NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: Since there are a number of nation-states that have reference threads, I figured that I'd might as well follow suite. Same rules apply as in other reference threads:

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If you have a question regarding my reference thread, telegram me.
Lastly, and most importantly, all this information is considered as OOC details. As in to say, you can't use this reference thread's details against me without my consent.

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Modern Technology

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AAM Series Air to Air Missiles (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10697383&postcount=35)
AC-35 "Styx" turbofan gunship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10485285&postcount=12)
AeroClot (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10503348&postcount=20)
ASDDS (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10451922&postcount=7)
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Beta Anthrax (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10503373&postcount=21)
Bioweapon Breeding Vat (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10503309&postcount=15)
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C-57 "Galaxy Lifter" Heavy Lifting Transport Aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10512282&postcount=23)
Cetus-class Flight IB guided missile battleship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10868462&postcount=38)
Corromis (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10503325&postcount=17)
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Diplomacy-class executive yacht (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10479204&postcount=10)
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E-3C Sentry AWACS Aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10606476&postcount=31)
E-44 "Overseer" Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Battlefield Control (IRBC) Aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11212748&postcount=45)
Elusion-class Vehicle (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10168550&postcount=2)
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F-16C/D "Fighting Falcon" Multi-Role Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11046194&postcount=42)
F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" Multi-Role Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10606507&postcount=32)
F-25 "Peafowl" STOVL Multi-Role Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10472192&postcount=9)
F-127 "Garuda" Hypersonic Interceptor (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10560155&postcount=26)
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H-75 "Knighthawk" Helicopter and Variants (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10762523&postcount=36)
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Incorporation-class Heavy Dreadnaught (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10549118&postcount=25)
Indochina-class Nuclear-Powered Battlecruiser (BCN) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10424028&postcount=6)
Iuthian Diplomatic Contract (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10396403&postcount=5)


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Leviathian-class Light Dreadnaught (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10918304&postcount=39)
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Mark IX Incubus Main Battle Tank (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10362455&postcount=3)
Mercer-class Amphibious Assault Ship (LHDN) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10599588&postcount=29)
MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/Light Truck (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10623787&postcount=34)
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Paladin-class Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Destroyer [DDGN] (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11581157&postcount=47)
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Statesman-class executive submarine (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10479206&postcount=11)
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Z-39 'Pit Bull' Close In Combat Vehicle (CICV) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10492375&postcount=14)
Z-41 "Regus" Light Battle Tank (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11336323&postcount=46)
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DMG Military Industries Elusion-class Vehicle
Elusion Class Vehicle *DMG Original*
Are you a benevolent president? A corrupt dictator? A wanted terrorist leader? How about a major celebrity? Do you need a quick getaway and enough firepower to defend yourself against your pursuers? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this vehicle is for you. It is equipped with the best technology DMI has and is armored to defend against powerful weapons. The back row of seats was replaced by a M240 Medium Machine Gun that is controlled by a computer from the passenger seat. The back of the second row was fortified with bullet proof siding and windows so that the machine gun can be used without fear of being shot in the back. At only 1 Million USD, this vehicle is a steal.

Type: SUV Transport/Security
Manufacturer: DMG Military Industries/TLS Propulsion
Crew: 2 (Driver, Gunner) and 3 Passengers
Length: 15.8 ft
Height: 6.5 ft
Width: 6.8 ft
Weight: 3.5 tons
Engine: TLS ME-110 V8
Max Speed: 160 mph
0-60: 3.9 seconds
Transmission: 5 speed, automatic
Fuel Capacity: 30 gallons
Range: 500 miles
Armor:
-Triada Armour
-Bullet proof windows and siding (second row seats are bullet proof and has a bullet proof divider with the front and back)
Armament:
-1x M240 Machine Gun
-3x Colt M16
-3x Viper R-90s
-3x Full bullet proof body suits
Features:
-Run-flat tires
-Computer controlled machine gun
-Smart Car System
-Full military computer system
-Voice responsive commands
-Oil Slicks
-One touch air strike button (sends signals to nearest military aircraft for an air strike)
Systems:
-DAC (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-VCCS (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-EMP DAD (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-HES (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-SBRR (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-Triada Armour (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-Archangel Stealth System G-IV (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/DMG2005/Elusion.jpg

No longer in diplomatic service.

Aequatian Military Industries Mark IX Incubus Main Battle Tank


Main Battle Tank, Mark IX "Incubus"

Development began on the Incubus MBT (or MBT-05 Project) after it became clear of the delays of the MBT-04 Project and the possible termination of the project as well as the urgent need for a replacement as the Predator MBT series was coming to the end of its frontline service life. The vehicle's design has many classic tank designs laid within it, including the American M1 Abrams, British Centurion and Chieftain tanks. As well, the Incubus MBT will return the electrothermal chemical gun design in Aequatian tanks with an improved version of the 120mm ETC gun which armed the original Aequatian Gladiator MBT.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3219/mbtmark9incubuscamo6zu.png

Price: 7,812,400 Aequatian Markes
Crew: 4 (Commander, Gunner, Driver, Loader)
Weight: 57,500kg
Length: 10.76m (gun forward); 9.23m (hull)
Height: 2.89m
Width: 3.22m
Engine: Aequatian Automotive Industries (Propulsion Division) 1,750hp V10 Diesel Engine
Range: 450km
Armour Type: Aequatian Military Industries (Composites Division) Mark.II Carbon-60 Composite Armour
Armament
Aequatian Military Industries Fully-Stabilized M40A2 120mm Electrothermal Chemical Smoothbore Gun (42 rounds)
Aequatian Military Industries M90 20mm Coaxial-Mounted Autocannon (1,000 rounds)
Aequatian Military Industries M91 High-Velocity 20mm Turret-Mounted Autocannon (500 rounds)
Aequatian Military Industries MG76 7.62mm General-Purpose Machinegun (500 rounds)
Secondary Systems
200 SCFM CleanCool NBC Protection System
Battlefield Information Control System
100 kilojoule Pulse Power Turbine (M40A2 ETC Gun)
WillTell Computerized Fire Control System (FCS)
Shield Electro-Optical Countermeasures Defensive Aids Suite (EOCMDAS)
Sword Active Protection System (APS)
Forward Looking InfraRed Sighting System (Commander)
Sights w/Magnification Day AMI EMES-15, 12x/secondary (Gunner)
8x AMI "Inferno" Nighttime Thermal Imager (Gunner)
Carbon Dioxide Laser Rangefinder
Performance
Max. Road Speed: 72.5km/h
Max. Cross-Country Speed: 67km/h
Fording Depth: 1.45m
Vertical Obstacle: 1.25m
Trench: 3.35m

Silver Sky National Armanents/Portland Iron Works Neptune-class Trimaran Super Dreadnaught Flight II
'Neptune'-Class Trimaran Super Dreadnaught Flight II

Stats:
Length: 992 m; Beam: 231 m; Draught: 26.9 m
Displacement: 2.54 million tons full load
Domestic Version Armament:
6x 4 610mm (24”) Mark 71 Naval Guns in A, B, C, X, Y, Z positions(Replaced with ETC in Export Version)
28x 203mm (8”) Mark 71 Naval Guns in 14 dual turrets (7 each port and starboard)(Replaced with ETC in Export Version)
18x 76.2mm (3”) Mark 71 Naval Guns, Anti-air/fast ship guns in single mounts (9 each port and starboard on out riggers) (Replaced with ETC in Export Version)
40x 'Rattlesnake' 35mm CIWS (20 each port and starboard [Includes ‘Yellow Jacket’ RAM, and decoys])
18x Anti-torpedo CIWS (anti-torpedo super-cav 35mm cannon and countermeasures)
4x 324mm Torpedo Tubes
6x 650mm Torpedo Tubes
4x 1000mm Ultra-Large Torpedo Tubes
12x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS (Enough to hold 1152 'Scourge' anti-ship missiles, or many more smaller missiles)
20x SAM launchers (9 each port and starboard. Capable of launching Hornet Medium SAMs or similar missiles)
Protection: Advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, amorphous steel, aluminum, and ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel, void spaces and a titanium honeycomb frame. Composite rods, KERI foam installed in void spaces, and ceramic kinetic reducing plates for further protection against KE attacks.
Engine Compartment: 2,200mm
Hull, Deck, and Hatches: 1,900mm
Magazine and Turret: 2,100mm
Glue Structures(Section that connects all the hulls): 2,300mm
Aircraft: Capable of carrying and launching 72 aircraft on two full flight decks along the outriggers. Also carries 24 helicopters for ASW patrols.
Complement: 11,000 naval; 600 aircrew; 2,000 Naval infantry
Propulsion: 12x Pebblebed nuclear reactors with 14 propulsors and eight internalized waterjets. Compulsators provide power from central power system to turrets. Extensive thermal insulation surrounds each reactor to reduce noise emissions and infrared signature. 32 knots maximum 30 knots maximum cruise.
Electronics: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronics Warfare System
AN/SPY-4 MFR and AN/SPN-23 navigational radars
AN/SQR-6 (B ) passive towed array and AN/SQS-57 dual-mode mounted digital sonar array
A/P Mounted Sonar: AN/SQS-57 active/passive, preformed beam, digital sonar providing panoramic echo ranging and panoramic (DIMUS) passive surveillance.
Countermeasures: AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
Flares/Chaff to confuse incoming IR/RADAR-Seeking missiles
Active Directional/Un-Directional Radar Jamming System (AD/UDRS): for use against Radar-seeking missiles and fighters, with limited capabilities against surface ships; Max range:100km Effective range: >25km
Laser Defense System (LDS): Consists of 6 Dome Laser emitters which target and destroy small missiles using lasers and can be used to disable laser guided weapons.
Shortstop and Warlock Electronic Protection System (EPS): Disables any incoming device with an electronically controlled fuse with an 90% success rate. Effective range: 1500m

Iuthian Diplomatic Contract

[OOC: Permission Clarified by Iuthia ICly and OOCly, modified for our own uses.]

Iuthian Diplomatic Contract

This document provides the authorization of Lord General James deGritz for the building of Embassies within the Diplomatic Quarter of Iuthia’s capitol city, Iuthia Prima. As the capitol is an inland city, 24-hours notice must be given to the Iuthian Diplomatic Corps in written format such as teletype, secured e-mail, or secured fax prior to the arrival or departure of Iuthia Prima borders. Travel outside the diplomatic compound must be escorted by Iuthia Prima Foreign Services personnel.

Rules for Diplomatic personnel and stations are as follows:

Extraterritoriality of Embassies
Embassies are considered to be extraterritorial. Iuthian personnel may only enter with the permission of the Ambassador.

Embassy Law Enforcement
Embassies are responsible for their own security and law enforcement. Embassies are permitted a small armed force up to thirty (30) people to accomplish this. No foreign nationals may carry weapons outside the Embassy compound.

Subjugation of Iuthian Law
With the exception of the Ambassador and five members of the Embassy staff (chosen by the Ambassador) who will be granted Extraterritoriality, all Embassy personnel are subject to Iuthian law outside the Embassy itself.

Expelling of Diplomatic Personnel
The Lord General or Foreign Minister of the Iuthian Diplomatic Corps reserves the right to expel any and all members of any foreign government at any time, for any reason. With the exception of active hostilities between Iuthian and the government in question, any personnel so expelled are secure in their persons and personal baggage until after they have been removed from Iuthian territory (in other words, if we expel your Ambassador, he still has diplomatic immunity until he leaves Iuthian territory).

Diplomatic Security Outside Embassy Compound
Diplomatic security outside of the Embassy compound is the responsibility of Iuthian Diplomatic Corps personnel and National Police personnel. No foreign diplomatic personnel are allowed to travel unescorted within Iuthian territory. All foreign diplomatic nationals employed at the Embassy who object to this are free to live within the Embassy compound.

Electronic Communication Outside Embassy Compound
Each Embassy compound is permitted one- and only one- satellite communications station within the Embassy compound. Communications carried on this system may be encrypted or employ any other anti-intrusion measures the Embassy personnel consider prudent. All other message traffic must go through public communications circuits or be carried in the Diplomatic Pouch.

Diplomatic Pouch Communication Outside Embassy Compound
Messages between the Embassy and its parent government may be carried by one of the Embassy staff with Extraterritoriality in a Diplomatic Pouch- which may be no larger than a standard briefcase. This pouch will be secure against any search beyond normal non-invasive passive sensors. For safety reasons, the briefcase must be transparent to X-rays. Any anti-intrusion electronics within the briefcase must be demonstrated to Diplomatic Corps personnel before the establishment of the Embassy. Any subsequent changes to anti-intrusion electronics must also be demonstrated to Diplomatic Corps prior to its use being permitted within the Diplomatic Pouch. Any electronics within the Diplomatic Pouch that do not match the X-ray signature of the agreed-upon system will not be permitted entry. Embassy security personnel are permitted unrestricted access to the Diplomatic Security screening station before, during, and after the Diplomatic Pouch passes through to ensure that Iuthian is not attempting electronic breaching of the Diplomatic Pouch.

Communication with Foreign Nationals Accused of Crimes
Embassy personnel will be permitted to communicate with citizens of the Embassy's government accused of crimes within Iuthian territory. This communication will be monitored by Diplomatic Corps and National Police personnel, and is not considered privileged information. The Lord General or Foreign Minister of the Iuthian Diplomatic Corps reserves the right to restrict any such communication in the event it may (in the opinion of Iuthian Diplomatic Corps) it may jeopardize National Security.

Diplomatic Vehicles
Each Embassy will be permitted to import two non-military vehicles for use by Extraterritorial Embassy personnel. Diplomatic vehicles will be considered part of the Embassy compound when in use by Embassy personnel with Extraterritoriality.

Prior to entry, any such vehicle will be thoroughly inspected by a team from the Iuthian Diplomatic Corps in the presence of Embassy security staff. All equipment installed in or on the vehicles will be demonstrated to IDC personnel. Any additional equipment installed subsequent to approval must also be examined by IDC and its purpose demonstrated. Diplomatic vehicles will be examined at random intervals agreed to by the Ambassador. Any alteration to the agreed equipment will be considered a violation of the Diplomatic Agreement.

In the event of a suspected crime or threat to National Security, the vehicle and its occupants will be detained in place while Iuthian Diplomatic Corps requests access to the vehicle from the Ambassador. Failure to grant such access will constitute a breach of the Diplomatic agreement. Under these circumstances and in the absence of a state of war, the Embassy may send Security Observers to ensure that the vehicle is not searched or entered by Iuthian personnel as it is destroyed in place. The remains of the vehicle will be returned to the Embassy once destruction is completed. The Embassy will be closed and all personnel expelled once this is completed. The destroyed vehicle will be permitted to leave with the Embassy staff.

Diplomatic Personnel and Espionage
Any Embassy personnel engaging in espionage will be summarily expelled (if granted Extraterritoriality) or prosecuted within the full extent of Iuthian law (all others). Embassy personnel who escape (or attempt to escape) the supervision of their Diplomatic Corps escorts will be assumed to be engaged in espionage.

Travel Restrictions Placed on Embassy Personnel
No Embassy personnel are permitted to depart Iuthia Prima for any reason other than to leave Iuthian territory.

Assuming that these terms are acceptable, The Lord General and Foreign Minister of the Iuthian Diplomatic Corps welcome the opportunity to establish diplomatic relations with your government. Please send any applicable restrictions for Iuthian Diplomatic personnel in your territory.

Best Regards,

Foreign Minister Mick Lakely
Iuthian Diplomatic Corps
The Benevolent Dictatorship of Iuthia

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries Ingerier-class Nuclear-Powered Battlecruiser (Southeast Asian designation of Indochina-class Nuclear-Powered Battlecruiser [BCN])
[b]Ingerier class Battlecruiser [BCN]

History: The origins of the Ingerier can be traced back to a Southeast Asian request to Kriegzimmer, which found much popularity within the ranks of the Kriermada. Although the Ingerier had been designed with Southeast Asian interest in mind, the battlecruiser would also become the mainstay battlecruiser of the Kriermada, although it wouldn't become the only one. The Ingerier also spearheaded a spur of research and design within Kriegzimmer for the Kriermada for newer and more ships, replacing several of the older designs which had accompanied the Kriermada since the days of the Great Civil War. That said, the Ingerier would become the first of three battlecruiser designs in Kriegzimmer, which would later continue on to two battleship projects, one dreadnought project, and finally, at least within regards to big guns, a new galleon, the Ferraet class. The first Ingerier class Battlecruisers would serve by 2019 in the Kriermada, although the first ship served in the Southeast Asian navy by late 2018.

There had been many historical stimulations which had finally persuaded the Kriermada to aid Kriegzimmer in the funding of the project, and most of these were directly involved with the War of the Golden Throne. The first of these was the Battle of Targul Frumos, a naval battle off the coast of the city, which pitted up to four Havenite [SafeHaven2] fleets against two Macabee battlegroups, and a host of Killian aircraft based off the city. Although the battle hadn't ended during the beginnings of the project for the Ingerier, it had already illustrated several important factors to the Empire. During Targul Frumos there had been a massive revolution in Macabee naval tactical doctrine, which ultimately aided to bottle up the Havenic fleets in the Bay of Madrasa. This new tactical naval doctrine pinpointed the necessity for fast, yet heavy, naval designs which ultimately translated in the need for a battlecruiser, which could close range and engage an enemy warship with some sort of semblence of rush. Although in the end, Battlegroup Romeo was able to fully bottle up three Havenic fleets in Madrasa, through the use of speed, and the command abilities of the most legendary Macabee naval commander Grand Admiral von Laifsraggen, there was an evident lack of ships that could bring guns heavy enough, fast enough, to provide firepower on the rear of the Havenite armada.

The need for speed was further warranted with the example of the Battle of the Liernat Straits, which saw the Gerfaanlichi juggernaut Republiek Sukep Halmilcar pitted against the Izistani battleship Izistan. Although the battle ended indicisive, it had shown that a lack of velocity could mean the loss of a battle, as the ownership of the Straits had failed to change hands, and it would take Macabee interference to finally rid the Straits from Gerfaanlich's presence. Although the Halmilcar escaped the battle with most of her turrets damaged, and her superstructure failing, the Izistan left with much more damage, drilled through her by the rediculously massive guns of the Halmilcar. It was the lack of speed early in the battle, however, that had forces the Izistan to face the massive guns of the Halmilcar at point blank range, and it was the early suprise which allowed the Halmilcar to put so much lead into her starboard side.

It was the latter Macabee operation to cleanse the Liernat Straits, which would assure Macabee naval supremacy over Gerfaanlich in the colonies, after the Macabee Labarnas had been sunk by the Super Dreadnought Mithradates in the region of Haven. However, again, there was a lack of fast ships with the necessary force to hunt and destroy Gerfaanlichi shipping which ultimately prolonged the operation, and allowed Izistan such a headstart in the ground operations which would mark the demise of Gerfaanlich as a colonial power, although she was still able to ensure her independence from the Golden Throne, despite her multiple defeats during the War of the Golden Succession. Regardless, the issues encountered early on in this specific theater of the War of Golden Succession provided the final prodding necessary for the design and implimentation of a battlecruiser, which would ultimately manifest itself with the commission of the HES Ingerier in 1919, which was follewed soon thereafter by another six of the class.

The Ingerier found its name in history, as the first ship of the class was honored to Grand Admiral Ramos Ingerier who commanded the imperial fleet at the Battle of Xierniot, in 1734, witnessing the imperial victory over the Kingdom of Arras, opening for the invasion of the island some time later. The Ingerier is the first ship to be named after an Imperial admiral, either from the First Empire or the Second Empire.

Statistics:
Length: 266.8m
Beam: 33.35m
Draught: 9.52m
Displacement: 42,446.3 tonnes [46,789 short tons]
Hull Type: Monohull
Machinery:
2x Helga pressurized water reactors [352,000 shp]
4x Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 43 knots
Range: Limited by consumables.
Armour:
381mm belt
406.4mm turret plate
93.98mm deck
Armament:
3x 355.6mm triplemount lightweight high breech pressure turrets
8x Conhort CIWS
6x 88mm AAA
4x Praetorian Batteries
2x Hedgehog Mk. II Mortars
4x 5 cell quadruple rotationary VLS
Electronics:
Vertically deployed TB-2016
TB-163 thin line array
TB-87 short line array
MRT-1 multifunction search radar
MRT-4 surface search radar
KRS-82 fire and control radar
KRS-11 navigation radar
KRS-13 multifunction search radar
MLT-1 lidar array
BST-7 multiple interfece ladar arrays [four total]
KIR-66 infra-red fire array
Aircraft:
1x LAMPS
2x UAV
Crew: 536 naval
Cost: 5.7 billion

MierTech ASDDS (Anti Super Dreadnaught Defense System)

MTS-D03 ASDDS
Anti Super Dreadnaught Defense System
Basically, this system comprises kilometers of pipes running along the seabed all around your nation. This network can extend as far as you need it, though we are aware of other nations territorial waters. Essentially, when you require the system to be activated, air is pumped along the pipes to the area you desire, and there it is released. This reduces the density of the water and therefore cause any ships above to sink. Variations in the amount of air piped and released could allow smaller ships to sink, but not the larger ones, depending on your aim.

Portland Iron Works Archon-class Super Dreadnaught

Propulsion
Designed for speed in order to respond quickly to blockades and sieges of allied ports the Archon was equipped with ten Mk. 33 Hybrid Liquid Metal reactor and was further augmented with the installation of Sprint Coils in order to give the massive vessel a surprising top speed that would be able to leave many smaller vessels in its wake.

The Mark 33 hybrid reactor uses a pebble bed reactor for generation of thermal energy coupled with a liquid metal (LbBi) heat exchanger that carries the thermal energy to the boilers where convection transfers the heat to water to generate steam. After this point the now cool liquid is pumped back into the reactor where it acts as coolant by the same means of convection, and continues this loop indefinitely. The system is extremely safe, reliable, and efficient. Using MHD [magneto-hydro-dynamic] pumps allows the engines to be virtually vibration free and immune to misalignment via impact damage. These reactors by themselves produce a large amount of power but if they were to achieve any notable speed something more would need to be done.

Circling the boilers is a series of heating elements attached to a large capacitor. These ‘Sprint coils’ allows for the superheating of the steam in order to get the maximum amount of pressure from the system [the boilers were overbuilt to withstand such pressure plus 30%] though this does cause the water level in the boilers to drop over time [the excess heat gradually removes moisture making recovery via condensation highly inefficient] so fresh sea water must be added every five hours to avoid damage to the boilers and the sprint coils themselves. The capacitor itself has enough power for five ‘sprints’ and takes approximately 15 hours to build up enough of a charge for a five hour sprint. The concept of the sprint coils was derived from the practice of adding oils fed burners to the reactors of the Russian Kirov class vessels in order to achieve high speed sprints, the sprint coil however is a much lighter weight option and is capable of self replenishment unlike an oil burner.

Each of the ten reactors powers three 300,000 hp turbines generating 200 MW each which fully provides complete power for the vessel plus enough to fully charge a set of reserve batteries, as well as supplement the sprint coils capacitors indefinitely. A further eight 15 MW diesel generators provide emergency power incase of a reactor failure.

The turbines power an electric drive train attached to nine ‘pods’ [four at aft, two amidships, two Fore, and One Bow] these pods act as a combined rudder and propeller unit and are individually steerable increasing the ships maneuverability by a large amount over traditional designs. Unlike most [read almost all] modern vessels the Archons’ propellers are forward facing, cutting directly into undisturbed drink unlike most systems which have to contend with wake induced cavitation and subsequent loss of efficiency. This system originally designed for high speed yachts has been increased to scale with the Archon and mount two counter rotating WDA’s or Williamson Disk Actuators. The WDA’s are probably one of the most revolutionary, and unusual propeller designs available today. Consisting of nine crescent shaped low cavitating blades enclosed within a ring it appears as a solid disk from the front due to the close alignment of each blade. The ring though considered unusual fills a three point purpose; Primarily the ring diverts as much water to the rear that been driven outward axially, A common problem with most propellers that the WDA seeks to compensate which allows it to achieve higher thrust with little loss of efficiency. Secondly the ring removes the end tips of the propellers removing a major cavitation point that previously had forced a loss of efficiency and could damage the propeller itself. Finally the ring supports and reinforces the propeller making it more likely to survive the compression waves of an underwater explosion giving the Archon a reliable, and strong propulsion system. Further the pods extend below the absolute draft of the main hull which combined with the displacement of the vessel above increase the water pressure and density around the screws improving efficiency at both lower and higher revolutions.

Overall the Archon is amazingly efficient for a craft her size, maneuverable with a high acceleration and high top speed she is theoretically capable of making over 1000 nautical miles a day with her sprint coils active and while retaining the ability to quickly, stop and maneuver with little strain. Due to her advanced podded propellers she does not require tug assistance in entering or leaving port, making her a highly versatile craft.

Complement
With her relatively light armament the Archon contains creature comforts rarely seen on most ships, even if they are Spartan compared to that of a civilian ship. Each enlisted crew member is assigned a five by five by eight foot soundproof capsule with its own door, a mattress runs the length of the floor. The Capsules accommodations provide and a personal computer/TV with fold down desk/keyboard & mouse, a personal mirror, separate climate control for the capsule, an in-wall safe and several drawers for various personal items. These capsules are fitted 6 to a bunk room with tall lockers for storing uniforms and such, as well as an ironing board. Two such bunk rooms share a shower and bathroom and are segregated by sex, and to a much lesser degree rank. Most often, in order to prevent crowding in the shower rooms, one bunk room is on duty while the other is off duty so as to make the environment seem much less crowded than it really is.

Pilots, Low level officers, and Specialists share much more open environment with two men or women sharing a room of similar size (15”x10”x8”) which is quite roomy compared to most vessels, again with two rooms sharing a small shower room between them. Mid-rank officers, and General staff members have a half size room, but it’s a personal room with their own bathroom/shower- a quite enviable privilege on the Archon. This level of accommodation is about equal to a small single bed hotel room and similarly furnished, though not much, it is definitely better than a canvas bunk bed.

Upper level Officers including the Captain, and visiting dignitaries would be granted a full room with attached office, and private shower, a small Conversation area [usually with a small couch, and two chairs] and a locking door. The admirals accommodations are similar with the exception that he has a separate private office of the same size as his room, and controls another two such rooms as offices for his personal staff.

Armament
The heart of any warship is its armament and the Archon [though considered lightly armed compared to some of its contemporaries] is no different.

The centerpiece of its offensive armament lay in two stabilized forward turrets each mounting two Gerlich Principle Probertised High Velocity Electro-Thermal Rifled Cannons. The tapered bore guns have a base diameter of twenty-eight inches and an emergent diameter of some twenty-five inches making the round itself equal to that of a refit Doujin but traveling several times faster. These guns were designed with one purpose to take out other super-dreadnaughts and protect the fleet. Though this may seem a stretch, as armor schemes becoming more advanced every day the four primary guns of the Archon were designed to pierce all existing armor schemes except in the extreme heaviest of applications for years and possibly decades to come. The Anti-dread guns carry a shorter range than their shore bombardment, non tapered bore cousins, but have a much higher velocity, shorter time on target and are unquestioningly one of the most dangerous weapons on the high seas. Their commanding position just front of the observation deck gives them an increased direct fire range due to their height and can fire a four and a half ton armor piercing projectile up to the horizon and beyond with devastating results on the leviathan vessels that circle the worlds oceans.

The power behind these guns comes from two distinct places. First the modified twenty five inch projectile is forced down the barrel with the equivalent force for a twenty eight inch projectile, the lighter weight of the round equates to higher velocity. Second the bore of the gun tapers downward toward the muzzle compressing small copper ’wings’ around the mid and rear of the projectile converting them to a conformal driving bands as it reaches the muzzle forcing almost all of the expansion gasses behind the round [instead of around the round] garnering as much energy and efficiency as possible before slinging it down range at speeds unimaginable for a round of its size. As the Wings are forced down and the round progresses down the muzzle the rifling gradually disappear until the last section of the barrel becomes smoothbored. When the projectile travels through this section, its wings turned driving bands get flattened against the shell body, giving the projectile a smoother emergent shape and thus improving its aerodynamics.

Below the B & C turrets and to the rear of the super structure are two turrets as well as two turrets flanking C turret which each mount three and two long barrel twenty-five inch Electro-Thermal Cannons respectively whose primary role is long range bombardment, of either shore or naval targets. Both main guns can be elevated up to twenty-five and thirty-five degrees respectively and can rotate up to two hundred and eighty degrees due to the swept back design of the super structure. While they have an excellent rate of fire for their size, these cannons do still have a limited rate of fire and are too large and unwieldy to be effectively used against aircraft.

Supplementing the primary guns are sixteen double turrets of ten inch Quick Firing Dual Purpose (QFDP) guns. These guns, a development of the X-Caliber project are an excellent complimentary naval armament to the main guns of the Archon class. Firing at a rate of seventy-five rounds per minute at angles up to eighty degrees provide close in defense against smaller naval vessels and high altitude enemy fighters or bombers the gun is extremely lethal and renown for its accuracy.

The main guns of the Archon are not its only anti-dreadnaught weapons. Rear of the superstructure lay two rows of 20 super heavy missile tubes in five ’pods’ of four tubes. Though unable to be replenished while under way these missiles carry an amazing punch being [for most intents and purposes] little more than Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles minus [most of the time] their nuclear warhead, and carrying a massive conventional or special purpose warhead instead. A half salvo of these missiles can devastate entire fleets sending carriers, battleships, and even super dreads to the ocean floor or as floating hulks of flame. Their effect against multiple smaller vessels is also notable, but is considered somewhat overkill where a smaller standard anti-shipping missile would do it for cheaper.

Covering standard Anti-Shipping/ Anti-Submarine Missiles are five V30 100 Cell VLS systems capable of holding AShM, ASW, or Long Range Cruise Missiles of varying types and manufacture provided they can fin in a Mk. 41 or equivalent tube system. Supplementing these five hundred tubes are one-hundred and fifty conformal diagonal quad launch tubes at the rear of the superstructure. These quad tubes are protected by an armored hatch and allow for extensive offensive capabilities without openly compromising hull integrity.

Thirty-seven D20 Diagonal launchers are mounted on either side of the hull of the Archon , their hatches flush with the armored skin of the vessel and require much less space than a Mk-41 or MK-49 VLS. Each cell can launch up to 9 missiles simultaneously and the launcher is automatically reloaded. These launchers often act as the ships middle point defense and are normally used to engage incoming air targets and missiles. Each cell carries 3 reloads and takes about 10 seconds per missile to reload. Each cell is protected by an armored hatch that helps maintain its survivability without compromising its offensive capabilities.

[b][i]Archon-class superdreadnaught (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jay3135/ARCHON2.jpg)(designed by Mekugi, built by PIW)
Length: 757 m; Beam: 230 m; Draft: 19 m
Displacement: 1.875 million tonnes
Armament:
Guns
6 x 635 mm 70 caliber ETC guns in two triple turrets (A & X positions)
4 x 711 mm/635 mm 75 caliber Gerlich HV-ETC guns in two double turrets (B & C positions)
RPGPM: 4
-Mass of fire per turret per minute (Double/Triple): 36/54 tons
-32x 10” 60 caliber QFDP guns in sixteen double turrets
-Broadside mass: 49.7 tons
Missiles
-5x V30 100 Cell VLS
-40x Super Heavy Anti-Shipping Missile tubes
-74x 9 tube SAM/SAAM Diagonal launch tubes (Hatch Protected)
-150x D20 Quad tube Standard diagonal AShM/ASW/SAM internal launchers (Hatch Protected)
Total Complement: 1,806 missiles
Protection: 950-1150mm advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, aluminum, enhanced ERA, ballistic ceramics).
Compartmentalization: Shock Isolated Double Bottomed w/ reinforced keel; 112 Transverse, and 8 longitudinal shock isolated bulkheads. Composite rods and kinetic-reducing ceramic plates installed to provide some KE attack resistance.
Aircraft: 48 VSTOL Fighters or Fighter/Bombers, 8 Sea Lynx ASW/Executive Transport Helicopters, 2 CH-53E Sea Stallion Helicopters
UAV/UCAV‘s: 12 ‘Broadhead’ UCAV’s, and 5 Seeker UAV’s
Propulsion:
10x Mk. XXXIII Hybrid Reactors (w/sprint coils); 30x 200MW turbines; 8x 15MW back-up diesel generators ; 9x IPS w/ WDA props
Speed: 31 knots (cruising) 38 knots (flank) 43 knots (w/ sprint coils)
Complement: 8,250 [Naval] 200 [Flag] 500 [Air wing] 5,000 [Naval Infantry (Marines)]
Countermeasures:
-28x 35mm triple barrel AHEAD/CIWS
-8x 203mm ASW auto-loading mortars
Price: $220 billion.

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries Lu-25 "Black Mariah" STOVL Multi-Role Fighter (Southeast Asian designation of F-25 "Peafowl" STOVL Multi-Role Fighter)
[Lu-25 Black Mariah STOVL [ Multi-role short takeoff and vertical landing]]
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[Abstract]
The Lu-25 was designed specifically for use on the Zealous class Super Dreadnought. Consequently, because of the constraints of an airforce based on a super dreadnought, and because of concerns regarding runway length and the space required, the new aircraft was designed as an verticle take off/landing aircraft, and that way allow for room for more aircraft. The Lu-25 was designed off the Lu-12 and the Lu-05 combined, and indeed, the engineers in the Lu-25 project planned on combining both aircraft into one, along with the X-35 [F-35] project.

[Combat Systems]
The Lu-25 has eight wing hardpoints, capable of carrying what in the Macabee military are called 'missile clips', in which an Lu-25 can carry a total of ten MTAAM-3 Predator air to air missiles. The wings are lined with a Rene N6 superalloy variant called Thymonel 8, used widely in Macabee turbines and engines for its missiles. Thymonel 8 has a tendency to have a low case of hydrogen enviroment embrittlement and does not burn or wear as easily, making it perfect for mass launchings of air to air missiles. Each Black Mariah STOVL aircraft also carried either four MLAM-2 air to surface missiles, or four of any type of anti-shipping missile, or four extra air to air missiles.

Moreover, the Lu-12 has two 20mm cannons mounded in blisters on either side of the fuselage. The cannons are powered by an internal motor generator, nick named the LuG-1 generator, which in turn powers dozens of large capacitors, bathed in water to give more permeability for the transfer of electrons, multiplying total power output by at least eighty.

Two internal hardpoints can carry up to 2,000 pounds worth of weight for bombs or extra missiles, or even extra fuel for extended air superiority missions.

The Lu-25 also has a single MAAMG (Macabee Anti-Air Missile Gun), dubbed 'Lunatic', as well as a undercompartment for flares and chaff. Moreover, it's armed with active RADAR jammer.

[Cockpit and Avionics]
The GEC-built Head-Up Display (HUD) offers a wide field of view (30 degrees horizontally by 25 degrees vertically) and serves as a primary flight instrument for the pilot.

There are six liquid crystal display (LCD) panels in the cockpit. These present information in full color and are fully readable in direct sunlight. LCDs offer lower weight and less size than the cathode ray tube (CRT) displays used in most current aircraft. The lower power requirements also provide a reliability improvement over CRTs. The two Up-Front Displays (UFDs) measure 3"x4" in size and are located to the left and right of the control panel.

The Integrated Control Panel (ICP) is the primary means for manual pilot data entry for communications, navigation, and autopilot data. Located under the glareshield and HUD in center top of the instrument panel, this keypad entry system also has some double click functions, much like a computer mouse for rapid pilot access/use.

