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(OOC: No, no fancy write ups from me, straight to the chase!)

M1 PHALANX Main Battle Tank

Lenght: 7.5m, 11m with Main Gun forward
Width: 3.7m
Height: 2.7m
Weight: Around 79,000 Kilos (79 Tonnes)
Crew: 4 (Commander, Gunner, Loader, Driver)
Main Armament: PK3A1 Smoothbore Main Gun (125mm, DPRs provided by Aequatio)
Secondary Armament: Coaxial 12.7mm Machine gun, 12.7mm MG on Commander's Cupola, 7.62mm MG on Loader's Hatch, 2 Smoke Dispensers
Ammo Capacity: 40 125mm Rounds (20 APFSDS-T rounds, 10 HEAT-MP rounds, 10 STAFF rounds), 1500 12.7mm rounds (1000 for Coaxial, 500 for Cupola), 1000 7.62mm Rounds
Main Gun Ammunition Types:
- M824 Armour-Peircing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot with Tracer (APFSDS-T)
- M825 High-Explosive Anti-Tank, Mutipurpose (HEAT-MP)
- M860 Stand-off, Top-Attack, Fire-and-Forget (STAFF)
- M350 Anti-Personnel Canister
Gun Depression/Elevation Range: -10°/+30°
Engine: Soviet Automotive Industries Combat Model 1, WSP-V24-UF-M1 Liquid-cooled, V-12 cylinder, 64.0-Litre, 4-stroke exhaust, Universal Fuel Engine (Primary: Biodiesel), developing 2,300hp (1,905 kW) @ 2,600 rpm
Fuel Capacity: 2000 Liters
Fuel Consumption (Road): 1 Mpg (0.425 kilometers per litre)
Fuel Consumption (Cross Country): 0.35 Mpg (0.149 kilometers per litre)
Range: 400km (average on road), 298km (average cross-country)
Powerplant: Soviet Automotive Industries Combat Model 1, WSP-APU-M1 Liquid-Cooled Biodiesel Auxiliary Power Unit generating 160kJ for Vehicle Subsystems
Power to Weight Ratio: 29hp/tonne
Speed: 70km/h road, 52km/h cross-country, 35km/h (Reverse, 2nd gear)
Fording Depth: 1.35m
Deep Water Depth: 2.5m
Underwater Drive: 4m
Slope: 45° Gradient, 35° Side Slope
Obstacle: 1.15m Vertical; 3.70m Trench
Transmission: Soviet Automotive Industries Combat Model 1 WSP-HT-M1 Hydro-kinetic with 5 forward and 2 reverse gears.

Armour:
(DPRs provided by Aequatio)

1st Layer - C4 explosive layer sandwiched between Rolled Homogenous Steel plates with a second, sandwiched layer of Hardened Glycidyl Azide Polymer (GAP) underneath HE layer.
2nd Layer - Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt alloy rods with a Boron Carbide coating buried within a layer of Boron Carbide Composite, encased within Iron-Cobalt-Nickel alloy reinforced with Carbon, Chromium and Molybdenum.
3rd Layer - Boron/High-Strength Polyethylene Synthetic Fibre Layer for particle radiation and spall protection, respectively.

Armour Protection (Actual Thickness minus ERA)
Hull - Glacis: 510mm
Hull - Lower Front: 440mm
Hull - Side: 410mm
Hull - Rear: 280mm
Turret - Front: 400mm
Turret - Front Angle: 340mm
Turret - Side: 240mm
Turret - Rear: 180mm
Turret - Roof: 85mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 520mm

Armour Protection (RHAe versus Kinetic Energy)
Hull - Glacis: 1122mm
Hull - Lower Front: 616mm
Hull - Side: 574mm
Hull - Rear: 336mm
Turret - Front: 880mm
Turret - Front Angle: 748mm
Turret - Side: 528mm
Turret - Rear: 396mm
Turret - Roof: 187mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 1144mm

Armour Protection (RHAe versus Chemical Energy)
Hull - Glacis: 1428mm
Hull - Lower Front: 792mm
Hull - Side: 738mm
Hull - Rear: 448mm
Turret - Front: 1120mm
Turret - Front Angle: 952mm
Turret - Side: 672mm
Turret - Rear: 504mm
Turret - Roof: 238mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 1456mm

