NationStates Jolt Archive

[OOC: Yes I know that much of my stuff is on the border line, get over it - don't post anything that has to do with critisizing my technology. This is 2005-2010 technology.]

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Also, click on the links to see the exact description of each piece of technology.

Surface Vessels
Rommel class Battleship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296132&postcount=2)
Manstein class Destroyer (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296138&postcount=3)
Model class Aircraft Carrier (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296145&postcount=4)
Seydlitz class Cruiser (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296159&postcount=5)

Submerged Vessels
Toledo class SSN (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296168&postcount=6)
Leviathan class SSN (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8298240&postcount=22)

Naval Projectiles
MT-3 MADCAP torpedo (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296172&postcount=7)

Aerial Assets
MMA-A3 Falcor air superiority aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296217&postcount=8)
MMA-A2/B Hawk air superiority aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296228&postcount=9)
MMA-A1 Kondor Low Altitude Strike Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296241&postcount=10)
MMA-C1 Albatross Heavy Bomber (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296241&postcount=11)
MAAM Ausf. B Cruise Missile (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296241&postcount=12)

Armor
Panzerkampfwaggen X Ausf. B Muwatallis MBT (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296285&postcount=13)

Self Propelled Artillery Guns
155mm Krigud Sel Propelled Artillery Gun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296299&postcount=14)
155mm Chevalier/Gabriel SP artillery (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296299&postcount=15)

Artillery
Incinérateur 155mm Rapid Fire Artillery (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8296299&postcount=16)

Refits not included in description include:

MDT-1 SODAR
Metal Casings and other defenses for EMP hardening


Rommel Class Battleship (3rd Refit)
Norwegian Interactive (The Macabees)
Keff (The Macabees)

Armor: The Rommel has a 25" steel coating of armor to protects its trimaran hull, and it is divided into compartments to cut flooding. Moreover, the Rommel uses a thin layer (20 millimeters) of MEXAS underneath the primary steel armor for additional protection, although MEXAS is not a good defense against the advent of KE rounds - however, for all other purposes and utilities the 20 mms of MEXAS gives it an RHA armored rating of 3,000mms alone just for the MEXAS. The massproducing of MEXAS makes it increasingly cheaper, especially if the Rommel is vastly exported.

It is important to note that the Rommel is a trimaran ship, which makes it heavy, but safe.

The 2nd refit of the Rommel also increased EMP hardening by the traditional means, although, of course, there's no immunity.

Propulsion: The Rommel class Battleship has two Valhalla nuclear reactors, allowing the system to be propelled at a very fast velocity of 39 knots, although this speed is rarely used in war (a task force can only go as fast as its slowest ship). The Valhalla nuclear reactors incorporate Baldur meltdown technology. The Baldur meltdown inhibitor uses sensors placed selectively inside the hull, close to the room of the nuclear reactors, to sense internal breaches, either by water pressure, or enemy pressure (missiles and other projectiles). Consequently, in case of a breech the Baldur is able to automatically shut down the two Valhalla nuclear reactors as quickly as possible, thus avoiding a catastrophic nuclear reaction.

The two Valhalla nuclear reactors use six screws to push the Rommel at the velocity wanted. Each screw has six blades, and are of medium size, however, larger than most of the screws used by the Ohio class Battleships. However, in order to decrease cavitation the Rommel has two MACCAVAB (MACabee CAVitation Absorbing) devices, which absorb the popping noises that bubbles make around the hull and the screws (known as cavitation). This technology was first begun by the United States Navy, but since then enhanced and improved by the Macabee Imperial Naval Engineering Corp under the pay of Valhalla Naval National, the sole naval production provider for the Macabee Navy. This makes the battleships much more quiet when under operations, although the battleships are still making noise.

Aircraft: Each Rommel class Battleship has five helipads, under use by five Sea Serpent ASW (Anti-submarine warfare) helicopters. However, the Sea Serpents are exchanged with the custom Sea King IIs when sold abroad, but nations can always scrap the Sea Kings and provide their own ASW choppers. The Sea Serpents can be bought with the battleship; however, this adds an extra ten million to the price tag due to the price of the choppers, as well as just pure wage, rent, and interest.

Armaments:
Praetorian V SAM System: The Praetorian V is a massive improvement over the Praetorian IV system, which was basically copied off the Bisonic S-500 SAM system. The Praetorian V should provide better accuracy, as well as better quality, to the consumers of this product. Using a twenty rocket launch system, four rows of five missiles, the Praetorian V SAM system can provide massive fire support in case of massive bomber, or missile raids, allowing the Rommels to put up a quality defense against belligerents, and ensuring survival on the deadly waters. Each Praetorian V missile can be interchanged by another SAM, assuming that the chosen SAM is smaller, or the same size. The Praetorian V is rather small, and uses either a conventional engine to engage sea-skimmers, or a scramjet engine to seek and destroy conventional high flying missiles, or aircraft.

The Praetorian V SAM system incorporates the MLT-1 LIDAR system onboard each Rommel class Battleship, which as a range of about 165 miles (or about 300kms). The MLT-1 LIDAR system uses normal LIDAR, which uses a laser to detect the range of the target, as well as Doppler LIDAR which is used to detect the velocity of the target. DIAL is also used to detect chemical composition of the target. The Praetorian Vs are also hooked up to the MRT-1/N RADAR system used by Macabee Naval vessels. The MRT-1 is based off the TENEX SPY-6 RADAR system, however uses a larger power box, as well as a larger computer network to catch enemy flyers at 700kms. However, the MRT-1 is restricted to altitude of over thirty meters in height (around 100 miles), and for lower altitudes (100 miles to 1,000 miles) is severely restricted in range. The MRT-4 RADAR system is used for sea-skimming missiles, or low flying aircraft. It uses radio waves to track below the minimum range of the MRT-1. The advantages in having two systems do what one could do are that now we have specialization of jobs, and the MRT-4 can focus on one thing, while the MRT-1 focuses on another. To support this massive computer system the CPU uses ln2 coolant to over clock a twenty gigahertz system to thirty gigahertz.

The actual Praetorian V has its own CPU installed on the backside of the missile, above the scramjet engine, and it uses its own MLT-2 LIDAR system, which has a range of two kilometers, and is used for final phase target location purposes. The Praetorian V missile uses the computers to still use the ship based MRT-1, MRT-4 and the MLT-1 systems. This provides a very accurate and effective surface to air missile system. The Praetorian V can be used as an anti-missile, as well as an anti-air SAM.

For SAM purposes each Rommel sports twenty Praetorian V batteries, giving the Rommel the firepower to defend with four hundred SAMs in each volley. The Praetorian V system uses an advanced reload system using hydraulic propulsion to lift the missile out of stock racks and push into the barrel of the Praetorian V launch platforms. Each Rommel battleship is outfitted with two thousand Praetorian V missiles in stocks, giving each SAM one hundred Praetorian V missiles, useful for five volleys each SAM.

Loki ASROC: The Loki ASROC system is a ten tube 500mm torpedo launch system placed strategically around naval vessels which incorporate the system. The Loki ASROC can use the MAT-1 anti-torpedo, the MT-2 SuCav torpedo for short ranges, and the MT-3 water ramjet/pumpjet torpedo for long range use. Each Rommel carries one hundred of each type of torpedo, used in five different ASROC batteries placed on the battleship.

The Loki ASROC has an advanced material composition using THYMONEL 8, a third generation single crystal super alloy, as a coating on the steel launch platform. The THYMONEL 8 coating allows for the resistance to Hydrogen Embrittlement, and the heat of the missile booster. This allows for a rate of fire of all ten torpedoes in eight seconds time. A hydraulic reloading system can restock the Loki ASROC system in ten seconds time.

DREAD:

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be", or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.

According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it’s already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a...

tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.

The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.

The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.

The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.

But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round", or "CCR", that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.

And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote “no stoppages or jams”? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can’t jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don’t allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can’t jam, since Mr. St. George hasn’t given us permission to describe the gun’s operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.

The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.

There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let’s say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.

So, what’s the upshot? It's DefenseReview's opinion that, if the DREAD Weapon System works as advertised, it will have a profound impact on U.S. infantry warfare capabilities. It has the potential to literally change the way we fight on the ground, and perhaps even in the air. No question, it will revolutionize both ground and air vehicular armament and firepower capabilities. The DREAD will have a similarly profound impact on U.S. embassy security and military base perimeter security capabilities. This paradigm shift in firepower isn't limited to the ground and air, either. The DREAD's complete lack of recoil will allow it to be fired from space-based platforms, i.e. satellites, without knocking them off of their respective orbital paths. Zero recoil, plus 8,000 fps projectile speeds, 5,000-120,000 rpm capability, and huge on-board ammunition supplies, equals a viable and relatively inexpensive option for satellite defense (and enemy-satellite neutralization), and possibly even a fast-realizable armament solution/alternative for a U.S. Space-based defense network.


Vertical Launch Tubes: Like most battleships used today the Rommel is more of a missile boat than a conventional dreadnought; and it is much larger. Each Rommel carries somewhere around one thousand Principe III anti-shipping missile launched torpedoes, and one thousand five hundred MAAM Ausf. B cruise missiles. To fire these massive stockpiles of missiles each Rommel has ten VLT systems. Each VLT system has a four slot revolving missile launcher, which in order to fire a volley it fires, turns, fires, turns, etc, until all missiles are fired. The reloading process is even shorter, using a hydraulic loading system to push the missile back into the slot after each turn, meaning that the VLT system can keep a continuous launch sequence without pause. This makes the Rommel extremely dangerous when taking in the fact that the VLTs can continuously fire missiles off at enemies until the enemy is destroyed. The VLT system also uses a THYMONEL 8 coating to maintain the HEE and pressure giving to the launching platforms.

Main Guns: The Rommel has a forward quadruple platform 18” rail gun, with a range of about three hundred and fifty miles (ca. 2020 technology). The rail gun was installed after seeing New Empire’s ships in action against the Balearics. The Rommel has another quadruple platform 18” rail gun in the rear end of the ship, to provide secondary fire support. However, the Macabees rarely use this for offensive purposes, instead relying on missiles, which give the Macabees a greater range.

SONARs: The Rommel class Battleship uses the Poseidon SONAR system, which is capable of detecting louder shipping at up to one hundred kilometers away at the right circumstances, and advanced submarines at a maximum range of ten kilometers, burning through anechoic tiling quite easily. The Poseidon is considered one of the better SONAR systems used presently. The Poseidon is also programmed to detect the “black hole” effect which submarines using MHD have; making it easier to detect MHD propelled submarines.

The Rommel also has a new thin line towed array called the TB-163, which is as long as the Rommel itself, using thousands of hydrophones to detect submarine presence at up to forty kilometers away (ca. 28 miles). The TB-163 uses a strong nylon line to ensure that it doesn’t snap, although this could be potentially dangerous to the crew if its used stupidly. The Rommel also has another towed array called the TB-87 which focuses on shorter distances, using powerful hydrophones to detect close enemies.

RADARs: Macabee ships use the MRT-1 RADAR system to detect enemy aerial assets anywhere from 120 kilometers minimum to 700 kilometers maximum; depending on the circumstances, stealth levels, and altitude. The MRT-1 use a very powerful super computer and several screens to detect, filter, and portray enemy aerial assets. Based of the TENEX SPY-6 this well built system is, again, one of the better ones in use around the world, and provide the Macabees with a reliable early warning system.

