The Macabees
11-11-2004, 02:09
OOC: This is no way done...I have a lot to write up, or improve on until I put it on for sale.
NOTE: Don't ask for purchasing rights, I won't sell them to you.
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MMA-A1 "Kondor" Low Altitude Fighter
Power Plant: Twin F414-GE-400 engines, each in the 22,000 pound thrust class. On an interdiction mission.
Accommodations: 2 crew members.
Altitude: 23,000 feet
Weapon stations include: two wingtip stations for Sidewinders; two outboard wing stations for air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons; two inboard wing stations for fuel tanks, air-to-air, or air-to-ground weapons; two nacelle fuselage stations for MTAAM-2s, MTAAM-1s, or sensor pods; and one centerline station for fuel or air-to-ground weapons. A Vulcan machine gun.
The Kondor was originally built as an air superiority fighter however Macabee military specialist quickly noticed its potential for low altitude stealth missions, and its ineptitude to put up a good fight against other modern fighters. Consequently, the chassis of the aircraft was made rounder and the plane smaller, and faster.
The Kondor carriers the MRT-2 RADAR system, with a range of 700 kilometers under perfect circumstances. The Kondor’s forward Vulcan works as an “aerial AWACs”, using a small, onboard, LIDAR and Doppler LIDAR, system to lock onto incoming air to air missiles, or surface to air missiles.
Cost: 41 million
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MMA-A2 Hawk
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.4
Supercruise: Mach 2.1
WingSpan: 36 feet
Internal Fuel: 16,000 lbs
Payload: 1,000 lbs
Take-off weight is 20 tonnes
2 MVL V1 Thrust Engines
Armament:
1 30mm Vulcan
18 or 20 MTAAM-2 Predator Air to Air Missiles
2 500lb cruise missiles
The Aircrafts 8 Internal Hardpoints can carry Air-To-Surface Missiles,Air-to-Air Missiles,Bombs and also ECM Pods for electronic warfare.
RADAR:
The Hawk uses a miniature, but upgraded, MRT-2 RADAR system, which burns through all known stealth equipment at up to 700 kilometers. The land based MRT- has a range of 700kms. It utilises the steerable radar beam first developed for the MRT-1 system, meaning that aircraft or missiles linked to this system can have their own internal radars off and still have an electronic contact better than if they were standalone.
Max Ceiling:
Some 70,000 feet.
Life Support Systems.
The Hawk life support system integrates all critical components of clothing, protective gear, and aircraft equipment necessary to sustain the pilot's life while flying the aircraft. In the past, these components had been designed and produced separately. The life support system components include:
An on-board oxygen generation system that supplies breathable air to the pilot.
An integrated breathing regulator/anti-g valve (BRAG) that controls flow and pressure to the mask and pressure garments. A chemical/biological/cold-water immersion protection ensemble. An upper body counterpressure garment and a lower body anti-G garment acts a partial pressure suit at high altitudes.
An air-cooling garment thermal relief for the pilot. Helmet and helmet-mounted systems including C/B goggles and C/B hood; and the a breathing mask and hose system
The Hawk uses liquid cooling, rather than air cooling for the mission avionics. Su-48 is breaking ground in liquid cooling and the environment in which it works. Resistance to high temperature and durability were the driving factors in the liquid cooling design.
There are six fuel tanks on the Hawk, including one in the forward fuselage behind the pilot's ejection seat. The others are located in the fuselage and the wings.
The Hawk Communications/Navigation/Identification (CNI) 'system' is a collection of communication, navigation, and identification functions, once again employing the CIP for signal and data processing resources. Each CNI function has its associated aperture installed throughout the aircraft.
Included in the Communications/Navigation/Identification (CNI) system is an Inter/Intra-Flight Data Link (IFDL) that allows all Hawk in a flight to share target and system data automatically and without radio calls. The Inter/Intra Flight Data Link is one of the powerful tools that make all Hawk more capable. One of the original objectives for the Su-48 was to increase the percentage of fighter pilots who make 'kills'. With the IFDL, each pilot is free to operate more autonomously because, for example, the leader can tell at a glance what his wing man's fuel state is, his weapons remaining, and even the enemy aircraft he has targeted. Targets can be automatically prioritized and set up in a shoot list with one button push. A 'shoot' cue in the head up display alerts the pilot to the selected weapon kill parameters and he fires the weapons. Both a pilot's and wing man's missile flight can be monitored on the cockpit displays. Classical tactics based on visual 'tally' (visual identification) and violent formation maneuvers that reduce the wing man to 'hanging on' may have to be rethought in light of such capabilities. This link also allows additional Su-48 flights to be added to the net for multi-flight coordinated attack.
The Electronic Warfare 'system' is also a collection of apertures, electronics, and processors (again using the CIP) that detect and locate signals from other aircraft and controls the Hawk expendable countermeasures (chaff and flares). The EW aperture locations provide all-aspect coverage, and the system includes a missile launch detection capability.
The Hawks electronic warfare system includes a radar warning receiver and a missile launch detector.
The Stores Management System (SMS) controls weapons launch sequences, including door control (for the internal weapons carriage) and emergency weapons jettison.
The power supply modules designed for the Hawk avionics are cooled with polyalphaolefin (PAO) liquid coolant to carry away heat generated by the supplies' power-conversion process. The reduced temperature allows the component's power output to increase from 250 watts to 400 watts. Each module measure 6.41 inches by 5.99 inches by 0.58 inches and weighs 1.8 pounds.
The avionics racks, located in the forward fuselage, contain the processing, not only for the mission avionics, but also for the Vehicle Management System (VMS) and Integrated Vehicle System Controller (IVSC). The flight worthy racks, including the liquid-flowthrough racks required for the CIP.
Two Litton LN-100F ring laser gyroscopes in the forward fuselage provide the aircraft a self-contained method of knowing where it is. These inertial measurement units, placed nose to nose behind the radar on the aircraft's centerline, are operated off separate data buses to provide independent measurement data. In normal flight, IRS data is fused with Global Positioning System (GPS) data to provide an extremely reliable navigational capability. The IMUs are the only completely reliable source of data for the aircraft at attitudes above 30 degrees angle of attack (AOA). One of the IRS units feeds data directly into the CIP for gun control steering.
The Flying Test Bed (FTB) represents an interim test environment between the controlled, but static environment of the ground labs, and the dynamic flight testing of the Hawk. Sensor systems installed in the aircraft, CIPs, as well as operator consoles and instrumentation will be used to test avionics capabilities prior to release to the Hawk.
