Truitt
19-04-2006, 23:47
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AU-7 "Phalanix" Main Battle Tank
[Abstract]
During the Great Vermin War, Bumsian forces in Europe reported massive columns of small, cheaply built tanks, called Pocket Panzers. Huge groups of them, even - reportedly - tens of thousands of them bum-rushed into Macabee positions like mad, over-running them in a massive rush of armored vehicals. The Cougars, outnumbered in cases thirty to one, as powerful as they were, it was like knocking down flies with a rifle.
The Bumsian engineers sought out a two-pronged way of defeating this new idea, and the first was to create a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful enough to hold its own on the battlefield against both MBT's, yet be numerous enough to knock down an advancing Pocket Panzer division, or several of them. Hence, the Arrhen, the thirteenth in the Ostkampfwagen series, and indeed, the first tank to actually go back in complexity to reduce cost.
The Arrhen was quickly, once produced, bought by The Jewittist Republic to fill its cheap-placement of quick and easy to produce armored vehicles. It was renamed AU-7 Phalanix, and quickly modified.
[Armor Design]
The primary of just about any modern MBT is Chobham or some variant thereof; this is reflected in the tank's armor scheme, which includes a regular placement of 500mm of Chobham composite. The Truitti version is basically Dorchester [Second gen British] souped up with additional ERA, tungsten, and C60 molecules. The armor gives about a RHAe of 1750mm vs. KE, for a real value of 500mm. Optional on the tank is Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor blocks, which provide a further 300mm versus KE shot, raising the maximum on the tank to 2050mm, enough to withstand attacks from most modern main battle tanks, and continue fighting.
Export versions will use standard Dorchester, at two point five to one.
RHAe, domestic: 2050mm KE, 2750mm HEAT
RHAe, export: 1550mm KE, 2300mm HEAT
[Weaponry]
A 140mm L/44 smoothbore, which can penetrtate one meter of steel at close range, is the gun of choise. This is more than enough to deal with modern technology, but post-modern tech provides a challenge. The answer is simple, when pitted against modern MBT's, the crew can load an additional explosive charge into the gun, which increases penetration to about 1500mm, but the gun wears down twice as fast. The gun is fed through an auto-loader, taking a loader out of the equation, reducing the crew to four, and making training a tank crew that much easier.
Other weaponry includes a 37mm cannon mounted coaxially, a forward 7.62mm machine gun, and the commander's weapon is a 12.7mm machine gun. The tank can be mounted with a 60mm mortar, a 7.92mm mini-Phalanx system, or ATGM launchers. Jewittist favorites of 45mm grenade machine guns also can be mounted in place of a gun.
[Fire and Control]
The fire and control system first present on the AU-7, dubbed 'Zimmer', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Bumsian 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.
Other optional systems include Leute, FCLAS, Shortstop, Zeus-HLONS, among others, but yet, as of now, none of these extra features are standard. Export versions use an older fire and control system based on infrared targetting, with the expensive Zimmer system removed.
The oversize turret allows the mounting of such a calibre gun on this tank eith ease, and the enlarged fighting compartment, as proven during the Arab-Israeli wars, allows for higher morale, and a more assured victory.
[Specifications]
Length: 8.3 meters
Width: 3.2 meters
Height: 2.7 meters
Weight: 74 tons
Gun: 140mm L/44 smoothbore
Engine: 1500 BHP, Quasi-Turbine [Four groups, six gears, 24 total]
Fuel: Gasohol (Ethanol/Petrolium)
Road Range: 400km
Top Speed: 75 km/h
Production Cost, Domestic: $5.5 Million
Production Cost, Foreign: $4 Million.
Under an Unlimited Contract: Gründer Industries from Bargian Basement
AU-7 "Phalanix" Main Battle Tank
[Abstract]
During the Great Vermin War, Bumsian forces in Europe reported massive columns of small, cheaply built tanks, called Pocket Panzers. Huge groups of them, even - reportedly - tens of thousands of them bum-rushed into Macabee positions like mad, over-running them in a massive rush of armored vehicals. The Cougars, outnumbered in cases thirty to one, as powerful as they were, it was like knocking down flies with a rifle.
The Bumsian engineers sought out a two-pronged way of defeating this new idea, and the first was to create a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful enough to hold its own on the battlefield against both MBT's, yet be numerous enough to knock down an advancing Pocket Panzer division, or several of them. Hence, the Arrhen, the thirteenth in the Ostkampfwagen series, and indeed, the first tank to actually go back in complexity to reduce cost.
The Arrhen was quickly, once produced, bought by The Jewittist Republic to fill its cheap-placement of quick and easy to produce armored vehicles. It was renamed AU-7 Phalanix, and quickly modified.
[Armor Design]
The primary of just about any modern MBT is Chobham or some variant thereof; this is reflected in the tank's armor scheme, which includes a regular placement of 500mm of Chobham composite. The Truitti version is basically Dorchester [Second gen British] souped up with additional ERA, tungsten, and C60 molecules. The armor gives about a RHAe of 1750mm vs. KE, for a real value of 500mm. Optional on the tank is Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armor blocks, which provide a further 300mm versus KE shot, raising the maximum on the tank to 2050mm, enough to withstand attacks from most modern main battle tanks, and continue fighting.
Export versions will use standard Dorchester, at two point five to one.
RHAe, domestic: 2050mm KE, 2750mm HEAT
RHAe, export: 1550mm KE, 2300mm HEAT
[Weaponry]
A 140mm L/44 smoothbore, which can penetrtate one meter of steel at close range, is the gun of choise. This is more than enough to deal with modern technology, but post-modern tech provides a challenge. The answer is simple, when pitted against modern MBT's, the crew can load an additional explosive charge into the gun, which increases penetration to about 1500mm, but the gun wears down twice as fast. The gun is fed through an auto-loader, taking a loader out of the equation, reducing the crew to four, and making training a tank crew that much easier.
Other weaponry includes a 37mm cannon mounted coaxially, a forward 7.62mm machine gun, and the commander's weapon is a 12.7mm machine gun. The tank can be mounted with a 60mm mortar, a 7.92mm mini-Phalanx system, or ATGM launchers. Jewittist favorites of 45mm grenade machine guns also can be mounted in place of a gun.
[Fire and Control]
The fire and control system first present on the AU-7, dubbed 'Zimmer', is the new top notch of said systems, developed by General Dynamics (Canada) and expanded upon by Bumsian 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.
Other optional systems include Leute, FCLAS, Shortstop, Zeus-HLONS, among others, but yet, as of now, none of these extra features are standard. Export versions use an older fire and control system based on infrared targetting, with the expensive Zimmer system removed.
The oversize turret allows the mounting of such a calibre gun on this tank eith ease, and the enlarged fighting compartment, as proven during the Arab-Israeli wars, allows for higher morale, and a more assured victory.
[Specifications]
Length: 8.3 meters
Width: 3.2 meters
Height: 2.7 meters
Weight: 74 tons
Gun: 140mm L/44 smoothbore
Engine: 1500 BHP, Quasi-Turbine [Four groups, six gears, 24 total]
Fuel: Gasohol (Ethanol/Petrolium)
Road Range: 400km
Top Speed: 75 km/h
Production Cost, Domestic: $5.5 Million
Production Cost, Foreign: $4 Million.
Under an Unlimited Contract: Gründer Industries from Bargian Basement