The Primary Multi-Function Display (PMFD) is a 8"x8" color display that is located in the middle of the instrument panel, under the ICP. It is the pilot’s principal display for aircraft navigation (including showing waypoints and route of flight) and Situation Assessment (SA) or a "God's-eye view" of the entire environment around (above, below, both sides, front and back) the aircraft.

Three Secondary Multi-Function Displays (SMFDs) are all 6.25" x 6.25" and two of them are located on either side of the PMFD on the instrument panel with the third underneath the PMFD between the pilot's knees. These are used for displaying tactical (both offensive and defensive) information as well as non-tactical information (such as checklists, subsystem status, engine thrust output, and stores management)

[Airframe]
The airframe of the Lu-25 is a composite material made of an Aluminum based superalloy, NiAl, also a third generation crystal superalloy, as well as titanium, cobalt, Iron, interlaced tungsten and a Zirconium and hafnium alloy. There are fifteen titanium ribs.

The airframe is also built with contour angles, in which RADAR waves bounce back in other directions, thus giving the Lu-25 a limited stealth feature, although it has been known that particularly powerful RADAR can look 'over' said features.

[Stealth]
The Lu-25 incorporates the Pallas Athena system, which uses carbon computers, to measure the amplitude, period and frequency of incoming radio waves and thus return an exact radio wave in order to cancel it. The motor generations which run the Pallas Athena also run through a series of capacitors, bathed in water, in order to augment total output by atleast eighty times over. However, the Pallas Athena can be overwhelmed, consequently, it's more of a second rate weapon in order to put 'lesser technologies' at a disadvantage.

The airframe is also covered with a thin-layer of composite light-metallic materials, which in turn is covered with microscopic silica material that is placed to seperate LIDAR rays into opposite adjacent directions.

The turbojets have infra-red suppresants in order to reduce on infra-red photon radiation, consequently cutting back on infra-red target lock from the less advance air to air missiles (AIM-7 Sparrow, AAM and AIM-9 Sidewinders).

Finally, the entire aircraft has a coating of WAVE-X radar absorbent material, which incorporates the best of honeycomb absorbent material, as well as foam absorbers. WAVE-X works at a frequency of 100MHz - 6GHz and has a surface resistivity of 1MΩ. It works in extreme temperatures, -54° - +177°C, and is the best in existance up to now.

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[Electronics]
The Lu-25 is equipped with a carry-on RADAR, powered through another motor generator, which in turn runs its wires through a series of dozens of capacitors bathed in water, multiplying the power put out by the motor generator by at least eighty. In turn, the active RADAR can detect movements at over three hundred kilometers distance, equal to that of a MiG-31. Specifically, it's a multi-mode X-band pulse Doppler radar. The system consists of a single electronically-scanned Phased-Array RADAR antenna mounted in the nose and tail giving the Su-63 360 degree scanning capabilites.System can track 50 Targets and simultaeneously fire at 5.The NO-12M RADAR can also be integrated with AWAC or ground based RADAR systems to give it a total detection range of whatever the ground based RADAR is.

The Lu-25 is also equipped with a Gaussian LIDAR transmitter. How the Gaussian transmitter works is that it sets up two electrical planes, one charged positively, and one charged negatively. This, in turn, sets up an electron form, which charges the transmitter to direct a photon ray. The laser beam transmitted in turn hits an object and reports said object through electrical impulses, not reflection. A carbon computer onboard the Lu-25 distinguishes between inanimate (meaning, natural obstacles), friendly, and non-friendly objects in the sky. In order to reduce sucepbility to LIDAR falters in the clouds the DOPPLER LIDAR and DIAL use an infra-red imaging program.

The Lu-25 has a single three hundred and sixty degree rotating camera located under the nose of the aircraft, giving the pilot a full circle view of at least fifty kilometers distance.

[Other Statistics]
Height: 5.9 meters
Wingspan: 12.8 meters
Length: 20.6 meters
Stall Speed: 120 kilometers per hour
Climb Rate: 28,000 meters per minute
Ceiling: 24,384 meters
Range: 5,600 kilometers

[Engines]
The Lu-25 has two Farmacell X-987-RB4 Turbofans lined with Thymonel 8, a RENE N6 superalloy. Thrust-vectoring nozzles provides STOL capabilities, 160 kN static thrust with 250 kN of afterburner. The Farmacell X-987-RB4 turbofans give the Lu-25 a maximum velocity of Mach 2.5.

The STOVL variant features a ducted lift fan located in an enlarged spine just aft of the cockpit in place of a fuel tank carried by the conventional models. This fan is used to provide lift needed for vertical flight, along with thrust provided by the main engine. The main engine makes use of a unique swivelling nozzle that can redirect the thrust aft for level flight or down for vertical flight.

[Cost]
80 Million USD

Portland Iron Works Diplomacy-class executive yacht

Diplomacy-class executive yacht
Dimensions: 146 m length; 47m width; 10.1 m draught
Range: 4,100 nm at 18 knots
Speed: 18 knots cruising; 23 knots maximum
Horsepower: 65,000 shp
Displacement: 25,355 tonnes full load
Armour: 16 cm composite armour scheme including 2.5 cm reinforced titanium; 1.3 cm ballistic ceramics; 6 cm aluminum alloy and 2.5 cm hardened steel.
Comes with retractable 20 mm AA gun and anti-ship missile system. Can be armed with retractable twin turret of 15" guns for an additional cost guns upon request. Ships in service for Sarzonia are armed with 6 anti-ship missiles, two twin turrets of 20 mm AA guns, and four ASW torpedoes during wartime.
Complement: 425 sailors and officers. Mess hall and cleaning staff included in the figure. Luxury accomodations for 50-65 guests.
PRICE: $1.75 billion.

Portland Iron Works Chieftain-class executive submarine (Southeast Asian designation of Statesman-class executive submarine)

SPECIFICATIONS:
Chieftain-class executive submarine
Length: 75 m
Depth: 325 m
Displacment: 2,200 m
Speed: Surface maximum 18 knots; surface cruise 15 knots; submerged maximum 12 knots
Propulsion: Surface diesels 2 x 2500 hp; 2 shafts; Submerged Main electric motors 2 x 750 hp; vertical thrust 2 x 250 hp hydraulic; horizontal thrust 2 x 250 hp hydraulic
Surface range: 4,000+ nautical miles
Submerged endurance: At 12 knots, 8 hours; At 6 knots, 72 hours; at rest, 25 days maximum
Main oxygen: 30 days full; Reserve oxygen: 15 days. Main Air: 4000 psi in external tanks Air Compressor: 4500 psi, 200 HP Low Pressure Blower: 30 psi, 50 HP.
Crew complement: 12. Able to accomodate up to 24 guests.

The Chieftain-class is the first new civilian design by the Portland Iron Works since the Curie-class light medical vessel. It is another design that retains the soul of the Wilmington Shipyard Corporation though this design has heavy influence from the engineers of both.

The Chieftain comes equipped with two torpedo/missile launchers capable of launching the Silver torpedo. The ship can carry up to 12 Silver torpedoes as its sole armament or eight with an additional supply of anti-ship or anti-sub missiles. It is made of a titanium/steel composite hull able to survive an attack, with eight inches of armour protection at its narrowest point.

The Chieftain comes built for luxury with a master bedroom, a living room, five guest rooms, an office, and a conference room with video and phone conferencing capabilities. Included is a computer network linkup to satellite Internet servers that include the capability to access your country's computer networks at a click of a mouse. Each sleeping cabin comes standard with a 60 inch plasma tv and a workspace with one Apple G5 Computer with dual processors and cinema HD 30" screens and a 250 GB hard drives, with 8 GB RAM and high speed internet and TV reception.
Price: $3 billion

Portland Iron Works AC-35 "Styx" turbofan gunship
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SZ-35 'Styx' gunship

Background Notably lacking in the Incorporated Sarzonian Army's combat capabilities suite has been an aircraft other than the SZ-18 Hurricane helicopter gunship that has been tailored for a role as a large-scale interdiction aircraft; in particular, one with the sort of speed and maneuverability expected on a modern battlefield. Taking the venerable AC-130U Spooky as inspiration, engineers at Windham & Green Defence Industries worked with the Portland Iron Works, the Incorporated Sarzonian Air Force, and the ISA to develop a new aircraft to fill this role for the ISA in future offensive operations. The end result of this programme is the SZ-35 'Styx' airship.

Avionics Noting the lack of speed attendant upon an aircraft that operates turboprop engines, but also recognising the need for survivability in its expected role, Windham & Green chose to employ two Windham & Green turbofan engines, combining for a total of 60,000 lbs of thrust on a swept wing configuration that enhances maneuverability. An alternator addition provides power from the engines to the ETC guns which ensures that they have plenty of power for their threat suppression role. With the aircraft's 73,500 kg weight, speed was not going to be the Styx's greatest attribute, but the configuration allows it a top speed approaching Mach 0.7. While this nearly doubles the Spooky's Mach 0.4 speed with its turboprop configuration, its size and role do not lend themselves to dogfighting capability.

Weapons The Styx has been given a weapons layout equivalent in concept to its forefather aircraft, though with several concessions to advances in technology that have taken place since the advent of the Spooky. In an effort to conform to the new ordnance requirements of a majority of Sarzonian aircraft currently in service, the Styx is armed with the 32 mm ETC chain cannon in an effort to increase potency over the 40 mm cannon used on the AC-130H Spectre that predates the Spooky. In addition, with a mission profile that includes attacking armoured vehicles from the air, the Styx lives up to its mythological namesake with a terrifying 120 mm ETC cannon that can make any enemy think twice about attacking your ground troops. The Styx can also be equipped with modernised JDAMs and the ISAF's flight tests will incorporate the Direct Precision Attack Weapon currently under development as a potential replacement for the JDAM. For its anti-infantry role, it comes equipped with four 7.62 mm ETC chain guns to enhance infantry suppression.

Sensor Suite Like its predecessors, careful attention has been paid to making the Styx a dangerous aircraft capable of acquiring and prosecuting targets with highly-advanced targeting capabilities. Toward this end, the Styx comes equipped with the Active Electronically Scanned Array standard on the SZ-23 Aurora scout aircraft and the SZ-24 Tyr electronic combat reconnaissance bird. In addition, the glass cockpit uses an advanced fly-by-light system providing for some of the best responsiveness of any craft in its class. Radar, television sensor, and an infared sensor allows the Styx to identify friendly ground units and locate enemy ground targets. In addition, the information suite can be linked with UAVs, Aurora scout aircraft, or ELINT craft for enhanced target prosecution capabilities. Advanced synthetic apertures strike radars also permit long-range target identification, while GPS and home-on-jam software capabilities allow the Styx to accurately target fire and forget weapons.

Survivability Owing to its role as an interdiction aicraft and close in support gunship, the Styx has been built with a combination of titanium/aluminum honeycomb airframe with thin layers of ballistic ceramics and spectra over key areas including the cockpit, engines, and weapons magazines to make the Styx one of the more difficult aircraft to take down in its projected role.

SPECIFICATIONS:
Name: SZ-35 'Styx' gunship
Manufacturers: Avalon Aerospace Corporation and Windham & Green Defence Industries
Length: 43.8 m
Height: 12.4 m
Wingspan: 50.1 m
Propulsion: Two Windham & Green turbofan engines; 60,000 lbs thrust.
Speed: Mach 0.7 maximum
Range: 2,000 km (1,080 nautical miles) without inflight refueling
Ceiling: 7,500 m
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 72,500 kg
Weapons: 1 x 32 mm ETC chain cannon; 1 x 120 mm ETC gun; 4 x 7.62 mm ETC chain guns; potential for 6 improved JDAMs.
Crew: 13
Price: $200 million

Detmerian Aerospace Dynamics, plc DAS-15 Tiger interceptor
DAS-15 Tiger interceptor

Development
Origins
The DAS-15 emerged from a request for proposals (RFP) by the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Air Force (RINAF) for a high speed, high altitude interceptor to counter the burgeoning number of Mach 3+ strike aircraft as well as the repercussions of Sarzonia’s inquiry into the failings of its armed forces during the Inkanan Civil War. Though the fall of the Unionist coalition saved the Defence Forces of the United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland (UKIN-DF) from a public airing of all of their flaws, such as the loss of much of the Navy’s Rapid Reaction Force’s air power to an onslaught of Doomingslandi and Inkanan Republican Dat’ Pizdy F-78 Sokols, a number of high ranking officers found themselves cashiered and the king personally castigated all three services and the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) for failing to keep pace with training and technological developments.

Faced with His Majesty’s wrath as well as a generous contribution from the Royal Purse, the DPA’s Directorate-General for Aviation (DPA-DGA) issued General Operational Requirement, Number 78 (GOR-78). The specifications were far beyond any ever considered by domestic manufacturers. The aircraft had to have a combat speed of greater than Mach 3 at altitude and at least Mach 1.2 at sea level (ASL), an initial rate of climb of greater than 30.5 m/s (60,000 ft/min), a service ceiling greater than 24.2 km (80,000 feet), and an intercept radius of at least 1000 nm (1852 km) at a median operational speed of at least Mach 1.7 without aerial refuelling. The interceptor would have to carry at least four extended range air-to-air missiles (ERAAM) as well as two long range air-to-air missiles (LRAAM) and two beyond visual range air-to-air missiles (BVRAAM), be able to bear two 2000-litre fuel tanks for trans-oceanic deployments. It would have to be able to track at least forty targets at all altitudes and have secure locks on at least twelve of those, to engage targets with very small radar cross-sections (RCS) at sufficient stand-off ranges, and to serve as a discreet mini-airborne warning and control system (AWACS) when on station. Worse still, the new fighter would have to be able to make positive 3g manoeuvres at speed and altitude, have a landing speed of no more than 145 knots (268.54 km/h), and be able to perform at least three sorties a day with minimal maintenance.

Several designs fit most of the GOR-78 specifications, most notably Dat’ Pizdy’s F-78A Sokol and succeeding variants. Since neither the RINAF nor the DPA considered it likely that the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc would grant an order from the UKIN, the DPA-DGA dropped the Sokol from the shortlist. The F-78 would, however, serve as the guideline by which all other designs would be measured.

Closer to home, diplomatically speaking, were designs from Sarzonia’s Avalon Aerospace Corporation, Praetonia, and the Omzian Democratic Republic and Adejaani’s OMASC. Praetonia’s L-82 Hussar strike fighter deigned to counter the Sokol’s air dominance by penetrating enemy airspace at high speed with its pulse detonation engines (PDE). Avalon Aerospace produced two aircraft in response to the terrible damage inflicted upon them by the Doomingslandi Air Force (DAF), the SZ-19 Predator and the SZ-20 Valkyrie. All three aircraft used PDE to produce the enormous thrust necessary to travel at speeds greater than Mach 3.

Group Captain Lawrence Elstridge, the head of RINAF’s evaluation team, voiced concerns regarding the serviceability of PDE-powered aircraft. Without a notable increase in funding and personnel resources, the Air Force was leery of purchasing an aircraft that would require considerable down-time between missions and an expanded maintenance retinue. Neither Demers Turbines nor Isselmere Motor Works (IMW), the UKIN’s foremost aero-engine companies, had succeeded in manufacturing an operational PDE (see below), a fact that both exacerbated the RINAF’s worries about falling behind and emphasised the troublesome nature of the new technology.

G/C Elstridge and DPA-DGA’s Director-General, Sarah Oldham, similarly agreed on the electro-thermal chemical (ETC) autocannons fitted to the L-82 and SZ-20. Though the 35mm and 32mm cannons produced much greater velocity and range than Royal Isselmere-Nieland Ordnance’s (RINO) conventional 30 x 173 mm ACA.41, both demanded volume that would be better filled with fuel since much of the GOR-78’s usual operational envelope would be at speeds at which guns would become deadweight.

Thus, though the L-82 and SZ-20 were both astonishing aircraft, especially in terms of speed, the DPA-DGA’s GOR-78 Committee shortlisted only the more conservative SZ-19 Predator, even though the SZ-19’s range without refuelling, 1600 nm (2964 km), was the subject of some concern within the RINAF.

OMASC’s F-125 Rapier filled most of the GOR-78 specifications precisely. Though its range without refuelling was less than that desired (3800 km), it possessed an impressive array of electronics, the right performance characteristics (speed, service ceiling, payload), and like the SZ-19 was a proven in-service design. The F-125 had superb radars, the forward array capable of search ranges of up to 450 km and the rear set of ranges up to 200 km. The forward radar was able to track forty targets as well and could detect and track aircraft with small RCS such as the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor and the Northrup Grumman B-2 Spirit at an acceptable range. The Rapier’s use of turbofans instead of PDEs was its greatest advantage over the Sarzonian design, catapulting it to the top of the GOR-78 shortlist.

Faced with the GOR-78 Committee’s surprising ambivalence to Avalon Aerospace’s SZ-20 and OMASC’s F-125, Detmerian Aerospace Dynamics (DAS) recovered from the fear that it would suffer its first loss of a domestic contract. Immediately, DAS set to work on completing and revising studies for high speed warplanes begun after the successful completion of the DAS-6 Scimitar. Three offered the best prospects: Indigenous Design Prototype, Number 53 (IDP-53), IDP-57, and IDP-58. Of those three draughts, IDP-58 evinced the most promise and proceeded towards full development.

In the meantime, DAS contacted the UKIN’s two main aero-engine manufacturers, Demers Turbines and IMW, to design an engine capable of at least 18,000 kgf (176.52 kN or about 39,683.21 lbs. of static thrust) and capable of sustaining a combat speed of Mach 3+ at altitude and at least Mach 1.2 at sea level. As noted above, both Demers Turbines and IMW had conducted research into PDE finally culminating in the LPDE-3 (T84D-LA) by their joint holding company, Lethe Aero-engines Corporation (LAEC), producing 5120 kgf (50.21 kN or 11,287.67 lb. st.). Unfortunately, larger and more powerful PDE befuddled the engineers of both firms. IMW’s PDE, the ATG-20D (T71D-IM) was prone to emitting shattered, superheated turbine blades during consecutive testing, requiring the checking of turbine discs after each test. In the Demers Turbines engine (TMD-1 or T72D-DT), the combustion/detonation module was shaken apart in two separate tests. Inquiries into those incidents revealed that the moulds for casting ATG-20D blade-discs (blisks) transferred impurities to the powdered nickel alloy, whilst the TMD-1’s combustion/detonation module was too light and its active cooling mechanism, using bypass air as well as argon gas that would be taken from the aircraft’s atmosphere recovery kit (ARK), failed to operate properly and was inadequate to the task. Weight and size issues have continued to thwart the development of PDE in the UKIN as operational engines.

Luckily for DAS, Demers Turbines work on missile motors and IMW’s research into developing more conventional gas turbines for high speed flight led to a pair of turbofans capable of sustained Mach 3 flight, the T73F-DT and its larger cousin the T78F-IM (see Propulsion below). Having found a powerplant that could reliably power a Mach 3 aircraft, DAS engineers only had to devise an airframe that could take advantage of the tremendous power the engines provided.

Test and evaluation
Work on turning the IDP-58 into a genuine prototype advanced quickly. Within four months of receiving the request for proposal DAS advanced its submission for GOR-78. Computer and wind tunnel testing revealed the basic soundness of the design. Demers Turbines and Lyme and Martens Industries (LMI) collaborated to build the Goblin DFP.1 one-eighth scale uninhabited prototype that confirmed that optimistic initial assessment.

The Goblin DFP.1 uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) prototype equipped with two Demers Turbines T73F-DT augmented turbofans flew two months later. Though the test vehicle was just able to attain Mach 3 flight due to lift-induced drag and supersonic stability issues around the target speed, the Goblin enabled DAS engineers to make several airframe – including improved air intakes for sustained high angles of attack (AOA) – and software corrections. After ten months of evaluating the UAV prototype, the first IDP-58 development aircraft (DA1) took flight powered by two IMW ATG-11F (T71F-IM) augmented turbofans similar to those used in the DAS-6 Scimitar.

Patrick Mutahi, DAS’s chief test pilot, stated that the much smaller engines ‘rattled about’ and made the aircraft decidedly underpowered. In spite of these flaws, the third IDP-47 prototype achieved Mach 2 on its sixth flight with a decent power reserve. The flight test engineers resolved a number of problems, including a problem with an over-inflating full-pressure suit and another with the aircrew ejection mechanism, before the second batch of development aircraft (DA5 and DA6) equipped with T78F-IM augmented turbofans entered testing and evaluation. DA5 attained Mach 3 on its fourth flight both it and DA6 fulfilled most of the RINAF’s GOR-78 with the exception of operational intercept radius (928.73 nm [1720 km] rather than the desired 1000 nm), which the engineers remedied with two stations above the wing root for Mach 3+ capable 1500-litre conformal fuel tanks.

Acceptance
DAS presented the first DAS-15 production aircraft, now nicknamed the Tiger after Sarzonia’s national animal, to the 206th Interceptor Squadron (Operational Conversion Unit) of RINAF’s Central Experimental Test Establishment (CETE) eighteen months after the first flight of the IDP-58. Testing aircrew, composed of pilots with at least three hundred flight hours in the Scimitar and at least one thousand flight hours in fighters and weapons systems operators with a minimum of five hundred flight hours in either the Spectre FGR.4 or Swordfish S.2. Aircrew readily took to the aircraft, praising its tremendous acceleration even when fully loaded, its stable handling, and its good weapons load, and the Tiger enjoyed quick acceptance into Air Defence Command’s operational squadrons.

Structure
Construction
On paper, the DAS-15 Tiger is a relatively conservative high speed design. Sporting a shoulder-mounted delta wing, twin vertical fins, a pair of ramped variable geometry intakes, and petal nozzles, the Tiger would seem to be a product from the 1950s or 1960s instead of the twenty-first century. Closer inspection reveals a much less hidebound and far more adventurous fighter.

Unlike most DAS aircraft, only 4.6% per cent of the Tiger’s empty weight comes from composites. The majority of the weight comes from metal alloys that are more capable of withstanding the high temperatures of sustained Mach 3+ flight such as titanium and nickel alloys (70.5% and 8.6% by weight respectively) and steel (8.2%), with most of the remainder coming from advanced ceramics (6.1%).

Reduced signature
Ordinarily, the large quantity of nickel alloys and steel with their high electromagnetic (EM) signatures would act as a beacon for radar. The Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland (RSIN) and the Isselmere-Nieland Nuclear Energy Commission (INNEC) both assisted DAS and IMW with their extensive experience working with high-strength, low EM-signature alloys able to bear the incredible stresses the DAS-15 airframe must endure. Pritchard Chemicals and Fabrics, plc (PCF), the UKIN’s foremost dye and paint manufacturers, devised a radar absorbent paint capable of reducing the skin’s radar reflectivity even further. PCF, DAS, and the RINAF tested the paint in several low visibility schemes, managing to craft a coating that can withstand the intense friction and a pattern that minimises the Tiger’s visibility to optical sensors at operational altitudes.

The DAS-15 is a large aircraft and its enormous engines and leading edges produce a noticeable infra-red (IR) signature at high speeds. As the Tiger is intended as a long-range interceptor rather than as a dogfighter where IR missiles and sighting systems pose the greatest threat, the RINAF found the DAS-15’s large potential thermal presence to be an acceptable trade-off for high speed. Even so, DAS and IMW engineers developed systems that would further reduce the aircraft’s visibility to enemy sensors.

For the first time on a DAS aircraft, ionisers are fitted to the wings’ leading edges that positively charge the air in front of the wings both to generate lift by minimising the effect of drag as well as to diffuse radar waves. The additional effects are to reduce the RCS and the IR signature created by the wings.^ The ionisers, identified by the dielectric panels covering the majority of the leading edge, are most efficient from speeds of Mach 0.65 to Mach 2+, giving the DAS-15 extended range at cruising speeds. The ionisers are powered by the engines’ turbines.

The variable geometry titanium alloy intakes, cooled by argon taken as a by-product from the DAS-15’s atmospheric recovery kit (ARK) that produces oxygen from the air for the aircrew and nitrogen to fill the fuel tanks as they empty to reduce the risk of explosion and to ensure fuel flow in all flight regimes, not only slow the airflow to the engines to the subsonic speeds necessary for compressor operation, but have been designed to minimise radar reflections. The blunted lips on the intake ramps have the dual purpose of improving airflow to the engines whilst deflecting radar waves, lowering the chance of received returns. Baffles in the ceramic-lined engine ducts further reduce airflow speeds and shroud the compressor blades from radar detection.^

Intakes and airfoil
Unfortunately, in order for the Tiger to meet the GOR-78 specifications, the engineers had to make design decisions that undermined stealth. The intake and wing design are prime examples of engineers opting for performance over stealth. Considering the high flying nature of IDP-58’s missions, the stealthiest location for the intakes would be above the wing and behind the leading edge, shrouding the radar-reflective variable geometry ramps and fan blades from enemy emitters. Since the intakes would have to be large to admit the volume of air necessary to feed the engines, the wing would need to be mounted low, as on the Dassault Mirage IV bomber.

As an interceptor, the Tiger would have to climb quickly to its operational altitudes. Intakes mounted above a low-mounted wing would require substantial auxiliary intakes to ensure the airflow to the engines at high AOA, necessitating the intakes be placed ahead of the wing leading edge. Since the wing could not hide the intakes, the potential RCS of the IDP-58 rose.

GOR-78 specifications further required that each wing would have to be able to carry at least one large pylon-mounted supersonic 2000-litre external fuel tank. A low-mounted wing would require long landing gear to fit such stores. Since the wing had to be strengthened to cope with both Mach 3+ flight at altitude and supersonic speeds at low level, the main landing gear could not be fitted within the wing, but within the fuselage. Accordingly, the landing gear track for the IDP-58 would be comparatively narrow. To avoid the dangers associated with long narrow landing gear, a high-mounted wing seemed to be the answer.

Stability issues also supported the decision for a high-winged design. Shoulder-mounted wings afford greater stability, with a natural dihedral (raised wing) effect providing lift. Supersonic stability could be improved without having to resort to ventral fins by putting the wing at a slight anhedral (downward angle).

Finally, GOR-78’s recommendation that the aircraft be a mini-AWACS whilst on station pointed to two side-looking radar (SLAR) aerials, one on each intake. The aerials’ scans would be blocked by the large wing if the intakes were mounted above it, but would have an excellent view if the intakes were below. Faced with all of these reasons, DAS engineers equipped the IDP-58 with a shoulder-mounted wing.

The wing itself is peculiar. It outward appearance is an entirely conventional ‘cranked’ or compound delta, with a seventy-degree leading edge root extension (LERX) blending into a sixty-degree sweepback that diminishes to fifty-four degrees at the wingtips. The cranked delta wing prevents airflow separation over the wing thereby lessening drag caused by turbulence. Spanning the length of the leading edge are flaps that improve manoeuvrability by permitting air to circulate freely over the airfoil rather than separating. Two wingtip pods spoil the elegant effect somewhat, a sin mitigated by their importance to the DAS-15’s self-defence, as will be shown below.

As noted above, the Tiger is the first DAS design with ionising leading edges, with the ionisers fitted inside the leading edge flaps. The ionisers generate a negatively charged electrical field that creates a positively charged wavefront of air before the wing that counters drag caused by air friction and turbulence. Combined with the effect of the negatively charged engine exhaust and bypass air emerging from the nozzles, the positively charged air provides increased thrust as well. A slightly higher engine setting than normal is necessary to energise the ionisers, but the lift and thrust benefits outweigh the increased fuel flow, permitting the DAS-15 to fly further than otherwise possible.

The trailing edge flaps are likewise important to the success of the Tiger. Despite the large size of the wing and its low thickness, the engineers decided that during take-offs and landing the IDP-58 would need air siphoned from the engines to blow over and around the trailing edge surface to improve lift. With the ‘blown’ flaps in operation, the DAS-15’s landing speed falls to 135 knots (250 km/h, 155.4 mph), providing the aircrew an additional safety margin.

Along with strong but light titanium alloy wingspars and ceramic supports, powerful ailerons and spoilers give the Tiger decent manoeuvrability in all flight regimes, permitting +7/-3 g instantaneous manoeuvres at supersonic speeds. The ailerons are used primarily for subsonic and low supersonic flight, whilst the spoilers are reserved for both low and high speed manoeuvres. A removable fence situated over the middle of the wing root ensures the minimum of tailfin buffeting and twisting. The conformal fuel tanks (CFT) that fit over the wing root possess a longer but shorter fence that performs the same function.

Like the main wing, the vertical tailfins are angled to stabilise the aircraft at supersonic speeds. The outward canting of the tailfins reduces the RCS by directing radar returns striking the surfaces away from the emitter/receiver.

Both the wing and the vertical tailfins serve as fuel tanks for the DAS-15, storing vast quantities of reserves (about 2800 litres and 200 litres each, respectively) that enable the aircraft to perform very long range intercepts.

Airframe
Aesthetics appear to have taken a distant backseat in the minds of DAS engineers in designing the Tiger, so much so that the DPA-DGA Nomenclature Directorate wondered whether they had chosen an appropriate official nickname. When one goes beyond the image and into the aircraft’s characteristics, however, one quickly sees that the DAS-15 truly conveys both the speed and the power of its flesh and blood cousin.

The long nose of the DAS-15 resembles that of an inverted shark, providing space for a large active electronically scanned array (AESA), the ARU.244 (see Electronics below) as well as part of the forward optronics array. The in-flight refuelling (IFR) probe is sited in the nose as well, positioned to the right of the pilot’s cockpit.

Located just aft of the WSO’s cockpit are the two gaping intakes for the ATG-23F turbofans announcing the beginning of the broad middle and aft sections of the fuselage. These sections contain the ventral weapons bay, the ARU.245 AESA mounted on the forward portion of the angled outside of each intake, and the vast majority of the fuel as well as the massive engines themselves. The angled sides of the aircraft disperse radar waves away from the emitter receiver, but at higher Mach numbers the larger frontal area leads to higher drag. Blending the various components – fuselage, intakes, wing roots, and wings – together lessens drag up to a point, as the Tiger demonstrates. The DAS engineers and the RINAF consider the reduced RCS and the improved scanning arcs for the SLAR arrays worth the increased drag, however.

DAS and the RINAF agreed on another key point, that high performance and maintainability need not be mutually exclusive. Developed from the outset as an operational aircraft rather than as a technology demonstrator, ease of access to the Tiger’s systems is very good. Engines can be quickly extracted and replaced in the field as can line replaceable units (LRU) and shop replaceable units (SRU).

Cockpits
Like most modern aircraft, the DAS-15 has ‘glass’ cockpits filled with graphical displays rather than traditional ‘steam-gauge’ analogue instrumentation. The polychromatic active matrix liquid crystal display (PAMLCD) multi-function head-down display (MFHDD) screens in both cockpits have been doped with an anti-glare solution and are also equipped with internal light meters to alter display brightness to suit prevailing conditions. A large AVQ.84 head-up display (HUD) encompasses the pilot’s view forward, whilst the large 48 cm x 44 cm AVQ.109 threat management display (TMD) dominates the WSO’s head-up view. The AVQ.109 permits the WSO to co-ordinate air defence assets over a very broad area, with data on the horizontal positions of allied and other forces overlaid over a digital map display.

Aircrew commands operate through a voice command and hands-on-throttle-and-stick (VTAS) man-machine interface (MMI). Direct voice input (DVI) permits the pilot and WSO to choose between displays and sensor modes, facilitates communications between aircraft, as well as many other non-critical functions. The DVI’s present language library is housed in removable data-bricks for each of the aircrew for quick exchange and updating. The library may consist of up to five hundred commands developed in simulator flights and in the course of missions. Voice patterns currently on record in data-bricks for other DAS aircraft may be transferred over to those of the Tiger facilitating pilot and WSO conversion training.

Even so, the cockpits of the DAS-15 are very different than those of current UKIN-DF fighters. Owing to the high altitude at which the Tiger operates, the aircrew wear full pressure suits developed by Isselmere-Nieland Space Agency (INSA) that protect them from cosmic and ultraviolet radiation and forces of acceleration (‘g’) as well as regulate the aircrew’s temperature and provide an hour of air in event of cockpit depressurisation. The suits may also serve as flotation devices.

Since ejection at Mach 3 by conventional means would be fatal, the pilot and WSO sit within titanium alloy ejection capsules rather than ejection seats. Similar to standard ejections, once the process has begun, the aircrew’s legs and arms are restrained within the capsule’s confines to prevent loss of limb as the escape vehicle’s hood closes. Each capsule has three hours worth of air and is fitted with flotation devices capable of keeping the vehicle atop the waves in conditions up to sea state 5.

Visibility from the cockpit windows in comparison to other DAS fighters is poor. The pilot’s forward windscreen consists of three sturdy temperature-resistant pieces of glass contained within a titanium alloy frame. Both the pilot and WSO have single-piece titanium-framed canopies covering them, providing the pilot external visibility comparable to that in the F-4 Phantom II or MiG-31 ‘Foxhound’, further restricted by the escape capsule hoods that overhang the seats. The WSO’s vision is limited to two small side windows to reduce glare on the PAMLCD. To further reduce glare that might hinder reading the displays, both the pilot and the WSO may pull shades over the windows.

Situational awareness in the Tiger is not limited to what can be seen from the cockpit with one’s own eyes. The AVQ.108 helmet mounted display/sight (HMDS), which uses the same symbology as the AVQ.71 HMDS used in most UKIN-DF aircraft, is connected to the DAS-15’s various sensors permitting both the pilot and the WSO to identify, cue, and prosecute targets in conjunction with the VTAS interface.

Since the demands of high speed flight limit the aircrew’s vision from the cockpits, DAS and IMW co-operated once again to find a solution. The idea came from the L21 series of heavy armoured vehicles. Since sight is severely restricted when operating inside of a main battle tank, IMW engineers equipped that family of land vehicles with a series of vision blocks granting the tank commander and other tank crew members a 360-degree view of their environment. A similar scheme was adopted for the DAS-15, with five vision blocks placed on the aircraft: on the blended spine of the aircraft, on its belly aft of the ventral weapons bay, one in each of the two wingtip pods, and one in the tail pod above and between the engines. Either the pilot or the WSO may use the vision blocks, either conjointly or separately, by depressing a button on the throttles (pilot) or one of the sensor controllers (WSO) and may be displayed on the HMDS or one of the MFHDD. Vision block selection is determined by head position (if displayed on the AVQ.108 HMDS), the position of the depressed button, or by voice command. The transparency, positioning, and size of the display as it appears on the HMDS may be changed by voice command or on the vision block controls on the left-hand side instrument panel.

Performance
Powerplant
The ATG-23F aero-engine is a two-shaft low bypass ratio augmented turbofan optimised for high speed, high altitude flight as well as ease of repair and maintenance. It is a modular design consisting of a three-stage fan or low pressure compressor (LPC) and a four-stage high pressure compressor (HPC), of which the first two stages may operate at variable rates. The LPC and HPC are each driven by a single-stage turbine (high pressure turbine (HPT) and low pressure turbine (LPT) respectively). To maximise fuel efficiency, the ATG-23F may vary its total compression ratio (TCR) from between 8-12:1. The low TCR in comparison with the ATG-8F or other modern fighter aero-engines is not as fuel efficient in low speed, low level fleet, but at altitude and speed the ATG-23F comes into its own due to the reduction in ram drag.

Two digital engine control and monitoring units (DECMU) regulate each engine’s LPC and HPC rates and those of the turbines, as well as the positioning of the variable intake guide vanes (VICG), engine temperatures at various points, and fuel burn rates for the engine’s pre-turbine combustor, the interstage turbine combustor, and reheat wicks. The DECMU ensure the safety of the aircraft and extend the lifetime of the engines markedly.

