Sharina
20-01-2005, 07:37
This is my second "custom" military hardware project. I thought that I'd try to design my own MBT tank to supplement my Colossus Ultra-Heavy Artillery, as well as give an insight into Sharina military design and processes.
Any feedback and advice is greatly appreciated.
Here we go!
Sharina Paragon Main Battle Tank:
http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/paragon.jpg
An early prototype of the Paragon MBT.
Dimensions:
Length: 14 meters.
Width: 7 meters.
Height: 6 meters.
Weight: 75 tons.
Crew: 3.
1 Driver.
1 gunnery officer.
1 Technician / commander.
Power Plant Systems:
Trebonis Heavy Duty Hydrogen Fuel Cell generator.
Horsepower output: 2,000 per generator.
Quantity: Two generators.
Propulsion system:
Two sets of 1.5 meter tall and 0.75 meter wide treads.
The tank treads runs approximately 12 meters along the entire Paragon chassis and the Iarok Tread Band System is employed.
Each tread system is divided into four smaller bands of treads, known as the Iarok Tread Band System. Each "band" is capable of operating independently of each other, providing the Paragon with unparalleled turning ability. The "band" system employs treads with diamond pattern-weave, to aid in grabbing ground and traction, allowing the Paragon to travel through slippery, muddy, and snowy terrain with less difficulty than normal tread systems.
Maximum speeds:
65 kilometers per hour on standard reinforced concrete roads.
40 kilometers per hour in semi-rugged terrain.
30 kilometers per hour in rugged terrain.
40 kilometers per hour standard cruising speed.
The tank tread system is powered by both Trebonis hydrogen fuel cell generators. This provides the Paragon with reunduancy, should one generator fail.
Weapons / Offense Power:
Main Weapon:
One Dual cannon turret:
The main weapon of the Paragon is a turret that rotates 360 degrees, providing the capability to attack from any angle. The turret is capable of slanting upwards from -15 to 30 degrees from the horizontal axis, giving the Paragon the ability to attack airborne targets or targets on elevated surfaces like cliffs or mountains. This also allows the Paragon to attack from clifftops or inflict damage on targets below the Paragon.
The turret employs dual cannon armatures enclosed in one extra large barrel, to provide a multi-role attack capability. The two parts of the turret are as follows; 130mm ETC cannon, and 80mm Heavy Multi-Role Cannon.
One 130mm ETC cannon.
The ETC cannon is capable of firing smart rounds that have the ability to slightly alter course based on GPS targeting. This provides the cannon with much needed accuracy.
One 80mm Heavy Multi-Role Cannon:
The other half of the dual cannon turret is essentially a cannon capable of firing all types of light and medium types of ammunition. Most common rounds the cannon fires is canister rounds, medium HEAT rounds, anti-personnel rounds, and anti-APC rounds.
Several types include:
Anti-personnel round.
This is a canister with dozens of small high velocity shrapnel projectiles inside. Once the canister hits its target, it bursts open, releasing a shrapnel-like storm of these small pellets, giving a new meaning to the word "Metalstorm". The pellets are usually comrpised of some hardened metal alloys such as tungsten, depleted uranium, or even lead. Lead is used to cause lead poisoning inside laceration wounds the infantry would suffer, further complicating recovery of these soldiers.
Anti-APC round.
The cannon fires a canister with several 50mm rounds with a pointed edge each inside the canister. This allows the Paragon to punch holes through APC's without expending its more valuable 130mm main ETC rounds.
High Explosive Grenade Round:
The grenade round is encased in a canister that resembles a Metalstorm round. It encloses several explosive rounds, either a group of grenades, C-4 pallets, chemical explosives, or various other high explosive shells. The canister is fired using Metalstorm technology, giving some advantanges such as quicker rates of fire, less muzzle flash, and no ejectable rounds. Upon impact, the canister burts open, and the explosive detonates.
Flourine Gas Round:
This is quickly becoming the standard throughout Sharina's ranks of Paragon Armored divisions. Flourine gas has been recently added to Sharina's arsenal, as research tests have determined that Flourine gas has been able to damage the armor of other tanks. Flourine gas attacks the chemical and atomic bonds, sapping the strength of tough armor. Once the Flourine gas does its job, the targeted tank becomes easier for the 130mm ETC cannon to penetrate and do its job of disabling the target.
Several more rounds can be adapted to the Multi-Purpose cannon, either as a direct weapons round, or enclosed within a canister.
