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The Defence Department of The Empire of William Patrick Hill-Dixon recently anounced the formation of the Advanced Research Projects Design Bureau. The Bureaus first chairman is to be Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden. In a press briefing Wednesday "The General" as he is known around the capital declared his intention to bring "The Empire" to the forefront of weapons manufacturing by the end of the decade. The applause was deafening.
The Bureau is currently staffed by a mere 25 designers. They are divided into groups of 5 & act in much the same way as a think tank. At the beginning of any project an e-mail is sent to all members with the parameters of the order.
They spend a couple weeks "brainstorming" & doing research. When they meet up all the ideas are considered, under the guidance of the team leader they try & hammer out a practicle design from the best parts of each idea. Within 2 & 1/5 weeks they had the blueprints for the "Dart" (any better names?) LFV.

Dart LFV (crappy drawing (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/WPHD/bf489284.bmp))
any one wanna help me do a better drawing?

Manufacturer: Advanced Armarment Inc. (Alexandria plant)
Crew: 1
Weight: ? (light)
Length: ? (10' ish)
Width: ? (4'5" ?)
Power Plant: twin GE Vision (made it up) silent running hydrogen engine (imported)
Fuel: ? (enough for 450m)
Max. Speed: 64 mph on highway
Main Armarment: 30mm "Phantom" sniper system, hit & disable a Bradleys engine at 3500 yards, 30mm (at base) sliver of depleted uranium at close to mach 5
Cmdrs Armarment: PKM (binocs fold down & lock into housing in front of cmdr,
mg located to the side of the comander, swivels out to in front of the cmdr)
Description: Liquidmetal 2 frame, about 5 inches of Spectra shield, gun with about 250 rounds, 8 wheels, 2 side by side hydrogen powered engines in middle, big high powered binoculars that doulble as aiming device for gun, idea
is that a few of these act as area denial weapon keeping away helicopters (with proposed radar mod), APCs, light tanks, & assorted other vehicles
Cost: expected to be about $385,000-$447,500, spare parts avg. out to about $6,500 a piece
Inventory: proposed 150, at the cost of about $65,500,000 not including training or spare parts, total program cost est. $175,000,000 over 2 years
Export Price: $525,000

update: only bought 100 for now, total program cost at about $80,000,000

more to come

Within 2 & 1/5 weeks they had the blueprints for the "Dart" LFV

It takes longer than that to get something like that up and running! You should be looking at a year, maybe more, their hard to design for real you know!

30mm (at base) sliver of depleted uranium at close to mach 5
Whats mach5 got to do with it?

Also, a 30mm Cannon couldn't take out a bradley IFV from that range, it would be lucky to take it out from a closer range at all in fact!

imagine 2' ish bullet with a 3" ish bullet, mach 5 no prob

imagine 2' ish bullet with a 3" ish bullet, mach 5 no prob

Ahh, well, mach 5 is what in miles per HOUR? You want to look at mach1 in a SECOND to be up there with normal cannons.

If i were you i would change the armament, have a 7.62 or 12.whatever it is machine gun to stop infantry but have something like hellfires instead for anti-vehicle fire.

Also, a 30mm cannon CANNOT take out a bradley without shooting at it from a closer range for a while.

Look at some other designs such as Bradley IFV, its 25mm cannons "standard rate of fire is 200 rounds per minute, and has a range of 2,000 meters" according to www.FAS.org (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m2.htm)

That it can take out some MBTs im not sure about, perhaps when its on top of a hill very close and shooting staright at the top of the hull or something vunrable...lol.

I'm thinking realy big anti-material rifle, with advances in nano-tech (read: superthermites) you could create a propellant that could make du go mach x

Ahh, but then, surely you would be fighting more capable vehicles than the Bradley!?! So its actually something like an ETC/electromagnetic cannon right? that could do some damage i suppose...even at the small size of 30mm

I couldn't get power for one of those, theye're design'd for a whole nuclear reactors power to be diverted

I couldn't get power for one of those, theye're design'd for a whole nuclear reactors power to be diverted

What? No their not, ETC guns use the power from the round but use it slower or something, makes the round go like twice as fast anyway, twice the speed=twice the penetration!

sure, done

tomorrow only: 1 free for every 5 bought

FB-1 Lightning (http://www.f5.dion.ne.jp/~mirage/message11/fb_22_1.jpg)

Technical Data:

Contractor: Alexandria Armory Aeronautics Division

Type: simple low cost Fighter Bomber

Personnel: 1

Systems/Avionics:

Somnium Pilot-Aircraft Interface. The SPAI was designed by the W Institute for Advanced Neurology with help from the "Future Technology Grant" given to the institute for research in advanced brain/computer technology. The SPAI is a "paper thin" skullcap worn by the pilot which interperts neurological impulses as commands & flies the plane as such leaving the hands free for such important activities as...
A) eating
B) squeezing your handrest till your nuckles turn white as you piss yourself because of the SAM hurtling towards you at Mach 2.5
C) something to do with your right hand that had better go unmentioned* ;)

*long flights only (ferry)

Letum (insert something) which has several subsystems:

Computer (utilizing latest in chip tech) that does all necessary calculations.

(insert decent radar)

bunch of passive sensors around plane that help triangulate anything using radar

Airframe:

Bunch of pieces of Liquidmetal for frame. Skin made up of cheap composite pieces. Stealth is acheived through coating & shape. Wings & bit of body have (control sufaces excluded) have fuel tanks molded to inside.

Powerplant:

1 F119 modified to incease thrust vectoring capacity. If designs for a cheaper
more powerful version come out I'll make it 2.

Ceiling:

60,000 feet

Maximum Speed:

Mach 1.7 supercruise, Mach 2.9 max

Range:

unrefueled 2,000 nm

Weaponry:

principly the Small Diameter Bomb & short range AAM

The FB-1 is designed to be a small, cheap, FB with STOL capability.

Price: $35,000,000 or $37,000,000 for the scaled down (stats not size) export version

note: I borrowed format (not text) from Tyrandis

The SS-1 SS comes in five variants, one for delivering SF, one for mining harbors & main trade routes, one for torpedoing (spell?) carrier battle groups, one that carries anti-shipping missiles, & one experimental supercavitating version (signifigantly less stealthy). The hull shape for the SS-1 was developed using innovative new computer programs that generate every possible shape within a range & narrow it down through a series of criteria (ex: speed, stealth, manuverability), the supercavitating variant was not designed by compuers. Insiders describe the supercavitating variant as looking like a stretched out bullet.

Length: 110 ft
Beam: 15 ft
Draft: 15 ft
Propulsion: Diesel electric
Maximum Speed: 9 kts surfaced
8.5 kts snorting
11.3 kts submerged
Mines: 16?
Torpedoes: 2-4 21inch tubes (533mm) [in some]
VA-111 Shkval
Missiles: 2 sunburn
Crew 10 + 6 divers
Cost: SF delivery variant $9.8m
mining variant $9.2m
torpedo variant $10.1m (+ nuclear warhead for Shkval)
anti shipping variant $10.7m
supercavitating variant $14.8m (+ 4 Shkval)

export add $2m each

any suggetions?