Future engines
The ATG-23F2 is the planned replacement for the current ATG-23F. The -F2 version offers two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles, interstage turbine burning (ITB), and hybrid electric turbine engine (HETE) technology, all of which will drastically improve the DAS-15’s performance and place it among the top high speed fighters in existence today.

Though the Tiger is not intended as a dogfighter, thrust vectoring will confer a reduced RCS as well as improved take-off, climbing, and landing characteristics upon the DAS-15, greatly enhancing its capabilities. Weight savings gained from the substitution of heavier metal components by lighter ceramic equivalents with greater temperature tolerances will more than compensate for the weight penalty incurred by the new nozzles.

ITB – the addition of a supplementary annular combustor located between the HPT and LPT – offers fuel savings and higher thrust ratings especially at speeds greater than Mach 1.2. Combined with post-turbine reheat stages, ITB will give the –F2 engine maximum performance with improved fuel economy.

Even greater weight and resource savings will be made with the introduction of HETE technology. The use of electric joints and drives will reduce the number of parts within each engine as well as size of the reservoirs necessary for engine lubricants. Eventually, the RINAF plans to convert all of its aircraft to all-electric gas turbines, leading to greater efficiencies in resources, maintenance, and operational readiness.

Manoeuvrability
As a high-speed interceptor, the DAS-15 does not have the exceptional manoeuvrability of either the DAS-2 series or the DAS-6 Scimitar. Even so, the Tiger is able to handle instantaneous manoeuvres of up to +7/-3g and sustained manoeuvres of up to +6/-3g at supersonic speeds. At its maximum speed, drag created by air friction, the demands for steady airflow by the engines, and aircrew survivability tend to reduce manoeuvrability markedly to about half the aircraft’s maximum stated values, or about +3.5/-3g.

At lower speeds, the DAS-15 is slightly more spritely. Blown air flaps provide the aircrew with an additional safety margin during landings and other low speed manoeuvres, whilst the leading edge flap reduces airflow separation caused by rapid changes in AOA or quick manoeuvres. Purchasing air services must remember, however, that the DAS-15 is intended as a long-range interceptor, not a dogfighting air superiority fighter like the Scimitar.

Range
The operational range of the DAS-15 without either external tanks or aerial refuelling is an amazing 4200 km, conferring an operational intercept radius of 1720 km. With aerial refuelling, the Tiger’s range is limited only to that of the aircrew.^^

The DAS-15’s radius of action may be extended with two 1500-litre conformal fuel tanks (CFT) fitted over the wing roots and engine intakes or two 2500-litre external wing tanks. The CFT can endure 9g manoeuvres as well as speeds greater than Mach 3, whilst the jettisonable wing tanks are stressed withstand sustained manoeuvres of up to 6g and speeds greater than Mach 2. Both the external wing tanks and the pylons to which they are connected may be jettisoned before entering combat to reduce RCS and permit increased manoeuvrability and speed.

Electronics
Flight control and operations
The DAS-15 has a quadruplex flight control system that maintains the stability of the aircraft throughout its flight envelope. In conjunction with the autopilot and the threat management system (TMS) that integrates the aircraft’s sensor data with that received through the CSZ.17 secure datalink, the Tiger can perform completely automated intercepts, including landing back at its home airbase after the mission.

This astonishing ability to perform computer-controlled intercepts was successfully proven during systems evaluation when DA5 destroyed a low flying Rook DRA.1 with a GWS.84A Peregrine missile. The RINAF has stated publicly, however, that fully automated intercepts are not within the service’s standard operating procedures (SOP).

Radar
The Tiger has four sets of radar eyes to scan the skies, ground, and waves for potential foes. The main or forward array, the ARU.244 AESA has 3600 transceiver modules able to search and track objects in a 120-degree arc ahead of the aircraft, and +50-degrees/-70-degrees in the vertical plane. The two ARU.245 AESA with 2000 transceiver modules each are located on the forward sides of the intakes perform a similar function with similar scanning arcs along the aircraft’s sides and in the vertical plane. As one might expect, both the ARU.244 and ARU.245 are optimised for look down, shoot down operations, but the aircraft also has a look-up, shoot-up capability as well.

Optronics
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Countermeasures
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Communications
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Displays
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Stores
Air-to-air
Extended range air-to-air missiles: GWS.84A Peregrine
Long range air-to-air missiles: GWS.75A Goshawk
Beyond visual range air-to-air missiles: GWS.74A Kestrel
Short range air-to-air missiles: GWS.65A Kite (atypical)

Air-to-surface
Anti-radar missiles: ALARM, HARM, Ptarmigan, Pigeon
Anti-ship missiles: Heron, Pelican, Petrel
Bombs: GWS.47A Robin small diameter bombs; 227 kg and 454 kg iron bombs; 227 kg- and 454 kg-type GPS guided bombs; 270 kg and 500 kg laser guided bombs

Countermeasures
6 x 30-cell ALE.209 expendable improved countermeasures ejectors
2 x 3-cell ALE.212 Cuckoo towed decoys (maximum operational speed: Mach 1.6)
ALQ.220 Flamingo miniature air-launched decoy
ALQ.301 Firefly supersonic air-launched decoy

Characteristics
Type: Interceptor
Crew: 2; pilot and weapons systems operator
Wing geometry: Fixed, delta, at 4-degree anhedral
Inlet geometry: Variable
Dimensions:
Wing: span: 16.12 m; area: 104.41 m^2
Length: 25.36 m
Height: 6.08 m
Weights:
Empty: 21,380 kg
Clean, equipped: 36,091 kg
Operational: 38,463.17 kg
Long range intercept: 46,518.83 kg
Maximum take-off: 46,800 kg
Propulsion: 2 x Isselmere Motor Works ATG-15F
Type: Twin-spool augmented turbofans
Thrust: Military: 13,330 kg (each); maximum reheat: 19,200 kg (each)
Bypass ratio: 0.34
Total compression ratio: 8.5-12
Fan/low pressure compressor (LPC) stages: 3
High pressure compressor (HPC) stages: 4 (first two stages may operate at variable rates)
Performance:
Speed:
Maximum, clean, at altitude (20 km): Mach 3.32
Maximum operational sustained (see Mission Payloads below), at altitude (20 km): Mach 3.15
Maximum, clean, at service ceiling (24.5 km): Mach 2.8
Maximum cruising speed (MCS), clean, at 20 km: Mach 2.4
Maximum operational cruising speed (MOCS) at 20 km: Mach 2.32
Maximum economical cruising speed (MECS), clean, at 11 km: Mach 1.6
Maximum operational economical cruising speed (MOECS) at 11 km: Mach 1.5
Maximum speed, clean, at sea level (ASL): Mach 1.28
Maximum operational speed ASL: Mach 1.14
Range:
Ferry range (maximum fuel): 5120 km (2765 nm)
Ferry range (with 2500-litre wing tanks): 4881 km (2636 nm)
Ferry range (with 1500-litre conformal fuel tanks): 4665 km (2519 nm)
Maximum cruise range (supercruise, internal fuel only): 4200 km (2268 nm)
Intercept radius (supercruise with 10 min. combat): 1720 km
Intercept radius (supersonic cruise with 10 min. combat): 1092 km
Service ceilings: Clean: 24.5 km; operational: 24.4 km
Design g-loadings:
Instantaneous, clean: +7/-3 g
Sustained, operational: +6/-3 g
High speed, high altitude: +2.25/-2 g
Expendable countermeasures:
ALE.209 chaff and flare launchers: 6 x 30-cell ejectors
ALE.212 Cuckoo towed decoys (maximum operable speed: Mach 1.6): 2 x 3-cell launcher
Payload:
Ventral internal weapons bay (4.5 x 3.5 x 1 = 15.75 m^3): 1750 kg (2 x GWS.75A Goshawk LRAAM + 2 x GWS.74A Kestrel BVRAAM)
Fuselage conformal/recessed stations (2; 6.1 x 0.34 x 0.16 = 0.332 m^3): 800 kg each (GWS.84A Peregrine ERAAM)
Wing-root conformal stations (2): 2000 kg each (1500 litre conformal fuel tanks)
Wing stations: Inboard (2): 3000 kg/rated for 2500 kg stores; outboard (2): 1800 kg/rated for 1500 kg stores*
Fuel:
Internal tanks: 18,050 litres
Fuel fraction: 0.39
Weight: 14,060.17 kg (JP5)
Thrust-to-weight ratios:
Military: Clean: 0.739; fully loaded: 0.570
Reheat: Clean: 1.064; fully loaded: 0.821
Wing loadings (kg/m^2):
Clean: 345.67
Operational: 368.39
Long range intercept: 445.54
Maximum take-off: 448.23
Cost: $125 million

Mission Payloads:
Operational: Ventral bay: 2 x GWS.75A + 2 x GWS.74A; fuselage stations: 2 x GWS.84A (total)
Long range intercept: Ventral bay: 2 x GWS.75A + 2 x GWS.74A; fuselage stations: 2 x GWS.84A (total); Inboard wing stations: 2 x 2500 litre tanks (total); Outboard wing stations: 2 x GWS.84A + 2 x ALQ.301 Firefly supersonic autonomous decoys**

^ The reduction in RCS is not absolute by any means.
^^ Generally, aircrew in a fighter cockpit might endure about ten hours.
*For 2500 litre and 1500 litre fuel tanks respectively. The stations with pylons and adapters are rated at about 2500 kg and 1500 kg respectively and strengthened for Mach 3 flight.
**To be posted (ca. 282 kg)

Bases: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-25 and MiG-31, Avro CF-105 Arrow, North American XF-108 Rapier

[OOC: Comments greatly appreciated. Write-up to follow.]

Portland Iron Works Z-39 'Pit Bull' Close In Combat Vehicle (CICV)Z-39 'Pit Bull' Close In Combat Vehicle (CICV)

Background: With the defeat of the Incorporated Sarzonian Army in Inkana fresh in the minds of designers, the Incorporated Ordnance Company has been hard at work developing and conceptualising an urban combat vehicle to allow for the protection of infantry in the close confines of urban areas. The use of Rocket Propelled Grenades and roadside bombs against armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and lightly armoured vehicles designed to convoy personnel led to IOC's attempts to design vehicles that would serve both as effective combat vehicles for use in an urban environment and as troop transports to provide greater protection against RPGs and roadside bombs. The result is the Z-39 'Pit Bull' Close-In Combat Vehicle (CICV).

Armament: To facilitate its anti-personnel capabilities and to give the Pit Bull a main weapon that combined killing power within a light framework, the CICV has been armed with a 70 mm smoothbore main gun capable of firing both standard shells and HEAT rounds. The smoothbore chambre has been designed to allow the weapon of choice to be launched at an accelerated rate due to its 58 calibre gun. Secondary armament includes one 30 mm autocannon and a FU BRG-15 machine gun which sits atop the turret to provide anti-personnel fire.

Protection: Protecting the vehicle, in both its pure combatant variant and in its armoured transport variant, was a high priority of the IOC. Toward that end, the outermost layer of armour for the Pit Bull is a slat system similar to the bar armour currently in use on the Stills-class fast littoral combat vessel. The second layer is of non-explosive reactive armour (NxRA) that helps to neutralise the effect of HEAT rounds. The third layer, of a Chobaham armour scheme, provides general protection against weaponry, and the vehicle is built on a titanium honeycomb frame. A fourth layer of ballistic ceramics provides limited protection against kinetic weapons. The combination provides a RHA protection of 650 mm front; 460 mm top; 515 mm side; and 445 mm rear. The Pit Bull can be painted with a coat of radar absorbant paint to impair detection. The front of the CICV is sloped to deflect incoming rounds fired from the ground.

Sensors: The Pit Bull makes use of advanced electronics such as a millimetric radar system and a LADAR/LIDAR system tied into a new Panorama electronics suite, a modernised Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer (CITV) with third generation thermal imager; commander's display for digital colour terrain maps; third generation GEN III TIS thermal imaging gunner’s sight with increased range; driver's integrated display and thermal management system including an eyesafe laser rangefinder, north-finding module and precision lightweight global positioning receiver which provide targeting solutions for the Far Target Locate (FTL) function. FTL gives accurate targeting data to a range of 9,500 metres with a CEP (Circular Error of Probability) of less than 20 metres. The system allows a complete view of the surrounding area and assesses targets and prioritises based on potential threat.

Propulsion A lighter-duty version of the Windham and Green Secretariat turbo diesel-electric hybrid engine known as the Alydar powers the CICV at 1,200 hp, allowing the Jaguar to travel at speeds of up to 70 km per hour on the road and 45 km/hr. cross country. The engine is designed to allow the Pit Bull to have an effective range of 550 km.

Specifications
Length (combat variant): 6.7 m (hull); 9.2 m (including gun)
Personnel Carrier variant): 8.0 m (hull); 9.5 m (including gun)
Width: 3.6 m
Height: 2.2 m
Ground Clearance: 0.6 m
Weight: 41,000 kg
Crew: Two (Driver and Gunner) for combat variant; 2 + 6 for personnel carrier variant.
Main armament: 1 x 70 mm/58 cal. smoothbore gun
Ammunition Storage: 40 rounds
Secondary Armament: 1 x 30 mm autocannon; 1 x FU BRG-15 machine gun; 2 x DREAD tank CIWS.
Ammunition Storage: 700 15 mm rounds; 550 30 mm rounds
Engine: 1 x Windham & Green Alydar turbo diesel-electric hybrid engine
Theoretical Speed: 70 km/hr. (road); 45 km/hr. (cross-country)
Operational Range: 550 km

Pale Rider Arms Bioweapon Breeding Vat
Bioweapon Breeding Vat

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A vital part of any bioweapon harvesting project, breeding vats can produce massive amounts of weapon in relatively short periods of time. The vat is filled with sugar and tissue cultures, which the virii or bacteria being cultivated consume. Temperatures are maintained at ideal levels for the specific agents being produced.

Pale Rider Arms PhosphoRush
PhosphoRush

Designed to eliminate enemy troops and vehicles quickly with little collateral damage, PhosphoRush is an excellent choice for the discerning general, and is awe-inspiring when combined with other quality PRA products such as CorroMis.

The weapon works by entering through the skin, enters cells through the plasma membrane, and causing adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to break down into adenosine diphosphate (ADP). This releases energy into the cell, which provides it with a boost to metabolic activities. In the short term (nearly instantly), the subject will exhibit high blood pressure, rapid heart palpatation, greatly increased energy levels, and hyperventilation. Within a minute, the energy released is too much for the cells to bear, causing widespread cell death across the body. Heart failure, respiratory failure, brain damage, widespread tissue damage, and organ failure across the body. The subject will be dead within two minutes. In addition to the above effects, the phosphorous released from the ATP will be excreted from the body, as cellular waste and in sweat, urine and feces. This means that any victim has the potential to become a human torch, especially post mortem when the bowels and bladder empty themselves.

Symptoms in plants are quite different from those in animals. While the plant does die, the hardy internal structure of the plant prevents any visible symptoms, besides a slight waxy texture to some species, caused by build-up of phosphorous in and along the outer layer of cellulose. Needless to say, these plants are incredibly flammable, and can often explode violently. PhospoRush is suitable for use as a incendiary mine field, and has the benefit of lacking any mechanical parts (besides the possibility of a detonator).

Area of Effect: 200m square/dose

Pale Rider Arms Corromis
Corromis

Gas masks got you down? NBC suits ruining your perfectly timed chemical attacks? Then try PRA's guaranteed anti-countermeasure gas, Corromis!

Composed of a variety of chemicals, each designed to counter a specific filtration system. Corromis will violently react with activated charcoal, creating dangerous fumes in the process. It will flood filters with small particles, requiring removal of the filter before the wearer suffocates. Corromis also corrodes rubber, breaking seals in NBC suits and rendering them useless.

Coverage: 1000 sq meters/ dose

Pale Rider Arms Pulmonary Lipid Clot Virus
Pulmonary Lipid Clot Virus

A two pronged virus. It causes the stomach to produce higher acid levels, thereby digesting foods faster. This causes the victim to ingest greater quantities of food. Absorbtion of lipids into the bloodstream is facilitated, and all fats and other lipids ingested are caused to cement themselves within the Aorta and Ventricles of the heart. Death occurs after next meal. Death usually occurs via heart attack, or cell-death.

This virus is not highly contagious, but can be transferred. It is best used for assasinations, as the virus breaks down quickly after the host has died. Leaves no traces.

Cost: 250,000,000/dose OR 25,000/dose if non-production agreement is signed.

Pale Rider Arms BZ Hallucinogenic Gas
BZ Gas

The code-name of 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, BZ is a potent non-lethal hallucinogen and intoxicant. With an onset time of approximately 15 minutes, the colorless, odorless BZ gas is excellent for use prior to an attack, or to cause wide-spread panic and confusion.

BZ causes vivid hallucinations and illusions (misidentifying objects/persons), quite different from the fuzzy hallucinations produced by such narcotics as LSD in that the hallucinations from BZ are clear-cut, and seem entirely real. These symptoms alone can produce severe amounts of friendly fire. Other symptoms include lack of fine muscle control, short attention span, disorientation, slurred speech, poor judgement, and altered levels of consciousness.

Coverage: 1000 sq meters/dose

Pale Rider Arms AeroClot
AeroClot
Originally a inhaled coagulant for combat personnel, AeroClot was discovered to cause heart attacks and brain aneurisms when too much was taken. Now, in addition to its original use, AeroClot is a potent chemical weapon. Thickening the blood, it causes clots to form, which lodge in the narrow arteries of the brain, and cause the heart to overwork and destroy itself. The lungs also become a solid bloodclot, causing respiratory failure as well. Death occurs within 60 seconds.

The gas is slightly heavy, and will not rise more than ten meters above the ground, compromising its use slightly in urban areas.

One dose will cover an area approximately 100 meters in radius, ten meters into the air.

Pale Rider Arms Beta-Anthrax
Beta-Anthrax
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A modified, weaponized form of bacillus anthracis, Beta Anthrax is a lethal, aerosolized form of standard Anthax. Capable of lingering for years and still maintaining its lethality, Beta-Anthrax is an excellent choice for area denial. Pale Rider Arms bio-techs have also added an unparralled level of resistance to antibiotics to all strains of Beta Anthrax.

Beta-Anthrax is contracted by coming into contact with the bacterium's spores. This can cause three forms of the disease:

Cutaneous- Contact with skin. Onset time of 16 hours. Causes lesions, which rapidly spread and cover the body. 65% fatality untreated, rarely lethal if treated properly.

Inhalation- Contact with respiratory tract. Onset time of 2 days. Initially similar to a cold, causes lesions in respiratory tract, respiratory arrest, and death. 99% fatal untreated, 75% fatal treated.

Intestinal- Consumption of contaminated food. Onset time of 2 days. Nausea, vomiting, stomach ulcers, death. 99% fatal untreated, 35% fatal treated.

Pale Rider Arms Super Flu
Super-Flu

Influenza: one of the most common diseases on the planet, and one of the most deadly. Every year, the flu kills 36,000 in the United States alone. And yet the flu is often ignored by the population at large. This presents an excellent opening for biological attack, as diseases that can masquerade as the flu can, at least for a short period, evade detection, and thus prevention.

This is why the Superflu was developed. For the first day of active infection, Superflu acts as a normal flu, causing a fever, head-ache, diarrhea, vomiting and a host of other symptoms. After this first day, the symptoms begin to worsen. The headache and fever begin to cause dementia, ingesting food or water becomes impossible, fevers rise to over 110 degrees, and cranial pressure rises. This can lead to rather startling demises, including cranial detonation due to excessive pressure. Death rate is 100%

DMG Military Industries C-57 "Galaxy Lifter"
C-57 Galaxy Lifter
(*DMG Original*)
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The C-57 Galaxy Lifter is DMG Military Industries’ first custom cargo plane. It is a heavy lifter, created for moving large amounts of material for the military. It can safely carry 500,000 kilograms of load, though it does slow it down.

Type: Cargo Plane
Use: Heavy lifting and Transport
Crew: 13 (2 Pilots, 3 Engineers, 8 Loadmasters)
Engines: 4x TLS C-145s (215,000 lbs. thrust each)
Height: 25 m
Length: 125 m
Wingspan: 94 m
Weight:
-865,430 kg (Unloaded)
-2,252,100 kg (Loaded)
Payload:
-500,000 kg (Normal)
-515,000 kg (Maximum)
Speed:
-Mach 0.6 (Maximum, when loaded)
-Mach 0.71 (Maximum, when loaded)
Operational Ceiling: 64,000 ft
Maximum Height: 71,000 ft
Range: 9800 km
Systems:
-DAC (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)
-SBRR (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570587&postcount=259)

Cost: 890 Million USD


Status: Retconned, DPR never purchased.

Portland Iron Works Z-34 Bonham Main Battle Tank
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Z-34 Bonham Main Battle Tank

Background
The Z-34 Bonham has been designed to serve as the most advanced domestically produced main battle tank in existence today and has been conceived as a direct competitor with the ST-37 Mekhev main battle tank. While the ST-37 Mekhev has served the Incorporated Sarzonian Army well, Sarzonian army officials realised the logistical problems that came with employing three main battle tanks and chose the Incorporated Ordnance Company to create a successor design that would employ many of the best features of all three designs. Taking additional lessons from the Imperial Praetonian Ordnance’s Hoplite II Phalanx MBT and the Bonham’s predecessor (the Z-33 Jaguar), the Bonham provides the best of all possible worlds to the Incorporated Sarzonian Military. This design instantly assumes its place among the world’s best main battle tanks and one that will shepherd the Incorporated Sarzonian Army into a new era of success on the battlefield.

Armament
With several possible armament choices, from ETC guns to conventional weapons, engineers at Incorporated Ordnance Company debated the various strengths and drawbacks of each available weapon before ultimately deciding upon the 120 mm ETC gun. The decision to use the same size round employed by both the ST-37 and the IPO 145 is a deliberate effort to ease logistics for armoured battalions that operated both tanks. The Bonham employs the Mekhev’s Dynamic Gas Assist to increase range and speed over traditional ETC rounds and also reduce recoil and absorb the energy required to fire the weapon. In addition, Successive Fire Projectile Assist, used to provide an increased rate of fire for short bursts, has been adopted from the Mekhev. The weapon uses the lengthier 58 calibre employed by the Sarzonian-built Z-33 Jaguar MBT to provide additional range.

However, the secondary armament of the Bonham is what sets it apart from other MBTs. A IPO-built 60 mm autocannon has been installed in the cupola turret and is used in lieu of traditional ATGMs with an idea toward making it more difficult for enemy tanks to use “tank CIWS” to counter a ATGM. While the autocannon’s size causes it to have a slower rate of fire than the 30 mm autocannons often used against thinly-armoured or unarmoured units and infantry, it makes up for that lack of speed with greater killing power and better utility against armoured targets. The Bonham also operates a 70 mm mortar which is effective against fortified positions and armoured units and it retains the Jaguar’s successful FN BRG-15 machine gun. The DREAD centrifuge weapon has been retained for CIWS purposes and is considered a last-ditch weapon against missile fire.

The biggest innovation in Sarzonian armoured weaponry developed for the Bonham MBT, however, lies in the brand new Hyperius Kinetic Energy (KE) anti-armour missile. Positioned behind the turret in a twin box launcher, the Hyperius travels at speeds in excess of Mach 7 and has devastating penetration capabilities, highly advanced guidance, and can inflict tremendous damage to just about any tank currently in service. The Hyperius has the capability to penetrate 3,000 mm of RHA thanks partly to the specially designed box launcher that serves as a slingshot to allow the missile to remain a manageable size for operation on the Bonham.

Protection
The well conceived, highly versatile protection schemes employed by Imperial Praetonian Ordnance for the IPO 145 Hoplite II Phalanx made a favourable impression upon designers of the Bonham. As a result, the protection scheme borrows many of the best ideas from the Phalanx, though engineers chose to create a simplified armour scheme for greater ease in repair. Despite this effort at greater simplicity, the protection scheme employed by the Bonham is still one of the best designed and well protected such schemes extant today.

The first layer, of Momentum Transfer Armour (MTA), fires a metal bar at an incoming projectile and reduces the effectiveness of KE attacks by knocking such projectiles off course or forcing the weapon to hit the tank at an angle and blunting its impact. The second layer employs Non-Explosive Reactive Armour (NxRA) to reduce the effectiveness of HEAT rounds and is used instead of ERA to reduce the risk of casualties to friendly infantry. Bracing that layer is a Chobham armour scheme over a titanium honeycomb frame, providing effective protection against nearly all types of weapons. Ballistic ceramics make up the fourth layer and are effective against HEAT and KE rounds. A dense fifth layer of depleted uranium is an extremely dense material designed to absorb kinetic energy rounds. To protect against nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons, the sixth and seventh layers have been designed to serve an anti-radiation role. Boronated polycarbons provide a sturdy round of protection and serve as an excellent first line of defence against radiation, while the seventh layer’s protections against spalling are made of rubber and spectra fibre, which is several times stronger than the kevlar employed by the Phalanx.

With the two main competitors to the Bonham, Soviet Bloc’s Mekhev adopting a non-modular armour scheme for greater strength, and Praetonia’s Phalanx’s modular scheme promoting ease of repair, the two approaches presented a dilemma to the Bonham’s designers. The Phalanx’s modular armour scheme permits greater ease of repair in the event of damage to the vehicle, but the Mekhev’s non-modular armour scheme removes some of the weaknesses of modular armour schemes. The Bonham’s engineers eventually chose to make the armour non-modular in an effort to promote greater survivability from a sturdier armour.

One of the greatest areas of concern for tank commanders is the need to protect tanks from anti-tank mines, and the Bonham is no exception. To ensure this protection, the Bonham’s engineers drew inspiration from the venerable Leopard 2A6 and have designed advanced generation vision systems to allow improved sighting of mines, and new plate under the tank floor allows the tank to survive a mine attack without injuring its crew members.

RHA values:
Front: 2,075 mm (KE)/2,975 mm (HEAT)
Sides: 1,025 mm (KE)/1,250 mm (HEAT)
Rear: 770 mm (KE)/980 mm (HEAT)
Top: 500 mm (KE)/675 mm (HEAT)

Electronics
Taking into account the advanced electronics of the Mekhev, the designers of the Bonham realized that their own product had to have an electronics suite that was advanced enough to make the tank a true equal. To accomplish this, a major upgrade of the Jaguar’s electronics suite wasn’t just a suggestion: It was a requirement. To accomplish this feat, the Bonham turned to the other forefather of this design, the Phalanx MBT for some inspiration.

The Bonham comes equipped with a PERI-Z A1 periscope from Windham & Green Defence Industries and ClaireOps Optronics Corporation. The PERI-Z A1 is a stabilized panoramic periscope sight designed for day/night operation and target identification and works seamlessly with the Next Generation Panorama battlefield survey and target acquisition software in the Bonham. It provides an all around view with a 360 degree traverse. Thermal imaging from infared sensors that work in the event millimetric wave radar is considered by the tank commander to be too great of a risk to be detected provide the thermal imaging for the onboard computer monitors. The image from the commander’s thermal sights can also be switched to the video image on the monitor used by the gunner.

The gunner’s station includes a new Panorama Defence Electronics Corporation quadruple magnification stablised primary sight with an integrated laser range finder and a ClareOps Optronics Corporation thermal sight linked to the fire control computer. The thermal sight uses a next generation CMT infared detector array cooled by a closed cycle engine. It is also fitted with a solid state laser range finder from ClaireOps that can provide up to five range values in four seconds. It then transmits the range data to the fire control computer and is used to calculate firing algorithms. The information is transmitted directly into the gunner’s primary sight, thus allowing the gunner to read the digital range measurement directly. The maximum range of the unit is 15,000 m and is accurate to within 10 m. The fire control computer also utilises a satellite linkup with GPS birds or army UAVs to ensure accuracy. The GPS software also integrates with advanced ADC mapping software to ensure accuracy.

Finally, the Bonham’s designers drew from the Phalanx’s bevy of auxiliary systems for the autoloading system employed by the Bonham. It is described by Windham & Green as a semi-automatic loading system. The system allows for quick conversion to manual loading in the event the computer systems are knocked out. A reserve battery also allows the autoloader to fire an actively loaded shell in the event the computer systems are knocked out.

Propulsion
The 2,100 hp Secretariat hybrid diesel-electric engine has been field tested on the Jaguar and served the Bonham’s predecessor well, so the same engine has been adopted. It has also surrounded with a thermal insulation that inhibits detection and reduces noise from the tank’s engines when they operate at full speed. The tank has been field tested to a maximum speed of 60 km/hr in road tests, though this speed is only recommended for short bursts in optimal conditions. The engine has been field tested in larger models so it can handle the added weight of the Bonham without a major loss in speed that might accompany a larger tank. A 500 hp inboard electric engine can provide emergency propulsion to get a Bonham out of a battle in the event the primary engine is knocked out. The Bonham’s top speed has been field tested at 10 km./hr. with this emergency engine powering it.

Specifications
Length: 9.6 metres (hull); 14.9 m (including gun facing forward)
Width: 4.4 metres
Height: 3.4 metres (cupola turret roof)
Weight: 78,700 kg
Ground Clearance: 0.7 m
Complement: Four (Commander; Gunner; Driver; Loader)
Primary Armament: 1 x 120 mm ETC gun with Dynamic Gas Assist and Successive Fire Projectile Assist.
Main Armament Storage: 40 x 120 mm rounds
Secondary Armaments: 1 x 60 mm autocannon; 1 x 70 mm mortar; 1 x FN BRG-15 machine gun (cupola turret); 1 x dual box Hyperius missile launcher; 2 z DREAD CIWS; 6 x smoke grenade launchers (two fore; two rear; two sides).
Secondary Armament Storage: 500 15 mm rounds; 450 60 mm rounds; 100 70 mm rounds; 6 Hyperius missiles
Propulsion: 1 x Windham & Green Secretariat turbo diesel-electric hybrid engine (2,100 hp)
Speed: 60 km/hr. (road); 35 km/hr. (cross-country); 5 km/hr. (snorkel)
Operational Range: 550 km
Price: $27.5 million

EDIT: Domestic refit stats TBA...

Portland Iron Works Adamant-class Trimaran Large Battleship (Southeast Asian designation of Incorporation-class Heavy Dreadnaught)
Background While the Atlantic-class Trimaran large battleship has enjoyed a stirling service record with the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy, the ISN braintrust realised the logistics problems inherent with an excessively large number of large calibre guns in service. In particular, the ISN blanched at the fire control problems attendant upon the use of 24 inch and 25 inch naval guns in several extant classes. This problem manifested itself during the naval Battle of Daltrey against the Panteran invasion fleet when the Brandywine class ISS Potomac needed to continue its course toward the Panteran fleet despite being in range of its 24 inch batteries in an effort to allow the 25 inch naval guns of the Oceania class escorts to come into effective combat range.

Clearly, that was unacceptable. The issue of supply ships being forced to carry either 24 inch or 25 inch munitions or carry insufficient quantities of both calibres also struck the ISN as being an unnecessary logistical challenge brought about by a less than focused naval doctrine. Thus, Sarzonia's admirals and top brass began a lengthy debate with members of Parliament to determine the best course of action. Both sides quickly agreed that the ISN needed to decide between the 24 inch shell or the 25 inch shell, but the various advantages and disadvantages of both combat munitions resulted in a marathon debate session that forced the ISN to choose between the faster rate of fire, longer range and minimised barrel wear of the 24 inch gun or the heavier power of the larger calibre. Ultimately, the ISN elected to arm itself with the 25 inch gun, reasoning that the Mark IV improvements in the ETC gun could more than offset the lower speeds and shorter range of the larger munition.

Obviously, that required the ISN to examine the classes that operated the 24 inch naval gun and either design entirely new warship classes to carry this munition or modify the existing designs. With an eye toward the eventual retirement of all warships carrying 24 inch guns, the ISN chose to design new warship classes to carry the 25 inch guns. One of the first designs to leave the ways was the new Adamant class Trimaran large battleship.

Armament The early Adamant class concepts were originally drawn with the idea of carrying 30 inch Mark IV naval guns to allow it to replace the Vigilant in the battle line. However, the proposal, which was not intended to phase out the Vigilant from its position as the linchpin of the ISN, was met with such controversy among the military hardware community in Sarzonia that the ISN was forced to reassure Parliament that the Vigilant class would not be phased out. Instead, the Adamant was seen as a battleship capable of taking on the largest enemy warships in a pure line engagement to allow the Vigilant to assume its role as fleet flagship without being forced to engage enemy warships on the front lines. To ensure this function, the ISN elected to operate four quadruple turrets of 25 inch Mark IV naval guns in A, B, X and Y positions as the main armament. Each Mark IV naval gun like the large 30 inch Mark IVs aboard the second refit of the Vigilant class includes Dynamic Gas Assist, Successive Fire Electronic Assist, and a modified coil system based on the system employed by the ST-37 Mekhev main battle tank. Those provide burst fire and range improvements that reclaim lost range and rate of fire from the retirement of the 24 inch naval gun.

Secondary armaments for the Adamant include ten 12 inch Mark IV ETC guns in single turrets port and starboard, 768 Mark 136 VLS tubes, designed to allow Sarzonian warships to launch missiles as large as Sarzonian-built and Russian-derived Scourge and Scorcher missiles; 16 Dragonfly long range SAM launchers, 16 RAM launchers, and 12 Rattlesnake CIWS suites. Other armaments to deal with submerged threats include four 1,000 mm torpedo tubes and ten 35 mm supercavitating guns to deal with torpedo threats. The 1,000 mm tubes are designed to be modular to allow them to launch torpedoes as small as the 240 mm Epee anti-torpedo torpedo.

Protection: With just about any ISN design, survivability is always among the top priorities for designers, and the Adamant is no different. To provide solid all-around protection, the hull is designed of an advanced composite consisting of titanium, aluminum, vanadium, amorphous steel, and ballistic ceramics layered onto a titanium/aluminum alloyed honeycomb frame. For improved protection against submerged threats, the hull features a double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces. For protection against kinetic energy attacks that are the usual bane of a Trimaran hulled warship, the Adamant uses composite rods, KE-reducing ceramic plates, and KERI foam installed in void spaces.

Aircraft: With the role of a Vigilant class being a command centre and vehicle for aerial power projection, developers have decided to limit the aircraft complement of an Adamant to four H-15 Dragon ASW helicopters, four F-34 Leopard V/STOL strike fighters, and four F-23 Aurora scout fighters. This complement allows the Adamant to assume many of the roles of the Antietam class monohulled battleship, which also carries nearly a squadron of fighter aircraft.

Propulsion: With a much smaller air wing and smaller main guns than the Vigilant class command battleship, the Adamant does not require nearly as much power to move it through the seas. Thus, the Adamant comes equipped with six Pebblebed nuclear reactors instead of the Vigilant's 12 in an effort to provide further economy of space for a vessel intended to be a fighting warship. The six reactors are attached to four internalised waterjets, which have largely replaced shafts in ISN service. Owing to the noise and infared (IR) signature emitted by Pebblebed nuclear reactors, the Adamant employs thermal insulation around each reactor to reduce noise and IR signatures in an effort to make the Adamant more difficult to target. Four diesel turbines provide emergency "get her home" propulsion.

