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(HIFEX NEWS AGENCY: SCHULTARIA PRIME, SCHULTARIA PRIME 22:45 SCT)

Schultaria Prime's Defensive Forces have come to the aid of the nation in its times of crisis, and now the government has given the armed forces of Schultaria Prime a generous gift.

The National Assembly of Schultaria Prime, in a vote of 388 to 12, has passed the SDF Standardization and Upgrades Act. With this legislation, the Defense forces of Schultaria Prime have increased their military budget for the expressed purpose of improving the technological, logistical, tactical, and strategic capabilities of its active personnel. Amounting to approximately $1.75 Trillion dollars over the next ten years, Schultaria Prime's government is now actively seeking military contracts.

"What we are looking for is a complete overhaul of the system," said Director Joan Covey in a public press conference immediately following the act's passage, "Our honored forces have been utilizing the same equipment for the last 60 years, and the majority of these systems simply can not be upgraded to meet our requirements. For the sake of nearly a Billion Islandian and Schultarian residents in the region of Primex we have passed this legislation to promote the peace within our region."

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The Government of Schultaria Prime, along with the Schultarian Protectorate of Islandia Schultaria, is currently looking to upgrade the following systems. We are asking for not only the purchase of actual weapons, but the rights to the technology also. Thank you for your consideration.

+All Small Arms and Infantry Anti Armor Weapons
+Infantry Improvements and modifications (I.E. Enhanced Body Armor)
+Fixed and Short Range Naval Ordinance (I.E. Mines and Coastal Artillery)
+Interceptor and Tactical Bomber Aircraft

As for any improvement with our mechanized forces, Schultaria Prime has begun to indigenously develop the newest series of armored vehicles for the SDF. This represents the first time in nearly 100 years that Schultaria Prime has ever designed a built a device purely for destructive purposes. They will replace their current Nimzonian counterparts for active service within the next five years.

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Kerga-Lubrai (Light Battle Tank)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/emschultz/LightTank.jpg

Specifications:

Crew - 4:

-(Commander / Comms Operator), Driver, Turret Operator, (Technical Maintenance Operator / Coaxial Gunner)

Weapons Layout:

-(1) 100 mm Rifled Main Cannon with 70 rounds of ammunition
[Chemical Anti-Armor / Kinetic] coupled with a singular auto loading mechanism.

-(2) 7.62 mm Machineguns (Coaxial and Forward Mount) with 1,500 rounds per weapon

-(4) 80 mm Multi Purpose Grenade Launchers [Fragmentation / Smoke / Tear Gas] located on the turret sides.

Armor: An alloy of titanium and aluminum, this armor allows for lighter weight and increased speed while still retaining a very significant protective barrier. Though costly, it offers the same protective power, per unit size, as steel with 35% less mass to the tank.

-Front Armor: 165 mm
-Turret Armor: 170 mm
-Side / Rear Armor: 110 mm

Weight: 32.5 Metric Tons fully loaded and operable

Speed: 100 km/h (On ideal paved roads) / 60 km/h (In most battlefield settings)

Range: 650 km at ideal operating speed

Cost to the Government of Schultaria Prime: $2.45 Million Per Unit

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Kerga-Masalan (Heavy Battle Tank)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/emschultz/HeavyTank.jpg

Specifications:

Crew - 5:

-(Commander / Comms Operator), Driver, Turret Operator, Technical Maintenance Operator, Coaxial Gunner

Weapons Layout:

-(2) 135 mm Smoothbore Main Cannons with 60 rounds of ammunition
[HEAT / Sabot / Chemical Anti-Armor / Kinetic] with a dual auto loading mechanism.
NOTE: These cannons are fired individually; due to several failed tests following live dual firing exercises, this option has been shelved for the time being.

-(2) 12.7 mm Machineguns (Coaxial and Forward Mount) with 750 rounds per weapon

-(8) 80 mm Multi Purpose Grenade Launchers [Fragmentation / Smoke / Tear Gas] located on the turret sides.

Armor: An alloy of titanium and aluminum, this armor allows for lighter weight and increased speed while still retaining a very significant protective barrier. Though costly, it offers the same protective power, per unit size, as steel with 35% less mass to the tank. Also, a layer of composite ceramic is located within the armor layers, offering a 65% increase in protection against high explosive anti tank (HEAT) and kinetic weapons. While the armor is thinner than its international counterparts, the additional ballistic effect of the composite alloy/ceramic structure allows it to perform with less total material.

