The plot centers on the pursuit of a hijacked MBT-99A tank, designed by the United States Air Force (an oddity, but one that saves Eleanor, as she can be ejected before the tank explodes, much like a fighter jet). The audience is meant to be captivated by this vehicle. In one scene, when the tank appears certain to escape, the background music shifts to cocktail-lounge jazz and sparkly lights swirl around it. The tank carries six ATGM launchers (three on each side of the turret), which Ken somehow manages to dislodge with minimal trouble, along with a piece of the turret, towards the end of the movie. It also features a laser-based machine-gun-esque installment, in addition to its rifled main gun. The tank's treads are dual-mounted (the tread is split in half, creating four sets of treads for the tank). The use of the laser, however, seems counter-productive to a machine-gun's mission, as it can only fire once every few seconds. If it is capable of firing at higher rates, it does not do so, and instead tries to acquire a lock on its pursuer (Blader, in this case). This suggests a low ammunition capacity, unlike the thousand-round-and-up machine-guns routinely mounted on modern tanks. It does not appear to have any effect on the road, either, which does not say much about its power. Another tank involved is the MBT-90D, dispatched by the Army (or Air Force—the movie never clarifies if it is a joint effort, although the general who arrives midway through the film is shown riding in something resembling an ADATS) to take out the tank. Despite having at least a platoon of these, the MBT-99 still evades capture. The M-90Ds are armed with a three-barreled autocannon, the calibre of which may be around fifteen to twenty millimeters. The MBT-90D is equipped with three ATGM missile launchers on the left side of the turret, and its main cannon is mounted on the front, instead of on a turret. After the MBT-99's hijackers (who appear inside the tank after escaping from a recently-committed bank robbery), hired by a shadowy group backed by a foreign nation seeking a military edge (the M-99 is presumably on its way to be tested at a separate base), are forced out by Ken and his team, Eleanor enters to study the tank. It starts up on its own, having been programmed by the hijackers to head for a pier and drive off its end to rendezvous with an enemy submarine. The rest of the movie consists of the chase through the city, resulting in the destruction of another bank (owned by the same corporation that built the first bank in the movie) and various collateral damage.