Adamant-class Trimaran large battleship
Length: 589 m; Beam: 145 m; Draught: 18.1 m
Displacement: 1.3 million tonnes fully laden
Armament: 4 x 4 635 mm Mark IV ETC guns in A, B, X, Y positions; 10 x 305 mm Mark IV ETC guns port and starboard; 8 x 96 cell Mark 136 VLS tubes; 16 x Dragonfly long-range ASW missiles; 16 x RAM launchers port and starboard; 12 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS; 4 x 1000 mm TT; 10 x 35 mm supercavitating guns
Protection: 1100 mm-1400 mm advanced armour composite (titanium, aluminum, vanadium, amorphous steel; ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces over a titanium/aluminum alloyed honeycomb frame; KERI foam installed in void spaces, composite rods and KE reducing ceramic plates provide protection against kinetic attacks.
Aircraft: Four H-15 Dragon ASW helicopters; four F-34 Leopard VSTOL strike fighters; four F-23 Aurora scout aircraft.
Complement: 4,200
Propulsion: Six Pebblebed nuclear reactors; four internalised waterjets. Extensive thermal insulation surrounding each reactor reduces noise and IR emissions.
Speed: 29 knots cruise; 36 knots maximum.
Electronics: Sensors: AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; AN/SPS-64(V)10 navigational radar; AN/SQS-56 (K) hull mounted sonar
Electronics Warfare Suite: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS)
Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS
Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; Gun fire control: MK-88 GFCS (System calculates ballistic gun orders, The GFCS conducts direct firing attacks against surface radar and optically tracked targets); MK-116 mod 7 ACWSCS torpedo fire control
Torpedo Fire Control: MK-117 ACWSCS (Anti-Submarine Weapon Control System, Underwater Fire Control System)
Countermeasures: Towed array sonar utilizing a hull transducer or a towed active transducer or both. It is an integrated ASW, Mine Avoidance and Torpedo Defense underwater system.
Price: $100 billion
Running Cost: $5 billion per year

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries Lu-27 "Condor" Hypersonic Interceptor (Southeast Asian designation of F-127 "Garuda" Hypersonic InterceptorLu-27 Condor Interceptor
The Condor was developed as a result of the rather harsh beating that came from Havenite [SafeHaven2] EB-9 Heavy Long Range Bombers, a New Empire design. Admittently the result was through a complex factorization of confusion within the Laerihans [Air Force] during the opening days of the Havenite invasion during the War of Golden Succession and the lack of enough advance air superiority fighters to really make an impression. For example, when the first two squadrons of Lu-45 Hawks flew on the second day of the Havenite bombing campaign and proved to be deadly. However, further pressuring for the release of the Empire's first interceptor came when the Civitan B-76 Bearcat and Halbergardia's XB-7 Peregrine were publicly released. The idea of thousands of high flying bombers with nuclear armaments, flying at velocities exceeding Mach 5, were just too much to bear, even with the very well established national defense surface to air missile batteries and the excellent air superiority fighter fleet within the Laerihans. Nonetheless, it was felt that it was imperative to release a hypersonic interceptor capable of being fielded in large numbers in order to counter act the ability for an enemy to do as such. Final prodding came at the hands of foreign clientel of Kriegzimmer who also demanded that such a product be made for their own airforce.

The requirements introduced were quite simple. They included a maximum velocity for the Condor of Mach 5.5, and more manueverability than their foe - hypersonic bombers. All the while, they would have to carry sufficient air to air armaments in the form of the AAM.176 beyond visual range air to air missiles designed by Kriegzimmer in sufficient numbers to be recognized as a threat.

The project had several obstacles to overcome ranging from monetary caps placed on the program which were frequently passed by the program engineers and technological as well. The single biggest problem was the design of the engine, although fortunately, in the end the Condor was given the ability to fly at over Mach 4. The second biggest problem was the airframe. During testing over Arras two prototypes of the aircraft simply incinerated in midflight during a simple turning manuever, and although a third flight survived the scars on the airframe were clearly visible forcing engineers to again rework the airframe. In fact, it took a full two years to design a working prototype, and a half a year to finalize the design for mass exportation. All taken into consideration, though, the end result was pleasing to the commanders of the Laerihans, and the Laerihans put in an order for a total of four thousand Lu-27s over a period of five years. Monetary costs came to a whooping fifty-four billion Reichmarks to complete the project, a rough thirty billion more than the original budget entailed. Nonetheless, the project was so necessary in the perception of the Laerihans that money became no obstacle, explaining the expensive end cost of the XLU-27 project, which in turn unveiled the Lu-27 Condor.

The Condor first saw combat two and a half years of the War of Golden Succession in a flight over Haven. The flight was largely for testing purposes and was scrambled together when a downed Havenite pilot warned interrogators that the next day would see a massive Havenite bombing campaign leading a Havenite winter counter-offensive. The single squadron of Condors simply tore apart the majority of the EB-9s which more or less gave them an enlongated lifespan within the Empire's airforce, since their first example of combat turned out to be largely successful. Prospectives dictate that the original order of four thousand Lu-27s may increase to the once thought rediculous number of seven thousand depending on the etiquette of procurement and the fluctuating numbers of Lu-45 Hawks. Within the context of the reorganization of the airforce, the Lu-27 was the cause of it and the future holds many uncertainties regarding proportions of aircraft in use. Nevertheless, the Lu-27 lives through the threat that it will be continously refitted during its early years, much like the Hawk Air Superiority Fighter, which will considerably prolong the procurement period for the Empire, although understandably the foreign sector won't undergo this problem since more likely than not they will be fitted with older versions of the aircraft anyways and forced to upgrade on their own, although refit blueprints are always guaranteed with an older purchase.

Although there is still much real time testing that the Lu-27 will have to undergo before the final decision on its proportional appearance within the air force, it can be said early on that the Condor will be a historic aircraft, at least within the annals of Macabee history. The Condor is expected to make a huge appearance in future wars. It's als expected that the Condor will be widely used by the foreign sector, and like all other Kriegzimmer product, will be a major combatant in the merchant front between different storefronts. In the end, the Condor has proven to be a true contester in international design.

Airframe:
The interest in high quality airframes began with the developement of the Lu-45 Hawk, and although the GLI-76 Falcon truly did not offer quite an advancement, the order for the Lu-27 did return a certain excitement in further developements with aircraft airframes. Macabee engineers, already with projects behind them that saw the continued expansion of airframe technologies, had the necessary backgrounds to shatter obstacles set before them and again shock the world with all new materias and proportions. In the end, the airframe casted on the Lu-27 is perhaps the most ingenious and well designed to date, although inherently one of the most expensive as well. Monetary issues nonwithstanding, the new airframe should be able to withstand the heat of up to Mach 10 flight, although the aircraft is only expected to fly at Mach 5.5 maximum. The airframe has also taken a turn from one that revolved around maximum stealth, to one that focused on speed and possibilities to continously increase the maximum speed without necessarilly increasing the size of the engines. There was also a turn from metal based alloys to cheaper and lighter plastics although metal alloys and their high conductivity still find an important role in Macabee aircraft manufacturing.

The Condor's ribs are constructed from titanium alloys. The original titanium ribs proposed for the first prototype encountered extreme corrosion and thermal cracking which would become only more apparent in higher velocities, and thus higher thermal settings. There were several techniques to generally increase the ability of titanium to do its job, including to increase the surface oxide film thickness through thermal oxidation, anodically polarizing titanium through galvanic coupling, applying metal oxides to the coatings and alloying titanium with molybdenum, something that has not been made commercially available just yet. The results were a spectacular increase in resistance against general corrosion, pitting and stress-corrosion cracking. Pitting being localized corrosion due to exposure of the metal to the open and stress-corrosion cracking defined as cracking under certain stresses and heat. It's easy to say that the Condor's ribs are perfectly capable of handling the job of holding the airframe together and are some of the strongest currently available for aerospace application. The increased production, especially during any eventual refitting of the Lu-45 Hawk, should make these ribs commercially available rather soon, especially under always advancing manufacturing techniques. The same titanium alloy accounts for thirty-nine percent [39%] of the superstructure's components.

Twenty-three percent [23%] of the airframe is composed of a series of different thermosets. All thermosets laid before the project were commercially available, and in the end the two chosen were polyterimide and polybenzothiazole [PLZ]. Both were chosen for their extreme heat resistance characteristics which would be rather important for the super structure of the aircraft. Both are reinforced primarily by polycarbonate which accounts for even higher heat resistance, while in strategic locations polymer resins also make an appearance. The sister of thermosets, thermoplastics, makes up only one percent [1%] of the aircraft due to the general superiority of thermosets in the ultramodern aerospace industry. There's absolutely no chance that thermoplastics will make a reappearance in airframe technology unless some new thermopolymer is introduced with breathtaking advantages over some newer thermosets. Underneath the thermosets, and making up the majority of the inner walls of the superstructure for a whooping fifteen percent [15%] of the Condor is Rene N6, which made an appearance with the Lu-45 Hawk. The final twenty-two percent [22%] of the airframe is made of hardened steel and other, minor, ingredients that make up links, joints, nuts and bolts, as well as other smaller, but nonetheless vital parts of the aircraft.

The substructure begins at the crest at the back of the aircraft, providing for the majority of the carbon-epoxy used in the substructure. The substructure of the nose of the aircraft is fully aluminum in nature, while the center of the body is constructed of titanium to account for where the engines are placed and where most of the heat occurs. Aluminum accounts for outside areas in the substructure, as well as parts of the back of the substructure. Hardened steel also makes an appearance for the undercarriage of the aircraft where the landing gear is located. The substructure being vital for the survivability of the superstructure, understandably the primary hardened locations of it are under areas of most pressure to avoid a scar in the superstructure. In fact, during the first flight over Arras the substructure near the front of the afterburner tore, collapsing the superstructure and skin of the aircraft causing the end of the prototype to tear off and sending it, in a fire ball, into the dirt some forty thousand meters below.

Most of the aircraft's skin is constructed from carbon-epoxy and titanium; nineteen percent [19%] and twenty-one percent [21%] respectively. The former was used in sheets with the coefficient of thermal expansion being 2.1 for both longitudinal and transverse expansion, with a low compressive strain of .8%, offering itself to be a cheap but resilient composite material for use on the Lu-27 Condor, one of the principal design objectives for the Lu-27 Condor. Thirty-one percent [31%] yet remains aluminum however; specifically, a NiAl superalloy [Nickel based aluminum superalloy]; with twenty-nine percent [29%], or the rest, being a mixture of other components and hardened steel. The skin is laminated on the outside with carbon fiberglass for the sake of more heat resistance, and less important, stealth. Although stealth was never a big goal on the Condor, simply because the velocities achieved don't consider stealth within themselves - thus explaining the decision not to coat it with radar absorbent materials - it was thought that the foreign market and the Empire itself would appreciate the at least limited considerations to stealth.

The air inlets are located on the narrow nose of the Condor. The inner tube doesn't curve at all to allow better flow of air and gasses, and since the engines are rather large, and on the wings, the exposed engines are really irrelevent to the design of the air intakes. The inlets are foward facing, with the outer tubes laminated in a nickel based aluminum alloy to deal both with heat problems and the intense friction of the passing air and gasses. The idea behind the new manufacturing of the lamination is that it's largely modular, allowing the lamination to be replaced easily and inexpensively every fifty flights on average. The air intakes include a one stage diffuser/dual mode and a thermal shroud.

In a general overview the airframe of the Lu-27 Condor has been tested with fly-by-optics testing over Arras, past the three prototypes, and within heat intense testing windtunnels and other rooms, to withstand up to one thousand four hundred degrees celcius of heat, which is rather revolutionary when considering that the Lu-45 Hawk was designed with the then highest rating of one thousand one hundred and twenty degrees celcius of heat resistance. In fact, the Condor has proven to be quite the step ahead in airframe technology and is likely to be the basis of future Lu and GLI designs, as well as foreign designs.

Wing Design:
In the simplist of explenations, the general theory on the formation of the wings was to go with what offered the best velocity without much overcomplication, although complication is the nature of the Condor regardless. For those reasons the Lu-27 Condor uses what in essense is a delta wing design, although much like the engine, it has been merged with a newer, more unknown design, the waverider wing design. The merging of the two should provide unbeknownst velocities when coupling with engine power; it's to say, the ability for the Condor to make the record for the fastest interceptor in service will be made a whole lot easier. Another major objective set by the Laerihans was the ability for supermanuevarability. Although the pure form of the latter was never reached, even with the entrance of the Condor into history, the design of the wings does give a considerable step foward for supermanueverability.

The wing from the top view looks like a standard, but enlarged, delta wing which has had considerable success in high supersonic flight. The key difference is under the wing, where the design is conically derived. To illustrate it with words before the engine there's a conical shock bump, which launches the airflow over a conically designed encasement for the engines. This leads to a cowl under the engine, which in turn sends the airflow through a series of plumes. The wings have been proven for flight at Mach 25, but since the Condor is not meant for such velocity there should be little issue regarding its ability to reach Mach 5.5 with the wings - which is a low hypersonic velocity. Apart from the shapin, the rest of the wings and the airfoils are rather thin for better supersonic and hypersonic velocity; nonetheless, the conical shock bumps should provide for maximum lift in hypersonic travel, although it should also help to make the aircraft somewhat ugly.

The wings are constructed with titanium alloy ribs, following that of the main airframe, while the substructure is constructed from high intensity thermosets and aluminum. The superstructure is crafted from thermosets, thermoplastics and aluminum, while the skin is constructed purely from carbon-epoxy and some aluminum parts. The airfoils are constructed out of CMSK-11B, a single crystal (SX) superalloy, which is also one of the most used superalloys to increase firing temperatures which result in thermal effecciency improvement. The airfoils mostly follow the rather conventional double slotted flap and leading edge flap concept, which have proven superior to any other more simplistic flaps such as the zap design or just the plain design. The wing stalls were moved to the roots of the wing to move the center of gravity, and therefore allowing more manueverability during stalling, meaning the angle of attack [AOA] has increased considerably, although the pilot still remains the 'weakest link'.

Nonetheless, the aircraft should be capable of quasi-supermanueverability, or at least very good manueverability, and the wing design should prove to be able to increase the velocity handled by the engines and by the aircraft proper. Indeed, the Condor may very well lead international engineers towards new wing designs and it might be first of a kind, although it all comes with a cost.

Tail Design:
The tail design is rather conservative and simple. The substructure of the tail is constructed from both carbon-epoxy and titanium alloy, of similar manufacturing as the one used for the rest of the aircraft, including the aircraft's ribs. The titanium is principally the bottom part of the tail to provide structural strength, while the idea of building the upper parts of carbon epoxy is to provide some sort of elasticity and the ability for the tail to 'warp', which arguable gives the aircraft somewhat more manueverability. The entire superstructure and skin of the tail is constructed out of carbon-epoxy and glass-polyimide, allowing for structural soundness and rather good resistance to fatigue and heat, as well as rudimentary protection of vital sensor and communication equipment located on them.

The tail design are two verticle stablilizers, each set at around sixty degrees and about fifty percent longer than those featured on the SR-71 design, although a bit more angled. There are two horizontal stablilizers as well for additional stability of the aircraft, although the sixty degree angles of attack and huge manuevers aren't really expected from this aircraft. Nonetheless, if needed it should be enough to stablilize the aircraft under most circumstances and offers more stability than the SR-71 and F-22 combined, although admittently it takes from the lessons learned on both aircraft.

The increased angle of the fins, apart from offering excellent aerodynamics that go with the general weird shape of the aircraft, also serve to block the heat radiation coming from the engines and should deflect radar at a greater angle of incident, making the plane incidently - har har, a play on words! - stealthier, although it's largely irrelevent, since it's moving at Mach 5 anyways. Regardless, limited stealth is always somewhat of an advantage in certain situations.

Canard Design:
For the majority of modern aviation history the canards have been an element to reduce stall and spin, providing a very powerful resistance against the two. Historically the canards are put right under the fuselage, at least on airliners, but they were brought foward on military aircraft. Recently, the canard has been put a bit behind the nose of the aircraft because placing them behind the wing, which was before thought optimal, inherently limited the angle of attack and the velocity a plane could fly at. Fortunately, recent technologies, like the aforementioned movement of the canards almost fully foward will allow the Condor to reach the velocities required by its contractors. In the past months the VeriEze configuration used on designs conjured in the minds of those at Langley Research have been quantified to be stallproof, and this too was adopted by the Lu-27 Condor.

In short, the two canards are brought just behind the nose of the sleek, and long aircraft. The two canards are designed after thick high-life airfoils, which have proven superiority over standard swept aft wing canards. The outer wing of the canards droop a bit to avoid tip stalling eliminating any possibly rocketing of the wings during flight, therefore reducing possible G-forces in flight.

The canards substructure is entirely constructed of the usual titanium alloy, providing excellent ribs for the support of the canards and the possible forces that will be applied on it throughout flight. In short, it should make maintenance a whole lot easier. The superstructure is designed from a titanium metal matrix composite (Ti MMC), which ultimately make the canards very expensive, at around two hundred thousand Reichmarks per canard. Nonetheless, the canards are very resistance to everything, which is what was needed on the Lu-27 Condor. The skin is forged out of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics, crafted by melting resins and combining them in a mold along with reinforcing fibers. Although the skin is relatively cheap, unfortunately the introduction of Ti MMC set back price a bit, unfortunately.

Further Manueverability:
With the new airframe design, canard design, wing design, tail design and the revolutionary new engine set up the Lu-27 Condor has really made a change for the better, leading the world in aerodynamic potential and offering a leap to the mythica concept ofl supermanueverability. Nonetheless, teaching an old dog new tricks, if you will, still does not add up to complete what the Condor requires, which is a level short of supermanueverability. The result was thrust vectoring, but like everything else there was a wide variety to choose from. The ultimate choice was CounterFlow Thrust Vectoring (CFTVC).

The two thrust jets were put right before the wing - about four centimeters -, and five centimeters up the airframe of the aircraft as for the flow of the CounterFlow thrust to not interfere with the flow of the air as the aircraft hit top supersunic velocities and even entered hypersonic speeds. Additional experimentation in Arras, following the expermentation done for the MAE program in the University of Buffalo, New York, proved that CFTVC was the superior thrust vectoring control design for these types of application, and during the fourth prototype's flight, the Condor preformed fantastically seemingly giving more credit to the powers of CFTVC technology.

With this said, the Condor can achieve tight manuevers in an enviroment of hypersonic air waves, allowing the Condor unprecedented control during flight and the ability to effective counter and destroy any extremely high altitude aircraft - from other interceptors to bombers. In short, the Lu-27 Condor has been given the ability to preform the role it was originally envisioned for - an extremely fast interceptor.

Power Plant:
With a maximum velocity of Mach 5.5, or at least one that was theoritically possible, the engines were of prime importance and there were several historical examples that offered some basis for the design of the Condor's power plant. However, in the end with no early precedent that offered the velocity needed, with the effeciency needed, the Lu-27 Condor was forced to introduce an enhanced version of the turbojet-ramjet hybrid present on the SR-71. In the end, the only thing that could have possibly been done was the exchange from turbojet to turbofan and the 'purification' of the turbofan technology which would make the brunt of the improvements over the original design. The end product was dubbed Lu-67j-N13 hybrid turbofan-ramjet engines. In essense and in basic writing, the engines when the aircraft is stationary leaves the bypass doors open, with the spike inlet foward, with the tertiary doors open and the tailpipe vanes closed. The morphology into high velocity flight would include the inlet spike retracting then moving back foward for restart, and the tailpipe vanes fully open with the suck in doors closed.

Behind the spike inlet the engine, which is basically a glorified turbofan, has been enhanced to be much more effecient at high speeds. Instead of returning to blades, the engine has replaced them with blisks, or more accurately integrally bladed rotors, or IBRs. The blisk is basically a series of airfoils, or blades, attached to a rotor which is attached to the shaft of the engine, and it can be manufactured as a single piece, cutting manufacturing costs in the long run by a hefty amount. The IBR should increase aerodynamics and decrease total weight of the engines. Each airfoil is forged out of gamma tainium aluminide, originally forseen as a future evolution in aircraft turbine engine technology, and now made reality within the Lu-27 Condor. Gamma titanium aluminide, TiAl, is the base for an emerging class of low-cost, low-density alloys with unique properties. Gamma alloys are actually mixtures of the neighboring aluminide phases Ti3Al (alpha-two, hexagonal) and TiAl (gamma, tetragonal). The objectives, which were reached, in gamma alloy development was to increase ductility, oxidation resistance, tensile strength, creep resistance and porcessability. It's light weight characteristics should also ultimately aid in the increase of thrust from the same engine, which is a must in the developement of the Condor. The fans themselves are wide-chord, damperless blisks proven to enhance thrust on aircraft like the Dassault Falcon, which would only enhance high velocity engines like those on the Lu-27 Condor.

The blades are attached through carbon ceramics which provide effective design solutions for robust, axial inserted ceramic blade attachments for production turbines. Contact rig tests were performed during 2015 prototype testing in the Arras Technological Military and Space Exploration Center [ARTMASEC] in which the contact interface was simulated with a MIL-B type ceramic specimen, loaded with a radiused Astroloy indenter; the results were more than favourable, confirming that fast fracture strength was significantly degraded. The vanes were also designed out of ceramic composites with thin nickel based aluminum superalloy (Thymonel 8) airfoils, offering decreased stresses.

Another advance within expansion of the hybrid engine proper was the exchange of oil lubrication with a more advance form of lubrication. The two other possibilities were compressed air lubrication and magnetic lubrication. Foil air bearings would cause the spool shafts to ride along top compressed air, but the heavy load forces engineers to develope the technology further, something that could have taken up to another ten years; obviously, that wasn't an option. So, the second option was chosen instead, magnetic bearings. Although magnetic bearings have always been looked upon in disdain by more conservative engineers the advantages they offer are beyond obvious, and the same idea has been applied to heavier loads, such as tank turrets. As a consequence, magnetic bearings have become viable for engine aircraft and they make their very first appearance on the Lu-27 Condor. Finally, the engines proper have switched their alternators with integral starter-generators and electric actuators. The matured spool technology and the complete avoidance of hydraulics within the engine should allow for greater velocities and less weight.

In order to achieve the high efficiencies demanded of modern combined-cycle generating plants, it is necessary to operate the turbine with high turbine entry temperatures. Currently, gas temperatures at the cobustor exit are around thirteen thousand degrees celcius. The combed effect of thermal barrier coatings and efficient cooling configurations can ensure that metal temperatures remain acceptable with even higher gas temperatures. The proper coating was conceived from NiCrAlYSiTa, a vacuum plasma deposited coating and an air plasma coating. A secondary coating, CrAlYSITa was deposited by cauum plasma spraying.

To increase velocity when using the afterburners the engines also make use of parallel fluidic nozzles. Fixed-geometry fluidic nozzles are an attractive alternative to mechanical thrust-vectoring nozzles. These devices would selectively inject small jets of air or sheets of high-pressure air (bled from the compressor) into the nozzle’s main flow stream to change the nozzle’s flow area and direct the thrust as needed. Because fluidic nozzles would not have any moving parts in direct contact with the hot exhaust jet, they should eventually be much cheaper to design, pro-duce, and maintain. Even when not in afterburn fluidic nozzles should aid disproportionally in reaching hypersonic velocity, and achieving a possible transonic flight pattern.

In terms of thrust each engine produces fifty thousand pound force of thrust, considerably more than the engines of the SR-71, although considerably more expensive. The cost of each engine has been revealed to be around eleven million Reichmarks, meaning that the two engine configuration on the Condor will post the power plant alone at twenty-two million Reichmarks; a before thought ludicrous price, as each turbofan designed before was under five million Reichmarks in design and procurement cost. Nonetheless, with the engine specified, the velocity accounted for should very well be achieved, although gas exhaustion would be equally as costly, obviously.

Armament Stores:
One of the trickiest parts to design was the internal hardpoints. External hardpoints were considered off limites for the mere fact that they would most likely be torn apart in the advent of high speed manuevers, or even high speed in general. As a consequence, the entire weapon load of the Condor is internal. This does limit, somewhat, the ability for the Condor to carry heavy amounts of weapons, but then again, the new generation aircraft put out by Kriegzimmer has been much more conservative in the amount of weapons carried, illustrated by the fact that the Falcon only carries six missiles, or two JDAMs, for a somewhat larger aircraft than the F-35. Nonetheless, weight, and keeping it low was the major issue for all Kriegzimmer aircraft. The Condor does not break away from this new Kriegzimmer motto.

The internal hardpoint is built into an internal bomb bay which has two rack pods, each built to carry two air to air missiles. The racks are inclined at negative fifteen degrees to give the missile a much cleaner free fall. In other words, the tip of the missile falls down first, avoiding the tearing of the fins on the AAM.176, the missile of choice for the interceptor. Therefore, inclued at negative fifteen degrees the Condor carries a load of four AAM.176s. Any other air to air missile can technically be carried, except if its longer than the rack's pods, but no more than four missiles, regardless of dimensions, can fit in the internal bay.

The internal hardpoints are designed to withstand 20G turns, although the Condor will never get close to that, seeing as though the G-suit worn by the pilots can only withstand 11Gs. Nonetheless, it does ensure the stability of the internal hardpoints when the bottom door opens. Otherwise, the inside would be torn apart; a problem in older missile designs.

Cockpit and Avionics:
The cockpit is a single seat cockpit, with the seat slightly inclined to reduce the effect of G-force on the pilot. In front of the seat there's a wide array of screens that offer the pilot some of the best system configurations in the world. The largest screen is a transparent illumination crystal display that sits as a film screen between him/her and the cockpit's windshield. Information relayed to this screen have to do with brief flashes of incoming vampires or just detected bogies and bandits. Right under that is a primary multi-function display using a polychromatic liquid crystal display screen. It offers up to date information on the enviroment within radar and ladar range of the aircraft. Four up-front display systems laid out parallel to each other on the two extremes of the cockpit electronics panel are for the wellbeing of the aircraft. The pilot's wellbeing is tracked by the enviroment awareness module, which also keeps track of the nuclear, biological and chemical protection suites in the cabin. A final heads up display gives a 'god's eyes view' of the battlefield around them.

The pilot has several navigational aids, including a satellite based reality reproduction system, a hybrid navigational system, inertial navigation, tactical air navigational system and a terrain profiling and matching system. These navigational aids, in the end, help the pilot know where he is and when, especially useful when hitting the maximum velocities of the aircraft, which may exceed Mach 5.

He or she can control the armaments through the Stores Management System, and partiall through Communication/Navigation/Identification. Tied in with this latter system is the Identification, Friend or Foe, system. To maximize aircraft cooperation the Lu-27 mades handy its Intra-Flight Data Link and Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, which makes ultra velocity communication that much easier, which is vital for an aircraft like the Lu-27 Condor interceptor. All of this is centered at the Common Integrated Processor rated at two thousand million instructions per second, with signal processing rated at fifty billion operations per second. This is aided by the very high-speed integrated circuit technology, and separate modules.

Aircraft well being is regulated by the Engines Indicating and Crew Alerting System which senses engine failures and slow detonations. The airframe is checked through a central nervous system running between the substructure and the superstructure which regulates heat which tells the CIP whether or not the aircraft needs to slow down, which in turn warns the pilot. The electronics are upkeeped by the electronic flight instrumentation system.

All in all, the Condor fields a very powerful array of electronics. However, the principal component on the Condor is the helmet mounted display. The HMD is linked with the central processing unit through a fiber optic network of wiring, which in the end makes it a sixth sense for the highly trained pilots who work with the Condors. The system should increase reaction time, which is invaluable at such high velocities, and in the end should increase the effectivity of the avionics suit by at least threefold.

Sensor Equipment:
The Condor has relatively simple sensor equipment because at the velocities flown the most acute sensor equipment simply wouldn't work; regardless it's very radar heavy. The nose of the aircraft is occupied by an electronically scanned array, with wide bandwidth, while using less volume and prime power. Average ratings rate the range at three hundred kilometers for non-stealth detection. To update the image of the battlefield to the EFIS system [check avionics] the Condor fields an Inverse Synthetic Aperture radar. Both radar systems offer the Lu-27 a sensor suite that is capable of advance warning on its own, although it does receive a lot of aid from other subsensors, such as lidar and ladar, all linked together through the Imperial Radio Detection and Ranging Central Nervous System and the central sensor system.

There’s also a series of LIDAR sensor systems installed throughout the aircraft, including a single down-looking LIDAR system underneath the nose of the Hawk. There are also two wide LIDAR apertures on the front and end of the aircraft, located in hidden pockets to reduce RCS. All three LIDAR systems work similarly, and they all incorporate Luftkrieg’s second generation LIDAR technology. The Hawk’s system is based on a transponder and receiver, beside that of the IFF transponder, which uses a Gaussian transmitter system to transmit LIDAR waves. The Gaussian transmitter is based on two electrical fields sending electrically charged photonic waves to bounce off targets and have active measurements on its velocity and location. The advantage of this LIDAR system is that the active RADAR only needs to gain a location on an object once before the LIDAR can take over, meaning a bomber can turn off its active RADAR to reduce its signature. The Albatross’ LIDAR uses Doppler LIDAR in order to keep track of an object’s velocity, as well as a LIDAR range finder. The missile’s heterodyne-reception optical RADAR uses a standard configuration [transmitter laser > exit optics > atmospheric propagation path > target] and [photodetector > photocurrent processing > image processing / BermCombiner/ local oscillator entrance optics]. The Silencer's transmitter is a Casegrainian telescope, which works much like the photonic mast on an ultra-modern submarine.

The Condor has a foward sensing heterodyne pulse ladar with a rough range of around seventy kilometers for last minute detection. From the standpoint of the systems engineer, the most meaningful criteria which can be applied to an optical radar are those which, for a specific operational task, define the relative probabilities of recording the real and false targets. The arrival of photons either from a radiating source or as the result of a target reflection can be classified as being both individually and collectively at ranom. Optical Doppler sensing using the highly coherent gas laser in an optical heterodyne system has been accomplished using moving mirrors over significant path lengths where most of the engieering problems involved are by now farily well under control. Within the Condor the model of a heterodyne-detection radar has an optics transmitter [Gaussian transmitter], protected by the filter, whic his sent to the detector, processing circuits and then to the central computer to make the ultimate decision for reality. In terms of complexity, this is much for complex than an energy-detection radar, but at the same time more accurate.

In conclusion, the sensor system on the Lu-27 Condor has designed for the aircraft, and this aircraft alone, and the coupling of lidar, ladar and radar will have its merits in the end to make the proper sensor system for the aircraft.

Countermeasures:
The Condor has two electronic warfare systems, the Advance Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasure System and the electronic counter-measure system. The former uses noise jamming, deception jamming, and blip enhancement, while the latter is more a threat management system. A third system, the Electronic Warfare, is a manual dispension program for the pilot. The Lu-27 Condor is more designed to counter high altitude surface to air missiles, anti-sattelite missiles and air to air missiles from bombers or fellow interceptors. The jamming systems include a broadband radar jammer and a multi-node optical jammer dubbed 'Ajax' and 'Menelaus', respectively. This built in electronic warfare countermeasure system should provide the Condor with enough to avoid enemy missiles at such high velocities.

A belly dispenser holds seventy-five flare sticks for older, and even newer, infra-red targetting missiles while a sister dispenser holds sixty units of chaff, giving the Condor more than it needs of standard countermeasure utilities.

Manufacturing Technology Status on Ti MMC
Many fabrication processes exist that can meet the component fabrication need for advanced aerospace applications in Kriegzimmer. In order to focus the manufacturing infrastructure on a common approach for the near term fan applications, the TMCTECC team has worked with the Kriegzimmer sponsored High Preformance Composites (HPC) program to devleope baseline specifications for older and newer titanium matrix composites. These sepcifications are for green (unconsolidated) monotape and consolidated mill product. TMCTECC and HPC believes the key to establishing a high volume Ti MMC market is to agree to common material forms and common specifications.

One way TMCTECC will be able to implement Ti MMC into fan and airframe components is by using the strengths of integrated product team philosophy. The designers, Ti MMC material suppliers, and component fabricators are working together to develop the optimum component based on performance, fabricability and cost. For Luftkrieg to replace the current bill of material Ti products, the cost of the Ti MMC containing component must be less than the production model. TO achieve this while using $1100 per kilogram Ti MMC material, the designer must understand how to maximize the composite benefits while minimizing its volume in the aircraft component. This leads the team to selecting simple shapes with little associated scrap during the fabrication process. With this approach, Luftkrieg is projecting a 30% cost savings compared with the components being replaced.

Statistics:
Type: Interceptor
Crew: 1 (Pilot)
Wing span: 17.1m
Length: 36.7m
Height: 5.52m
Empty weight: 26,761.9kg
Weapon payload: 1,000kg
Fuel weight: 26,756 kg
Combat Weight: 56,194 kg
Maximum take-off weight: 77,110 kg
Type: 2x Lu-67j-N13 Turbofan-Ramjet Hybrid
Maximum speeds:
1.3 Mach @ Sea level
5.01+ Super cruise
>5.35 @ maximum
Climb rate: 28,000 meters per minute
Maximum altitude: 45,720 m
Internal Bay Pylons: 2
Internal Bay limit: 750 kg each
Airstrip take-off run: 400m
Airstrip landing: >350m
Combat range: 3,600 nautical miles [without refueling]
G load limits: >17g
In-flight Refueling?: yes
Oxygen Generation?: yes
Production costs: 210 million
Price: 320 million USD per unit

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries Praetorian II Mobile Surface-to-Air-Missile Launcher
Praetorian II Mobile Surface to Air Missile Launcher

[Image: The image was drawn by myself, and colored by Ato-Sara.]

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The Praetorian II was the response to the growing problems concerning the Praetorian mobile surface to air missile launcher, including the fact that the Praetorian V missiles sometimes jammed within the small tubes, and that regardless of the sold range, the missile didn't have that range, which was likely because the launchers were extremely small, constricting the original size of the missile. Furthermore, there were problems with the fact that the barrels of the Praetorian launcher could simply not stand the head of sustained fire from the missiles, cuasing them to be needing replacements after every two launching sequences. As a consequence, the Praetorian mobile launcher was just too expensive to keep in combat for sustained periods of time. Indeed, the cost of putting these into combat around Aurillac and Mosnoi Bor during the War of Golden Succession was immense, eclipsing the cost of operating the early aerial formations.

The Praetorian II, unlike the original design, is not a self powered vehicle, but instead relies on an Ebro Type 23 truck. The truck has a six hundred horse power engine with a two stick transmission designed to maximize par and minimize horsepower when in the context of acceleration, meaning the truck is designed to tow, not to move quickly. The first stick has five gears, which are directly controlled by the second stick with three groups, giving the truck a total of fifteen gears. The first group maximizes torque [par], while the second group is designed for more acceleration if there is a need, and the third group is for reverse. The steering application is done through hydraulics and the braking is done by wire, although the brake itself is divided into two, allowing the driver to apply the brake one tire, depending on the direction of the turn, consequently the truck can make wider turns.

Before the Praetorian launcher, the box guards the computer application which is the fire and control system, as well as the central nervous system for the Engagement Control Station. The computer also localizes a phased array radar, which works on multiple bandwidths, and is very difficult to jam. Indeed, the PAC-3 system's radar has been deemed one of the most difficult, and considering that the radar on the Praetorian is more advance than that on the PAC-3, it can be deducted that the Praetorian's radar is, indeed, very difficult to jam.

Praetorian II mostly work in packs, with a single command truck commanding up to one hundred batteries over a range of over one hundred kilometers. The command truck includes a Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, which houses and leads the information and coordination central, that controls air traffic locations during an air battle sending information to higher echelons and subordinate groups, Communications relay groups, antenna mast groups, Trailer mounted electric power units, and guided missile transporters.

