The Horde Of Doom
15-07-2006, 02:09
Nazbol State News
"Government, up close and personal."
Today Premier Rjos announced that a modified version of the T-80 tank is ready to be released into the Red Army. "These tanks truly show the spirit of National Bolshevism. We have taken what we have, and created something that can keep up with any capitalist army!" Army officers however are worried, claiming that the costs of maintaining these modified tanks far outweigh the savings procured by altering existing tanks.
"Why are we still using a 1900's design?" chirps General Vodji Vestinik. "Do you how hard it will be to serivce the tanks? We need new tanks, not recycled Yugoslavian trash! Look, I'm part of the military sect, and shouldn't I know whats best for the military? Premier Rjos must realize he is not only Premier, but the Commissar of War as well!"
Seemingly ignoring criticism, the Premier has commisioned all T-80 tanks to begin transformation. Experts say the Premier also has plans to "update" many old soviet designs left in the UNBS.
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The T-80UM3 "Bars" is the rebuilt version of the T-80 Main Battle Tank in virtually all of its versions; Despite being a design over half a century old, when the Nazbol revolution swept the world, the UNBS needed combat tanks capable of engaging the latest technical revolutions in combat of the European Union, the United States, the East Asian Bloc (China, a badly weakened India after their war with Pakistan earlier in the century, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, and Indonesia.), and Argentina.
Though the mass rebuilding of the T-80s to T-80UM3 standards was expensive, it was considered far cheaper by the Government than designing a whole new tank design. The United States and NATO nations instead developed new designs using older designs as a basis. The big advantage of the new designs was the fact that the new materials were much more durable. The Nazbol rebuilding of their old tanks allowed the Government to state that they had the firepower to deal with any enemy.
At first, the upgraded T-80 was equipped with the exact same weapons as the original T-80 and the main weapon was retained throughout the entire service career of the tank. There were many changes in the secondary weapons. The 12.7 and 7.62 mm machine-guns were not powerful enough to penetrate most body armors. A temporary partial solution was to replace the top mounted heavy machine-gun with a heavy grenade launcher. The final solution was to replace both weapons with rail guns. Even so, many crews prefer the grenade launcher over the rail guns. As a result, the grenade launcher was retained on many of the old tanks. The crews would remove and hide the grenade launchers when inspections were given.
Model Type: T-80UM3 (http://www.chinatoday.com/arm/tank/t80.jpg)
Vehicle Type: Main Battle Tank
Crew: Three (Driver, Gunner, and Commander).
Speed:
-Ground: 49.7 mph (80 kph) maximum road speed; 37.3 mph (60 kph) maximum off-road speed. The vehicle is designed to traverse virtually all terrain and can climb at up to a 60% grade although at a much slower speed (About 10% of maximum road speed). It can also climb barriers and ford trenches. The vehicle can also handle side slopes of up to 30%.
-Underwater: Can be equipped with snorkel to run underwater down to 16.4 feet (5.0 meters)
-Maximum Range: 341.7 miles (550 km) plus up to 155 miles (250 km) more with a large strap-on rear fuel tank that is ejected before going into battle.
Statistical Data:
Height: 7.22 feet (2.2 meters) to top of commander's cupola.
Width: 11.15 feet (3.4 meters)
Length: 32.48 feet (9.9 meters) with gun forward; 24.28 feet (7.4 meters) for just the hull/main body of the tank.
Weight: 49 tons (44.45 metric tons) fully loaded
Power Source: Gas Turbine Engine.
Cargo Capacity: Minimal, enough for equipment with crew
Weapon Systems:
-125 mm Smooth Bore Cannon/Missile Launcher: Mounted in the turret. The T-80UM3 enjoys a more accurate strike for the main gun using the laser targeting sight (not for the ATGMs). The T-80UM3 can also fire the AT-20 ATGW through the 125 mm gun; Truly a multi-purpose weapon that is considerably effective against enemy armor and robots alike.
--Maximum Effective Range: Direct fire range is 6,561 feet (2,000 meters). Has a quadrant site that allows the Sabot (APSD) rounds to be fired indirectly out to 30,839 feet (9,400 meters). Range for missiles varies with short range missile type; Usually Armor Piercing are carried (Go to Revised bomb and missile table).