Building Cost: 350 million (very expensive factory equipment)
Purchasing Cost:90 million USD
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Panzerkampfwaggen IX Sargon Ausf. B -
The armor is composed of a diamond helix bonded through double carbon bonds and other ADBOND designs around and through a buckyball matrix, layered in 240 nano-meter strips. This is covered by the Indium/Osmium-Germanium mix 2nd Gen Supercooled Coil, which was stolen off an Iscariot VIII a while back. They are filled with supercooled liquid Xenon and when a round impacts, the liquid gasses out to counter the heat while the metal coil itself is used as a heat conductor to dissipate the attack it will render that portion of the coil useless but should still enable it to work on other parts of the tank. Especially good against HEAT. Finally there is a thick layer of NxRA Ablative Armor Blocks, up to 14cm in some places. This provides up to an additional 1000mm RHA, for a total of up to 4500mm RHA. (max. real thickness 200mm). However, the central differences between the Spanish buckyball matrix and the composites of the armor is the type of bondage between the diamond helix, allowing for a stronger chemical bonding, meaning the armor RHA will be a tad stronger.
The engine of the Variant B of the Sargon tank is a 2,000 horsepower diesel engine, hitting a maximum velocity of 40 kilometers per hour. However, the diesel conserves more fuel than a conventional gasoline engine. The Sargon will rarely cruise past thirty however, due to the fact that most of the world’s roads don’t have the strength to deal with a huge beast, such as the Sargon, at 40 kph. The engine if furthermore enhanced with ceramic composite parts giving the engine a brutal strength of 5,000 horsepower, need be. However, again, rarely will so much raw power be used. The engine is cooled by a xenon fuel tank, and a super condensing cooling gel which spreads over the ceramic compositing.
The Variant B Sargon has a 150mm L/70 ETC gun. The L/70 length gives it the power of up to a 200mm gun, with a lower muzzle flash, and an extremely low recoil. Furthermore, “R” rings, composed of small springs measuring mere nano-meters, composed of a nylon crystal composite, lower the recoil allowing the tank to recover in between rounds much faster. Consequently, the reloading and firing process lowers considerably, allowing more rounds to be popped out. The fire and control allows the gunner to process and lock onto up to twenty different targets all at once. The main gun also has a Thermal Layer to allow the gun to cool down after each round.
For missile defense the Ausf. B is given two ADMS-1 guns, capable of locking on, through on board RADAR and LIDAR detection, incoming anti-tank rounds and other general missiles. The ADMS-1 then fires a batch of RRS bullets and blows the incoming missile pre-emptively. This is similar to the workings of MetalStorm, however, is much smaller, and has a lesser chance of being blown off the tank by a stray bullet during close combat exercises.
The commander has a full 360 degree view, provided by three cameras on the tank, giving the commander views of the battlefield on three separate LCD screens in his small compartment. This allows for the commander to have an enhanced view of the targets available and decreases chances of ambushes.
This will be the sole Macabee main battle tank until the advent of a newer one.
Cost: 30 Million
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MTAAM-2 Predator Air to Air Missile
After facing the Romanian air to air missile the Spaniards began working on their own air to air missiles that could match and exceed the New Empire missiles. The work concluded with the MTAAM-2 Predator.
The Predator turbojet engine is made up a single crystal NiFe based superalloy, called THYMONEL 8. THYMONEL 8 has a high fatigue resistance and this teams up with a low hydrogen enviroment embrittlement (HEE). Furthermore, THYMONEL 8 exihibits higher termal conductivity and lower Young's modulus than the single crystals used for turbine engines, consequently beneficial for the thermo-mechanical strength. (OOC: Not techno-babble... I researched this out of a three thousand page book on super allows - took me about two weeks to read the necessary sections.)
The single crystal superalloy is termed third generation and is better known as Rene N6. Rene N6 is microstructurally stable and is about thirty degrees stronger than its second generation counterpart. SRZ, a cellual precipitation reaction that primarily occurs beneath coatins, was countred by the improved Rene N6.
The turbojet engine incorporates the scramjet phenomenon, which was designed in the early 80s to allow missiles to cover large tracks of displacement. In a thick atmosphere enviroment (sea-skimmers) scramjet cannot work, but for an air to air missile scramjet is prime. The more delictate scramjet propulsion used in the MTAAM-2 pushes the missiles to Mach 4.7 in altitudes ten thousand feet or above, and up to Mach 8 in the upper atmosphere, were air friction is not a problem, making the MTAAM-2 also a great sattelite killer. The Predator, working with scramjet and a much thinner body to decrease the impression of air friction has a maximum range of 200 kilometers (ca. 180 miles).
The missile has a 20kg warhead. It doesn't take much to shoot an aircraft out of the sky. The Octogen warhead is a high explosive, meaning if the missile explodes within ten feet it will still cause massive damage on the aircraft, or in most cases down it.
The MTAAM-2 uses MRT-3 (dropped the TENEX SPY-6) RADAR technology to track its targets, as well as MLT-1 LIDAR Technology. The LRT-1 has both Doppler LIDAR which measures the velocity of the target by using the wavelength of the light reflectet or scattered by the target, and range finder LIDAR. LIDAR is insensitive to chaff or IR flares.
Cost: 300,000 USD
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MT-3 Torpedo
The MT-3 torpedo uses a rocket engine with a NiAl, alumina formula nickel based superalloy, coating to project itself at fifty knots. The engine uses an MHD type propulsion, however using the NiAl construction to ease the rocket projection. It is a sort of underwater ramjet, first developed by the Russians, and then improved by New Empire, and finally in the hands of the The Macabees. The MT-3 is, consequently, extremely silent. The MT-3 also uses a cavitation absorber on the frame and on the screw; this was first developed by the U.S. Navy for destroyers, and shrunk by the Macabees to fit on a torpedo.
It has a 300kg Octagen warhead, with a hull piercing tip, to burn through the titanium double hulls. However, against a titanium frame it would still, most probably, still require two torpedoes to penetrate. The width of the warhead remains 500mm to be able to use it on the existing tubes on the Toledo class SSN and Spanish ASROC weapons on surface ships.
The MT-3 has a rounder form in order to force water pressure to spread equally along the torpedo, meaning that the torpedo could be fired at deeper depths.
The MT-3 is the only “normal” torpedo in Macabee use up to now. It could be classified as MADCAP, according to New Empire’s classification system. The MT-1 and MT-2 are Super Cavitational torpedoes.
Cost: 200,000 USD
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Toledo class Nuclear Attack Submarine (SSN)
The Toledo SSN has a wholly titanium frame, ensuring a radical crush depth of three kilometers, and making it extremely strong – it could most likely take two or three Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes. The titanium frame is covered by anechoic tiles, which is basically a rubbery substance which absorbes outside noise, such as (specifically) active sonar sound waves (pings) – although a destroyer, or sonobouy, could cath it within six hundred to ten thousand meters, depending on the strength of the sonar system. Anachoic tiling can also be known as “gaucho.”
