Athiesism
27-04-2006, 17:00
This is just a reference thread for people interested in my ground forces. It's being posted so that I can put it in my signature.
Vehicle: HWAC (hover wing attack craft)
Crew: (remote) 2 (Driver & Gunner) OR AI
Length: 3.5 meters
Width: 14 meters
Height: 2.3 meters
Armor: Light, energy conducting plating dissipates energy fire; optional light shielding
Main Armament: dual energy cannons (for light targets) OR dual plasma cannons (for heavy armor)
Top Speed: 250 kph
Propulsion: Anti-grav. device
Description: Basically a flying wing with a central turret pod situated on top. Very agile and expendable, two great advantages over a conventional enemy with slow expensive vehicles. The turret pod has a 360* turning radius and may either be mounted with the heavy plasma weaponry or lighter rapid fire directed energy weaponry. They are cheap and easy to mass produce, making replacement of battle losses simple while putting your pilots at no risk due to the remote control operation. Advanced AI linked to a central prioritized targeting base also makes a great option when personnel are sparse.
Cost: 2,000,000 USD
Cost (AI system, one time expence): 100,000,000 USD
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...0junk/ULBT.jpg
Wraith Ultra Light Battle Grav-Tank
Length: 12 meters
Width: 7.2 meters
Height: 4.08 meters
Mass: 110 tonnes
Armor (Average): 35mm carbon-reinforced duralloy
Main Armament: Single 120mm Railgun
Secondary Armament: 2 turret-mounted spotlight masers (90 degree arc of fire)
Main Ammunition: 80 shells
Secondary Ammunition: Effectively unlimited
Top Speed: 1300 kph
Propulsion: 4 PRA Anti-Grav Units
Power Generation: Fusion Generator
Cost: 10,000,000 USD
The lightest tank manufactured by Pale Rider Arms, the Wraith is very lightly armored, ranking similarly to an armored personnel carrier in armor scheme. Still, the Wraith is exceedingly fast, capable of breaking the sound barrier, and mounts a powerful 120mm railgun. Ideal for use in large packs, the lightning-quick Wraith outmaneuvers the competition, moving past its target and firing at their vulnerable rear armor before their turrets have a chance to traverse. Antipersonnel functions are limited to specialist rounds for the railgun and a pair of spotlight masers mounted on the roof of the turret.
TR500 Templar MBT
Specifications:
Dimensions: 18 metres long, 8.7 wide,5.3 metres high (including turret) 3.9 metres high (body)
Wieght: 385 tons.
Crew: 4
Cruising Speed: 80 Km/h
Maximum Speed: 120 km/h
Powerplant:
2 SCAPA Mk.VII cylinderical Matter Decay 45 Gallon reactors
1 SCAPA PP-98 contra gravity assisted implosion fusion pulse reactor
Main Armament:
VN-3999 100mm coil driver (maximum conventional fire power 2 kilotons with a 15 kilogram slug at a muzzle velocity of 747 km/s , maximum unconventional fire power (electron compression demolition charge) 3 megatons.
Secondary Armament:
Co axial General Data Technologies 1.2 Gigawatt contra gravity rotation mechanism gas cooled counter light armour / dazzler XASER
Tertiary Armement
3 Pintle standard remote operation enabled heavy infantry portable weapons mounts.
4 “slide on” side mounted defence mount points.
2 Heavy Turret Sponson mounts.
1 Turret Top autonomous powered mount.
Price: 9,800,000 Million Rungs 1 rung = 1 rung = $2.09
The TR-500 Templar main battle tank was designed as the replacement for the ageing TR-220 Trenchant. Using a heavily augmented variant of the Mk.VIII Drexel Engineering Tanks running gear which features high capacity treads capable of withstanding most equivalent technological base infantry portable conventional light and medium weapons. The Templar was to be built around the new SCAPA VN-3999 100mm coil driver kinetic projectile cannon. The VN-3999 had previously been developed for the ZMSF’s failed low signature urban combatant tank destroyer program, unable to find an economically viable recoil compensation system for the project the VN-3999 was shelved for 3 years until the start of the Templar program. With a far higher power consumption than the Trenchant’s single Henk Power Systems (HPS) Mk.III HT 30 Gallon Matter Decay Reactor could supply the Templar was equipped with 2 laterally mounted cylindrical SCAPA Mk.VII 45 Gallon reactors slaved to the drive trains and a single SCAPA PP-98 contra gravity assisted implosion fusion pulse reactor primarily slaved to the weapons system and battle screen. Given the nature of the pulse reactor the Templar can operate on a much wider range of power outputs than the Trenchants HPS HT’s.
