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The Empire of Cotland is proud to be allowed to present its newest addition to the arsenals of the Empire, the M2026A1 Imperator Main Battle Tank!

The Imperator is a next-generation battle tank, designed to dominate the battlefield. With its powerful 120 mm ETC-powered cannon, it was defeat anything that opposes it. This, along with the speed, armor and weight, is guaranteed to ensure that no other tank can match against the Imperator.

The M2026 is not available for export.

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M2026A1 Imperator

http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/Challenger2_Pics/Challenger-2E.jpg

Crew: 4 (Commander, gunner, loader, driver)
Weight: 67 000 kilograms
Length: 8,5 meters
Width: 3,6 meters
Height: 2,7 meters
Speed: 75 kph (road), 65 kph (cross country)
Range: 460 kilometers (road), 260 kilometers (cross country)
Armament: 1x M260 120 mm ETC cannon (56 shells stowed) [A1], 1x M240G 7.62 x 51 mm coaxial MG (6 000 rounds stowed), 1x M312 12.7 x 99 mm MG (750 rounds stowed) on Skate mount, 6x M89 smoke grenade dischargers
Armor: R-16 (Steel-DU-Titanium-Rubber) Compound (Germanian made): 36 centimeters (front), 28 centimeters (sides, rear)
Systems: Classified [A1]
Engine: 1x V12 Dabb TDE-826 diesel (2 100 hp)
Internal fuel: 2000 litres
Cost: $6.1 million [A1]

OOC
What's this "," replacing "." business? ;)
No NBC protection or communications abilities?

Note that the systems utilized in the Imperator are classified. Thus, I am not at liberty to neither confirm nor deny your questions.

Anonymous official, Cottish Ministry of Defense

[OOC: Somewhat light considering the heavier gun and (I assume) heavier armour. It's also a bit fast and generally it's best to write armour values in RHA rather than actual thickness. You cant really compare armour using actual thicknesses.]

What's this "," replacing "." business? ;)


In most European and a lot of African countries the decimal point (.) is replaced by a comma (,). Also where we use commas (eg. 1,000,000) they use full stops (1.000.000).


To Cotland:
Anyway back on topic, seems like a realistic and good design for an MBT, do you know what the RHA equivalency value (how thick steel would have to be to match protectiveness of armour) of the armour is? It makes it easier for comparitive purposes.

EDIT: Praetonia beat me to it but i'll leave this in anyway

OOC: Well, I based the Imperator on the British Challenger 2E tank, and I added a few thousand kgs to the weight. The speed was originally around 60 kph on road, but that was too low. It has a powerful engine, and that, combined with great mechanics should be suffieicent to push it to that speed.

As for that RHA thing, I don't really have a clue, since the compound isn't my design. I got it from a friend who use it on his tanks. But it's a hell of a lot better than the latest-generation Chobham armor used on the Challenger 2 and M1A2 Abrams tanks.