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RCJT-068 "Legionnaire I" MBT

Origin
The Legionnaire Main Battle Tank is the first in what is expected to be a long line of Main Battle Tanks. The Legionnaire was promoted by Field Marshall Roy Mustang due that he liked the design that was presented in the Legionnaire. After hundreds of try and fail designs and prototypes, finally a workable tank was designed and made to run. Now it is only a matter time to see if the tank is truly as great as the Field Marshall believes it to be.

Armaments
The primary armament of the Legionnaire I Main Battle Tank is a 130mm smoothbore gun. It also has a 12.7mm co-axial machine gun, a 7.62mm anti-aircraft machine gun used for low flying aircraft, primarily helicopters. Also on the Legionnaire I's armamaents are two seven barrel smoke gernade launchers mounted on each side of the turrent. This is to provide cover for the tank in tight situtations.

Armor
The armor system used in the Legionnaire is a multi-layer. Having the following:

1st Layer: Second Generation, Chobham Armor. This armor was chosen as the primary defense of the Legionnaire I.

2nd Layer: All-Welded rolled steel, primarily as a space between the Chobham Armor and Composite. Does still help in stopping projectiles.

3rd Layer: Composite Armor

4th Layer: All welded aluminium

5th Layer: 1st Generation, Chobham Armor

6th Layer: Kevlar, not really a layer for stopping HEAT or any other proejctile primarily used to stop shrapnel from cutting the crew the peices

Deminsions
Length (including main armament) 33ft. 2in., Length (Hull) 26ft, Width 12ft. 3in., Height 9ft. 11in.

Weight
Combat 74.3 tons or 148 600 pounds

Engine
Hybrid hydro-disiel engine, 2,300hp. Road Speed, 49mph, range 320 miles, Off road speed on average is 41mph.


(OOC: My first military design ever. I doubt its very good, but I do hope it is. Please constructive critism. Thanks.)

OOC:
A 130mm gun?
Isnt that kind of...unusual? Most nations use 120 or2, simply because its nice to have the standard ammo and its proven in modern tanks to work...
Ah well, your tank :)

OOC: Pretty sure Chobham is a multilayered armor, thats how it protects so well.

OOC:
A 130mm gun?
Isnt that kind of...unusual? Most nations use 120 or2, simply because its nice to have the standard ammo and its proven in modern tanks to work...
Ah well, your tank

:) Very true. I just thought I'd try something different.

ERA bricks go on the outside of your tank, not in the middle of the armor layers, it's kinda dumb to put explosive charges aimed at stopping HEAT warheads on the inside of your tank.

OOC: ERA should form the outermost armour layer, else very nasty things happen. Very nasty. You should also use some sort of ballistic polymer fabric (such as Kevlar) as the spall lining rather than rubber. Interesting design, though.

Edit: Beaten to it by my damn slow typing speed, grr.

ERA bricks go on the outside of your tank, not in the middle of the armor layers, it's kinda dumb to put explosive charges aimed at stopping HEAT warheads on the inside of your tank.

Erm...lol. Alright, let me change that.

There all fixed...sorta. Changed the Rubber to Kevlar and the ERA to 1st Generation Chobham, not sure if thats overdoing it but its all I could think of off the top of my head to replace it.

OOC: So you have all that armor a huge cannon and yet you still weigh less than a M1 Abrams (69.5 tons = 139 000 pounds).

OOC: So you have all that armor a huge cannon and yet you still weigh less than a M1 Abrams (69.5 tons = 139 000 pounds).

Alright. What should it be. -_- Sorry again, I'm not wiz with military mechanics, I primarily research military tactics. Sorry for the ignorance.

OOC: Tis ok, my first tank design was just modifiying an abrams into a heavier MBT (155mm main cannon, excessive I know). Cranking the weight to 74.3 tons or 148 600 pounds.

Alright thanks.