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[I might as well try again. However, I politely as you all to NOT post OOC crap here and instead please TG me. I will make the necessary changes. And I can care less if you don't agree that my technology actually serves any purpose - I think it does. Thank you all for cooperating with me in advance.]

Aerial
MMA-A3 Falcon Air Superiority Fighter
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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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.
Cost: 110,000,000 USD

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[size=4]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: 10 Million
Export Cost: 25 Million

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MTAAM-3 Silencer Air to Air Missile

Type: MADAAM (Most ADvanced Air to Air Missile)
Propulsion: The Silencer uses a SCRAMjet engine, which instead of using an independent chamber for oxygen it uses oxygen from the atmosphere in order to light the fuel chamber, saving the space which could be used instead to add more fuel, giving the missiles a much longer range. In order to further this range the engine is made of a Ni based superalloy with high Cr content and using the d-electron concept. The d-electron concept was developed on the basis of the molecular orbital calculations of the electronic structures of Ni alloys. The two electronic parameters that are important for this concept are the bond order between an alloying element and nickel atons, Bo, and the other is the d-orbital energy level of alloing elements. This specific composition has high hot-corrossion resistance, tested by the immersion test, where it was tested through weight loss. There is a second coating oa Rene N6 single crystal based superalloy called CMSX-11B and CMSX-116, containing Chromium levels of 12.5% to 14.5% respectively. The Rene N6 also increases hydrogen resistance (HEE).
Sources:
"Rene N6: Third Generation Single Crystal Superalloy", W.S. Walton, K.S. O'Hara, E.E. Ross, T.M. Pollock, and W.H. Murphy. Superalloys 1996
"The Development of the CSMX-11B and CMSX-11C Alloyus for Industrial Gas Turbine Application", G.L. Erickson. Superalloys 1996
"Hot Corrosion Resistant and High Strength Nickel-Based Single Crystal and Directionally-Solidified Superalloys Developed by the d-Electrons Concept", C. Sarioglu, C. Stinner, J.R. Blachere, N. Birks, F.S. Pettit, G.H. Meter, and J.L. Smia
lek. Superalloys 1996

Range: The maximum range is 275 kilometers
Maximum Velocity: Mach 4.7 (decreasing range)
Optimum Velocity: 3.7 for maximum range

Guidance System: The Silencer uses a computer which means it's guided bu the MRT-2 RADAR system on the Hawk and Falcon, and can be programmed to be compatible with any RADAR, including ground RADAR. The missile also has a miniature RADAR with a twenty kilometer range for its terminal phase. The Predator is also programmed for use of surface SODAR and CELLDAR systems if available.

The missile also has a heterodyne-reception optical RADAR using a standard configuration [transmitter laser > exit optics > atmospheric propagation path > target] and [photodetector > photocurrent processing > image processing / BermCombiner/ local oscillato entrance optics]. The Silencer's transmitter is a Casegrainian telescope/ Picture coming soon...
Sources:
"Requirements of a coherent laser pulse-Doppler radar", G. Biernson, R.F. Lucy.
"Analysis and optimization of laser techniques", Graham W. Flint
"Motion sensing by optical heterodyne Doppler detection from diffuse surfaces", R.D. Kroeger
"Optical antenna gain. 1: Transmitting antennas", Bernard J. Klein and Jon J. Degnan
"Optical antenna gain. 2: Recceiving antennas", Bernard J. Klein and Jon J. Degnan
"Imaging and target detection with a heterodyne-reception optical radar", J.H. Shapiro, B.A. Capron, R.C. Harney

Explosion Style: Spread explosion or direct impact. Area of effectiveness is ten kilometers.
Length: 2.1 meters
Diamter: 15 centimeters
Missile Warhead: 20 kilograms Octagen

NO PRODUCTION RIGHTS! It also has one of those handy dandy self-destruction devices every one uses, you know..if you try to copy them.