The Templar is designed to house a four man crew, the commander, the driver, the main gunner and the secondary gunner (who handles defensive fire and battle screen operations). It features hull down two blow out escape hatches and one hull up, and three conventional hatches all equipped with ZMSF standard remote operation enabled heavy infantry portable weapons mounts usually fitted with ultra light infinite repeaters, flechette rifles, grenade launchers, or micro smart missile launchers. The turret top hatch features a secondary power feed for a heavier weapon, usually a shoulder fired anti aircraft HVM carried by the gunner who is the only crew member in the turret. The Templar does not feature any blow out systems in its main ammunition storage racks (located in the turret bustle) as it in usual operation carries inert kinetic rounds.
The Templars main armament the VN-3999 100mm coil driver can fire a variety of penetrator rounds, hot dust (battle field denial radioactive/toxin mix) rounds, tactical nuclear or electron compression demolition charges, “canister” anti light combatant smart rounds, a MV “sawn off” Starslam Hyper Velocity Missile for takeing out heavy aerospace threats or engaging at extreme range and a highly efficient and lethal counter-power armour (Flechette) round which features a 20 degree spread and has also proven useful against lightly armoured personnel carriers and “winging” aerospace craft. The VN-3999 standard SCAPA conductive synth alloy / DU round impacts with a maximum force of 2 kilotons. The VN-3999 is coupled to an autoloader with a 8 round revolver magazine, the revolver magazine allows a rate of fire of 8 rounds in the first 28 seconds of combat with 4 being “full velocity” shots with 12 further rounds fired “full velocity” at an interval of 31 seconds between rounds, after this the barrel must go through an LN2 gauss purge cycle lasting no less than 1 minute or risk misfire and barrel fouling and distortion.
The Templars secondary armament is a co axial General Data Technologies 1.2 Gigawatt contra grav rotation mechanism gas cooled counter light armour / dazzler XASER which has remarkably effective useful in its secondary role as XIDAR fire control for the main armament, effectively finding weak spots in enemy armour.
The Templar has a wide variety of modular attachments that can be mounted on its main turret, and body including a 15 ton capable crane with grapnel field generator, an ultra light armoured pilon mounted CIWS ultra light infinite repeater, offensive turret sponson pod multipurpose heavy 4 cell HVM launchers, defensive turret top mounted HVM 12 cell launchers with an independent targeting system, heavy turret sponson mounted gun pods featuring twin medium rotary infinite repeaters and twin 15mm coil guns and hull mounted automated “slide on” sponson point defence/anti personnel light infinite repeater mounts. A mine plow, and excavator are also available for frontal mounting.
The Templars turret is equipped with 8 35mm Multi purpose grenade launchers and the main forward body is equipped with 12 60mm counter measure tasked grenade launchers.
The Templar’s armour consists of military grade ground combat variant synthetic alloy varying from 630mm (Turret), (430mm)Forward zone and rear) to 350mm (Sides) to 220mm (underside) with an equivalent Tensile Strength (MPa) of 5,450 a density (g/cm3) of 5.86 grams a Specific Strength (MPa-cm3/g) of 930 covered in a 1.3 mm thick layer of super conductor covered with an ablative 15mm to 40mm layer of advanced silicon based plastic with a melting point of 23,700 C designed to resist local environmental conditions. The Templars running gear armoured sections are 230mm thick and equipped with reactive armour. The Templars Battle Screen is rated to a maximum of 2.3 Kilotons equivalent force with an 85% absorption rate for hyper velocity kinetic rounds when drawing the Templars entire power output. It is vulnerable to resetting if exposed to star drive or other highly exotic high energy fields.
Further Templar variants are to be tested with low calibre hellbores a heavy tactical airspace defence infinite repeater variant but the wide variety of munitions the coil gun is capable of delivering make it the most tactically useful of weapons while still retaining all the lethality of a hellbore against armoured targets without the radioactive side effects (unless the Templar utilises its electron compression shells, tactical nuclear shells or counter biological hot dust shells).