The fire and control system present on the Praetorian II, dubbed 'Brass', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by the Empire's own engineers. 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. The Praetorian II's computer also feeds transmissions from grounded, and larger, RADAR arrays, on land, air and sea, giving it wider and more accurate coverage.

The launcher can launch eight Praetorians within a time set of fifteen seconds. It can thus be reloaded within forty-five minutes, depending on the logistical capabilities of the nation using the equipment. To take the heat of multiple launch sequences the launcher is lined internally with a cap of RENE N6, a Nickel based aluminum superalloy which has been tested time and time again to have high heat resistivity and the additional resistance to hydrogen enviroment embrittlement, caused by high heat. The launcher must be maintained after every twenty launch sequences, but doesn't necessarilly have to be replaced.

The Praetorian missile, technically the Praetorian VI, has just reverted to the original name of merely the Praetorian surface to air missile. The missile has been changed to be exactly the same missile as used in fixed batteries in order to improve logistics capabilities of the Praetorian batteries, wether fixed or mobile. The missile uses a fully capable RAMjet, which works at lower altitudes than the SCRAMjet, but still uses a temporary rocket booster. The missile has the capability of hitting Mach 1.2 within ten seconds after launch, and Mach 2 after twenty seconds of launch. It's counter-thrust nozzle vectoring gives it superior manuevaribility. It's said the PAC-3 can out manuever any aircraft and most missiles; imagine the Praetorian.

The Praetorian II mobile launcher is to become the mainstay surface to air missile battery used within the Empire for at least the next thirty years, further improvements nonwithstanding. It's deemed a very large improvement over the past design, the Praetorian MSAM, and one of the best regarding international armaments.

Statistics:
Truck: Ebro Type 23 [Heavy Logistics]
Engine: 600 bhp biodiesel
Maximum Velocity: 60 kph
Range: 405 kilometers
Length: 13.5 meters
Width: 3.7 meters
Angle of Turn: seventy-six degrees [if a full turn would be ninety degrees]
Sensor Systems:
Engagement Control Station
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
Information and Coordination Central
Communications Relay Groups
Antenna Masts Groups
Trailer Mounted Electric Power Units
Missile Powerplant: Hydrogen enjection/RAMjet/Rocket Engine
Missile Range: 350 kilometers
Missile Length: 5.6 meters
Missile Weight: 376 kilograms
Warhead: 75 kilogram high explosive/CAPMES secondary warhead [disposable metalstorm canister]


Cost: 1.7 Million USD

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries P.746 Praetorian Ballista Variants
P.746.X Praetorian Surface to Air Missile and Variants
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P.746.A et P.746.B Surface to Air Missile
The P.746.A is a replacement to the Praetorian V which has seen a long life within the Empire's ground forces and naval forces. However, the armed forces dediced to pay for the release of a newer, cheaper, and more effecient surface to air missile, just known as the Praetorian. The administration also required five seperate variants, the P.746.A through the P.746.E. The project was finally granted to Golden Luftwaffe Industries (GLI) for a total of sixty billion USD, and throughout a period of two years, Dr. Ricardo Schumer and Dr. Karl Vectar, with their teams, have worked on the design, finally releasing it after a series of testing and such. The missile's certain differences from the obsolete Praetorian V include a more effecient two-state engine for the P.746.A, while the P.746.B uses a single stage engine for low altitude duties. Both missiles are also transonic.

Designation: P.746. A et P.746.B
Length: 6.3 Meters
Base Diameter: .8 Meters
Warhead: 70kg HE; enCAPsulated MetalStorm [CAPMES]
Propulsion [V. A]: Two-stage; solid rocket and ramjet
Propulsion [V. B]: Singe-stage; solid rocket
Maximum Range [V. A]: 550 kilometers
Maximum Range [V. B]: 130 kilometers
Maximum Altitude [V. A]: 27,000 meters
Maximum Altitude [V. B]:[color] 11,000 meters
[color=red]Maximum Velocity: Mach 3.7
Body:
Core of Phenolic Resin-Impregnated Aramid Paper Honeycomb Core Material
Inner Layer of Thymonel 8
Fins: 4 Delta Shaped Fins
Sensors and Electronics:
M3667 Arbit Computer Chip
Multi-band millimetric RADAR
Gyro RADAR Array
IR LIDAR Array
Inertial
Anti-Collision Sensor System

P.746.C et P.746.D Surface to Air Missile
The P.746.C variant is an anti-sattelite missile (ASAT), while the P.746.D is the newer ASAT design, the SLASAT, which is a submarine launched anti-sattelite missile. The principle difference between the P.746.C and the P.746.A is that the P.746.C has a body which cuts off in the middle, more or less, then constricts to allow for the different two-stage engine. This two-stage engine is comprised of a solid rocket fuel engine and a second-stage of a Versola motor. The P.746.C and P.746.D are officially supplements to the GPALS project, which has been the mainstay of the Empire's ABM system.

The P.746.D is exactly the same as the P.746.C, but on the outside looks much larger since it is encased within a sabot type design. The idea is that it needed to fit the Cartagena's and Cadiz' VLS tubes, consequently, the missile had to be made larger. To avoid the costs of completely redesigning the missile's body, the P.746.D used the encasement, which after launching and breakthing through the water, would tear apart, revealing the P.746.C. Recent testing has proved the missile to be dearly effective.

Designation: P.746. C et P.746.D
Length: 5.4 Meters
Base Diameter: .5 Meters
Warhead: 70kg HE hit-to-kill; enCAPsulated MetalStorm [CAPMES]
Propulsion [V. C]: Two-stage; solid rocket fuel engine and Versola motor
Propulsion [V. D]: Triple-stage; solid rocket fuel, the encasement breaks, solid rocket fuel, Versosal motor
Maximum Altitude : 730 Kilometers
Maximum Velocity: 24,000 Km/h
Body:
Core of Phenolic Resin-Impregnated Aramid Paper Honeycomb Core Material
Inner Layer of Thymonel 8
Fins: 4 Delta Shaped Fins
Sensors and Electronics:
M3667 Arbit Computer Chip
Multi-band millimetric RADAR
Gyro RADAR Array
IR LIDAR Array
Teal-blue array
Inertial


P.746.E HIBOLAAS
The P.746.E is a HIgh-G BOost Low Altitude Anti-Sattelite Missile (HIBOLAAS), designed to look much like the HIBEX missile. The P.746.E is designed to intercept inter-continental ballistic missiles at low altitudes, or in other words, as a last ditch attempt to stop an ICBM. With the successful testings of the HIBEX, it was decided to design one for the Empire itself, leading to this, and recent testing have underscored the chances for success. Nonetheless, again, the HIBOLAAS is always to be considered a final ditch defensive attempt, and is part of the multi-prong ABM system used by the Empire.

Designation: P.746. D
Length: 5.2 Meters
Base Diameter: .8 Meters
Warhead: 70kg HE; enCAPsulated MetalStorm [CAPMES]
Propulsion: Single-stage high thrust solid rocket fuel engine
Maximum Altitude : 7000 Meters
Maximum Velocity: 3 Km/s
Maximum Turn: 400G
Body:
Core of Phenolic Resin-Impregnated Aramid Paper Honeycomb Core Material
Inner Layer of Thymonel 8
Sensors and Electronics:
M3667 Arbit Computer Chip
Multi-band millimetric RADAR
Gyro RADAR Array
IR LIDAR Array
Inertial


P.746.F Ultra Long Range Surface to Air Missile
The P.746.F was released a couple of months after the P.746.A and B, offering a newer, longer ranged, missile for high altitude and quick response launches. The airframe and especially the engine of the missile is constructed out of a lightweight titanium-aluminum alloy, atomised for quick cooling so that the alloy would exhibit amorphous physical features, as opposed to crystalline, making it lighter and stronger. The engine uses a ducted ramjet engine, with a expendable rocket booster, giving it higher velocities and longer ranges. That said, most of the length of the missile is specialized towards fuel. The P.746.F is nominally launched out of fixed sites, while the launchers of the Praetorian II were lengthened to allow launch of the P.746.A. The P.746.B has remained a naval variant.

Designation: P.746.F
Length: 6.9 Meters
Base Diameter: .8 Meters
Warhead: 70kg HE; enCAPsulated MetalStorm [CAPMES]
Propulsion: Ducted RAMjet
Maximum Range: 850 kilometers
Maximum Altitude: 37,000 meters
Maximum Velocity: Mach 4.7
Body:
Atomized TiAl
Fins: 4 Delta Shaped Fins
Sensors and Electronics:
M3667 Arbit Computer Chip
Multi-band millimetric RADAR
Gyro RADAR Array
IR LIDAR Array
Inertial
Anti-Collision Sensor System

Aequatian Military Industries Mercer-class Amphibious Assault Ship (LHDN)

Mercer Class Amphibious Assault Ship (LHDN)
Price: 1.2 Billion Aequatian Markes

Designed as a replacement for both the Lysander and Mitchell-class Amphibious Assault Ships, the Mercer-class will become the mainstay of the Aequatian Marines Assault Fleet and Amphibious Readiness Groups.

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Builder: Nelson Shipyards Ltd.
Power Plant: Two ACV-63 Aequatian Nuclear Agency Marine Reactors
Propulsion: Two shafts, two propellers, four blades each
Displacement: 36,740 metric tons
Length: 256m
Flight Deck Width: 42.6m
Flight Elevators: One (Starboard side), one (In flight deck)
Beam: 32.3m
Maximum Speed: 34 knots
Crew:
Officers: 73
Enlisted: 1,003
Marines: 3,000
Armament:
2 - Mk.17 Vertical Launch Systems (MIM-154 Comet HSSAM)
2 - 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS Mounts
1 - Mk.5 76mm/63-calibre Gun
Combat Systems
AN/SLQ-25 NIXIE
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warefare Suite
AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR)
L-band Volume Search Radar (VSR)
AN/SPQ-9 Gun Fire Control Radar
Mk.23 Target Acquisition System
Mk.36 Chaff Launcher
Aircraft:
12 - AV-8D Harrier II VTOL Aircraft
12 - V-22 Osprey VTOL Aircraft
8 - SH-60 Seahawk Utility Helicopters
8 - AH-4 Leopard Attack Helicopters
Boats:
2 - LCU-1646
2 - LCAC

General Dynamics LAV-AD

LAV-AD (http://www.army-technology.com/projects/blazer/images/blazer5.jpg)
Crew: 3
Combat Weight: 16,218 kg
Length: 6.935m
Width: 2.67m
Height: 2.2m
Max Speed: 100 km/h (road), 9.7 km/h (water)
Max Range: 660 km
Armament: 1x25mm, 2xQuad Stinger launcher
Ammunition: 990x25mm, 16xStinger
Armor: 14mm
Transported In: CH-53 (1), C-130 (1), C-130J-30 (2), C-141 (2), C-5 (5)
An LAV with the standard turret replaced by an antiaircraft system based on that of the Avenger, but replaces the 12.7mm machine gun with a 25mm GAU-12/U rotary cannon that can fire 1800 rounds per minute. As with the Avenger, a FLIR unit is used to detect enemy aircraft, which are engaged by the Stingers or, if the target is close enough, the cannon (which is also used against ground targets)
Cost: $2.7 million

Boeing Aerospace Co - Northrop-Grumman E-3C Sentry AWACS AircraftE-3C Sentry AWACS (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/e-3-971103-F-7902R-004.jpg)
Crew: 2 + 15-21
Maximum Weight: 156,150 kg
Length: 44.61m
Height: 12.6m
Wingspan: 44.42m
Speed: Mach .8 (853 km/h)
Endurance: 8+ hours unrefueled
Ceiling: 9000m
Radar Range: 280+ km (small fighter), 420+ km (large fighter), 620+ km (bomber), 370+ km (max for low altitude targets)
The definitive version of the E-3 Sentry AWACS platform, mounting the AN/APY-2 air search radar and vastly improved computer systems compared to the “A” model.
Cost: $270 million ($500 million)

McDonnell Douglas Aerospace F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" Multi-Role Fighter

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/fa-18-ef-superhornet9.jpg)
Crew: 1/2
Maximum Weight: 29,932 kg
Empty Weight: 13,832 kg
Length: 18.31m
Height: 4.88m
Wingspan: 13.62m (9.94m w/ wings folded)
Maximum Speed: Mach 1.8 (1915 km/h)
Radius: 722 km interdiction, 835 km escort/air superiority, 1230 km attack
Range: 3572 km ferry
Endurance: 135 min @ 278 km
Ceiling: 15,240m
Armament: 1x20mm cannon w/ 520 rounds, 2xWing rail & 9xHard point for 8051 kg external stores (can land on carrier w/ 4082 kg)
As Tanker: 13,152 kg (9980 kg external, 3172 kg internal) transferable fuel
Radar Range: >80 km
A larger version of the F/A-18C/D aircraft that finally solves that fuel problem. It has much better operational range than the earlier models, as well as some stealth features, improved avionics (including an APG-79 AESA radar), and a larger payload.
Cost: $50 million ($90 million)

LPD 4 Austin-class
LPD-4 Austin (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/lpd8.jpg)
Displacement: 17,500 tons
Length: 173.4m
Beam: 32m
Draft: 7m (normal), 10.4m (ballasted)
Speed: 21 knots
Cargo: 12,000 sq ft (1114.84m2) vehicle, 40,000 ft3 bulk
Payload: 7713 deadweight tons
Armament: 2x25mm Bushmaster, 8x12.7mm, 2xDragon CIWS
Aircraft: 6xCH-46, Hangar facilities for 4
Landing Craft: 1xLCAC or 1xLCU or 4xLCM-8 or 9xLCM-6 or 24xAAV
Crew: 420 + 900 troops
An older LPD vessel.
Cost: $420 million

Mak-INV Automotive MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/Light TruckMMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/Light Truck [HMMWV replacement]


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With the continuous evolution of the Armed Forces of the Armed Republic, it was becoming apparant that something had to be done with the light vehicles in the armed forces, the most noticeable being the MMPWV NV-05, one for every three infantry in the entire military, a truly staggering amount. The reason: with the VEPR series of infantry combat systems, something universal was needed to recharge the systems power packs, and with the inherent state of the military of the Armed Republic as a fast attack force, it was only natural to implement powerpack regeneration systems into every NV-05. However, the vehicle is beginning to show its age, its armor now rarely effective, its powerplant one of the oldest in the entire fleet, and its general performance not reaching expectations. Originally, it was an outstanding vehicle, capable of strenuous operation but with so few casualties to the fleet, it has stagnated, most vehicle frames being a dozen or more years old. Every day several succumb to rust-weakened frames, blown up engines, and worn out transmissions.

It was apparant that a replacement was necessary, and soon. Engineers at three of the nations foremost corporations quickly sent to work, Dat' Pizdy Arms Corporation quickly prepared the MMPWV YLV-7 vehicle. Not to be out-done, Mak-INV, the nation's leading designer and seller of civilian vehicles, soon-after released the MMPWV YLV-8, followed shortly after by Tamarov GW Co with its MMPWV YLV-9. The YLV-7 was a radical new design, incorporating an over-all view similar, but distant, from the MMPWV M-04, the NV-05's fore-runner. With its aggressive stance, armor, and armament package it was a menacing machine. The YLV-8, following Mak-INV's trademarks, was an overly aggressive design that showed incredible promise, its speed and capabilities unmatched. Finally, relative newcomer to the scene Tamarov's YLV-9 was a bit traditional, mirroring the NV-05 and presenting a well-rounded, albeit standard appearance and capability. After several weeks of intense debate over the designs, and after hundreds of tests, the winner was chosen. A week later and the first prototype version of the XLV-08 hit the test scenes, soon to become the military's new favorite vehicle [along with the civilian market, where it would be marketed under the Mak-INV trademark].

The MMPWV LV-08 is a truly remarkable machine, a modern killer with unlimited capability. From the ground up it was designed to intimidate, and if intimidation didn't work, to protect its crew through armor and armament. In every test it went through it passed with unimaginable results. It is the new standard in the armed forces, used by every branch and every group . Designed to operate continually with Armed Republic forces it boasts the ability to be airdropped, air transported, helicopter transported, amphibious, and fast with a standard armor package unmatched by any sort of competition, earning it respect among grunts, officers, and the civilian populace. It [i]is an incredible vehicle with no equal. With over ten different variants of this incredible vehicle, every niche in the armed forces has been filled with none other than the Mak-INV LV-08 Light Infantry Vehicle.


Interior

The interior of the base LV-08 vehicle was designed for easy access and easy exit, so its rather spacious with a generous amount of room and a rather low basic seating capacity [four including the driver and commander/gunner]. The interior of the basic LV-08 [without the add-on seating package] is centered around a centrally-located pillar, with four seats facing away from the pillar. The front seat is the driver operator who sits nestled among a series of guages, computer monitors, and driving controls. He drives courtesy of a power-assisted, real-time feedback [can be disabled] steering wheel with essential operating buttons located at ergonomic positions so that in combat the driver does not have to remove his hands from the wheel. These buttons can toggle computer screens on the two main touch-screen monitors, both located to his right on positionable systems so that he may position them to whatever position is most comfortable for the driver. Above the guage assembly [located directly in front of him] but below the window is a series of LCD monitors which provide a full 360 degree panoramic view around the vehicle so the driver does not have to take his eyes far from the primary windscreen [although windows and mirrors do outfit the vehicle so the driver does not have to rely on the screens]. This is further enhanced by a heads up display which projects basic driving data onto the window so, in some situations, the driver does not even have to remove his eyes from the window. Although the primary windscreen is bulletproof and shatter resistant, a metal armor plate can be lifted from over the engine compartment to latch into a secure position covering the window, leaving a small slit to operate the vehicle from. However, the driver can position one of the two positionable monitors to directly in front of him and wire it directly into either the primary electro-optical forward looking system [or its counterpart thermal system] or the series of small cameras to provide a day/night real-time view of the external environment. All auxiliary controls [heater, A/C, headlights, internal lights, glow plugs, etc.] are located either on the left hand A-pillar, or above the driver on a bank of controls. The driver seat can change position, has lumbar support, and is very comfortable, in order to reduce driver fatigue. He is given side-impact air bags and a central air bag mounted in the steering wheel for major impacts [can be disabled]. Numerous small storage devices allow storage of small items and a right-side holster carries a personal defense weapon along with ammunition. The entire front portion of the cabin can be completely removed. The driver has four potential exit points. The first is through the roof, the second through the removable front portion, the third through the passenger doors, and the forth through his own door, which is located on the left side of the vehicle, just forward of the left passenger door. To get out, the driver simply has to depress the egress button and the door will open, he will then pull himself up with the handles on the roof and then proceed to exit through the door and hop to the ground.

Each passenger [who sit on the sides of the pillar and face towards doors] has a small LCD touch screen monitor to either provide real-time exterior viewing at any angle or to provide data through communication/LAN devices courtesy of the AEISCN DefenseNet. They can also recieve real time updates into their VEPR systems because the vehicle itself acts as a LAN depot. All surfaces are covered with a gripping material to aid any movement, yet cushioned to prevent serious damage in case of jostling due to rough terrain or mine detonations. All jutting surfaces are covered in a cushioning material to prevent damage. Each passenger seat resembles performance seats, but are much more heavily cushioned [especially since they are sitting at a right angle in respect to a potential head-on crash] so the edges curve around and provide support in needed areas. They are given lap belts, but chest belts can be attached to the lap belt connector for highway use. Airbags mounted above them and on the supporting system provide cushion in impacts while side-mounted bags assist. Each door opens conventionally [not suicide doors, gull wing, or 'Lambo' doors], and can optionally lock into position, providing a level of defense for the soldier leaving the vehicle. A panel underneath each seat can slide out providing a stable platform to stand on, while a door-mounted pintle mount can carry a machine gun fitted through each removable 'Upper Door System' [which is the upper portion of the door which can be removed]. The seats themselves can slide out a number of inches, and even swivel. This means, that when the door is removed, the hinges can be used to mount a swaying pintle mount bar armed with a machine gun and each passenger seat can be armed with one, covering the sides of the vehicle. The doors can be left on [with the upper door portion removed] or off [totally removed door]. To further aid in safety, each passenger has a wall mounted fire extinguisher in a cradle with a single strap to prevent jarring loose and potential injury created by it.

The commander/gunner, who sits in the rear of the crew compartment, is immersed in an ocean of LCD touch screen monitors, all on moveable mounts to ensure commander compatibility with the vehicle. This set up, including the windows, gives the commander/gunner a complete 360 panoramic view of the outside world in both electro-optical and thermal vision, allowing for day/night operation. He operates both the roof-mounted remotely operated machine gun turret [outfitted with a dedicated camera/electro-optical/low light and thermal system] and the potential extendable sensor mast [which would reside in the central pillar and extend to several meters in height, carrying cameras, thermal imagers, laser designators/rangefinders, and communication/satellite uplink gear]. He is also responsible for refilling the machine gun's ammunition through its ammunition bin. A radio is present in the rear and has two input systems, one for the driver, one for the commander with speakers giving all the vehicle's occupants the ability to hear commands, etc. The commander has three exit choices. The first is through the roof , the second is through his dedicated exit door [which is in the absolute rear] and the third is through either passenger door [ample space is provided for this, it is not crowded].

All windows can be covered with metal partitions [all windows are bulletproof and shatter resistant]. Four internal lamps [two up front, two in the rear] can light the vehicle, however, when secrecy is a must [or when operating with the driver using night vision systems], two lamps [one in front, one in the rear] covered by a non-porous shield provide limited viewing for such things as maps, etc. [when not displayed on the computer]. Computers can operate in a non-lighted mode, however, they can be viewed perfectly fine through night vision enhancement systems. All seats are mine resistant and carry armored plating to prevent mine-created shrapnel from harming vital portions of the body. All doors can be removed, as well as the forward and rear windscreens to produce a lighter variant ideal for quick incursions, etc. The vehicle maintains a heater with floor and roof mounted vents to warm the crew compartment as well as an air conditioning unit to cool the vehicle using the same systems. Additional roof-mounted fans provide additional cooling abilities. It is also fully NBC proof [when activated and can either recirculate air or clean air]. Numerous handles, bars, etc. provide gripping capability for enhanced entrance and egress, along with grab-points during rough travel.

The vehicle shown in the picture is the basic armored patrol/light truck variant of the LV-08. It is not the [i]only variant but the first of many. The vehicle can be upgraded with a system which adds four additional seats by replacing the cargo area of the light truck variant. This add-on provides two more doors [and hence two more points to mount machine guns]. This addition also provides seating for up to six externally seated soldiers courtesy of fold down seating panels on each side and the rear [two on each side, two on the rear]. The front portion of the vehicle remains the same [the four around the pillar] but the rear changes to two bench seats which comfortable seat four but can seat five or six. This upgrade leaves only a small amount of internal storage space.




Mine Resistance

The MMPWV LV-08 was designed from the wheels up to intimidate, and if that didn't work, protect her crew through armor and armament. It boasts one of the strongest armor packages for this light of a vehicle. However, not just armor make this an incredibly survivable machine, but other features as well. The first is the wheel-base, it was designed as far apart as possible as far as the crew as possible so that in the event a wheel detonates a mine, the explosion is vented upwards, leaving the crew cabin undamaged. The rear portion of the vehicle is sacrificial and seperates from the cabin in the event of a mine detonation near the rear wheel. It is further supplemented by a curved underbody skid plate which tends to reduce any damage from mines by venting the detonation towards the ground, usually resulting in the vehicle hopping several feet. The variable height system allows for the vehicle to be lifted [at the highest setting, the blast is more quickly dissipated]. The skid plate system is composed of a three-layer sandwich structure which, in the event of a strong enough detonation, can collapse in on itself to absorb detonation forces.

Another design feature is the variable height system. In order to fit into helicopters, while still maintaining respectable ground clearance, the vehicle had to have some sort of height limiting feature. Mak-INV engineers decided not to infringe upon ground clearance and instead opted for a hydraulically actuated body, capable of tilting the body forward, backward, to either side, or raising it or lowering to any of six seperate settings. At the lowest setting, the vehicle could easily fit into most helicopter cargo holds. At the highest setting, the vehicle could pretty much survive anti-personnel and some smaller anti-tank mine detonations completely unscathed. This is further augmented by the chassis, which actually rides on airbags connected to the frame, providing a smooth ride as well as the ability to deflate and lower the height of the vehicle.

The crew and infantry inside are further protected by the complete Drivetrain Armor System, which protects the entire drive train from detonation and shrapnel effects, in order to preserve the vehicle's ability to operate after a mine detonation. Each drivetrain component [transmission, engine, transaxle, transfer, driveshaft, etc.] is protected with its own armor plate in order to ensure the drivetrain's survival. However, if any rear portion of the drivetrain [rear transaxle, transfer case, driveshaft] is damaged, the vehicle can still drive, courtesy of front wheel drive [four wheel drive, but with the rear two wheels out of commission]. This also aids in collective crew defense, as drivetrain components also serve as additional armor between the crew and the ground.
Anti-mine defense does not stop there, though, and proceeds to the seats of the crewmembers. The individual seats are non-flammable, armored, and positioned atop air-ride type systems to aid in both comfort and reduction in impact forces.




Exterior

The exterior of the vehicle is described as radical. Its angular cabin apperance is designed for multiple reasons. One is to indimidate, the more practical reason is to protect the crew, the angled surfaces aiding in ballistic protection. Combine this with its awesome armor scheme [described later] and you truly get an 'armored patrol vehicle'. The vehicle carries many windows, however, these are again designed with the crew in mind. Although they infringe on vision [which is replaced with the panoramic view system], they are smaller, and thicker, with less surface area and better protecting the crew against most any commonly met ammunition.
The front end is particularly aggressive, especially with its myriad of lights [four driving lamps (two high intensity discharge lams, two standard), two fog-lights for enhanced snowy/rainy/foggy driving, and two roof-mounted flood lights (one is in the rear to look behind)] and grill protection. The standard version carries a brush guard which comes directly from the frame and covers the grill, with two metal bars extending to protect the lights. Two tow hooks both front and back allow for towing while four lift rings [located on each corner] allow for the ability to be slung underneath a helicopter. The vehicle carries twin 8000lb electric winches, one in the front and one in the rear, for duties such as getting itself unstuck. An air intake snorkel runs along the driver right hand A-pillar to an air cleaner assembly on the roof. The engine compartment is completely sealed and the vehicle can ford several feet of water, and, when outfitted [needs added flotation aids besides current ones] can be fully amphibous [albeit half-submerged] with a single transfer case-driven screw and two small rudders.

The vehicle's exterior is covered in storage. The hood provides the ability for material to be strapped down while cargo racks on each side allow for further material, including ammunition boxes, to be placed there. Cargo boxes in the front and underneath the passenger doors provide additional storage for such things as survival gear, entrenchment gear, ammunition, etc. and have an armored face to prevent entrance of ricocheting rounds or shrapnel. The box is heavy duty and carries numerous cargo tie-down points along with holes to allow for racks to be placed for additional cargo capacity. Additional cargo boxes reside underneath the rear portion of the box. The bottom of the box lifts up to reveal another storage point, however, much of this is taken up by a spare tire and jacks. Cargo racks along the box's edge allow for additional cargo oppurtunities.

The LV-08 can be modified so its box removed and replaced with an 'extended cargo capacity box' which makes it an efficient cargo carrier. Variants of this include roofed models and models for duties such as armored ammunition handlers, medevac, ambulances, etc.




Armor

Mines are not the only threat vehicles face, but one of the major killers, as most vehicles are escorted by other combat vehicles to dispose of major surface threats. However, the LV-08 was also designed for an urban setting and contains an incredible amount of armor and defense features for a vehicle of this type, including its heavily faceted apperance [which aides in ballistic protection]. Initial armor is provided by a layer of galvanized, treated aluminum which encompasses the entire vehicle. Behind this is a layer of kevlar-infused ceramics in a polymer-alumina matrix followed by a dense boronated plastics bond. This is then followed by an thick treated steel shell. This is for the entire vehicle. Each door and crew-compartment area is supplemented by an added ceramics/steel package which provides defense from standard 12.7mm ammunition [not armor-piercing]. However, this is not the end, further packs can be added to supplement the armor abilities.




Additional Survivability Systems/Other

The vehicle is also remarkable in the fact that the engine and transmission can be swiftly removed by removing four lead bolts, lifting the hood and pulling it out with a hoist. A new engine can be dropped in, the transmission connected, and the bolts fastened, making for incredible return-to-duty times. Also, the LV-08 operates a front-mounted winch and a rear mounted winch. Four lift rings on all four corners allow the ability to be underslung by helicopters. Tow hooks in the front and rear allow towing. A universal hitch at the rear carries a standard ball hitch and slat hitch. A friend or foe identifier resides on all four sides of the vehicle and is visible using infrared or night vision systems.

All suspension is MacPherson struts aided by both spring and nitrogen shock absorbers in order to make the ride smooth and continuous. All wheels are run-flat with the ability to vary pressure [centrally operated air compressor can continuously refill flat tires]. The vehicle can drive on its rims if necessary [all tires blown out, etc.]. All brakes are hydraulic disc. Also included in this package is the computerized stability control [which maintains stability using the adjustable height system] and power regenerating systems [regenerative brakes]. All wheel hubs are covered with an armored wheel hub to prevent gunfire from seperating the wheel from the axle. A protective fuel tank [fitted with flow control and pressure systems] is nestled in an armored box to prevent any sort of mass burn, with the pressure of any such event actually jettisoning the fuel tank by itself. The Advanced Degenerative Lubrication System prevents piston scoring if damage is done to any component of the oil system, causing oil drainage. The ADLS system allows the engine to run some 40 minutes without oil. The engine is air and water cooled engine using a radiator system and a series of heat dissipators. Water can be poured into an intake and used as a coolant. The vehicle is made more manuevarable and safer with the addition of four-wheel steering.




Armament

The LV-08, in order to effectively operate to defend its crew and any nearby infantry, carries its own armament as standard. The standard armament is the Mak-INV KMI-9A [i]Aries automated turret outfitted with a 12.7mm machine gun and 40mm grenade launcher. The Aries turret carries its own 'Combined Threat Detection Suite' which is composed of three integral detection systems: infrared/thermal, electro-optical, and low-light/night-vision. The suite is added to an elementary fire control computer which, in conjunction with a built-in laser rangefinder can designate and store several targets to fire upon, it can also keep the turret level on a target even across rough terrain [much like a tank]. The system feeds into a commander operated console located in the rear passenger compartment of the vehicle where the vehicle's 'commander' or any other infantry authorized to operate the system, can remotely operate the turret to engage targets. The turret itself is mounted above the rear portion of the vehicle, slightly to the left and is fed through an armored ammunition link leading into an internally held reloadable ammunition storage box. The turret itself is armored to prevent damage from shrapnel or ricocheting rounds. It also operates four 81mm smoke grenade launchers [which can also launch mortars].

However, the system adds weight so it is capable of being removed. However, this does not leave the vehicle defenseless, two hatches located atop the vehicle [one in the rear behind the driver, the other to the left and located midway, are capable of carrying machine guns up to 12.7mm on pintle mounts. The door hinges [when the doors are removed] can carry extended pintle mounts to carry additional 12.7mm machine guns at all three available door stations [sides, rear].


Powerplant

In order to propel this beast of a machine to incredible speeds, the vehicle maintains a heavy duty powerplant, the Mak-INV INViro E9 Inline Six cylinder twin turbocharged, fuel injected diesel engine displacing nine liters. The engine is liquid cooled and outfitted with block heater, glow plugs [to warm the combustion chamber] and fuel line warming systems to ensure all-weather capabilities [the battery can also operate the system if no other electricity source is near]. The low-horsepower engine develops three hundred and fifty horsepower but a staggering seven hundred foot-pounds of pure torque, which really propels this and allows it to lug a load others would have to buy logistical trucks for. It is tied to a standard six forward speed, one reverse speed manual transmission [or a four speed automatic] which ties to a four wheel drive transfer case [it can operate in two wheel drive in both high or low, four wheel drive in both high or low]. The rear end ratio is 4.10:1 which gives it incredible pulling power. With its low gear ratios and intense power, you'd think it'd be slow, or at least slow to accelerate. That's not the case, the initial turbocharger kicks in at about 1800 rpm, the second a few hundred rpm later, providing a kick in acceleration giving this heavy vehicle road-speeds that match its civilian cousins. The package is also remarkable in the fact that the engine and transmission can be swiftly removed by removing four lead bolts, lifting the hood and pulling it out with a hoise. A new engine can be dropped in, the transmission connected, and the bolts fastened, making for incredible return-to-duty times. The engine is mated to an electrical generator/motor to provide power to an auxiliary electric motor front-wheel drive assist [the vehicle can drive silently for several miles using this]. However, it primarily serves to recharge VEPR system batteries [there are two cradles to recharge batteries on each LV-08].





General Specifications
Length- 15.00 ft.
Width- 7.08 ft.
Weight- 7,100.00 lbs. [Base]
Height- 6.20 ft. [Full Height]; 5.00 ft. [Lowest Height]
Crew- 4 [Driver, Commander/Gunner, 2 Passengers][LV-08 AP/LT]; 9 [Driver, Commander/Gunner, 7 passengers][LV-08 Personnel Carrier variants with extended crew compartment; does not include up to six externally seated soldiers].

Powerplant- 9L Displacement Mak-INV INViro E9 I6 Twin Turbocharged Diesel mated with an electrical generator/motor
Horsepower- 350 at 3,600 RPM
Transmission- 6 speed, manual SB-MTHPT-T3
Brakes- Hydraulic, 4-wheeled disc with mechanical back-up
Fuel type- Diesel, DF-2, JP-4, JP-8, VV-F-800
Fuel capacity- 33 US Gallons [Internal Twin Tanks in blow-out boxes]; 15 US Gallons [In additional external tank]
Range- 450 miles
Maximum Speed- 75 mph. [Governor regulates it at 60 mph.]

Fording depth- 2.50 ft. [Unprepared]; 5.00 ft. [Snorkel]
Maximum Grade- 67%
Side Slope- 35 deg.