Costumers with over one million combined purchases have 20% off from new purchases. They are listed below:

Price: 1.1 million USD

Picture coming soon...in drawing phase

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MLAM-2 Air to Surface Missile

Propulsion: The MLAM-2 uses a conventional Octagen solid rocket fuel booster to propel itself along the surface of the sea, or extremely low in a land terrain scenario. In order to further the range the engine is made of a Ni based superalloy with high Cr content and using the d-electron concept. The d-electron concept was developed on the basis of the molecular orbital calculations of the electronic structures of Ni alloys. The two electronic parameters that are important for this concept are the bond order between an alloying element and nickel atons, Bo, and the other is the d-orbital energy level of alloing elements. This specific composition has high hot-corrossion resistance, tested by the immersion test, where it was tested through weight loss. There is a second coating oa Rene N6 single crystal based superalloy called CMSX-11B and CMSX-116, containing Chromium levels of 12.5% to 14.5% respectively. The Rene N6 also increases hydrogen resistance (HEE).

Range: The maximum range is 200 kilometers
Maximum Velocity: Mach 2.5
Optimum Velocity: 2.1 for maximum range

Guidance System: The Silencer uses a computer which means it's guided by the MRT-2 RADAR system on the Hawk and Falcon, and can be programmed to be compatible with any RADAR, including ground RADAR. The missile also has a miniature RADAR with a twenty kilometer range for its terminal phase. The Predator is also programmed for use of surface SODAR and CELLDAR systems if available.

The missile also has a heterodyne-reception optical RADAR using a standard configuration [transmitter laser > exit optics > atmospheric propagation path > target] and [photodetector > photocurrent processing > image processing / BermCombiner/ local oscillato entrance optics]. The Silencer's transmitter is a Casegrainian telescope

Explosion Style: Direct impact and high explosive.
Length: 3.9 meters
Diamter: 19 centimeters
Missile Warhead: 200 kilograms OctaNitroCubane

Price:1.3 million USD

Ground Ordnance

Panzerkampfwaggen XI BredtSverd

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Armor:
Due to the overriding cost of the Muwatallis' 'buckyball composite' armor, and because this cost is what caused the shortages of armor in the Macabee armed forces it was decided that a much cheaper, yet still completely modern, armor was needed, and although it would still be expensive relative to other tanks it would be considerably cheaper than the billion dollar buckyballs. Consequently, the armor would be a heavy conglameration of Russian/Soviet technology, Israeli technology, and American technology. The overriding armored layer is one of Kontackt-5 ERA, which is said to give an RHA value of 600mms against HEAT and 250mm against APFSDS with an armored mass of three tons. So, there's actually two layers of Kontackt-5 ERA bricks merged as one, giving the armor a weight of a total of about ten tons. The second layer is composed of eighteen millimeters of Modular Expandable Armor System (MEXAS),which equates to around three thousand millimeters of RHA armored value. The final layer is made of a Chobham Composite armor, who's exact materials remain secret, although it's rumored by a few of the engineers that it has mixed layers/fibers of plastic, ceramics, titanium boride, depleted uranium, et cetera. Finally, on top of the Kontackt-5 ERA armor the Pz. XI also uses the newly designed 'electric amor'. The new electric armour is made up of a highly-charged capacitor that is connected to two separate metal plates on the tank's exterior. The outer plate, which is bullet-proof and made from an unspecified alloy, is earthed while the insulated inner plate is live. The electric armour runs off the tank's own power supply. When the tank commander feels he is in a dangerous area, he simply switches on the current to the inner plate. When the warhead fires its jet of molten copper, it penetrates both the outer plate and the insulation of the inner plate. This makes a connection and thousands of amps of electricity vaporises most of the molten copper. The rest of the copper is dispersed harmlessly against the vehicle's hull. But despite the high charge, the electrical load on the battery is no more than that caused by starting the engine on a cold morning.

Fire and Control System:
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The new fire and control system present on the Pz. XI, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. It includes Multi-Role Sensor Suite, Multi-Sensor Integration, Integrated Sensor/TA Suite, Virtual Immersive, Environment (AVTB)\, Neuroholographic ATD/R, Immersive Visualization. Moreover, the new system has both a low altitude RADAR and LIDAR system which has capabilities of tracking and giving firing solutions for up to twenty different targets at up to four thousand meters for the LIDAR and up to eleven thousand meters for the RADAR (although, of course, a gun doesn't necessarily have the power nor the type of shell to reach that far, and of course, that doesn't mean that the area between you and the enemy tank if full of large rocks that can disrupt your shell and its vector). The LIDAR uses a gaussian transmitter, which is right now the most advanced LIDAR transmitter developed by the United States. Of course, this fire and control system also uses thermal imaging, and of course, infra-red imaging.