--Payload: 40 gun rounds; Usually 9 HE, 9 HEAT, 9 AP, 9 APSD, and 4 Thermite. 5 HE, 5 HEAT, 5 AP, 7 APSD, and 2 Thermite are stored in the carrousel; The remaining sixteen rounds require two minutes (Eight melee rounds) by an untrained crew to load into the carrousel, and only one minute (Four melee rounds) by a trained crew. An additional round can be stored, ready to fire, in the main gun. If they are availible, this is usually a thermite round so that the tank can deal with a surprise attack of any type. Most forces in the UNBS have extremely limited supplies of thermite rounds; Substitute them for one more each of the other types of rounds, and if a round is carried in the barrel, it will probably be HEAT. Six AT-20 ATGWs; These are essentially a surface to surface version of the standard Rifts short range missile. Armor piercing versions are standard, though thermite and even fusion versions are planned. Four are stored in the carrousel; The other two are counted in the reload times for the carrousel above.
-Top Weapon Mount (1): The tank has a spindle to mount a weapon on the top of the turret which is normally controlled by the commander of the tank. The weapon is designed for use against troops assaulting the tank and against aircraft. Originally the weapon carried was the 12.7 millimeter NSV Machine-gun but the weapon was replaced by a variety of different weapons. The grenade launcher was the favorite replacement weapon by many vehicle crews.
--A) 12.7 millimeter NSV Machine-gun: While the Nazbol military was able to replace the armor of the tank with stronger materials, initially there were no suitable weapons developed for the tank. The best that could be done was to develop new ammunition for the standard machine-gun. The weapon was soon found to be ineffective and was replaced by more powerful weapons.
Maximum Effective Range: 3,000 feet (914.4 meters)
Payload: 400 rounds (10 bursts).
--B) ATR-50 Automatic Grenade Launcher: Weapon is very similar to the WI-GL21 Automatic Grenade Launcher produced by Wellington Industries and the American Automatic Grenade Launcher operated around the same time but uses a larger grenade and is heavier in design. Weapon was used in vehicles as well as being used in tripod mounts and used by power armors. Weapon can fire single shot or bursts of ten rounds and can inflict heavy damage when burst fired. Unlike the American design, the Nazbol automatic grenade launcher only used belts. The tank normally mounted two belts together to increase number of rounds to 400 rounds. It is believed that the Nazbol tank crews saw the effectiveness of the M1A5 equipped with this weapon so they decide to replace their heavy machine-gun with this weapon. This mount was never officially mounted on the tank but was very common none-the-less. This weapon remained very popular with tank crews and was not replaced in many of the tanks which carried it. Officially, all mounts were suppose to be replaced by the 10 mm Railgun.
Maximum Effective Range: 3,000 feet (914 meters)
Payload: 400 Round Double Belt.
--C) 10 millimeter GSR-10 Heavy Railgun: The Nazbol military was unable to make an effective liquid propellant weapon and instead developed, some say stole, a rail gun design for their existing vehicles. It replaced the 12.7 mm machine-gun in most vehicles although some with the grenade launcher retained that weapon instead. The mount was redesigned so that it can be controlled from within the turret.
Maximum Effective Range: 4,920 feet (1,500 meters)
Payload: 1200 rounds (60 bursts).
-Light Secondary Mount (1): Weapon is Co-axially mounted with the main gun. The original 7.62 long Croatian round, while longer and more powerful than the standard Soviet 7.62 Kalishikov round was still considered under powered by most crews. Several officers attempted to convince the government to mount a 14.5 mm heavy machine but the heavy weapon was not adopted. Eventually, the weapon was replaced by a medium rail gun but many crews still preferred a heavy rail gun.
--A) 7.62 mm PKT Medium Machine-guns (1): Carried on the original T-80 Tank and while underpowered was not replaced until a 5 mm rail gun was developed in the second half of the twenty first century. The American Abrams quickly replaced their medium machine-guns with liquid propellant weapons. While special ammunition was developed, the crews of the tanks still greatly disliked this weapon.
Maximum Effective Range: 2,000 feet (609.6 meters)
Payload: Carries 12,500 rounds for the Coaxial mount
--B) 5 millimeter GSR-05 Medium Railgun: Finally developed as a replacement for the medium machine-gun. It was much prefered by tank crews but was still considered underpowered compared to other tank mounts.