Additionally, Macabee ships integrate the MRT-4 RADAR system which was built to focus on sea-skimmers. RADAR radio waves are able to catch both missiles and other objects, such as waves, and filter what is a wave, and what is a missile; and quite easily, and through regular technology. Simply, by using a supercomputer and C based program, the computers can detect range, vector, and velocity – hence, it can distinguish what is a missile or aircraft, and what isn’t. A wave doesn’t last at the same altitude, velocity and vector for ever – the wave falls short quite quickly – while a missile lasts in the air for quite a while (of course). Hence, it wasn’t too difficult to design a system capable of picking sea-skimmers up.

Finally, the Macabee ships include an MLT-1 LIDAR system which as a range of about 250 kilometers (165 miles). The MLT-1 uses regular LIDAR to detect range, Doppler LIDAR to detect velocity, and DIAL LIDAR to detect chemical composition.

Other Numbers: The Rommel displaces a total of 120,000 tons of water, with a length of 1400.7’ and a beam 161.3’. The Rommel has a crew of 2,000 members.

Cost: $1.6 billion USD

Manstein class Destroyers

Armor: The Manstein has a trimaran type hull, meaning it’s a triple hull. The Manstein class Destroyer is built with a coating of sixteen inch to twenty inch composite steel/ceramic armor, depending on the location - the maximum protection is along the armored belt. The deck is fortified with a 12" steel coating.

Propulsion: The Manstein has a double nuclear reactor propulsion, using two Valhalla nuclear reactors. The Valhalla nuclear reactors incorporate Baldur meltdown technology. The Baldur meltdown inhibitor uses sensors placed selectively inside the hull, close to the room of the nuclear reactors, to sense internal breaches, either by water pressure, or enemy pressure (missiles and other projectiles). Consequently, in case of a breech the Baldur is able to automatically shut down the two Valhalla nuclear reactors as quickly as possible, thus avoiding a catastrophic nuclear reaction. The two nuclear reactors can propel the Manstein at over forty-five knots.

The two Valhalla nuclear reactors use four screws to push the Manstein at the velocity wanted. Each screw has five blades, and are of medium size.. However, in order to decrease cavitation the Manstein has two MACCAVAB (MACabee CAVitation Absorbing) devices, which absorb the popping noises that bubbles make around the hull and the screws (known as cavitation). This technology was first begun by the United States Navy, but since then enhanced and improved by the Macabee Imperial Naval Engineering Corp under the pay of Valhalla Naval National, the sole naval production provider for the Macabee Navy. This makes the destroyer much more quiet when under operations, giving it a certain edge over enemy submarines.

Aircraft: Each Manstein has two helipads, for two SeaSerpents, or two Sea King IIs. The Sea Serpents are exchanged with the custom Sea King IIs when sold abroad, but nations can always scrap the Sea Kings and provide their own ASW choppers. The Sea Serpents can be bought with the destroyer; however, this adds an extra two million to the price tag due to the price of the choppers, as well as just pure wage, rent, and interest.

Armaments:
Praetorian V SAM System: The Praetorian V is a massive improvement over the Praetorian IV system, which was basically copied off the Bisonic S-500 SAM system. The Praetorian V should provide better accuracy, as well as better quality, to the consumers of this product. Using a twenty rocket launch system, four rows of five missiles, the Praetorian V SAM system can provide massive fire support in case of massive bomber, or missile raids, allowing the Rommels to put up a quality defense against belligerents, and ensuring survival on the deadly waters. Each Praetorian V missile can be interchanged by another SAM, assuming that the chosen SAM is smaller, or the same size. The Praetorian V is rather small, and uses either a conventional engine to engage sea-skimmers, or a scramjet engine to seek and destroy conventional high flying missiles, or aircraft.

The Praetorian V SAM system incorporates the MLT-1 LIDAR system onboard each Rommel class Battleship, which as a range of about 165 miles (or about 300kms). The MLT-1 LIDAR system uses normal LIDAR, which uses a laser to detect the range of the target, as well as Doppler LIDAR which is used to detect the velocity of the target. DIAL is also used to detect chemical composition of the target. The Praetorian Vs are also hooked up to the MRT-1/N RADAR system used by Macabee Naval vessels. The MRT-1 is based off the TENEX SPY-6 RADAR system, however uses a larger power box, as well as a larger computer network to catch enemy flyers at 700kms. However, the MRT-1 is restricted to altitude of over thirty meters in height (around 100 miles), and for lower altitudes (100 miles to 1,000 miles) is severely restricted in range. The MRT-4 RADAR system is used for sea-skimming missiles, or low flying aircraft. It uses radio waves to track below the minimum range of the MRT-1. The advantages in having two systems do what one could do are that now we have specialization of jobs, and the MRT-4 can focus on one thing, while the MRT-1 focuses on another. To support this massive computer system the CPU uses ln2 coolant to over clock a twenty gigahertz system to thirty gigahertz.

The actual Praetorian V has its own CPU installed on the backside of the missile, above the scramjet engine, and it uses its own MLT-2 LIDAR system, which has a range of two kilometers, and is used for final phase target location purposes. The Praetorian V missile uses the computers to still use the ship based MRT-1, MRT-4 and the MLT-1 systems. This provides a very accurate and effective surface to air missile system. The Praetorian V can be used as an anti-missile, as well as an anti-air SAM.

For SAM purposes each Manstein sports twenty Praetorian V batteries, giving the Rommel the firepower to defend with four hundred SAMs in each volley. The Praetorian V system uses an advanced reload system using hydraulic propulsion to lift the missile out of stock racks and push into the barrel of the Praetorian V launch platforms. Each Manstein Destroyer is outfitted with two thousand Praetorian V missiles in stocks, giving each SAM one hundred Praetorian V missiles, useful for five volleys each SAM.

Loki ASROC: The Loki ASROC system is a ten tube 500mm torpedo launch system placed strategically around naval vessels which incorporate the system. The Loki ASROC can use the MAT-1 anti-torpedo, the MT-2 SuCav torpedo for short ranges, and the MT-3 water ramjet/pumpjet torpedo for long range use. Each Manstein carries one hundred of each type of torpedo, used in five different ASROC batteries placed on the battleship.

The Loki ASROC has an advanced material composition using THYMONEL 8, a third generation single crystal super alloy, as a coating on the steel launch platform. The THYMONEL 8 coating allows for the resistance to Hydrogen Embrittlement, and the heat of the missile booster. This allows for a rate of fire of all ten torpedoes in eight seconds time. A hydraulic reloading system can restock the Loki ASROC system in ten seconds time.

There are five Lokie ASROC batteries per side of the ship, coming to a total of ten.

DREAD:

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be", or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.

According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it’s already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a...

tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.

The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.

The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.

The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.

But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round", or "CCR", that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.

And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote “no stoppages or jams”? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can’t jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don’t allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can’t jam, since Mr. St. George hasn’t given us permission to describe the gun’s operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.

The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.

There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let’s say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.

So, what’s the upshot? It's DefenseReview's opinion that, if the DREAD Weapon System works as advertised, it will have a profound impact on U.S. infantry warfare capabilities. It has the potential to literally change the way we fight on the ground, and perhaps even in the air. No question, it will revolutionize both ground and air vehicular armament and firepower capabilities. The DREAD will have a similarly profound impact on U.S. embassy security and military base perimeter security capabilities. This paradigm shift in firepower isn't limited to the ground and air, either. The DREAD's complete lack of recoil will allow it to be fired from space-based platforms, i.e. satellites, without knocking them off of their respective orbital paths. Zero recoil, plus 8,000 fps projectile speeds, 5,000-120,000 rpm capability, and huge on-board ammunition supplies, equals a viable and relatively inexpensive option for satellite defense (and enemy-satellite neutralization), and possibly even a fast-realizable armament solution/alternative for a U.S. Space-based defense network.


Vertical Launch Tubes: The Manstein makes use of fifty VLT systems around the ship. Each VLT system has a four slot revolving missile launcher, which in order to fire a volley it fires, turns, fires, turns, etc, until all missiles are fired. The reloading process is even shorter, using a hydraulic loading system to push the missile back into the slot after each turn, meaning that the VLT system can keep a continuous launch sequence without pause. This makes the Manstein extremely dangerous when taking in the fact that the VLTs can continuously fire missiles off at enemies until the enemy is destroyed. The VLT system also uses a THYMONEL 8 coating to maintain the HEE and pressure giving to the launching platforms. The Destroyer can carry around two thousand Principe IIIs, or two thousand MAAM Ausf. B Cruise Missiles, depending on the mission.

Main Guns: The Manstein has a forward quadruple platform 12” rail gun, with a range of about two hundred and fifty miles (ca. 2020 technology). The rail gun was installed after seeing New Empire’s ships in action against the Balearics. The Manstein has another quadruple platform 8” rail gun in the rear end of the ship, to provide secondary fire support. However, the Macabees rarely use this for offensive purposes, instead relying on missiles, which give the Macabees a greater range.

SONARs: The Manstein class Destroyer uses the Poseidon SONAR system, which is capable of detecting louder shipping at up to one hundred kilometers away at the right circumstances, and advanced submarines at a maximum range of ten kilometers, burning through anechoic tiling quite easily. The Poseidon is considered one of the better SONAR systems used presently. The Poseidon is also programmed to detect the “black hole” effect which submarines using MHD have; making it easier to detect MHD propelled submarines.

The Manstein also has a new thin line towed array called the TB-163, which is as long as the Rommel type Battleship, using thousands of hydrophones to detect submarine presence at up to forty kilometers away (ca. 28 miles). The TB-163 uses a strong nylon line to ensure that it doesn’t snap, although this could be potentially dangerous to the crew if its used stupidly. The Manstein also has another towed array called the TB-87 which focuses on shorter distances, using powerful hydrophones to detect close enemies.

RADARs: Macabee ships use the MRT-1 RADAR system to detect enemy aerial assets anywhere from 120 kilometers minimum to 700 kilometers maximum; depending on the circumstances, stealth levels, and altitude. The MRT-1 use a very powerful super computer and several screens to detect, filter, and portray enemy aerial assets. Based of the TENEX SPY-6 this well built system is, again, one of the better ones in use around the world, and provide the Macabees with a reliable early warning system.

Additionally, Macabee ships integrate the MRT-4 RADAR system which was built to focus on sea-skimmers. RADAR radio waves are able to catch both missiles and other objects, such as waves, and filter what is a wave, and what is a missile; and quite easily, and through regular technology. Simply, by using a supercomputer and C based program, the computers can detect range, vector, and velocity – hence, it can distinguish what is a missile or aircraft, and what isn’t. A wave doesn’t last at the same altitude, velocity and vector for ever – the wave falls short quite quickly – while a missile lasts in the air for quite a while (of course). Hence, it wasn’t too difficult to design a system capable of picking sea-skimmers up.

Finally, the Macabee ships include an MLT-1 LIDAR system which as a range of about 250 kilometers (165 miles). The MLT-1 uses regular LIDAR to detect range, Doppler LIDAR to detect velocity, and DIAL LIDAR to detect chemical composition.