The manned variant of the Templar features a GDT combat hardened internal optic data sharing network with multiple redundant processing/storage units dispersed at 12 points capable of 0.3 of human baseline. The Templar in this mode is capable of autonomous combat and tactical “survival” action. The Templar in SI operated mode features a single energy state processing module which takes up most of the unused crew space and is rated for 4.8 of human baseline. Templar features 42 2mm passive optic pick ups with limited LIDAR capacity and 5 high capacity optic pick ups along with a wide array of mission variable EM active and passive sensors. The Templar usually carries and supports 6 scouting drones. The Templars 2 multipurpose scanning masts can be extended up to 23 metres. The Templar features standard ZMSF developed recycling and biological support systems.
Post Script
1. Temperature tests
- What systems where non-operational after the freezing?
Vehicle remains fully operational in vacume at near absolute zero.
- What was not operational after the heat test?
Infinite Repeaters, external secondary optics, telescopic booms.
2. Mud
- What systems where not operational after the mud test?
Coil driver has high preassure counter fouling LN2 purge cycle, infinite repeaters are solid state and cannot be fouled by mud, secondary optics are fouled but can be cleansed by scout drones, primary optics have integral cleansing systems.
3. Obstacles
- Was it immobilized by any of the 1,2,3,4 or 5 foot vertical obstacles or the 5 or 10 foot antitank trench?
No.
4. Weapons
- For non-artillery units: How far did each weapon (or just the main weapon if you want) penetrate the 10-foot titanium cube at the different ranges? What was the accuracy?
Line of Sight for primary coil driver and secondary XASER, total vaporisation of target capable with both, 5 kilometres in 1 atmosphere in wet conditions for infinite repeaters with melting of target.
5. Armor test
- What ranges where the armor penetrated at by the 100mm railgun?
Depends on KE explosive TNT equivlent of rail weapon, unless it exceeds 2 kilotons equivlent energy it will not penetrate the battlescreen. Synth alloy composite armour is rated at 930 for specific strenth when compared with high cost real world modern light weight titanium based armour Ti-6Al-4V MIL-A-46077 which is rated at a specific strength of 220 and in comparison to RHAs specific strength of 150. 100mm Rail Gun penetration cannot be estimated unless the inherent actuall KE output of slug is known.
Here is what the guy I bought an APC from told me about it. My APC variant is equipped with a maser.
APC:
Designation Infantry-Scale Combatant Transportation System
Manufacturer Military Phalli Inc.
Crew Adaptive Subsapient Combat-Biased algorithm (May achive full sapience through adaption); Control via mindstate-upload, neural interface or by hand possible.
Length 5 m
Width 2.5 m
Height 2.5 m
Mass 15 tons
Propulsion Blue Sphere SL 256 EM Drive ('Hovering')
Max. Speed 300 km/h
Max. Altitude 300 m
Armour 15- 30 mm; two-layer EM/ kinetic specific; Hard kill@1MJ/cm^3 incoming
Sensors Fullband EM & Seismic/ Sonic coverage.
Weapons
Standard One 14.6 mm 10 MW railgun OR one 35.7 mm 10 MW Charged Particle Beam Cannon OR one 11.3 mm 10 MW UV laser OR one 357mm 10 MW maser.
Optional 1 x 10 137 mm tactical missile rack OR 1 x 127mm mortar
Carrier Capacity Eight Equipped Passengers (Assuming initial 200 cm Cyborg Specification)
Environments Full NBC protection; Max. temperature limit 500 K; Min. Temperature limit 100 K
Price 1.1 mio Universal Standard Units; Type B.
Notes: A relatively small vehicle, meant to be able to penetrate in complex terrain (Sure, it can fly. But flying makes it an easy target), rather than carrying 'Assloads' of cargo. Emissions are kept minimal (And can be directed, to an extend, anyway) to reduce observability. Of course, this is still rather far away from 'Stealth', but it's the best that is manageable with such a vehicle.
The drive allows 1. hovering and 2. 'Anchoring' (If one knows how to deal with field polarities), this avoiding nasty shoot-and-fly-backwards scenarios due to recoil or the momentum of incoming ordnance - equal to the friction effect for, say, a tracked vehicle (Though more energy-intensive). The velocities and altitude are relatively low for a 'Flying' object - the reason is that it's still an APC, and thus has the aerodynamics of one.
And sadly, the drive is a little prone to maintenance issues. Nothing catastropic, certainly - but on occasion performance-reducing.
Power is provided by way of microfusion (Maintenance is, again, not utterly perfect).
