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Mk I Assault Battle Suit [MT]

Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 03:30
Lieutenant Gail McAllen flung himself to the ground as rifle fire erupted from the fortified camp that he and his Mithril special operations team were assaulting.

“Damn, I’d hoped we would have gotten a bit closer before they started shooting.”

“Just rotten luck sir” replied Sergeant Jackson. “We can still rush them though.”

“You’re right. First and third squads, lay down a covering fire. Second and fourth squads, follow me.”

Heavy machine gun and automatic grenade fire burst forth as McAllen and his other soldiers charged towards the compound. Of course, the Mithril soldiers were just firing blanks, as this was a training exercise.

And for precisely the same reason, the Marine OpFor wasn’t.

McAllen stumbled and crashed to the ground as three .50 caliber machine gun rounds slammed into his chest. Picking himself up, he sprayed the offending machine gun nest with .50 caliber rounds of his own, causing the Marines to drop in simulated death. Up ahead, the rest of the platoon was eliminating the remaining strong points as he trotted up to rejoin them.

“Ah, they gotcha sir, did they?”

“Yeah. I just hope that this isn’t coming out of my salary.”

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Mk I Assault Battle Suit

Developed to aid Mithril commandos in assaults on fortified compounds, the Assault Battle Suit is a testament to the engineers of Neu Sachsen Combat Systems Inc. Having purchased the rights to the Hybrid Assistive Limb system, the engineers improved upon it, vastly increasing its strength, though this required a return to a backpack to carry batteries. Once again inspiration struck, and commercially available supercapacitors were used, giving the suit power for combat operations lasting up to six hours, with recharge via APC taking only a few minutes.

The actual armor of the suit is built out of aluminum oxinytride, molded into the proper shapes. In some areas this armor is as thick as three inches, giving the user the ability to take multiple hits from a .50 caliber machine gun and still remain combat effective. However, it is recommended that portions so hit be replaced before the next battle, if possible, as this will reduce the suit's armor effectiveness.

Needless to say, the armor makes aiming traditional weapons a bit hard. To counter this, the suit contains a heads up display and is Bluetooth enabled. Modified versions of traditional Civitas Americae weapons incorporate this Bluetooth technology to deliver their aim point information to the suit, which then shows where the weapon is aimed with a crosshair on the HUD. Currently these weapons include the AK-103, the Javelin missile launcher, the M2 heavy machine gun, and the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher (which can be used in a semi-automatic mode with the battle suit modifications). With the last two weapons, a battle rifle trigger has been added, so that the weapons may be carried and fired in a fashion similar to that of a conventional assault rifle.

While the Assault Battle Suit is capable of hefting these weapons, and an additional 75kg of ammo or other equipment, it does not substantially add to the users running or jumping abilities, in large part because of the weight of the armor.

In case of a chemical attack, the suit is equipped with a Type 73 gas mask. In addition, the suit is equipped with a cooling system to prevent the users from becoming overheated.

Price per suit: $300,000. Average cost of replacement armor sections: $15,000. The Assault Battle Suit is available for export to approved countries.
The Silver Sky
10-11-2005, 03:47
OOC: Hey, I was wondering if you'd be interested in adding this to your armor, it should releive you of at least an inch of heavy armor: http://www.pinnaclearmor.com/body-armor/sov.php

I'll probably be back for a purchase, I'm about to eat.
Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 03:53
OOC: Hey, I was wondering if you'd be interested in adding this to your armor, it should releive you of at least an inch of heavy armor: http://www.pinnaclearmor.com/body-armor/sov.php

I'll probably be back for a purchase, I'm about to eat.

While that is good armor, it fulfills a different role and doesn't provide as much, or as complete a protection as does the armor on our battle suit. Most of our Mithril commandos use it as a "just in case" layer however.
The Silver Sky
10-11-2005, 04:17
The Silver Sky would like to purchase production rights to this Mk I Assault Battle Suit, please name your price, if production rights are not available we will return to make a regular purchase.

OOC: The price is way to high, this is almost as expensive as an IFV, taking the Macabee's armor as a template I'd say this should cost no more then $100,000 total(Mac's cost 50,000USD), and armor should cost no more then 20,000.
Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 04:23
The Silver Sky would like to purchase production rights to this Mk I Assault Battle Suit, please name your price, if production rights are not available we will return to make a regular purchase.

We prefer to keep production located here in Civitas Americae unfortunately. Currently only GPE nations are able to license productions.


OOC: The price is way to high, this is almost as expensive as an IFV, taking the Macabee's armor as a template I'd say this should cost no more then $100,000 total(Mac's cost 50,000USD), and armor should cost no more then 20,000.

OOC: Your right, but I priced it so high originally out of not knowing how much area it'd have to cover. Now that I've found how much skin there is though (and n make some calculations), armor would actually be about a quarter-million (the armor used is 10-15USD per square inch). So $300,000 a suit, and $15,000 a piece. I'll go edit the OP.
Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 05:26
bump.
Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 15:08
bump
Derscon
10-11-2005, 20:08
Official Inquiry from the Ministry of Defence

The Czar would like to purchase production rights for the Mk I Assault Battle Suit. He hopes that, as Citivas is a fellow GPE nation, that a negotiated price can be reached.

God Bless,

Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley
Command in Chief, First Imperial Corps
On behalf of the Ministry of Defence
The Divine Prussian Empire of Derscon
The Silver Sky
10-11-2005, 20:16
The Silver Sky would like to purchase 5,000,000 Mk I Assault Battle Suits, production should be spread out over 5 years, the money for the cost $1,500,000,000,000 USD will be wired at a rate of $75,000,000,000 USD for the next 20 years.

We hope this is agreeable.
Civitas Americae
10-11-2005, 23:35
To Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley:

We are pleased to offer the production rights at $30 billion USD [OOC: If that's a really odd number, let me know and I'll fix it], and would like to express our gratitude for your nation's interest.

To The Silver Sky:

Your purchase has been confirmed, and production of the first shipment is even now underway. We thank you for your purchase.
Civitas Americae
11-11-2005, 01:34
bump
Civitas Americae
11-11-2005, 03:49
bump
Magdha-
11-11-2005, 03:55
"We wish to purchase 90,000 Mk I Assault Battle Suits for $27,000,000,000. Money will be wired upon confirmation."

--Generalissimo J.L.--
Civitas Americae
11-11-2005, 04:09
To Generalissimo J.L:

Your order for 90,000 Mk I Assault Battle Suits has been confirmed. We thank you for your purchase and hope that you will return to Neu Sachsen Combat Systems Inc. for all of your infantry needs.

Richard Mardukas,
President
Neu Sachsen Combat Systems Inc.
Magdha-
11-11-2005, 04:12
*Money wired*
Civitas Americae
11-11-2005, 15:21
bump
Civitas Americae
12-11-2005, 01:53
Bump