Main Gun:
The Panzer XI uses a 120mm ETC cannon. Although there were proponents of following suit with other nations and putting up to 200mm ETC cannons it was finally decided that such a decision would be unintelligent as it would mean, most importantly, that the turret would rotate slower and rate of fire would be much slower (concerning turning the turret, actually firing, and loading the shells). 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. As do other Macabee tanks there are also small "R rings" inside the barrel which are springs measuring nanometers in size which reduce the kickback post-firing as well as muzzle flash.

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Other Systems:
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.

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

The Panzer XI also has a small CIWS system resembling a smaller Phalanx, however, using a seperate gaussian transmitter with a range of about two hundred meters to track incoming anti-tank guided and unguided missiles. The CIWS, or ACIWS, is automated and has a three hundred and sixty rotational view.

Engine:
The Panzer XI uses a 1,800 horsepower diesel engine which gives the Panzer XI a maximum on road velocity of forty kilometers per hour, which is really all that is needed for a tank the size of a Panzer XI.

Crew: 4 (Commander, Gunner, Loader, Auxilary Machine Gunner/Driver)
Weight: 80.4 Tons

Cost:8 Million USD
Production Rights: Not available


[Differences from the last tank are the 'buckyball composite' armor, the hydrogen fuel cell tank engine, I took off the anti-mine laser system because I can just use the old fashion scorpion which costs infinitely less mulah, and I took off the DREAD and just decided to go with a Phalanx type system.]

Pic of the Track:
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SOV-06 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (Special Operations Vehicle)

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A Joint Fluffywuffy/Macabee Project

Armor:
The SOV-06 uses a mass of MEXAS as it’s principle armored system and each SOV-06 has a layer of a full eighteen millimeters of MEXAS armor, giving it an RHA value from 8mms to an extraordinary 2,500mms (for CEs, KE is considerably less), depending on the angle it’s installed at. The MEXAS is covered with a secondary layer of a stitched glass reinforced composite. The matrix resins used are orthophtalic polyester, isophthalic polyester, vinyl ester and epoxy, which are currently used on some Norwegian patrol craft. The hulls are laminated inside and outside with fibre reinforced plastic composed of glass fibre and carbon laminates bound with vinyl ester and polyester resin. A scrimp manufacturing process is used in construction, involving vacuum assisted resin injection. Carbon fibre and carbon loaded materials have been selected for the beams, mast and supporting structures, which need high tensile strength, for example the support structures for the gun and the electro-optical and radar weapon director.
The IFVs glass reinforced secondary layer is not made up of a single brick, or in that case small bricks. Instead, special production plants, built of course for the SOV-06 and the SOV-06 alone, will manufacture this armor, now dubbed ‘GRA’, in sheets which can be applied to the IFV. Meaning, that if the GRA is one part of the IFV is damaged then the IFV wouldn’t have to go through an extensive operation to fix the damage. Instead, a team of mechanics could simply take off the sheet and re-apply a new sheet while the old sheet is ‘recycled’ back home.

Although the layer of glass reinforced armor is not particularly strong against incoming shells or guided missiles it is rather stealthy. This is further enhanced by the application of Wave-X RADAR absorbent material which is like a ‘mother of all’ RAM. It applies honeycomb RAM along with non-broad band RAM which means that the consequent RAM has a very large band and can absorb most types of RADAR without tuning it to a specific type. In total the Wave-X has a frequency range of 100MHz to 6GHz, and the RAM would have a relative thickness of about .05mms. The surface resistivity would be 1MΩ. Moreover, hatches and doors are covered with RAM combs so that they aren’t picked up if said door or hatchet opens.

Weapon Systems:
The SOV-06 uses a 15mm Gatling machine gun which fires 15mm uranium depleted shells as an anti-tank gun and a general urban combat gun, meaning to break down walls or other light vehicles. The SOV-06 also has a secondary 10mm light machine gun for anti-personnel purposes.

A side arm of sorts the SOV-06 also incorporates a beautiful six slot rocket system for ATGMs. The ATGM used would be a new meter long ATGM with a small Octagen warhead but incredible stopping power, including a ‘digging warhead’. Moreover, the velocity at which said ATGM would fly would exceed Mach 4.4, providing it with vast KE energy.

