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All weapons are either currently existing or possible with strictly modern tech.

Contents
Bargain Basement's policy on...
Discounts
History
Infantry Systems
Ground Supremacy
Aerial Systems
Naval Systems
Order Form


Bargain Basement's policy on...

[Production Rights]
None for weapons currently listed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Foreign Weapons Designs]
They can be placed here. Just let us know. We get half the profits, you get the other half.

[Joint Projects]
They will be posted here as a joint project with the two names on it. You can't sell production rights, although you have them - for that weapon.

[Custom Designs]
Can be done, but at a cost and you cannot sell production rights.

[The Future]
We always welcome designs of the future and will be willing to work on joint projects.

Discounts
The Necro-Omar, Ubertoaster: 25% Discount
Do Your Own Math. We are a corporation, not a calulator.


History:

Bargain Basement has been the world's finest tank builders since February 2005. Recently, they have opened up their goods to the international market with booming success.

There are no longer any shipping costs.


Updated August 8, 2005

Infantry Systems:
FIBS (Frontline Infantry Battle Suit) - $500,000 each. Limit one million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067160&postcount=3)
Gewehr-25 "Notzucht" Assault Rifle - $3,000 each. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067303&postcount=4)
Gewehr-29 "Knebel" Assault Rifle - $10,000 each. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9135534&postcount=39)
Panzerfurcht antitank/antiair shoulder launched weapon. Click here - $5,000. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9075437&postcount=34)


Ground Supremacy:
Ostkampfwagen VIII-A "Ferne" MBT - $15 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9869442&postcount=97)
Nachluft II "Ewigkeit" Surface to Air Missile - $10 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067388&postcount=7)
Langschwert II "Nerv" Self-Propelled Howitzer - $6 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9869452&postcount=98)
Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS - click here - $600,000. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9088507&postcount=99)
Halbkampfwagen I "Schwarte" Infantry Fighting Vehicle - $6 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067783&postcount=100)
Feuermelder II "Ausgang" Cruise Missile - $2 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9163937&postcount=64)


Aerial Systems:
Su-82 "Leiden" Next-Generation Air Superiority Fighter - $150 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9403078&postcount=71)
Su-80 "Posaune" Attack Aircraft - $30 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9151975&postcount=54)
Su-76 "Widowmaker" multirole aircraft - $180 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067366&postcount=6)
Vorteil I "Neblig" attack helicopter - $40 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9080359&postcount=35)


Naval Systems:
Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht" Anti-Capital Ship Missile - $2 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9088536&postcount=37)
Abfuhr class Destroyer - $600 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9152291&postcount=61)
Munter class Destroyer - $500 Million. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067813&postcount=20)
Gewahlt class CVN - $7 Billion. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067842&postcount=21)
Ankunft-class Super Dreadnought - $300 Billion. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9330350&postcount=70)
[Our own Super-Dreadnought!]


Please note that stealing someone's weapon designs is way below the belt. All of my weapons have that magical self-destructive device in them if you try and reverse-engineer.

More to come soon.


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NEWS:

July 27 - Ankunft-class Super-Dreadnought added.

"FIBS" (Frontline Infantry Battle Suit)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/land-warrior-lwe.jpg

There has been much speculation by the international community that we are using other nation's designs and combining technology to make the best equippped soldier in the world. To be blunt, that is true.

There is a major research program that has been underway for some time that will re-define the infantryman of the Wehrmacht as a well-trained, armed, and efficient solider. Too long have the soldiers relied upon basic abilities for combat efficieny. No more.

The new suit, called the Frontline Infantry Battle Suit, or FIBS for short, will make the soldier a feared fighting force once again on the battlefield. It will be designed to be inexpensive but effective, as funding grows tighter with all the new research.

This suit gives NBC protection.

(Land Warrior doesn't but I couldn't find another pic.)

Helmet:

Combining the best in microchip technology, power saving techniques, and advanced targeting systems, the helmet is something if it's own. Instead of numerous proposals ranging from a full vision shield to contant-lens type vision to even brain implants, they decided on a middle of the road way to go.

The weapon is linked to the helmet, sending back data on ammo, enemy range, locations of allies, where the bullets would fly if fired, and mission objectives, among many others. This is done by a small projector shining on the frontside of the helmet, which is a bullet-resistant glass. The helmet itself is constructed out of a combination of polyester, ceramics, and titanium alloys. Head shots by obsolete Soviet snipers are no more, unless they get incredibly lucky.

The helmet will be part of the standard infantryman's outfit, although specialists such as snipers and mechanics can forego this depending on the mission. The helmet (and suit, when linked) is powered by a rechargable battery in the helmet. The average life of the system is two weeks before it has to be recharged.


Body:

The system on the FIBS is actually quite simple in fundamental design. It includes full bulletproof armor. This is achieved by using layered kevlaw alongside small titanium plates. This is reinforced against further attack by hiding a very thin plate of resin hardened glass-fiber sheet between the kevlar layers.

A problem was keeping the kevlar dry (wet kevlar doesn't absorb well). This was solved by coating it with a thin outer layer of a sandpaper-like material, which doubles as camoflague in most cases, and is resilient to ballistic fire.

Included is an active heating and cooling system, which can be changed according to the wearer's preference and outside temperatures. A plan is underway to have it register to the soldier himself (and to command) if he is hit, and also if he is wounded.

There is a catch, the bullet is stopped by spreading the area of effect, not reducing the kinetic energy. At long range, while the suit may survive a 30mm shell, odds are the solider wouldn't without some serious injuries.


Support

The system is designed to relay the position of itself to the central command station, any enemy it detects, and the locations of allies to coordinate moves. It has a hit sensor, when the soldier is hit with a flesh penetrating wound it goes off, both administering a small amount of care (painkiller) and signaling nearby medics.

It is designed for maximum efficiency and command potential. The Wehrmacht can outsoldier, outgun, and outgeneral any enemy with this newest technology piece.

Weaponry:

The G-25 "Notzucht" - click here. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9067303&postcount=4)
(Note: The domestic version uses the G-29, export versions use the G-25.)

The sidearm is still the Colt .45 M1911 for Osten Wehrmacht soldiers, although nations can supply their own sidearm.


Other:

There are no special systems as of yet. Plans are underway to create a cloaking device, but that will have to wait.

The G-25 "Notzucht" Assault Rifle
(Also part of the new FIBS System)
http://www.hkdefense.us/pages/military-le/mil-leimages/xm8s2rtmain.jpg

Statistics:
Calibre: 7.92mm (Built by us only.)
Capacity: 30/60/100 rounds
Length: 25.0 in
Width: 2.46 in
Height: 9.78 in
Weight: 6.4 lb

The FIBS system rolled on with its' research, yet after a while it was clear that the XM8 was utterly insufficient. A contract was given to Bargain Basement shortly before the Californian War, and was never completed. With Bargain Basement's new headquarters in Teheran, and jobs needing to be filled, they immediately finished the weapon--a version completely seperate of the FIBS system.

The G-25 Lightweight Assault Rifle will reduce the 21st century soldier's load and increase his mobility. The progress made to reduce weight and improve performance on the G-25 program is key to the new FIBS program, which is integrated with the Wehrmacht's efforts to transform to a more lethal and rapidly deployed fighting force.

Unlike the current M4/M16 direct gas system with gas tube, the G-25 gas system does not introduce propellant gases and the associated carbon fouling back into the weapon’s receiver during firing. This greatly increases the reliability of the G-25 while at same time reducing operator cleaning time by as much as 70%. This system also allows the weapon to fire more than 15,000 rounds without lubrication or cleaning in even the worst operational environments.

Combined with the most advanced in laser targeting, it can accurately relay the information back through the scope to the owner of the weapon the range of the enemy, as well as the suggested trajectory to fire the weapon. It can fire in three round bursts, on semi auto, and on full auto. Lastly, there's one wildcard. The bullet is slightly larger for a reason. The shell itself has a small amount of cyanide encased in it. When it hits an enemy soldier, even if the wound is not fatal, the cyanide will spread through them, temporarily incapcitating or killing them over time.

There are numerous variants, and they include:
40mm Grenade Launcher
Side-Mounted Bayonet
Sharpshooter Version (improved scope, increased weapon length)
Heavy Assault Version (increased barrel length, drum barrel of 100 rounds, and a foldable bipod)
Compact Version (reduced length and weight but 30 rds max and less accuracy on full auto)
Effective Range (Standard Version): 1200 meters

Production Cost: $2,000 USD
Export Cost: $3,000 USD

The Su-77 "Keiler" High-Speed Interceptor
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/images/img3.jpg

Variants:
Su-77-1: Land
Su-77-2: Naval
Role: Interceptor
Engines: Two BB-4 jets, total of 42,000 lbs of thrust
Length: 56 feet 10 inches
Wingspan: 45 feet 9 inches
Height (Gears): 15 feet 2 inches
Hardpoints: 8 (2 on Each Wing and 4 under Fuselage)
Guns: 1 (20mm, 500 rounds)
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.6
Cruise Speed: Mach 1.5
Ceiling: 69,000 feet
G limits: +10/-6
Range: 1,000 nautical miles
Empty Weight: 6,250 lbs
Fuel Weight: 9,750 lbs
Max Arnaments: 10,000 lbs
Max Takeoff Weight: 25,000 lbs
Take-Off Length: 1,200 feet
Landing Length: 1,000 feet
Stall Speed: 120 knots
Has Vertical Takeoff: No
Crew: 1
Wings Fold: Wingtips (Naval Version)
Stealthy: Yes (Uses similar to that of YF-22)
Silent: Average (Has slits)
Yearly Upkeep: 2.3 million USD

The Su-77 was created in a joint venture by Bargain Basement, Incorporated, and the Sukhoi corporation in an attempt to create a true interceptor plane for the Lame Bums airforce. Times change in the world. Before, they had just used the obsolescent Foxhounds and whatever else at hand - nevetheless faring quite well.

No more. With the civil war running rampant across much of the nation, under the order of General Patton they were rushed into production. It's best combat situation is subsonic where it is unmatched in maneuverability. Supersonic, it also maintains impressive manuverability, able to react quickly to the changing situation.

It is designed for air to air combat, with the short fight range. Everything is, simply put, smaller. This plane is smaller than most in the Lame Bums airforce, also breaking new ground in that department. This allowed for lighter engines to be put on, and so on and so forth.

Keiler means "Wild Boar" in German, as this plane was designed to combat the planes of the new century, obstensibly the Cockatiel and Razgriz.

Fear the LBAF.

Cost: 140 Million USD.

The Su-76 "Widowmaker" Multirole Aircraft
http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Graphics/Nation-States/Export/f29.jpg

Variants:
Su-76-1: Land
Su-76-2: Naval
Role: Air Superiority/Tactical Bomber
Engines: Two H&F 750 jets, providing 45,000 lbs of thrust each
Length: 71 feet 10 inches
Wingspan: 54 feet 6 inches
Height (Gears): 18 feet 0 inches
Hardpoints: 16 (5 on Each Wing and 6 under Fuselage)
Guns: 1 (30mm, 200 rounds)
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.0
Cruise Speed: Mach 1.2
Ceiling: 67,000 feet
G limits: +9/-5
Range: Infinite (with in-flight refueling), otherwise 1,500 nautical miles
Empty Weight: 10,150 lbs
Fuel Weight: 12,850 lbs
Max Arnaments: 16,000 lbs
Max Takeoff Weight: 38,000 lbs
Take-Off Length: 600 feet
Landing Length: 500 feet
Stall Speed: 95 knots
Has Vertical Takeoff: Yes
Crew: 1
Wings Fold: Wingtips (Naval Version)
Stealthy: Yes (Uses similar to that of YF-22)
Silent: Average (Has slits)
Yearly Upkeep: 2.5 million USD
Price: 140 million USD

The Su-76 Widowmaker was created in a joint venture between the Science Division and Bargain Basement, Incorporated. The project began in early 2004 and was completed in early 2005, and is ready for service.

It incorporates the same twin Hardey & Foster H750 engines, giving the plane a total of 90,000 lbs of thrust. Along with this came the simply larger scale of the aircraft. Everything is bigger, faster, and more powerful. The plane can easily carry a full load of JDAMs into a warzone, providing an air cover yet unseen by the world.

For combat zones, the AIM-9 Sidewinders and the Amraam missiles are used along with a 30mm cannon. This aircraft was designed to do a double duty: provide ground support and then effectively battle it out with the enemy aircraft.

A uniqueness about this plane over any of its' predecessors is that it has much larger wings. This allows for much more lift to be generated, thus lowering the length needed for takeoff and the stall speed. At higher speeds, the wings are simply adjusted to compensate for the increased lift. Not only is it stealthy, but it is covered in a titanium alloy which allows the plane to go further and faster. Another benefit of this was the decreased weight, thus resulting in speeds similar to fighter aircraft. It can easily reach Mach 2.6 at 30,000 feet, and can cruise supersonic at Mach 1.2.

But there's more... With the design and the potentially huge amount of lift with the wing design, the stall speed is only 70 knots, meaning it take off and land on unbelievably short runway.

Air warfare will not be the same.

Cost: 180 Million USD.

The Nachluft II "Ewigkeit"
http://www.nikemissile.org/oozlefinch.gif

http://homepage.eircom.net/~steven/images/crotale4.jpg
The Ewigkeit launching vehicle.

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/formidable/images/Formidable_6.jpg
The Ewigkeit missile in action.

Overview:

The NL I "Praetorian" was battle tested and hardened, with a success rate of 90% even at ranges up to 400 miles. Guided by radar, infrared, and GPS imagery, the missiles were deadly, and in partilcular the Californians knew of that, having lost most of their airforce in the war.

However, despite its advantages as a great SAM system which rare missed, there were disadvantages. It was truck mounted but only carried a single missile at a time. That meant logistics to keep the missiles ready to fire were insane, and rarely successfully done. Also, the missile was big, and it could be detected by anti-missile systems, and indeed some were shot down.

Ewigkeit is German for "eternity", as those who come in contact with it will sleep in eternity.

Weaponry:

This is strictly an anti-air missile, and doesn't have as much of a warhead as STS missiles would have. The warhead is 200lbs of high explosive, which will detonate upon major impact. Minor impacts are left out due to the possibility of enemy chaff being dropped, thus increasing the success rate. This missile is designed to target anything that flies, including other missiles.

Also unlike the Praetorian, which was loaded onto a truck and fired singly, this comes loaded in a pack of eight. It's also far easier to reload. The reload time for a pack of 4 missiles (it's 4 on each side) is approximately 90 seconds, compared to the original five minutes. The missiles can be fired at the rate of once per four seconds, or all 8 missiles in 32 seconds, creating a hell of anti-air missiles for any airforce.

In determining where the missile should fly in order to intercept the plane, a small onboard computer uses a combination of RADAR, LIDAR, infrared, and GPS locationing to determine a target and fly into it. Testing has shown a 95% success rate with the missiles against aircraft, or an improvement of 5% over the Praetorian. Typically, two missiles would be fired at each enemy plane, ensuring a 99.75% success rate. Fire and forget, mate.

Defenses:

This missile employs a carbon-carbon layer of stealth covering, which unlike regular stealth (which absorbs the radar signals), this deflects the signals elsewhere. This serves the double purpose of jamming enemy radar with hundreds of fake signals and of course, making it near impossible to detect.

Our own radar is protected simply because it uses a different frequency, which can be changed if necessary.

The carbon-carbon coating is also highly resistant to heat and pressure, similar to the C60 Buckyball matrix used on the tanks.Also the carbon-carbon also reflects beams of energy such as x-rays, light, and microwave.

Engine:

This missile employs a solid-fuel booster to get it up approximately Mach 2.6. After that, a SCRAMjet engine kicks in, propelling the missile up to Mach 7.3 at high altitudes. This also has the purpose if giving the missile a range of nearly three hundred miles, similar to the Praetorian. The missile will relentlessly pursue its targets until the SCRAMjet engine fails or the missile itself blows up because of the extreme heat and pressure (from going Mach 7.3).

It is such that even if the missile fails to hit the target the first time, odds are fairly good that the missile could make a full turn and take another pass at the enemy.