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries Air-to-Air Missile Series
AAM Series Air to Air Missiles

AAM.176 BVRAAM
Description: The AAM.176 is a beyond visual range air to air missile, providing any airforce with an extremely long range air to air missile for modern warfare. The AAM.176 is a turn from the MTAAM series of missiles which saw three variants designed over the year, although technically, the idea stays much the same. The necessity for the missile is to allow pilots to target multiple enemy bogies at the same time, without keeping track of all the missiles, consequently the title of beyond visual range. Furthermore, it also implies an extended range, which for this particular missile is quite high.
Total Length: 4.572 Meters
Total Width: .1778 Meters
Fin Span: .308 Meters
Weight: 181 Kilograms
Velocity: Mach 3.7
Warhead: 70kg; hit-to-kill & blast fragmentation [HE]
Power Plant: Initial rocket fuel booster [adding .87 meters to the missile] & hydrogen injected ramjet.
Maximum Effective Range: 275 kilometers
Guidance Mode: Inertial, Millimeter Band RADAR, LIDAR & IR
Unit Cost: $576,000
Production Rights Cost: $2.7 Billion

AAM.37 AMRAAM
Description: Although the AMRAAM has always been regardes as the next step to the AIM-7 Sparrow project, a short range air to air missile, it is faster, smaller and lighter, than the AIM-7 and AIM-9, allowing for a greater range, although that still doesn't match the range of the AAM.176. The AAM.37 AMRAAM was designed for two main reasons. The first, to provide a missile lighter than the AAM.176 for missions that would require more air to air missiles, thus taking up less total compartment space, and adding less slack to the missile racks of the hardpoints. The second, to provide an alternate, and lower cost, missile to potential buyers. Although most likely the BVRAAM is the one to see the most warfare in the years to come, the AMRAAM will still be held as a valuable second option.
Total Length: 3.6 Meters
Total Width: 0.17 Meters
Fin Span: .0.31 Meters
Weight: 161.4 Kilograms
Velocity: Mach 3.4
Warhead: 70kg; hit-to-kill & blast fragmentation [HE]
Power Plant: Solid Propellant Rocket
Maximum Effective Range: 130 kilometers
Guidance Mode: Inertial, Millimeter Band RADAR, LIDAR & IR
Unit Cost: $386,000
Production Rights Cost: $2.3 Billion

AAM.21 SRAAM
Description: The AAM.21 is to be used as a a last resort within the Luftwaffe, but is still an export option for those smaller nations that cannot afford mass produced AAM.176s and AAM.37s. Nonetheless, they are typically less accurate, slower, weigh more, are larger, and are in general more ineffective when it comes to everything. Nonetheless, they are cheaper, which makes a big difference to a poorer nation.
Total Length: 3.1 Meters
Total Width: 0.13 Meters
Fin Span: .0.27 Meters
Weight: 127.4 Kilograms
Velocity: Mach 2.4
Warhead: 50kg; blast fragmentation [HE]
Power Plant: Solid Propellant Rocket
Maximum Effective Range: 30 kilometers
Guidance Mode: Inertial & IR
Unit Cost: $273,000
Production Rights Cost: $1.4 Billion

Consolidated Arms Inc. H-75 Knighthawk and VariantsUH-75 "Knighthawk" utility/assault helicopter

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[Abstract]

For more than thirty years, the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopter had been world-renowned for its extraordinary capabilities on the battlefield. Capable of carrying cargo, soldiers, even Presidents, it had been one of the mainstays of the U.S. military. Its winning combination of reliability, quality, and affordability had similarly made it the primary utility helicopter of the early Halberdgardian armed forces. However, as time passed and the nation's military was updated, it became increasingly clear that the UH-60, despite modernization programs aimed at keeping it viable on the battlefield, was lagging behind newer designs in use by other nations. Through sheer inertia, it had managed to remain in its place, but its stay of execution was finally waived when the Halberdgardian Air Force approached the aerospace engineers at the newly-expanded Consolidated Arms, Inc. and requested a design to replace the UH-60s still in service. Consolidated Arms gladly obliged, and the result was the UH-75 "Knighthawk," hoped to be seen as the worthy successor to the venerable UH-60.

[Airframe]

The engineers at Consolidated Arms knew that any UH-60 replacement, like its predecessor, would almost certainly be spun off into multiple variants with highly-disparate mission profiles, and so they were required to make most of the aircraft's components modular enough to cut down on logistics. The airframe is no exception. Anticipating the need for highly-durable armor in a variety of combat roles, the designers decided to use amorphous steel as the primary material in construction, giving the UH-75 a thirty-millimeter layer of amorphous steel.

Amorphous steel has molecular bonds that resemble those of a liquid more than a metal, and a hardness and strength more than double the best ultra-high-strength conventional steels. Whereas normal steel's molecular structure is crystalline, containing orderly rows and formations of atoms, amorphous substances have a highly-disordered arrangement of atoms. Because amorphous materials possess a non-crystalline structure in which the atoms arrange randomly, no crystallographic defects form, which is why they are so much stronger than their conventional counterparts. Compared with crystalline counterparts, amorphous materials usually show superior mechanical and temperature properties and corrosion resistance.

However, amorphous materials are more expensive to produce than their crystalline counterparts. But the engineers at Consolidated Arms had on hand -- appropriately enough -- old U.S. research on amorphous steel, which revealed the secret to the cheap production of amorphous steel: adding a small quantity of yttrium, which helps frustrate the onset of crystallization even as the liquid steel approaches its solidification temperature -- about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). The steel could then be shaped with conventional melting and casting techniques, and could even be processed like plastic.

Yet there was another problem: amorphous steels, though strong, were brittle. The engineers at Consolidated Arms spent many trying weeks attempting to discover the solution, and finally discovered, after much experimentation, that allowing the amorphous steel to partially crystallize would solve the problem. The partial (though overall insubstantial) amount of crystallization in the steel allowed it to retain virtually the same strength of pure amorphous steel while eliminating brittleness.

[Propulsion]

During its time in service, the UH-60 was the world's most advanced twin-turbine military helicopter. It was powered by twin General Electric T700-GE-701C turboshaft engines, rated at 1,890 shp each, and was cleared for up to 22,000 lbs. gross weight internal load, and could carry up to 9,000 lbs. external load. While the Consolidated Arms engineers were normally loathe to tamper with arrangements that worked -- and worked well, in this particular case -- they realized that the next-generation successor to the UH-60 would not be able to get away with simply being on par with the Black Hawk. Therefore, the UH-75's designers went back to the drawing board and decided to perform a total update on the UH-60's engines.

The designers considered several types of propulsion methods, but eventually decided on an alternative to the conventional main-and-tail-rotor system. To increase the UH-75's aerodynamic qualities -- and decrease turbulence, noise, and vibration -- the tail rotor was replaced with a Fenestron ducted fan. The fan blades are constructed of titanium and fiberglass, and parts of the shroud are constructed of titanium, in order to offset the added weight of the Fenestron arrangement. Both rotors are powered a pair of by the newly-designed Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts, each rated at 3,500 shp, a net improvement of nearly 4,000 shp over the GE powerplants of the UH-60.

[Avionics]

The UH-75's avionics are a substantial improvement upon those of the Black Hawk's, as befitting the Knighthawk's role as the UH-60's next-generation successor. Navigational equipment includes GPS, Inertial Navigation System (INS), terrain-avoidance/terrain-following multi-mode RADAR, Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR), and a digital terrain map generator. This equipment is supplemented by such survivability systems as the Hover Infrared Suppression System (HIRSS), the HAPR-39A(V)1 RADAR-warning receiver, HALQ-144A IR jammer, RADAR- and missile-warning systems, and an HM-130 chaff dispenser. A Holographic Heads-Up Display (HHUD) and Advanced Voice Command System (AVCS) afford the pilots unparalleled capabilities when receiving, integrating, and utilizing in-flight information to their best advantage.

[Armament]

The UH-60 was not designed with the thought of frequently seeing front-line combat in mind, and as such, it was armed only with a pair of door-mounted 7.62mm miniguns, one on either side of the aircraft. While many deemed this adequate -- the UH-60 was never intended to be a front-line attack helicopter, after all -- the engineers at Consolidated Arms realized that the possibility of the UH-75 coming under heavier fire than its predecessor ever had was a very real threat. As such, the designers decided, in addition to using a stronger armor, that they would also improve upon the UH-60's armament for the UH-75. In the process, they ended up making their very own Gatling gun.

The engineers at Consolidated Arms desired a cannon that would be of sufficient caliber for anti-personnel and some anti-armor combat. They realized that the 7.62mm round would no longer suffice, and desired to upgrade from 7.62mm to 15.5mm, which they deemed sufficient for the UH-75's needs. However, much to their surprise, they discovered that they was no readily available pre-existing 15.5mm cannon they could mount on the Knighthawk. Forced to go to the drawing board, they eventually returned with the CAM-20 15.5mm double-barreled Gatling gun.

Based off the ASP-30 30mm machine gun, mounted on older U.S. APCs and IFVs, the CAM-20 is a new take on the Gatling gun concept. While older prototype 15.5mm cannons suffered from prohibitive weight penalties, weighing nearly as much as a 20mm Gatling gun, the engineers at Consolidated Arms managed to cut the CAM-20's weight down to approximately 77 lbs. (35 kg.) using more modern building materials and processes. The primary advantage of the double-barreled design is that, while the CAM-20 is of a smaller caliber than most other mounted vehicle weapons, it rivals the punch of a 20mm cannon, while allowing for more ammunition to be carried. The stopping power of the gun is increased upon further by the unusual design; a single CAM-20 gun is actually two six-barreled 15.5mm Gatling guns mounted side-by-side on a single mounting unit, allowing for a greater volume of fire and increased punch.

The CAM-20 is capable of firing high-explosive, kinetic-kill, and phosphorus tracer rounds. The UH-75 mounts three CAM-20s: one mounted in the fuselage below the cockpit, and two door-mounted guns, one on each side of the aircraft.

[AH-75 "Stormhawk"]

The attack variant of the UH-75, the Stormhawk trades space for carrying troops for the capability to pack more firepower and armor. The AH-75 boasts fifty millimeters of amorphous steel to ensure increased survivability in more dangerous scenarios than the UH-75 would encounter.

The armament of the AH-75 is also changed from the UH-75. Although the AH-75 loses the two door-mounted CAM-20 15.5mm Gatling guns of the UH-75, it makes up for this with increased ammunition for the remaining forward-mounted CAM-20 and the capability to strike more heavily-armored targets. Two stub wings, one affixed to each side, are each capable of mounting 40 2.75-inch folding fin aerial rockets, in addition to 16 laser-guided air-to-air or air-to-ground missiles equivalent in size to the Hellfire, allowing the AH-75 to act in an anti-armor role.

[MH-75 "Swifthawk"]

The MH-75 is essentially a hybrid between a modernized version of the MH-60 "Pave Hawk" and the MH-53 "Pave Low" helicopters; as such, it is primarily intended for long-range, stealthy infiltration/extraction operations. Capable of carrying 12 fully-laden Special Forces soldiers and any additional equipment they may require, the Swifthawk improves upon its predecessor in the areas of armament, speed, range, and stealth.

The MH-75 retains the armament of the UH-75, but has additional measures to make them stealthier. The forward-mounted CAM-20 can be completely covered by a sliding hatch to reduce RADAR signature, and the two door-mounted CAM-20s can be fully retracted into the vehicle's interior, though this can make a tight fit for the occupants inside. Judicious use of Brewster's Angle and RADAR-absorbant material (RAM) in the airframe construction further reduces the MH-75's already-miniscule RADAR return. In addition to these features -- in a nod to the F-150 "Ebonhawk" fighter-bomber and Tyrandisian innovation -- the Swifthawk's canopy is manufactured of an advanced polycarbonate, backed by a rubber insulation layer and a thin strip of an indium-tin alloy. Traditionally, the cockpit has been the most problematic area for advanced stealth designers; because RADAR waves passes through the canopy as if it were transparent, an especially strong signal will bounce back to its receiver because any aircraft interior contains angles and shape that generate a substantial return. The InSn coating allows over 98.5 percent of visible light to pass through to the pilot, but will appear on RADAR as a semi-metallic surface, thus further reducing the Swifthawk's already small RADAR cross-section.

In order to reduce the risk of acoustic detection, an eight-bladed Fenestron ducted fan inside a deep duct is utilized in lieu of a conventional tail rotor, as well as advanced new quieting technology. The Fenestron fan features low blade loading and low tip speeds, and the little noise it produces is narrowly focused out to the sides of the tail by the deep duct. Swifthawk engineers also located the fan and gearbox mounting structures off the rotational axis of the fan and on the exhaust side of the duct. This arrangement dampens the sound propagated by the fan, rather than amplifying it like the early versions of the Fenestron system. The duct greatly increases the efficiency and power of the fan, giving the Swifthawk tremendous performance in sideward flight. The Swifthawk also uses five, tapered, swept-tip main rotor blades in a bearingless hub. The five blades provide enough blade area to maintain low loading while allowing reduced blade chord and thickness for lower noise in high-speed flight. The Swifthawk also includes an advanced low-noise technology dubbed "quiet mode"; when the pilot selects "quiet mode" on the automatic flight control system (AFCS), the Swifthawk's computers slow the main rotor RPM while increasing pitch angle to maintain lift.Although the actual sound levels are secret, the lower tip speeds of the main rotor and the Fenestron fan result in significantly quieter operations.

[SH-75 "Wavehawk"]

The navalized variant of the UH-75, the SH-75's primary roles include combat search and rescue (CSAR), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and anti-surface warfare (ASUW).

The Wavehawk features co-axial rotors instead of the main-rotor-and-Fenestron-fan system of the UH-75. The co-axial system is another alternative to the conventional tail rotor system; because the two rotors rotate in opposite direction on the same vertical axis, the opposing torque normally provided by the tail rotor is instead produced by the counteracting forces of the two main rotors, eliminating the need for a tail rotor. An additional benefit of the co-axial configuration is a high resistance to side winds, making it a perfect choice for the navalized version of the UH-75, where side winds are more common and can adversely affect helicopter operations.

The SH-75 features a slight increase of armor -- thirty-five millimeters of amorphous steel, up from thirty millimeters on the UH-75 -- and different weaponry than the UH-75. The Wavehawk retains all three CAM-20s, and can additionally mount two stub wings, each capable of holding external fuel tanks or Hellfire, Penguin, or Mk-46 torpedo equivalents.

[VH-75 "Marine One"]

Like its namesake, the VH-75 serves as a Presidential transportation alternative to limousines or Air Force One. Essentially an unarmed UH-75, it features a luxurious interior capable of seating eight. A sophisticated countermeasures suite ensures the occupants' safety against a wide variety of threats.

[Export]

All nations ordering the MH-75 "Swifthawk" variant, as well as requests for production rights for any and all variants, will be subject to background checks. Consolidated Arms reserves the right to refuse any order for any reason.

UH-75 "Knighthawk" Specifications

Classification: Utility/assault helicopter
Length: 70 ft. with rotors
Width: 9 ft.
Height: 13.5 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts (7,000 shp total)
Range: 450 mi. without in-air refueling, 1,250 miles with auxiliary tanks; limited only by crew endurance with in-air refueling
Maximum Speed: 215 mph
Maximum Altitude: 23,000 ft.
Empty Weight: 14,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 30,000 lbs.
Maximum Payload: 3,500 lbs., or 15 combat-equipped troops (internal); 10,000 lbs. (external)
Armament: 3 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAM-20 15.5mm double-barreled Gatling guns
Crew: Four (two pilots, two crew chiefs)
Price: $20 million
Production Rights: $2.5 billion

AH-75 "Stormhawk" Specifications

Classification: Anti-personnel/anti-tank attack helicopter
Length: 60 ft. with rotors
Width: 9 ft.
Height: 13.5 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts (7,000 shp total)
Range: 450 mi. without in-air refueling, 900 miles with auxiliary tanks; limited only by crew endurance with in-air refueling
Maximum Speed: 250 mph
Maximum Altitude: 26,000 ft.
Empty Weight: 13,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 25,000 lbs.
Armament: 1 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAM-20 15.5mm double-barreled Gatling gun; 2 x 40 2.75-inch folding fin aerial rockets, 2 x 16 Hellfire equivalents
Crew: Two (one pilot, one co-pilot/gunner)
Price: $30 million
Production Rights: $3 billion

MH-75 "Swifthawk" Specifications

Classification: Long-range infiltration/exfiltration transport helicopter
Length: 95 ft. with rotors
Width: 20 ft.
Height: 30 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts (7,000 shp total)
Range: 800 mi. without in-air refueling; limited only by crew endurance with in-air refueling
Maximum Speed: 215 mph
Maximum Altitude: 23,000 ft.
Empty Weight: 22,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 50,000 lbs.
Maximum Payload: 10,000 lbs., or 40 combat-equipped troops
Armament: 3 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAM-20 15.5mm double-barreled Gatling guns
Crew: Six (two pilots, two flight engineers, two aerial gunners)
Price: $25 million
Production Rights: $5 billion

SH-75 "Wavehawk" Specifications

Classification: Carrier-based utility/assault helicopter
Length: 70 ft. with rotors
Width: 20 ft.
Height: 13.5 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts (7,000 shp total)
Range: 450 mi. without in-air refueling, 1,250 miles with auxiliary tanks; limited only by crew endurance with in-air refueling
Maximum Speed: 200 mph
Maximum Altitude: 23,000 ft.
Empty Weight: 15,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 25,000 lbs.
Armament: 3 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAM-20 15.5mm double-barreled Gatling guns; 2 x 4 Hellfire missile, Penguin anti-shipping missile, or Mk-46 torpedo equivalents
Crew: Four (one pilot, one co-pilot, two door gunners) for combat operations; four (one pilot, one copilot, one tactical sensor operator, and one acoustic sensor operator) for submarine detection duties
Price: $25 million
Production Rights: $3 billion

VH-75 "Marine One" Specifications

Classification: VIP transport helicopter
Length: 70 ft. with rotors
Width: 9 ft.
Height: 13.5 ft.
Propulsion: 2 x Consolidated Arms, Inc. CAH-100 free-turbine turboshafts (7,000 shp total)
Range: 450 mi. without in-air refueling, 1,250 miles with auxiliary tanks; limited only by crew endurance with in-air refueling
Maximum Speed: 215 mph
Maximum Altitude: 23,000 ft.
Empty Weight: 14,000 lbs.
Maximum Weight: 30,000 lbs.
Maximum Payload: 1,500 lbs., or 8 passengers
Crew: Two (one pilot, one co-pilot)
Price: $20 million
Production Rights: $2 billion

Portland Iron Works Pavanne-class Trimaran BattleshipBackground With the Incorporated Sarzonian Army's recent decision to convert to a mostly Trimaran hulled navy, the nation's inventory of capital ships was evaluated and the ISN discovered that many of its medium-sized battleships (carrying 18-22 inch guns) were monohulls. With the need to promote greater survivability within the fleet and a need for newer and more modern battleships below the dreadnought level, the Portland Iron Works was commissioned to construct a new class of battleship to serve as a standard bearer for its fleets, capable of a faster rate of fire than the larger dreadnought vessels and for line duties and coastal bombardments. Thus, the Pavanne class battleship was developed.

The Pavanne was named after a Sarzonian colony, but its lineage begins with the powerful and successful Sarzonian export, the Resolute class guided missile battleship. It follows the successor to that popular design, the Trinity class, and also replaces the old Capital and Estado classes in ISN service. It provides a powerful surface combatant that bridges the gap between the battle cruisers of many navies and Sarzonia's own massive capital assets with its 12 508 mm naval guns.

Armament The first decision for PIW was to decide between an armament consisting of nine 22 inch guns in three triple turrets or twelve 20 inch guns in four triples. With 25 inch guns providing the main capital ship calibre for command dreadnoughts and their related vesssels, the 22 inch gun was dismissed as being too close in calibre to their larger cousins. Guns of smaller calibres than the 20 inch guns would also be streamlined into the 14 inch gun made popular on the General Dent large cruisers and the Perseus class river monitors, among others, along with eight inch naval guns on heavy cruisers and the new Dahlgren class monitors. Thus, with a configuration sporting 12 Mark IV ETC guns in four triple turrets, the Pavanne-class can bring devastating fire capable of damaging nearly any surface target. Secondary weapons include new 110 mm Mark IV ETC guns for a dual purpose (anti-surface and anti-air) role, while 384 Mark 142 VLS tubes, capable of firing the new Dragonfly long-range SAM along with Scourge and Scorcher SSMs. To defend against missile attacks, eight RAM launchers, 12 Rattlesnake CIWS suites featuring the highly-successful Yellow Jacket mini-SAM and the 35 mm Millennium Gun, and four 650 mm torpedo tubes for the Bayonet heavy torpedo.

Pavanne-class Trimaran battleship
Length: 342 m; Beam: 61 m; Draught: 14.8 m
Displacement: 248,970 tonnes fully laden
Armament: 4 x 3 508 mm Mark IV ETC guns (A, B, X, Y positions); 10 x 110 mm Mark IV DP ETC guns; 8 x 48 cell Mark 142 VLS; 8 x RAM launchers; 12 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS suites; 4 x 650 mm TT; 4 x 35 mm supercavitating guns
Protection: 560 mm-780 mm advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, aluminum, amorphous steel, ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces along a honeycomb frame. Composite rods and KE-reducing ceramic plates installed.
Propulsion: Four Pebblebed nuclear reactors; two internalised waterjets. 35+ knots.
Aircraft: Space for up to four F-34 Leopard V/STOL fighters and three H-15 Dragon ASW helicopters.
Complement: 2,400 plus 500 Naval Infantry and 150 air crew.
Electronics: Sensors: AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; AN/SPS-64(V)10 navigational radar; AN/SQS-56 (K) hull mounted sonar; Electronics Warfare Suite: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS); Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS; Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; Gun fire control: MK-88 GFCS (System calculates ballistic gun orders, The GFCS conducts direct firing attacks against surface radar and optically tracked targets); Torpedo Fire Control: MK-117 ACWSCS (Anti-Submarine Weapon Control System, Underwater Fire Control System); Countermeasures: Towed array sonar utilizing a hull transducer or a towed active transducer or both. It is an integrated ASW, Mine Avoidance and Torpedo Defense underwater system.
Price: $6.5 billion
Running Cost: $210 million

Clan Smoke Jaguar Military Industries Cetus-class Flight IB guided-missile battleship

Cetus Class BBG Flight IB
Displacement: 118,780 tons
Length: 325m
Beam: 42.5m
Draft: 12.6m
Speed: 24 knots
Range: 5000 nm @ 24 knots, 20,000 nm @ 16 knots
Armament: 3x3 18”/54 cal Mk.2, 2x6.1” AGS, 4xTwin 5”/62 cal, 352 cells VLS, 32xShinma (8 quad launchers), 48xCrossbolt (angled VLS), 72xFirebolt (48 angled VLS, 12 twin launchers), 2xAMFEL II, 8x21 round box launcher (RIM-242 PDM), 8xDragon CIWS, 8x25mm Bushmaster, 20x12.7mm
Ammunition: 1080x18”, 1500x6.1”, 5400x5”
Aircraft: 8xMH-60R Strikehawk, 6xUAV
Countermeasures: 2xMk.36 Mod 3 SRBOC (6-round, radar & IR), SLQ-25C Nixie (acoustic)
Radars: AN/SPS-82(V)5 long-range 3D air search, AN/SPY-4A multifunction (5 arrays), AN/SPS-55C(V)4 Surface Search, AN/SPS-72 Navigation, 5xAN/SPG-77B(V)3 Fire Control, 3xAN/SPQ-19 Fire Control (gun), 6xAN/SPQ-9B(V)4 Fire Control (gun)
Sonars: AN/SQS-58D hull-mounted, AN/SQR-22(V)4 towed array
Integrated Systems: CIRRUS Mk.1A Air Defense System, AN/SQQ-94(V)2 ASW Combat, AN/SLQ-212 EW Suite
Radar Range: 600 km (SPS-82), 85 km (SPS-55), 125 km (SPS-72), 120 km (SPQ-19), 45 km (SPQ-9)
Armor: 14-22.5” belt, 14” deck, 25” turret face, 15.5” turret side, 23.5” conning tower
Crew: 2013
A very large, powerful ship originally intended for the command role. Boasting large batteries of VLS and 16” or 18” guns, this ship is perfectly capable of holding its own against any vessel in its weight class, and provides a phenomenal bombardment platform for supporting amphibious operations.
Cost: $9.7 billion

Freethinker Defense Industries Leviathian-class battleship (Southeast Asian designation of Leviathian-class Light Dreadnaught)
Leviathian class Battleship

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Design:

The Leviathan is a large, powerful trimiran Battleship built in the new sleek Freethinker style. The ships is an extensive refit/rebuild of the older Leviathan class manufactured by Freethinker Defence Industries and has been developed as both a technology demonstrator for the next generation of Super-Dreadnoughts and as a powerful surface combatant in her own right, able to command battle groups and provide escorts for the larger Dreadnoughts in the Freethinker Navy.

The Leviathan is 548 metres long, 130 metres wide and has a draft of 19.5 metres. The vessel displaces 620,000 tons fully loaded and has a range limited only by crew endurance. Six months of supplies and equipment can be carried without replenishment.

Like the Doujin, the Leviathan carries an armour belt comprising multiple layers of reinforced Titanium VA and Ballistic Ceramic, bracketing a layer of condensed horizontal Titanium Carbide rods that can effectively break up most projectiles inside the armour belt. Multiple layers of insulation, coolant gel and heat treated lining provide limited protection against high-yield and high temperature explosives such as plasma based warheads. There are also multiple sensor pads within the belt for effective damage control. Several ‘cover’ layers with limited RCS reducing properties are carried primarily for ease of maintenance. Hull life, in maintained form, is estimated at 150 years.

As with the Doujin as well, in order to support the heavy frame a honeycomb network of supporting beam and lattices is installed throughout the ship, along with a displaced keel set high in the central hull for added structural integrity and protection against torpedoes. The framework is made from Titanium VA, and is more flexible and damage resistant than the pure Titanium frame on the Doujin. The system also allows for the more effective dissipation of force across the ship from missiles impacts and from the huge recoil of the main artillery pieces. The addition of shock dampeners within the framework significantly improve this ability, and the use of these new techniques and materials means that the Leviathan’s frame is stronger than that of the larger Doujin Class.

The ships are outfitted for a crew of 3,100, with a minimum optimal crew of 2,500. There are berths for an additional 1,200 overflow personnel and accommodation and equipment storage for up to 240 embarked Marines or Soldiers.

Aviation:
The Leviathan has two large 1800 metre square flightdecks on either secondary hull, each with two landing spots equipped with a CAE ‘Beartrap’ Recovery system for use in bad weather. The flightdecks are large enough to launch and recover most Naval UAV and UCAV drones in service.

The Leviathan has a two deck hangar located in the superstructure, armoured doors allow access to the flightdecks on either flank of the first hangar deck, and two internal elevators connect the upper and lower internal hangars. Full maintenance, repair and rearming facilities are provided. A total of 16 Helicopters and VTOL craft can be shoehorned into the hangar, although 12 or so craft is considered the optimal use of resources.

Guns:
The Leviathan’s most formidable weapons are its fifteen Ballistics International Mk.10E 550mm/64 ETC Rifled Naval Cannons with in-built EM rifling. These are in five triple mounts, three forward and two aft of the superstructure in super-firing pairs. The new mounting for these guns is the newly designed Leviathan/Thunder Child Standardised Turret, a new triple mount for both classes that is intended to reduce logistics and repair costs by standardising the main armament on two reasonably closely-designed Super Dreadnoughts.

Each gun has a elevation range of -2 to 45 degrees to the horizon, and each turret has a full field of fire disrupted only by the superstructure. Each individual gun can be individually aimed and fired in a new stabilised mount, firing a 3000kg round out to distances of 200km without assistance and up to 500km using ERGMs. A total firing rate of 3RPM can be maintained at optimal performance, and the new B/I Heavy Reloading Aperture is one of the most reliable autoloaders in existence for this kind of heavy artillery. A total of 1,200 rounds are carried for each turret.

The ship carries eight Ballistics International Mk.5 Dual 155mm/64 ETC Naval Gun systems, two mounted fore and aft on either secondary hull. These guns can fire a 35kg shell to 45km without assistance and up to 80km with specialist ER shells. The guns have a combined 90 RPM firing rate. The principle targets for these guns are aerial and light surface threats, though they can also be used for NGS. A total of 400 rounds are carried for each dual turret.

The Leviathan also carries thirteen Falltech/Ballistics International Mk.3 JOCIWS systems, carried across the ship on all three hulls. These units support both four independently fed 40mm cannons for a maximum firing rate of 3,600 RPM out to a distance of 5km. Up to 18 Short-Range SAM weapons can mounted in the two 3x3 boxes mounted on the unit.

The Leviathan carries eight Ballistics International Automated Dual 25mm GP Cannons, four on either side of the superstructure, and four Ballistics International 25mm GP Cannons mounted on the rear decks. Both sets of guns can fire up to 6km at up to 400 RPM, and can be either manually or automatically aimed.

Laser-Based Weapons:

The ship has two new laser weapons from Falltech. The 3.2 MW Carbon Dioxide ‘Crystal’ Laser is mounted in the rear superstructure, topped by a standard ‘Ball’ type mirror assembly to allow easy omni-directional targeting whilst the laser itself remains secure within the ship itself. This arrangement allows for both ease of maintenance, protection for the laser and for faster tracking and engagement. The laser has a range of 100km in ideal conditions and has successfully engaged ASCMs, ballistic missiles and even a ‘Rod from God’ titanium penetrator, although the effect was negligible on the target itself.

Four smaller 500 KW Carbon Dioxide ‘Deadeye’ Laser CIWS is mounted on the extreme points atop the superstructure, and with a lowered laser aimed using a ‘Ball’ mirror assembly, it is a reasonably reliable, fast tracking and engagement CIWS system that has, in trials even engaged targets as small as a 6-inch shell.

Missiles:
The main missile launching system is the Falltech Mk.72 Multirole VLS in both its tactical and strategic length.

One 144-Cell (12x12) Dual Strategic-length VLS are mounted forward of the bridge. These are generally equipped with a mixture of Cruise missiles and Anti-Shipping missiles, depending on the mission profile. A large number of tactical weapons can also be multi-packed into the tubes. These tubes are actually dual length, with a second tube fitted beneath the primary VLS units. Using a dissolvable plastic shield between the two tubes, it is possible to stack considerably more missiles into the same deck area

Four 48-Cell (12x4) Dual Tactical-length are also installed, set into the superstructure flanks above either secondary hull. These are generally used to house Surface to Air missiles and Anti-Submarine weapons. Like the Strategic system, these launchers are dual length for increased loadout, and provide the main ranged AAW and ASW weapons on the Leviathan. A total of 288 Strategic and 384 Tactical Weapons can be carried.

Four Eight-Cell launchers for the new Falltech ‘Spirit’ Heavy ASM are carried forward between A and B turret. These large ASMs have a warhead of 1,200 kgs and, with a semi-ballistic flight profile, a range of roughly 600 kilometres. No reloads are carried; the tubes are individually replaced whilst in port. A total of 32 missiles are carried by the ship.

Underwater Weaponry:
The Leviathan carries the brand new Torpedo Intercept System (TIS), a new Eight-Tube underwater launcher for lightweight torpedoes that can be used against localised underwater threats such as torpedoes, mines, divers and close-by submarines. Four launchers are carried with a total of 32 light torpedoes. This system is, however, independent of the main Torpedo Tubes carried above water.

The other major defence system is the eight new Ballistics International 50mm Under-Water Super-Cavitating Railgun. These new weapons, sited in four pairs along the central hull fire solid steel slugs at incoming torpedoes and mines up to a range of fifty-sixty metres. They do not provide complete coverage but can prevent with a high chance of success torpedo strikes against the vital central hull.

On the Leviathan, both heavyweight and lightweight are carried and are launched through two pairs of 533mm Torpedo Catapults mounted in between the hulls to provide a sheltered launch. Up to 60 heavyweight torpedoes and 120 lightweight weapons (including depth charges and mines) can be carried.

Countermeasures:
The ship carries ten Mk.5 Decoy Launchers from Falltech. These units can fire a mixture of flares and chaff decoys, both mobile and floating, in order to confess and redirect multiple threats. Launchers for the modern SRBOC decoy system are also carried. For use against torpedo threats, a ‘Nixie’ towed decoy system is also carried.

The Falltech Mk.603 Intercept/Jamming system is also installed. The latest in a series of highly effective ECM/ESM equipment, the 603 provides unparalleled support and jamming capabilities for the host warship. The new Mk.605S Intercept System is also carried, with a new array atop the forward Mack, which provides a powerful identifying and tracking Passive system for the Leviathan.

Sensors:
The principle surface and aerial detection system is the Falltech APAR-12D I-band LPI radar system. One set of four panels is mounted on the forward Mack, and provide continuous all-weather tracking and targeting of aerial and surface contacts. The system can simultaneously track and engage up to 684 independent contacts up to a range of 396 miles (where the horizon allows), and new software enhancements and ECM support provide excellent counter ability against targets deploying decoys.

The new E-band Falltech AS-35 Long Range Air/search Array is installed atop the first Mack. This provides long range tracking of airborne targets and provides an excellent early warning, tracking and targeting system against high flying bombers, ballistic projectile weapons and orbital strikes.

Two new Surface Effect Radars are also carried, which can provide over the horizon tracking by utilising the Surface effect and by adapting super-directional arrays to detection and tracking. The Falltech IRIS (mod 1) is installed on the aft Mack, and provides early warning capability for a distance of up to sixty miles. Limited targeting ability against surface opponents is incorporated in the system. The latest product, however, is the new Falltech ‘Zeus’ OTH Array. Comprised of four super-directional arrays placed across the two Macks, this system can theoretically provide for the tracking of surface and airborne targets up to a distance of 150 miles along with some targeting ability against larger contacts.

Other systems include two Falltech Mk.1 LIDAR arrays mounted on the fore and aft Macks; these provide multispectrum tracking and targeting of airborne and surface targets in the systems line of sight. Three Falltech AS-20 Short-Range LPI Radar systems are installed on the superstructure for fire direction duties.

Sonar is the standard SS-24 Active/Passive bow-mounted array and the SS-30A multiple-line towed Passive array, both from Falltech. The new SS-300 Flank Array is also installed on either secondary hull and can be used to triangulate Passive signals with the bow array in situations where the towed array is inappropriate.

Command and Control:
The Leviathan uses the Falltech General Ship-based Theatre Defence Control system, designed to provide full scale multilinking and targeting between multiple ships and can effectively relay information and commands as both a controlling and as a subsidiary command system. In Freethinker Systems the Command/Control bloc supports the Overlord Multilink system, in more conventional navies it utilises and supports AEGIS for this purpose. The system can direct and target all the ships weapons in cooperation with both sub-units and with allied forces, and can interlink with a host of other combat systems when the need arises.

The Falltech NG05 Naval Gunnery Suite provides accurate targeting solutions for all main artillery and gunnery systems onboard, and utilises all linked-up sensors to provide real-time practical solutions based on data-flow and previously entered scenarios and routines.

Propulsion:
The Leviathan is powered by six Thompson Engineering R-27 175 MW-rated Pebblebed Reactors (license produced Scandavian models) for a combined useable power output of 1026 MW at full running.

The ship has full Integrated Electrical Systems, with power to eight Electrical turbines which in turn power four Thompson Engineering Heavy Waterjets, providing sufficient power for a cruising speed of 27 knots and a top speed of 32 kts+. Each Waterjet is equipped with a directional exhaust and intakes to improve manoeuvrability and turning ability. Six retractable Azipod thrusters are installed along the hull, and can provide 360 degree forward motion at a speed of 3 kts. These are used primarily in unassisted docking and when alongside supply ships.