Fire and Control System:
The new fire and control system present on the SOV-06, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. It includes Multi-Role Sensor Suite, Multi-Sensor Integration, Integrated Sensor/TA Suite, Virtual Immersive, Environment (AVTB)\, Neuroholographic ATD/R, Immersive Visualization. Moreover, the new system has both a low altitude RADAR and LIDAR system which has capabilities of tracking and giving firing solutions for up to twenty different targets at up to four thousand meters for the LIDAR and up to eleven thousand meters for the RADAR (although, of course, a gun doesn't necessarily have the power nor the type of shell to reach that far, and of course, that doesn't mean that the area between you and the enemy tank if full of large rocks that can disrupt your shell and its vector). The LIDAR uses a gaussian transmitter, which is right now the most advanced LIDAR transmitter developed by the United States. Of course, this fire and control system also uses thermal imaging, and of course, infra-red imaging.

Engine:
The SOV-06 uses a 700 horsepower diesel engine and on road this gives it a maximum velocity of up to one hundred kilometers per hour, although it will be a rare day that you see the SOV-06 cruising at that speed.

Crew:
The SOV-06 has a crew of three, including a navigator and a driver. However, the IFV has capabilities to transport up to eight personnel, and has space for three wounded soldiers fully stretched out. It also has a proper medical services kit.

Weight: ca. 15 tons

Cost: 4.5 million

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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

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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

Naval Packages

Toledo class Nuclear Attack Submarine (SSN)
Norwegian Interactive
Keff

The Toledo SSN has a wholly titanium frame, ensuring a radical crush depth of three kilometers, and making it extremely strong – it could most likely take two or three Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes. The titanium frame is covered by anechoic tiles, which is basically a rubbery substance which absorbes outside noise, such as (specifically) active sonar sound waves (pings) – although a destroyer, or sonobouy, could cath it within six hundred to ten thousand meters, depending on the strength of the sonar system. Anachoic tiling can also be known as “gaucho.”

As a sonar system the Toledo uses a variant of the Poseidon SONAR, named after the Greek God of the Sea. The Poseidon has a very well built passive side, which uses hundred of hydrophones, nanometers in size, which listen acutely for sounds. Crew are especially tuned into the noise of doors opening (outer torpedo doors). The active sonar is also marble, but rarely used. The Poseidon for the submarines was mainly designed to detect surface shipping, which was extremely noisy, and allowed the SSNs to make precision raids on enemy shipping. The Toledo, for other passive uses, also has a TB-23 thin line towed array which reels out of the main ballast tank, as well as a shorter TB-16 towed array. The Toledo makes use of a dual LIDAR system – normal LIDAR, and Doppler LIDAR. The normal LIDAR detects vector and rage of a target by using a laser, coming from a four and a half million watt system (6,000 horsepower), giving it an immense range. The Doppler LIDAR uses the same type of laser to detect velocity of the target. Consequently, LIDAR not only finds vector and range, but velocity, allowing faster updating for the submarine’s supercomputers on the moving target.

The beauty has eight forward 500mm torpedo tubes, capable of firing MT-1s, MT-2s, as well as the newer MT-3s. For anti-torpedo uses the tubes can fire MAT-1s. The Toledo also carriers Principe IIIs, a missile launched torpedo, designed for surface shipping. These are fired from a single quadruple storage vertical launch system, which fire, then rotate, then fire. To fire all four slots it takes about thirty seconds. The vertical launch tubes are re-loaded through a hydrolic load process, doing it quickly and efficiently.

For anti-torpedo defenses the Toledo uses an underwater CIWS system based off those captured from salvaged Orcas, created by New Empire. However, they are slightly upgraded. Tight oxygen packages which need to be replaced by experts, doing it mechanically, allow a MetalStorm gun to lock on torpedoes by using onboard LIDAR and SONAR systems. Consequently, torpedoes are blown out of the water. This makes the Toledo a tough nut to crack.

For propulsion the Toledo uses a nuclear reactor with a single screw in the rear. However, it also makes use of MHD propulsion, mostly when in battle, to get rid of cavitation, and thus make the submarine much more quiet. Ways are still being figured out of how to get rid of the black hole created by MHD on enemy sonar, and we are currently investing in the captured Orcas to unlock this secret.

Cost: 800 million

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The Principe III

The Principe III is a missile launched torpedo which is fired out of a VLT system, meaning it can be used on a submarine, or on a surface ship. The Principe III was the answer to the MSCIWS problem which was rendering Macabee surface strike anti-shipping missiles worthless, and it provided the Macabee military with a powerful weapon of destruction.