Specifications:
Launcher:
Length: 31 feet
Width: 10 feet
Height: 9 feet

Armor: 40cm of C60 Buckyball matrix
Engine: Diesel, 750 horsepower
Weight: 18 tons
Top Speed: 47 mph

Missile:
Length: 9 feet, 6 inches
Width: 16 inches
Range: apx. 300-400 miles
Top Speed: Mach 3.4 (solid fuel), or Mach 7.3 (SCRAMjet)

Cost: $10 Million USD.

The NL I "Praetorian"

http://www.wonderland.org.nz/sa2-5.jpg

"Following leaks of recent missile research worldwide, the army under General Patton contacted Bargain Basement, Incorporated to design a new missile - capable of targeting anything. This contract was handed out in early 2005 and is now ready for service.

It can be fired in a single-load format as shown in the picture, or it can be loaded on a rack of four. It is guided by some of the most advanced tracking systems yet known to man - including radar, infrared, and satelite guidance. Projections indicate a 95% success rate or shooting down other flying objects.

The weapon achieves its great range by using a solid fuel booster to get the missile to the required speed of approximately Mach 2.5, and then the SCRAMjet kicks in, making the missile go Mach 7 easily. For as long as the missile lasts, it continures to relentlessly pursure it's target. Even if the missile misses the target, there is a good chance it will make a full turn for another try. The main problem is the lack of heat-resistant materials for such a weapon - limiting the airtime and range of the missile.

The Praetorian has yet to be tested in a combat situation, yet during the civil war there will be plenty of opportuinties. They have been rushed into producion, and after the civil war may go on sale to the international market."

Length: 37.3 feet
Width: 6.8 feet

Top Speed: Mach 7.1
Max Range: 450 miles

Cost: $8 Million USD.

We would like to order these:

Name: M16A2
Cost: $500
# of Purchase: 850,000
Total Cost: $425,000,000

We would like to order these:

Name: M16A2
Cost: $500
# of Purchase: 850,000
Total Cost: $425,000,000

To: Spartanox
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 850,000 M16A2's has been processed and confirmed. The guns will be delivered in three months. It has been an honor serving your nation.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

The Ostkampfwagen I "Linebacker"
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9735/t90.jpg

[i]With the civil war dragging on and costs mounting, the Army faction needed to cut costs. One way of this was to design a new MBT which was cheaper. The M2 Phantom was undoubtedly the best tank in the army and possibly the world, but at 12 million dollars each, it was a steep price to pay.

A project done doubletime between Bargain Basement and the Science Division has resulted in the M4 Linebacker tank. (It's since been redesignated as the Ostkampfwagen I). It weighs only 55 tons, has a top speed of 58 mph, and a range of 250 miles. It is armed with a new 125mm smoothbore cannon with a range of approximately 3.5 miles. Inside, it has a coaxial machine gun and a crew of four: the driver, the gunner, the loader, and the commander.

Also is a turret-mounted machine gun, which can be replaced with any of the following:

-60mm mortar, effective for 800 yards
-TOW missile
-Stinger missile system
-Smokescreen (not always necessary since smokescreen can be created by dumping diesel fuel into the exhaust)

Protection:
SABOT rounds: 800mm
HEAT rounds: 1700mm

Cost: 5.8 Million.
MT Comparison: T-90/Abrams

I would like to but
10,000 units of the M16 cost 4,000,000USD(or 8,000,000 FFF)
my spacefighter corps is arvanced but my ground units are like earths =)

The Ostkampfwagen II-B "Feuerfest"
Second Refit

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/t80/images/t-80_5.jpg

Overview:

For years, the Lame Bums Armored Corps (LBAC) had centered around speed and mobility as the main weapon of attack. The tanks were fast, reliable, and poweful. The M3 Hazzard maxed out at an impressive 75 MPH. However, speed was not the key to the new war. The new war was going to be centered around heavy armor. Reliability, power, survivability.

Lame Bums tanks had been battle tested and hardened as some of the best bangs for the buck worldwide. What the Armored Corps had always lacked, however, was a heavy tank. The Science Division answered impressively. After four years of painstaking work and nearly two hundred billion dollars, the M-5 "Feuerfest" is finally ready. (In more recent times, it has been re-designated as the OKW II, or Ostkampfwagen II.)

"Feuerfest" is German for "fire-proof".

Armor Design:

The Science Division totally broke some new ground with this new tank. Utilizing the best in nanotechnology, they had managed to weave a diamond helix into and through a C60 buckyball matrix. This has been specially designed and layered in 300-nanometer strips all across the tank. Also woven into the matrix is a small amount of supercooled liquids. When gassified by say, a sudden rupture, it would quickly reduce the temperature of the round. "Especially good against HEAT rounds" was what the Science Divisions reported.

The second layer of protection is a series of layered armor blocks. This helps diffuse pressure on any one section of the armor to cave in. These ablative armor blocks are up to 10cm thick in certain locations. This is further reinforced by a ceramic armor similar to those used in the Abrams, except with better bondings through the diamond helixes.

The final layer of armor is also up to 10cm thick in some places. This is the same MEXAS armor that is used on many current German tanks. The final layer of protection, if a shell gets this far then it will probably be rendered useless by this armor.

Factoring in all three layers of armor, the tank provides an incredible 3,200mm of protection against SABOT rounds and an insane 7,000mm of protection against HEAT rounds.

Weaponry:

The main weapon is a new 155mm ETC gun. Combining the best in spring recoil technology, they managed to make the whole thing work incredibly. It has several advantages over the 125mm ETC gun, the first being greater range and power. It can target something within two feet of accuracy at a range of eight miles, and is dead on when six miles or less away. (With a possible killzone of 50 feet with the shell, two feet won't matter anyway.)

Depleted Uranium had long since been ruled out as the ammunition to be used on tanks, as while it could clise through the toughest of armor it gave many soldiers Gulf War syndrome, as soldiers returning from Operation Desert Storm quickly found out. Times change.

They decided to re-open the possibility of Depleted Uranium shells. As such, all new tanks will be fitted with Depleted Uranium shells instead of titanium, thus roughly doubling the penetrating power of any weapon. It's side effect of Gulf War Syndrome (chronic fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, diarrhea and constipation) has been ruled as acceptable and well within Confederate safety margains, so long as they are only used in combat zones (not training) to minimize exposure.

The coaxial 7.62mm machine gun is still there, but this time, as a turret mounted gun is not a .50cal Browning machine gun, but instead a DREAD gun. This incredible weapon makes no noise, has an extreme muzzle velocity, doesn't jam, and can fire upwards of 120,000 RPM.

Also in an armored box inside the tank is enough small arms for the tank crew.

This tank has it all. Its size is such that the crew of five can easily sleep - in the tank, along with stored rations.

Other Defenses:

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 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.

(Put it this way. An artillery shot is near usless to an armored vehicle as it is. This just makes it completely useless. Same with most missiles.)

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

(No more poor engineers as minesweepers.)

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


..of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

Possible Drawbacks?

With all this firepower and armor?

It's slow. Damn slow. While fairly reliable due to a six-speed transmission (less strain on the engine), it still can break down. A mechanic is part of each tank crew to counter this.

Fuel. With a 2,000 horsepower engine, it's not going anywhere fast or far by itself.

Cost. At 25 million USD each, no one's going to have a lot of these anytime soon.

Layered Armor. If all you've got is tank shot to throw at it, keep firing. Something'll get through at some point.

Specifications:
Crew: 5 (driver, gunner, loader, commander, mechanic)
Weight: 95.0 tons

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 486 inches
Turret height: 114 inches
Width: 180 inches
Ground clearance: 15 inches
Ground pressure: 20.7 PSI
Propulsion: Diesel turbine engine, 2,000 horsepower
Transmission: 6 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 21.05 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 39.5 mph
Speed cross country: 32 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 15 mph
Speed 60% slope: 3 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 8.0 seconds
Range 225 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 36 inches
Trench: 14 feet
Main armament: 155mm ETC cannon, range eight miles
Coaxial Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Loader's Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Commander's weapon: DREAD gun with LIDAR array
NBC protection: Yes

Cost: 36 Million.

I would like to but
10,000 units of the M16 cost 4,000,000USD(or 8,000,000 FFF)
my spacefighter corps is arvanced but my ground units are like earths =)

To: Firehelper
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 10,000 M16's has been processed and confirmed. The guns will be delivered in three weeks. It has been an honor serving your nation.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

The Ostkampfwagen III-A "Narrheit" Main Battle Tank
First Refit
http://www.voodoo.cz/merkava/images/mk3/mk3_main.jpg

Overview:

The Phantom was a good tank yet it just simply wasn't versatile enough and wasn't as survivable as a commander would like. Enter the new Narrheit MBT, the successor to the Phantom. This was a project done entirely by Bargain Basement, as they were filling the job market impressively. In fact, Bargain Basement had quadrupled it's worker base in the last four years, ending the economic depression singlehandedly.

Narrheit is German for "folly", as it is folly to go cannon to cannon against these things.


Armor Design:

This tank incorporates much of the technology used on the Feuerfest, as it seems to become the standard of technology in the Science Division. As the first layer of armor, it is a full covering of the tank with a C60 Buckyball matrix.


In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

(This was 1990.)

The first armor is especially good against SABOT (alias KE) rounds due to it's properties. It's not as good against HEAT as it's predecessor due to it's lack of Thermium Pipage (small amounts of supercooled liquids when gassified by, say, a sudden rupture, reduce the heat of the enemy projectile thus lowering penetration ability), but it retains its exceptional quality against KE. The second layer is 5cm of MEXAS armor, an armor design currently used on the Leopard II tank.

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!!!!

Total Protection:

HEAT rounds: Approx. 5,600mm
SABOT rounds: Approx. 3,000mm


Weaponry:

The tank fires the 125mm ETC gun used on the M5 Feuerfest, which has an effective range of six miles. It fires a SABOT round similar the the one fired by the Abrams, with one difference. Instead of steel rods, it instead uses Depleted Uranium, able to slip through the toughest of armor to get to the occupants incide, and put the enemy tank out of comission.

Note about Depleted Uranium: The side effect of Gulf War Syndrome (chronic fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, diarrhea and constipation) has been ruled as acceptable and well within Confederate safety margains.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


..of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspendedplasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

The gunner's machine gun is a 7.62mm machine gun, which fires at apx. 800 rounds per minute, along with a coaxial machine gun of the same specs. Both have 1,000 rounds of ammo. The turret mounted gun can be any of the following:

DREAD gun
.50cal Machine Gun
Smoke Grenades
60mm Mortar
FIM-92A Stinger

Typically, in most situations, a DREAD/LIDAR gun is mounted.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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.

(DREAD Gun first tested in 2001.)

Other Defenses:

The number one protection a tank has against enemy superiority is its ability to stop the enemy attack from even getting to the tank in the first place. This is done through the SHORTSTOP system.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.

For anti-mine warfare, the tank utilizes the Zeus laser system:

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day.


Specifications:
Crew: 4 (driver, gunner, loader, commander)
Weight: 77.0 tons

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 426 inches
Turret height: 98 inches
Width: 157 inches
Ground clearance: 16 inches
Ground pressure: 23.0 PSI
Engine: Fuel cell powered, 1,800 horsepower
Transmission: 6 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 23.38 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 48.5 mph
Speed cross country: 42 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 28 mph
Speed 60% slope: 5 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 5.0 seconds
Range 300 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 40 inches
Trench: 12 feet
Main armament: 125mm ETC cannon, range six miles
Coaxial Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Loader's Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Commander's weapon: Varies. Typically DREAD gun.
NBC protection: Yes

Cost: $24 Million USD.

The Ostkampfwagen IV-A "Sichel" Light Battle Tank
First Refit

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/ariete/images/ariete1.jpg

Overview:

The M3 Hazzard was a joke. No one really knew about it, but it was worth about as much as the Third Reich Panzer I, or at least on the modern battlefield it was. The Osten Wehrmacht needed a new light tank to increase its flexibility on the battlefield. Enter the Sichel.

This tank is basically a scaled down version of the heavier tanks produced by the Science Division and Bargain Basement. It has the same fundamental design and weaponry, with only a few tweaks. This contract was handed out to Bargain Basement in late 2003 and is now ready for service.

Sichel is German for "sickle" because it will slice through an enemy's line like a sickle.

Armor Design:

Unlike the Narrheit and Feuerfest, the Science Division had to keep cost and weight down. This was done by layering the armor. First is five millimeters of a C60 Buckyball matrix. While this is miniscule compared to most other tanks, that is followed by one centimeter of MEXAS armor. Buckyballs protect against KE rounds, and MEXAS protects against HEAT. There are five layers of this armor on the tank, although it's somewhat thicker on the front, being more like 8mm/15mm.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

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!!!!

Total Protection:

HEAT rounds: Approx. 3,600mm
SABOT rounds: Approx. 2,000mm

Weaponry:

Taking from the newest in weapon designs, the ETC gun, the Science Division simply created the same gun that was smaller. This gun is still 90mm, and packs quite a punch against larget targets. With a range of four miles it still outdistances the Abrams by a mile and since unlike the Abrams it uses a Depleted Uranium shell rod instead of a steel rod. This roughly triples the penetrating power of the shell, meaning that the Abrams has more than a match in the Sichel. And the Abrams is a MBT.

Note about Depleted Uranium: The side effect of Gulf War Syndrome (chronic fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, diarrhea and constipation) has been ruled as acceptable and well within Confederate safety margains.

The Sichel does not cower in fear of heavier tanks like the light tanks of most armies do; this one goes out there and kicks the other guy's ass.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspendedplasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

The gunner's machine gun is a 7.62mm machine gun, which fires at apx. 800 rounds per minute, along with a coaxial machine gun of the same specs. Both have 1,000 rounds of ammo. The commander's weapon is a DREAD gun, backed up by a LIDAR array. This allowed the turret mounted weapon to engage incoming aircraft, missiles, infantry, and light vehicles.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


..of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.

The role of the light tank is typically to screen an advancing force of MBTs. With full anti air and anti ground capabilities, this tank does that job well.

Other Defenses:

Like in all newer tanks for the Osten Wehrmacht this includes several defense systems which stop the enemy's attack cold befire it even hits the tank. The primary defense is the Shortstop system, which renders most arty rounds, mortar shot, and missiles a useless weapon against these tanks.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day.


Specifications:
Crew: 4 (driver, gunner, loader, commander)
Weight: 31.0 tons
Ammo: 92 shots titanium, 4 tungsten, 1,000 for each machine gun

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 388 inches
Turret height: 90 inches
Width: 128 inches
Ground clearance: 14 inches
Ground pressure: 12.45 PSI
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 1,250 horsepower
Transmission: 6 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 40.32 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 68 mph
Speed cross country: 51.5 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 45 mph
Speed 60% slope: 8 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 3.0 seconds
Range 480 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 35 inches
Trench: 9 feet
Main armament: 90mm ETC cannon, range four miles
Coaxial Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Loader's Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Commander's weapon: DREAD gun/LIDAR array
NBC protection: Yes

Cost: $16 Million USD.

The Ostkampfwagen V "Festung" Main Battle Tank
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/t90/images/t90_2.jpg


Overview

The OKW III Narrheit was the best MBT in the world, that was no question. Or at least for a while it was. For a sum of $200 billion USD, Bargain Basement decided to sell out the designs to one of our greatest historical enemies, the Jewittist Republic in the East. General Patton had Bargain Basement's holdings seized, and contacted the Science Division instead to come up with a new battle tank. It appears they have responded beyond the commander's wildest dreams.

Festung means Fortress, as it is designed to both take down an enemy fortress and be a fortress in itself.

The end result has been a super battletank which is affordable yet renders all currently in-service tanks obsolete.


Armor Design

This tank needed something new to up the ante on the Narrheits now used by the Jewittists. And the response worked like a charm. The primary later of armor is a full coating of C60 Buckyball matrix, modified molecularly to resist acid and alkalines. That was done by attaching a hydrogen atom to each carbon atom, and this is better known as Fuzzyballs. A full 120cm of this armor is used on this, bonded with a diamond helix, reinforced with ADBOND. In each buckyball is a few molecules of supercooled liquids to nullify HEAT rounds, and the nature of the buckyballs stop SABOTs and KEs in their tracks.

In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

Behind that is a layer of Depleted Uranium (U238) armor, which stops anything which gets through the first armor. Lastly is five centimeters of MEXAS armor, which stops HEATs in particular.