General Dynamics M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank
M1A2 Abrams (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/M1A2-side-view.jpg)
Crew: 4
Combat Weight: 63,075 kg
Length: 9.83m (gun forwards), 7.918m (hull)
Width: 3.658m
Height: 2.885m
Speed: 67.6 km/h governed, 104.6 km/h max under ideal conditions, 48.3 km/h cross country
Range: 426.5 km
Fording: 1.219m (1.98m w/ preparation)
Armament: 1x120mm, 2x7.62mm mg, 1x12.7mm mg
Ammunition: 40x120mm, 1000x12.7mm, 10,800x7.62mm
Armor: 900mm (1620mm)
An upgraded M1A1 with additional armor and various electronics improvements.
Cost: $5.4 million

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) Leopard 2A6 Main Battle TankLeopard 2A6 MBT (http://www.ciar.org/ttk/mbt/mbt/mbt.leopard2a6-big.jpg)
Crew: 4
Combat Weight: 59,700 kg
Length: 9.668m (gun forwards), 7.722m (hull)
Width: 3.7m
Height: 3m
Speed: 72 km/h
Range: 500 km
Fording: 1m (2.25m w/ preparation, 4m w/ snorkel)
Armament: 1x120mm L55 cannon, 2x7.62mm mg (MG3)
Ammunition: 42x120mm, 4750x7.62mm
Armor Protection: 940mm (1980mm) max
An improved version of the Leopard 2 tank. In addition to the increased armor of the Leopard 2A5, it has a longer barreled 120mm cannon, improving range and accuracy over contemporary units. It can use NATO standard ammunition, as well as a range of rounds specifically designed for this gun.
Cost: $6 million

Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 "Fighting Falcon" C/D Block 52 Multi-Role Fighter
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Crew: 1/2
Maximum Weight: 19,187 kg
Empty Weight: 8663 kg
Length: 15.03m
Height: 5.09m
Wingspan: 10m
Maximum Speed: Mach 2.27 (2413 km/h)
Combat Radius: 630 km heavy, 1370 km light
Range: 3900 km
Endurance: 130 min @ 370 km w/ external tanks
Service Ceiling: 15,240m
Armament: 1x20mm cannon (500 rounds); 2xWingtip, 1xFuselage, & 6xUnderwing hard point for 9274 kg (limited to 5.5 G maneuvers w/ max load); 5420 kg max for 9-G maneuvers
-Fuselage hard point holds up to 1000 kg (544 kg for 9-G maneuvers)
-Inboard wing hard points hold up to 2041 kg each (1134 kg for 9-G maneuvers)
-Center wing hard points hold up to 1587 kg each (907 kg for 9-G maneuvers)
-Outboard wing hard points hold up to 318 kg each (204 kg for 9-G maneuvers)
-Wingtip hard points hold up to 193 kg each (193 kg for 9-G maneuvers)
-2 Sensor pod stations (EO, FLIR, etc) for 408 kg (5.5 G) or 250 kg (9 G) each
Radar Range: 80 km (fighters), 140 km (bombers)
An exceptional multirole aircraft, and one of the most successful units currently in service, the F-16 is fast, maneuverable, and capable of performing most tactical missions with little modification. The aircraft is rated at 9G.
Cost: $24 million ($43 million)

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards/Portland Iron Works Lobo/Lupus-class SSKNLupus Class SSKN

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Overview

With the disadvantages of diesel-powered patrol submarines in mind, the Incorporated Sarzonian and Imperial Praetonia Navies have been searching for ways to mitigate the need to bring their SSKs to snorkel depth, putting these otherwise difficult-to-detect boats in vulnerable positions where they can be attacked by surface threats they are designed to eliminate. Engineers from the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards contacted their counterparts at the Portland Iron Works and both companies realised they had similar thoughts with respect to the creation of a nuclear powered patrol submarine to give both navies patrol boats that could remain submerged for months at a time while providing them effective anti-ship capacity. After comparing designs and discovering the similarites in design requirements, the two companies commissioned yet another in their long tradition of joint projects, the Lobo/Lupus class SSKN, named for the Spanish and Latin words for wolf respectively.

Armament

With different armament schemes, from Sarzonia's 1,000 mm Broadsword ultralarge torpedo through Praetonia's standard 635 mm torpedo in mind, engineers chose to create a semi-modular construction that would allow either the use of two 1,000 mm torpedo tubes to carry Broadsword torpedoes or four 635 mm torpedo tubes for the Praetonian variant. If the Lupus is equipped with Broadsword torpedoes, it can carry 12 of these for use against very heavy surface targets or submerged threats. If rigged for the 635 mm Praetonian torpedo, the Lupus can carry up to 20, while it can carry 18 of the 650 mm Bayonet torpedo in Sarzonian service. If the Lupus is equipped with 533 mm SarzTorps, it can carry up to 24.

Protection

While submarines are not generally equipped to survive torpedo attacks from other submarines, modern submarines have been equipped with double- or treble-hulls to promote greater survivability against likely threats. Considering the mission profile of the Lobo/Lupus, a treble hulled construction was ruled out for being prohibitively expensive. In its place is the construction of two separate hulls, an outer hull made of hardened amorphous steel, which is both non-magnetic and up to three times stronger than standard steel roughly two inches thick, while the inner hull is made of a tough composite armour of titanium/vanadium/aluminum roughly 1 1/2 inches thick. The two hulls are separated by absorbant foam. The outer hull is coated with anaechoic tiles to reduce noise emissions and make the Lupus even harder to detect.

General Specifications


Dimensions: length: 68m; beam: 9.8m; draught: 9.2m
Complement: 50 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 30MW PBMR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 7.5MW COGAG Turbine all powering a single IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 20kts (surfaced); 29kts (submerged)
Cruising Speed: 16kts (surfaced); 24kts (submerged)
Crush Depth: 350m (standard); 410m (critical)
Armour / Construction: Double-hulled construction (outer hull made of amorphous steel 5.08 cm thick; inner hull made of titanium/vanadium/aluminum composite armour 3.81 cm thick) separated by absorbant foam. Outer hull coated with anaechoic tiles to inhibit noise emissions.
Armament:
Torpedoes
2 x 1,000 mm TT or 4 x 635 mm TT; 12 'Broadsword' extra large torpedoes or 24 635mm 'Spearfish' standard torpedoes
Endurance: (fuel) 12 years' continuous; (consumables) 3 months' standard
Displacement: 3,670 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec O-912 Digital Periscope Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $40,000,000
Build Cost: $750,000,000
Purchase Cost: $850,000,000

Clan Smoke Jaguar Military Industries M-113A4 MTVL (Mobile Tactical Vehicle, Light)M113A4 MTVL (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/m113-001.jpg)
Crew: 2 + 11
Weight: 16,500 kg
Speed: 66 km/h
Range: 480 km
Armament: 1x12.7mm mg, 1x7.62mm mg
This is a lengthened M113 with a light enclosed turret and a number of other improvements. The increased length means that despite the turret, the troop capacity hasn’t diminished. However, the vehicle gains 4000 kg in weight, which makes it a little too heavy for some operations, especially with the C-130, though it’s still airdroppable thanks to improved suspension. The lengthening has also increased performance, providing better control and reduced ground pressure, even when factoring in the additional weight. There’s also provisions for additional armor to be added, providing significant protection, giving it the same protection as the M2A2 Bradley.
Cost: $700,000

Kriegzimmer Arms Industries GLI-44 "Blackjester" Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Battlefield Control (IRBC) Aircraft (Southeast Asian designation of E-44 "Overseer" Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Battlefield Control Aircraft)GLI-44 Blackjester Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Battlefield Control Aircraft

Historical Background: The Blackjester is built upon the needs of two nations, the Second Empire of the Golden Throne [SEoGT] and Southeast Asia, compounding the interests of both militaries into one superb ELINT bird. The Empire's history of ELINT aircraft began during the late years of the Great Civil War and the introduction of the Gull, a rudimentary, but solid design, providing for excellent coverage of both the ground war and the naval war, boasting of two seperate variants [ELINT & AWACS]. In 2011 the Gull was largely replaced by the better and more versatile No-34Z Loki and the Fu-47 Starlight, the former being a two engine AWACS missile fighter and the latter being a four engine AWACS aircraft. About a fifty of the Starlights saw a private refit into ELINT aircraft for the Laerihans' purposes. Both planes were purchased from Wellington International Defense Solutions [WINDS], an elite conglomeration focusing on aerospace technology. Despite the order of around nine hundred aircraft total it was found during the War of Golden Succession that not enough planes were in service to cover the ground war in at least four seperate fronts and then project aerial AWACS to protect fleets that were travelling beyond the coasts of the Empire. That said, older Gulls had to be provided to many areas, and even the relatively well supplied and equipped mechanized expeditionary force sent to the Juumanistran colony in Skiberdeenia had nothing more than Gulls to provide overhead ELINT [as well as Juumanistran aircraft]. In any case, with the Empire unwillingness to return to WINDS for more aircraft, it was obvious that an indegenous project was completely necessary for the future of the Laerihans and Kriermada.

In 2016, Southeast Asian procurement agents were received at Kriegzimmer, requesting an expansion and successor to the JSTARS, an American ELINT aircraft design which would provide one of the many examples to base the Blackjester on. The need for a newer system in the Southeast Asian Air Force put the Empire and Southeast Asia on a collision course for what would emerge as an international contract to Kriegzimmer, with many national funds. Furthermore, with the death of Harbinger and the establishment of a new board which had a much more loyal allegiance to the Golden Throne, it was only a matter of time in which Fedala pushed Kriegzimmer to take the project, if not for Southeast Asia, but for the Empire itself. Regardless of the case, the contract was accepted immediately, allowing research and design to persist well into 2019 and 2020, seeing the first prototype for MOD 1 testing released in early 2021, and then mass production beginning in late 2021 after a MOD 2 test deemed the system as acceptable for combat. By the time the aircraft saw mass production it would have design applications borrowed from JSTARS, and even the Globalhawk, but it would also see a vast array of indegenous technologies, including newer synthetic aperture arrays and more powerful computers, with better equipment to keep control of the ground battle.

The Aircraft: The GLI-44 is a large aircraft with a length of ~48 meters, and a wingspan of ~44 meters, providing for substantial volume as to support the array of sensor equipment introduced with the Blackjester. The majority of the airframe is constructed from an aluminum-yttrium-nickel alloy, strengthened through high-pressure gas atomization, which would give it more amorphous characteristics, making it stronger and reducing weight. Consequently, as compared to JSTARS and alternative designs, the IRBC is actually much lighter. The partly amorphous, and the partly crystalline material would reportedly give the alloy both better strength characteristics and higher ductility, which reduces the unwanted characteristics and disadvantages of amorphous alloys. The leading edge of the aircraft and the trailing edge is composed out of a fibreglass epoxy, with the fixed trailing edge being constructed out of a fibreglass-polymide. The core of the aircraft, although built mostly out of the new aluminum alloy, is layered with a relatively thin amount of carbo-epoxy to increase structural stability in the face of fatigue and creep. All in all, the Blackjester is an incredibly light aircraft for its size, keeping the strength of its airframe, but reducing it in undesirable effects.

The entire plane is propelled by a four engined powerplant, using four low bypass turbofans providing ~40,000 pounds of thrust per engine. Each turbofan uses a ceramic blisk, again increasing strength, while decreasing weight. Furthermore, the intergrally bladed rotor [IBR] would increase aerodynamic effeciency, while the specific construction of the blisk used on the GLI-44 IRBC would increase life, thereby decreasing maintenance costs and improving effeciency over time - the blisk would also increase the amount of modulation, making it cheaper to replace the unit.

Electronics:
The principle feature of the GLI-44 Blackjester IRBC is the large [i]multi-platform insertion system MP-RTIS dual synthetic aperture radar [SAR] and ground movement indicator [GMTI], as compared to other ELINT aircraft which have to switch modes during flight. The MP-RTIS is fed through a modular scalable antenna which provides transmissions through X-band, offering improved resolution on stealth missiles and the like. The aircraft also displays a dorsal active electronically scanned array [AESA] aperture to provide for AWACS duties, making the Blackjester a multipurpose aircraft that can deal with both ground warfare and naval warfare, meaning it would replace the necessity for a larger series of aircraft, making it cheaper to equip one's airforce and navy. This AESA aperture also includes an air moving target indicator [AMTI]. That said, in the RADAR section the GLI-44 ends with an eleven meter diameter rotodome, mounted ~three meters from the fuselage and is ~two and a half meters thick. Finally, as for sensor electronics, the Blackjester is equipped with a single unit laser detection and ranging [LADAR] system, boasting both a foward and side looking three-prong heterodyne transceiver, and a down-looking guassian receiver, providing for more accurate displays of the scenario both on the ground and in the air, as well as for moving aerial targets underneath the aircraft.

For communications the GLI-44 is fixed with a tactical common data link [TCDL], as well as the usual radio communications and interphones. The TCDL ensures constant and uninterrupted communications between seperate flights, ground control, and even satellite databursts, meaning it provides an integrated electronic communications network, allowing for a greater degree of cooperation between different arms and different aircraft. The aircraft's entire systems are controlled through an electronics system center [ESC], which can do ~800 processes per second, replacing copper with fibre optics and using high capacity compulsators to store more energy per meter³, and thus allowing more powerful computers, especially with the introduction of better superconductors and high capacity chips, as well as more effecient coolants.

GLI-44 Blackjester IRBC
Designation: Four-engined Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Battlefield Control Aircraft
Crew: 37
Length: 48 meters
Wingspan: 44 meters
Powerplant: 4x Low Bypass 40,000lb. Turbofans
Cruise Velocity: 576 knots
Maximum Velocity: 624 knots
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 151,320kg
Ceiling: 27,800 meters
Navigation:
Global Positioning System
Inertial Navigation
Integrated Navigational Suite
Endurance: ~12 hours
Voice Communications:
12x Encrypted UHF radios
5x Encrypted HF radios
4x Encrypted Single Channel Airborne and Ground Control radio units
Communications:
TCDL
Satellite Databursts
Sensors:
Multi-Platform Insertion System
Active Electronically Scanned Array [r. ~643kms]
Foward & Side Looking LADAR Transceiver
Down Looking LADAR Receiver
Rotodome [r. ~1600kms]
Procurement Cost: $245,000,000

Portland Iron Works/Imperial Land Defense Systems IPO/Z-41 "Regus" Light Battle Tank
Z-41 / IPO-41 Regus Light Battle Tank

Introduction and History

In response to a joint requirement issued by the Praetonian and Sarzonian armed forces for a Light Battle Tank capable of being airdropped behind enemy lines or carried by a cargo aircraft to a combat theatre and engaging enemy infantry, fortified positions and armoured vehicles, Imperial Praetonian Ordnance and the Incorporated Ordnance Company formed a joint design team to produce a vehicle to satisfy this requirement. The vehicle that was produced and accepted by both governments was the Z-41 / IPO-41 Regus.

Armament - Offensive

Several weapons were considered for the primary armament of the Regus, and a new 105mm conventional rifled weapon was selected for use. ETC guns were deemed too complex and heavy to be easily airdropped, and a 120mm conventional gun was considered but rejected for similar reasons. The possibility of fitting a smoothbore 105mm was also considered, but it was decided that the 105mm weapon would enable better performance against fortified positions and infantry and would be perfectly adequate for use against other light vehicles. It was also decided that a conventional 105mm gun would still be too light for use against MBTs, and that that work should be handed over to the ATGMs.

The 105mm rifle mounted on the Regus is 54 calibres long and capable of firing HE, HEAT, HESH, APDS and HE-FRAG. The weapon is loaded automatically by an autoloader stowed in the turret bustle, which reduces the need for manpower in the operation of the vehicle. The autoloader is capable of loading the gun whilst it is elevated, and can provide a sustained RoF of 10 rounds per minute, or burst fire at a rate of 15 rounds per minute. The gun is stabilised on both axis, and equipped with a fume extractor. Forty-five rounds are stowed as standard, with 25 + 1 loaded in the autoloader system at any one time and the rest in armoured boxes below the turret ring.

The secondary offensive armament of the vehicle comes in the form of 4 ATGM launcher cells mounted to the rear of the turret above the bustle. They are equipped on Praetonian and Sarzonian tanks with Smasher / Aquila ATGMs (the only difference being the guidance system - the Sarzonian Smasher is a beam-riding weapon whereas the Praetonian Aquila is guided by a high-resolution thermal imager). These weapons can by default utlise a top-attack profile against MBTs and a direct-fire profile against fortified positions. In addition to the four missiles stored ready in the launchers, there are armoured boxes for a further four fitted as standard below the turret ring.

Armament - Defensive

The Regus is equipped with a light but nonetheless powerful secondary armament, the primary aspect of which is the 15.5mm machinegun mounted co-axially to the main cannon. This weapon features a dual-loading mechanism and is capable of a very high rate of fire. The weapon is highly effective against both infantry and soft-skinned vehicles. One thousand rounds of ammunition can be stowed within the tank and in external ammunition boxes on the turret.

The vehicle is also equipped with a 40mm automatic grenade launcher mounted on the commander's cupola ring. This weapon is highly effective against infantry in the suppression and direct engagement roles, and moderately effective against soft skinned vehicles. The weapon can be controlled manually or remotely from within the turret when the tank is buttonned. Provisions are made as standard for the stowage of two hundred and fifty rounds of 40mm ammunition.

The final weapon in the vehicle's arsenal is the Praetonian-built 7.7mm caseless light machinegun mounted in the gunner's cupola. This weapon is highly effective against infantry and moderately effective against unarmoured vehicles and light cover. This weapon can also be controlled either manually or remotely from within the turret, and provision is made for the stowage of one thousand rounds of ammunition.

Protection - Passive Defence Systems

In addition to the armour described below, the vehicle is equipped with a number of passive defensive systems. The camoflauge paint of the vehicle is of an industrially produced extremely dark matt, which absorbs much of the light emmitted by enemy laser rangefinders, seriously depleting their effects at long range.

The vehicle is also equipped with 12 "smoke" grenades which project a thick cloud of particles into the surrounding environment. As well as obscuring the vehicle from visible sight, the particles will also refract and otherwise block or distort laser beams, rendering laser rangefinders useless against the vehicle whilst covered by the smokescreen. The vehicle can also produce smoke by injecting diesel into its exhaust manifolds.

Protection - Armour

The Regus specification called for a somewhat formidable armour scheme with a very tight weight limit. It was accepted that there was no way of protecting the tank from APFSDS rounds fired from MBTs (other than to store explosives in armoured boxes and ensure maximum possible safety of the crew) and so the following scheme was decided upon:

Outermost layer - Non-Explosive Reactive Armour (NxRA). This layer greatly reduces the effect of HEAT warheads. Its effects are significantly reduced against KE warheads. Although largely inferior to ERA, this was chosen because the tank is designed to be deployed mostly in the support of infantry. When operating alone it can be equipped with an additional layer of ERA.

2nd Layer - Ballistic Ceramics. Ballistic ceramics are extremely resistant to heat and kinetic energy, meaning that this layer will either stop or drastically reduce the effects of both HEAT metal jets and KE penetrators.

3rd Layer - Aluminium Alloy. Aluminium alloys are some of the strongest known metals in existance and they are also very light. This layer provides good all-round protection.

4th Layer - Titanium Honeycomb Frame. Titanium is also an extremely strong, light metal and makes an excellent all-round basic frame for the vehicle.

5th Layer - 9th Layer - Boronated polycarbons. This is both a stong layer in itself, and a radiation-absorbing layer.

6th Layer - Rubber and kevlar. This layer absorbs any spalling that may otherwise adversely affect the crew and systems.

The approximate RHA armour values are as follows:

Front: 350mm (KE) / 500mm (HEAT)
Side: 140mm (KE) / 220mm (HEAT)
Rear: 105mm (KE) / 165mm (HEAT)
Top: 95mm (KE) / 120mm (HEAT)

The armour is not modular, but solid. Although this makes it harder to repair, it also gives the armour extra strength whilst not adding any extra weight, and the tanks are not designed to be involved directly in combat for sustained periods of time.

The Regus comes with a Tank Roof (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/HopliteIIPhalanx-TankRoof.png), as seen here moddled by IPO-145 Hoplite II - Phalanx MBT which can be attached and detatched as necessary. The tank roof is designed to prematuely detonate top-attack munitions, rendering them largely useless. It also provides significant protection from aerial attacks with guns or KE missiles. The tank roof features also NxRA, allowing it to stand up to munitions much heavier than its thickness suggests it could. The tank can also be fitted with skirts of a similar makeup along the sides and rear, as well as along the sides and rear of the turret.

In addition to exterior armour, the interior of the vehicle is partitioned so as to seperate the engine and fuel from the crew compartment, and the shells and charges are stored in armoured boxes below the turret ring for additional protection. The autoloader is also armoured to prevent a shell from detonating inside it.

The Regus is also designed to be able to retain functionality even if all electronic systems are knocked out. The autoloader is constructed to allow manual loading to take place if its electronics are disabled. The autoloader is also equipped with a manual shell ejection system to clear the barrel, and the conventional nature of the gun allows it to fire without power. The co-axial machinegun can be used for rangefinding, and all the cupola-mounted weapons can be operated manually

Sensors

The Regus is equipped with a similar array of advanced sensors to the Phalanx. Firstly, the Regus is equipped also with the obligatory laser rangefinder, as well as high-resolution thermal imagers all around the vehicle. This can be used to allow the tank to function even in an NBC or smoky environment.

The vehicle has high-resolution digital cameras dotted around the vehicle embedded in the armour. They are reasonably well protected from random small arms fire, although a concerted effort to destroy them is very difficult the defend against. These cameras, which have both normal and night-sight modes, provide the crew with an all-round view of the battlefield.

In addition to these cameras, the Regus mounts a rotatable periscope-mounted conventional, nightsight and thermal camera which can be deployed when the vehicle is faced with obstacles. The camera can be withdrawn into an armoured control box on the right hand side of the turret bustle, providing it with relatively dependable protection from most threats when not deployed. The periscope-camera can also allow the vehicle to navigate whilst snorkling.

In a similar manner to the Phalanx, the Regus can deploy a teathered balloon from within the vehicle, which is stored in an armoured box outside. The balloon features a small radar anttena as well as a thermal imager and conventional camera. The balloon can be pulled back down using a motor inside the box and theoretically restored for a second use.

Also loaded onto the Regus as standard are a multitude of targetting detection systems including passive radar which will detect when the tank is being targetted and attempt to triangulate the position of the offending enemy vehicle. The turret can be configured to automatically home in on enemy targetting attempts and load a shell if the gun is not alreayd engaged in some other work.

Mobility

The Regus is powered by a 400hp diesel-electric hybrid motor which can drive it at speeds up to a theoretical 50mph across country. The engine is much more fuel-efficient than gas-turbines used on tanks such as the US Abrams, and so gives the vehicle a much longer effective operational range. The vehicle can switch solely to battery power, which eliminates the sound of the engine.

The vehicle can deploy the electric motor to traverse a river without using a snorkle, although this is not recommended. Whilst using a snorkle, the diesel engine can achieve a theoretical maximum of 12mph whilst crossing a river up to 6m deep.

General Specifications:

Length: 8m (hull); 10.5m (inc. gun)
Width: 4.2m
Height: 3.1m (turret roof);
Ground Clearance: 0.5m
Combat Weight: 23,500kg
Crew: 3 (Commander / Gunner; Gunner; Driver)
Main Armament: 1x 105mm/54 Rifled Gun; 4 cell ATGM launcher
Ammunition Stowage: 45 105mm rounds; 8 + 4 ATGMs
Secondary Armament: 1x 15.5mm machinegun (co-axial); 1x 40mm automatic grenade launcher (commander's cupola); 1x 7.7mm caseless machinegun (gunner's cupola); 12x smoke grenade launchers
Ammunition Stowage: 1,000x 15.5mm rounds; 250x 40mm grenade rounds; 1,000x 7.7mm caseless rounds
Engine: 1x IPO 'Pluto' 600bhp diesel-electric hybrid
Theoretical Maximum Speed: 65mph (road); 50mph (cross-country); 12mph (snorkling)
Operational Range: 500 miles
Fording Depth: 2.5m (normal); 6m (snorkle)

Production Cost: $6,000,000

Centaur X-class Nuclear-Powered Guided-Missile Destroyer [DDGN] (Southeast Asian designation of Paladin-class Nuclear-Powered Guided Missile Destroyer [DDGN])
CENTAUR-X CLASS GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER

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Design

The Centaur-X class are sleek, moderately stealthy trimirans based roughly on work done for the Royal Navy’s FSC. 265 metres in length, a beam of 64 metres and with a draft of 10.5m at the extremes, the Centaur-X is considerably larger than her contemporaries, displacing roughly 45,000 tons fully loaded. Construction method is a full keel-down construction, rather than modular, in order to ensure superior strength in the hull and less chance of hull failure around the welded joints. The hull is guaranteed for all known water temperature ranges and is hardened against extreme temperature and weather fatigue.

The Centaur-X is protected by an armour scheme comprising of low-visibility NERA, multiple layers of amorphous steel interlaced with layers of ballistic ceramic, and mounted an a FDI-patented honeycomb framework in addition to the traditional bulkhead reinforcement. Additional armour panelling and Kevlar shrapnel sheets are mounted in the interior for improved protection for internal spaces against high-penetration weapons, and the ship’s natural design also offers considerable protection for her onboard systems and crew. As with most FDI designs, she is built to survive multiple impacts from a range of surface weaponry, including standard supersonic SSMs and ASCMs, and still also retain at least some combat effectiveness.

The ships are outfitted for a crew of 350, with a minimum optimal crew of 235. There are berths for an additional 114 overflow personnel and accommodation and equipment storage for up to 96 embarked Marines or Soldiers.

Aviation

The ship has an extensive helicopter deck, covering roughly 800 square metres. The landing area has one dedicated landing spots, with a CAE ‘Beartrap’ helicopter recovery system to assist landings in bad weather.

One large hangar is provided, capable of housing three large helicopters with full maintenance, arming and refuelling systems provided. The magazine for light torpedo and depth charge weapons are shared with the ships own light torpedo launchers.

Guns

The ship carries two Ballistics International Mk.5 Dual 155mm/64 ETC Naval Gun systems, one mounted far forward and the other mounted aft. These guns can fire a 35kg shell to 50km without assistance and up to 80km with specialist ER shells. The guns have a combined 90 RPM firing rate.

Four Oto Melara 76mm/62 Super Rapid Guns are installed in pairs on either side of the superstructure. These guns can fire at up to 150RPM at targets up to 12km.

The Centaur-X also carries six Falltech/Ballistics International Mk.3 JOCIWS systems, carried in pairs above the bridge, atop the helicopter hangar, and on the rear deck. These units support both four independently fed 40mm cannons for a maximum firing rate of 3,600 RPM out to a distance of 5km. Up to 18 Short-Range SAM weapons can mounted in the two 3x3 boxes mounted on the unit.

The Centaur-X also carries six Ballistics International 25mm GP Cannons, three on either side of the superstructure. These guns can fire up to 6km at up to 400 RPM, and can be either manually or automatically aimed.

Missiles

The main missile launching system is the Falltech Mk.72 Multirole VLS in both its tactical and strategic length.

Two 144-Cell (12x12) Single Strategic-length VLS are mounted forward of the bridge. These are generally equipped with a mixture of Cruise missiles and Anti-Shipping missiles, depending on the mission profile. A large number of tactical weapons can also be multi-packed into the tubes.

Four 72-Cell (6x12) Dual Tactical-length are also installed, one set atop either secondary hull and the other two set into the superstructure flanks. These are generally used to house Surface to Air missiles and Anti-Submarine weapons. These tubes are actually dual length, with a second tube fitted beneath the primary VLS units. Using a dissolvable plastic shield between the two tubes, it is possible to stack considerably more missiles into the same deck area. A total of 288 Strategic and 576 Tactical weapons can be carried. It is generally expected that the Centaur-X class will not require rearming for considerable amounts of time in combat.

Underwater Weaponry

For defence against torpedoes and mines the Centaur-X carries two main weapon systems. She carries four Falltech Mk.2 Unguided ASW Mortars. These fire a variety of warheads against nearby submarine targets. Reload is manual. These weapons have successfully engaged and destroyed incoming torpedoes.

The other major defence system is the four new Ballistics International 50mm Under-Water Super-Cavitating Railgun. These brand new weapons fire solid steel slugs at incoming torpedoes and mines up to a range of fifty metres.

Both heavyweight and lightweight are carried and are launched through two pairs of 533mm Torpedo Catapults mounted in between the hulls to provide a sheltered launch. Up to 16 heavyweight torpedoes and 60 lightweight weapons (including depth charges and mines) can be carried.

Countermeasures

The ship carries six Mk.5 Decoy Launchers from Falltech. These units can fire a mixture of flares and chaff decoys, both mobile and floating, in order to confess and redirect multiple threats. Launchers for the modern SRBOC decoy system are also carried. For use against torpedo threats, a ‘Nixie’ towed decoy system is also carried.

The Falltech Mk.603 Intercept/Jamming system is also installed. The latest in a series of highly effective ECM/ESM equipment, the 603 provides unparalleled support and jamming capabilities for the host warship.

Sensors

The principle surface and aerial detection system is the Falltech APAR-12D I-band LPI radar system. Two sets of four panels are mounted on the forward Mack, and provide continuous all-weather tracking and targeting of aerial and surface contacts. The system can simultaneously track and engage up to 684 independent contacts up to a range of 396 miles (where the horizon allows), and new software enhancements and ECM support provide excellent counter ability against targets deploying decoys.

The new E-band Falltech AS-35 Long Range Air/search Array is installed atop the first Mack. This provides long range tracking of airborne targets and provides an excellent early warning, tracking and targeting system against high flying bombers, ballistic projectile weapons and orbital strikes.

Two new Surface Effect Radars are also carried, which can provide over the horizon tracking by utilising the Surface effect and by adapting super-directional arrays to detection and tracking. The Falltech IRIS (mod 1) is installed on the aft mack, and provides early warning capability for a distance of up to sixty miles. Limited targeting ability against surface opponents is incorporated in the system. The latest product, however, is the new Falltech ‘Zeus’ OTH Array. Comprised of three super-directional arrays placed across the superstructure, this system can theoretically provide for the tracking of surface and airborne targets up to a distance of 150 miles along with some targeting ability against larger contacts.

Other systems include two Falltech Mk.1 LIDAR arrays mounted on the fore and aft superstructure; these provide multispectrum tracking and targeting of airborne and surface targets in the systems line of sight. Four Falltech AS-20 Short-Range LPI Radar systems are installed for fire direction duties.

Sonar is the standard SS-24 bow-mounted array and the SS-30A multiple-line towed array, both from Falltech.

Propulsion

The Centaur-X is powered by two Thompson Engineering R-25 Pebblebed Reactors (license produced Scandavian models) for a combined power out of 296MW.

The ship has full Integrated Electrical Systems, with power for four electric turbines which in turn supply roughly 290,000 SHP for the two shafts and four water jets carried. Range is limited only by crew requirements and expected refuelling takes place every ten-fifteen years. Maximum speed is estimated at 40kts+. Four bow thrusters are also installed for close in manoeuvring.

Price

The total cost of each ship is estimated at roughly US$4,000,000,000.

Portland Iron Works Benatar-class trimaran heavy fleet carrierBenatar-class Trimaran heavy carrier

Background With the closing of the Andvari large warship construction yards, the availability of the RSIN-built Union class Trimaran supercarriers to the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy for its Carrier Action Groups was greatly reduced. Thus, the Portland Iron Works and the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy were at a quandary. They either had to adopt a class that was viewed as less than ideal for its expected mission profile (the Trimaran Gavin Newsom hypercarrier) or revert to monohull designs that were dismissed as being too vulnerable for the project. Neither option particularly appealed to the ISN, which found the Union class to be ideal as a Carrier Action Group flagship. Another option frequently discussed by both PIW and the ISN was to request production and distribution rights for the Union class to allow the ISN to continue to implement its vision of increased reaction times to situations that called for projection of Sarzonian naval power. However, in the wake of the economic depression that resulted from lost confidence in the company, that option was dismissed. Ultimately, PIW came upon a little-discussed fourth option which eventually won enough favour with its engineers, the design and commission of a comparable class of aircraft carrier to the ubiquitious Union. Thus, the Benatar class Trimaran heavy fleet carrier was conceived.

Armament Most fleet carriers carry just enough armament to provide last-ditch defence against most conceivable attacks, and the Benatar is no different. Acknowledging both a desire to provide excellent point defence and the reality that an aircraft carrier's main weapon is its aerial wing, designers adopted a limited set up of 96 newly-developed Mark 142 VLS cells, which allow the Benatar to fire SSMs such as the Scourge and Scorcher and AAMs such as the Dragonfly LRAAMs. Six 127 mm Mark IV ETC guns provide last-ditch defence against fastships or secondary layer defence against missiles, while the primary anti-missile defences consist of 16 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers and 16 Rattlesnake CIWS launchers combining the highly-successful Yellow Jacket short-ranged anti-air missile and the 35 mm Millennium Gun. Eight 35 mm supercavitating guns allow for anti-torpedo defence, along with four 240 mm 'Epee' anti-torpedo torpedoes.

Aircraft Obviously, a nation's aerial doctrine dictates the aircraft it is expected to carry, but PIW engineers determined that for the ISN's operating requirements, a configuration featuring 120 F-37 Archer multirole fighters, 24 F-24 Tyr electronics combat aircraft, 12 F-39 Monitor AWACS jets (currently under development), 12 B-25 Archduke light bombers, and 12 H-15 Dragon ASW helicopters was optimal. The Benatar can carry up to 210 aircraft of additional types, including the F-34 Leopard STOVL aircraft and multiple UAVs.

Protection With the first priority for many enemies being an attempt to target a ISN flagship, passive defence (the official term for the protection scheme afforded Sarzonian warships) was a priority for the Benatar. Thus, it has been provided with 890 mm-1,140 mm of an advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, aluminum, amorphous steel, and ballistic ceramics) with a double-bottomed, reinforced keel, void spaces, and a torpedo bulge to provide some protection against submerged threats. The hull is built along a honeycomb frame to provide additional structural integrity, while composite rods and KE-reducing ceramic plates provide protection against kinetic energy attacks.

Specifications:
Name: Benatar class Trimaran heavy fleet carrier
Manufacturer: Portland Iron Works
Length: 582 m; Beam: 112 m; Draught: 21.6 m
Displacement: 670,193 tonnes fully laden
Armament: 4 x 24 cell Mark 142 VLS; 6 x 127 mm Mark IV ETC guns; 16 x RAM launchers; 16 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS; 8 x 35 mm supercavitating guns; 4 x 240 mm TT.
Protection: 890 mm-1,140 mm advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, aluminum, amorphous steel, and ballistic ceramics), double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces and torpedo bulge along a honeycomb frame. Composite rods and KE-reducing ceramic plates provide additional KE protection.
Aircraft: 180-210 aircraft (120 F-37 Archer multirole fighters; 24 F-24 Tyr electronics combat aircraft; 12 F-39 Monitor AWACS jets [currently under development]; 12 B-25 Archduke light bombers; 12 H-15 Dragon ASW helicopters).
Complement: 9,200 ship's crew plus 1,600 aircrew. 1,800 Naval Infantry.
Propulsion: Six Pebblebed nuclear reactors; four internalised waterjets. Extensive thermal insulation surrounding each reactor providing some protection against infared and noise emissions. 34.8 knots.
Electronics: Next Generation Theatre Combat Management System (TCMS), which includes redundant satellite imagery transceivers and processors, GPS transceivers, LIDAR and LADAR, target prioritisation and acquisition software, and millimetric wave radar; AN/SPS-73(V) SSR; AN/SPS-67; AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; Maritime Forward Looking Infrared System; Optical Surveillance System; Shipboard Command and Control System; AN/SQS 510(V) hull mounted sonar; AN/SLY-2 (V) electronics warfare suite
Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS
Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; MK-86 GFCS gun fire control; MK-116 mod 7 ACWSCS torpedo fire control
Fleet Defense System: MK-200 mod 2 FDS
Fleet Defense Control: MK-201 FDC
Price: $75 billion
Running Cost: $3.5 billion

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc, Pheasant-class trimaran nuclear-powered light aircraft carrierPheasant Class CVLN


Overview

A requirement from the Imperial Praetonian Navy for a small carrier suitable for convoy escort coincided with a commission for a successor to the Swiftsure-class light carrier from Southeast Asia. The resulting Pheasant Class carrier is capable of deploying 42 aircraft, including CTOL fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The trimaran hullform provides good protection against torpedo and missile attack, whilst signficantly increasing flight deck space and speed. The carrier is ideal to form the core of a small navy, or to be deployed carrying out tasks in a low-intensity conflict, or convoy escort.