Maximum Effective Range: 2,000 feet (609.6 meters)
Payload: Carries 4,000 rounds total (100 full bursts or 200 half-bursts)
--Multi-Option "Shtora-8" Jammers (2): These are multi-purpose jamming devices designed to stop incoming missiles and confuse an enemy targeting the T-80U-M2.
Effect: Each firing launches two Chaff rockets, two Flare rockets, and the tank begins emitting a large cloud of smoke, both standard and Anti-Laser Prismatic aerosol ; The Chaff rockets detonate and spread Chaff over the area, the flare rockets floating down by parachute; Effects last for one minute. The Chaff rockets have a 20% chance of interfering with the course of enemy missiles each (40%, total) that are radar guided so that they miss the tank. The flares have the same percentages, except with IR-guided missiles. The Anti-Laser prismatic aerosol reduces damage by half for any laser beam striking the tank (With the exception of X-ray lasers but not variable frequency lasers; X-Ray lasers suffer no damage modifiers, and variable frequency lasers simply cannot compensate for the variables involved), and adds a great difficulty to targeting the tank with a laser guidance system or visually.
Range: Around tank only; Rough distance of 80 ft (24 m) around tank.
Payload: Sufficient for ten firings; One of each type of jamming option from each side of the vehicle.
Sensors:
-Anti-Aircraft Radar: Range of 10 miles (16 km); Capable of tracking up to 10 targets simultaneously, this radar serves to guide the top weapon mount in engaging aircraft, and providing early warning of incoming aircraft and missile attacks; The radar can be programmed to shut off immediately if it detects an aircraft firing a missile, incase the missile is a radar-homing HARM type. The radar is highly ineffective against ground targets. Quadrant sight for long-range targeting of Sabot rounds:
-Data-interlink transmitters: For using targeting data from scout vehicles for firing the Anti-Tank missiles or Sabot rounds. Bonus varies on the quality of the data being provided, but all data would allow the tank to fire over obstacles if the scout vehicle is in the right position. The normal effective battlefield range is 5 miles (8 km).
-Full Infrared viewing mode: range of 2 miles (3.2 km), with IR searchlight.
-Two Periscopes: Has up to x100 magnification for commander and driver to view out of while maneuvering the vehicle. Visual targeting sight with same magnification possible for gunner.
-Laser targeting system for main gun: range of 2,000 meters.
"Government, up close and personal."
Today Premier Rjos announced that a modified version of the T-80 tank is ready to be released into the Red Army. "These tanks truly show the spirit of National Bolshevism. We have taken what we have, and created something that can keep up with any capitalist army!" Army officers however are worried, claiming that the costs of maintaining these modified tanks far outweigh the savings procured by altering existing tanks.
"Why are we still using a 1900's design?" chirps General Vodji Vestinik. "Do you how hard it will be to serivce the tanks? We need new tanks, not recycled Yugoslavian trash! Look, I'm part of the military sect, and shouldn't I know whats best for the military? Premier Rjos must realize he is not only Premier, but the Commissar of War as well!"
Seemingly ignoring criticism, the Premier has commisioned all T-80 tanks to begin transformation. Experts say the Premier also has plans to "update" many old soviet designs left in the UNBS.
***********************************************************
The T-80UM3 "Bars" is the rebuilt version of the T-80 Main Battle Tank in virtually all of its versions; Despite being a design over half a century old, when the Nazbol revolution swept the world, the UNBS needed combat tanks capable of engaging the latest technical revolutions in combat of the European Union, the United States, the East Asian Bloc (China, a badly weakened India after their war with Pakistan earlier in the century, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, and Indonesia.), and Argentina.
Though the mass rebuilding of the T-80s to T-80UM3 standards was expensive, it was considered far cheaper by the Government than designing a whole new tank design. The United States and NATO nations instead developed new designs using older designs as a basis. The big advantage of the new designs was the fact that the new materials were much more durable. The Nazbol rebuilding of their old tanks allowed the Government to state that they had the firepower to deal with any enemy.
At first, the upgraded T-80 was equipped with the exact same weapons as the original T-80 and the main weapon was retained throughout the entire service career of the tank. There were many changes in the secondary weapons. The 12.7 and 7.62 mm machine-guns were not powerful enough to penetrate most body armors. A temporary partial solution was to replace the top mounted heavy machine-gun with a heavy grenade launcher. The final solution was to replace both weapons with rail guns. Even so, many crews prefer the grenade launcher over the rail guns. As a result, the grenade launcher was retained on many of the old tanks. The crews would remove and hide the grenade launchers when inspections were given.
