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Ostkampfwagen VIII-A "Ferne"
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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.
http://www.defense-update.com/images/shtora-1-FINE.jpg
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.]
Presented to you by...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/NSFlags/tankbanner.png
http://www.jodyharmon.com/T90copy.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/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.
http://www.gdcanada.com/company_info/images/chart.jpg
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.
http://www.defense-update.com/images/shtora-1-FINE.jpg
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.]