NationStates Jolt Archive


Military Refits!

Nuevo Kowloon
05-02-2004, 08:37
Scene: rough Karst topography with no roads, a Tank is driving along between two ridgelines. from around a hill, a T-55 tank carrying ablative add-on armour comes around from the left, stops, and fires.
The sizes are visibly different, but the T-55's shot falls short. The smaller tank rotates its turret, and fires a single round while moving. The T-55's add-on armour doesn't save it...

Voiceover (a pleasant female announcer with a vaguely british-sounding accent)
Announcer: "Even a Mouse can roar with enough of a reason."

the small tank is joined by another small tank, and the camera angle follows them, as the terrain changes to desert. A pair of T-72's emerge from behind a dune, are engaged, and destroyed by the two small tanks...

Announcer: "A mouse is, after all, a distant cousin of the Fiercest creature known to man-the Mongoose..."

Camera Angle changes, as does the terrain- a blasted zone, tightly confined between hills. The small tanks slow down, as mists swirl around them, finally resolving the scene into a pass, opening on a great plain.
Coming at them, is a single M-1 Abrams.
The M-1 fires, and destroys one tank- but the other small tank returns his shot while still moving- and the Superheavy tank's turret rises in the flash of a catastrophic kill...

Announcer: "The M-41U Mongoose- mounting powerful Six-inch main gun, the Mongoose is capable of cruising speeds of forty-one miles per hour, and flanking speeds of nearly seventy miles per hour on a single 900 horsepower Dieselmatic Diesel engine. The Fire-on-the move targeting system is a significant improvement in light-tank technology, built into a proven chassis that has served many nations for more than sixty years. Track and roadwheel improvements, along with improved gearing and simple, robust construction, means that this is not your grandfather's light tank. The M-41 is modern from its targeting reticles, to its advanced composite armour, to the much-improved overhead camshaft, variable-rate Turbocharged Diesel engine. Only the interior measurements stay the same. Hue Motorworks and Da Nang Industrial Park were able to create this, the next generation of light battle tank, and implement it for less than the cost of a used Stryker with half the capability and a quarter of the protection. If we can turn a sixty-year old tank into a Modern War Machine, what can we do for you?"

Screen fades to black, Emblem of Da Nang Industrial Systems remains behind, with script below- [i]"Contact us for your engineering challenges-competitive rates and a reasonable budget!"