Obviously, it can dive. We're not sure why it should be able to do such, but depths of down to 30 m ought to be manageable without problems.
Modeled after Hammer's Slammer -- David Drake
Cost $35 million dollars.
Weight 82 Tons
Length: 11 Meters
Height : 3.5 Meters
Width: 4.5 Meters
Crew: 4
Armor: All environment internal seals. Basically it is like a space capsule inside the tank with refrigeration and heat maintenance units. You could run this tank on the moon. 2 day air supply. 9 inches of Iridium and Tungsten Steel alloy. Iridium functions as a heat sink, so does tungsten steel, this limits the effectiveness of plasma and laser weapons. We have to mine the iridium from low orbit asteroids. Over this is 3 inches of bioceramic and carbon nanotube spray on lightweight polymer. The final coating is three inches of energy refractive heat absorbent coating made from a crystalline matrix designed to counter lasers and disperse plasma-- mirror shielding. The inside has ABC and EMP hardening-- atomic, biological, chemical and EMP hardening
Equipment: Heavier gun (155) MM Rifled Railgun Designed to fire four shells, a caseless superheated magma glass round with carbon nanotube core penetrator rods, a high explosive antitank round, a thermobaric explosive round, or a chemical or biological containment shell. 50 Shell magazine. Nanobattery ultracapacitors added to increase electrical
charge to gun barrel 4000 meters/ second.
High Power Microwave Gun-- This gun will fry electronics in all but the most heavily shielded vehicles. It can be set on automatic intercept mode to fry the homing control on missiles.
Swivel Mounted Fusion Torch: Short range continuous cutting beam-- 80 feet long. This will cut through practically anything. It can cut an incoming tank in half. Includes heat sink and cooling gel. (Taking out missile box allows more power conduits to fusion torch).
Antipersonnel Skirt with detection suite: Upgraded with newer system. At 50 meters will fire a variety AP grenades at target. Plascrete barrier foam superglue grenades or HEAP grenades.
Point Defense: 3 swivel mounted Metalstorm tribarrel point defense machine guns. These guns can knock out incoming missiles. They are slaved to an onboard radar, motion, infrared ferrometallic, and satellite detection system that can track missiles and shells in the air and blow them to bits. Includes barrel seals for when the gun is off.
1 Metalstorm Quad Barrel 40 MM HEAT Grenade Launcher. (Look up Metalstorm it is an amazing real technology.) New reaction gel that will fire in any environment. Includes barrel seals for when guns are off.
(This is in the current news.) This gives it tremendous power . Underneath the tank are eight armored nacelles with supercharged turbolift fans. It can go 800 KPH and has a normal lift clearance of 3 meters. The French Aerotrain a heavy lift hovercraft train built in 1965, a precursor to this tank was tested at a maximum speed of 430 KM/PH. It never touched the tracks. (Again a real technology.) The Slammer can for moments be supercharged to 9 meters of lift clearance. On water in supercharged mode it can go 200 KPH.
Fuel: The Sonofusion bottles are one foot round spheres which run off of deuterium which is easily extractable from sea water. Here is a bit about them. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzzv.html . This is much cleaner, cheaper and more readily available than standard fusion.
Detection Suite and Electronics: This tank has built in rangefinders and an advanced detection suite. The detection system is now encased in environmentally stable bioplastic with seals to avoid mud and other problems. There are thermal controls on all electronics to maintain constant temperature. Inside is a 360 degree view panel. It combines GPS, video, radar, ferrometallic, infrared, motion, laser, and satellite detection systems which are slaved to a fast diamond space manufactured computer system-- 100 GHZ. This allows for both automated defense with the guns and highly accurate targeting. All tanks are linked through a wireless satellite and tank computer system. This allows coordinated fire control, and monitoring of every tank in the units location.
Note: This tank is partially space manufactured. Iridium is only available in quantity in asteroid fields. The crystalline mirror armor is grown in zero gravity to insure that there are no impurities in the matrix. The electronics and computer chips are manufactured in a zero g vacuum environment to insure utmost quality.
All of this technology should be available by 2030. It is hard science fiction. It would be both PMT and FT.
Note: In the book Hammer's Slammers -- by David Drake, it was supposed to be close to the top end tank in the galaxy and very expensive.
I probably shouldn't state this but a 155mm high power railgun, has a range of 500 miles. This is the estimated range for the railgun being built for the DDX destroyer planned to be used in future naval warfare by the United States navy. The gun is incredibly powerful.