As a sonar system the Toledo uses a variant of the Poseidon SONAR, named after the Greek God of the Sea. The Poseidon has a very well built passive side, which uses hundred of hydrophones, nanometers in size, which listen acutely for sounds. Crew are especially tuned into the noise of doors opening (outer torpedo doors). The active sonar is also marble, but rarely used. The Poseidon for the submarines was mainly designed to detect surface shipping, which was extremely noisy, and allowed the SSNs to make precision raids on enemy shipping. The Toledo, for other passive uses, also has a TB-23 thin line towed array which reels out of the main ballast tank, as well as a shorter TB-16 towed array. The Toledo makes use of a dual LIDAR system – normal LIDAR, and Doppler LIDAR. The normal LIDAR detects vector and rage of a target by using a laser, coming from a four and a half million watt system (6,000 horsepower), giving it an immense range. The Doppler LIDAR uses the same type of laser to detect velocity of the target. Consequently, LIDAR not only finds vector and range, but velocity, allowing faster updating for the submarine’s supercomputers on the moving target.
The beauty has eight forward 500mm torpedo tubes, capable of firing MT-1s, MT-2s, as well as the newer MT-3s. For anti-torpedo uses the tubes can fire MAT-1s. The Toledo also carriers Principe IIIs, a missile launched torpedo, designed for surface shipping. These are fired from a single quadruple storage vertical launch system, which fire, then rotate, then fire. To fire all four slots it takes about thirty seconds. The vertical launch tubes are re-loaded through a hydrolic load process, doing it quickly and efficiently.
For anti-torpedo defenses the Toledo uses an underwater CIWS system based off those captured from salvaged Orcas, created by New Empire. However, they are slightly upgraded. Tight oxygen packages which need to be replaced by experts, doing it mechanically, allow a MetalStorm gun to lock on torpedoes by using onboard LIDAR and SONAR systems. Consequently, torpedoes are blown out of the water. This makes the Toledo a tough nut to crack.
For propulsion the Toledo uses a nuclear reactor with a single screw in the rear. However, it also makes use of MHD propulsion, mostly when in battle, to get rid of cavitation, and thus make the submarine much more quiet. Ways are still being figured out of how to get rid of the black hole created by MHD on enemy sonar, and we are currently investing in the captured Orcas to unlock this secret.
Cost: 800 million
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MAAM Cruise Missiles Ausf. B
The MAAM Cruise Missile is a small cruise missile, about half the size of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. It was known for its cheap production and maintenance costs and it's rapid velocity. However, it has gone through drastic developements.
It's warhead has been replaced by 800kg OctaNitroCubane warhead - the strongest explosive known to man yet. Thus packing a hit force 25% more that of the Tomahawk missile - and still remaining cheaper. Furthermore, engineers have included scramjet technology, meaning that the missile is fired like a rocket a first and then using scramjet reaches at speeds topping mach 6.
The Ausf. B is suppose to replace all Macabee cruise missile in four years time, and is to show drastic changes on the battlefield. The MAAM Ausf. B is offered for sale with a small 200kg OctaNitroCubane warhead for 11 Million USD a piece and have locks to avoid technology pirating from other nations (OOC: meaning it's impossible for you to replicate the technology on your own)... production rights are not available at this time.
Cost: 1.3 Million USD
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Chevalier Self Propelled Artillery
The Genesis uses a dynamic new engine system in use by the Merkava 4 of Israel which saves a load of petroleum - giving it twice the distance on one tank, and cutting logistics costs by billions. Military experts figured that a beast over 100 tons going over 40 mph was a waste of resources and a big mistake. Most tactical battles were fought at a much smaller rate - and even it they went faster they were still concluded with the same result. Hence, the engine has been compacted to 1200 hp diesel engine, with a maximum speed of 30 mph. This is not as bad as it sounds - it is truly impractical to go over 25 on most of the earth's surfaces and it cuts down on refueling. In Destert Storm US Army VII Corps under General Franks had to wait to refuel their Abrams (with a normal engine), which consequently allowed the Republican Guard to escape and reform. Another advantage of this engine is that it produces far less heat, thus being less vulnerable to infra-red mortar rounds and heat-seeking top-attack ATGMs. Additionally, the curret gast turbine engine produces so much heat that infantrymen cannot follow behind for protection. This engine burns at 1.2 gallons a mile.
For ammunition it uses a scramjet 155mm artillery round, launching it at 50km range. The scramjet basically means the combustion takes place at supersonic air velocities through the engine. The expansion of hot gases after fuel injection and combustion accelerates the exhaus air to a velocity highter than at the inlet and creates positive push. This rocket propelled round hits its target at up to 6.5 mach. Furthermore, it's loaded with Octanitrocubane, the most powerful explosive known to man - although not currently used in the military (Octogen is used at present) - allowing for a much greater punch. This 155mm round (loaded with Octanitrocubane - c8n8016) is referred to in Spanish military jargon as the MARA - while the second type of round, which is designed to be more of a HEAT type round, still powered by scramjet is referred to as the MARB. The Chevalier holds 40 MARAs and 10 MARBs.
http://www.g2mil.com/scramjet.jpg
In the area of armor it has up to 900mm of NERA armor. Although light, this is not a front line vehicle, thus the having heavier armor would be both impracticle and a waste of resources - as the heavier it gets, the slower it drives. Linked with the engine this allows the Chevalier 750km of driving distance on one tank.
For self protection it also has one co-axial MG90, in use by the commander.
Cost: 20 Million USD
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Panzerwerfer Ausf. B
The highly effective Panzerwerfer MLRS is designed to suppress missile, artillery and mortar batteries, destroy strong points and eliminate enemy strongholds, as well as to defeat enemy's manpower, armoured and unarmoured materiel and other targets at the operational level. The system is highly mobile and transportable even off-roads. It can be used in different climatic conditions at an ambient temperature ranging from +50oC to -50oC.
The Panzerwerfer Combat Vehicle comprises a 30-tube launcher system mounted on an automobile chassis (8 x 8) of high cross-country ability with a powerful diesel engine. The single SMERCH unit is capable of firing a complete 20-round salvo within 20 seconds engaging an area of 672000 sq.m. High accuracy of fire with salvo dispersion is provided by in-flight rotation technique of a rocket projectile specially designed for this MLRS. Fire can be controlled from the special cabin of the combat vehicle or remotely.
The rocket used is the 300 mm calibre 9M55K (Russian), fitted with a self-contained powered-flight phase control system enhancing fire precision by a factor of two and accuracy by a factor of three as compared to unguided rockets. Minimum range is 20,000 m and maximum range 70,000 m.
The rocket can be fitted with the following types of warheads:
9M55K cluster projectile with fragmentation sub-munitions (72 x 1.81 kg). Intended to engage manpower, soft material;
9M55F with a separable HE warhead containing 95 kg of explosive for use against lightly armoured vehicles, fortifications and personnel;
9M55K1 with five top-attack anti-armour sub-munitions that weigh 15 kg each and are fitted with a two-band infra-red seeker. The munition measures 284x255x186 mm, the seeker's field of view is 30 deg. designed to defeat armour.
9M55S 300 mm rocket projectile with a thermobaric warhead is designed to defeat unsheltered manpower, as well as personel in light field fortifications and in soft-skinned/lightly armored vehichles. The warhead weght is 243 kg, the weight of explosive is 100 kg, the diameter of the thermobaric field with the temperature more than 1000 °C is 25 m.