Armament and Protection

In addition to its complement of 42 aircraft (usually 36 strike aircraft / fighters and 6 helicopters), the carrier is armed with a 64-cell Ballista VLS battery, capable of carrying SAMs, SSMs, cruise missiles and missile-deployed torpedoes. In Praetonian service, this is usually given over to SAMs for air defence, although it is not unknown for some cells to be given over to light SSMs for littoral defence. For protection against missiles and other ordnance, the vessel is equipped with 6 Wellington Mk II combined gun and missile CIWS systems, for a total of twelve 45mm autocannons and 192 close-range Wellington anti-missile missiles (AMMs). The vessel is armoured against light and medium missile fire, with a 6" armour belt and a 3.5" main deck.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length): 251m; (beam): 61m; (draught): 7m
Complement: 620 Officers and Ratings; 832 Flight Crew
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 100MW EHTR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 25MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 38kts
Cruising Speed: 33kts
Armour / Construction: High-tensile steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection. Modular flight deck repair system.
Armament:
6x Wellington Mk.II dual 45mm autocannon
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
6x 32 cell Wellington Mk.II AMMS (192 missiles)
Torpedoes
[None]
Aviation: 42x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 50x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel): 10 years' continuous; (consumables): 8 months' standard
Displacement: 71,958 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec C-588 Aviation Control System; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $190,000,000
Build Cost: $3,400,000,000
Purchase Cost: $4,000,000,000

VLT Automotive Group VLT L7 Executive-class Car

[OOC: Modified for diplomatic purposes by the Southeast Asian Federal-Parliamentarian Government. For reference purposes, the version uses a 3.5 V6 engine.]

VLT Automotive L7

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The L7 is VLT's current top-end model. The vehicle was introduced at the Luxembourg Automobile Salon in 2006, together with the L9.

Main Competitors: BMW 7-series, Audi A8, Mercedes-Benz S-Class

3.5 V6........... $61.871
4.4 V8........... $70.776
5.0 V10......... $78.432
6.3 V12 Véier. $82.563
3.0 CD ......... $65.739
4.4 CD Véier... $72.815

3.5 V6

Fuel: Super Unleaded
Power: 370 PS at 7500 RPM
Drive: RearWD
Topspeed: 271 KM/H
0-100 KM/H: 5,7 s

4.4 V8
Fuel: Euro Unleaded
Power: 420 PS at 7800 RPM
Drive: RearWD
Topspeed: 281 km/h
0-100 KM/H: 5.3s

5.0 V10
Fuel: Super Unleaded
Power: 507 PS at 7750 RPM
Drive: RearWD
Topspeed: 297 KM/H
0-100 KM/H: 4,8 s

6.3 V12 Véier
Fuel: Super Unleaded
Power: 630 PS at 8000 RPM
Drive: FourWD
Topspeed: 310 KM/H (Speed Limiter)
0-100 KM/H: 4,1 s

3.0 CD
Fuel: Diesel
Power: 272 PS at 3700 RPM
Drive: FourWD
Topspeed: 246 KM/H
0-100 KM/H: 7.5 s

4.4 CD Véier
Fuel: Diesel
Power: 411 PS at 4600 RPM
Drive: FourWD
Topspeed: 268 KM/H
0-100 KM/H: 6.6 s

STANDARD EQUIPMENT

Interior
Eight-speed Semi-automatic gearbox
Adaptive Power Steering
Adaptive Cruise Control, programmable
Park Distance Control (PDC), front and rear
Parking brake with auto-hold function, electomechanical
Seat adjustment - front and rear, electric with memory
Air conditioning, automatic with extended features
Armrest - front and rear, centre
Centre arm rests, front and rear
Cup holders, Four
Floor mats
Info display, analogue instruments combined with liquid crystal display
Rear-view mirror, automatically dimming
Sunblind - rear windscreen, electric adjustment
Window lifts front and rear, electrical, with open/close fingertip control, anti-trap facility and comfort closing function all round
Electric Steering Column adjustment with memory
Multi-function controls on Steering Wheel
Adaptive Ride package
Head-Up Display
Night Vision
Protective glass
Universal Remote Control
Active seats for driver and passenger
Comfort seats, front
Comfort seats, rear
Lumbar support
Seat heating, front
Seat heating, rear
Ski bag
Bootlid operation, automatic
Comfort Access system - keyless door entry
Soft Close Automatic for doors
Active seat ventilation, front and rear
Air conditioning, rear with cooling box
Climate comfort laminated glass all-round
Climate comfort windscreen
Glass sunroof
Graduated tinted windscreen
Sun protection glazing
Rear-view and folding exterior mirrors automatically dimming
Roof lining in Anthracite Alcantara
Sunblind - rear windscreen and rear side windows, electric adjustment

Exterior
20" Twenty-spoke alloy wheel
Front foglamps
Headlight wash, high-pressure system for cleaning headlights
All round anti-corrosion system with partial hot galvanising, phosphate treatment and cathodic dip paintwork, preservation of hollow cavities, underfloor protection
Comfort exit stepless door brakes
Exterior mirrors- aspheric, tinted, electrically adjustable, body-coloured and heated
Windscreen washer jets, heated
Metallic paintwork
Adaptive headlights


Safety
Airbags - driver and passenger, front and side
Airbags - Head and side airbags front and rear
Alarm system with remote control and engine immobiliser, GPS tracking (Class 5)
Anti-lock Braking System (ABS)
Anti-roll bars, front and rear
Brake lights with LED technology
Central locking
Advanced Dynamic Electronic Safety Programme (ADESP)
Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD)
First Aid kit and warning triangle
High-beam assistant
Rain sensor with automatic headlight activation
Safety battery terminal
Safety body - Deformation zones front and rear, door reinforcements
Seat belts - Automatic seat belt height adjustment, front
Seat belts - Rear seat belt system with three three-point seat belts
Seat belts with inertia reels at the front with pyrotechnical belt latch tensioner, adaptive belt force limiter and belt restrainer
Side impact protection
Tyre Puncture Warning System
ISOFIX child seat attachment (rear)

Multimedia
AUX input point for auxiliary playing devices (eg Apple iPod)
Bluetooth telephone preparation with telematics
Bang & Olufsen Sound System, 7.1 Dolby Surround sound, with 12-DVD changer
Control Display with 8.8" colour screen
Navigation system integrated in Control Display
On-Board Computer
Voice Control
VLT On Call
DAB digital radio
Independent rear telephone
MiniDisc player
Rear Seat entertainment package
TV function

Monteluci Duca "'Four-door Coupé" Compact Executive Car

[OOC: Also modified by the SAFPG for diplomatic purposes, and as a symbolic act to help influence environmental car (like the L7). The version used is the 2.0 MD 200.]

Monteluci Duca

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The Duca is a D-segment 'Four-door Coupé' that can compete with the VLT L5 and the BMW 3-series, although it creates a class of it’s own. The powerful, turbocharged 4- and 6-cylinder engines guarantee smooth and silent travelling at high speeds, while it can adapt to a sportive driving style with it’s range of gearboxes and adaptive suspension. Both axles are constructed using Double Wishbones, to improve driving dynamics.

2.0 ……………………… $27.211
2.0 Turbo ………………. $31.512
3.2 V6 ………………….. $37.348
3.2 V6 Biturbo …………. $41.667
2.0 MD 155 …………….. $26.956
2.0 MD 200 …………….. $31.984
3.2 MD V6 ……………… $37.976



2.0

Type: Monteluci 4-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 1.997 cm3
Compression: 11.1:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection.

Power output: 171 PS at 6.600 rpm
Maximum torque: 208 Nm at 3.100 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 8.7 seconds
Top speed: 225 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 6,9 l / 100 km
Combined: 8,8 / 100 km
Advised fuel: Euro RON95

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1498 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1500 Kg

Turning circle: 11.9 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 6-speed Manual Gearbox

2.0 Turbo

Type: Monteluci 4-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 1.997 cm3
Compression: 10.6:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Single Turbocharger (Monteluci MT14)

Power output: 231 PS at 6.100 rpm
Maximum torque: 285 Nm at 1.950 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 7.1 seconds
Top speed: 241 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 7,0 l / 100 km
Combined: 8,9 / 100 km
Advised fuel: Super RON98

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1499 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1500 Kg

Turning circle: 11.9 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 6-speed Manual Gearbox

3.2 V6

Type: Monteluci 6-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 3.177 cm3
Compression: 10.2:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection.

Power output: 265 PS at 6.900 rpm
Maximum torque: 320 Nm at 4.100 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 6.6 seconds
Top speed: 252 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 7,1 l / 100 km
Combined: 9,1 / 100 km
Advised fuel: Euro RON95

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1527 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1700 Kg

Turning circle: 11.9 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 6-speed Semi-Automatic Gearbox


3.2 V6 Biturbo

Type: Monteluci 4-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 3.177 cm3
Compression: 9.0:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Double Turbochargers (Monteluci MT15)

Power output: 330 PS at 7.700 rpm
Maximum torque: 410 Nm at 2.700 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 5.8 seconds
Top speed: 293 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 9,2 l / 100 km
Combined: 12,1 l / 100 km
Advised fuel: Super RON98

Fuel capacity: 75 litres
Dry weight: 1529 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1800 Kg

Turning circle: 11.9 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 7-speed Semi-Automatic Gearbox


2.0 MD 155


Type: Monteluci 4-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 2.039 cm3
Compression: 16.5:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Common-Rail Technology: Single Turbocharger (Monteluci MT14)

Power output: 155 PS at 3.900 rpm
Maximum torque: 325 Nm at 1.900 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 8.9 seconds
Top speed: 219 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 4,4 l / 100 km
Combined: 5,6l / 100 km
Advised fuel: Diesel

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1496 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1800 Kg

Turning circle: 12.4 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 6-speed Manual Gearbox

2.0 MD 200

Type: Monteluci 4-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 2.039 cm3
Compression: 16.0:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Common-Rail Technology: Double Turbocharger (Monteluci MT14)

Power output: 200 PS at 3.700 rpm
Maximum torque: 401 Nm at 1.900 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 7.5 seconds
Top speed: 236 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 4,5 l / 100 km
Combined: 5,8l / 100 km
Advised fuel: Diesel

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1497 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1800 Kg

Turning circle: 12.4 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 6-speed Manual Gearbox


3.2 MD V6

Type: Monteluci 6-cilinder, cast aluminium, 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead camshafts.
Displacement: 3.187 cm3
Compression: 17.3:1

Sequential, multipoint fuel injection. Common-Rail Technology: Single Turbocharger (Monteluci MT15)

Power output: 251 PS at 4.200 rpm
Maximum torque: 525 Nm at 1.700 rpm.
Driven Wheels: 2, Rear

Acceleration: 0-100 km/h 6.6 seconds
Top speed: 250 KM/H
Fuel Consumption: Highway travel: 6,1 l / 100 km
Combined: 7,9l / 100 km
Advised fuel: Diesel

Fuel capacity: 65 litres
Dry weight: 1510 kg
Max Payload: 500 Kg
Max Towing Capacity: 1800 Kg

Turning circle: 12.4 metres
Gearbox: Monteluci 7-speed Semi-Automatic Gearbox


Standard Equipment


Audio / Telematics

Satellite navigation system by maps with 6.5" colour display & Connect services
Bose sound system with digital amplifier & subwoofer
Blue&Me (Bluetooth system with media player)
Radio CD player with MP3 reader (8 speakers)
CD auto-changer (10 disc)

Exterior

17" 8-spoke design alloy wheels
Metallic paint with body coloured wing mirrors
Electrically folding, adjustable, heated wing mirrors

Functional / Electrical

Monteluci code immobiliser and alarm system
Windscreen with IR reflecting layer, tinted anti-dazzle band & heated wiper blade area
Tri zone automatic climate control
Front and rear parking sensors with graphical display
Multifunction display & trip computer
Saloon utility pack (carpet mats & luggage retaining nets)
Visibility pack (rain, dusk, condensation sensors & electrochromic rear view mirror)
Electrically operated sunroof
Height adjustable driver and passenger seats, Electrical
Adaptive Cruise control
Electric front windows
Electric rear windows
"Follow-me home" lights
Remote control central door locking
Mechanical tilting action for driver and passenger seats

Interior

Front seats with three stage heating
Steering wheel mounted audio controls
Leather steering wheel & gear knob
Rear sunblind
Leather upholstery

Safety

Headlight washer system
Front fog lights
Passenger airbag deactivation using the key
Front seat belts with electronic pretensioners & load limiters
Vehicle Dynamic Control with hill holder (ABS + ASR + EBD + Brake Assistant)
Bi-Xenon headlights
Fire Prevention System (FPS)
Driver, passenger, front side & window airbags
Three rear head restraints
Driver knee airbag

Options:

(Only on V6 models)
4D, Four-Wheel Drive System: $2,128

Clan Smoke Jaguar Military Industries Firestorm-class Flight III Arsenal Ship
Firestorm III AS (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_72.jpg)
Displacement: 51,859 tons
Length: 236m
Beam: 32m
Draft: 9.2m
Speed: 33 knots
Armament: 768 cells VLS, 4xPDM launcher, 4xDragon CIWS
Aircraft: 4xSH-60, 3xME UAV, 6xSE UAV
Countermeasures: 2xMk.36 Mod 2 SRBOC (6-round, radar & IR), 2xSLQ-25A Nixie
Radars: AN/SPS-48C Medium-Range 3D Air Search, AN/SPS-55(V)6 Surface Search, AN/SPS-64(V)9 Navigation, 2xAN/SPG-112 Fire Control
Sonar: AN/SLQ-78 Torpedo Warning
Integrated Systems: AN/SLQ-32(V)3 EW Suite
Radar Range: 322 km (SPS-48), 100 km (SPS-55), 118 km (SPS-64)
Armor: 6-10” Belt, 3-6” Deck, 8” Conning Tower
Crew: 122
Essentially a bigger and badder version of the old Firestorm, the Mk.III is most notable in having a 50% increase in the VLS load, as well as a solid UAV capability. It also boasts decent armor protection, allowing it to survive strikes by most antishipping missiles.
Cost: $1.2 billion

Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland Corporation Marquess-class nuclear-powered amphibious assault flagship (Southeast Asian designation of Salisbury-class amphibious assault flagship [LHCN])
Marquess-class LHCN
Type: Brigade helicopter/amphibious assault ship
Hull type: Trimaran
Dimensions: Length: 548.45m; beam (oa): 160m; draught: 18.78m
Displacement: 586,510 t
Propulsion: 12 propulsors (8 internal, 4 Azipods) with 4 bow-thrusters, CONAG-IFEP; 3 pressurised water fission reactors (INNEC RA(PB)-8 (475MW)) and 4 gas turbines (IMW MTG-12 (50 MW)), with 8 auxiliary diesel-electric motors (IMW MMD-44 (5.12 MW)); 1,425 MW + 200 MW = 32+ kts.
Flight decks: port and starboard decks angled at 10.5-degrees, extended landing area angled 8.5-degrees to port
Elevators: 4 deck edge (2 each p/s), 4 inboard (2 each p/s), all rated at 120 t.
Catapults: 8 low-emission EMALS (4 on p/s-connectors (UAVs), 4-f staggered)
Arrestor wires: 12, each rated for 120 traps; 3 low-emission EARS (4 wires each)
Protection: flight deck: 35.6cm; main belt: 46 cm; missile magazines: 30.5 cm; hangar deck: 63.5 cm; (Engineering, munitions, and fuel): 61 cm.
Compartmentalisation: Double-bottomed, reinforced displaced keel, reactors in separate pairs, with 70 transverse and 6 longitudinal bulkheads.
Crew: Vessel: 5313; medical: 508; marines: 5,637; vehicles (air+landing craft): 5349; staff: 500
Hospital: 12 operating rooms, 4 imaging chambers, 1000 beds
Cargo: Room for 96 amphibious tractors (i.e., for 2 infantry battalions)
Weapons
AAW: 24 × GWLS.66M2 4-cell launchers, 36 × GWLS.68M2, 24 × GWLS.74M 8-cell launchers, 72 × MCA.41 30mm
ASW: 24 × GWLS.60M2 8-cell launchers
GP: 48 × GWLS.35M2 8-cell launchers, 24 × GWLS.58M2 4-cell launchers
MCM: 10 × 30mm RST
Electronics suite
Computer complexes: MEI.5 Muninn (Integrated Shipboard Operating Management System); MEM.6 ODIN (Operational Deployment Integration Network)
Threat management systems: MEQ.181 NAIADS (anti-air), MEQ.185 SELKIE (anti-torpedo), MMX.193 MITRE (target recognition), MDQ.261 (signature self-detection)
Radars: MRU.262 Hydra (multifunction), 2 x MRS.118 Kafka (fore and aft, air volume search), 3 x MRN.116 Beluga (navigation), 2 x MRS.164 Hofvarpnir (surface search), MRP.204 Wednesday (air traffic control)
Optronics: 2 x MPU.124 Adder (long range search and tracking), 4 x MPS.127 Owl (surface surveillance)
Combination radar/optronics: 2 x MMP.131 Friday (automatic carrier landing system), 36 x MMG.183 Gjallar (close-range fire direction)
Sonars: MQU.264 Tanngnost (keel-mounted, low frequency), MQR.266 Tanngrisni (variable depth)
ECM/ESM: MLR.165 (radar/signals emissions receiver and direction finder, complete system), MLR.184 Nott (laser warning receiver and direction finder, complete system), MEQ.188 Valtarn (radar/signals emissions processor and retransmitter, complete system), MLQ.189 (jammer, complete system), 8 x MWD.199 (signals direction finder, complete system).
Communications: CSZ.17b Godi (Link 17.2; secure datalink), 4 x MUZ.121 Alvis (secure satellite communications system), 12 x MSP.123b Gna (Link 17.2D; secure drone control datalink), 4 x MSW.125b Ran (Link 17.2G; secure missile guidance datalink), 8 x GQZ.128b Dvalin (Link 17.2U; encrypted acoustic modem), MWZ.178 (secure communications system), 8 x MJZ.190C (laser communications transceiver, command version), 6 x GSZ.196C (encrypted burst communications transceiver, command version)
Countermeasures: 4 × ULQ.136 anti-torpedo davits, 4 × MLQ.135 Mackerel anti-torpedo lines, 24 × 16-cell MLE.140 MUSE ejectors
Cost: $66000 million

Freethinker Defense Industries Group Ardent-class Frigate (Southeast Asian designation of Resolution-class nuclear-powered frigate [FFN])

ARDENT CLASS GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE

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Length: 154 Metres
Beam: 19 Metres
Draft: 8.2 Metres
Displacement: 9,200 tons (Normal Load)
Crew Complement: 190

Gunnery:
1 x BI D/P 155mm/52 Mk 3 (mod 2) ETC Naval Gun
Missiles:
1 x 64-cell (8x8) Falltech Mk 72 VLS (Strategic, Single-length), 1 x 32-cell (4x8) Falltech Mk 72 VLS (Tactical, Single-length), 2 x Quadruple ASM launchers
Self Defence:
2 x 40mm/18-cell ((2) 3x3) Falltech Mk 3B JOCIWS, 2 x 25mm BI Mk.7 Cannon
ASW:
2 x BI 50mm Super-Cavitating Underwater Cannon, 2 x Quadruple 324mm ML Torpedo Tube

Radar systems:
Falltech AS-22 Corus Dual-array NPI Long-range Air/Surface Search, Falltech AS-20 LPI Short-range Air Search
Sonar:
Falltech SS-24A Medium-range Bow-mounted, Falltech SS-30B (mod 2) Towed Array
Command/Control:
Falltech Mk 1B GSTDC
Electronic Warfare:
Falltech Mk 605 ECM/ESM suite, 4 x Falltech Mk 7 Decoy Launchers, Falltech Universal Towed Decoy System


Propulsion: 2 x Thompson Engineering N5200 Gas Turbines and 2 x Thompson Engineering N4250 Diesel Turbines in IEP Configuration, providing 102MW to 2 Electrical Induction Engines, powering 2 8-blade refined pitch-controlled propellors.
Speed: 19 kts (Cruising), 35 kts (Maximum)
Maximum Range: 8,000 Miles @ 19 kts


Defensive Arrangements:
Hardened reinforced steel hull with additional L3 TV4A6 armour panelling around most areas. Lightweight TV4A6 honeycomb framework supplementing traditional reinforced steel bulkhead arrangement. Nylon composite spall liners are incorporated in all areas of the ship. Full and comprehensive shock-proofed superstructure with full NBC shielding. High redundancy systems and multiple damage control units and stations.

Aviation
720m2 one-spot flightdeck with CAE 'Beartrap' helicopter recovery system, rated for heavyweight helicopters. Enclosed hanger deck includes space for one medium or two small helicopters with full maintenance, refuelling and rearming facilities.

Unit Cost: $1,000,000,000 (New Build, FY06)*

[OOC: Note, modified to have a pebblebed nuclear reactor/emergency turbine charge combination and risen costs as a result of that naturally.]

Portland Iron Works Agamemnon-class Arsenal Ship
Agamemnon-class arsenal ship
Length: 257 m; Beam: 68 m; Draught: 3.9 m
Displacement: 36,310 tonnes full
Armament: 8 x 64 cell Mk 136 VLS; 10 x Rattlesnake CIWS systems; 2 x 305 mm (12 inches) railguns in A & Y positons.
Protection: Interior Hull: 216 mm - 254mm advanced armour composite (titanium, vadium, aluminum); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces; hardened crossbeams installed across bulkheads. Exterior Hull: 127 mm-155 mm amorpheous steel, kevlar, enhanced ERA, and aluminum, coated with anaerobic tiles to reduce noise emissions. Both exterior and interior hulls and void spaces separated by absorbant foams.
Propulsion: Two Pebblebed nuclear reactors; four internalised waterjets; two rudders. Compulsators conduct power to railguns from central power system. Auxiliary engine power from CODAG engine. 34 knots maximum; 14 knots with CODAG.
Range: Nuclear power: Limited only by nuclear fuel and consumables. CODAG: 2,700 nm.
Aircraft: None.
Complement: 76, including 30 Naval Infantry (Marines).
Price $3.1 billion
Running Cost: $100 million per year.

Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland Corporation Haenulf-class SSK (Southeast Asian designation of Lantern-class hunter/killer submarine)
Haenulf (Stortbek 'B')-class SSK
A modification of the excellent Stortbek design, the new gas turbine and fuel cell arrangement permits greater speed and other vastly enhanced capabilities.
Displacement: 2,438t (submerged)
Dimensions: length 70.3m; beam 7.6m.
Propulsion: 1-shaft propulsor; gas turbine/fuel cell (GT/FC-AIP)-IFEP (IMW MTG-13 and 2 Baillard Electrotechnique PHDA-4 PEM fuel cell modules connected via a Semling Electrics MGBC-14U generator-battery complex to a Felsingburgh Turboelectrics MME-42 electric motor; fuel cells used for slow silent running, gas turbine plant for high speed); 12 kts. (maximum surface speed), 22 kts (maximum speed, schnorkelling), 32 kts (maximum transit speed submerged, electric motor).
Crew: 39-51 (latter figure for short periods)
Endurance: 28 days underwater without snorkelling (39 crewmembers).
Weapons:
AAW: 8-cell GWLS.24U (mast)
GP: 6 × 585mm TT (f; 24 weapons).
Vehicles: 2 Squid DSM.1 (not included in base price)
Electronics suite:
Computer complex: MEI.5 Muninn/MEI.4 Mimir (ISOMS)
Threat management systems: UEQ.187 Skald (anti-torpedo)
Radar: GRU.119c Jay (multifunction)
Sonars: UQU.149 (bow, MF/LF), UQR.146 (flanks), UQR.151 (towed array), UQS.150 (interception)
ECM/ESM: ULE.179 (jammer), ULR.191 (radar/signals emissions receiver and direction finder), ULR.192 Delling (laser warning receiver), UWD.198 (signals direction finder)
Communications: CSZ.17b Godi (Link 17.2; secure datalink), UUZ.122 Hermod (secure satellite communications system), GQZ.128b Dvalin (Link 17.2U; encrypted acoustic modem), UUZ.194 (ELF communications), UWZ.195 (secure communications system), GSZ.196U (encrypted burst transmission communications), UJZ.200 (secure underwater laser datalink).
Countermeasures: ULQ.136 Remora (anti-torpedo; 3 external, 1 double-tube reloadable), ULE.140 MUSE (anti-missile)
Cost: $420 million USD, $428 million USD with drones; (conversion from SSK): $24 million
Production time: 3.25 years
Production capacity: 40 boats

Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland Corporation Tichy-class nuclear-powered interceptor submarine (Southeast Asian designation of Watchman-class nuclear-powered interceptor submarine)
Project Tichy (Design SS-11)

The SS-11 is a highly automated interceptor submarine capable of attaining speeds of 45 knots. The boat is a quiet[1] deep-depth design with superb handling qualities that allow it to slip under or through enemy anti-submarine pickets when searching for its prey, whilst its high speed, excellent manoeuvrability, and wide range of countermeasures permit it to evade the opponent’s immediate responses. The various systems, from reactor to weapons control, are designed for operations with a skeleton crew of approximately thirty ratings, petty officers, and officers. In spite of the boat’s high performance and small crew, the SS-11 is a safe, reliable boat crafted to spend more time at sea than moored in port.

Hull
Form
At first glance, the hull form of the SS-11 is what one might expect from a high-speed submarine. A squat, streamlined sail blends into the hull offering the least hydrodynamic resistance but tremendous directional stability. The SS-11’s forward control surfaces are mounted high on the front hull, into which they may be retracted to reduce the chance of their damage in harbour. The rear control surfaces consist of five fins, one vertical and two horizontal, and two at about forty-five-degrees from the horizontal plane. These rear fins give the SS-11 unparalleled manoeuvrability even at high speed, permitting 180-degree turns at 40 knots in about thirty seconds.

Unlike many RSIN submarines, the pointed bow terminates abruptly in a slightly pugged nose. This different shape creates a bow wave that minimises turbulence and, consequently, the noise generated along the hull improving the boat’s high speed characteristics and acoustic performance.

Construction
As with all new RSIN submarine designs, the SS-11 features a double hull. The outer or light hull of the SS-11 is typically coated with a layer of insulating anechoic tiles of vulcanised synthetic rubber that reduces acoustic emissions from the submarine as well as returns from active sonar systems pinging for the boat. The light hull itself is of high strength paramagnetic austenitic steel separated from the pressure hull by austenitic steel spacers and ring supports, allowing the boat to reach great depths without fear of structural failure.

A further layer of protection has been added to the pressure hull in the form of amorphous steel-sheathed ballistic ceramic plates that give the hull additional protection against anti-submarine weapons. The plates are backed by a further thin layer of synthetic rubber to minimise radiated noise from within the hull and to attenuate some of the damage that might be caused by supercavitating weapons that might breach the light hull. A further layer of these plates serve to shield the reactor from attack.

The pressure hull is of lightweight, high strength titanium alloy that protects the crew and less pressure resistant systems from damage at great depths. The hull consists of six watertight compartments as well as a small compartment within the fin that serves as the crew’s deep-submergence escape module (DSEM). Other than the DSEM, the hull possesses two escape hatches – one fore, the other aft – with compression chambers and requisite submarine escape and immersion equipment (SEIE) within each as well as the DSEM.

Electric and electronic components in areas likely to suffer possible immersion are saltwater-safe, thereby minimising the risk of short-outs, fires, or the release of harmful substances.

Powerplant
Instead of opting for a potentially more powerful and heterodox reactor, the engineers at the Isselmere-Nieland Nuclear Energy Commission (INNEC) provided the Royal Shipyards with a variant of the tried and tested RA(PW)-8 pressurised water reactor that powers the Nowotny-class fleet attack submarine. The resultant RA(PW)-8B reactor is a compact, raft-mounted, very high pressure design driving the boat through integrated full electric propulsion (IFEP) with brushless motors offering maximum efficiency and quiet operation. The reactor’s pipes and pumps to sustain the high pressure necessary to exploit the hull form and powerplant to their fullest potential are well muffled and insulated against radiating sound, heat, or other emissions that might be hazardous to the crew.

Six Lyme and Martens’s Canary DMNC.1 reactor maintenance robots enable the small crew to work with little risk of powerplant malfunction. Should the crew, the reactor criticality monitoring system (RCMS), or one of the Canaries detect a loss of coolant or any other ominous rise in reactor temperature, the reactor may be automatically scrammed[2] or, should that not prove enough, pumps connected to the submarine’s main ballast and trim tanks can inject further seawater into the coolant loop. The RCMS offers a healthy safety margin that chief engineers may bend but not break, triple checking for possible errors within the reactor or the system itself. Radiation from the reactor and its associated systems is strictly monitored to ensure that even those working in close proximity to them remain safe.

The enclosed design of the SS-11’s propulsor is most effective at high and very high transit speeds (between 25-45 knots). Consequently, the submarine is relatively[3] quiet at high speed albeit comparatively uneconomical[4], yet still quiet, at lower velocities.

A small auxiliary air-independent propulsion unit (AAIPU) connected to the IFEP may be used in case of reactor malfunction. The AAIPU is powerful enough to restore pressure to the reactor’s cooling system in the event of scramming or to power the boat home at about 2.5 knots.

Weapons
Due to size restrictions, the GWLS.36U missile tubes that have been fitted to RSIN-designed fleet attack submarines have been omitted from the SS-11. Instead, the boat has the now-standard eight-cell GWLS.65U sub-surface-to-air missile launchers (firing the GWS.65U Kiwi intermediate-range fire-and-forget missile), two 660mm torpedo tubes and four 585mm torpedo tubes. The boat may carry either four 650-660mm weapons and eighteen 533-585mm devices, including two Squid DSM.2 uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUV), or six of the larger weapons and fourteen of the smaller weapons. The proposed loadout for Royal Isselmere-Nieland Navy SS-11s is listed below:
Tichy-class submarine payload
Configuration 1 (4 × 660mm, 18 × 585mm)
4 × GWS.41U2 Loon anti-submarine missiles
2 × GWS.52U Pelican anti-shipping missiles
12 × GWS.64U2 Mako 533mm heavyweight torpedoes
2 × GWS.79U Beluga 650mm heavyweight torpedoes
2 × GWS.89U Sailfish supercavitating weapons
2 × Squid DSM.2 UUV
Configuration 2 (6 × 660mm, 14 × 585mm)
4 × GWS.41U2 Loon anti-submarine missiles
4 × GWS.52U Pelican anti-shipping missiles
8 × GWS.64U2 Mako 533mm heavyweight torpedoes
2 × GWS.79U Beluga 650mm heavyweight torpedoes
2 × GWS.89U Sailfish supercavitating weapons
2 × Squid DSM.2 UUV

Characteristics
Construction: Double-hull; Outside layer: vulcanised synthetic rubber anechoic tiles; light hull and spacers: high strength austenitic steel; pressure hull: titanium alloy; armour (between hulls): amorphous steel over ballistic ceramic plates.
Displacement: 4582.5 t (full load, submerged)
Dimensions: length: 84.36m; beam: 9.94m; draught: 7.6m
Compartments: 6 fully pressurised, 1 partly pressurised (fin)
Propulsion: 1-shaft supercavitating propulsor; very high pressure, high-density pressurised water fission reactor (INNEC RA(PW)-8B, 200 MW) and piping is heavily muffled.
Speeds: Burst: 45+ kts.; maximum sustained speed: 34+ kts.; tactical speed: 25 kts.; maximum silent operation: 12+ kts. (14.37 kts.)
Depths:
Operating depth: standard: 500m+; maximum: 800m
Crush depth: 1020m
Crew: 46 (may be operated by as few as 30, i.e. 26 ratings, 4 officers)
Weapons:
AAW: 8-cell GWLS.65U (mast)
GP: 2 x 660mm TT (ff), 4 x 585mm TT (ff) (20-22 TT-fired weapons maximum; 4-6 x 650mm weapons, 18-14 x 533-588mm weapons)
Vehicles: 2 x Squid DSM.1, 6 x Canary DMNC.1 (not included in base price)
Electronics suite:
Computer complex: MEI.5 Muninn (ISOMS)
Threat management systems: UEQ.187b Skald (anti-torpedo), UEQ.269 Archerfish (anti-air); UDQ.270 (signature self-recognition)
Radar: URU.327 (multifunction search and tracking), URN.143 (navigation)
Sonars: UQU.276 (bow, MF/LF), UQR.277 (flanks), UQR.278 (towed array), UQS.268 (interception), UQQ.251 (mine detection)
ECM/ESM: ULQ.267 (jammer), ULR.191 (radar/signals emissions receiver and direction finder), ULR.192b Delling (laser warning receiver), UWD.198 (signals direction finder).
Communications: CSZ.17b Godi (Link 17.2; secure datalink), UUZ.122 Hermod (secure satellite communications system), GQZ.128b Dvalin (Link 17.2U; encrypted acoustic modem), UUZ.194 (ELF communications), UWZ.195 (secure communications system), GSZ.196U (encrypted burst transmission communications), UJZ.200 (secure underwater laser datalink).
Countermeasures: ULQ.136 Remora (anti-torpedo; 4 external, 1 double-tube reloadable), ULE.140 MUSE (anti-missile, 32-cell)
Cost: $1865.2 million USD
Production time: tbd

GWS.89A/M/U Sailfish supercavitating weapon
Speed: launch: 50-70 kts; attack: ca. 360 km/h-440 km/h; terminal: up to 480 km/h

Footnotes
[1] At typical operating speeds.
[2] Rapidly inserting emergency control rods into the core to terminate fission.
[3] Quieter than a Russian/Soviet Alfa (Lira)-class submarine, but noticeably louder than a high-speed conventional torpedo.
[4] Comparison with the Nowotny-class submarine.

Portland Iron Works Loch Ness-class heavy SSGN (Southeast Asian designation of Hammerhead-class heavy nuclear-powered guided missile submarine)
Loch Ness-class heavy SSGN
Length: 235 m; Beam: 21 m Height: 19 m
Displacement: 77,500 tonnes submerged
Armament: 4 x 1,000 mm TT; 20 x vertical launch tubes capable of firing 1,000 mm torpedoes or Scourge anti-ship missiles. Secondary layout can also include Bayonet heavy (650 mm) or Silver standard (533 mm) torpoedoes.
Protection: Triple-hulled construction; outer hull conceived with amorphous steel covered by acoustic dampening anaechoic tiles; middle hull designed with titanium, vanadium, aluminum alloy; inner hull designed with ballistic ceramics and biosteel. Each hull provided insulating foam separating the hull sections.
Propulsion: 2 x PebbleBed nuclear reactors with pumpjet propulsion; 1 x magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive for silent running. Each reactor surrounded by thermal insulation to reduce infared and noise emissions; 1 x Electrical Induction Propellor Assembly (with no shaft) in an Acoustically Dampened Housing
Speed: Nine knots on MHD drive; up to 35 knots maximum on nuclear reactors.
Complement: 130 officers and crew
Electronics: Radar: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I-band navigation radar; Sonar: STN Atlas Elektronics DBQS-40 sonar suite; STN Atlas elektronic MOA 3070 mine detection sonar; Periscopes: Zander Optronic Hunter 12 Search and Hunter 13 Attack Periscope; Advanced Command and Weapons Control System (ACWCS).
Countermeasures: TAU 2000 torpedo countermeasures system; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed sensor array; AN/SQQ-89 sonar; AN/SPY-1 air search and fire control radar; towed sonar array; Six specially designed UUVs capable of launch from torpedo tubes.
Price: $9.75 billion.