Total Protection
HEAT: 7,500mm
SABOT/KE: 4,500mm


Weaponry

The main gun has been and will be for a while the 125mm ETC gun. This has an effective range of six miles. This gun can fire any 125mm round, HEAT, KE, SABOT, SCRAMjet, you name it. Typically, the tank fires 125mm shells with a Depleted Uranium core for maximum penetration. However, there is technology underway which allows SCRAMjet rounds to become a reality--and it had for tank shot. Each tank is equipped with 64 standard shot, and 20 with SCRAMjets.

Note about Depleted Uranium: The side effects, called Gulf War Syndrome ((chronic fatigue, headache, sleep disturbances, diarrhea and constipation) has been ruled as acceptable and well within Confederate safety margains.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

Older tanks typically had a coaxial machine gun to combat enemy infantry. This has been dropped in favor of a 37mm automatic cannon, specifically designed to take out APCs and other light vehicles. The forward gunner still has a 7.62mm machine gun to combat infantry.

The commander's weapon is a DREAD gun, although he doesn't manually aim it. He just sets the gun mode and the computer handles the rest. It is automated to target enemy infantry, light vehicles, helicopters, and incoming missiles. Combined with a LIDAR array, it is effective in stopping enemy missiles from causing any appreciable damage to the tank.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.


Other Defenses

This tank packs a Shortstop system to render enemy arty and mortar rounds useless (as a large caliber shell moving at high speed vertically down into the tank can be a threat). For anti mine warfare, the Zeus laser system is used.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, mines, and aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


Possible Drawbacks?

Same as Narrheit, effects reduced, otherwise none.


Specifications

Crew: 4 (driver, gunner, loader, commander)
Weight: 77.0 tons

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 426 inches
Turret height: 98 inches
Width: 157 inches
Ground clearance: 16 inches
Ground pressure: 23.0 PSI
Engine: Fuel cell powered, 1,800 horsepower
Transmission: 6 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 23.38 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 48.5 mph
Speed cross country: 42 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 28 mph
Speed 60% slope: 5 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 5.0 seconds
Range 300 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 40 inches
Trench: 12 feet
Main armament: 125mm ETC cannon, range six miles
Coaxial Weapon: 37mm auto cannon
Loader's Weapon: 7.62 mm machine gun
Commander's weapon: DREAD gun, automated with LIDAR array
NBC protection: Yes
Hardened against EMP: Yes

Cost: $20 Million USD.

The Langschwert I "Furstin" Self-Propelled Howitzer
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/paladin.jpg

Overview:

Technology rolls on. It's inevitable. This happened to the Osten Wehrmacht, it's happened to everyone. The artillery for the army had long since been the M-109 Paladin. Ever since the Second Coming's war, it had been proven utterly obsolete. Only a few half-measures had been taken in the last few years to improve the artillery corps, namely putting some Crusaders into production.

It has been more recently redesignated the Langschwert I - meaning Long Sword.

Times are a'changin'.

Furstin is German for "princess", although it has nothing whatsoever to do with one.

Armor Design:

It's an artillery piece. Weight had to be kept up, in fact, to allow for the new firing mecahnisms to work properly. As such, a full 5 cm of Buckyball matrix was placed on the howitzer, followed by 5cm of MEXAS armor.


In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

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 .

Protection:
SABOT rounds: 1,750mm
HEAT rounds: 3,000mm

It's got almost as much armor as the Narrheit, and that's for a reason...

Weaponry:

Unlike it's predecessor, which had the rounds painstakingly loaded one at a time and fired singly at a maximum of one round per minute, this weapon tries a radically different, and new design.

Two words for the world. Gattling Gun.

A full two hundred rounds are linked together belt-style and fed into the cannon. This is fed into the cannon as fast as the operator wishes--as fast as the gun can recover from the recoil. With the best in nanotachnology and miniature springs, the howitzer recovers from a shot in two seconds.

That means in rapid fire mode, 30 shots from the cannon can be squeezed out in a minute. The gun is kept from overheating and melting because of two reasons: First, it is lined with a carbon composite similar to the C60 Buckyball matrix (meaning it can withstand very high temperatures), and second, it is kept cool by an amount of coolant liquid which runs through most of the barrel. As the coolant liquid is gassified by the increase in temperatures, it eventually runs dry and has to be replaced.

As long as the coolant liquid is replaced every 500 rounds, and ammo is fed to the howitzer, it can fire endlessly.

But that's not all....First, it can fire in single mode as well as rapid fire mode. It can fire any 155mm shell at an average range of fifty miles, because it's an ETC gun as well. Second, the travering range is anywhere from -5 to +50, meaning if need be, the barrel can be pointed horizontally at an enemy and fired directly as well (e.g. tanks).

The secondary weapon is an automated DREAD gun equipped with LIDAR.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

This means that the DREAD gun can target incoming enemy missiles and blow them out of the sky well before any enemy missile gets close to impact.

Other Defenses:

This fine piece of technology has to be kept safe from indirect fire, as well. As such, it includes the classic array of defensive weaponry known to the Osten Wehrmacht.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.


http://www.edocorp.com/seps%20electronic%20umbrella.jpg

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


Specifications:
Crew: 4 (driver, gunner, mechanic, commander)
Weight: 52.0 tons
Ammo: 200 155mm, 25,000 7.62mm (DREAD ammo)

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 436 inches
Turret height: 124 inches
Width: 142 inches
Ground clearance: 12 inches
Ground pressure: 16.79 PSI
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 1,500 horsepower
Transmission: 6 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 28.84 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 57 mph
Speed cross country: 43.5 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 32 mph
Speed 60% slope: 4 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 5.3 seconds
Range 420 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 28 inches
Trench: 11 feet
Main armament: 155mm ETC Rapid Fire cannon, range fifty miles (indirect mode), six miles (direct mode)
Coaxial Weapon: n/a
Loader's Weapon: n/a
Commander's weapon: DREAD gun, automated and guided by LIDAR
NBC protection: Yes
EMP hardened: Yes

Cost: $7 Million USD.

The Halbkampfwagen I "Schwarte" Infantry Fighting Vehicle
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/linebacker-001.jpg


Overview

Bradley? No. BMP? Hell no. The time was long overdue that a new infantry vehicle was to be built. Enter a new line of vehicles, the Halbkampfwagen, or literally "Half Fight Vehicle." This is to be the first of such designs, a revolutionairy vehicle which can transport infantry where they're needed and not cower in fear of anything. This vehicle was developed by the Science Division, ergo, there's no greedy capitalists who want their cut of the money. Thus, it's a better bang for the buck.


Armor Design

The primary layer of armor on this, as with all other armored vehicles in the Osten Wehrmacht, is a coating of C60 Buckyballs. This doubles as a strong armor and deflecting radar. The C60 is reinforced with the diamond helix, ADBOND, and supercooled liquids. This layer is 80 centimeters thick, and stops both SABOTs and KEs in their tracks, and can also put an end to HEAT shots as well.

In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

This is the only armor on the Schwarte, yet it has impressive numbers.

Total Protection:
SABOT/KE: 1,800mm
HEAT: 3,700mm


Weaponry

The main weapon is a 40mm automatic cannon, similar the Bushmaster used on the Bradley, except it also incorporates ETC technology. Hence, the cannon can easily penetrate other infantry vehicles at a range of two miles, and even disable light and medium tanks with sustained fire. The cannon fires at 120rpm, or about 2 shots per second, with an ammo supply of 500.

The forward gunner has a 7.62mm machine gun for anti infantry purposes. The anti-air element of this vehicle comes in the mounting of four Ewigkeit missiles on the top of the tank. Although this has to be manually reloaded and it takes some time, the Ewigkeits mean that anti-air is now on the move, with the army, not in the rear with the gear.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

Click here for info about the Nachluft II Ewigkeit (http://earthsix.sytes.net/index.php?showtopic=2134)


Other Defenses

This vehicle included the classic array of passive defenses, including Shortstop and Zeus.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, landmines, and aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


Specifications
Crew: 3 (driver, gunner, commander)
Can carry up to six infantry.
Weight: 25 tons
Ammo: 500 for main cannon, 20 for Ewigkeit, 1,000 for forward machine gun

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 388 inches
Turret height: 90 inches
Width: 128 inches
Ground clearance: 14 inches
Ground pressure: 10.06 PSI
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 1,250 horsepower
Transmission: 4 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 50.00 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 73 mph
Speed cross country: 56,0 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 49 mph
Speed 60% slope: 10 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 2.7 seconds
Range 500 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 35 inches
Trench: 9 feet
Main armament: 40mm ETC autocannon, range two miles
Coaxial Weapon: N/A
Forward Weapon: 7.62mm Machine Gun
Commander's weapon: Nachluft II Ewigkeit SAMs, load of 4
NBC protection: Yes
EMP hardened: Yes

Cost: $6 Million USD.

The Munter class Destroyer
http://www.cushing.navy.mil/images/ship%20pics/cushing01041.jpg

Overview:

The world is changing. The landscape is changing. The technology is changing. While the Osten Werhrmacht got the most of the funding and technology, the Osten Kriegsmarine didn't receive nearly as much funding. They had received several hundred new ships from the Macabees, and some new traianing, but that was all. The Army had received nearly $20 trillion in funding over the past few years, the Navy, barely $3 trillion.

The Navy finally decided to embark on their own research project, to make a multipurpose ship which could do almost anything and be on a shoestring budget. Basing their ideas off the recently acquired Manstein destroyers, they answered impressively--for a first try.

Munter is German for "lively".

Weaponry:

The final ship is actually a bit different from the prototype pictured above, which was taken three months ago. The direct fire guns are six 155mm railguns, three on the front and three in the back on a single battery. When fired howitzer-style, they have an effective range of 27 miles. One is mounted on the front, and the other is on the rear.

For long range air defense, the ship employs eight batteries of the Ewigkeit SAMs, for a total of 64 missiles ready to fire at any time. Due to the Ewigkeit's ability to target almost anything, two thousand of the missiles are stored in the ship for use. Guided by RADAR, LIDAR, thermal imaging, and GPS, the missiles are deadly, and the age of naval air supremacy is finally coming to an end.

It also sports six DREAD guns guided by LIDAR to stop anti-shipping missiles, both those that get through the Ewigkeits and those that are sea-skimmers.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a

vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.

For long-range offensive purposes, a total of two hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles are loaded onto the ship. Again, similar to the Manstein of which so many were bought, the missiles are fed in an auto-loader, although the mechanism is somewhat different. It is automatically moved from the missile room on a conveyor belt wherein it is loaded onto a revolving belt. The belt constantly goes in circles, and can fire up to ten missiles in a single volley, and one every four seconds thereafter.

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BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB DDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDB DDD
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB DDD
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B=Belt
D=Destroyer
(Get it?)

In the back, the ship has two helipads, which typically park two Sea King ASW helicopters. Guided by passive and active sonar, they can hone in quickly upon any submarine and quickly make it push up daisies.

Propulsion:

This ship uses two nuclear reactors, similar to current Pebblebed ones. It is housed in a specially shielded and armored chamber in the deepest parts of the ship. In an emergency, the reactor can be shut down in as little as 30 seconds simply by removing the control rods from the reactor. They turn four screws, and can move the ship at 38 knots.

Specifications:

Length: 278 feet
Width: 32 feet
Total Height (keel to highest point): 77 feet
Draft: 7 feet

Cruising Range: Unlimited
Cruising Speed: 38 knots

Currently, only six ships have been built.
LBS-985 Munter
LBS-986 Murmel
LBS-987 Lupe
LBS-988 Tochter
LBS-989 Verkehr
LBS-990 Feigheit

Crew: 60 minimum, 280 full strength

Cost: $500 Million USD.

The Gewahlt class Aircraft Carrier
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Overview:

For years, the Osten Kriegsmarine's research department had been utterly underfunded. Times change, and those in government are finally realizing the need for a large and powerful navy to preserve freedom of the seas. As such, the Science Division is putting heads together and designing a new navy. The kingpiece of that, would be of course, the aircraft carrier. It had to be powerful, and be a good bang for the buck.

They responded well.

Gewahlt is German for "power".

Weaponry:

The primary method of attack is it's maximum of 200 figher aircraft which can be stored within the carrier. However, to avoid a catastrophe in which billions of dollars worth of equipment were sent to the bottom, the typical layout is no more than 120 fighter aircraft, and the rest of the space is used for extra supplies.

In most cases, 80 Su-77 Keilers and 40 Su-76 Widowmakers would be loaded onto the aircraft carrier, able to do almost any mission.


For air defense, technology was used between the Munter project and this one. 30 batteries of the Ewigkeit SAMs are strategically placed around the airfract carrier. In an emergency, a total of 240 SAMs could be launched nearly simultaneously, and another 240 could be fired in as little as 30 seconds. The Ewigkeit missile has an effective range of 300 miles, and can target both planes and missiles, being guided by LIDAR, RADAR, infrared, thermal imaging, and GPS positioning.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.


As the CIWS, 50 modified DREAD guns are used. These too are guided by LIDAR on top of the classic array of detection systems, which can target not only incoming missiles, but also low-flying enemy aircraft as well. The last line of defense against missiles is the Phalanx system which has a short range but is virtually guaranteed to land hits.

This ship has the classic array of detection technology, including RADAR, LIDAR, SONAR, the whole works.


Armor:

The ship's hull is made up of a titanium alloy, depleted uranium, and reinforced ceramic armor. The hull is reinforced below the waterline to protect against torpedos, as well as the keel.

Realizing the threat of anti-dreadnought missiles being used against this ship, the flight deck was reinforced and has another layer of armor right below it.

This ship is a survivor. You could put a hundred missiles into it and it's designed to stay afloat, hell, odds are it could continue flight operations if the top wasn't hit too badly.


Propulsion:

For this ship, four Pebblebed reactors are used. They each turn a five-blade screw at the speed wanted. The top speed is 36 knots, although that rarely happens since a task force can only go as fast as it's slowest ship.


Specifications:

Length: 1,480 feet
Width: 284 feet
Height (keel to top): 328 feet
Waterline to Flight Deck: 83 feet (average)
Draft: 19 feet

Top Speed: 36 Knots
Crusing Range: Infinite

Crew, Full Strength: 6,180 (3,450 air)
Crew, Minimum Strength: 580

Currently only four of these have been built.

LBS-740 Gewahlt
LBS-741 Morden
LBS-742 Strick
LBS-743 Vormund

Cost: $7 Billion USD.

Bargain Basement is officially open for business on the international market now. The first order gets a 10% discount.

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Name of Weapon:FIBS with the guns
Individual Cost:500,000
Number Buying:1 million
Total Cost:500 billion
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate:none

To: Rebeled Elves
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of one million Frontline Infantry Combat Suits (FIBS) has been processed and confirmed. Due to the sheer size of the order, they will be delivered in portions over the next one year. We hope you enjoy your new weapons of war, and as the first customer, you reveive a 10% discount. The total cost os $450 Billion USD.

-Bargain Basement

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im fighitn you...lmao...j/k

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Neptunea is on a complete overhaul of our armed forces. We wish to purchase:

5000 FESTUNG--$30,OOO,OOO EACH
$150,000,000,000

5000 SCHWARTE--$12,000,000
$60,000,000,000

$210,000,000,000 will be wired on confirmation

To: Neptunea
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of five thousand OkW V "Festung"s and 5000 Schwartes has been processed and confirmed. The order will be shipped in increments over the next ten months. We hope you enjoy your new weapons of war, and it has been an honor serving your great nation.

-Bargain Basement

The Su-79 "Vorbei" Next-Generation Air Superiority
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Overview

Height: 17'10''
Wingspan: 45'6''
Length: 60'2''
Hardpoints: 10
G Limits: +17/-15 (auto), +10/-6 (manual)
Engines: 2x turbofans, approximately 88,000lbs of thrust. Can vector for maneuverability and STOL. Uses augmentation similar to Su-37.
Max Speed: Mach 4.2
Max Safe Speed: Mach 3.5
Cruise Speed: Mach 2.3
Stall Speed: 30 knots (vector@-80)
Climb Rate: 90,000ft/min
Ceiling: 71,000 feet
Landing/Takeoff Distance Minimum: 100 meters
Max Range: 2,000 nautical miles

Weight, Empty: 11,500lbs
Weight, Fuel: 9,000lbs
Weight, Max Loadout: 26,500lbs
Weight/Thrust Ratio: 3.3:1 (max loadout)

Overview:

Extreme! That's what the Osten Luftwaffe wanted in a new aircraft to combat the enemy airforces of the future. This aircraft is the result of nearly five years of hard research and half a trillion dollars. The design was based off of the Su-77 Keiler, and taken one step further, increased performance and maneuverability, a better bang for the buck, and a new system:

Computerized. The aircraft can be flown in either mode:

1) Computer control--give it a mission and it does it for you.
2) Manual--Pilot in Cockpit.