The Principe III uses a conventional engine, with a conventional jet turbine, propelling it at a measly Mach 2.1. However, this lower velocity also allows it to maneuver in the face of enemy surface to air missiles, which may be sent to counter the Principe III at longer ranges, allowing the Principe III to most likely surface massive barrages of long range anti-missile SAMs. In addition, the turbine is coated by the THYMONEL 8 superalloy which is used a lot in Macabee missiles to protected against hydrogen embrittlement (HEE), as well as over heating, giving the Principe III an extremely long range (five hundred kilometers; meaning five hundred seventy total, taking in mind that it drops the torpedo at around 70 kilometers from the enemy fleet). THYMONEL 8 was a NiFe superalloy mixed by the United States military for its jet turbines (NiFe is Nickel Based Iron Formula superalloy).

The Principe III jet turbine propells the missile capsule, which is much like a bouyancy capsule, however, instead is slimmer, and built to deal with air friction, and the augmented velocities. At around seventy kilometers distance the Principe III missile capsule, using RADAR and LIDAR to compute distance, as well as sattelite coordination if their are sattelites present, and the missile capsule breaks releasing an MT-2 torpedo into the water. However, this requires the Principe III to slow down to around 120 kilometers per hour. To decrease speed without allowing the enemy a greater time period to shoot it down, the Principe III has a very advanced jamming system, which jams enemy RADAR, giving it ample time to close the distance, break, and drop the MT-2.

The MT-2 is a SuperCavitating torpedo, which runs at a normal 70 knots for fifty of the seventy kilometers, and then makes turns for 200 knots at 20 kilometers distance. To handle the increasing ten kilometers in range the screw and propellant of the MT-2 is made of a NiAl based superalloy (Nickel based Alumina Formula superalloy).

The Principe III offers the next generation of anti-shipping missiles.

Production Cost: 100,000
Export Cost: 300,000

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MT-3 Torpedo

The MT-3 torpedo uses a rocket engine with a NiAl, alumina formula nickel based superalloy, coating to project itself at fifty knots. The engine uses an MHD type propulsion, however using the NiAl construction to ease the rocket projection. It is a sort of underwater ramjet, first developed by the Russians, and then improved by New Empire, and finally in the hands of the The Macabees. The MT-3 is, consequently, extremely silent. The MT-3 also uses a cavitation absorber on the frame and on the screw; this was first developed by the U.S. Navy for destroyers, and shrunk by the Macabees to fit on a torpedo.

It has a 300kg Octagen warhead, with a hull piercing tip, to burn through the titanium double hulls. However, against a titanium frame it would still, most probably, still require two torpedoes to penetrate. The width of the warhead remains 500mm to be able to use it on the existing tubes on the Toledo class SSN and Spanish ASROC weapons on surface ships.

The MT-3 has a rounder form in order to force water pressure to spread equally along the torpedo, meaning that the torpedo could be fired at deeper depths.

The MT-3 is the only “normal” torpedo in Macabee use up to now. It could be classified as MADCAP, according to New Empire’s classification system. The MT-1 and MT-2 are Super Cavitational torpedoes.

Cost: 200,000 USD

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Model Class Aircraft Carrier
Norwegian Interactive (tm)
Keff (tm)


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

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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 on top 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

Hello, I'll make this quick. I'd just like to know how long this might take and and estimate of pricing, if you would be so kind.

-Thirty two SOV-06's, and possibly some kind of program or training for a group of my soldiers.

-Twelve Kondors prepped with pilots and ready to send onto patrol routes.

Thank you for your time and most excellent catalogue. I hope to hear back.

To: Lesser Scythia
The thirty-two SOV-06 would cost a total of one hundred and forty-four million, and the twelve MMA-A1 Kondors would cost three hundred million, marking a total of seven hundred and forty-four million United States Dollars. As for training we can offer you training pamphlets for free as part of the purchase, or offer you ten experts, five for the SOV-06 and five for the Kondor, to train a select group of your military which can later train the rest of your military. This would only cost the housing, the food and any other necessities of life for each trainer.

