missile....BAM! WOOSH!!! oops......

But this is the vehicle to get in the joe world right now.esp from Ross....Thanx again TOM!!!!