In test runs a pilot was used, but for more extreme stuntwork and testing, the computer system was tested out. It is designed to complete any missions assigned to it, through any means possible while still coming home. The combat system is equal to any veteran pilot's skills, with more maneuverability. The STOL technology was incorporated due to the need to take off and land on short runways--namely the deck of a Zealous-class superdreadnought.

The Su-79 Vorbei was the better of two aircraft, the cancelled project was the Su-78 Geige, and is designed to slowly phase out the Keiler.

Weaponry

The Vorbei has twelve external hardpoints, designed to carry either an air to air missile (Amraam or Sidewinder), an air to ground missile, or a 500lb bomb (usually JDAMs). The difference is that the missiles have been souped up to include lidar, infrared, GPS, and radar tracking. While more expensive, it virtually guarantees hits.

The secondary weapon is a 30mm cannon with an ammo supply of 300 rounds. 300 rounds might not sound like much, but 30mm can do a lot of damage to a plane.

Defenses:

The plane is constructed out of a titanium alloy, combined with carbon-carbon compunds similar to the C60 Buckyball matrix used on armored vehicles. This doubles as a resistor to extreme heat and forces, as well as confusing radar by deflecting and sending many signals in return.


Other:

EMP hardened: Yes

Cost: $200 million USD.

The "Panzerfurcht" Shoulder Mounted Missile Launcher
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/kornet/images/kornet4.jpg

Overview

Something was needed to allow the infantryman to combat the armor deployed by enemy armies across the world, yet was cheap and a big bang for the buck. The Science Division answered more effectively then planned, combining the SMAW and FIM-92A Stinger into one powerful weapon, killing two birds with one stone.


Weapon Design

There are two variants of this weapon. The first is an antitank weapon, classified as a HEAT warhead. This missile is the one pictured above. The stabalizor fins deploy after the weapon is fired. Combined with a tracking system, the missile homes in on its target unrelentingly. Fire and forget, mate. The max range is two miles.

The second one is this:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/images/Figure3.gif

This missile is designed to go up into the sky and hunt down enemy aircraft. It uses a gel-based fuel to propel the missile up to speeds approaching Mach 6, and has a range of nearly 20 miles. SAMs have been brought to a new level: the individual level. This missile also has the same trakcking systems as the Ewigkeit missiles from which the idea was based.

Both msisiles are designed to be fired from the same three-inch launcher.

HEAT Penetration: 3,500mm
SAM Effectiveness: 75% (varies on soldier's timing and aircraft)


This weapon is designed where the launcher is disposable if necessary, the control module (a computer and screen with night vision and GPS locator), can be deatched and taken elsewhere.

The ammo crate for this will include three STS missiles and one STA missile, for each anti-armor soldier.


Best Used in...

Urban Combat, defensive
Urban Combat, offensive
Scouting Missions, Defensive

Cost: $5,000 USD

The VT-I "Neblig" Attack Helicopter
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/comanche/images/comanche12.jpg

Overview:

The AH-66 Comanche was not enough on the modern battlefield. No, sir. The Osten Wehrmacht needed a more effective platform, and this is where the Science Division came into play. They decided to take the current Comanche chassis, and simply soup it up. Hence, the Neblig was born.


Weaponry

The primary form of attack is a large number of small Hellfire rockets, launched from pods on both sides of the helicopter. A volley of 64 rockets can be laid down on an enemy within ten seconds, making this an effective weapon of suppression. For antitank purposes, the same missile used on the Panzerfurcht was loaded onto here--a total of 16 to be loaded out onto the helicopter These missiles have an effective range of three miles, well out of range of ground fire yet within range to do some serious damage. There are also two DREAD guns loaded with 7.62mm ammo for infantry support. All these powerful systems are controlled by the pilot.

Lastly, there is a 30mm cannon loaded on the front of the helicopter, which has 500 rounds of ammunition. This is used to lay down fire and attack lighter vehicles (APCs, Humvees, BMPs, etc...)


Defenses

This helicopter features a mounted LIDAR array, when combined with the DREAD guns, makes for an effective anti-missile platform. This reduces the chance of an enemy SAM hitting the helicopter, hence increasing survivability. Second, the army is now a carbon-carbon composite similar to the C60 Buckyball matrix used on tanks. This doubles as a passive jammer and armor. It jams radar in that when one enemy radar signal hits it, it sends several in return, none of which are at the correct coordinates.


Specs:

Length: 37'10''
Width: 12'0''
Height: 9'6''

Weight, Empty: 6,800lbs
Weight, Fuel: 3,000lbs
Weight, Max Loadout: 18,000lbs

Propulsion: Turbofan engine similar to those used on fighter jets. Gives about 6,000lbs of thrust. Rotor is powered through another engine.
Top Speed: 210mph
Ceiling: 18,000ft

Cost: 40 million.

The Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/astros/images/astros4.jpg
"A joint Lame Bums/Neptunea project."


Overview

The time changed, the world changed, the politics changed. While the ground forces were undoubtedly the best in the world, the Osten Wehrmacht wasn't simply going to get complacent and sit back. They kept driving forward with all the money they received from research. This time, they expanded outward. The MRLS was developted jointly between Bargain Basement and Excalibur Armaments, of the PRN. This was designed to put down a lot of fire and get out before the enemy cound respond. Shoot and scoot.


Armor Design

This vehicle is not designed to be a fontline vehicle - as such it's not armed or armored like a battle tank. The vehicle has a crew of three: a driver, a gunner, and a missile man. The gunner controls a 7.62mm machine gun which is controlled through a periscope view (the machine gun is sticking out of the top). The vehicle has one inch of MEXAS armor, which gives it a RHE value of approximately 350mm - enough to stop small arms, machine gun, and smaller cannons.


Weaponry

This is a small, fast, cheap, and powerful weapon system. The weapon can be deployed and ready to fire within 15 seconds. When it does, it unleashes a hellish volley of 32 missiles within 10 seconds. These missiles are similar in dimensions to the Ewigkeit SAMs, except they are powered by gel fuel instead of solid fuel. They are loaded with 200lbs of OctaNitroCubane, with a maximum range of fifty miles. With the nearby support vehicle, the missile battery can be loaded again within sixty seconds, ready to fire again.


Specifications:

Weight: 6 tons
Engine: 400 horsepower, Fuel cell powered
Horsepower ratio: 66.67 hp/ton

Top Speed: 84 miles per hour
Range: 600 miles

Cost: $800,000

The Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht" Anti-Capital Ship Missile
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/nw/0082.jpg


Overview

Navies across the world were getting larger and more powerful, and so were their ships. Despite the Osten Kriegsmarine's new funding and vessels, it simply wasn't going to be enough, particulary against ships such as the Hrimfaxi, the Oseat, the Zealous, among others. True to Bumsian personalities and tactics, they turned to a simple solution to solve a complicated problem. Instead of matching the enemy ship for ship and ton for ton, why not sink the enemy instead with little cost?

Enter the Schifffurcht, the first attack missile designed by the Science Division.


How it Works

This missile is launched from any suitable launcher (ground, air, or naval) with a specific target (typically, an Aircraft Carrier or Dreadnought). The missile then flies up to nearly 100,000 feet - the brink of space. The missile withstands the extreme valocity with the came carbon-carbon skin that is used on so many of the other weapons used by the Osten Wehrmacht. When directly over the target, it goes vertical, plunging into the target at speeds exceeding Mach 8, piercing the hull of the enemy ship. Simultaneously, the nuclear reaction is ignited for four ounces of enriched plutonium.

This causes a nuclear explosion with a yield of approximately 7 kT. While small compared to even the Hiroshima bomb, this is more than enough to rip the largest of ships to shreds, with an effective blast radius of approximately one kilometer.

This differs from other anti-dreadnought because it flies vertical, not like a mortar shot would.

Even if the missile doesn't penetrate the ship's armor (unlikely, it usually pierces), it will go off on the surface, causing heavy damage and rendering the topside unusuable for months if not years.

This is the time we live in. A one million dollar solution to a one billion dollar problem.


Dimensions

Length: 9 feet
Width: 12 inches
Propulsion: Gel fuel engine, one time use.
Arnament: 7.0kT nuclear explosion
Range: 120 miles

Cost: 2.0 million each.

The Ostkampfwagen VI "Trotzig" Main Battle Tank
http://www.defense-update.com/images/merkava-4.jpg

Overview

Complacency is a sure way to the path of defeat. With Bargain Basement poised to seize power in the nation, they were ready to unleash a secret weapon: a supertank which was nearly indescructible yet was still affordable. It had to fit the comparatively small budget of the company, as opposed to the government. Hence, the Trotzig was born.

Trotzig is German for "defiant."


Armor Design

The first layer of this armor on this tank is one of Electric Reactive Armor, or ERA for short.

Recent research has produced the idea of Electric Reactive Armour, where the armour is made up of two electrically charged plates separated by an insulator. When an incoming body penetrates the two plates and closes the circuit, a high current and voltage will flow through the penetrator, and tend to vaporize it, and significantly reduce the resulting penetration. This technology has not been introduced on any operational platform.


The second layer is the primary one, that of the C60 Buckyballs. To reduce cost and weight, the thickness was reduced to 120mm from the heavy tank this was designed to replace. The buckyball matrix is reinforced with ADBOND, a diamond helix, and small amounts of supercooled liquids within the buckyballs. The first two stop SABOTs and KEs, the third stops HEATs.

In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

The third layer is also a new one, a composite of titanium and depleted U-238 (uranium). The crew is protected from the radiation by a final layer of carbon composite.

Total Protection: 7,800mm


Weaponry:

This tank uses a 155mm ETC cannon, which has a range of nearly nine miles on a good day. This tank is typically loaded with shells that have a core of Depleted Uranium, which shreds most metals (enemy tanks as well) like tissue paper. The recoil is diffused through an array of micro-springs.

But there's an advantage over the Feuerfest... The gun is automatically loaded, this increasing the firing rate from 8/min to nearly 20/min. That's once every three seconds. The computer uses RADAR, LIDAR, infrared, and GPS imagery to determine where the enemy tank is, and where to place the shot to put the enemy tank out fo commission.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

The coaxial weapon is a 37mm cannon which is also auto loaded. This is designed to take out APCs and other light vehicles with ease. The forward machine gunner has a 7.62mm machine gun which has 2,000 bullets at a rate of approximately 900 rpm. The commander's weapon is the DREAD gun, modified to support use of a LIDAR array. The computer then takes that data and accurately targets incoming enemy missiles, planes, and helicopters with the gun.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.


Other Defenses:

There is a new defense array mounted on this tank, rendering most enemy tanks useless anyways.

Scrambles enemy laser rangefinder, making it nearly impossible for enemy tank to fire, unless they guess the range. Also scrambles enemy communications systems and tracking systems. Also interferes with enemy laser-based systems and laser-type weapons by using a controlled beam of ultraviolet rays to scatter the laser (communications systems, weapons systems, rangefinder systems).

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, landmines, aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

Anti artillery, anti targeting, anti mine.


Specifications:

Length: 458 inches
Width: 162 inches
Height: 90 inches
Weight: 79 tons
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 2,000 horsepower
Pressure: 21.29 PSI
Horsepower/Ton Ratio: 25.31

Top Speed: 57 mph
Speed, 10 slope: 43 mph
Speed, 60 slope: 9 mph

Weaponry: 155mm ETC gun
Coaxial: 37mm autocannon
Forward: 7.62mm machine gun
Commander: DREAD/LIDAR array

Cost: 28 Million

The Gewehr-29 "Knebel" Assault Rifle
http://www.bushmaster.com/shopping/m17s/30-900-sa.jpg


Overview

The G-25 was a great weapon, outdistancing the competition by some 400 meters on average, with virtually guaranteed one-hit kills, and was inexpensive. But the Science Division was always seeking to advance their technology, most obstensibly to counter weapons such as the OSAR, the CAR-22, and others. Hence, the G-29 was born--with even more versatility than the G-25, but the size of a submachine gun.

This incorporates many of the same technology used in the G-25, except again, it is smaller, lighter, and faster. Unlike the current M4/M16 direct gas system with gas tube, the G-29 gas system does not introduce propellant gases and the associated carbon fouling back into the weapon’s receiver during firing. This greatly increases the reliability of the G-29 while at same time reducing operator cleaning time by as much as 70%. This system also allows the weapon to fire more than 15,000 rounds without lubrication or cleaning in even the worst operational environments.

The bullets are not your standard lead core either. These bullets were manufactured with a U-238 (depleted uranium) core, making for extreme penetration capability and deadliness.

Combined with the most advanced in laser targeting, it can accurately relay the information back through the scope to the owner of the weapon the range of the enemy, as well as the suggested trajectory to fire the weapon. It can fire in three round bursts, on semi auto, and on full auto.

There are two modes of fire. The primary form is a 6.70mm shot. The secondary form is a 24mm HEAT shell, with eight rounds loaded. This is effective for taking out lighter vehicles such as ghetto-fied vehicles or military Humvees.

Lastly, there's one wildcard. The bullet is slightly larger for a reason. The shell itself has a small amount of cyanide encased in it. When it hits an enemy soldier, even if the wound is not fatal, the cyanide will spread through them, temporarily incapcitating or killing them over time.

This weapon has been fully integrated into the FIBS combat system, although export versions will continue to use the Gewehr-25.

There are numerous variants and addons which can be used with this weapon, and they are as follows:
40mm Grenade Launcher
Side-mounted Bayonet
Sharpshooter version (improved scope, longer barrel)
Heavy Assault Version (100 round drum barrel, longer barrel, foldable bipod)
Compact version (shorter barrel)
Fast, powerful, quiet.

Specifications:
6.70mm caliber/30 round magazine
24mm caliber/8 round magazine
1200mm range
5.9lbs weight
19 inch length
Cost: $10,000

Dude, 10,000 for an assualt rifle?

That is not a bargain.

Name of Weapon: Su-79 "Vorbei"
Individual Cost: 200 Mill
Number Buying: 458
Total Cost: 91,600,000,000$

PoodleHat however large its military has determined it nessary to have an automated air defence fighter to conserve on training costs and the loss of human pilots.

If possable could the planes be painted with PoodleHats national markings for an extra 5,000$ under the table? :cool:

Dude, 10,000 for an assualt rifle?

These are not cheapo repo things this is top of the line, i can fund a war with that much cash but i will trust 458 of the best fighters vs 10000 of anything else.

Due To Expanded Intrest PoodleHat would like to submit and seprate additional order.

Name of Weapon: Gewahlt class Aircraft Carrier
Individual Cost: 7 Billion
Number Buying: 2
Total Cost: $14,000,000,000

Also Im interested if you have any law enforcement tech.
And Airal Troop Transports.

Name of Weapon: The Panzerfurcht antitank/antiair shoulder launched weapon.
Individual Cost: 5,000 USD
Number Buying: 7500
Total Cost: 37,500,000 USD



Name of Weapon: The Nachluft II "Ewigkeit" SAM -
Individual Cost: 10,000,000 USD
Number Buying: 200
Total Cost: 2,000,000,000 USD


Name of Weapon: The Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS
Individual Cost: 800,000 USD
Number Buying: 300
Total Cost: 240,000,000 USD


Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: Neither, purely for defense.


Total = 2.2775 USD (2,277,500,000)

^&*BuMp*&^

Name of Weapon:FIBS with the guns
Individual Cost:500,000
Number Buying:1 million
Total Cost:500 billion
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate:None, required for use in military

^:fluffle:^
[BUMP]

Leafanistan wishes to upgrade its military, as many components have exceeded their estimated life-span and are only surviving on spare parts.

We will purchase 4,000 of your Su-79s for a price of 800 Billion USD to replace the aging F-22s we have.

