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Tyrandis Military Systems has completed Project Icarus, a venture to design a lightweight, anti-vehicle weapon for infantry units. The ICARUS is on sale to any responsible government willing to purchase.

History

After actions conducted in Algeria against armor units, the general consensus was that Tyrandis infantry personnel lacked firepower against vehicles. However, equipping the soldiers with heavier weapons reduced mobility to an unacceptable standard.

This problem loomed large in the minds of the Senate. Thus, Tyrandis Military Systems was commissioned to build a light, manportable anti-vehicle missile system for the army.

After 10 years of design, implementation, and testing, the ICARUS Anti-Vehicle Weapon was born.

Capablities

The ICARUS Anti-Vehicle Weapon is the bleeding-edge in personnel-based weaponry. Designed for standard infantry and Special Forces, the ICARUS provides an excellent anti-armor capability to all of Tyrandis's forces.

Lethal against any type of armor, whether it be conventional or reactive, the ICARUS has been proven to completely obliterate a Russian made T-80 MBT.

As a complete system, ICARUS is a tactical precision weapon that will revolutionize the battlefield.

The ICARUS has two components, the reusable Combat Launch System and the warhead itself.

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CLS

The CLS is the heart of the ICARUS system. The CLS is equipped with the trigger mechanism, integrated day/night sighting device for surveillance, target acquisition, and associated electronics for the missile.

CLS, powered by a rechargable battery, provides capabilities for battlefield surveillance, target acquisition, missile launch, and damage assessment.

The ICARUS's CLS has the latest in target acquisition, capable of simultaeneously tracking 8 different targets.

The ICARUS integrated night vision sight (NVS) is a passive I2R system, enabling observation of things that are not normally visible to the human eye. It receives and measures IR light emitted by the environment. The NVS converts the IR light into an image for the gunner,
allowing the gunner to identify enemy armor targets, his first priority to engage and destroy. ICARUS gunners can easily identify battlefield combatants at night based on the images seen in the NVS.

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Warhead

The round consists of a disposable launch tube assembly, coolant unit, and the warhead. Missile range is 2250m. The missile locks on to the target before launch via satellite uplink and on-board processing, which also maintains target track and guides the missile to the target after launch. A full-up system weighs 46 lbs.

Weight: 30 lbs
Length: 1.76 meters
Range: 2000 m (max)
Warhead Type: HEAT
Warhead Weight: 8.9 lbs
Armor Piercing: 650+ mm
System: Man portable, requires two operators (gunner, CLS operator)

Video

A video of the ICARUS missile system in action. (http://goranmost78.free.fr/JavelinLiveFireVsT72.mpeg)

Images

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Combat Launch System

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ICARUS fired during testing

EDIT: Images added, spelling errors fixed.

PRICE: $2,000,000 USD per unit.

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I've been looking for something like this for a while now. Would you be interested in selling production rights?
In the meantime, I'll buy 500 of them.

I am also interested in acquiring production rights.

I'll buy production rights.... I want 1,000,000 units... I'll make you a deal and trade you 1,000 lbs of IG-Virus Strain 1... (It cost over 650 billion to research and development).... This is the deadliest virus known thus far...

It literally turns living people into "walking dead" blood thirsty zombies.

For details check out the IG-Virus outbreak... It Begins... Also

FWS Pours 50 billion into Bio-weapons.

Unless it is top attack, the T-80 has more than 650 mm of armor against HEAT, more like 1,000mm.

Why in the world would you need 1 million of them? Even at a rate of 1 per 10 infantrymen, I would only need some 450,000, and I'm much, much larger than you, and have a massive 4% military.

It is top attack. (I checked the video, and it goes way up and drops on it. Also, it was overkill. No enemy tank left, so it should easily cripple any other one.)

Then it should be able to kill most modern tanks, and some NS tanks.

The United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland is interested in purchasing 5,000 units of this weapon.

Thank you,

Clive Middleton, Dgr.
Land Warfare Systems
Defence Procurement Agency
Ministry of Defence
UKIN

Why in the world would you need 1 million of them? Even at a rate of 1 per 10 infantrymen, I would only need some 450,000, and I'm much, much larger than you, and have a massive 4% military.

We issue weapons to all civilians... We expect them to fight a guerilla war should the nation ever be taken over.

For every male over 12 in my nation, there are 10 privately owned guns (usually Fn-Fals, Ak-47s, M-16s, HK-91s, etc).


We also have 1 shoulder launched AA weapon for every 3 males over 12... Usually a sterla or a stinger...

We have plenty of RPGS, 120mm mortars, etc... We have large stockpiles of government weapons to be issued to people. We allow people to maintain their own large stockpiles, etc.

We will not sell production rights for the CLS system, as it is too valuable to give up. Missile rights are available, however, for 1.25 billion USD.

All orders have been shipped.

Tyrandis refuses to have any taint of biological warfare on her hands.

We would like to purchase the right to the missiles for the price of 1.25 billion USD. Nice to do business with you.

Plans have been wired.

We would also like to purchase the plans for the same price. Thank you, and we hope you look on with pride as your missile becomes standard in Daylam, with a Daylami system similar to your own CLS.

Plans have been wired to Daylam, and we hope that the ICARUS missile fulfills your defense needs.

The United States of Alexzandrian Military Department of Armed Forces wishes to purchase 500,000 units, plus production plans, for a total sum of 1,012.5 Billion USD. The money has been wired.

Thank You,
Jordan Michaelson
Weapons Accuirement Division
U.S.A.M.

Order has been shipped, along with missile plans.

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Isn't Icarus the weapon in "Die Another Day"

if only, IDF. Except, that the one in Die another day is crap. The plane flew into it, and didn't die! Where is my "scythe the Earth in two laser"?

OOC: Named it Icarus b/c of the method of attack (rises up then falls to the target)

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OOC: For all you uneducated people, Icarus is a character from Greek mythology. His feather made him some wax wings so they could escape from a prison. However, Icarus flew too high to the Sun and so his wax melted and he fell into the sea and drowned.

OOC: For all you uneducated people, Icarus is a character from Greek mythology. His feather made him some wax wings so they could escape from a prison. However, Icarus flew too high to the Sun and so his wax melted and he fell into the sea and drowned.

Well first he flew too low and the waves began to send mist against the wings... Then to make up for it, he flew higher... But he flew too high and burnt the wing.

We are ordering 10 of these systems. GFor a total of $20,000,000 has been wired to your account.

Order confirmed and shipped.

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