Model Type: T-80UM3 (http://www.chinatoday.com/arm/tank/t80.jpg)
Vehicle Type: Main Battle Tank
Crew: Three (Driver, Gunner, and Commander).
Speed:
-Ground: 49.7 mph (80 kph) maximum road speed; 37.3 mph (60 kph) maximum off-road speed. The vehicle is designed to traverse virtually all terrain and can climb at up to a 60% grade although at a much slower speed (About 10% of maximum road speed). It can also climb barriers and ford trenches. The vehicle can also handle side slopes of up to 30%.
-Underwater: Can be equipped with snorkel to run underwater down to 16.4 feet (5.0 meters)
-Maximum Range: 341.7 miles (550 km) plus up to 155 miles (250 km) more with a large strap-on rear fuel tank that is ejected before going into battle.
Statistical Data:
Height: 7.22 feet (2.2 meters) to top of commander's cupola.
Width: 11.15 feet (3.4 meters)
Length: 32.48 feet (9.9 meters) with gun forward; 24.28 feet (7.4 meters) for just the hull/main body of the tank.
Weight: 49 tons (44.45 metric tons) fully loaded
Power Source: Gas Turbine Engine.
Cargo Capacity: Minimal, enough for equipment with crew
Weapon Systems:
-125 mm Smooth Bore Cannon/Missile Launcher: Mounted in the turret. The T-80UM3 enjoys a more accurate strike for the main gun using the laser targeting sight (not for the ATGMs). The T-80UM3 can also fire the AT-20 ATGW through the 125 mm gun; Truly a multi-purpose weapon that is considerably effective against enemy armor and robots alike.
--Maximum Effective Range: Direct fire range is 6,561 feet (2,000 meters). Has a quadrant site that allows the Sabot (APSD) rounds to be fired indirectly out to 30,839 feet (9,400 meters). Range for missiles varies with short range missile type; Usually Armor Piercing are carried (Go to Revised bomb and missile table).
--Payload: 40 gun rounds; Usually 9 HE, 9 HEAT, 9 AP, 9 APSD, and 4 Thermite. 5 HE, 5 HEAT, 5 AP, 7 APSD, and 2 Thermite are stored in the carrousel; The remaining sixteen rounds require two minutes (Eight melee rounds) by an untrained crew to load into the carrousel, and only one minute (Four melee rounds) by a trained crew. An additional round can be stored, ready to fire, in the main gun. If they are availible, this is usually a thermite round so that the tank can deal with a surprise attack of any type. Most forces in the UNBS have extremely limited supplies of thermite rounds; Substitute them for one more each of the other types of rounds, and if a round is carried in the barrel, it will probably be HEAT. Six AT-20 ATGWs; These are essentially a surface to surface version of the standard Rifts short range missile. Armor piercing versions are standard, though thermite and even fusion versions are planned. Four are stored in the carrousel; The other two are counted in the reload times for the carrousel above.
-Top Weapon Mount (1): The tank has a spindle to mount a weapon on the top of the turret which is normally controlled by the commander of the tank. The weapon is designed for use against troops assaulting the tank and against aircraft. Originally the weapon carried was the 12.7 millimeter NSV Machine-gun but the weapon was replaced by a variety of different weapons. The grenade launcher was the favorite replacement weapon by many vehicle crews.
--A) 12.7 millimeter NSV Machine-gun: While the Nazbol military was able to replace the armor of the tank with stronger materials, initially there were no suitable weapons developed for the tank. The best that could be done was to develop new ammunition for the standard machine-gun. The weapon was soon found to be ineffective and was replaced by more powerful weapons.
Maximum Effective Range: 3,000 feet (914.4 meters)
Payload: 400 rounds (10 bursts).
--B) ATR-50 Automatic Grenade Launcher: Weapon is very similar to the WI-GL21 Automatic Grenade Launcher produced by Wellington Industries and the American Automatic Grenade Launcher operated around the same time but uses a larger grenade and is heavier in design. Weapon was used in vehicles as well as being used in tripod mounts and used by power armors. Weapon can fire single shot or bursts of ten rounds and can inflict heavy damage when burst fired. Unlike the American design, the Nazbol automatic grenade launcher only used belts. The tank normally mounted two belts together to increase number of rounds to 400 rounds. It is believed that the Nazbol tank crews saw the effectiveness of the M1A5 equipped with this weapon so they decide to replace their heavy machine-gun with this weapon. This mount was never officially mounted on the tank but was very common none-the-less. This weapon remained very popular with tank crews and was not replaced in many of the tanks which carried it. Officially, all mounts were suppose to be replaced by the 10 mm Railgun.