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Vehicle: HWAC (hover wing attack craft)
Crew: (remote) 2 (Driver & Gunner) OR AI
Length: 3.5 meters
Width: 14 meters
Height: 2.3 meters
Armor: Light, energy conducting plating dissipates energy fire; optional light shielding
Main Armament: dual energy cannons (for light targets) OR dual plasma cannons (for heavy armor)
Top Speed: 250 kph
Propulsion: Anti-grav. device
Description: Basically a flying wing with a central turret pod situated on top. Very agile and expendable, two great advantages over a conventional enemy with slow expensive vehicles. The turret pod has a 360* turning radius and may either be mounted with the heavy plasma weaponry or lighter rapid fire directed energy weaponry. They are cheap and easy to mass produce, making replacement of battle losses simple while putting your pilots at no risk due to the remote control operation. Advanced AI linked to a central prioritized targeting base also makes a great option when personnel are sparse.
Cost: 2,000,000 USD
Cost (AI system, one time expence): 100,000,000 USD
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...0junk/ULBT.jpg
Wraith Ultra Light Battle Grav-Tank
Length: 12 meters
Width: 7.2 meters
Height: 4.08 meters
Mass: 110 tonnes
Armor (Average): 35mm carbon-reinforced duralloy
Main Armament: Single 120mm Railgun
Secondary Armament: 2 turret-mounted spotlight masers (90 degree arc of fire)
Main Ammunition: 80 shells
Secondary Ammunition: Effectively unlimited
Top Speed: 1300 kph
Propulsion: 4 PRA Anti-Grav Units
Power Generation: Fusion Generator
Cost: 10,000,000 USD
The lightest tank manufactured by Pale Rider Arms, the Wraith is very lightly armored, ranking similarly to an armored personnel carrier in armor scheme. Still, the Wraith is exceedingly fast, capable of breaking the sound barrier, and mounts a powerful 120mm railgun. Ideal for use in large packs, the lightning-quick Wraith outmaneuvers the competition, moving past its target and firing at their vulnerable rear armor before their turrets have a chance to traverse. Antipersonnel functions are limited to specialist rounds for the railgun and a pair of spotlight masers mounted on the roof of the turret.
TR500 Templar MBT
Specifications:
Dimensions: 18 metres long, 8.7 wide,5.3 metres high (including turret) 3.9 metres high (body)
Wieght: 385 tons.
Crew: 4
Cruising Speed: 80 Km/h
Maximum Speed: 120 km/h
Powerplant:
2 SCAPA Mk.VII cylinderical Matter Decay 45 Gallon reactors
1 SCAPA PP-98 contra gravity assisted implosion fusion pulse reactor
Main Armament:
VN-3999 100mm coil driver (maximum conventional fire power 2 kilotons with a 15 kilogram slug at a muzzle velocity of 747 km/s , maximum unconventional fire power (electron compression demolition charge) 3 megatons.
Secondary Armament:
Co axial General Data Technologies 1.2 Gigawatt contra gravity rotation mechanism gas cooled counter light armour / dazzler XASER
Tertiary Armement
3 Pintle standard remote operation enabled heavy infantry portable weapons mounts.
4 “slide on” side mounted defence mount points.
2 Heavy Turret Sponson mounts.
1 Turret Top autonomous powered mount.
Price: 9,800,000 Million Rungs 1 rung = 1 rung = $2.09
The TR-500 Templar main battle tank was designed as the replacement for the ageing TR-220 Trenchant. Using a heavily augmented variant of the Mk.VIII Drexel Engineering Tanks running gear which features high capacity treads capable of withstanding most equivalent technological base infantry portable conventional light and medium weapons. The Templar was to be built around the new SCAPA VN-3999 100mm coil driver kinetic projectile cannon. The VN-3999 had previously been developed for the ZMSF’s failed low signature urban combatant tank destroyer program, unable to find an economically viable recoil compensation system for the project the VN-3999 was shelved for 3 years until the start of the Templar program. With a far higher power consumption than the Trenchant’s single Henk Power Systems (HPS) Mk.III HT 30 Gallon Matter Decay Reactor could supply the Templar was equipped with 2 laterally mounted cylindrical SCAPA Mk.VII 45 Gallon reactors slaved to the drive trains and a single SCAPA PP-98 contra gravity assisted implosion fusion pulse reactor primarily slaved to the weapons system and battle screen. Given the nature of the pulse reactor the Templar can operate on a much wider range of power outputs than the Trenchants HPS HT’s.