Other Numbers: 350 crew members.

Cost: 600 million USD.

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Model class Aircraft Carrier

Propulsion: The Model class Aircraft Carrier has four Valhalla nuclear reactors, allowing the system to be propelled at a very fast velocity of 35 knots, although this speed is rarely used in war (a task force can only go as fast as its slowest ship). The Valhalla nuclear reactors incorporate Baldur meltdown technology. The Baldur meltdown inhibitor uses sensors placed selectively inside the hull, close to the room of the nuclear reactors, to sense internal breaches, either by water pressure, or enemy pressure (missiles and other projectiles). Consequently, in case of a breech the Baldur is able to automatically shut down the two Valhalla nuclear reactors as quickly as possible, thus avoiding a catastrophic nuclear reaction.

The four Valhalla nuclear reactors use eight screws to push the Model at the velocity wanted. Each screw has six blades, and are of medium size, however, larger than most of the screws used by the Ohio class Battleships. However, in order to decrease cavitation the Rommel has two MACCAVAB (MACabee CAVitation Absorbing) devices, which absorb the popping noises that bubbles make around the hull and the screws (known as cavitation). This technology was first begun by the United States Navy, but since then enhanced and improved by the Macabee Imperial Naval Engineering Corp under the pay of Valhalla Naval National, the sole naval production provider for the Macabee Navy. This makes the carrier much more quiet when under operations, although it is almost impossible to make something this big quiet.

Aircraft: Each Model can carry a total of one hundred of any type of aircraft. The deck is so large that it can even support heavy bombers taking off. Although, technically it can carry more fighters, due to the fact that if one hundred bombers fit on it, then more fighters fit, since fighters are about half the size of a bomber, the Model never carries more than one hundred aircraft, merely for the fact that if one is lost the Macabee navy does not want to lose more than one hundred aircraft.

The length of the Model class carrier is about four hundred and fifty meters.

Armaments:
Praetorian V SAM System: The Praetorian V is a massive improvement over the Praetorian IV system, which was basically copied off the Bisonic S-500 SAM system. The Praetorian V should provide better accuracy, as well as better quality, to the consumers of this product. Using a twenty rocket launch system, four rows of five missiles, the Praetorian V SAM system can provide massive fire support in case of massive bomber, or missile raids, allowing the Rommels to put up a quality defense against belligerents, and ensuring survival on the deadly waters. Each Praetorian V missile can be interchanged by another SAM, assuming that the chosen SAM is smaller, or the same size. The Praetorian V is rather small, and uses either a conventional engine to engage sea-skimmers, or a scramjet engine to seek and destroy conventional high flying missiles, or aircraft.

The Praetorian V SAM system incorporates the MLT-1 LIDAR system onboard each Model class Carrier, which as a range of about 165 miles (or about 300kms). The MLT-1 LIDAR system uses normal LIDAR, which uses a laser to detect the range of the target, as well as Doppler LIDAR which is used to detect the velocity of the target. DIAL is also used to detect chemical composition of the target. The Praetorian Vs are also hooked up to the MRT-1/N RADAR system used by Macabee Naval vessels. The MRT-1 is based off the TENEX SPY-6 RADAR system, however uses a larger power box, as well as a larger computer network to catch enemy flyers at 700kms. However, the MRT-1 is restricted to altitude of over thirty meters in height (around 100 miles), and for lower altitudes (100 miles to 1,000 miles) is severely restricted in range. The MRT-4 RADAR system is used for sea-skimming missiles, or low flying aircraft. It uses radio waves to track below the minimum range of the MRT-1. The advantages in having two systems do what one could do are that now we have specialization of jobs, and the MRT-4 can focus on one thing, while the MRT-1 focuses on another. To support this massive computer system the CPU uses ln2 coolant to over clock a twenty gigahertz system to thirty gigahertz.

The actual Praetorian V has its own CPU installed on the backside of the missile, above the scramjet engine, and it uses its own MLT-2 LIDAR system, which has a range of two kilometers, and is used for final phase target location purposes. The Praetorian V missile uses the computers to still use the ship based MRT-1, MRT-4 and the MLT-1 systems. This provides a very accurate and effective surface to air missile system. The Praetorian V can be used as an anti-missile, as well as an anti-air SAM.

For SAM purposes each Model sports fifty Praetorian V batteries, giving the Model the firepower to defend with four hundred SAMs in each volley. The Praetorian V system uses an advanced reload system using hydraulic propulsion to lift the missile out of stock racks and push into the barrel of the Praetorian V launch platforms. Each Manstein Destroyer is outfitted with two thousand Praetorian V missiles in stocks, giving each SAM one hundred Praetorian V missiles, useful for five volleys each SAM.

Loki ASROC: The Loki ASROC system is a ten tube 500mm torpedo launch system placed strategically around naval vessels which incorporate the system. The Loki ASROC can use the MAT-1 anti-torpedo, the MT-2 SuCav torpedo for short ranges, and the MT-3 water ramjet/pumpjet torpedo for long range use. Each Manstein carries one hundred of each type of torpedo, used in five different ASROC batteries placed on the battleship.

The Loki ASROC has an advanced material composition using THYMONEL 8, a third generation single crystal super alloy, as a coating on the steel launch platform. The THYMONEL 8 coating allows for the resistance to Hydrogen Embrittlement, and the heat of the missile booster. This allows for a rate of fire of all ten torpedoes in eight seconds time. A hydraulic reloading system can restock the Loki ASROC system in ten seconds time.

There are ten Lokie ASROC batteries per side of the ship, coming to a total of twenty.

DREAD:

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be", or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.

According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it’s already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a...

tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.

The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.

The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.

The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.

But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round", or "CCR", that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.

And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote “no stoppages or jams”? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can’t jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don’t allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can’t jam, since Mr. St. George hasn’t given us permission to describe the gun’s operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.

The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.

There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let’s say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.

So, what’s the upshot? It's DefenseReview's opinion that, if the DREAD Weapon System works as advertised, it will have a profound impact on U.S. infantry warfare capabilities. It has the potential to literally change the way we fight on the ground, and perhaps even in the air. No question, it will revolutionize both ground and air vehicular armament and firepower capabilities. The DREAD will have a similarly profound impact on U.S. embassy security and military base perimeter security capabilities. This paradigm shift in firepower isn't limited to the ground and air, either. The DREAD's complete lack of recoil will allow it to be fired from space-based platforms, i.e. satellites, without knocking them off of their respective orbital paths. Zero recoil, plus 8,000 fps projectile speeds, 5,000-120,000 rpm capability, and huge on-board ammunition supplies, equals a viable and relatively inexpensive option for satellite defense (and enemy-satellite neutralization), and possibly even a fast-realizable armament solution/alternative for a U.S. Space-based defense network.


SONARs: The Model class Carrier uses the Poseidon SONAR system, which is capable of detecting louder shipping at up to one hundred kilometers away at the right circumstances, and advanced submarines at a maximum range of ten kilometers, burning through anechoic tiling quite easily. The Poseidon is considered one of the better SONAR systems used presently. The Poseidon is also programmed to detect the “black hole” effect which submarines using MHD have; making it easier to detect MHD propelled submarines.


RADARs: Macabee ships use the MRT-1 RADAR system to detect enemy aerial assets anywhere from 120 kilometers minimum to 700 kilometers maximum; depending on the circumstances, stealth levels, and altitude. The MRT-1 use a very powerful super computer and several screens to detect, filter, and portray enemy aerial assets. Based of the TENEX SPY-6 this well built system is, again, one of the better ones in use around the world, and provide the Macabees with a reliable early warning system.

Additionally, Macabee ships integrate the MRT-4 RADAR system which was built to focus on sea-skimmers. RADAR radio waves are able to catch both missiles and other objects, such as waves, and filter what is a wave, and what is a missile; and quite easily, and through regular technology. Simply, by using a supercomputer and C based program, the computers can detect range, vector, and velocity – hence, it can distinguish what is a missile or aircraft, and what isn’t. A wave doesn’t last at the same altitude, velocity and vector for ever – the wave falls short quite quickly – while a missile lasts in the air for quite a while (of course). Hence, it wasn’t too difficult to design a system capable of picking sea-skimmers up.

Finally, the Macabee ships include an MLT-1 LIDAR system which as a range of about 250 kilometers (165 miles). The MLT-1 uses regular LIDAR to detect range, Doppler LIDAR to detect velocity, and DIAL LIDAR to detect chemical composition.

Crew: About five thousand (including air crew).

Also: EMP hardened.

Cost: 1.5 Billion

Seydlitz class Cruiser
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Seydlitz class Cruiser
Propulsion:
The Seydlitz Cruiser uses four Power PropulsionLM 2500 gas turbine engines, for a maximum velocity of 35 knots. To push it the engines use five double bladed propellers. The Macabee Government is currently looking at a new cruiser with new technology, including a nuclear powerplant to totally rid themselves for the need of tankers. This engine is the same engine used by United States Navy Cruisers, and is disliked by many Macabee cruiser captains.

Aircraft:
The Seydlitz boasts two helipads for two SeaSerpent LAMPS, for anti-submarine warfare. On export the SeaKing II is given on default, or the SeaSerpents if an extra two million is paid.

Weapons:
Praetorian V SAM System: The Praetorian V is a massive improvement over the Praetorian IV system, which was basically copied off the Bisonic S-500 SAM system. The Praetorian V should provide better accuracy, as well as better quality, to the consumers of this product. Using a twenty rocket launch system, four rows of five missiles, the Praetorian V SAM system can provide massive fire support in case of massive bomber, or missile raids, allowing the Rommels to put up a quality defense against belligerents, and ensuring survival on the deadly waters. Each Praetorian V missile can be interchanged by another SAM, assuming that the chosen SAM is smaller, or the same size. The Praetorian V is rather small, and uses either a conventional engine to engage sea-skimmers, or a scramjet engine to seek and destroy conventional high flying missiles, or aircraft.

The Praetorian V SAM system incorporates the MLT-1 LIDAR system onboard each Model class Carrier, which as a range of about 165 miles (or about 300kms). The MLT-1 LIDAR system uses normal LIDAR, which uses a laser to detect the range of the target, as well as Doppler LIDAR which is used to detect the velocity of the target. DIAL is also used to detect chemical composition of the target. The Praetorian Vs are also hooked up to the MRT-1/N RADAR system used by Macabee Naval vessels. The MRT-1 is based off the TENEX SPY-6 RADAR system, however uses a larger power box, as well as a larger computer network to catch enemy flyers at 700kms. However, the MRT-1 is restricted to altitude of over thirty meters in height (around 100 miles), and for lower altitudes (100 miles to 1,000 miles) is severely restricted in range. The MRT-4 RADAR system is used for sea-skimming missiles, or low flying aircraft. It uses radio waves to track below the minimum range of the MRT-1. The advantages in having two systems do what one could do are that now we have specialization of jobs, and the MRT-4 can focus on one thing, while the MRT-1 focuses on another. To support this massive computer system the CPU uses ln2 coolant to over clock a twenty gigahertz system to thirty gigahertz.