We will purchase 400 of your Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht" Anti-Capital Ship Missile to get a not so environmentaly friendly answer to Super-Dreadnoughts we see our neighbors purchasing. This will cost us another 800 million USD.

We will also purchase 400 of your Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS. Another 320 Million USD to your coffers.

Thank you,
Head of procurement, blah blah blah

[END Diplomatic hoo-hah talk]

Order Form

Name of Weapon: Su-79
Individual Cost: 200 million USD
Number Buying: 4000
Total Cost: 800 billion USD

Name of Weapon: Anti-Capital Ship Missile
Individual Cost: 2 Million USD
Number Buying: 400
Total Cost: 800 million USD

Name of Weapon: MRLS
Individual Cost: 800 thousand USD
Number Buying: 400
Total Cost: 320 Million USD

Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: I am a member of the alliances in my signature, and have a space foothold with my allies, McKagan, and Halberdgardia.

OOC: Forgot to mention before, the Nagasaki bomb was 21 kilotons, a 10 kiloton tactical nuke could devastate a modern city, so a couple of orders of magnitude up from Hiroshima (9-15 kilotons) will do serious damage. For the first time in my life, I sure hope a super-dreadnought's armor holds.

I also just read your definition for plasma in your ETC guns, cute joke.

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Leafanistan wishes to upgrade its military, as many components have exceeded their estimated life-span and are only surviving on spare parts.

We will purchase 4,000 of your Su-79s for a price of 800 Billion USD to replace the aging F-22s we have.

We will purchase 400 of your Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht" Anti-Capital Ship Missile to get a not so environmentaly friendly answer to Super-Dreadnoughts we see our neighbors purchasing. This will cost us another 800 million USD.

We will also purchase 400 of your Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS. Another 320 Million USD to your coffers.

Thank you,
Head of procurement, blah blah blah

[END Diplomatic hoo-hah talk]

Order Form

Name of Weapon: Su-79
Individual Cost: 200 million USD
Number Buying: 4000
Total Cost: 800 billion USD

Name of Weapon: Anti-Capital Ship Missile
Individual Cost: 2 Million USD
Number Buying: 400
Total Cost: 800 million USD

Name of Weapon: MRLS
Individual Cost: 800 thousand USD
Number Buying: 400
Total Cost: 320 Million USD

Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: I am a member of the alliances in my signature, and have a space foothold with my allies, McKagan, and Halberdgardia.

OOC: Forgot to mention before, the Nagasaki bomb was 21 kilotons, a 10 kiloton tactical nuke could devastate a modern city, so a couple of orders of magnitude up from Hiroshima (9-15 kilotons) will do serious damage. For the first time in my life, I sure hope a super-dreadnought's armor holds.

I also just read your definition for plasma in your ETC guns, cute joke.

[OOC: I thought the Hiroshima bomb was 3mT. I'll check it out a bit more.]

To: Leafanistan
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of four thousand Su-79s, 400 FM-1s, and four hundred MRLS has been processed and confirmed. The Su-79s will be delivered in ten months, and missiles in two months, and the MRLS in one year. We thank you for your business, and hope you enjoy your new weapons of war.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

Name of Weapon: Su-79 "Vorbei"
Individual Cost: 200 Mill
Number Buying: 458
Total Cost: 91,600,000,000$

PoodleHat however large its military has determined it nessary to have an automated air defence fighter to conserve on training costs and the loss of human pilots.

If possable could the planes be painted with PoodleHats national markings for an extra 5,000$ under the table? :cool:



These are not cheapo repo things this is top of the line, i can fund a war with that much cash but i will trust 458 of the best fighters vs 10000 of anything else.

To: PoodleHat
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 458 Su-79s has been processed and confirmed. This order will take approximately thgree months to complete, and will be painted with your insignia at no cost, as a gesture of goodwill. It has been an honor serving your nation.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

Due To Expanded Intrest PoodleHat would like to submit and seprate additional order.

Name of Weapon: Gewahlt class Aircraft Carrier
Individual Cost: 7 Billion
Number Buying: 2
Total Cost: $14,000,000,000

Also Im interested if you have any law enforcement tech.
And Airal Troop Transports.

To: PoodleHat
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of two Gewahlt-class aircraft carriers has been processed and confirmed. This will take approximately one year to complete at the Al Basrah shipyards, and will be shipped ASAP. We hope you enjoy your new weapons of war.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

[OOC: About attack helos--I just use the UH-60Blackhawk, as my helo tech is very limited. However, we could work on a joint project if you'd like.]

Name of Weapon: The Panzerfurcht antitank/antiair shoulder launched weapon.
Individual Cost: 5,000 USD
Number Buying: 7500
Total Cost: 37,500,000 USD



Name of Weapon: The Nachluft II "Ewigkeit" SAM -
Individual Cost: 10,000,000 USD
Number Buying: 200
Total Cost: 2,000,000,000 USD


Name of Weapon: The Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS
Individual Cost: 800,000 USD
Number Buying: 300
Total Cost: 240,000,000 USD


Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: Neither, purely for defense.


Total = 2.2775 USD (2,277,500,000)

To: Kinshar
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 7,500 Panzerfurchts, 200 Ewigkeits, and 300 Ukufas has been processed and confirmed. This order will take approximately six months to complete. It has been an honor serving your nation.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

Name of Weapon:FIBS with the guns
Individual Cost:500,000
Number Buying:1 million
Total Cost:500 billion
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate:None, required for use in military

To: Skinny87
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 1 million FIBS suits has been processed and confirmed. This will take approximately one year to complete. We appreciate and thank you for your business.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

The Su-80 "Posaune" Attack Aircraft
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/images/stukas.jpg


Overview

The designers decided to go back to the basics of precision bombing when designing a new attack aircraft. It was deemed at the outset that the Su-76 Widowmaker was to remain in service, and that a close in ground supporter was needed--a role the A-10 was simply outdated to handle. Ergo, they went back to the original Stuka, the grandfather of attack planes. Hence, this is how the Posaune was born.

There are a few differences between this and the Stuka, as a plane which does 175 m.p.h. on the modern battlefield is a sitting duck. First, the old prop engine was removed and replaced with two high performance jets on the back. Second, the wings were swept back at a 25 degree angle to reduce drag, allowing the plane to go supersonic. Third, the cockpit was streamlined, again for the purpose of reducing drag. Fourth, the old steel armor was removed and replaced with a carbon-carbon compound similar to the C60 Buckyballs. That serves the triple purpose of improved armor, radar deflection, and weight reduction. Lastly, the plane is, for lack of a better description, bigger.

The horn was kept, as that's what makes the distinct sound when the plane is in a dive, mainly for psychological reasons.

The arnament is a new one for the Osten Luftwaffe, although the idea has been around since WWII. The forward gun on the plane is not the 30mm cannon found on the A-10 or most other attack aircraft. It is a 75mm cannon, fed by a belt into a large, rapid firing cannon, firing shells with a Depleted Uranium core. The plane has 100 rounds loaded, taking up the space left behind by the old prop engine. The gun can fire at approximately 150 rpm, making this plane excellent for tank busting roles--indeed, an all-round anti-ground weapon.

The plane also has a whopping fourteen hardpoints for loading fuel tanks, missiles, or JDAMs and other bombs, and taking that to the enemy.

This aircraft carries the classic array of offensive measures such as radar, lidar, and electronic countermeasures, along with flares and chaff.

Posaune is German for "trombone."

Specifications

Height: 16'8''
Wingspan: 59'6''
Length: 54'2''
Hardpoints: 14
G Limits: +8/-6
Engines: 2x turbofans, approximately 66,000lbs of thrust.
Max Speed: Mach 1.3
Max Safe Speed: Mach 0.75
Cruise Speed: Mach 0.67
Stall Speed: 80 knots
Climb Rate: 46,000ft/min
Ceiling: 68,000ft
Landing/Takeoff Distance Minimum: 180 meters
Max Range: 1,000 nautical miles (regular), increases with extra fuel tanks

Weight, Empty: 14,200lbs
Weight, Fuel: 6,000lbs
Weight, Max Loadout: 43,200lbs
Weight/Thrust Ratio: 1.53:1 (max loadout)

Cost: 30 Million.

hey, my military spending is 0% acording to thirdgeek stats. How can I buy things?

[OOC: Let's just assume you spend money on defense. I hate economy calculators, and RP my own numbers anyway.]

How much shld I assume i can spend?

My government waste is $250 billion, shall i just spend that?

[OOC: Accepted.]

The Ostkampfwagen VI "Trotzig" Main Battle Tank
http://www.defense-update.com/images/merkava-4.jpg

Overview

Complacency is a sure way to the path of defeat. With Bargain Basement poised to seize power in the nation, they were ready to unleash a secret weapon: a supertank which was nearly indescructible yet was still affordable. It had to fit the comparatively small budget of the company, as opposed to the government. Hence, the Trotzig was born.

Trotzig is German for "defiant."


Armor Design

The first layer of this armor on this tank is one of Electric Reactive Armor, or ERA for short.

Recent research has produced the idea of Electric Reactive Armour, where the armour is made up of two electrically charged plates separated by an insulator. When an incoming body penetrates the two plates and closes the circuit, a high current and voltage will flow through the penetrator, and tend to vaporize it, and significantly reduce the resulting penetration. This technology has not been introduced on any operational platform.


The second layer is the primary one, that of the C60 Buckyballs. To reduce cost and weight, the thickness was reduced to 120mm from the heavy tank this was designed to replace. The buckyball matrix is reinforced with ADBOND, a diamond helix, and small amounts of supercooled liquids within the buckyballs. The first two stop SABOTs and KEs, the third stops HEATs.

In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

The third layer is also a new one, a composite of titanium and depleted U-238 (uranium). The crew is protected from the radiation by a final layer of carbon composite.

Total Protection: 9,000mm


Weaponry and Targeting:

This tank uses a 155mm ETC cannon, which has a range of nearly nine miles on a good day. This tank is typically loaded with shells that have a core of Depleted Uranium, which shreds most metals (enemy tanks as well) like tissue paper. The recoil is diffused through an array of micro-springs.

But there's an advantage over the Feuerfest... The gun is automatically loaded, this increasing the firing rate from 8/min to nearly 20/min. That's once every three seconds. The computer uses RADAR, LIDAR, infrared, and GPS imagery to determine where the enemy tank is, and where to place the shot to put the enemy tank out fo commission.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

The coaxial weapon is a 37mm cannon which is also auto loaded. This is designed to take out APCs and other light vehicles with ease. The forward machine gunner has a 7.62mm machine gun which has 2,000 bullets at a rate of approximately 900 rpm. The commander's weapon is the DREAD gun, modified to support use of a LIDAR array. The computer then takes that data and accurately targets incoming enemy missiles, planes, and helicopters with the gun.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.

The new fire and control system present on the Pz. X, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. This was in turn ripped from the Macabees in the quest for improved sensors and targeting. 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.
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[I got the production rights for his tank a while back.]



Other Defenses:

There is a new defense array mounted on this tank, rendering most enemy tanks useless anyways.

Scrambles enemy laser rangefinder, making it nearly impossible for enemy tank to fire, unless they guess the range. Also scrambles enemy communications systems and tracking systems. Also interferes with enemy laser-based systems and laser-type weapons by using a controlled beam of ultraviolet rays to scatter the laser (communications systems, weapons systems, rangefinder systems).

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, landmines, aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

Anti artillery, anti targeting, anti mine.


Specifications:

Length: 458 inches
Width: 162 inches
Height: 90 inches
Weight: 79 tons
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 2,000 horsepower
Pressure: 21.29 PSI
Horsepower/Ton Ratio: 25.31

Top Speed: 57 mph
Speed, 10 slope: 43 mph
Speed, 60 slope: 9 mph

Weaponry: 155mm ETC gun
Coaxial: 37mm autocannon
Forward: 7.62mm machine gun
Commander: DREAD/LIDAR array

Cost: $30 Million

The Abfuhr-class All Purpose Destroyer
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Overview

Improve, Improve, Improve! That's what the Osten Kreigsmarine needed to keep pace with navis across the world. With Bargain Basement in control of the Corporate Republic, trhe research departments were given the funding necessary to go all out with new designs. This design was in a joint venture between Bargain Basement and Guns! Guns! Guns!, a company which specialized in the expanding naval field. Hence, the Ahfuhr-class destroyer was borh--a second generation destroyer on par with the Manstein yet able to dispatch the Raptior--and not break the bank.

Abfuhr is German for "removal" as they will remove the enemy's presence.


Weaponry

This destroyer is packin'. The direct mode of attack comes in two batteries of 250mm railguns, with two guns on each. They have an effective range of fifty miles, and have gone even further when fired with SCRAMjet rounds. The ship uses GPS positioning to determine where to fire over such a distance, and it's up to the crew to press the button.

For closer range (dealing with PT boats and such), the ship has twelve DREAD guns which can easily put a smaller craft out of comission. For anti missile purposes, the DREAD guns can be linked up with a LIDAR array to target incoming enemy missiles, doubling as a CIWS, similar to the R2D2 used on the Nimitz. Another wildcard: The DREADs can be pointed down at the water to create an inpenetrable wall of steel balls for an enemy torpedo to cross, hence reducing the effectiveness of torpedoes.

For long range bombardment, a total of 200 Tomahawk missiles are loaded and can be fired with ease.

For anti air and anti missile, the ship is loaded with eight Nachluft II Ewigkeit batteries. That means a total of 64 missiles can be shot off in a matter of seconds, striking down an enemy air force before it even got close. They can also double as anti missile platforms, rendering those useless. A total of two thousand missiles are stored within the ship in handypacks of four which can be quickly loaded and fired again.

Lastly, the ship comes with four Schifffurcht anti-Capital Ship missiles for dealing with larger ships such as Superdreadnoughts, Aircraft Carriers, and Battleships.


Armor Design

This ship's outer armor is a carbon-carbon compound coating similar to C60 Buckyballs. This doubles as a radar deflector and also resists outside forces (example: enemy torpedo or missile). The primary armor is a tungsten-titanium alloy. Due to the cost of tungsten, it's less than 1%, but it's that 1% that matters.


The total protection value is approximately 1200mm.

The ship is also coated with an amount of anti-cavitation technology to further reduce the threat of torpedoes.


Anti Submarine Warfare

The ship incorporates a radical new technology, designed to combat newer, stealthier submarines, most obstensibly the Raptior. The new sonar system is a towed sonar array. Unlike traditional sonar, which was a single beacon mounted on the hull, this one is thrown overboard the rear of the ship. Instead of a single beacon, this one has many small beacons which send out SONAR signals, much like the lights on a Christmas tree.

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A diagram of the Towed Sonar Array in action.

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Signal returns of a regular sonar.


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Signal returns of the Towed Array Sonar.

This can detect the stealthiest of subs at nearly thirty nautical miles out, and the regular ones as far away as sixty miles. So ends the supremacy of the submarine in warfare.


Specifications

Power Plant: 2 Pebblebed nuclear reactors, turning four screws
Length: 466 feet
Beam: 59 feet
Displacement: 8,300 tons
Speed: 37 knots
Aircraft: One Sea King ASW chopper


Cost: $600 Million.

Due to worsening diplomatic relations with one of our neighbours, the Great Fisherman's Air Force requires:

Name of Weapon:Su-80 'Posaune'
Individual Cost:$30 million
Number Buying:32
Total Cost:$960 millon
Cost wired on confirmation.

Long live the Great Fisherman!
May he land the big one!

To: Evil Aquatic Creatures
From: Bargain Basement

Your order of 32 Su-80s has been processed and confirmed. This order will take approximately two weeks to complete. We hope you enjoy your new weapons of war, and wish you best of luck in diplomacy.

-Bargain Basement
-60 Years: 1944-2004

The Feuermelder II "Ausgang" Cruise Missile
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Overview

Something was needed for a long range strike - a powerful strike. The Tomahawk cruise missile simply wasn't going to cut it. It had the range but neither the speed nor the power to cause appreciable damage. A bit of wrangling in the Science Division ensued, and this missile was the result. A powerful, long-range, versatile missile.

This missile uses a gel-based propellant, powering the missile at speeds approaching Mach 5. This gives it the speed necessary to avoid most anti-missile defenses, coupled with flying low over the terrain straight into the target. The missile is coated in a skin of a carbon-carbon composite similar to the C60 Buckyballs used on many armored vehicles. This doubles as a radar deflector and a resistor to extreme heat and pressure, which allows the missile to go at that speed.