-Front Armor: 750 mm (Effectively 1,240 mm)
-Turret Armor: 680 mm (Effectively 1,290 mm)
-Side / Rear Armor: 440 mm (Effectively 730 mm)

Weight: 68 Metric Tons fully loaded and operable

Speed: 60 km/h (On ideal paved roads) / 30 km/h (In most battlefield settings)

Range: 450 km at ideal operating speed

Cost to the Government of Schultaria Prime: $4.35 Million Per Unit

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Kerga-Bieorn (Anti Air Tank)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/emschultz/AntiAir.jpg

Specifications:

Crew - 5:

-(Commander / Comms Operator), Driver, Turret Operator, Technical Maintenance Operator, Forward Mount Gunner

Weapons Layout:

-(2) Orobous Landex Missile Launchers with 16 Doloc Mark III Surface to Air Missiles featuring multiple tracking systems
[Standard Infrared and RADAR / Electro-Optical Laser Sighting / Schultarian IFF "Friend or Foe" anti fratricide systems.]

-(2) 20 mm Short range Anti Aircraft Cannons with 500 rounds each.

-(1) 7.62 mm Machinegun (Forward Mount) with 2,500 rounds

Armor: An alloy of titanium and aluminum, this armor allows for lighter weight and increased speed while still retaining a very significant protective barrier.

-Front Armor: 115 mm
-Turret Armor: 125 mm
-Side / Rear Armor: 85mm

Weight: 47 Metric Tons fully loaded and operable

Speed: 80 km/h (On ideal paved roads) / 50 km/h (In most battlefield settings)

Range: 650 km at ideal operating speed

Cost to the Government of Schultaria Prime: $3.15 Million Per Unit

A BUMP for any vendors interested in working with the SDF.

our storefront is here

http://tncforums.proboards34.com/index.cgi?board=DCA

along with many others. We can help you with infantry, armor, and some naval ordinence, but mostly we are involved with ground weaponry and zeppelins. An interesting thing we're developing is Modern Tech Powered Armor. It is possible. There are several problems... the soldier actually needs to carry a fuel tank on his back, and we also can't think of a use for it. But it's powered armor. We're going to be doing more with personal armor too.

If I may critique your tanks.. the armor is oddly alocated. The turret is the most exposed portion of the tank, and so should be given the heaviest armor. It also can be more effectively sloped... sloping the armor at 30 degrees more than doubles protection. Frontal armor should be close to the turret's protection. Side armor could be about half of the front, and rear only a quarter. That's because it's harder to slope the armor in those positions, and tanks are supposed to face the enemy.

Secondly, modern rifled guns perform signifigantly worse than smoothbore ones. Rifled guns can not fire HEAT shells because the centripital force diffuses the metalic jet. They also are ineffective firing SABOTs because the rifling slows the shell down, the spin causes the sabot to releace too early, and the penetrator needs to be shorter.

DCA offers excelent tanks, and would be willing to work out a deal. We specifically direct your attention to the Ocelot MBT, the Crusader X, the Mongoose Tankita, and the Kingmongoose SPA series.

OOC: I can't model, so I'm forced to work with the pictures I have (in regards to sloping; besides I took these from a game I have.). As for the turret, I've changed the armor allocation for now, but not the sides or the rear.

Just remember: I AM NO EXPERT ON WEAPONRY; I center on civilian projects because I'm slightly better at that aspect. Besides, there are probably plenty of tanks developed in NS (outside of the copy and paste from Jane's Defense) that probably have worse flaws than mine that sell hundreds of thousands of units to dozens of countries.

Sorry for the rant, but it's late and I am tired right now.

IC:

We shall keep your products in mind, but our Government has decided that it would be best that we produce our own armored vehicles. Given that we have to replace roughly 25,000 Anti Aircraft, Light, and Heavy Battle Tanks, the SDF has thought it prudent to develop its own designs in these areas.

OOC: No problem... I agree... there are many worse designed tanks... Many of the janes copies are incorrect as well. I only bothered to comment here because I know you tend to take this pretty seriously and would want to have something that was well researched. Take it as a compliment =)

IC: A reasonable decision. We are willing, however, to sell either plans to our vehicles, or techology they use in liue of actually selling you the vehicles themselves.

weapons-tech will be more then happy to let you perview our fine products just read our thread Weapons-tech storefront.

A BUMP for more contractor offers. I am very curious as to what specific products other nations are willing to offer Schultaria Prime.

*sigh*

I haven't designed anything new in several weeks. I go through these creative bursts that wear away after a while, then come back some time later. :) Schulatria Prime, will you be more specific as to what 'Fixed and Short Range Naval Ordinance" you shall require?