Armour Protection (RHAe versus Kinetic Energy with ERA)
Hull - Glacis: 1322mm
Hull - Lower Front: 816mm
Hull - Side: 774mm
Hull - Rear: 536mm
Turret - Front: 1080mm
Turret - Front Angle: 948mm
Turret - Side: 728mm
Turret - Rear: 596mm
Turret - Roof: 387mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 1344mm

Armour Protection (RHAe versus Chemical Energy with ERA)
Hull - Glacis: 1728mm
Hull - Lower Front: 1092mm
Hull - Side: 1038mm
Hull - Rear: 748mm
Turret - Front: 1420mm
Turret - Front Angle: 1252mm
Turret - Side: 972mm
Turret - Rear: 804mm
Turret - Roof: 538mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 1756mm

Price: USD$14,250,000 per unit
Domestic Production Rights Price: Not for sale as of the moment

Thanks to:
-The NS Draftroom, for correcting the tiny details
Special Thanks to:
-Aequatio, for helping me plan, base and design the tank (which was done mostly by himself :P)

Bump FTW!

We'll take 100 of these puppies for a test drive. $1,425,000,000 is being wired to your acccount.

We'll take 100 of these puppies for a test drive. $1,425,000,000 is being wired to your acccount.

Order confirmed, expect delivery in 1-2 NS Weeks, although we can deliver about 15 of them right now.

Order confirmed, expect delivery in 1-2 NS Weeks, although we can deliver about 15 of them right now.

Excellent. Thank you.

We will be conducting some tests on the first tank we receive to test its survivability. If you wish to send an observer to our proving grounds, you are welcome to.

Excellent. Thank you.

We will be conducting some tests on the first tank we receive to test its survivability. If you wish to send an observer to our proving grounds, you are welcome to.

We thank you, and we will send an observer.

OOC: BUMP!

Hmm sounds like a nice tank. If its possible we wouln't mind trying out a few of them. Based on the performance of the first one we recieve will determine if we buy more in the future. We would like 10 of them to try out for a price of $142,500,000. This will be wired to your acount based on acknowledment of shipment. Send a message to us prior to the shipment to confirm.

OOC:
Got any pictures?

The Free Land of Dartia also wishes to send an observer to this "survivabilty" test. If it fairs well, we may make a purchase of our own.

Hmm sounds like a nice tank. If its possible we wouln't mind trying out a few of them. Based on the performance of the first one we recieve will determine if we buy more in the future. We would like 10 of them to try out for a price of $142,500,000. This will be wired to your acount based on acknowledment of shipment. Send a message to us prior to the shipment to confirm.

Order confirmed, expect delivery in 2 to 3 NS Days.

OOC:
Got any pictures?

OOC: Not at the moment.

Bump

Bumpz0r5

Bumpz0r5

OOC: You ready to test this tank on our proving ground?

OOC: You ready to test this tank on our proving ground?

Sure, why not?

Bump

OOC: After you test these things you think you can make around 12,000 of them?

OOC: After you test these things you think you can make around 12,000 of them?

Sure, what do you need some many for?

Greetings noble ally!

I must say that I am impressed with your armor design, and wish to incorporate it into the Red Guard. We would like to place an order for 25,000 of these.


Price: $356,250,000,000

Greetings noble ally!

I must say that I am impressed with your armor design, and wish to incorporate it into the Red Guard. We would like to place an order for 25,000 of these.


Price: $356,250,000,000

Sure, order confirmed, you'll recieve them in groups of 5,000 over the course of the next 5 NS Months.

OOC: Because I need a lot of new tanks for my army.

OOC: Because I need a lot of new tanks for my army.

OOC: You are welcome to send a team to observe our field tests of the M1.

We'll take 20,000 for the price of 285,000,000,000.

Reich Defense Ministry

We'll take 20,000 for the price of 285,000,000,000.

Reich Defense Ministry

Order confirmed, they'll be delivered in groups of 5,000 over the course of 4 NS Months.

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Beautiful. Can't wait for those production rights... :D

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Beautiful. Can't wait for those production rights... :D

Ahem, Im sorry, but we dont sell heavy weaponry to Corporations.

No? That's dissapointing...

Friendly Neo-Erusean BUMP....



(Wait a second...
Ahem, Im sorry, but we dont sell heavy weaponry to Corporations.
You just finished selling me like 200 tanks the other day...)

Friendly Neo-Erusean BUMP....



(Wait a second...

You just finished selling me like 200 tanks the other day...)

Yes, but they were Pre-WWII Light Tanks.