The missile is guided by radar, lidar, thermal, and GPS imagery to hone in upon a target, slamming into it at speeds exceeding Mach 5. Then, a 1,500lb warhead of OctaNitroCubane ignites, causing a massive explosion, putting the target out of comission and likely destroying anything else nearby. (For the tech-illiterate, OctaNitroCubane was developed in 2000, and is about 25% more effective than the explosives currently used.) This missile can target anything of size (military Humvees, tanks, SAMs, surface ships, pillboxes, etc etc.)

Another wildcard...this missile has been created to fit into the existing Project Moerder platform, a massive platform hovering above the capital city loaded with SAMs. This makes the Moerder platform a viable offensive weapon, capable of launching cruise missiles also.

Ausgang is German for "exit."


Specifications

Weight: 3,500lbs
Warhead: 1500lbs
Length: 15'0''
Width: 1'9''
Range: 1600 miles

Cost: $2 Million

Bumpage >.<

The Ostkampfwagen VII "Schutzblech"

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Overview

With the sudden and unexpected transportation of Lame Bums in it's entirety from the mountains of Iran to the open plains of Russia, it was immediately evident that even more so now than before, tank supremacy was a priority, a priority to survival. Ergo, the Science Division was pressed into the task of designing yet another tank design, geared more towards speed and firepower, yet completely modern, cheap, and well protected. The end result is the Schutzblech.

It is German for "fender".


Armor Design

The first layer of armor is that of Electric Reactive Armor, or EleRA for short.

Recent research has produced the idea of Electric Reactive Armour, where the armour is made up of two electrically charged plates separated by an insulator. When an incoming body penetrates the two plates and closes the circuit, a high current and voltage will flow through the penetrator, and tend to vaporize it, and significantly reduce the resulting penetration.

The second layer is 90cm of C60 Buckyballs, coated in ADBOND, reinforced by a diamond helix, and Thermium Pipage as well. What remains of a HEAT round aftert passing through the EleRA is nullified here, and the Buckyballs tend to make KE rounds bounce off--literally. The Buckyballs have made Lame Bums tanks famous around the world, and one diplomat was ovserved saying:

If you fire a depleted uranium shell ad a Lame Bums tank it bounces off like a fucking superball.

In 1990, five years after the first synthesis of buckyballs, German and American scientists independently made larger quantities of buckyballs. They heated graphite rods to a high temperature by passing an electric current between them, then separated the fullerenes from other carbon compounds in the resulting soot (fine carbon particles). About 75 per cent of the crystals were C60 molecules, 23 per cent were C70 and the rest were larger molecules. Soon after this manufacturing breakthrough, dozens of groups around the world were making fullerenes. It wasn't long before research papers began to appear at the rate of almost one a day.

The not-so-new form of carbon

But it turns out that we've actually been making fullerenes unknowingly for thousands of years – whenever we burn a candle or an oil lamp. The candle's flickering flame vaporises wax molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Some of these molecules burn instantly in the blue heart of the flame. Others move upwards into the yellow tip where the temperature is great enough to split them apart. The result is carbon-rich soot particles that glow, giving off gentle yellow light. Amid this soot are buckyballs.

Buckyballs also exist in interstellar dust and in geological formations on Earth. So while they are new to science they are reasonably common in nature.

Chemical and physical properties of buckyballs

Buckyballs and other fullerenes intrigue scientists because of their chemistry and their unusual hollow, cage-like shape. Buckyballs are extremely stable and can withstand very high temperatures and pressures. The carbon atoms of buckyballs can react with other atoms and molecules, leaving the stable, spherical structure intact. Researchers are interested in creating new molecules by adding other molecules to the outside of a buckyball and also in the possibility of trapping smaller molecules inside a buckyball.

The amount is reduced from 120mm to 90mm, in the interest of cutting weight--again remembering the need for speed across the vast Russian plains. However, this is countered, and then some, by the inclusion of a new armor into the design. A version of the Chobham composite is employed as the third layer, thirty millimeters thick. This weighs considerably less than Buckyballs, and is just as effective at stopping KE rounds. [OOC: Exact information on Chobham composite is still classified, ergo, no special little quote to explain the tech.]

The fourth later is a titanium alloy, reinforced with Depleted Uranium. This is 20cm thick, and is finalized by another 10cm of carbon-carbon composite similar to the C60 Buckyballs. This doubles as a final armor and protects from radiation as well.

All in all, one massive, powerful, tank.

Protection:
HEAT: 9,200mm
KE: 6,500mm


Weaponry

The primary arnament of a tank is of course a big gun. This tank doesn't fall short. It packs a massive 155mm ETC cannon, with a range of nine miles on a good day. Effective combat range is some six miles, superior to the Trotzig, the Muwatallis, and the Marx. As in the Trotzig, the cannon is auto-loaded, allowing an ability to push out 20 rounds per minute, nearly five times that of most modern MBTs. The cannon typically fires shells with a Depleted Uranium core, providing about 3,000mm of KE penetrating power. That's four times what is necessary to pierce the Abram's frontal armor, or twice that of the Marx.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

The secondary arnament is a coaxial 37mm cannon, also auto-loaded, firing HE rounds designed to take out lighter vehicles [Humvess, ghetto-fied vehicals, APC's, and the like] with ease.

This tank uses a LIDAR array to support aiming the main cannon. The LIDAR doubles as an anti-aircraft aid, when the DREAD gun uses the LIDAR array to target incoming missiles or planes.

LIDAR is an acronym for LIght Detection And Ranging.
What can you do with LIDAR?

* Measure distance
* Measure speed
* Measure rotation
* Measure chemical composition and concentration


of a remote target where the target can be a clearly defined object, such as a vehicle or missile, or a diffuse object such as a smoke plume or clouds.

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.


Name:
DREAD Weapon System

Type of Equipment:
Multiple Projectile Delivery System

Killer Features:

* Fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
* Features an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
* Electrically powered and virtually silent
* Capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire
* Mountable on any military vehicles, includes humvees and helicopters
* Weighs only 28 pounds
* Magazine capacities of at least 50,000 rounds of .308 Cal., or 10,000 rounds of .50 Cal. ammo

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Equipment Guide


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.

The final weapon on the tank is rather difficult to classify. Some say it's an offensive weapon, other say it's a defensive. Either way, the Shtora-3 is the final peg in putting an end to enemy tanks.

Scrambles enemy laser rangefinder, making it nearly impossible for enemy tank to fire, unless they guess the range. Also scrambles enemy communications systems and tracking systems. Also interferes with enemy laser-based systems and laser-type weapons by using a controlled beam of ultraviolet rays to scatter the laser (communications systems, weapons systems, rangefinder systems).


Defensive Systems


The first one, called Shortstop, has been the standard in the LBAC for years.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


The second has also been standard for many years, the Zeus anti-mine system.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, landmines, aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

The new fire and control system present on the OkW. VII, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. This was in turn ripped from the Macabees in the quest for improved sensors and targeting, once the production rights for a tank was bought, and back-engineered. 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.
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Specifications:

Length: 434 inches
Width: 162 inches
Height: 84 inches
Weight: 62 tons
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 2,000 horsepower
Pressure: 17.88 PSI
Horsepower/Ton Ratio: 32.25

Top Speed: 71 mph
Speed, 10 slope: 50 mph
Speed, 60 slope: 11 mph

Weaponry: 155mm ETC gun
Coaxial: 37mm autocannon
Forward: 7.62mm machine gun
Commander: DREAD/LIDAR array

Cost: $25 Million

Due to the increasing proliferation of superdreadnaught naval vessels in the world, and the possibility that we might have to face such vessels in future conflicts, we wish to be adequately prepared.

Name of Weapon: Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht" Anti-Capital Ship Missile
Individual Cost: $2 million
Number Buying: 100
Total Cost: $200 million
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: N/A

To: Halberdgardia

Your order of 100 Schifffurcht Anti-Capital Ship missiles has been processed and confirmed. Due to the current demand not only through this front, these missiles will take two months to complete, and will be shipped via C-36 to the site of your choosing. We hope you enjoy your weapons of war, and we thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs.

[Bargain Basement]
[60 Years: 1944-2004]

To: Halberdgardia

Your order of 100 Schifffurcht Anti-Capital Ship missiles has been processed and confirmed. Due to the current demand not only through this front, these missiles will take two months to complete, and will be shipped via C-36 to the site of your choosing. We hope you enjoy your weapons of war, and we thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs.

[Bargain Basement]
[60 Years: 1944-2004]

The payment has been wired to your accounts. Please deliver the missiles to the port of Coronet in Halberdgardia.

The Ankunft-class Super Dreadnought

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/The...inBBCNsmall.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/The_Freethinkers/DoujinBBCNsmall.jpg)

[OOC: Aw hell, I know it's the Doujin-class pic. My Paint skills are majorly lacking, ergo, I'm using this.]


Overview

Times were moving along. New nations were rising from the ashes of the anarchic lands, greater and more terrible than possibly imagined before. The Osten Kriegsmarine's strategy was typically far simpler than that of other navies. Their strategy was rarely to try and match the enemy man for man and ship for ship, it had historically been impossible, what with the amount of funding they had received. Their weapons weren't the massive ships and fleets that other nations posessed. They were typically smaller or cheaper ships with powerful weapons mounted, such as the Schifffurcht, which could shred even the most powerful of ships, or the Abfuhr, with enough ASW technology to stop a whole submerged fleet in it's tracks. But times were changing, and so were tactics. A small fleet, however powerful, could only defend itself from the enemy, not attack with much efficiency. Something was needed to be capable of single-handedly sinking an entire enemy fleet, launching enough planes for air support, and bombard enemy shorelines.

A contract was awarded to Guns! Guns! Guns!, the second largest gun-maker in Lame Bums, for the ship design, and Bargain Basement for the weaponry and armor to go on such a ship. The estimated amount spent by private corporations on Project Ankunft was estimated at 3.8 trillion, and took seven years to conceive. The construction at the Arkhangelsk shipyards took another four years and half a trillion just for construction. After eleven years, Project Ankunft was nearing completion. The tabloids were crazy about it, as nothing of that size could have been concealed from the public. The government never commented on it, furthering speculations as a massive floating fortress was being built in a shipyard. And after all that time, the two ships were ready for sea-trials.

Two massive Super-Dreadnoughts, the LBS-109 Verkauf and the LBS-110 Schutz.


Armor Design

Obviously, a ship of this scale survives on three things: firepower, manuverability, and armor. The armor for such a ship would only be able to come from one other place, and that is none other than the tanks for which the Osten Wehrmacht was famed for. The design was wrangled over for a long time, but the trimaran design was agreed upon, as it could take heavy damage and continue fighting.

The first layer of armor is barely an inch thick, but serves more than it's purpose. It is a carbon-carbon composite similar to Buckminster Fullrene, C60. Smaller projectiles, accidental bumps from other boats, and radar signals are all literally bounced off of this. While the ship has a mass thirty times that of the Iowa-class battleship, it typically registers as several Iowa-class ships, as opposed to one massive ship, due to the reflective abilities and construction of the carbons. Smaller projectiles such as 30mm shot and slow-moving torpedoes literally bounce off of the ship.

The second layer, and primary one, is a combination of vandium, copper,and iron. All of this is woven into one composite for the most powerful ship armor conceived by the Osten Kreigsmarine, or indeed, anything anyone in Lame Bums had yet developed, as it was previously impossible.

The amount of armor is also massive on this ship. The side and keel armor of the center section measure an impressive 1,200mm, the deck and superstructure armor measure 900mm, and outer sections have nearly 1,050mm all-around. The turrets have an impressive 900mm of this armor on them also, to ensure the maintaining of maximum firepower during conbat. The actual protection unknown, but is said to be ten times that of the current thickness.


Weaponry


Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.

ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannons, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g. howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

The primary mode of attack comes in the form of fifteen 30-inch ETC cannons, mounted three to a turret, five turrets in all. The massive recoil is absorbed through an array of thousands of micro-springs, much like the shocks on your car. The initial plan was to have railguns instead, but the recoil was simply too much for a shell that size. This is compensated for. A total of twenty 15-inch railguns are mounted on the sides of the ship, using the same recoil system, with range nearly that of the main guns. The primary shot can fly nearly two hundred miles in indirect mode, and the secondaries nearly 120 miles. Both the ETC guns and railguns have an ammo supply of five hundred rounds each.

However, despite this massive arnament, it is the seconday weapons which are used to target large ships due to some unique new technology. The railguns have a unique type of shell which fires SABOT rounds similar to a tank cannon, for massive armor-piercing ability. The penetration was estimated at four thousand millimeters, or many times that needed to sink an Iowa or Nimitz.

The teritary weapons system on the Ankunft-class dreadnoughts is twenty torpedo tubes, designed to launch 533mm torpedoes at close ranges to enemy ships, say, within twenty miles. This doubles as an anti-ship weapon and an anti-submarine weapon.

A classic on all ships is the cruise missile. In this case, a thousand Ausgang-type cruise missiles are loaded onto the ship, with fifty ready to fire at any given time. They have long range and the firepower necessary to bring the hurt to the enemy.

Another precaution against other capital ships [enemy aircraft carriers, other Super Dreadnoughts] is the loadout of fifty Schifffurcht anti-Capital Ship missiles. These would be used to quickly out an enemy super dreadnought out of comission, as opposed to an hours-long battle with large guns and high human and material cost.

The primary defensive system is the tried-and-true Ewigkeit SAM battery. Fifty of these batteries are mounted on the ship, meaning if need be, [b]400 missiles can be in the air in a matter of seconds. Knowing the threat of enemy air-power, ten thousand of these missiles are stored in below-decks ammo bays. These missiles double as a powerful anti-air system and anti-missile system, with an effective range of three hundred miles.

However, this ship could be forced to go back to the shipard for a year if a Schufffurcht got lucky. The armor was intentionally designed to force these missiles to bounce off or go off on the surface, yet no chances could be taken. Fifty DREAD guns are also mounted on the ship functioning as the primary CIWS should enemy anti-ship missiles get through the screen of Ewigkeit missiles. One more precaution was taken. Ten Phalanx guns were placed on top of the ship to protect against missiles that may fly vertical into the ship in an attempt to literally blow it to hell.

As a last wildcard, the Shtora-3 defense suite was also mounted on the ship, a larger version of that used on tanks. This nifty device used by the Israelis scrambles enemy laser-based rangefinders, making it impossible to determine the range of the ship, unless they guess. While a ship the size of the Ankunft is pretty hard to miss, maybe they'll get lucky.


Propulsion

The primary method of propulsion comes in the form of ten Pebblebed nuclear reactors, eight of which turn the four screws at the speed desired. The last two power two smaller screws at the rear of each side of the ship, which are used to assist in turning in a battlezone. The ten reactors push out more power than those powering some cities, to move the floating fortress at 32 knots, maximum speed. This speed was not predicted, it originally being 25 knots, however, the design must've had something to do with the speed that the engineers missed out on. Either way the range is near-infinite, limited only by the supplies onboard.


Other

The ship has a projected crew of 8,200, with troop carrying capacity of 12,500. The side-decks are used for one thing--the launching and recovery of planes. In all, one hundred and fifty aircraft are held in the lower bays, with two fully functional runways. This provides more than enough air support for any campaign, with enough naval-based firepower and troop carrying capacity to bring the fight to the enemy. The air compliment of the ship consists of five hundred pilots and one thousand servicemen, for a total wartime crew of 9,700. The ship is capable of launching smaller ships [hovercraft, dinghies, even a frigate or two] for amphibious operations.


Specifications:

Max Speed - 32 knots
Length - 750 Meters
Width - 192 Meters
Draft - 14 Meters
Height [Keel to Top] - 165 Meters
Displacement - 1,720,000 Tons

Cost: $300 Billion USD each. Aircraft sold seperately.


Currently only two ships have been built, the the LBS-109 Verkauf and the LBS-110 Schutz.