Secondary Weapons:
Two Xalis caliber machine gun turrets.
The two turrets, one front and one rear, is equipped with Sharina's patented Xalis 20 MM machine guns which employ centrifrugal technology. This particular technology uses gravity and electronics to release projectiles efficiently, with fewer drawbacks than the metalstorm technology. The centrifugal technology allows the machine guns to engage incoming infantry forces with lethality, while increasing projectile velocity and effectiveness.
One Xalis turret is mounted on the front of the Paragon, while the other is mounted on its rear providing 360 degrees of cover overall.
One Xalis-B AAMG turret.
The Xalis-B variant employs the same capabilities as the Xalis, including Sharina designed Centrifugal Gun technology and linkage to computer and sensor suites to increase detection capacities. This increases accuracy, which is a must aganist fast airborne targets like attack and anti-MBT heliocopters.
This turret is mounted behind the main ETC cannon, right next to the cupola where the tank crew exits and enters the vehicle. The turret is mounted on a rotating plate to give the Xalis-B 360 degrees cover fire, to attack any incoming airborne threat from any direction.
Two TOW rocket batteries.
The Paragon employs two rocket batteries for short to medium range aganist soft, hardened, or airborne targets. Each TOW battery employs five rockets in a one by five array. The TOW batteries are mounted on opposite sides of the turret on rotating plates.
Defense systems:
One SLAMRAAM missile battery.
The SLAMRAAM missiles provides the Paragon with last-ditch defense aganist aircraft, incoming missiles, or dropped bombs. One SLAMRAAM battery holds approximately six SLAMRAAM missiles in a two by three configuration.
The SLAMRAAM battery rests on the Paragon's rear half. The battery employ rotating plates so that they can swivel around to engage any aircraft, missile, or bomb that approaches the front, rear, or sides of the Paragon.
Factor 5 Valora Layered Armor.
The Valona is Sharina's successful attempt at developing a armor blend that would provide excellent protection aganist most conventional weapons and collateral damage. The need for a heavier duty armor became readily apparent as the original Chobham armor would not hold up on heavy combat vehicles for a sustained period of time. Therefore, Sharina engineers began designing and building the Valona.
The Valona employs an incredible six layers of armor plating, comprising of chobham plating, kinetic reactive armor, solid titanium, tungsten carbide, and a 1 centimeter layer of lead. The kinetic reactive armor covers the tank, with the Chobam resting just below the kinetic armor. This is followed by tungsten carbide, then by the depleted uranium and chromium. The innermost armor is comprised of solid titantium. This provides rigid protection aganist most conventional damage and attacks, including AP rounds, bomb explosions, shrapnel, napalm, thermal damage, pressure damage, amongst others.
The ratio of armor plating is as follows: X-3-1-Y-Z-2.
3 centimeters of kinetic reactive armor (X), 3 centimeters of Depleted Uranium (Y) and 2 centimeter of Chromium (Z) are constant, no matter how thick or thin the Valona armor is overall. The general ratio is 3 centimeters of chobham plating, 1 centimeter of tungsten carbide, and 2 centimeters of solid titanium per factor of the Valona armor.
In the Paragon, the ratio is as follows for a factor 5 Valora armor:
3 centimeters of kinetic reactive armor.
15 centimeters of Chobham plating.
5 centimeters of tungsten carbide.
10 centimeters of solid titanium.
3 centimeters of Depleted Uranium.
2 centimeters of Chromium.
For a total armor thickness of 34 centimeters all around the tank. The armor is heavier around the engines and ammunition storage, employing factor 6 Valora armor.
Sensor systems:
The Paragon employs several sensor systems to increase its capacity to engage many different types of targets, while reducing the element of surprise from enemy stealth based weapons like aircraft or "stealth" tanks.
The Paragon is equipped with Sonar, Radar, LIDAR, LADAR, Infrared, and SQUID systems.
Miscellanous:
The Paragon's crew is able to survive for more than a week without any food or nurition supplies, thanks to the hydrogen fuel cell generators. The byproducts of these generators is 100% pure drinkable water. This solves the logistics problem of water / liquid nourishment as the combat vehicles provide all the water the crew would need.
Human beings can survive for a week without solid food nurition.
The Paragon employs full Nuclear / Biological / Chemical protection, and is somewhat radiation-proof thanks to depleted uranium and chromium layers built inside its Valora armor. Neutron and dirty bombs would be less effective aganist the Paragon than aganist standard MBT's.