The Templar is designed to house a four man crew, the commander, the driver, the main gunner and the secondary gunner (who handles defensive fire and battle screen operations). It features hull down two blow out escape hatches and one hull up, and three conventional hatches all equipped with ZMSF standard remote operation enabled heavy infantry portable weapons mounts usually fitted with ultra light infinite repeaters, flechette rifles, grenade launchers, or micro smart missile launchers. The turret top hatch features a secondary power feed for a heavier weapon, usually a shoulder fired anti aircraft HVM carried by the gunner who is the only crew member in the turret. The Templar does not feature any blow out systems in its main ammunition storage racks (located in the turret bustle) as it in usual operation carries inert kinetic rounds.
The Templars main armament the VN-3999 100mm coil driver can fire a variety of penetrator rounds, hot dust (battle field denial radioactive/toxin mix) rounds, tactical nuclear or electron compression demolition charges, “canister” anti light combatant smart rounds, a MV “sawn off” Starslam Hyper Velocity Missile for takeing out heavy aerospace threats or engaging at extreme range and a highly efficient and lethal counter-power armour (Flechette) round which features a 20 degree spread and has also proven useful against lightly armoured personnel carriers and “winging” aerospace craft. The VN-3999 standard SCAPA conductive synth alloy / DU round impacts with a maximum force of 2 kilotons. The VN-3999 is coupled to an autoloader with a 8 round revolver magazine, the revolver magazine allows a rate of fire of 8 rounds in the first 28 seconds of combat with 4 being “full velocity” shots with 12 further rounds fired “full velocity” at an interval of 31 seconds between rounds, after this the barrel must go through an LN2 gauss purge cycle lasting no less than 1 minute or risk misfire and barrel fouling and distortion.
The Templars secondary armament is a co axial General Data Technologies 1.2 Gigawatt contra grav rotation mechanism gas cooled counter light armour / dazzler XASER which has remarkably effective useful in its secondary role as XIDAR fire control for the main armament, effectively finding weak spots in enemy armour.
The Templar has a wide variety of modular attachments that can be mounted on its main turret, and body including a 15 ton capable crane with grapnel field generator, an ultra light armoured pilon mounted CIWS ultra light infinite repeater, offensive turret sponson pod multipurpose heavy 4 cell HVM launchers, defensive turret top mounted HVM 12 cell launchers with an independent targeting system, heavy turret sponson mounted gun pods featuring twin medium rotary infinite repeaters and twin 15mm coil guns and hull mounted automated “slide on” sponson point defence/anti personnel light infinite repeater mounts. A mine plow, and excavator are also available for frontal mounting.
The Templars turret is equipped with 8 35mm Multi purpose grenade launchers and the main forward body is equipped with 12 60mm counter measure tasked grenade launchers.
The Templar’s armour consists of military grade ground combat variant synthetic alloy varying from 630mm (Turret), (430mm)Forward zone and rear) to 350mm (Sides) to 220mm (underside) with an equivalent Tensile Strength (MPa) of 5,450 a density (g/cm3) of 5.86 grams a Specific Strength (MPa-cm3/g) of 930 covered in a 1.3 mm thick layer of super conductor covered with an ablative 15mm to 40mm layer of advanced silicon based plastic with a melting point of 23,700 C designed to resist local environmental conditions. The Templars running gear armoured sections are 230mm thick and equipped with reactive armour. The Templars Battle Screen is rated to a maximum of 2.3 Kilotons equivalent force with an 85% absorption rate for hyper velocity kinetic rounds when drawing the Templars entire power output. It is vulnerable to resetting if exposed to star drive or other highly exotic high energy fields.
Further Templar variants are to be tested with low calibre hellbores a heavy tactical airspace defence infinite repeater variant but the wide variety of munitions the coil gun is capable of delivering make it the most tactically useful of weapons while still retaining all the lethality of a hellbore against armoured targets without the radioactive side effects (unless the Templar utilises its electron compression shells, tactical nuclear shells or counter biological hot dust shells).
