I totally agree, Philip, and that gives me an idea. I know Imex is working on a new board, and I keep saying that there are only a few things I want that would eliminate the need for me to even think about hobby grade on most of my tanks. If they would give us a board that:

1. has a provision to eliminate track recoil
2. have volume control from TX
3. turn smoke on/off from TX
3. lights on/off from TX
4. proportional speed on turret rotation (and maybe gun elevation, I could live without that if we had number 5)
5. Up/down gun movement from left stick forward/reverse
6. separate button for cannon fire

The idea I just had is: Let's start a separate thread and get a consensus of what should be included in a redesigned stock MFU and TX. We're getting a lot of vendor and manufacturer participation on the forum, let's use it to get this message across to the people that make tanks.

If I could buy an airsoft tank with the features listed here I would never have the need to spend all that time and money upgrading electronics and I could spend more time detailing the tank and ... actually driving it!