Any feedback and advice is greatly appreciated.
Here we go!
Sharina Paragon Main Battle Tank:
http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/paragon.jpg
An early prototype of the Paragon MBT.
Dimensions:
Length: 14 meters.
Width: 7 meters.
Height: 6 meters.
Weight: 75 tons.
Crew: 3.
1 Driver.
1 gunnery officer.
1 Technician / commander.
Power Plant Systems:
Trebonis Heavy Duty Hydrogen Fuel Cell generator.
Horsepower output: 2,000 per generator.
Quantity: Two generators.
Propulsion system:
Two sets of 1.5 meter tall and 0.75 meter wide treads.
The tank treads runs approximately 12 meters along the entire Paragon chassis and the Iarok Tread Band System is employed.
Each tread system is divided into four smaller bands of treads, known as the Iarok Tread Band System. Each "band" is capable of operating independently of each other, providing the Paragon with unparalleled turning ability. The "band" system employs treads with diamond pattern-weave, to aid in grabbing ground and traction, allowing the Paragon to travel through slippery, muddy, and snowy terrain with less difficulty than normal tread systems.
Maximum speeds:
65 kilometers per hour on standard reinforced concrete roads.
40 kilometers per hour in semi-rugged terrain.
30 kilometers per hour in rugged terrain.
40 kilometers per hour standard cruising speed.
The tank tread system is powered by both Trebonis hydrogen fuel cell generators. This provides the Paragon with reunduancy, should one generator fail.
Weapons / Offense Power:
Main Weapon:
One Dual cannon turret:
The main weapon of the Paragon is a turret that rotates 360 degrees, providing the capability to attack from any angle. The turret is capable of slanting upwards from -15 to 30 degrees from the horizontal axis, giving the Paragon the ability to attack airborne targets or targets on elevated surfaces like cliffs or mountains. This also allows the Paragon to attack from clifftops or inflict damage on targets below the Paragon.
The turret employs dual cannon armatures enclosed in one extra large barrel, to provide a multi-role attack capability. The two parts of the turret are as follows; 130mm ETC cannon, and 80mm Heavy Multi-Role Cannon.
One 130mm ETC cannon.
The ETC cannon is capable of firing smart rounds that have the ability to slightly alter course based on GPS targeting. This provides the cannon with much needed accuracy.
One 80mm Heavy Multi-Role Cannon:
The other half of the dual cannon turret is essentially a cannon capable of firing all types of light and medium types of ammunition. Most common rounds the cannon fires is canister rounds, medium HEAT rounds, anti-personnel rounds, and anti-APC rounds.
Several types include:
Anti-personnel round.
This is a canister with dozens of small high velocity shrapnel projectiles inside. Once the canister hits its target, it bursts open, releasing a shrapnel-like storm of these small pellets, giving a new meaning to the word "Metalstorm". The pellets are usually comrpised of some hardened metal alloys such as tungsten, depleted uranium, or even lead. Lead is used to cause lead poisoning inside laceration wounds the infantry would suffer, further complicating recovery of these soldiers.
Anti-APC round.
The cannon fires a canister with several 50mm rounds with a pointed edge each inside the canister. This allows the Paragon to punch holes through APC's without expending its more valuable 130mm main ETC rounds.
High Explosive Grenade Round:
The grenade round is encased in a canister that resembles a Metalstorm round. It encloses several explosive rounds, either a group of grenades, C-4 pallets, chemical explosives, or various other high explosive shells. The canister is fired using Metalstorm technology, giving some advantanges such as quicker rates of fire, less muzzle flash, and no ejectable rounds. Upon impact, the canister burts open, and the explosive detonates.
Flourine Gas Round:
This is quickly becoming the standard throughout Sharina's ranks of Paragon Armored divisions. Flourine gas has been recently added to Sharina's arsenal, as research tests have determined that Flourine gas has been able to damage the armor of other tanks. Flourine gas attacks the chemical and atomic bonds, sapping the strength of tough armor. Once the Flourine gas does its job, the targeted tank becomes easier for the 130mm ETC cannon to penetrate and do its job of disabling the target.
Several more rounds can be adapted to the Multi-Purpose cannon, either as a direct weapons round, or enclosed within a canister.
Secondary Weapons:
Two Xalis caliber machine gun turrets.