Maximum Effective Range: 3,000 feet (914 meters)
Payload: 400 Round Double Belt.
--C) 10 millimeter GSR-10 Heavy Railgun: The Nazbol military was unable to make an effective liquid propellant weapon and instead developed, some say stole, a rail gun design for their existing vehicles. It replaced the 12.7 mm machine-gun in most vehicles although some with the grenade launcher retained that weapon instead. The mount was redesigned so that it can be controlled from within the turret.
Maximum Effective Range: 4,920 feet (1,500 meters)
Payload: 1200 rounds (60 bursts).
-Light Secondary Mount (1): Weapon is Co-axially mounted with the main gun. The original 7.62 long Croatian round, while longer and more powerful than the standard Soviet 7.62 Kalishikov round was still considered under powered by most crews. Several officers attempted to convince the government to mount a 14.5 mm heavy machine but the heavy weapon was not adopted. Eventually, the weapon was replaced by a medium rail gun but many crews still preferred a heavy rail gun.
--A) 7.62 mm PKT Medium Machine-guns (1): Carried on the original T-80 Tank and while underpowered was not replaced until a 5 mm rail gun was developed in the second half of the twenty first century. The American Abrams quickly replaced their medium machine-guns with liquid propellant weapons. While special ammunition was developed, the crews of the tanks still greatly disliked this weapon.
Maximum Effective Range: 2,000 feet (609.6 meters)
Payload: Carries 12,500 rounds for the Coaxial mount
--B) 5 millimeter GSR-05 Medium Railgun: Finally developed as a replacement for the medium machine-gun. It was much prefered by tank crews but was still considered underpowered compared to other tank mounts.
Maximum Effective Range: 2,000 feet (609.6 meters)
Payload: Carries 4,000 rounds total (100 full bursts or 200 half-bursts)
--Multi-Option "Shtora-8" Jammers (2): These are multi-purpose jamming devices designed to stop incoming missiles and confuse an enemy targeting the T-80U-M2.
Effect: Each firing launches two Chaff rockets, two Flare rockets, and the tank begins emitting a large cloud of smoke, both standard and Anti-Laser Prismatic aerosol ; The Chaff rockets detonate and spread Chaff over the area, the flare rockets floating down by parachute; Effects last for one minute. The Chaff rockets have a 20% chance of interfering with the course of enemy missiles each (40%, total) that are radar guided so that they miss the tank. The flares have the same percentages, except with IR-guided missiles. The Anti-Laser prismatic aerosol reduces damage by half for any laser beam striking the tank (With the exception of X-ray lasers but not variable frequency lasers; X-Ray lasers suffer no damage modifiers, and variable frequency lasers simply cannot compensate for the variables involved), and adds a great difficulty to targeting the tank with a laser guidance system or visually.
Range: Around tank only; Rough distance of 80 ft (24 m) around tank.
Payload: Sufficient for ten firings; One of each type of jamming option from each side of the vehicle.
Sensors:
-Anti-Aircraft Radar: Range of 10 miles (16 km); Capable of tracking up to 10 targets simultaneously, this radar serves to guide the top weapon mount in engaging aircraft, and providing early warning of incoming aircraft and missile attacks; The radar can be programmed to shut off immediately if it detects an aircraft firing a missile, incase the missile is a radar-homing HARM type. The radar is highly ineffective against ground targets. Quadrant sight for long-range targeting of Sabot rounds:
-Data-interlink transmitters: For using targeting data from scout vehicles for firing the Anti-Tank missiles or Sabot rounds. Bonus varies on the quality of the data being provided, but all data would allow the tank to fire over obstacles if the scout vehicle is in the right position. The normal effective battlefield range is 5 miles (8 km).
-Full Infrared viewing mode: range of 2 miles (3.2 km), with IR searchlight.
-Two Periscopes: Has up to x100 magnification for commander and driver to view out of while maneuvering the vehicle. Visual targeting sight with same magnification possible for gunner.
-Laser targeting system for main gun: range of 2,000 meters.