The actual Praetorian V has its own CPU installed on the backside of the missile, above the scramjet engine, and it uses its own MLT-2 LIDAR system, which has a range of two kilometers, and is used for final phase target location purposes. The Praetorian V missile uses the computers to still use the ship based MRT-1, MRT-4 and the MLT-1 systems. This provides a very accurate and effective surface to air missile system. The Praetorian V can be used as an anti-missile, as well as an anti-air SAM.

For SAM purposes each Seydlitz sportstwenty Praetorian V batteries, giving the Model the firepower to defend with four hundred SAMs in each volley. The Praetorian V system uses an advanced reload system using hydraulic propulsion to lift the missile out of stock racks and push into the barrel of the Praetorian V launch platforms. Each Manstein Destroyer is outfitted with two thousand Praetorian V missiles in stocks, giving each SAM one hundred Praetorian V missiles, useful for five volleys each SAM.

Loki ASROC: The Loki ASROC system is a ten tube 500mm torpedo launch system placed strategically around naval vessels which incorporate the system. The Loki ASROC can use the MAT-1 anti-torpedo, the MT-2 SuCav torpedo for short ranges, and the MT-3 water ramjet/pumpjet torpedo for long range use. Each Manstein carries one hundred of each type of torpedo, used in five different ASROC batteries placed on the battleship.

The Loki ASROC has an advanced material composition using THYMONEL 8, a third generation single crystal super alloy, as a coating on the steel launch platform. The THYMONEL 8 coating allows for the resistance to Hydrogen Embrittlement, and the heat of the missile booster. This allows for a rate of fire of all ten torpedoes in eight seconds time. A hydraulic reloading system can restock the Loki ASROC system in ten seconds time.

There are ten Lokie ASROC batteries per side of the ship, coming to a total of twenty.

DREAD:

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be", or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.

According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it’s already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a...

tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.

The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.

The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.

The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.

But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round", or "CCR", that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.

And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote “no stoppages or jams”? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can’t jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don’t allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can’t jam, since Mr. St. George hasn’t given us permission to describe the gun’s operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.

The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.

There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let’s say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.

So, what’s the upshot? It's DefenseReview's opinion that, if the DREAD Weapon System works as advertised, it will have a profound impact on U.S. infantry warfare capabilities. It has the potential to literally change the way we fight on the ground, and perhaps even in the air. No question, it will revolutionize both ground and air vehicular armament and firepower capabilities. The DREAD will have a similarly profound impact on U.S. embassy security and military base perimeter security capabilities. This paradigm shift in firepower isn't limited to the ground and air, either. The DREAD's complete lack of recoil will allow it to be fired from space-based platforms, i.e. satellites, without knocking them off of their respective orbital paths. Zero recoil, plus 8,000 fps projectile speeds, 5,000-120,000 rpm capability, and huge on-board ammunition supplies, equals a viable and relatively inexpensive option for satellite defense (and enemy-satellite neutralization), and possibly even a fast-realizable armament solution/alternative for a U.S. Space-based defense network.

Vertical Launch Tubes: Each Seydlitz carries somewhere around three hundred Principe III anti-shipping missile launched torpedoes, and three hundred MAAM Ausf. B cruise missiles. To fire these massive stockpiles of missiles each Seydlitz hasfive VLS systems. Each VLS system has a four slot revolving missile launcher, which in order to fire a volley it fires, turns, fires, turns, etc, until all missiles are fired. The reloading process is even shorter, using a hydraulic loading system to push the missile back into the slot after each turn, meaning that the VLS system can keep a continuous launch sequence without pause. This makes the Rommel extremely dangerous when taking in the fact that the VLSs can continuously fire missiles off at enemies until the enemy is destroyed. The VLS system also uses a THYMONEL 8 coating to maintain the HEE and pressure giving to the launching platforms.

SONARs: The Seydlitz class Cruiser uses the Poseidon SONAR system, which is capable of detecting louder shipping at up to one hundred kilometers away at the right circumstances, and advanced submarines at a maximum range of ten kilometers, burning through anechoic tiling quite easily. The Poseidon is considered one of the better SONAR systems used presently. The Poseidon is also programmed to detect the “black hole” effect which submarines using MHD have; making it easier to detect MHD propelled submarines.

The Seydlitz also has a new thin line towed array called the TB-163, which is as long as the Rommel battleship itself, using thousands of hydrophones to detect submarine presence at up to forty kilometers away (ca. 28 miles). The TB-163 uses a strong nylon line to ensure that it doesn’t snap, although this could be potentially dangerous to the crew if its used stupidly. The Rommel also has another towed array called the TB-87 which focuses on shorter distances, using powerful hydrophones to detect close enemies.

RADARs: Macabee ships use the MRT-1 RADAR system to detect enemy aerial assets anywhere from 120 kilometers minimum to 700 kilometers maximum; depending on the circumstances, stealth levels, and altitude. The MRT-1 use a very powerful super computer and several screens to detect, filter, and portray enemy aerial assets. Based of the TENEX SPY-6 this well built system is, again, one of the better ones in use around the world, and provide the Macabees with a reliable early warning system.

Additionally, Macabee ships integrate the MRT-4 RADAR system which was built to focus on sea-skimmers. RADAR radio waves are able to catch both missiles and other objects, such as waves, and filter what is a wave, and what is a missile; and quite easily, and through regular technology. Simply, by using a supercomputer and C based program, the computers can detect range, vector, and velocity – hence, it can distinguish what is a missile or aircraft, and what isn’t. A wave doesn’t last at the same altitude, velocity and vector for ever – the wave falls short quite quickly – while a missile lasts in the air for quite a while (of course). Hence, it wasn’t too difficult to design a system capable of picking sea-skimmers up.

Finally, the Macabee ships include an MLT-1 LIDAR system which as a range of about 250 kilometers (165 miles). The MLT-1 uses regular LIDAR to detect range, Doppler LIDAR to detect velocity, and DIAL LIDAR to detect chemical composition.

Final Notes:
EMP hardened

Crew: 400

Cost: 750 Million USD

Toledo class Nuclear Attack Submarine (SSN)
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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

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

With the growing Airforces of the world the Macabee and Malatose Governments decided to come together in this joint effort to create a Air Superiority Fighter beyond the rest.This Fighter was designed to win the skies with its advanced Avionic Systems and to develop precision ground strikes against targets.

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The Su-63 FireStorm Air Superiority Fighter.[/i]

[b]STATISTICAL DATA:

HEIGHT:
6.3 m

WINGSPAN:
15.2 m

LENGTH:
22.0m

Engines:
2 x SATURN/LYU'KA AL-67 turbo fan engines with thrust-vectoring nozzles providing STOL capabilities, 160 kN static thrust with 250 kN of afterburner.

FUEL CAPACITY:
2,300 US gal (8,706 liters)

MAXIMUM SPEED @ 14,500 meter :
Mach 2.8

CRUISE SPEED (max performance without afterburner):
1805 kph (Mach 1.7)

STALL SPEED:
120 kph

CLIMB RATE:
28,000 meters per minute

CEILING:
20,000 meters (65 kft)

MIN LANDING DISTANCE AT SEA LEVEL:
300 meters

MAX COMBAT RADIUS:
2500 km

MAX RANGE (without external stores):
5600km

ESTIMATED COST:
$195,000,000
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Weapons Systems

2 x One GSh-30-1 30mm: Two GSh-30-1 30-mm cannons are mounted in blisters on either side of the main fuselage. The cannons are mounted on a geared rotor that is driven by a 20-hp electric motor which turns the barrels while each one fires individually. The cannon is capable of firing up to 7,200 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 1,030 meters per second. Each cannon is fed from an internal 800 round storage drum which feeds the cannon with a double-ended hydraulically driven linkless feed system.

13 x BODY/WING HARD POINTS: 25,000 lb (11,340 kg) of external stores can be mounted on six hard points mounted on either wing and four under the main fuselage.

2 Internal Hardpoints: Internal Hardpoints can carry over 2,000lb of Internal Stores,such as bombs or 2 Missiles.

Cockpit
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The pilot's primary visual reference instrument is an Ericsson EP-17 Head-Up Display (HUD) offering a 20º x 28º Field-of-View with color raster video.

Secondary visual referencing is accomplished via four LCDs (two 9.5 x 10.5 in, one 6 x 8 in and one 6 x 6 in displays for a total display area of 285 sq in) and nineteen analogue flight and reference instruments. Facilitating both VFR and IFR operations, the cockpit is designed to comply with Generation III night vision standard and operability with Helmet Mounted Cuing Systems (HMCS).

CockPit Electronics

2 task-switching MFDs
Multi-node radar indication panel
Octo-functional HUD synchronized with MFD and helmet targeting
GPS synchronization panel
Topographic orientation TRV systems
Autopilot TRV/NRT based systems
JTIDs/A50 airbourne intelligence/global targetting, guidance systems.
APEX 345 ejection seat, syncronized with primary turbine faliures.
LIDAR/RADAR incoming signal indicator/interceptor to JTIDs.
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Maneuvering System

The Sukhoi Su-63 is an extremely maneuverable fighter using 3D thrust vectoring and an innovated reverse canard design.The Su-63 uses an extensive fly-by-wire system which gives the pilot unprecedented abilities in piloting the aircraft.

Avionics.

The Su-63 uses advanced integrated Avionic Systems developed jointly by Finnish and Soviet Scientist.These systems computing power are equal to that of 7 Cray Super Computers.
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ACTIVE SENSOR JAMMER: Internal ECM providing broadband RF protection.

AUTO-PILOT: The Su-63 is equipped with a computerized auto-pilot, allowing the pilot to relax or even sleep during long voyages. The auto- pilot can be programmed with a single destination or a complex flight plan involving multiple speeds, directions, and destinations. The onboard computer will alert the pilot when the fighter is near its destination.

OPTICS (NIGHTVISION):100km range. A passive light image intensifier that emits no light of its own, but relies on ambient light which is electronically amplified to produce a visible picture.

NO-12M: Multi-mode X-band pulse Doppler radar. Detection Range is 250km. System consists of a single electronically-scanned Phased-Array RADAR antenna mounted in the nose and tail giving the Su-63 360 degree scanning capabilites.System can track 50 Targets and simultaeneously fire at 5.The NO-12M RADAR can also be integrated with AWAC or ground based RADAR systems to give it a total detection range of 700km.

NO-15M Infra-Red Sensor System: Scans for enemy heat signatures at a range of up to 110km.

NLTS Laser Targeting system: Has a range of 50 km and is used to increase the accuracy of onboard weapons.

NOLDR(LIDAR system): The NOLDR is a heterodyne-reception optical radar system which uses pulse-tone waveforms.The system also uses Doppler RADAR.It reduces backscattering and extinction of coefficient of the atmosphere.

NO-Z2M Intra-Data Link System: Allows for all Su-63 Fighterstorm Fighters to share information automatically without radio calls.The wing leader can also easily glance at the computer and tell how much fuel and weapons his wingmen have left.He can also see which enemy fighter his wingman has targeted.This system allows for the wing commander to assign targets to each of his wingmen also.

RADIO/VIDEO COMMUNICATION: Long range, directional communications system with satellite relay capabilities. Range: 600 miles (960 km) or can be boosted indefinitely via satellite relay.

TACTICAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM: The Su-63 pressurized and provides full nuclear and chemical protection.
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Stealth Technology

The Su-63 employs technologies to significantly reduce Radar Cross Section (RCS), infrared signature, electromagnetic signature, visual signature and aural signature. RCS reduction represents the paramount LO feature considered in the Su-63 design. To reduce RCS, the
S-63 employs a geometrically based radar disbursing configuration. Developed utilizing computational RCS modeling techniques employed and/or developed by Sukhoi, the Su-63 configuration employs facets approximated by curvelinear, polynomial sections. Ultimate Su-63 RCS reduction, however, is dependent upon a proprietary combination of bandpass external skins, internal shaping and the implimentation of Cold-Plasma-Cavity Active Stealth Technology. Between the external bandpass skins and the internal graphite hull backed by an alloy geodetic structure is a cavity. Within this cavity a low temperature plasma is achieved. This plasma, as manipulated actively by the aircraft’s computer driven self-protection network, provides an unparalleled level of active stealth technology whereby incoming interrogative radar energy is substantially disrupted such that return signal is mitigated to undetectable levels or chaotic, undeciferable signals. Rather than rely solely upon external shaping, Sukhoi proprietary Su-63 stealth technology adapts to frequency and bandwidth, allowing maximum LO performance against all air-to-air and ground based radar types alike. Su-63 clean, all-aspect RCS is on the order of 0.006 square meters.

To reduce RCS while carrying external stores, the aircraft can be equipped with Radar Elusive Tactical Stores Dispensers (RETSD™), developed by Sukhoi. These dispensers allow the Su-63 to carry wing mounted external stores without compromising LO features. This allows the Su-63 to conduct precision strike and air-to-air engagements with limited detectability. The Su-63 also features two independent, internal weapons bays for compact internal stores carriage including both the tube-launched short range AAM as well as 250 LB class precision guided munitions. Carriage of compact stores within these internal weapons bays permits a slightly armed Su-63 to function in a "clean" RCS configuration.

Reduction of IR emissions is achieved through the use of a dedicated engine bay cooling/IR signature reduction system. Ducting residual inlet air through the Powerplant Signature Reduction Shroud (PSRS), significantly reduces aircraft IR signature both in the subsonic and supersonic regime. Coupled with Lo-Axi™ or similar LO turbofan exhaust nozzle, the aircraft IR signature is substantially reduced.

Aural signature is reduced in part through the PSRS. For enhanced aural signature reduction, Sukhoi is considering Active Frequency Damping (AFD) and comparable active noise control systems. Visual signature is reduced through employment of smokeless turbofans and by limiting overall aircraft size.

Protection against Scalar EM Weapons is provided through the application of lossy insulation and active cold plasma manipulation within the cavity between the aircraft graphite unibody and aramid external skins.
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Anti-LIDAR COMPOSITE(Implemented by Finland)

How it functions: A thin layer of composite light-metallic materials is applied to components of an aircraft. THis thin layer of composite material is covered with microscopic silica material that is placed to seperate LIDAR rays into opposite adjacent directions.

Specs:
Best Range: 15 km
Additional aircraft weight: over 15 LBS on FA 18C
*details classified*

Counter-Measures.

Radar Warning Receiver
Infra-red Warning Receiver
Active radar jammer
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For Defense against incoming missiles,Micronesia has implemented the MAAMG or Advanced Aerial Air-To-Air Guns.These guns are designed to engage incoming Air-To-Air Missiles.
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The Su-63 has various systems built in.These systems as developed by the USSR are called "LSS" or Lifetime Support Systems.

Macabee Military Aircraft - A2/B Hawk
Industries:
Padrone aereo (The Macabees)
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.4
Supercruise: Mach 2.1
WingSpan: 36 feet
Internal Fuel: 16,000 lbs
Payload: 1,000 lbs
Take-off weight: 20 tonnes
2 MVL V1 Thrust Engines

Armament:
1 30mm Vulcan
20 MTAAM-2 Predators
The Aircrafts 8 Internal Hardpoints can carry Air-To-Surface Missiles,Air-to-Air Missiles,Bombs and also ECM Pods for electronic warfare.

RADAR:
As for RADAR the Hawk uses the MRT-2 aerial RADAR with a range of two hundred to four hundred kilometers, while the RADAR also intergrates with ship based and/or land based MRT-1/MRT-4 RADAR, which vary from 700kms range to over 2,000kms range.

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.

Production Cost: 30 Million USD
Export Cost: 90 Million USD

MMA-A1 Kondor Low Altitude Strike Fighter
Producers:
Padrone aereo (The Macabees)
Maximum Speed: Mach 2.9
Supercruise: Mach 2.1
WingSpan: 30.4 feet
Internal Fuel: 12,000 lbs

Armaments:
4x MTAAM 2 Predators
12x MLAM-2 Air to Surface/MALAS-2 Air to Surface/MTAAM-2 Predators
30mm Vulcan

RADAR:
As for RADAR the Kondor uses the MRT-2 aerial RADAR with a range of two hundred to four hundred kilometers, while the RADAR also intergrates with ship based and/or land based MRT-1/MRT-4 RADAR, which vary from 700kms range to over 2,000kms range.

Celing:40,000 feet

The Kondor was the mainstream fighter of the Macabee airforce until it was outpreformed by newer models of foreign aircraft, pressuring the Macabee government to develope the Hawk. Accordingly, the Air Force did not want to release all their Kondos so they left the Kondor as the a strike aircraft, flying low and under the RADAR, to support ground advances and operations.

The Kondor's small size and fairly stable frame and excellent velocity all allow it to suceed in the air even years after it became a third rate fighter for any nation.

Production Cost: 15 Million
Export Cost: 25 Million

MMA-C1 Albatross Heavy Bomber
Producers:
Padrone aereo (The Macabees)


Crew: 4
Engines: 8 50,000 kg Deo MegaEngines
Wing Span: 65.70m / 40.60m
Length: 63.10 m
Height: 15.10 m
Empty Weight: 120000 kg
Max.Weight: 415000 kg
Speed: Mach 2.2
Ceiling: 29715 m
Range: 12000 km
Armament: 37330 kg

Price: 120 Million

MAAM (Macabee Aerial Attack Missiles) Ausf. (Variation) B.
Industries Involved:
Padrone Aereo (The Macabees)
Lockheed Martin

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.

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Cost of Production: 300,000 USD
Export Cost: 1,00,000 USD

Pz. X Refit
Industries:
The Macabees
The Armor:
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 5500mm 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 ADBOND (ADvanced BOND) is a third generation single crystal superalloy bond. This primary armor is further reinforced by a ceramic composite bulk between it and a DUEIS plate, which gives it a final 7,000mm of armor. This final layer is coupled by a layer of NxRA armor which gives it the final RHA value of 8,500mm, all for a real value of some 800mm.

In a final insulated layer under this above a MEXAS armor layer will be employed, measuring twenty inches thick, which gives it an RHA value of over 300mms, giving the tank a total RHA value of some 9,000mms.

MEXAS density is ~1.7g/cc and reactive elements are reported in the construction with a strenght of 2.5 GPa, not many materials are that strong but Boron Carbide could fit the bill.
B4C has a mass of 2.55g/cc and ME vs shaped charges of ~ 4.0...leading to a space effectiveness of ~ 1.3.

Now a mixture of CaCO/GAP and B4C should have a density of 1.7-1.8 g/cc [2.55g/cc+1.0g/cc ÷2]. Some thing with the density of CaCO/Gap should have an effectiveness of ~ 0.7 [space effectiveness] so a average of B4C & CaCO/GAP should be ~ 1.0 spaced effectiveness...

The ME should be 7.83/1.7= 4.6.

But the CaCO/GAP is reactive and generates a considerable improvement in effectivenes because this reactive forces the steel plates apart...using the VM-11 paper as a guide the ME of steel foam is ~ 3.3 while the value for steel CaCO/GAP is ~ 10.0...meaning this reactivity tripled the effectiveness of the sandwich...

If this same reactivity is applied to the above B4C & CaCO/GAP sandwich we end up with ~ 14:1 Me.

Now in this paper there were reactive elements that were tested with thin explosive layers to enhance the bulging effect on the outer steel plates...these ranged from 4-6 times the base values and if these super reactive forces are applied to the MEXAS model thats 4.6 x 4-6 or ME of 18:1 -28:1.

The paper showed that MEXAS @ 15° offers as much protection as ERA @ 60-70°. If you take Blazer this is two 2-3mm steel plates and a couple of mm of explosives [density ~ 1.8g/cc?]...any way thats ~ 6mm steel mass @ 60-70° or 12-18mm steel...the ME of these ERAs are reported to be ~ 20:1 meaning this resistance is ~ 240-350mm. Thus MEXAS with a steel mass of ~ 7mm is as effective as >250mm RHAe or a ME of 36:1!!!!

Heres the crunch...studies of bulging plates show that plate speed is the key. Well if the above chemical reactive forces can 'bulge' a plate sufficently to tripple quadruple its effectiveness , image how effective they would be on a small ceramic nugget? Rosenberg and Dekel wrote several papers on the parameters of this bulging prossess...it was clear that if you increases the interlayer or reduced the thickness of the outer steel plate [mass], the plate bulging velocity shot up [going from 200-800m/s in some cases].

Could be that instead of tripple its 6-8 times the ME against shaped charges? That would be an ME of ~ 32-37 .

Shortstop:
The Shortstop Electronic Protection System (SEPS) is an RF Proximity Fuze counter measure. The Shortstop battlefield electronic countermeasures system is capable of prematurely detonating incoming artillery and mortar rounds. It counters the threat of RF Proximity Fuzed munitions by causing them to prefunction, to protect friendly ground troops, vehicles, structures, and other equipment under fire.

The SHORTSTOP system was originally produced as a Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) product in support of Desert Storm. A request for information (RFI) was received from ARCENT addressing available countermeasures for indirect fire munitions utilizing proximity fuzes; such as those found in artillery, mortar, and rocket munitions. Whittaker Corp. in Simi Valley, CA built the system for PEO-IEW during the Gulf War in response to the artillery threat posed by the Iraqis, but the war ended before Shortstop could be deployed. The system could reduce casualties to ground troops by as much as 50 percent during the initial stages of an enemy attack.

These prototype systems were subjected to a minimal amount of environmental testing in preparation for deployment. After Desert Storm, the system was subjected to extensive live fire testing in the desert at Yuma Proving Grounds and evaluated by the TRADOC Analysis Command (TRAC) and the Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab. The SHORTSTOP, AN/VLQ -9 or -10, systems demonstrated, in testing, the ability to significantly enhance survivability of troops and high value assets from indirect fire, proximity fuzed munitions. Reports of more than 5,000 live artillery and mortar round firings against Shortstop in tests at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., indicate that the system is 100 percent effective against selected weapons. The test rounds were fired singly and in barrages, with none reaching their intended target, test officials reported.