The Khiraebanaa Government would like to purchase 2 Model Class Aircraft Carriers, one with a full complement of MMA-A3 Falcons, and the other with a full complement of MMA-A1 Konors; and 5 Rommel Class Battleships. We will pay for these ships in installments as they arrive. A grand total of 24.5 billion dollars.

Thank you for your buissness.

To: Khiraebanaa
Your order has been confirmed and your payment method is agreeable. The Rommel class Battleships will arrive first, within the year, while the Model class Carriers, with the full compliment of aircraft you requested, will come within a year and a half. [OOC: Of course, you can just say you have them now, with all this fluid time stuff people are throwing around.] We appreciate your business with the Empire and wish to inform you that if you have any problems with the quality of our ships please get to us as soon as possible and we will sort things out, although we doubt that any such problems will arise. Furthermore, should you need particular information on any of our weapons which you have bought please do not hesitate to contact us and will give you the necessary information.

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

Now that this new Cruiser has been release, we would like to purchase 10. a total of 7.5 billion dollars.

Thank you for you excellent selection.

If you release any other naval units, we will be purchasing some.

Databurst to Khiraebanaa
Your order for ten Seydlitz class Cruisers has been confirmed by our administration and you will see these cruisers at your most direct harbor within the year. We thank you for your very generous purchases and again stress that any problems with quality should be directly held to us and we will solve any problems as quickly as possible and with much efficacy.

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...Subject Purchase Order. 4,000 MMA-A3 Falcon Air Superiority Fighters @ 78 Billion>Required Urgently>Ministry of Defense, Federal Socialist Republic of Hrstrovokia<Confirm?>What are costs of Production Rights? End.

...Subject Purchase Order. 4,000 MMA-A3 Falcon Air Superiority Fighters @ 78 Billion>Required Urgently>Ministry of Defense, Federal Socialist Republic of Hrstrovokia<Confirm?>What are costs of Production Rights? End.

Databurst to Hrstrovokia
Your purchase of four thousand Falcons has been processed immediately due to their allegiance within the IADF. The first thousand can be sent immediately, while the others will take within two weeks to a complete month, maximum a month and a half. However, they will be sent. As for production rights, since you're IADF, these will be sold to you.

[OOC: For production rights I'm bad with prices so assume that they were sold for X amount of dollars.]

Confirmed Comrade!

.Subject Purchase Order. 400 Panzerkampfwaggen XI BredtSverd MBTs @ 320000000 >Required Urgently>Ministry of Defense, Federal Socialist Republic of Hrstrovokia<Confirm?>What are costs of Production Rights? End.

[OOC: This is the making of a beautiful friendship..]

[OOC: Production rights go through the same process as the production rights for the Falcons. Just assume that you sent me the right amount of money, because I don't have a set price.]

Databurst to Hrstrovokia
Confirmed comrade. Those tanks can be shipping immediately to your nearest port, and thusly, will be at said port within a week or a week and a half, depending on the length of the voyage.

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Arribastan is intrigued by your Model Class Aircraft carrier. Is there a way we could aquire production rights? They would be very... useful.
~J. D. Alcanzar, Emperor

Arribastan is intrigued by your Model Class Aircraft carrier. Is there a way we could aquire production rights? They would be very... useful.
~J. D. Alcanzar, Emperor

Databurst to Arribastan
Although we do not sell production rights under normal circumstances our exports concerning martial material has been, to say the least, trailing. Consequently, we are open to selling production rights to the Model class Aircraft Carrier. We do not have much experience with selling production rights however of what we've seen most countries ask for at least one hundred times the price of a single product, and consequently, this will be our first offer - one hundred and fifty billion. We offer two types of payment methods should you be interested in peculiar price, and those are:

A. Immediate.
B. In three years without interest. Should it take longer than that the price of what you owe would increase by 5%.

We hope to hear from you soon.

The three-year agreement will be fine for our nation's finances. It is good to do business with you, Macabees.
~J.D. Alcanzar, Emperor
OOC: The fee for production rights is usually based on how many you could expect to sell to an average nation. For instance, you might sell production rights for a popular children's toy for a million times the price, while an enormous missle defense system might only be five times. 50-100 sounds reasonable for a carrier, maybe a little steep.

Zossen places an order for 500 Panzer XI's.

Zossen places an order for 500 Panzer XI's.

Databurst to Zossen
Said order has been confirmed by the government. Expect the five hundred BredstSverdt within the week.