9M55K4 300 mm rocket projectile is designed for remote laying of anti-tank minefields. The number of mines is 25. The mine weighs 4.85kg, the weight of explosive is 1.85 kg. Time of mine self-destruction is 16 ... 24 hours.
Cost: 8 Million USD
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Equite I ICBM
The Equite I turbojet engine is made up a single crystal NiFe based superallow, called THYMONEL 8. THYMONEL 8 has a high fatigue resistance and this teams up with a low hydrogen enviroment embrittlement (HEE). Furthermore, THYMONEL 8 exihibits higher termal conductivity and lower Young's modulus than the single crystals used for turbine engines, consequently beneficial for the thermo-mechanical strength. (OOC: Not techno-babble... I researched this out of a three thousand page book on super allows - took me about two weeks to read the necessary sections.) The single crystal superallow is termed third generation and is better known as Rene N6. Rene N6 is microstructurally stable and is about thirty degrees stronger than its second generation counterpart. SRZ, a cellual precipitation reaction that primarily occurs beneath coatins, was countred by the improved Rene N6.
The engine is a SCRAMjet engine, and it is designed to fly the majority of the mission in the upper atmosphere, giving it a total velocity of Mach 11. The SCRAMjet engine works faster and more reliably as it flies higher through the atmosphere, due to the thinning of the atmosphere - allowing such incredible speeds.
The Equite I has a Uranium nuclear payload of 500kilograms. It may seem small, but this relatively light weight gives it the potential of such velocity, and more manueverability. The Uranium warhead has a mln1 coolant giving it a neon green glow when it explodes, which just adds to the mere beauty of the destruction - in a sick..and twisted...way.
The ICBM has a final phase LIDAR guidance, which uses a laser pulse to detect range, and chemical composition of the target. This adds enhanced accuracy when trying to hit a "bullsize" target - meaning the center of the blast - to ensure maximum destruction around it. The LIDAR guidance included Doppler LIDAR which measures the velocity of the target (which is almost always going to be zero, since your hitting a city most likely), as well as normal LIDAR to detect range, and DIAL, to detect chemical composition.
The chassis of the Equite 1 is covered with mirrors to force enemy LIDAR guided missiles, looking to shoot it down, to fail to find the target. The mirrors make the LIDAR lasers "bounce off" and therefore fail to report to the central computer of the enemy missile the velocity, or range, of the Equite 1. To avoid radar detection the Equite 1 has a superb radar jammer which can be turned on last minute in order to fool SAMs, and enemy radar sites, as well as radio wave distorters to make the Equite 1 seem a lot closer than it really is - meaning that the radar feed to the enemy missile, or radar site, detects it at a different location than it really is.
The supercomputer on the Equite 1 is an expensive set of four microchips, each with four gigabytes of harddrive, and four gigahertz of processor, cooled by an ln2 coolant, and overclocked to a total of twenty gigahertz. This allows for computations in fractions of a nanosecond. The computers are easily programable by experts of any buying nation.
Cost: 100,000,000 (a piece) << expensive but deadly >>
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BMV/MA-1 ULA (Gilgamesh):
The Gilgamesh is a concept craft in development that would provide long-term, wide-area protection of national and regional borders against invading forces. Employing a system similar to that of the Sleeverian BM-747 Stand-Off Missile Delivery Platform, the Gilgamesh would be deployed with up to several dozen internal rotary missile launchers (AKA ‘clip’. Note: the BM-747 bears about 12 (96 missiles)). Unlike the BM-747s, however, the Gilgamesh would be able to simply sit over an area, as on-board long-range radar seeks out targets. Then, when enemy fleets or forces are seen, the Gilgamesh opens its bomb-bay doors and rotary launch pods are presented.
A single BMV/MA could eliminate entire invasion forces with a single load of missiles. Thanks to the format of the SkyCat 1000’s transport bays, a couple of parallel bomb-bays could be set side-by side, allowing the BMV/MA to launch several cruise missiles at once, multiplying the power and speed of its strikes against enemy fleets and formations. The upper deck of the Gatekeeper can be used to reload emptied ‘missile clips’ with cruise missiles stored ‘on-hand.’ By this means, a single Gatekeeper could continue operations for an extended time period (a few weeks) over the covered area, even reloading some of the expended missiles without landing.
Many of the PDE-improved cruise and precision-guided missiles proven in recent combat near Ell, launched from BM-747s, would also be capable of being used within the Gilgamesh system. These systems include improved Popeye II Have Lites, AGM-154A and C JSOWs, and AGM-86D and E CALCMS. Each of the missile engines have had Pulse Detonation Engines* incorporated, to extend their range and increase their speed. The CALCMs**, have had their speed boosted to a sustained 1.5 mach. A full-production run of these PDE-CALCMs is being begun already, both to please Western Asian commanders who’ve been pleased with the PDE-improved CALCMs’ performance and at the behest of allied nations that have requested access to the line of missiles.
Other modified missiles are also under consideration for development. Their types include:
-RADAR-SEEKING missile - homes-in on ship radar pulses (based on the HARM missile)
-RADAR-IMAGE missile - seeks a ships radar profile
-TORPEDO missile - releases a homing torpedo near the fleet (Similar to an ASROC)
-INFRA-RED missile - seeks heat produced by engines
-MAGNETIC missile - seeks metal
-ACOUSTIC missile - seeks the sound produced by engines
-FOCAL PLANE ARRAY missile - seeks large objects of a certain shape which are a different shade of color than the background
-RADIO WAVE missile - seeks out radio waves produced by communication systems (based on the HARM-R missile)
A variety of warheads, from HE to submunitions-scattering to EMP, could be employed in this role.
A variety of defensive systems would also be deployed with the Gilgamesh but the exact specifications have not yet been released. It is said that the systems might even include a number of UCAVs that would be deployed to intercept hostile aircraft.
Crew
Minimum: 19 (2 Flight Control Officers (FCO,Pilots), 1 Navigational Directions / Targeting Officer (ND/TO), 1 Communication Systems Officer (CSO), 6 Radar System Technicians (RSTs, + Targeting AI, operate in roles similar to radar techs aboard JSTARs), 2 Defensive Weapons Officers (DWOs, run and monitor defensive actions for the Gatekeeper), 1 EW/ECM Officer (EWO), 2 Bombardiers (+ Weapons Control AI, choose and fire upon targets), and 4 Ammunition Control Officers (ACOs, reload the missile clips).
Extended-term Missions: 30 (3 FCOs, 2 ND/TO, 2 CSO, 9 RSTs, + Targeting AI, 3 DWOs, 2 EWOs, 3 Bombardiers + Weapons Control AI, and 6 ACOs.)
Current Project Status: Fifteen Gilgamesh's have been built and there is no real need for more.
Estimated Pricing:
>Purchase Cost
$280-300 million (not counting missiles)
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I'll get some organization in this once I write up all my crap. Until then I'm just going to randomly compile it :-P.