The prototypes were deployed for a limited period of time in Bosnia and were returned to contingency stock in 1997. To meet urgent operational requirements for deployed forces, the 3rd Army Commander on 11 Feb 98 requested 12 Shortstop Electronic Countermeasure Systems. These systems were readily available as a near term loan that only required funding to train operators and purchase some fielding and maintenance related items. HQDA approved the release for immediate deployment, requesting AMC execute the action that was subsequently completed by CECOM's Project Manager for Firefinder. The QRO supported delivery and fielding of these systems by coordinating the necessary arrangements for deployment of a two-man New Equipment Training Team (NETT) from CECOM. The NETT departed on 25 Feb 1998 with the equipment (acting as couriers) on a C-5 Cargo flight out of Dover AFB. The SHORTSTOP system training, checkout and positioning was completed by the CECOM NETT 20 March 1998.

Packaged in a suitcase-size case and fitted with a small multi-directional antenna, the Shortstop system can be activated and operational within seconds. Shortstop's passive electronics and operational features make it impervious to detection by enemy signal-intelligence sensors. In the near future, Shortstop will shrink in size, down to 25 pounds. Whittaker is currently under contract to build three new, smaller versions: manpack and vehicle units, as well as a stand-alone unit.

Full Spectrum Active Protection Close-In Shield
FCLAS is comprised of a sensor and short range grenade launcher, loaded with special fragmentation grenades with delay fuses set to intercept the incoming threat at a range of approx. 5 meters from the protected vehicle. The actual initiation of the explosive charge is triggered by a side looking RF proximity fuse which senses the incoming projectile as it passes nearby. The explosion forms a vertical, doughnut shaped fragmentation effect that kills the passing threat but does not effect the protected vehicle. The system's target weight is 140 kg., to enable deployment on light vehicles. Each grenade is equipped with a forward looking radar mounted on the exposed tip of the grenade. Each of the FCLAS munitions has such an integrated radar, which forms a complete sensor, monitoring a protective hemisphere around and above the vehicle. The Army hopes to get a prototype system of FCLAS for testing in 2004 and an operational system, which could protect against RPG threats, deployed with Bradley, Stryker and Humvee

Anti-Missile Defenses
Other than the MEXAS addition the refit drops the MetalStorm gun and is instead using the DREAD gun:

DREAD - ball firing gun -

What is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here, folks. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

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The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.



More Info On DREAD
The Weapon

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

That would really be something, wouldn't it? Some of you might be wondering, "how big would it be", or "how much would it weigh"? Others might want to know what it's ammunition capacity would be. These are all good questions, assuming of course that a weapon like this were actually possible.

According to its inventor, not only is it possible, it’s already happened. An updated version of the weapon will be available soon. It will arrive in the form of a...

tactically-configured pre-production anti-personnel weapon firing .308 caliber projectiles (accurately) at 2,500-3000 fps, at a variable/programmable cyclic rate of 5,000-120,000 rpm (rounds-per-minute). The weapon's designer/inventor has informed DefRev that future versions of the weapon will be capable of achieving projectile velocities in the 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty. The technology already exists.

The weapon itself is called the DREAD, or Multiple Projectile Delivery System (MPDS), and it may just be the most revolutionary infantry weapon system concept that DefenseReview has EVER come across.

The DREAD Weapon System is the brainchild of weapons designer/inventor Charles St. George. It will be 40 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 3 inches high (20 inches high with the pintel swivel mount). It will be comprised of only 30 component parts, and will have an empty weight of only 28 pounds. That's right, 28 pounds. The weapon will be capable of rotating 360 degrees and enjoy the same elevation and declination capabilities of any conventional vehicle-mounted gun/weapon.

The first generation DREAD (production version), derived from the tactically-configured pre-production weapon, will most likely be a ground vehicle-mounted anti-personnel weapon. Military Humvees (HMMV's) and other ground vehicles (including Chevy Suburbans) equipped with the DREAD will enjoy magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo.

But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So, instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant (gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten, etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as 8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower. We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course, makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the conceptual one.

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator’s trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.

One of the ammunition types the DREAD will be delivering downrange is the "Collision Cluster Round", or "CCR", that will be used to penetrate hard targets. The Collision Cluster Round (CCR) is explained in more detail on the munitions page of the DREAD Technology White Paper (links below). The DREAD Advantages Sheet also lists all the other advantages that the DREAD Weapon System enjoys over conventional firearms.

And, all this from a weapon that doesn't jam. Remember how at the beginning of the article I wrote “no stoppages or jams”? The DREAD won't jam because, according to its inventor, it can’t jam. The DREAD's operating and feeding mechanisms simply don’t allow for stoppages or jams to occur. It thus follows that the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon will be the most reliable metallic projectile launcher/ballistic device on the planet. DefRev is not at liberty to publish exactly why the DREAD can’t jam, since Mr. St. George hasn’t given us permission to describe the gun’s operating and feeding mechanisms in any detail.

The only thing the DREAD's operator will really have to worry about is running out of ammo, which isn’t likely. Any reasonably skilled gunner (Humvee, APC, Apache attack helicopter, etc.--doesn't matter) should be able to avoid running through all 50,000 (or more) rounds of .308 Cal. or 10,000 (or more) rounds of .50 Cal. ammo prematurely, especially when he or she can dial down the DREAD's cyclic rate to 5,000 rpm or slower, if necesssary. Even if it becomes necessary to increase the DREAD's magazine capacity to upwards of 100,000 rounds (.308 Cal.) or 20,0000 rounds (.50 Cal.), and run the weapon all day and all night for weeks on end, this will have absolutely no effect whatsoever (positive or negative) on the reliability or durability of the weapon system. The DREAD is both heatless and frictionless, and doesn’t generate any high pressures. So, there’s virtually no wear and tear on the system, no matter how many rounds are fired through it back-to-back, even if it's run constantly on full-auto at 120,000 rpm, the whole time.

Here's the kicker: because it's electrically powered and doesn't use any powdered propellant for it's operation, the DREAD Centrifuge Weapon is virtually silent (no sound signature), except for the supersonic "crack" of the metal balls breaking the sound barrier when they're launched. This makes the direction that the rounds are coming from, and their point of origin (firing source), very difficult for enemy forces to identify. It also allows the operator to communicate easily with his team, or with his command structure, while he's still firing on the enemy (with the DREAD). With the DREAD, he won't have to fight to communicate over his own weapon's firing report. And, since the gun doesn't generate any muzzle flash or heat (it's heatless and frictionless, remember?), it doesn't produce any flash signature or heat signature. So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible. The vehicle that the DREAD is mounted on is the only thing that will display a heat signature. That leaves you with a difficult-to-detect/locate weapon with a virtually endless suppy of ammo. Even if the DREAD-equipped vehicle does get identified and fired upon by the enemy, the risk of a catastrophic explosion from a bullet strike on the ammunition supply is zero, because the DREAD’s ammunition doesn’t contain any propellant. There’s no gunpowder onboard to blow up. That just leaves the gas tank (vehicle’s). Nothing’s foolproof.

There's more. Since the DREAD/MPDS (Multiple Projectile Delivery System) is a centrifuge weapon, projectile velocity can be adjusted instantly back and forth between lethal and less-lethal/non-lethal modes. This means it can be utilized just as effectively for embassy security and peacekeeping roles. As an embassy security weapon, the less-lethal/non lethal mode would most likely be the way to go, in most cases. Less-lethal is usually adequate for any crowd control or riot control situations. However, let’s say the crowd starts storming the gates, and now presents a lethal threat to the occupants inside. Well, just pull your Marines inside, switch your remotely-operated battery of DREAD's on over to lethal mode, and make survival above ground impossible for anyone outside the embassy. No one gets in. Same thing goes for military base security. Remote DREAD Centrifuge Gun Pods can be outfitted with heat and motion sensors, and left in unmanned areas. These remote pods can be either human-operated, or pre-programmed with both less-lethal/non-lethal and lethal protocols that will function automatically and not even require human operation. Mobile robotic platforms, including remote-controlled Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicles (UGCV's), could also be outfitted with DREAD systems. And, the list goes on. The technology application possibilities/potential uses are virtually endless.

Look out, DREAD's comin'.




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Anti-Mine Warfare
As for anti-mine warfare:

The system, called Zeus-HLONS (Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method.

Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

The Engine
The Muwatallis main battle tank uses breakthrough fuel cell technology, introducing a compact next-generation fuel cell stack that dilivers higher performance with increased range and fuel effieciency, and is designed to operate at temperatures as low as -50 degrees celcius. Cold weather operation is one of the most significant technical barriers to the mass-market application of fuel cell technology. Using the Ultra-Capacitor originally designed by Honda the fuel cell now has a supplementary power source to the main power source - the fuel cell stack - for more powerful preformace under varios driving conditions.

The fuel tank is larger than the conventional fuel cell tank on a normal car, which gives this massive behemoth a powerful velocity of 40kph, for a range of three hundred kilometers. It has a ten gear transmission to avoid over taxing the transmission which gives it a longer life time on the battlefield, avoiding freqent breakdowns.

Of course, the supply vehicles, need to be specialized to refuel the tank. For every twenty tanks a five hundred thousand dollar truck needs to be built which converts solar energy, as well as hydrogen and natural gas, into fuel through a purifier and inverter.

However, this technology makes the tank engine noise null, and provides for quieter tanks. The only thing an infantryman would hear would be the tank treads, and even those can be made quieter. A new age for a tank has come!

The Main Gun and Turret
The gun in use a 155mm ETC gun with the internal "R" rings which is just thousands of springs nanometers in length that cut down on recoil and muzzle flash making the gun much more effective.

To make the turret turn quicker the turret and the chassis are divided in two by a central gyro circular sheet of composite metals, using McPhearson strut like bars, interwoven in springs (much like the shocks on your cars) and then smaller gyrating bars, to make the movement hydraulic, consequently, making it much faster.

[b]Production Cost: 14 Million
Export Cost: 18 Million

155mm Krigud Sel Propelled Artillery Gun
Industries:
CommunismRevisited-
The Macabees
Littlehandland

The Armor:
50mm of MEXAS armor, giving it an RHA value of ca. 1500mm. It also has a superior coating of 20mm of Chobham composite.


MEXAS density is ~1.7g/cc and reactive elements are reported in the construction with a strenght of 2.5 GPa, not many materials are that strong but Boron Carbide could fit the bill.
B4C has a mass of 2.55g/cc and ME vs shaped charges of ~ 4.0...leading to a space effectiveness of ~ 1.3.

Now a mixture of CaCO/GAP and B4C should have a density of 1.7-1.8 g/cc [2.55g/cc+1.0g/cc ÷2]. Some thing with the density of CaCO/Gap should have an effectiveness of ~ 0.7 [space effectiveness] so a average of B4C & CaCO/GAP should be ~ 1.0 spaced effectiveness...

The ME should be 7.83/1.7= 4.6.

But the CaCO/GAP is reactive and generates a considerable improvement in effectivenes because this reactive forces the steel plates apart...using the VM-11 paper as a guide the ME of steel foam is ~ 3.3 while the value for steel CaCO/GAP is ~ 10.0...meaning this reactivity tripled the effectiveness of the sandwich...

If this same reactivity is applied to the above B4C & CaCO/GAP sandwich we end up with ~ 14:1 Me.

Now in this paper there were reactive elements that were tested with thin explosive layers to enhance the bulging effect on the outer steel plates...these ranged from 4-6 times the base values and if these super reactive forces are applied to the MEXAS model thats 4.6 x 4-6 or ME of 18:1 -28:1.