The two turrets, one front and one rear, is equipped with Sharina's patented Xalis 20 MM machine guns which employ centrifrugal technology. This particular technology uses gravity and electronics to release projectiles efficiently, with fewer drawbacks than the metalstorm technology. The centrifugal technology allows the machine guns to engage incoming infantry forces with lethality, while increasing projectile velocity and effectiveness.
One Xalis turret is mounted on the front of the Paragon, while the other is mounted on its rear providing 360 degrees of cover overall.
One Xalis-B AAMG turret.
The Xalis-B variant employs the same capabilities as the Xalis, including Sharina designed Centrifugal Gun technology and linkage to computer and sensor suites to increase detection capacities. This increases accuracy, which is a must aganist fast airborne targets like attack and anti-MBT heliocopters.
This turret is mounted behind the main ETC cannon, right next to the cupola where the tank crew exits and enters the vehicle. The turret is mounted on a rotating plate to give the Xalis-B 360 degrees cover fire, to attack any incoming airborne threat from any direction.
Two TOW rocket batteries.
The Paragon employs two rocket batteries for short to medium range aganist soft, hardened, or airborne targets. Each TOW battery employs five rockets in a one by five array. The TOW batteries are mounted on opposite sides of the turret on rotating plates.
Defense systems:
One SLAMRAAM missile battery.
The SLAMRAAM missiles provides the Paragon with last-ditch defense aganist aircraft, incoming missiles, or dropped bombs. One SLAMRAAM battery holds approximately six SLAMRAAM missiles in a two by three configuration.
The SLAMRAAM battery rests on the Paragon's rear half. The battery employ rotating plates so that they can swivel around to engage any aircraft, missile, or bomb that approaches the front, rear, or sides of the Paragon.
Factor 5 Valora Layered Armor.
The Valona is Sharina's successful attempt at developing a armor blend that would provide excellent protection aganist most conventional weapons and collateral damage. The need for a heavier duty armor became readily apparent as the original Chobham armor would not hold up on heavy combat vehicles for a sustained period of time. Therefore, Sharina engineers began designing and building the Valona.
The Valona employs an incredible six layers of armor plating, comprising of chobham plating, kinetic reactive armor, solid titanium, tungsten carbide, and a 1 centimeter layer of lead. The kinetic reactive armor covers the tank, with the Chobam resting just below the kinetic armor. This is followed by tungsten carbide, then by the depleted uranium and chromium. The innermost armor is comprised of solid titantium. This provides rigid protection aganist most conventional damage and attacks, including AP rounds, bomb explosions, shrapnel, napalm, thermal damage, pressure damage, amongst others.
The ratio of armor plating is as follows: X-3-1-Y-Z-2.
3 centimeters of kinetic reactive armor (X), 3 centimeters of Depleted Uranium (Y) and 2 centimeter of Chromium (Z) are constant, no matter how thick or thin the Valona armor is overall. The general ratio is 3 centimeters of chobham plating, 1 centimeter of tungsten carbide, and 2 centimeters of solid titanium per factor of the Valona armor.
In the Paragon, the ratio is as follows for a factor 5 Valora armor:
3 centimeters of kinetic reactive armor.
15 centimeters of Chobham plating.
5 centimeters of tungsten carbide.
10 centimeters of solid titanium.
3 centimeters of Depleted Uranium.
2 centimeters of Chromium.
For a total armor thickness of 34 centimeters all around the tank. The armor is heavier around the engines and ammunition storage, employing factor 6 Valora armor.
Sensor systems:
The Paragon employs several sensor systems to increase its capacity to engage many different types of targets, while reducing the element of surprise from enemy stealth based weapons like aircraft or "stealth" tanks.
The Paragon is equipped with Sonar, Radar, LIDAR, LADAR, Infrared, and SQUID systems.
Miscellanous:
The Paragon's crew is able to survive for more than a week without any food or nurition supplies, thanks to the hydrogen fuel cell generators. The byproducts of these generators is 100% pure drinkable water. This solves the logistics problem of water / liquid nourishment as the combat vehicles provide all the water the crew would need.
Human beings can survive for a week without solid food nurition.
The Paragon employs full Nuclear / Biological / Chemical protection, and is somewhat radiation-proof thanks to depleted uranium and chromium layers built inside its Valora armor. Neutron and dirty bombs would be less effective aganist the Paragon than aganist standard MBT's.