The Su-82 "Leiden" Air Superiority Fighter

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Overview

Height: 15'3''
Wingspan: 49'4'' [fully extended]
Length: 60'2''
Hardpoints: 10
G Limits: +18/-16 [auto control, exceeds pilot]
Engines: 2x turbofans, approximately 88,000lbs of thrust. Uses augmentation similar to Su-37.
Max Speed: Mach 4.1 [fully retracted]
Max Safe Speed: Mach 3.5 [fully retracted], Mach 2.8 [combat mode]
Cruise Speed: Mach 2.0
Stall Speed: 75 knots
Climb Rate: 90,000ft/min
Ceiling: 75,000 feet
Landing/Takeoff Distance Minimum: 200 meters
Max Range: 1,800 nautical miles

Weight, Empty: 12,200 lbs
Weight, Fuel: 10,000 lbs
Weight, Max Loadout: 27,200
Weight/Thrust Ratio: 3.2/1 (max loadout)


Overview

With the biggest possible known enemy now gone, times continued to change. The Osten Luftwaffe was able to get it's hands on more funding in the new age, and immediately put it toward researching a new air superiority aircraft, with the capabilities of the Vorbei and then some, yet the survivability and cost of a tank. Well, they sort of got their wish, with perhaps the most powerful aircraft in the world, the Su-82 Leiden, superior to the Razgriz, the Cockatiel, among others.

Leiden is German, and it means "suffer" as the enemy suffers under it's weaponry.


Weaponry

The first thing about the plane is not it's direct attack, it's the way it works. The plane has three modes of flight, and the wings are adjusted accordingly. Fully extended is used when the plane is landing or taking off, or making slower attack runs. The wings are swept forward at a 30 degree angle during combat. While this sacrifices speed, maneuverability is greatly increased, more than offsetting the speed loss. For a high speed the wings are swept fully forward and the plane acts like a dart, pushing Mach 4 easily.

The primary form of attack comes in air to air missiles. Nearly all types can be used, but typically the AIM-8 Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAM are used for air to air attacks. The plane can also mount bombs [typically JDAMs] for ground attack. It also mounts a 30mm cannon with 250 rounds of ammunition. While 250 rounds may not seem like much, a 30mm round can do a lot of damage to a plane. The rear has an automated DREAD gun [it's possible, the thing only weighs 28 lbs], which can target incoming missiles, ground targets, and even other planes.

Another amazing system which the Leiden uses, is the LIDAR array. While previously it was used to assist in guiding missiles, it now allows the gun to be guided as well. When the pilot selects a target, the LIDAR array picks up the enemy plane and detects it's speed, range, and heading. It then sends the data to the targetting computer which relays exactly where to point the plane in order to land hits with the cannon. This has been estimated to increase overall combat effectiveness by 40%, and the new system has been called "Weiss." Soon this powerful system will be added to all fighter platforms, but as of now it is exclusive to the Leiden.

The powerful radar can detect targets from up to three hundred kilometers off, and the lidar system uses a gaussian transmitter, which is currently the most powerful one in use.


Defenses

This plane's inner skin is constructed of a titanium alloy, which is both leightweight and strong. The outer layer is a carbon-carbon compound used on many lighter vehicals, with many of the effects of Buckyballs, without as much weight. Also with the DREAD gun which can target incoming missiles, the plane also has the classic array of countermesures such as flares, chaff, and ECM. Realizing that LIDAR has been in use for many years in the Osten Wehrmacht but no other armed force, it was only a matter of time. Ergo, the aircraft is also covered with microscopic silica material that is placed to seperate LIDAR rays into opposite adjacent directions. This rendered enemy LIDAR useless, and the weapon isn't used on it's master, in a sense.


Here's another wildcard. The cockpit is of a revolutionary design. Taking a leaf out of the Aoure's book, they designed the cockpit to be a self-sufficient escape pod as well. A plane is expendable but a pilot isn't. When the pilot presses the eject button, a rocket forces the entire cockpit up into the air. It also has a parachute mounted, along with a small landing gear. The cockpit stores enough food and water for three days, with plenty of other equipment [handgun, knife, radio, first aid, etc], and is sufficiently bouyant to float on the high seas. This is a revolutionary step forward in pilot survivability.

Lastly, the aircraft is also capable of computer control. The computer is simply given a mission through a secure com-link and it does what it's told. The combat systems have been improved and are now equal to any elite pilot's skills, with better manuverability and persistance.


Other

EMP hardened: Yes
NBC Protection: Yes [Cockpit only]

[Cost--Export] - $150 million.

Just wanted to bring this to your attention.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9394718#post9394718

Name of Weapon: Munter class Destroyer
Individual Cost: 500 Million USD
Number Buying: 300
Total Cost: 150 billion USD

To: Halberdgardia

Your order of three Ankunft-class Super Dreadnoughts has been processed and confirmed. This will take approximately four years to complete, and will be shipped as soon as they are completed. We encourage you to spread the word around the world of our store, and thank you for your business.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Name of Weapon: Munter class Destroyer
Individual Cost: 500 Million USD
Number Buying: 300
Total Cost: 150 billion USD

To: McKagan

Your order of three hundred Munter-class Destroyers has been processed and confirmed. Due to the sheer size of this order, the ships will be sent in batches of six, monthly, for 50 months. We thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Due to Our status as a young nation, we must work on our army.

M43 wishes to order:

Name: M16A2
Cost: $500
# of Purchase: 1,000,000
Total Cost: $500,000,000

To: M43

Although the M-16 is not on our sale list, this order has nevertheless been processed and confirmed. The guns will be sent monthly for twelve months, in batches of 84,000 a piece. We thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Name of Weapon: Munter class Destroyer
Individual Cost: 500 Million USD
Number Buying: 600
Total Cost: 300 billion USD

OOC: Has anyone ever actually USED these ships before? I can just see a noob now screaming "OMEFG U HAV RRAFILGUNS AnD DREEED GUUNS! U'SE IS GOODMOOODOOODINNNNNNNG!"

Name of Weapon: Munter class Destroyer
Individual Cost: 500 Million USD
Number Buying: 600
Total Cost: 300 billion USD

OOC: Has anyone ever actually USED these ships before? I can just see a noob now screaming "OMEFG U HAV RRAFILGUNS AnD DREEED GUUNS! U'SE IS GOODMOOODOOODINNNNNNNG!"

[OOC: I'm the admin of an earth RP, Earth Six. Early on, The Macabees and CommunismRevisited- joined, and formed this "Second Coming" to take over the world. The world united to stop them until it was discovered that everyone was using Abrams and T-95s when their stuff was ten times better. We called godmod on them, they fired back, the RP board went to hell. Two months later and with much better tanks I attacked someone and they called godmod on me for the exact same reason. OOC rant over.]

To: McKagan

Your order of six hundred Munter-class destroyers has been processed and confirmed. This will take approximately two years to complete. We hope you enjoy your new weapons of war, and thank you for choosing Bargain Basement.

[signed] Bargain Basement

OOC: Well i'm just buying alot of BIG ships because my entier navy has been geared toward fighting Global Jihad. I want some big guns. I'll be back sometime to buy a few of those nice SD's you have.

OOC: Well i'm just buying alot of BIG ships because my entier navy has been geared toward fighting Global Jihad. I want some big guns. I'll be back sometime to buy a few of those nice SD's you have.

[OOC: Drop me an AIM message someday, maybe we can work out some sort of Strategery for fighting his navy.]

The Ostkampfwagen VIII "Ferne"

http://www.sinodefence.com/army/tank/type983l.jpg


Overview

Despite the Trotzig's and Schutzblech's effortless domination of the modern field of tank warfare, improvement is always possible. One of the killing factors of maintaining such a strong tank force had always been the cost, most notoriously the billion dollar buckyballs which the Osten Wehrmacht was famed--and feared for. While buckyballs prove to be a powerful armor when mixed with diamond helixes and supercooled Xenon, they were damn expensive, and heavy. They also had a fatal weakness, which remains classified to this day. Ergo, the Science Division had to wean themselves off the C60 molecule, and begin looking toward other possible alternatives. With that, the Osten Wehrmacht needed a new tank, just as powerful and completely modern, with less cost and weight. The answer came in the form of the Ferne.


Armor Design

The armor design, especially in a new tank, was obviously the most important part of the weapon, overall. The primary is 12 cm of a titanium alloy, reinforced with trace amounts of C60, which are in turn reinforced with diamond helixes and ADBOND. This also contains Indium/Osmium-Germanium mix 2nd Gen Supercooled Coils, which were basically stolen off the Muwatallis, a Macabee design. They are filled with supercooled liquid Xenon and when a round impacts, the liquid gasses out to counter the heat while the metal coil itself is used as a heat conductor to dissipate the attack it will render that portion of the coil useless but should still enable it to work on other parts of the tank. The second layer comes in the form of four centimeters of a reinforced ceramic composite, again employing plenty of ADBOND. The third layer is a series of ablative armor blocks, six centimeters thick. The fourth layer consists of a combination of MEXAS and more armor blocks, four centimeters thick. The final layer is a further two centimeters of an alloy consisting of trace amounts of tungsten, lead, titanium, and carbon, with steel being the primary composite.

This allows for an RHA value of some 7,000mm against KE's, for a real value of 260mm.


Weaponry

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s. Under the Macabee army, and later the Osten Wehrmacht, ETC cannons became a reality. The primary arnament on the Ferne, or indeed, any modern Bumsian tank, is the 155mm ETC cannon. The recoil is absorbed through an array of thousands of micro-springs, much like the shocks on your car. This can fire the classic array of rounds, including HEAT, APFSDS, SCRAMjet, among others. Typically, APFSDS rounds are used for maximum penetration. The APFSDS [Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot] round is actually more like a dart.

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The primary difference between the American APFSDS and the Bumsian is that unlike an aluminum core for the round, the Bumsian version employs Depleted Uranium, one of the strongest materials possible for the job. This weapon went through one meter of solid steel at a range of five miles. To prevent the weapon simply going in one end and out the other, it explodes shortly after impact, resulting in the death of the unfortunate enemy tank's crew. This is done through the Zimmer fire and control system, the most advanced yet developed by the Science Division.



This powerful weapon is fed through an auto-loader. The barrel is cooled through a small amount of supercooled Xenon, which is replaced periodically. This allows for the sustained firing rate of 20 rounds per minute, or six times that of most modern MBT's, and the tank has a hundred and twenty rounds stored for battles. The coaxial weapon is a smaller 37mm cannon, firing both HE and AP rounds, to allow the taking out of ghetto-fied vehicals, Humvees, and light APC's with ease, along with entranched infantry. This too is fed through an auto-loader, with two hundred rounds stored.


Defenses

Where a .50cal is mounted on many MBT's sits a DREAD gun atop the Ferne. This nifty device developed in 2001 fires little steel balls upwards of 120,000 RPM with a muzzle velocity of 8,000 feet per second. This weapon is linked up with a LIDAR device also on top of the tank, to provide an effective anti-missile shield. The LIDAR array is used to detect the range, speed, and heading of the missile, and the DREAD just hones in on it's unfortunate prey.

For anti-mine warfare, the tank utilizes the tried-and-true Zeus-HLONS system, which was tested in 2001 during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. This system basically uses a laser to activate and set off the mine, as if it had a tank rolling above, detonating the mine, usually at a safe distance. As a further precaution, the Shortstop system was also mounted on the tank. This was created by the US Army to counter the artillery threat posed by the Iraqis during Operation Desert Storm. This confuses proxy-fuzed shells into believing they are close to a target [when they are hundreds of feet in the air] and blow up prematurely, causing negligible or no damage to the threatened tank.

Lastly the tank employs the new Leute system, which is basically a souped up Shtora. This scrambles enemy rangefinders, making it impossible for the enemy to determine the tank's range and shoot accurately, unless they guess the range.



Specifications:

Length: 440 inches
Width: 165 inches
Height: 84 inches
Weight: 80 tons
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 2,000 horsepower
Pressure: 22.03 PSI
Horsepower/Ton Ratio: 25.00/1

Top Speed: 60 mph
Speed, 10 slope: 42 mph
Speed, 60 slope: 8 mph

Weaponry: 155mm ETC cannon
Coaxial: 37mm autocannon
Forward: 7.62mm machine gun
Commander: DREAD/LIDAR array

Cost: $15 Million

[OOC: Drop me an AIM message someday, maybe we can work out some sort of Strategery for fighting his navy.]

I think you misundertstood me, mainly because I didn't tell you, nonetheless. Global Jihad is a terrorist cell. All I need to fight him is a ship that can hit far inland, conduct intel, and be semi-amphibious.

That doesn't work in 100 ship-to-ship battle situations.

Meh, i'll figure something out. I may AIM you one day.

Name of Weapon: Ostkampfwagen VIII "Ferne" Main Battle Tank
Individual Cost: $15,000,000
Number Buying: 10,000
Total Cost: $150,000,000,000
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: None, simply augmenting our aging tank fleet with new armor units.

BUMP for LB.

Name of Weapon: Ostkampfwagen VIII "Ferne" Main Battle Tank
Individual Cost: $15,000,000
Number Buying: 10,000
Total Cost: $150,000,000,000
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: None, simply augmenting our aging tank fleet with new armor units.


To: Halberdgardia

Your order of ten thousand Ferne main battle tank's has been processed and confirmed. The tanks will sent in batches of five thousand yearly, over two years. We believe you will find the Ferne as an interesting competitor to the "war machine buckets" that many other nations produce. We thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs, and encourage you to come again.

[signed] Bargain Basement

The Confederacy of Spizania would like to order 250 Ostkampfwagen VIII "Ferne" Main Battle Tanks inorder to reequip two heavy aropur brigades, we wish to test their effectiveness in combat before reequiping our old Challenger II tanks.
Total $3.75 billlion
Money on confirmation

I am currently engaged in a defensive war helping the VSI resistance and i am worried that my Challenger Tanks wont stand up in armoured comabt versus the Parthians high grade equipment

Please deliver to Spizania mian army base, Castle, VSI

[OOC: Meh, any current weapon isn't worth jack shit here.]

IC: To: Spizania

Your order of two hundred and fifty Ferne main battle tanks has been processed and confirmed. This will take approximately one month to complete. We thank you for choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs, and encourage you to come again.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Because of a social movement in this nation that launches public outcry at a single death of a military serviceman, IMAF has been forced to make it's next purchase on a plane that ensures pilot survival. As such:

7000 Su-82's

Price: 1.050 Trillion USD

[OOC: Meh, busy as hell with schoolwork and shit.]

To: McKagan

Your order of one thousand Leiden aircraft has been processed and confirmed. The aircraft will ship in batces of one hundred over the next ten months. We thank you choosing Bargain Basement for your military needs.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Name of Weapon: Ostkampfwagen VIII "Ferne" Main Battle Tank
Individual Cost: $15,000,000
Number Buying: 10,000
Total Cost: $150,000,000,000
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: None, simply replacing the last obsolete elements of our aging tank fleet with new armor units.

To: Halberdgardia

Your order of ten thousand Ferne MBT's has been processed and confirmed. The tanks will be delivered in monthly batches of two thousand to your nearest poirts, to be completed within five months. We thank you for choosing Bargain Basement over the fake competition in the ground department.

[signed] Bargain Basement

Name of Weapon: Halbkamphwaggen "Schwarte" IFV
Individual Cost: 6 000 000
Number Buying: 8 000
Total Cost: 48 000 000 000
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: Possible violence in the region and the relative age of our old IFV's.

Name of Weapon: Ankunft-class Super Dreadnought
Individual Cost: 300 billion USD
Number Buying: 3
Total Cost: 900 billion USD
Any hostile or friendly actions toward anyone, please elaborate: Only minor rebel movements in our provinces.

The republic of Templa wishes to purchase the following:

Feuermelder I "Schifffurcht"
2.0 Mil
5,000
10.0 Bil
We are seeking to arm our military. If the product performs as expected, then we will make future orders as well as reccommending you to our allies.

Consider all weapons confirmed, and devliered shortly.

[OOC: I'm making a new thread soon, with all the new stuff, much more streamlined.]

Ostkampfwagen VIII-A "Ferne"

Presented to you by...
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Overview

Despite the Trotzig's and Schutzblech's effortless domination of the modern field of tank warfare, improvement is always possible. One of the killing factors of maintaining such a strong tank force had always been the cost, most notoriously the billion dollar buckyballs which the Osten Wehrmacht was famed--and feared for. While buckyballs prove to be a powerful armor when mixed with diamond helixes and supercooled Xenon, they were damn expensive, and heavy. They also had a fatal weakness, which remains classified to this day. Ergo, the Science Division had to wean themselves off the C60 molecule, and begin looking toward other possible alternatives. With that, the Osten Wehrmacht needed a new tank, just as powerful and completely modern, with less cost and weight. The answer came in the form of the Ferne.