OH yes... we have lovely anti-warship cluster munitions. And that's not an oxymoron... look in the munitions section.

OOC: This is a rough outline of what our nation requires. Any specific weapons systems you feature will be given more consideration than just a blanket ad for a storefront. As for the armor: Since our nation wants to jump at least 30 to 45 years more advanced than general Modern Tech (Still 50 years behind the bleeding edge of Schultarian Science), we might need systems that are comparable to our anticipated technical level that we currently don't have.

For those who are interested in placing a contract, here are a few ideas of what the SKC (Schultaria Kamor Collibraei) [Schultarian Defense Forces] are seeking.

+Infantry Weapons
-General Assault Rifles
-General Purpose Squad Support Weapon
-Portable Anti Tank Weaponry

+Infantry Improvements and Modifications
-Lightweight Malleable Body Armor
-Optics Enhancement Packages (IR / Nightvision / Telescopic Daylight)

+Fixed and Short Range Naval Ordinance (Think of Germany's Atlantic Wall during World War II, but with a 21st century upgrade in technology and tactics)
-Mobile Coastal Artillery (For urban defense against seaborne invasion)
-Anti-Ship Mines (Holy Panooly's retrofitted mines are well over a century old)

+Interceptor and Tactical Bomber Aircraft (Only hindrance: NO LONG RANGE BOMBER CRAFT [I.E. B-2 Stealth Bombers, B-52 Strategic Bombers, etc])

We offer a range of armors: from resistant fatigues to conceilable soft armor, disguised soft armor to hard armor packages, hard armor suites to moderntech powered armor.

Only two are available for sale at present, both are resistant fatigues, but we expect the rest to come out shortly. Here is an excerpt from one of our catalogues.

Personal Armor
Chardonayan personal armor is currently based on five major materiels: spider silk, armind fiber, carbon whiskers, advanced ballistic ceramics, and a polyethalene glycol shear thickening fluid.

Spider silk has many advantages... it's considerably stronger than an equivelent weight of steel (20 times under normal conditions, more when propperly woven), it's light, comfortable, and easily woven. We produce the silk from the udders of genetically modified goats. It's also rather difficlut to break the strands or cut through them.

Armind fiber, the active ingridient in Kevlar, is also extremely strong and quite light(five times as strong as steel under normal circomstances, even more when properly woven)... unfortunately, materials made of kevlar can be cut through rather easily with bayonets, or even ice picks. It works best when combined with a resin.

Carbon whiskers on their own aren't all that useful, but when mixed in with armind fibers in a polymer resin backed with ceramics, they are increadibly strong, resistant to fatigue, and relatively light.

Ceramics are the heavy. On the other hand, chardonayan ceramic inserts can deflect/ absorb the impact of multiple high velocity rifle rounds while inflicting very little blunt trauma on the victem.

The final materal, SFT polyethalene glycol, is a thick liquid that responds to cutting actions by actually hardening in that area. STF treated fabrics are virtually impossible to cut through.

The armor we sell comes in either full fatigue sets, individual peices to be worn over or under fatigues, or as heavy combination armor suites. The fatigues and armor suites will be sold in standard and NBC protection versions... note, the NBC protection versions are limited, they don't work if they are damaged or if you aren't wearing a helmet and a mask... as well, we can't guaruntee that someone will come up with a toxin that has a dreadfully low molecular weight... we made the uniform as protective as possible without making it extremely uncomfortable.

Resistant Fatigues
SFT treated fatigues
These fatigues are very cut resistant. Although it's perfectly possible to drive an ice pick through kevlar, it's impossible to penetrate these fatigues. Unfortunately, though the fabric doesn't tear, the force is still transmitted onto a very small area and can easily smash bones or, in some cases, even cut into the body through the fatigues without damaging the fabric. Needless to say they aren't bullet proof either. ON the other hand, they're very light and comfortable, and will keep that maniac with a bayonet from actually killing you.

Standard: $100
NBC Protection: $200

Spider silk fatigues
These fatigues are made of standard fabric with layers of spider silk interwoven, and has been treated with SFT materials... this is probably the most effective comfortable armor system available... it is very soft and light, will stop knives and small fragments, and will resist bullets, especially low velocity hollowpoint bullets, though the victem will still likely suffer from some blunt trauma. Again, this weighs only slightly more than a standard uniform

Standard $1000
NBC: $1200

more to come... soft concealable armor, hard armor, and disguised armor...