A lot of you might not know this. Infact, most of you probably come from countries with rich armies so even those who've done military service probably won't know this.
Where I come from, there are always budget issues with military equipment. This leads to some interesting solutions.
APC's for example (Armoured Personnel Carriers). While we do have some APC's which were designed as such from the ground up, we also have quite a lot which were build from decomissioned tanks.
What is basically done is you take a tank and start by removing its turret. That clears up a hell of a lot of internal space which is then converted to a personnel carrying capacity.
Why is this good? You still get all the advantages of the tank's superiour armour, speed and staying power but instead of using it to blast away you use it to get infantry much further into enemy ground.

So how does this relate to Dust?
I was thinking that maybe the APC role could be a module you fit to a tank instead of the main turret. You'd still have the two small ones for defence (much as modern APC's have) but you'd convert that firepower to a transport role. It would be like a heavily armoured land based dropship.

What do you think? Could this be a good module to have?

Of course the module would add passenger seats. It wouldn't be an APC otherwise.

I think there could be both. A lighter, faster APC which is its own vehicle but a heavier option with the HAV APC module.

For some ideas about how this would look, here are some examples:

Puma - This is based on a British Centurion tank.
Achzarit (vicious) - This is based on a Russian T55 tank.
Namer (tiger) - This is based on the Israeli Merkava (chariot) tank. This one is not even yet in active use. It's basically a new prototype.


These are all very useful vehicles and the military relies heavily on them.

in EVE there are cargo modules for expanding the cargohold. Dust could get passenger modules.