NOTE: Don't ask for purchasing rights, I won't sell them to you.
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MMA-A1 "Kondor" Low Altitude Fighter
Power Plant: Twin F414-GE-400 engines, each in the 22,000 pound thrust class. On an interdiction mission.
Accommodations: 2 crew members.
Altitude: 23,000 feet
Weapon stations include: two wingtip stations for Sidewinders; two outboard wing stations for air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons; two inboard wing stations for fuel tanks, air-to-air, or air-to-ground weapons; two nacelle fuselage stations for MTAAM-2s, MTAAM-1s, or sensor pods; and one centerline station for fuel or air-to-ground weapons. A Vulcan machine gun.
The Kondor was originally built as an air superiority fighter however Macabee military specialist quickly noticed its potential for low altitude stealth missions, and its ineptitude to put up a good fight against other modern fighters. Consequently, the chassis of the aircraft was made rounder and the plane smaller, and faster.
The Kondor carriers the MRT-2 RADAR system, with a range of 700 kilometers under perfect circumstances. The Kondor’s forward Vulcan works as an “aerial AWACs”, using a small, onboard, LIDAR and Doppler LIDAR, system to lock onto incoming air to air missiles, or surface to air missiles.
Cost: 41 million
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MMA-A2 Hawk
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.4
Supercruise: Mach 2.1
WingSpan: 36 feet
Internal Fuel: 16,000 lbs
Payload: 1,000 lbs
Take-off weight is 20 tonnes
2 MVL V1 Thrust Engines
Armament:
1 30mm Vulcan
18 or 20 MTAAM-2 Predator Air to Air Missiles
2 500lb cruise missiles
The Aircrafts 8 Internal Hardpoints can carry Air-To-Surface Missiles,Air-to-Air Missiles,Bombs and also ECM Pods for electronic warfare.
RADAR:
The Hawk uses a miniature, but upgraded, MRT-2 RADAR system, which burns through all known stealth equipment at up to 700 kilometers. The land based MRT- has a range of 700kms. It utilises the steerable radar beam first developed for the MRT-1 system, meaning that aircraft or missiles linked to this system can have their own internal radars off and still have an electronic contact better than if they were standalone.
Max Ceiling:
Some 70,000 feet.
Life Support Systems.
The Hawk life support system integrates all critical components of clothing, protective gear, and aircraft equipment necessary to sustain the pilot's life while flying the aircraft. In the past, these components had been designed and produced separately. The life support system components include:
An on-board oxygen generation system that supplies breathable air to the pilot.
An integrated breathing regulator/anti-g valve (BRAG) that controls flow and pressure to the mask and pressure garments. A chemical/biological/cold-water immersion protection ensemble. An upper body counterpressure garment and a lower body anti-G garment acts a partial pressure suit at high altitudes.
An air-cooling garment thermal relief for the pilot. Helmet and helmet-mounted systems including C/B goggles and C/B hood; and the a breathing mask and hose system
The Hawk uses liquid cooling, rather than air cooling for the mission avionics. Su-48 is breaking ground in liquid cooling and the environment in which it works. Resistance to high temperature and durability were the driving factors in the liquid cooling design.
There are six fuel tanks on the Hawk, including one in the forward fuselage behind the pilot's ejection seat. The others are located in the fuselage and the wings.
The Hawk Communications/Navigation/Identification (CNI) 'system' is a collection of communication, navigation, and identification functions, once again employing the CIP for signal and data processing resources. Each CNI function has its associated aperture installed throughout the aircraft.
Included in the Communications/Navigation/Identification (CNI) system is an Inter/Intra-Flight Data Link (IFDL) that allows all Hawk in a flight to share target and system data automatically and without radio calls. The Inter/Intra Flight Data Link is one of the powerful tools that make all Hawk more capable. One of the original objectives for the Su-48 was to increase the percentage of fighter pilots who make 'kills'. With the IFDL, each pilot is free to operate more autonomously because, for example, the leader can tell at a glance what his wing man's fuel state is, his weapons remaining, and even the enemy aircraft he has targeted. Targets can be automatically prioritized and set up in a shoot list with one button push. A 'shoot' cue in the head up display alerts the pilot to the selected weapon kill parameters and he fires the weapons. Both a pilot's and wing man's missile flight can be monitored on the cockpit displays. Classical tactics based on visual 'tally' (visual identification) and violent formation maneuvers that reduce the wing man to 'hanging on' may have to be rethought in light of such capabilities. This link also allows additional Su-48 flights to be added to the net for multi-flight coordinated attack.
The Electronic Warfare 'system' is also a collection of apertures, electronics, and processors (again using the CIP) that detect and locate signals from other aircraft and controls the Hawk expendable countermeasures (chaff and flares). The EW aperture locations provide all-aspect coverage, and the system includes a missile launch detection capability.
The Hawks electronic warfare system includes a radar warning receiver and a missile launch detector.
The Stores Management System (SMS) controls weapons launch sequences, including door control (for the internal weapons carriage) and emergency weapons jettison.
The power supply modules designed for the Hawk avionics are cooled with polyalphaolefin (PAO) liquid coolant to carry away heat generated by the supplies' power-conversion process. The reduced temperature allows the component's power output to increase from 250 watts to 400 watts. Each module measure 6.41 inches by 5.99 inches by 0.58 inches and weighs 1.8 pounds.
The avionics racks, located in the forward fuselage, contain the processing, not only for the mission avionics, but also for the Vehicle Management System (VMS) and Integrated Vehicle System Controller (IVSC). The flight worthy racks, including the liquid-flowthrough racks required for the CIP.
Two Litton LN-100F ring laser gyroscopes in the forward fuselage provide the aircraft a self-contained method of knowing where it is. These inertial measurement units, placed nose to nose behind the radar on the aircraft's centerline, are operated off separate data buses to provide independent measurement data. In normal flight, IRS data is fused with Global Positioning System (GPS) data to provide an extremely reliable navigational capability. The IMUs are the only completely reliable source of data for the aircraft at attitudes above 30 degrees angle of attack (AOA). One of the IRS units feeds data directly into the CIP for gun control steering.
The Flying Test Bed (FTB) represents an interim test environment between the controlled, but static environment of the ground labs, and the dynamic flight testing of the Hawk. Sensor systems installed in the aircraft, CIPs, as well as operator consoles and instrumentation will be used to test avionics capabilities prior to release to the Hawk.