The manned variant of the Templar features a GDT combat hardened internal optic data sharing network with multiple redundant processing/storage units dispersed at 12 points capable of 0.3 of human baseline. The Templar in this mode is capable of autonomous combat and tactical “survival” action. The Templar in SI operated mode features a single energy state processing module which takes up most of the unused crew space and is rated for 4.8 of human baseline. Templar features 42 2mm passive optic pick ups with limited LIDAR capacity and 5 high capacity optic pick ups along with a wide array of mission variable EM active and passive sensors. The Templar usually carries and supports 6 scouting drones. The Templars 2 multipurpose scanning masts can be extended up to 23 metres. The Templar features standard ZMSF developed recycling and biological support systems.
Post Script
1. Temperature tests
- What systems where non-operational after the freezing?
Vehicle remains fully operational in vacume at near absolute zero.
- What was not operational after the heat test?
Infinite Repeaters, external secondary optics, telescopic booms.
2. Mud
- What systems where not operational after the mud test?
Coil driver has high preassure counter fouling LN2 purge cycle, infinite repeaters are solid state and cannot be fouled by mud, secondary optics are fouled but can be cleansed by scout drones, primary optics have integral cleansing systems.
3. Obstacles
- Was it immobilized by any of the 1,2,3,4 or 5 foot vertical obstacles or the 5 or 10 foot antitank trench?
No.
4. Weapons
- For non-artillery units: How far did each weapon (or just the main weapon if you want) penetrate the 10-foot titanium cube at the different ranges? What was the accuracy?
Line of Sight for primary coil driver and secondary XASER, total vaporisation of target capable with both, 5 kilometres in 1 atmosphere in wet conditions for infinite repeaters with melting of target.
5. Armor test
- What ranges where the armor penetrated at by the 100mm railgun?
Depends on KE explosive TNT equivlent of rail weapon, unless it exceeds 2 kilotons equivlent energy it will not penetrate the battlescreen. Synth alloy composite armour is rated at 930 for specific strenth when compared with high cost real world modern light weight titanium based armour Ti-6Al-4V MIL-A-46077 which is rated at a specific strength of 220 and in comparison to RHAs specific strength of 150. 100mm Rail Gun penetration cannot be estimated unless the inherent actuall KE output of slug is known.
Here is what the guy I bought an APC from told me about it. My APC variant is equipped with a maser.
APC:
Designation Infantry-Scale Combatant Transportation System
Manufacturer Military Phalli Inc.
Crew Adaptive Subsapient Combat-Biased algorithm (May achive full sapience through adaption); Control via mindstate-upload, neural interface or by hand possible.
Length 5 m
Width 2.5 m
Height 2.5 m
Mass 15 tons
Propulsion Blue Sphere SL 256 EM Drive ('Hovering')
Max. Speed 300 km/h
Max. Altitude 300 m
Armour 15- 30 mm; two-layer EM/ kinetic specific; Hard kill@1MJ/cm^3 incoming
Sensors Fullband EM & Seismic/ Sonic coverage.
Weapons
Standard One 14.6 mm 10 MW railgun OR one 35.7 mm 10 MW Charged Particle Beam Cannon OR one 11.3 mm 10 MW UV laser OR one 357mm 10 MW maser.
Optional 1 x 10 137 mm tactical missile rack OR 1 x 127mm mortar
Carrier Capacity Eight Equipped Passengers (Assuming initial 200 cm Cyborg Specification)
Environments Full NBC protection; Max. temperature limit 500 K; Min. Temperature limit 100 K
Price 1.1 mio Universal Standard Units; Type B.
Notes: A relatively small vehicle, meant to be able to penetrate in complex terrain (Sure, it can fly. But flying makes it an easy target), rather than carrying 'Assloads' of cargo. Emissions are kept minimal (And can be directed, to an extend, anyway) to reduce observability. Of course, this is still rather far away from 'Stealth', but it's the best that is manageable with such a vehicle.
The drive allows 1. hovering and 2. 'Anchoring' (If one knows how to deal with field polarities), this avoiding nasty shoot-and-fly-backwards scenarios due to recoil or the momentum of incoming ordnance - equal to the friction effect for, say, a tracked vehicle (Though more energy-intensive). The velocities and altitude are relatively low for a 'Flying' object - the reason is that it's still an APC, and thus has the aerodynamics of one.
And sadly, the drive is a little prone to maintenance issues. Nothing catastropic, certainly - but on occasion performance-reducing.
Power is provided by way of microfusion (Maintenance is, again, not utterly perfect).
Obviously, it can dive. We're not sure why it should be able to do such, but depths of down to 30 m ought to be manageable without problems.
