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T-99 'Belsen' Main Battle Tank

Fascist Confederacy
28-09-2005, 22:29
T-99 'Belsen' Main Battle Tank

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Russianblackeagle.jpg

Dimensions
Length: 10.33 meters
Width: 4.02 meters
Height: 2.347 meters
Weight: 78.4 tonnes

Internals
Powerplant: IO-Skurto Diesal-Electric
Speed: 53 km/h (road); 33 kmh/h (off-road)
Range: 387 km
Crew: 3 (Driver, munitions expert, targeting tech.)

Armaments
Primary Armament: 152 mm smoothbore gun (APFSDS, HEAT-FS, HE-fraq-FS, 9K120 Refleks, & Lena TAP-HIT)
Secondary Armament: 8 mm coaxil machine gun, 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun

Countermeasures
Armor: Kaktus
Electronic Warfare: EW-DJ Cherta, EW-NJ Korta

Design Details
General Information: The T-99 'Belsen' has been in the works since 1993. The Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau have been designin the soviet marvel ever since then. Only since 2002 has Vagonka Works been manufactoring the behemoth.

A leap forward in military technology, the Red Army plans to slowly phase out the aging F-91 tanks and replace them with the T-99 'Belsen'.

TAP-HIT Munition: The Tactical, Accurate, Precise-High-impulse Thermobaric munition (TAP-HIT) is designed to be a 'non-sight weapon'. For example: a group of fighters is hiding behind a large fortification. Unable to see the target, and for whatever reason, unable to attack it head on.

The T-99 will be able to fire a timed charge that will release a thermobaric explosion above the wall, igniting the firing fighters and the surroundings, effectively terminating the threat.

EW-DJ Cherta & EW-NJ Korta: The state of the art in electronic warfare. The DJ Cherta is a deception jammer, sending out erroneous and incorrect information about range, velocity, bering, etc to enemy forces. A deception jammer receives the radar signal, modifies it and retransmits the altered signal back to the radar.

The NJ Korta is also a jammer, however, for a different purpose. The NJ Korta system is designed to delay or deny target detection. Noise jamming attempts to mask the presence of targets by substantially adding to the level of thermal noise received by the radar. Noise jamming usually employs high power signals tuned to the same frequency of the radar. The most common techniques include barrage, spot, swept spot, cover pulse, and modulated noise jamming.

Kaktus: Kaktus armor is the latest in soviet reactive technologies. Combining reactive armor and composite, the Kaktus is composed of layers of steel, depleted uranium, tungest, reactive 'bricks', and GRP-boron carbide.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/Fascist_Confederacy/KaktusArmor.png

As of now, only general information and a simple display of the armor materials is available for publication. The above picture is not to scale and it may or may not be in that specific order.

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We thank you for being interested in the T-99 'Belsen'. We are open for comments, compliments, and questions. However, as of now, the T-99 is not for sale outside of determined situations.

(OOC: I added alot more weight, and decided to keep the DU. I may change that later, Im just debating at the moment. I may perhaps keep a small DU plate in 'high risk areas', but not have DU over the entire shell.)
Scellia
29-09-2005, 00:12
Isn't it a little light? The M1A2 is 70 tons and has a smaller gun and less range though greater speed. Does it skimp on armor because the speed differential doesn't make up enough room to count for 30 tons on a vehicle with a bigger gun.
Space Union
29-09-2005, 00:19
I have to agree that the weight is way off. It should be in the 80 ton range if not the 90 ton range considering that the M1A2 is almost 70 tonnes and this is much better and heavier. But overall a good tank, but I'm not a tank expert so I'll leave the critisism for the experts ;)

Also I have a off-topic question to ask you: are you communist or fascist? I can't tell, because you act communist yet in one of the alliances that's against communism (Anti-Communist League I think) your a part of. Confuses me.
Leafanistan
29-09-2005, 01:23
Tungsten AND Depleted Uranium will run your weight up to 80 tons, stick with the Soviet Original Design that "shattered Tungsten Penetrators" and defeated American Depleted Uranium penetrators. Stick with just hte Tungsten, and keep the weight down to 50 tonnes if you are basing on the Black Eagle design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontakt-5

Black Eagle is based on T-80 hull.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-80
Scellia
29-09-2005, 01:36
However not only is 50 tons more guess then fact but only when using a 125mm gun, if you increase that to 152mm then you're adding a lot more weight. It also seems that the armor is good but not that thick, the defeating of DU penetrators was probably off a glacing not square hit (makes logical sense). The other thing is that tanks in NS tend to mount much heavier guns then the 120mm Abrams gun, plus they are all ETC which means that a glacing ETC 120mm DU will have a significantly better chance of penetrating and a square ETC shot is almost guarenteed. So you need to add armor, factor in the bigger gun and realize that 50 tons is a guesstimate which I would tend to believe is low.
Fascist Confederacy
29-09-2005, 01:37
(Thanks for the criticism. I'm editing accordingly. And I was basing it loosely off of the Black Eagle. But nothing terribly strict.

And SU, I've explained this several times: about 10 months ago, due to OOC changes, I decided to RP as the USSR. Yet, due to the inability to change my name, I kept the FC name for forum and stat purposes only. But I am not a fascist nation nor one IRL.)