Building Cost: 350 million (very expensive factory equipment)
Purchasing Cost:90 million USD
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Panzerkampfwaggen IX Sargon Ausf. B -
The armor is composed of a diamond helix bonded through double carbon bonds and other ADBOND designs around and through a buckyball matrix, layered in 240 nano-meter strips. This is covered by the Indium/Osmium-Germanium mix 2nd Gen Supercooled Coil, which was stolen off an Iscariot VIII a while back. They are filled with supercooled liquid Xenon and when a round impacts, the liquid gasses out to counter the heat while the metal coil itself is used as a heat conductor to dissipate the attack it will render that portion of the coil useless but should still enable it to work on other parts of the tank. Especially good against HEAT. Finally there is a thick layer of NxRA Ablative Armor Blocks, up to 14cm in some places. This provides up to an additional 1000mm RHA, for a total of up to 4500mm RHA. (max. real thickness 200mm). However, the central differences between the Spanish buckyball matrix and the composites of the armor is the type of bondage between the diamond helix, allowing for a stronger chemical bonding, meaning the armor RHA will be a tad stronger.
The engine of the Variant B of the Sargon tank is a 2,000 horsepower diesel engine, hitting a maximum velocity of 40 kilometers per hour. However, the diesel conserves more fuel than a conventional gasoline engine. The Sargon will rarely cruise past thirty however, due to the fact that most of the world’s roads don’t have the strength to deal with a huge beast, such as the Sargon, at 40 kph. The engine if furthermore enhanced with ceramic composite parts giving the engine a brutal strength of 5,000 horsepower, need be. However, again, rarely will so much raw power be used. The engine is cooled by a xenon fuel tank, and a super condensing cooling gel which spreads over the ceramic compositing.
The Variant B Sargon has a 150mm L/70 ETC gun. The L/70 length gives it the power of up to a 200mm gun, with a lower muzzle flash, and an extremely low recoil. Furthermore, “R” rings, composed of small springs measuring mere nano-meters, composed of a nylon crystal composite, lower the recoil allowing the tank to recover in between rounds much faster. Consequently, the reloading and firing process lowers considerably, allowing more rounds to be popped out. The fire and control allows the gunner to process and lock onto up to twenty different targets all at once. The main gun also has a Thermal Layer to allow the gun to cool down after each round.
For missile defense the Ausf. B is given two ADMS-1 guns, capable of locking on, through on board RADAR and LIDAR detection, incoming anti-tank rounds and other general missiles. The ADMS-1 then fires a batch of RRS bullets and blows the incoming missile pre-emptively. This is similar to the workings of MetalStorm, however, is much smaller, and has a lesser chance of being blown off the tank by a stray bullet during close combat exercises.
The commander has a full 360 degree view, provided by three cameras on the tank, giving the commander views of the battlefield on three separate LCD screens in his small compartment. This allows for the commander to have an enhanced view of the targets available and decreases chances of ambushes.
This will be the sole Macabee main battle tank until the advent of a newer one.
Cost: 30 Million
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MTAAM-2 Predator Air to Air Missile
After facing the Romanian air to air missile the Spaniards began working on their own air to air missiles that could match and exceed the New Empire missiles. The work concluded with the MTAAM-2 Predator.
The Predator turbojet engine is made up a single crystal NiFe based superalloy, called THYMONEL 8. THYMONEL 8 has a high fatigue resistance and this teams up with a low hydrogen enviroment embrittlement (HEE). Furthermore, THYMONEL 8 exihibits higher termal conductivity and lower Young's modulus than the single crystals used for turbine engines, consequently beneficial for the thermo-mechanical strength. (OOC: Not techno-babble... I researched this out of a three thousand page book on super allows - took me about two weeks to read the necessary sections.)
The single crystal superalloy is termed third generation and is better known as Rene N6. Rene N6 is microstructurally stable and is about thirty degrees stronger than its second generation counterpart. SRZ, a cellual precipitation reaction that primarily occurs beneath coatins, was countred by the improved Rene N6.
The turbojet engine incorporates the scramjet phenomenon, which was designed in the early 80s to allow missiles to cover large tracks of displacement. In a thick atmosphere enviroment (sea-skimmers) scramjet cannot work, but for an air to air missile scramjet is prime. The more delictate scramjet propulsion used in the MTAAM-2 pushes the missiles to Mach 4.7 in altitudes ten thousand feet or above, and up to Mach 8 in the upper atmosphere, were air friction is not a problem, making the MTAAM-2 also a great sattelite killer. The Predator, working with scramjet and a much thinner body to decrease the impression of air friction has a maximum range of 200 kilometers (ca. 180 miles).
The missile has a 20kg warhead. It doesn't take much to shoot an aircraft out of the sky. The Octogen warhead is a high explosive, meaning if the missile explodes within ten feet it will still cause massive damage on the aircraft, or in most cases down it.
The MTAAM-2 uses MRT-3 (dropped the TENEX SPY-6) RADAR technology to track its targets, as well as MLT-1 LIDAR Technology. The LRT-1 has both Doppler LIDAR which measures the velocity of the target by using the wavelength of the light reflectet or scattered by the target, and range finder LIDAR. LIDAR is insensitive to chaff or IR flares.
Cost: 300,000 USD
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MT-3 Torpedo
The MT-3 torpedo uses a rocket engine with a NiAl, alumina formula nickel based superalloy, coating to project itself at fifty knots. The engine uses an MHD type propulsion, however using the NiAl construction to ease the rocket projection. It is a sort of underwater ramjet, first developed by the Russians, and then improved by New Empire, and finally in the hands of the The Macabees. The MT-3 is, consequently, extremely silent. The MT-3 also uses a cavitation absorber on the frame and on the screw; this was first developed by the U.S. Navy for destroyers, and shrunk by the Macabees to fit on a torpedo.
It has a 300kg Octagen warhead, with a hull piercing tip, to burn through the titanium double hulls. However, against a titanium frame it would still, most probably, still require two torpedoes to penetrate. The width of the warhead remains 500mm to be able to use it on the existing tubes on the Toledo class SSN and Spanish ASROC weapons on surface ships.
The MT-3 has a rounder form in order to force water pressure to spread equally along the torpedo, meaning that the torpedo could be fired at deeper depths.
The MT-3 is the only “normal” torpedo in Macabee use up to now. It could be classified as MADCAP, according to New Empire’s classification system. The MT-1 and MT-2 are Super Cavitational torpedoes.
Cost: 200,000 USD
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Toledo class Nuclear Attack Submarine (SSN)
The Toledo SSN has a wholly titanium frame, ensuring a radical crush depth of three kilometers, and making it extremely strong – it could most likely take two or three Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes. The titanium frame is covered by anechoic tiles, which is basically a rubbery substance which absorbes outside noise, such as (specifically) active sonar sound waves (pings) – although a destroyer, or sonobouy, could cath it within six hundred to ten thousand meters, depending on the strength of the sonar system. Anachoic tiling can also be known as “gaucho.”