Armor Design

The armor design, especially in a new tank, was obviously the most important part of the weapon, overall. The primary is 12 cm of a titanium/tungsten composite, reinforced with trace amounts of Osmium, which is in turn reinforced with diamond traces and ADBOND. This tank also contains Indium/Osmium-Germanium mix 2nd Gen Supercooled Coils, which were basically stolen off the Muwatallis, a Macabee design. They are filled with supercooled liquid Xenon and when a round impacts, the liquid gasses out to counter the heat while the metal coil itself is used as a heat conductor to dissipate the attack it will render that portion of the coil useless but should still enable it to work on other parts of the tank. The second layer comes in the form of four centimeters of a reinforced ceramic composite, again employing plenty of ADBOND. The third layer is a series of ablative armor blocks, six centimeters thick. The fourth layer consists of a combination of MEXAS and more armor blocks, four centimeters thick. The final layer is a further two centimeters of an alloy consisting of trace amounts of tungsten, lead, titanium, and carbon, with steel being the primary composite.

This allows for an RHA value of some 7,200mm against KE's, for a real value of 260mm.


However, this tank employs newer methods of defeating enemy attacks. This mainly comes in the form of souped up ERA. However instead of exploding when an enemy shot is near, these little blocks blow off their top, shooting off dozens of little titanium balls, similar to a buckshot. This has the intent of disrupting the flight pattern of a KE penetrator, forcing it to hit the tank at an angle [ergo, it bounces off] or shattering the round [even better]. However this is a single use device, each area could only be threatened once before the blocks would have to be replaced. Not to be used with infantry nearby.


Weaponry

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s. Under the Macabee army, and later the Osten Wehrmacht, ETC cannons became a reality. The primary arnament on the Ferne, or indeed, any modern Bumsian tank, is the 155mm ETC cannon. The recoil is absorbed through an array of thousands of internal "R" rings, another piece of technology stolen off the Muwatallis. This can fire the classic array of rounds, including HEAT, APFSDS, SCRAMjet, among others. Typically, APFSDS rounds are used for maximum penetration. The APFSDS [Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot] round is actually more like a dart.

http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/ammunition/apfsds02.jpg


The primary difference between the American APFSDS and the Bumsian is that unlike an aluminum core for the round, the Bumsian version employs Depleted Uranium, one of the strongest materials possible for the job. The APFSDS dart pierced two meters of solid steel at a range of one kilometer. To prevent the weapon simply going in one end and out the other, it explodes shortly after impact, resulting in the death of the unfortunate enemy tank's crew.

This powerful weapon is fed through an auto loader. The barrel is cooled through a small amount of supercooled Xenon, which is replaced periodically. This allows for the sustained firing rate of 20 rounds per minute, or six times that of most modern MBT's, and the tank has a hundred rounds stored for battles. The coaxial weapon is a smaller 37mm cannon, firing both HE and AP rounds, to allow the taking out of ghetto-fied vehicals, Humvees, and light APC's with ease, along with entranched infantry. This too is fed through an auto-loader, with two hundred rounds stored.

All of this power is coordinated and applied by the tank's crew through the Zimmer fire and control system, the most advanced yet developed by the Science Division. The new fire and control system present on the OkW. VIII, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. This was in turn "borrowed" from the Macabees in the quest for improved sensors and targeting, once back-engineered. The system was re-dubbed Zimmer. 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.

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Defenses

Where a .50cal is mounted on many MBT's sits a DREAD gun atop the Ferne. This nifty device developed in 2001 fires little steel balls upwards of 120,000 RPM with a muzzle velocity of 8,000 feet per second. This weapon is linked up with a LIDAR device also on top of the tank, to provide an effective anti-missile shield. The LIDAR array is used to detect the range, speed, and heading of the missile, and the DREAD just hones in on it's unfortunate prey.

For anti-mine warfare, the older model used the Zeus-HLONS system. However this has been deemed too costly for the Osten Wehrmacht, and has been replaced by the old fashioned scorpion, when necessary. As a further precaution, the Shortstop system was also mounted on the tank. This was created by the US Army to counter the artillery threat posed by the Iraqis during Operation Desert Storm. This confuses proxy-fuzed shells into believing they are close to a target [when they are hundreds of feet in the air] and blow up prematurely, causing negligible or no damage to the threatened tank.

Lastly the tank employs the new Leute system. This was a project worked on by Bargain Basement over the last few years. This nifty device is basically a souped-up version of the Shtora-1 defense suite used on many Russian tanks. This scrambles enemy rangefinders, making it impossible to tell the distance to the tank, unless they guess the range. The device also sends out ultraviolet rays to disrupt enemy scanning and communications.

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Specifications:

Length: 440 inches
Width: 165 inches
Height: 84 inches
Weight: 80 tons
Propulsion: Hybrid-diesel, developing 2,000 horsepower. Range: 500km.
Pressure: 22.03 PSI
Horsepower/Ton Ratio: 25.00/1

Top Speed: 105 km/h
Speed, 10 slope: 78 km/h
Speed, 60 slope: 12 km/h

Weaponry: 155mm ETC cannon
Coaxial: 37mm autocannon
Forward: 7.62mm machine gun
Commander: DREAD/LIDAR array

Cost: $9 Million
Export: $15 Million


[OOC: For all of the non-believers in DREAD, watch this (http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=526) video.]

Langschwert II "Nerv"
Self-Propelled Howitzer

http://www.sinodefence.com/army/artillery/plz45sp_155mm3l.jpg


[Abstract]

The goal of this weapon is to replace the ourdated Furstin artillery piece, while a highly advanced piece and in service for many years, was simply too expensive to maintain on the battlefield in larger numbers, and had been a drain on the military budget for many years. As such, the Nerv was designed, the successor to the Furstin, a more affordible yet equally powerful artillery piece.


[Fire and Control]

The Nerv uses a 155mm ETC cannon as its primary mode of attack. Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s. ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon. A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

This can fire any 155mm round, but most commonly, either impact rounds or HE-APERS rounds are used, with an effective range of eighty kilometers. However, SCRAMjet-assissted shells can also be fired, when avilable, which have an effective range of two hundred kilometers. The gun itself is fed through an auto-loader, and when the barrel reaches a certain temperature a small amount of liquefied gas is sprayed on the inside of the barrel, cooling it once again to workible temperature. This allows the firing up fifteen rounds per minute, for as long as the canister of liquefied gas lasts, when in sustained mode, that's approximately five hundred rounds.

The coaxial gun is a 7.62mm machine gun, and the topside weapon is a DREAD gun, which also functions as the CIWS gun in the event of enemy missile attack, fully automated.


The new fire and control system present on the Ls. II, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Macabee engineers. This was in turn ripped from the Macabees in the quest for improved sensors and targeting, once the production rights for a tank was bought, and back-engineered. The system was re-dubbed Zimmer. 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.

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[Armor and Defenses]

The armor consists of 40mm of MEXAS, which provides ca. 300mm RHA, reinforced by a further 40mm of Chobham/Cermat composite. The exact composition is classified, but the armor value is ca. 1,200mm against KE projectiles, and three times that against HEATs. This is more than sufficient, as this is not a frontline vehical, but if caught in the line of fire, will survive.


Several systems were also included to protect these guns, and the most important of these is Shortstop. http://www.edocorp.com/seps%20electronic%20umbrella.jpg

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


Of course, that wasn't all. The Leute system was also incorporated...
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The Leute system was a project worked on by Bargain Basement over the last few years. This nifty device is basically a souped-up version of the Shtora defense suite used on many Russian tanks. This scrambles enemy rangefinders, making it impossible to tell the distance to the tank, unless they guess the range. The device also sends out ultraviolet rays to disrupt enemy scanning and communications.

And, lastly, the
http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images__dad_DREAD---3rd-Generation.jpg
DREAD gun was used, as the primary CIWS should enemy missiles threaten the artillery piece, as this nifty decive fires out .308 or .50cal steel balls at velocities upwards of 8,000 fps, at a rate upwards of 120,000 rpm....


[Other]

This vehical employs a 2,000 horsepower diesel engine to get wherver it needs to get to go, and it can get there at an impressive fifty kilometers per hour, with a maximum road range of three hundred miles before it needs a fill-up. Typically, five or six of these guns would link up the a fire and control vehical, which would also have stored ammunition and supplies, and easily several thousand rounds could be cranked out of one battery in a matter of a few minutes, bringing upon the enemy the plague that they deserve.

[Cost] $6 Million.
[Size] Similar to PLZ-45 developed by Norinco.
[Weight] 80 tons

The Panzerwerfer I "Ukufa" MRLS
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/astros/images/astros4.jpg
"A joint Lame Bums/Neptunea project."


Overview

The time changed, the world changed, the politics changed. While the ground forces were undoubtedly the best in the world, the Osten Wehrmacht wasn't simply going to get complacent and sit back. They kept driving forward with all the money they received from research. This time, they expanded outward. The MRLS was developted jointly between Bargain Basement and Excalibur Armaments, of the PRN. This was designed to put down a lot of fire and get out before the enemy cound respond. Shoot and scoot.


Armor Design

This vehicle is not designed to be a fontline vehicle - as such it's not armed or armored like a battle tank. The vehicle has a crew of three: a driver, a gunner, and a missile man. The gunner controls a 7.62mm machine gun which is controlled through a periscope view (the machine gun is sticking out of the top). The vehicle has one inch of MEXAS armor, which gives it a RHA value of approximately 350mm - enough to stop small arms, machine gun, and smaller cannons.


Weaponry

This is a small, fast, cheap, and powerful weapon system. The weapon can be deployed and ready to fire within 15 seconds. When it does, it unleashes a hellish volley of 32 missiles within 10 seconds. These missiles are similar in dimensions to the Ewigkeit SAMs, except they are powered by gel fuel instead of solid fuel. They are loaded with 200lbs of OctaNitroCubane, with a maximum range of fifty miles. With the nearby support vehicle, the missile battery can be loaded again within sixty seconds, ready to fire again.


Specifications:

Weight: 12 tons
Engine: 400 horsepower Diesel-Hybrid

Top Speed: 135 km/h
Range: 400 miles

Cost: $600,000

The Halbkampfwagen I "Schwarte" Infantry Fighting Vehicle
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/linebacker-001.jpg


Overview

Bradley? No. BMP? Hell no. The time was long overdue that a new infantry vehicle was to be built. Enter a new line of vehicles, the Halbkampfwagen, or literally "Half Fight Vehicle." This is to be the first of such designs, a revolutionairy vehicle which can transport infantry where they're needed and not cower in fear of anything. This vehicle was developed by the Science Division, ergo, there's no greedy capitalists who want their cut of the money. Thus, it's a better bang for the buck.


Armor Design

The armor consists of 20mm of MEXAS, which provices ca. 1200mm RHA versus CE, and then 20mm of a Chobham/CERMAT composite. The total RHA value against KE penetrators is ca. 1000mm, and against CE's, about 1500mm.



Weaponry

The main weapon is a 40mm automatic cannon, similar the Bushmaster used on the Bradley, except it also incorporates ETC technology. Hence, the cannon can easily penetrate other infantry vehicles at a range of two miles, and even disable light and medium tanks with sustained fire. The cannon fires at 120rpm, or about 2 shots per second, with an ammo supply of 500.

The forward gunner has a 7.62mm machine gun for anti infantry purposes. The anti-air element of this vehicle comes in the mounting of four Ewigkeit missiles on the top of the tank. Although this has to be manually reloaded and it takes some time, the Ewigkeits mean that anti-air is now on the move, with the army, not in the rear with the gear.

Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.


ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannon.
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g.howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma - a colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.

Click here for info about the Nachluft II Ewigkeit (http://earthsix.sytes.net/index.php?showtopic=2134)


Other Defenses

This vehicle included the classic array of passive defenses, including Shortstop and Zeus.

The U.S. Army has built and tested a humvee equipped with a laser gun turret that can quickly destroy unexploded munitions and roadside bombs. The system, called Zeus-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System), uses an industrial solid state laser, normally used to cut metal, but can also ignite explosives up to 300 meters away. Normally, engineers have to approach such munitions (shells, cluster bombs, landmines, and aircraft bombs) or roadside bombs, place explosives next to it, then move away, trailing a detonator wire behind them, and then set off the explosive to destroy the bomb or unexploded munitions. Using the Zeus laser is a lot cheaper (a few cents per laser shot) and safer than the traditional method. Zeus is particularly useful when you have an area with a lot of unexploded munitions just lying about. The munitions are often unstable, meaning that just picking them up could set them off. The Zeus system can be fired up to 2,000 times a day. Last year, a Zeus-HLONS was sent to Afghanistan for six months last year, where it destroyed 200 items, including 51 in one 100 minute period.

SHORTSTOP is a life-saving system that protects people and equipment from proximity-fused weapons such as mortar rounds, rockets, and artillery shells. These are very potent weapons that maim and kill. They are widely used by national and rebel armies and terrorist groups/cells around the world.

SHORTSTOP is an electronic countermeasures system that detects signals emitted from proximity-fused weapons, modifies the signal and sends it back to the weapon making the fuze think it is close to the ground. The fuze then prematurely detonates the warhead rendering the weapon essentially harmless.

SHORTSTOP works automatically, silently and cannot be electronically jammed. The system acts as an "electronic umbrella" that can protect military forces, equipment, personnel and high value assets. It is effective against single shot and barrage attacks. Soldiers can be proficient in set-up, operation and maintenance of the Shortstop system after just a few hours of training. Analysis indicates deployment of SHORTSTOP against these weapons can increase survival by as much as 80% during an initial attack.

EDO CCS has built three versions of SHORTSTOP for use in a variety of military applications and deployments. Mobile platoons, light divisions and battalions as well as special operations units will use a man-pack version weighing just 25-pounds and called AN/PLQ-7. HMMWVs, trucks and armored personnel carriers will be equipped with the AN/VLQ-11. A stand-alone unit called the AN/GLQ-16 will stand guard over barracks, airfields, aircraft, communications and intelligence sites, command posts and other high value positions.

The Shortstop program was initiated in 1990 by the US Central Command as a quick-reaction response capability for Operation Desert Strom. Intelligence reports at the time indicated that many of the Iraqi indirect fire munitions were equipped with radio proximity fuzes. EDO CCS received the Army’s first production contract in 1998 for 44 units. These 44 systems were deployed to US Army Europe (USAREUR). Since 1998 annual contracts continue with over 288 SHORTSTOP delivered. Units have been deployed to Kuwait, Kosovo, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and other US Army Commands.

In 2001 the National Guard Bureau established requirements for Shortstop systems for the Army National Guard. A congressional Plus-up from the Fy01 Supplemental enabled 18 Shortstop to be delivered to the ARNG. The first systems fielded were to the Pennsylvania ARNG for their rotation to Bosnia and to the 20th Special Forces for their support in Enduring Freedom. Subsequently systems have been fielded to South Carolina, Indiana and Minnesota.


Specifications
Crew: 3 (driver, gunner, commander)
Can carry up to six infantry.
Weight: 25 tons
Ammo: 500 for main cannon, 20 for Ewigkeit, 1,000 for forward machine gun

Dimensions
Length with gun forward: 388 inches
Turret height: 90 inches
Width: 128 inches
Ground clearance: 14 inches
Ground pressure: 10.06 PSI
Propulsion: Fuel cell powered, 1,250 horsepower
Transmission: 4 forward gears, 2 reverse gears
Power-to-weight ratio 50.00 hp/ton

Performance
Maximum speed: 73 mph
Speed cross country: 56,0 mph
Speed, 10% slope: 49 mph
Speed 60% slope: 10 mph
Acceleration: 0 to 20 mph in 2.7 seconds
Range 500 miles cruising

Obstacle crossing
Vertical: 35 inches
Trench: 9 feet
Main armament: 40mm ETC autocannon, range two miles
Coaxial Weapon: N/A
Forward Weapon: 7.62mm Machine Gun
Commander's weapon: Nachluft II Ewigkeit SAMs, load of 4
NBC protection: Yes
EMP hardened: Yes

Cost: $6 Million USD.

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