The paper showed that MEXAS @ 15° offers as much protection as ERA @ 60-70°. If you take Blazer this is two 2-3mm steel plates and a couple of mm of explosives [density ~ 1.8g/cc?]...any way thats ~ 6mm steel mass @ 60-70° or 12-18mm steel...the ME of these ERAs are reported to be ~ 20:1 meaning this resistance is ~ 240-350mm. Thus MEXAS with a steel mass of ~ 7mm is as effective as >250mm RHAe or a ME of 36:1!!!!

Heres the crunch...studies of bulging plates show that plate speed is the key. Well if the above chemical reactive forces can 'bulge' a plate sufficently to tripple quadruple its effectiveness , image how effective they would be on a small ceramic [B4C ]nugget? Rosenberg and Dekel wrote several papers on the parameters of this bulging prossess...it was clear that if you increases the interlayer or reduced the thickness of the outer steel plate [mass], the plate bulging velocity shot up [going from 200-800m/s in some cases].

Could be that instead of tripple its 6-8 times the ME against shaped charges? That would be an ME of ~ 32-37 .


Gunnery and Fire and Control:
The new self propelled artillery gun has a quadruple 155mm gun battery in circular fashion, although the barrels do not rotate. The 155mms can fire anything from SCRAMjet artillery rounds to the SABOT Ausf. B rounds. With the SCRAMjet shells it can reach ranged of up to 150kms.

The KriGud uses the Mercy Mission fire and control, alternation flight patterns for the shells, so up to six shells, all fired within a minute with the advanced hydraulics system, hit six different areas at the same exact time. Consequently, it takes out six different targets without each one becoming aware of the strike (allowing counter-battery charges) before each one being pelted by shells. The Mercy Mission has also been upgraded so that a battery of KriGuds would be able to each fire six shells and put all of their shells, together, on the ground at the same time, allowing for even greater suprise bombardments of the type. On top of that, since the KriGud had four barrels on each vehicle a total of twenty-four (plus the rest of the KriGud battery) shells to rain upon the enemy at the same exact time.

To control the recoil a support vehicle, that also feed ammo through a slot in the rear, makes use of a strap, that fastens electronicall within ten seconds, around the KriGud, thereby straping it to the ground so that the KriGud doesn't flip over after each launch.

Engine:
The KriGud uses a 1,800hp diesel engine to conserve fuel, and still give it quite enough power to commit itself in battle. It's maximum velocity is thirty miles per hour.

Production Cost (Including Support Vehicle): 5 million USD
Export Cost (Including Support Vehicle): 7 million

155mm Chevalier/Gabriel SP artillery

Designers:
Macabees and ZIAA(Greater Duestchland)


Description:

The Chevalier 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 of Production: 10 mil per unit
Cost of Exporation: 13 mil per unit

Incinérateur 155mm Rapid Fire Artillery
With the advent of methods to stop rapid rocket artillery launches it became imperative that a machine capable of firing shells, not rockets, in massive quatities in seconds' timing be researched and produced. During his years before the takeover Catalan designed such a machine, and he first began to impliment them in the Second War of Spanish Succession.

The Incinérateur uses a ten barrel 155mm diameter (per barrel) artillery gun, using the "R" rings which are used on Macabee tanks. In any case, using state of the art hydraulics a fixed Incinérateur can load and fire 155mm round after round - anything from normal artillery shells to SABOT Ausf. B shells for anti-tank purposes. The barrels do not fire harmonically, and instead fire in sequence, rotating much like a machine gun, or anything else of this sort.

For cooling purposes the barrels use an LN2 coolant, mixed with a a specially produced coolant called SCP, which works to transfer heat and reduce friction. These coolants are specially injected, and this is done around every five hundred shells launched. The process itself is done mechanically, and takes about thirty seconds to complete.

The hydraulic systems load each shell when the barrel turrer rotates to the next one, and it takes half a second to load it, merely pushing it in, as the barrel it's loading is at ground level.

This forces the gun to be very fixed, and to move it it requires dismantling of certain parts, and this itself takes about ten minutes to dismantle, x minutes to move and five minutes to put together again. However, what is gained from it supercedes the cons. A single Incinérateur can fire all ten rounds in ten seconds, making a great number of these very deadly. It can fire all five hundred shells in fifty second. However, it does use ammunition up quickly so rate of fire can be decreased.

The hydraulics on the base allow the gun to be raised or lower according to target, and it can even be lowered parallel to the ground, allowing for anti-tank operations. It's fire and control is even better. Using a central computer the barrels use miniature hydraulics to move left or right according to target, and use the computer to lock on, launching an extremely accurate shell right at the victim. However, the traverse of these hydraulics is not one of a tank, one must remember.

Depending on the type of round in use it can fire to a maximum of two hundred kilometers distance, making it one of the world's most capable artillery guns.

Cost of Production:75,000 USD
Cost of Export:300,000 USD

"Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?"

No. With a 360. field of fire you would SHOOT YOURSELF. Dummie!

*shakes head**sighs*[Also, I didn't invent DREAD, it's being processed by the U.S. military.]

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Leviathan class SSN
The Leviathan class is by far the largest submarine ever designed in the Macabee inventory:

Length: 500 feet
Height: 100 feet
Bridge: 200 feet

Hull Shape:
In a strange marriage Macabee engineers incorporated the main cylindrical shape used by most modern submarines. The sanity of the design is obvious as it allows for water pressure to evenly distribute. However, in a twist, the front end tapers in a sharp edge just like the German u-boats of old. This is to make sure there is little surface area on the front end in order to easen cutting through deeper, thus denser, waters, while the cylindrical shape for the rest of the hull disperses water pressure, as said before. The hull has been called ugly, but how beautiful it is doesn't help in martial matters.

The hull is made of titanium and ceramic composite, but it has two layers of further protection on it. The first layer, that is the bottom most layer on top of the hull itself, is gaucho, which is a general material which absorbs sound. On top of that there's a layer of anachoeic tiles to follow the same procedures.

Propulsion:
The Leviathan makes use of two different propulsion systems, including ten Hydrogen fuel cell stacks, used in military operations. On a full tank the stacks could carry the Leviathan three hundred kilometers at eight knots, and the replenishing of the needed fuel (which is done through a combination of oxygen, hydrogen and other natural components - the tankers are built with one million dollar conversion centers) is quick and painless. The stacks are protected by internal armored belts, which although weak, they nonetheless reinforce the hull.

Weapons:
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.

There are twelve 500mm torpedo tubes capable of electrically firing MT-1s, MT-2,s MT-3s and MAT-1s. Moreover, there are four 250mm tubes prepared just for the new MT-4s which are basically supercavitating torpedoes turned into underwater SABOTs.


The 250mm tubes would be used for the new miniature MT-4s, which were the new Macabee torpedoes designed just for the Leviathan, also very secretly and without markings. The MT-4s were fired with a cheap metal casing with Super Cavitating abilities (although rarely used). The encasements would wither away and reveal an insulated tungesten rod. The MT-4s were for special purpose operations only - mostly close combat and melee. In essense the MT-4s were the wanderwaffe of the Second Empire, coupled with the Leviathan. (So, the MT-4 works just like a real life SABOT.)


The Leviathan has three quadruple VLS tubes:

The Leviathan was also designed with three quadruple VLS tubes, with the same fashion as those used in the Toledo class SSN. Each one had four slots, which after every launch the VLS tube gyrated and the now empty slot was restocked while another launching sequence took place. In this sense every ten seconds three missiles could be released, and twelve within forty seconds. They were designed for mass attack and that's how they would be used - most likely with Principe IIIs. They could also be stocked with Praetorian Vs.


Systems:

The Leviathan had a brand dnew spherical array SONAR, bigger than those on conventional submarines, but what gave it strength were the TB-76 and the TB-2016 towed array SONARs. The TB-76 used a thing line, rolled up into the ballast tank, over six thousand feet long,with hundreds of hydrophones covering the last five hundred feet, making it quite powerful in passive operations. The TB-2016 was the art. It was rolled from a bottom compartment, long enough to place the hydrophones right on the deep sound axis channel, making it prime for anti-submarine warfare. The Leviathan was designed as a killing machine.


The Leviathan also has an advanced spherical SONAR array, as well as a LIDAR array using blue-green lasers.

Here are the threads depicting its creation:

[Macabea City]
If any being thought the underwater submarine pens inside the city harbor as secret what conjured inside the rotten earth was tenfold as clandestine, a myriad of times more mysterious. Indeed, it would soon be told that no man who walked the hallways of that place, a place which only the few knew as Mortium, ever saw the light again. In that very place the hammers of the slaves of the Empire, slaves which had no indentity, no link with the foreign world, struck once, and once again, against the cold steel of the forges of Mortium, each time, and time again, sparks striking the earth walls and flying like bugs in the summer night sky. The only source of visibility were the sporadic candles arrayed against the walls, one after the other, and after again, providing stark contrast between the shadows and black. The walls vibrated as sound wave collided with sound wave and collided with boundaries. The clink of chains moving back and forth, making sure that the workers below failed to move away, only added to the cacophony of harmonious tones and notes. Yes, an oxymoron, but in this scene it seemed that the entire Macabee society was an oxymoron, a hypocracy, built by the hypocratic. In truth it was nothing of the like as the adminstration, save Emperor Jonach I himself, had little to do, or scant to know about the policies which worked below, as this was not a world of the above and not a world of realism, but a world of the past, a world of feudalism, a world of warfare, a world prepared to destroy even its creators. Fires danced around providing yet a second source of sunlight. But was it really a source? The flames were more of a consumer, consuming the dark liquids of the burnt metals and elements. So ironic that these elements, created for the survival of the earth , had been so misused, so mistreated, that they were bent, stricken, and distorted, to support war.

In the midst of this scene of utter chaos sat a grey being, unnamed, and certainly untamed. What it was was no secret, as nobody knew to keep it that way. It had been a project gone awry, only kept in progress because before it had been so important to hide that those who had worked on it could no longer be released and thusly those who were forced to a life of misery and secrecy kept up the work, and finally the administration, which had worked so hard to destroy ever little bit of evidence of this project, again paid heed to the callings of bellow. The grey hull ran at least six hundred feet long, although even that seemed like little compared to this massive length - perhaps even more? There was no way to be sure as it was not even finished, the bars of the titanium frame sticking out at the end, just like a picture of an upright skyscraper with steel rods jabbing at the heavens ready to make it bigger, larger, stronger than ever before. The cylindrical shape, the best adjetive for it, although it failed to fit even that ended at the beginning of the huge brigde, which even that failed to be finished yet. The tubes, for purpose kept silent, were larger than ever imagined, although it might have been a distortion of the mind, for on paper they were only 500mms in diameter. It failed to matter though, for the tubes had no real significance - that would come soon.

Emperor Jonach I had come as soon as he could to inspect the progress of his monster and he was pleased, the smile on his face said it all. He turned to the lead engineer, shabby without shaving for at least two months, beard outgrowing the creature behind him. Jonach I nodded, smiled and spoke,"The progress made is wonderful. I cannot await until it is finished, I count the days as times goes on, day and day after. The beast is almost completed. How much longer exactly?"