As a sonar system the Toledo uses a variant of the Poseidon SONAR, named after the Greek God of the Sea. The Poseidon has a very well built passive side, which uses hundred of hydrophones, nanometers in size, which listen acutely for sounds. Crew are especially tuned into the noise of doors opening (outer torpedo doors). The active sonar is also marble, but rarely used. The Poseidon for the submarines was mainly designed to detect surface shipping, which was extremely noisy, and allowed the SSNs to make precision raids on enemy shipping. The Toledo, for other passive uses, also has a TB-23 thin line towed array which reels out of the main ballast tank, as well as a shorter TB-16 towed array. The Toledo makes use of a dual LIDAR system – normal LIDAR, and Doppler LIDAR. The normal LIDAR detects vector and rage of a target by using a laser, coming from a four and a half million watt system (6,000 horsepower), giving it an immense range. The Doppler LIDAR uses the same type of laser to detect velocity of the target. Consequently, LIDAR not only finds vector and range, but velocity, allowing faster updating for the submarine’s supercomputers on the moving target.
The beauty has eight forward 500mm torpedo tubes, capable of firing MT-1s, MT-2s, as well as the newer MT-3s. For anti-torpedo uses the tubes can fire MAT-1s. The Toledo also carriers Principe IIIs, a missile launched torpedo, designed for surface shipping. These are fired from a single quadruple storage vertical launch system, which fire, then rotate, then fire. To fire all four slots it takes about thirty seconds. The vertical launch tubes are re-loaded through a hydrolic load process, doing it quickly and efficiently.
For anti-torpedo defenses the Toledo uses an underwater CIWS system based off those captured from salvaged Orcas, created by New Empire. However, they are slightly upgraded. Tight oxygen packages which need to be replaced by experts, doing it mechanically, allow a MetalStorm gun to lock on torpedoes by using onboard LIDAR and SONAR systems. Consequently, torpedoes are blown out of the water. This makes the Toledo a tough nut to crack.
For propulsion the Toledo uses a nuclear reactor with a single screw in the rear. However, it also makes use of MHD propulsion, mostly when in battle, to get rid of cavitation, and thus make the submarine much more quiet. Ways are still being figured out of how to get rid of the black hole created by MHD on enemy sonar, and we are currently investing in the captured Orcas to unlock this secret.
Cost: 800 million
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MAAM Cruise Missiles Ausf. B
The MAAM Cruise Missile is a small cruise missile, about half the size of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile. It was known for its cheap production and maintenance costs and it's rapid velocity. However, it has gone through drastic developements.
It's warhead has been replaced by 800kg OctaNitroCubane warhead - the strongest explosive known to man yet. Thus packing a hit force 25% more that of the Tomahawk missile - and still remaining cheaper. Furthermore, engineers have included scramjet technology, meaning that the missile is fired like a rocket a first and then using scramjet reaches at speeds topping mach 6.
The Ausf. B is suppose to replace all Macabee cruise missile in four years time, and is to show drastic changes on the battlefield. The MAAM Ausf. B is offered for sale with a small 200kg OctaNitroCubane warhead for 11 Million USD a piece and have locks to avoid technology pirating from other nations (OOC: meaning it's impossible for you to replicate the technology on your own)... production rights are not available at this time.
Cost: 1.3 Million USD
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Chevalier Self Propelled Artillery
The Genesis uses a dynamic new engine system in use by the Merkava 4 of Israel which saves a load of petroleum - giving it twice the distance on one tank, and cutting logistics costs by billions. Military experts figured that a beast over 100 tons going over 40 mph was a waste of resources and a big mistake. Most tactical battles were fought at a much smaller rate - and even it they went faster they were still concluded with the same result. Hence, the engine has been compacted to 1200 hp diesel engine, with a maximum speed of 30 mph. This is not as bad as it sounds - it is truly impractical to go over 25 on most of the earth's surfaces and it cuts down on refueling. In Destert Storm US Army VII Corps under General Franks had to wait to refuel their Abrams (with a normal engine), which consequently allowed the Republican Guard to escape and reform. Another advantage of this engine is that it produces far less heat, thus being less vulnerable to infra-red mortar rounds and heat-seeking top-attack ATGMs. Additionally, the curret gast turbine engine produces so much heat that infantrymen cannot follow behind for protection. This engine burns at 1.2 gallons a mile.
For ammunition it uses a scramjet 155mm artillery round, launching it at 50km range. The scramjet basically means the combustion takes place at supersonic air velocities through the engine. The expansion of hot gases after fuel injection and combustion accelerates the exhaus air to a velocity highter than at the inlet and creates positive push. This rocket propelled round hits its target at up to 6.5 mach. Furthermore, it's loaded with Octanitrocubane, the most powerful explosive known to man - although not currently used in the military (Octogen is used at present) - allowing for a much greater punch. This 155mm round (loaded with Octanitrocubane - c8n8016) is referred to in Spanish military jargon as the MARA - while the second type of round, which is designed to be more of a HEAT type round, still powered by scramjet is referred to as the MARB. The Chevalier holds 40 MARAs and 10 MARBs.
http://www.g2mil.com/scramjet.jpg
In the area of armor it has up to 900mm of NERA armor. Although light, this is not a front line vehicle, thus the having heavier armor would be both impracticle and a waste of resources - as the heavier it gets, the slower it drives. Linked with the engine this allows the Chevalier 750km of driving distance on one tank.
For self protection it also has one co-axial MG90, in use by the commander.
Cost: 20 Million USD
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Panzerwerfer Ausf. B
The highly effective Panzerwerfer MLRS is designed to suppress missile, artillery and mortar batteries, destroy strong points and eliminate enemy strongholds, as well as to defeat enemy's manpower, armoured and unarmoured materiel and other targets at the operational level. The system is highly mobile and transportable even off-roads. It can be used in different climatic conditions at an ambient temperature ranging from +50oC to -50oC.
The Panzerwerfer Combat Vehicle comprises a 30-tube launcher system mounted on an automobile chassis (8 x 8) of high cross-country ability with a powerful diesel engine. The single SMERCH unit is capable of firing a complete 20-round salvo within 20 seconds engaging an area of 672000 sq.m. High accuracy of fire with salvo dispersion is provided by in-flight rotation technique of a rocket projectile specially designed for this MLRS. Fire can be controlled from the special cabin of the combat vehicle or remotely.
The rocket used is the 300 mm calibre 9M55K (Russian), fitted with a self-contained powered-flight phase control system enhancing fire precision by a factor of two and accuracy by a factor of three as compared to unguided rockets. Minimum range is 20,000 m and maximum range 70,000 m.
The rocket can be fitted with the following types of warheads:
9M55K cluster projectile with fragmentation sub-munitions (72 x 1.81 kg). Intended to engage manpower, soft material;
9M55F with a separable HE warhead containing 95 kg of explosive for use against lightly armoured vehicles, fortifications and personnel;
9M55K1 with five top-attack anti-armour sub-munitions that weigh 15 kg each and are fitted with a two-band infra-red seeker. The munition measures 284x255x186 mm, the seeker's field of view is 30 deg. designed to defeat armour.
9M55S 300 mm rocket projectile with a thermobaric warhead is designed to defeat unsheltered manpower, as well as personel in light field fortifications and in soft-skinned/lightly armored vehichles. The warhead weght is 243 kg, the weight of explosive is 100 kg, the diameter of the thermobaric field with the temperature more than 1000 °C is 25 m.