Modeled after Hammer's Slammer -- David Drake
Cost $35 million dollars.
Weight 82 Tons
Length: 11 Meters
Height : 3.5 Meters
Width: 4.5 Meters
Crew: 4
Armor: All environment internal seals. Basically it is like a space capsule inside the tank with refrigeration and heat maintenance units. You could run this tank on the moon. 2 day air supply. 9 inches of Iridium and Tungsten Steel alloy. Iridium functions as a heat sink, so does tungsten steel, this limits the effectiveness of plasma and laser weapons. We have to mine the iridium from low orbit asteroids. Over this is 3 inches of bioceramic and carbon nanotube spray on lightweight polymer. The final coating is three inches of energy refractive heat absorbent coating made from a crystalline matrix designed to counter lasers and disperse plasma-- mirror shielding. The inside has ABC and EMP hardening-- atomic, biological, chemical and EMP hardening
Equipment: Heavier gun (155) MM Rifled Railgun Designed to fire four shells, a caseless superheated magma glass round with carbon nanotube core penetrator rods, a high explosive antitank round, a thermobaric explosive round, or a chemical or biological containment shell. 50 Shell magazine. Nanobattery ultracapacitors added to increase electrical
charge to gun barrel 4000 meters/ second.
High Power Microwave Gun-- This gun will fry electronics in all but the most heavily shielded vehicles. It can be set on automatic intercept mode to fry the homing control on missiles.
Swivel Mounted Fusion Torch: Short range continuous cutting beam-- 80 feet long. This will cut through practically anything. It can cut an incoming tank in half. Includes heat sink and cooling gel. (Taking out missile box allows more power conduits to fusion torch).
Antipersonnel Skirt with detection suite: Upgraded with newer system. At 50 meters will fire a variety AP grenades at target. Plascrete barrier foam superglue grenades or HEAP grenades.
Point Defense: 3 swivel mounted Metalstorm tribarrel point defense machine guns. These guns can knock out incoming missiles. They are slaved to an onboard radar, motion, infrared ferrometallic, and satellite detection system that can track missiles and shells in the air and blow them to bits. Includes barrel seals for when the gun is off.
1 Metalstorm Quad Barrel 40 MM HEAT Grenade Launcher. (Look up Metalstorm it is an amazing real technology.) New reaction gel that will fire in any environment. Includes barrel seals for when guns are off.
(This is in the current news.) This gives it tremendous power . Underneath the tank are eight armored nacelles with supercharged turbolift fans. It can go 800 KPH and has a normal lift clearance of 3 meters. The French Aerotrain a heavy lift hovercraft train built in 1965, a precursor to this tank was tested at a maximum speed of 430 KM/PH. It never touched the tracks. (Again a real technology.) The Slammer can for moments be supercharged to 9 meters of lift clearance. On water in supercharged mode it can go 200 KPH.
Fuel: The Sonofusion bottles are one foot round spheres which run off of deuterium which is easily extractable from sea water. Here is a bit about them. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzzv.html . This is much cleaner, cheaper and more readily available than standard fusion.
Detection Suite and Electronics: This tank has built in rangefinders and an advanced detection suite. The detection system is now encased in environmentally stable bioplastic with seals to avoid mud and other problems. There are thermal controls on all electronics to maintain constant temperature. Inside is a 360 degree view panel. It combines GPS, video, radar, ferrometallic, infrared, motion, laser, and satellite detection systems which are slaved to a fast diamond space manufactured computer system-- 100 GHZ. This allows for both automated defense with the guns and highly accurate targeting. All tanks are linked through a wireless satellite and tank computer system. This allows coordinated fire control, and monitoring of every tank in the units location.
Note: This tank is partially space manufactured. Iridium is only available in quantity in asteroid fields. The crystalline mirror armor is grown in zero gravity to insure that there are no impurities in the matrix. The electronics and computer chips are manufactured in a zero g vacuum environment to insure utmost quality.
All of this technology should be available by 2030. It is hard science fiction. It would be both PMT and FT.
Note: In the book Hammer's Slammers -- by David Drake, it was supposed to be close to the top end tank in the galaxy and very expensive.
I probably shouldn't state this but a 155mm high power railgun, has a range of 500 miles. This is the estimated range for the railgun being built for the DDX destroyer planned to be used in future naval warfare by the United States navy. The gun is incredibly powerful.
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