The engineer, a Dr. Heinrich Gerbuch, ex-proffesor of mathematics at the Macabee Imperial Museum of War, smiled too and soon responded with the energy he had had since he was a young man in the officer corp of the Hasselic Army - perhaps another reason he had been damned to these parts of hell,"Yes your majesty. There isn't much time to wait. Perhaps... say, a month longer and it shall be ready to do your bidding."

Emperor Jonach I, in his full military attire, nodded, saluted, and about faced walking towards the elevator, punching in the key and beginning his journey upwards, where he would be left at a receptory where he would be checked and scanned - none who were not allowed to could be let out. Full guards checked the halls, arrived with assault rifles and grenaded - none could be let out - if rebellion occured they would have to be massacred and new "recruits" would have to be transferred in. No matter, it was almost finished... the time would soon come...



The Leviathan was gargantuan at its finished state, five hundred feet in length, titanium frame covering the depths of that man made hell underneath the galant city on the surface, big white double-headed eagle painted at the front, which tapered like the old German u-boats. The hull itself was cylindrical, rising up to one hundred feet high at some palces, making it quite ugly, but effective. A rounder hull was meant to for water pressure to evenly distribute but the tapered end, in u-boat fashion, was designed to slice through the water as there was little surface area - it was a strange marriage of two engineering ideas. The bridge took to another two hundred feet, perhaps more, the Catalan dynasty emblem (an oak[?] tree - my real coat of arms) painted whi,te a contrast to the eagle below. It was simply huge, a frontier never before tested. The hull was covered by a layer of anachoic tiling, as well as a thing strip of gaucho which further absorbed the enemy active sound waves. It truly looked like quite a seam monster. Finally, on the hull, right under the white eagles, there was a HESS-401 Leviathan. There were sporadic ASHUM guns for anti-torpedo warfare, and there were a total of twelve 500mm torpedo tubes, and four 250mm tubes. At large intervals there were jetisons which would serve beautifully as ejectors of steel spikes which would be used to bring down enemy torpedoes - small LIDAR balls would work at extremely small ranges, less than five hundred meters to pin point these incoming torpedoes - they were designed mostly for SuCav torpedoes.

The most wonderful part were the ten (they're not that big) hydrogen fuel cell stacks, protected by internal armored belts, which albeit small and not likely able to stop even a two inch shell, it would be enough to reinforce the titanium frame. The hydrogen fuel cells had been used before on the Macabee tank, and now ten were placed inside a submarine. At a velocity of eight knows the Leviathan could go a range of three hundred kilometers. A second propulsion system, two Valhalla nuclear reactors, which could be switched off and the fuel stacks turned on. It was extremely expensive to place so many propulsion systems (the fuel stacs, though, small) but it was cheaprer than to have to refuel it all the time with converted natural gas (for the fuel cell stacks) all the time. In the end, though, it wouldn't go very fast, it was far too much of a behemoth.

The Leviathan had a brand dnew spherical array SONAR, bigger than those on conventional submarines, but what gave it strength were the TB-76 and the TB-2016 towed array SONARs. The TB-76 used a thing line, rolled up into the ballast tank, over six thousand feet long,with hundreds of hydrophones covering the last five hundred feet, making it quite powerful in passive operations. The TB-2016 was the art. It was rolled from a bottom compartment, long enough to place the hydrophones right on the deep sound axis channel, making it prime for anti-submarine warfare. The Leviathan was designed as a killing machine.

The Leviathan was also designed with three quadruple VLS tubes, with the same fashion as those used in the Toledo class SSN. Each one had four slots, which after every launch the VLS tube gyrated and the now empty slot was restocked while another launching sequence took place. In this sense every ten seconds three missiles could be released, and twelve within forty seconds. They were designed for mass attack and that's how they would be used - most likely with Principe IIIs. They could also be stocked with Praetorian Vs.

The 250mm tubes would be used for the new miniature MT-4s, which were the new Macabee torpedoes designed just for the Leviathan, also very secretly and without markings. The MT-4s were fired with a chea[ metal casing with Super Cavitating abilities (although rarely used). The encasements would wither away and reveal an insulated tungesten rod. The MT-4s were for special purpose operations only - mostly close combat and melee. In essense the MT-4s were the wanderwaffe of the Second Empire, coupled with the Leviathan. (So, the MT-4 works just like a real life SABOT.)

The fires stopped, the hammering halted, and inside the old fire put valves spun open and the pit flooded. Then, when it was finally full the pullies holding the Leviathan snapped and dropped the huge sea monster into what no resembled a wide river. From another elevator hugging the sides of the quarters walked out the crew to the new submarine, all one hundred and seventy officers and men. They were all ready to test drive the Leviathan and give hell to all of the Macabee's enemies. The HESS-401 Leviathan would be the only one of the Leviathan class SSNs for a long while - they were simply too expensive to mass produce in the numbers of the Toledo - but even a few would tear up an enemy - or so it was hoped...


[Originally for the Kahta War]

Price: 3 billion

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The Dominion of Muniere would like to buy fifty Kondors to expand on its fledging aircraft wing. That would come to a grand total of 1,250,000,000. The funds will be wired pending confirmation.

The Dominion of Muniere would like to buy fifty Kondors to expand on its fledging aircraft wing. That would come to a grand total of 1,250,000,000. The funds will be wired pending confirmation.

Confirmed - just assume it at your borders already, nobody really cares.

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OOC: I swear to god, if you copy one more thing of ours...

OOC: I swear to god, if you copy one more thing of ours...
OOC: Talking about the Leviathan? That has nothing to do with your submarine - just the name..and the Leviathan was originally a SSN by Tahar Joblis.

OOC: I swear to god, if you copy one more thing of ours...

OOC: Isn't imitation the highest form of flattery? :p

ooc: Im talking about the ASHUM that you literally ripped off the Orca's.
And no, I find it quite insulting. Im sure you wouldn't be flattered if I ripped off your TSF-28 fighter and sold it around the world.

ooc: Im talking about the ASHUM that you literally ripped off the Orca's.
And no, I find it quite insulting. Im sure you wouldn't be flattered if I ripped off your TSF-28 fighter and sold it around the world.

OOC: Most NS countries use the ASHUM, and I don't use them really - I had my own design, but since I thought the ASHUM was open tech I just used those - but if their your own tech then I'll replace them with my own guns which I designed a while back.

OOC: The underwater sabot concept has been tried mac... You wont get enough velocity for any actual armor penentration. As an anti-torpedo weapon, maybe. But the fact is, a Sabot travels at Mach 4... You wont get any armor penentration enough to kill a tank, let alone a sub.

OOC: The underwater sabot concept has been tried mac... You wont get enough velocity for any actual armor penentration. As an anti-torpedo weapon, maybe. But the fact is, a Sabot travels at Mach 4... You wont get any armor penentration enough to kill a tank, let alone a sub.

OOC: Depends on how you fire it and what you fire it out of. If you fire it out of a SuperCavitating torpedo and give the tungsten rod enough insulation you can get it to around Mach 5 or Mach 6. Nonetheless, a tungsten SABOT compared to a steel SABOT would be a myriad of times stronger and would be less likely to shatter on impact.

It also depends if you fire it electrically or conventionally or magnetically - of course the torpedoes are being fired out electrically.

ooc: Im talking about the ASHUM that you literally ripped off the Orca's.
And no, I find it quite insulting. Im sure you wouldn't be flattered if I ripped off your TSF-28 fighter and sold it around the world.

OOC: Point taken.

Other than that... I thought the AHSUM was tech that anyone could use, since the RL U.S. Navy is looking into it as an underwater CIWS application.

ooc: Of course its open to everyone... until you "literally rip it" from our submarines... that is the HNI Version of the ASHUM.

And Mac, there is a very slim possibility of attaining a mach 5 projectile under the water.. we've already had this chat with CSJ and others.

[OOC: Slim but possible - and expensive - but then again I don't plan to use the MT-4s left and right, and indeed are designed for extremely closed combat. And I don't use the HNI version of ASHUM, dunno where you got that idea from.]

For anti-torpedo defenses the Toledo uses an underwater CIWS system based off those captured from salvaged Orcas, created by New Empire.

aha?

OOC: Depends on how you fire it and what you fire it out of. If you fire it out of a SuperCavitating torpedo and give the tungsten rod enough insulation you can get it to around Mach 5 or Mach 6. Nonetheless, a tungsten SABOT compared to a steel SABOT would be a myriad of times stronger and would be less likely to shatter on impact.

It also depends if you fire it electrically or conventionally or magnetically - of course the torpedoes are being fired out electrically.
OOC: One step ahead of you Mac... Not happening with 2015 tech. From the OMP Boards and Almighty Prophet of Tech CSJ (I had earlier considered such a weapon)

Simply put, the speed of sound in water (EDIT: Mach 5-6 over water), combined with the difficulty of moving at high speeds through it, make it extremely difficult, if not impossible to design a weapon capable of pulling it off. Add to that the fact that the range will be extremely limited, and the projectile will slow down very quickly, and it's just not worth the effort to try.
And, as mentioned, it's not going to do much against most warships, since this would be a pure penetrator making a small hole. Unless you penetrate the hull of a submarine at a good depth, that won't hurt too much.

Omz222:

Finally, one other thing, which is pretty simple as a question but pretty complicated as a concern, would be how you would actually propel something above the speed of sound underwater. In cold sea waters, Mach 1 typically = about 5511km/h, and in distilled waters the speed is only a tad bit lower. Even a solid propellant rocket-powered supercavitation torpedo like the Shkval only at speeds around 400 km/h, and I seriously doubt that the "water ramjet" thing that is pretty popular now could multiply the speed by a factor of even 8 or 10. Even in RL (and perhaps would also apply in NS), only some missiles would ever travel at a speed of above 4000 kph - 5000 kph, and that's in air (obviously in its gaseous state), and mostly at high altitudes (to break an often-popular myth, most supersonic anti-ship missiles - or for the matter, supersonic and hypersonic cruise missiles, cannot travel too far when it's seaskimming). You are going to have a lot more problems underwater.

PS - Another problem would be the actual killing power of the weapon. If you are ever going to have it travel even a few times more than the Shkval, you need to sacrifice a lot of space for the actual explosives. Although the kinetic energy is powerful enough to do a lot of damage, the problem is still that such weapon would be ineffective against larger subs and many of the large, armoured surface vessels we see in NS today.

And back to me:

Mac, your railgun idea... The average sabot-chucker railgun on a ship usually gets speeds of up to Mach 6 with a DU or Tungsten Sabot (Yes, DU or tungsten is used by US Naval vessels and armor, not steel). And that thing requires ridiculous amounts of power per shot.

Unfortunately, your sabot will be even larger. You have to maintain the course of the projectile, so you'll need a cavitator. And then a stabilizing system to keep it from spinning out of control. That and the fact there's no way you're going to fit enough rail to get Mach 6 in bubble acceleration in a 250mm torpedo.

We've tried the 'big underwater gun concept' too. The Poseidon SSRN had a spinal anti-SD gun, and according to the evaluations, required most of the length of the sub just to get a projectile capable of sustaining bubble for more than a mile.

The fact is at this point the tech base for the underwater sabot, even at 2015 with tons of cash and research, isn't going to be producing anything functional outside the lab.