9M55K4 300 mm rocket projectile is designed for remote laying of anti-tank minefields. The number of mines is 25. The mine weighs 4.85kg, the weight of explosive is 1.85 kg. Time of mine self-destruction is 16 ... 24 hours.
Cost: 8 Million USD
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Equite I ICBM
The Equite I turbojet engine is made up a single crystal NiFe based superallow, called THYMONEL 8. THYMONEL 8 has a high fatigue resistance and this teams up with a low hydrogen enviroment embrittlement (HEE). Furthermore, THYMONEL 8 exihibits higher termal conductivity and lower Young's modulus than the single crystals used for turbine engines, consequently beneficial for the thermo-mechanical strength. (OOC: Not techno-babble... I researched this out of a three thousand page book on super allows - took me about two weeks to read the necessary sections.) The single crystal superallow is termed third generation and is better known as Rene N6. Rene N6 is microstructurally stable and is about thirty degrees stronger than its second generation counterpart. SRZ, a cellual precipitation reaction that primarily occurs beneath coatins, was countred by the improved Rene N6.
The engine is a SCRAMjet engine, and it is designed to fly the majority of the mission in the upper atmosphere, giving it a total velocity of Mach 11. The SCRAMjet engine works faster and more reliably as it flies higher through the atmosphere, due to the thinning of the atmosphere - allowing such incredible speeds.
The Equite I has a Uranium nuclear payload of 500kilograms. It may seem small, but this relatively light weight gives it the potential of such velocity, and more manueverability. The Uranium warhead has a mln1 coolant giving it a neon green glow when it explodes, which just adds to the mere beauty of the destruction - in a sick..and twisted...way.
The ICBM has a final phase LIDAR guidance, which uses a laser pulse to detect range, and chemical composition of the target. This adds enhanced accuracy when trying to hit a "bullsize" target - meaning the center of the blast - to ensure maximum destruction around it. The LIDAR guidance included Doppler LIDAR which measures the velocity of the target (which is almost always going to be zero, since your hitting a city most likely), as well as normal LIDAR to detect range, and DIAL, to detect chemical composition.
The chassis of the Equite 1 is covered with mirrors to force enemy LIDAR guided missiles, looking to shoot it down, to fail to find the target. The mirrors make the LIDAR lasers "bounce off" and therefore fail to report to the central computer of the enemy missile the velocity, or range, of the Equite 1. To avoid radar detection the Equite 1 has a superb radar jammer which can be turned on last minute in order to fool SAMs, and enemy radar sites, as well as radio wave distorters to make the Equite 1 seem a lot closer than it really is - meaning that the radar feed to the enemy missile, or radar site, detects it at a different location than it really is.
The supercomputer on the Equite 1 is an expensive set of four microchips, each with four gigabytes of harddrive, and four gigahertz of processor, cooled by an ln2 coolant, and overclocked to a total of twenty gigahertz. This allows for computations in fractions of a nanosecond. The computers are easily programable by experts of any buying nation.
Cost: 100,000,000 (a piece) << expensive but deadly >>
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BMV/MA-1 ULA (Gilgamesh):
The Gilgamesh is a concept craft in development that would provide long-term, wide-area protection of national and regional borders against invading forces. Employing a system similar to that of the Sleeverian BM-747 Stand-Off Missile Delivery Platform, the Gilgamesh would be deployed with up to several dozen internal rotary missile launchers (AKA ‘clip’. Note: the BM-747 bears about 12 (96 missiles)). Unlike the BM-747s, however, the Gilgamesh would be able to simply sit over an area, as on-board long-range radar seeks out targets. Then, when enemy fleets or forces are seen, the Gilgamesh opens its bomb-bay doors and rotary launch pods are presented.
A single BMV/MA could eliminate entire invasion forces with a single load of missiles. Thanks to the format of the SkyCat 1000’s transport bays, a couple of parallel bomb-bays could be set side-by side, allowing the BMV/MA to launch several cruise missiles at once, multiplying the power and speed of its strikes against enemy fleets and formations. The upper deck of the Gatekeeper can be used to reload emptied ‘missile clips’ with cruise missiles stored ‘on-hand.’ By this means, a single Gatekeeper could continue operations for an extended time period (a few weeks) over the covered area, even reloading some of the expended missiles without landing.
Many of the PDE-improved cruise and precision-guided missiles proven in recent combat near Ell, launched from BM-747s, would also be capable of being used within the Gilgamesh system. These systems include improved Popeye II Have Lites, AGM-154A and C JSOWs, and AGM-86D and E CALCMS. Each of the missile engines have had Pulse Detonation Engines* incorporated, to extend their range and increase their speed. The CALCMs**, have had their speed boosted to a sustained 1.5 mach. A full-production run of these PDE-CALCMs is being begun already, both to please Western Asian commanders who’ve been pleased with the PDE-improved CALCMs’ performance and at the behest of allied nations that have requested access to the line of missiles.
Other modified missiles are also under consideration for development. Their types include:
-RADAR-SEEKING missile - homes-in on ship radar pulses (based on the HARM missile)
-RADAR-IMAGE missile - seeks a ships radar profile
-TORPEDO missile - releases a homing torpedo near the fleet (Similar to an ASROC)
-INFRA-RED missile - seeks heat produced by engines
-MAGNETIC missile - seeks metal
-ACOUSTIC missile - seeks the sound produced by engines
-FOCAL PLANE ARRAY missile - seeks large objects of a certain shape which are a different shade of color than the background
-RADIO WAVE missile - seeks out radio waves produced by communication systems (based on the HARM-R missile)
A variety of warheads, from HE to submunitions-scattering to EMP, could be employed in this role.
A variety of defensive systems would also be deployed with the Gilgamesh but the exact specifications have not yet been released. It is said that the systems might even include a number of UCAVs that would be deployed to intercept hostile aircraft.
Crew
Minimum: 19 (2 Flight Control Officers (FCO,Pilots), 1 Navigational Directions / Targeting Officer (ND/TO), 1 Communication Systems Officer (CSO), 6 Radar System Technicians (RSTs, + Targeting AI, operate in roles similar to radar techs aboard JSTARs), 2 Defensive Weapons Officers (DWOs, run and monitor defensive actions for the Gatekeeper), 1 EW/ECM Officer (EWO), 2 Bombardiers (+ Weapons Control AI, choose and fire upon targets), and 4 Ammunition Control Officers (ACOs, reload the missile clips).
Extended-term Missions: 30 (3 FCOs, 2 ND/TO, 2 CSO, 9 RSTs, + Targeting AI, 3 DWOs, 2 EWOs, 3 Bombardiers + Weapons Control AI, and 6 ACOs.)
Current Project Status: Fifteen Gilgamesh's have been built and there is no real need for more.
Estimated Pricing:
>Purchase Cost
$280-300 million (not counting missiles)
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I'll get some organization in this once I write up all my crap. Until then I'm just going to randomly compile it :-P.