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The KT-2 MBT. Unmatched superiority.

Combat Weight: 70 Tons
Crew Size: 4
Length (hull) 30 Feet
Width: 15 Feet
Height: 8 Feet
Ground Clearance: 2 Feet
Engine: Kahta Motors CV12 1200hp
Speed 50 mph (road); 35 mph (Rugged terrain)
Main Armament: 130mm smoothbore cannon fires AT missiles in primary fire, and can fire any kind of round designed for the cannon.
Secondary: 7.62 mm coaxial machinegun (not visible in pic)
third: 7.62mm turret mounted machine gun (not visible in pic)
fourth: 7.62mm hull mounted machine gun (not visible in pic)
Armor: amorphus (http://www.metglas.com) steel, and Reactive (only worn in combat, included in weight) Thickness is classified.


8 smoke grenade launchers
2 Thermal sights
Additional towing/loaded capacity of 10 tons

Variant A: Contains turret loaded missile launcher on top of turret. Luancher can fire AA (Infared) and AT (infared) missiles.

Variant B: 140mm cannon, external hollow core armor on top of regular armor, ATGM launcher on top of turret. Retractable kevlar skirt.

never mind

The Imperium wishes to know if production right are available for such a fine tank?

Sorry, but we are not selling this tank. We will however lease them.

The Army of Kahta has just ordered 150,000 of these. Orders will be completed in 2 years.

now we can all be happy.

wtf?

Stay out if you are not going to RP. Anyways, I'm putting you on ignore.

OOC: How exactly are you getting a 70ton tank to go 60mph, faster than any other MBT in the rl world?

OOC: How exactly are you getting a 70ton tank to go 60mph, faster than any other MBT in the rl world?

OOC: I think that the Abrams can go to maybe 50. Its governed at 42/45 depending on the version. I'll change it to 50.

Anyone else have some comments?

Its a good tank, if you're using real world tanks as a benchmark. Compared to other NS tanks though, it'd be raped.

What would you recomend I change?

Because of the proliferation of high powered electrothermal guns which can blow through all but the thickest armor, I'd put more ECM on it to avoid being struck at all. The gun is lacking as well, everyone's got SCRAMjet and guided rounds now.

OOC: SCRAM jet is not modern tech. Neither are elctromagnetic guns. I ignore all future tech in a war.

SCRAMjet rounds ar eindeed a bit too future tech for msot people, the only actual demostration indicated the need for huge increase in amterials and fuel science.
EM guns are also well beyond the arbitary 2015 mark just ask the UK, US and german MODs.

ETC guns do exist and are in testing the only major issue is a bit of understanding about palsma interactions the least optimistic view points put them in service around the 2015 mark with more optimistic ones hinting at 2010 or earlier. The germans only went for a conventional gun on thier next gen tank study as they reconned that ETC tech carried a bit too much of a risk.


Anyway enough of my soap box work...


Its a really nice tank and overall a good rendition of a decent current gen tank, the armour might be a bit of a quible (how does super cooled steel compare with a decent composit many layered skin? it is however probabaly much easier to produce and repair).

I still beleive the Pzkw-K (Cougar/Bergloewe) outperforms it.

I still beleive the Pzkw-K (Cougar/Bergloewe) outperforms it.

OOC: Perhaps we can RP a training battle between the two.

SCRAMjet rounds ar eindeed a bit too future tech for msot people, the only actual demostration indicated the need for huge increase in amterials and fuel science.
EM guns are also well beyond the arbitary 2015 mark just ask the UK, US and german MODs.

ETC guns do exist and are in testing the only major issue is a bit of understanding about palsma interactions the least optimistic view points put them in service around the 2015 mark with more optimistic ones hinting at 2010 or earlier. The germans only went for a conventional gun on thier next gen tank study as they reconned that ETC tech carried a bit too much of a risk.


Anyway enough of my soap box work...


Its a really nice tank and overall a good rendition of a decent current gen tank, the armour might be a bit of a quible (how does super cooled steel compare with a decent composit many layered skin? it is however probabaly much easier to produce and repair).

Anything past 2 years from now is future tech to me. The exception is if the military is planning on taking deliveries of that technology.

Well the US army actually do own a number of working 120mm ETC guns.

now of course the question coems down to what your 2 years applies to: actual inservice dates or mere prototype designs as on depending on the criteria you would ahve F-22 and Eruofighter in their very very basic configs and the F-35 would be a pure pipe dream

as it stands no tank gun other than 120/125mm has gone beyond basic testing

I beleive the Bundeswehr was testing a prototype 130mm cannon on a Leopard 2A6.

actually they biult a fully working 140mm gun and isntalled it on a number of different loe2 chassis but in the end it didn't offer enough of an improvement in performance so they went with the L55 120mm gun instead

Well the US army actually do own a number of working 120mm ETC guns.

now of course the question coems down to what your 2 years applies to: actual inservice dates or mere prototype designs as on depending on the criteria you would ahve F-22 and Eruofighter in their very very basic configs and the F-35 would be a pure pipe dream

as it stands no tank gun other than 120/125mm has gone beyond basic testing

Ok, maybe more than two. :)

The cannon and armor is going to be upgraded.

The cannon and entire turret is going to be replaced on all the models currently built. The cannon is going to be a 140mm smoothbore. Also on the top of the turret will be a bottom loaded ATGM launcher capable of being loaded by the commander or loader (who loads the main gun also).

The armor is going to have a hollow core exterior with 2 inches of space between the main layer, however over this hollow core armor, reactive armor attaches. Also added will be a retractable armoured skirt. This skirt will be 2 inches thick and made the same way a tread is, and roll up when not in use, or the tread needs to be fixed. However, the skirt is made of a composite kevlar and is not as strong as steel. It will however protect the treads and innerworkings from smaller peices of shrapnel or anything small that might to considerable damage.

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Good tank. We might be interested in buying some of them if you ever plan on selling them.

We'll never sell them until we have a new design.

The KT-2 Program has been cancelled. About 50,000 KT-2A's will be sold, the rest 125,000 (KT-2B) will be kept.