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The Barbarosean military has the need for the following items. It was deemed that NWI (http://home.att.net/~mlbr24/store.htm) was not up for the quality of these products, which are in fields of much less experience for NWI. Therefore, the Barbarosean Armed Forces (BAF) have released the following contracts to outside bidders.



Avaible Contracts

No contracts avaible at this time


Previous Contracts

FILLED BY NAGONA WEAPONS INDUSTRIES A multi-purpose, high tech assault carbine. Must be able to be used as both an assault weapon and a marksmenship rifle. Other varients helpful. To be used as a SOF weapon, with the possibility of outfitting entire army with it. Winning Design Payment: $100 Million Price per unit to be worked upon winning design selection.
FILLED BY AEQUATIAN MILITARY INDUSTRIES An entire APC line to be used as the main APC in the BAF. Needs to have multiple varients to make it useful as tank support, anti-tank, speedy troop transport, light mobile artillery, recon vehicle, and SOF insertion vechile. Winning Design Payment: $25 Billion Price per unit to worked upon winning design selection.
FILLED BY ILLIORIAN ARMS An insertion helocoper for special operational forces. Needs to hold 12 people + flight crew. Rotors must be as quiet as possible. Radar footprint must be as small as possible. Winning Design Payment: $5 Billion Price per unit to be no more then $150 Million
FILLED BY CROOKFUR ARMS A Jeep-like light recon vehicle. Needs to have designs for normal and special operational uses. Must be able to have a mounted weapon and adjustible amounts of armor. Winning Design Payment: $500 Million Price per unit to be no more then $600,000 normal / $1.5 Million SOF


Have fun and happy bidding ;).

To: Barbarosean MoD,
From: Illiorian Arms

Dear Sirs/Misses,
we would be happy to take on the contract for the design of the stealth transport helicopter, although we have several questions about other design requirements.
1. Must it be armed? door mounts? missiles?
2. any max range?
3. Specific fuel type?

Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel
Head of Research and Development
Illiorian Arms

TO: Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel, Illiorian Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for wishing to bid on one of our contrancts. To reply to your questions:

1. Yes, it must have enough armorment to defend itself, however offensive capibility is optional
2. Yes, the max range should be around 1,200 nm
3. No, but it should be able to use recycled fuel in a gasoline form.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

To: Richard B. Addford
From: Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel
Dear sir,
This is the design that the Haaj-Frimmel Team came up with to fill your contract. We hope it is well accepted. IH-20 (http://z7.invisionfree.com/Illiorian_Arms/index.php?showtopic=50)


Kevon Narmel

(It's the second post, after the IH-19s)

TO: Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel, Illiorian Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

After comparing your design to that of other possibilites, I have decided that the Barbarosean Military will accept your offer of the IH-20 as the winning design for our SOF Helicopter Contract. We are pleased with you design and have only one questions. Is the electronic suite modifible? We would only need to add one of our GPS-DS recievers into the already provided suite. Thank you again for fufilling our contract. We plan on buying 4 production units for testing. If testing goes well, we will outfit our entire SOF units with them, buying between 400-500 units.

Your R&D Award has been wired to the Illiorian Arms account.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

(OOC: The range was taken from the MH-63 Pave Lowe page, didn't think it was too extreme. But nevertheless, I like the chopper.

OOC: 1200nm is probably it's ferry range, and that's a hell long way for a helicopter to fly, but anyways... yeah.

IC:
To:Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military
From:Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel, Illiorian Arms

Is the electronics suite modifiable? Yes, and easily too. If you would like, we could integrate the GPS systems during construction. All we would need is either the designs or the units themselves. And don't worry about purchasing the four, IA has a program of sending six aircraft, pilots, maintenance crews and extra parts for show, to allow possible customer nations to view and test the aircraft and talk to those that work with it. If you like, we can have those six aircraft and their crews to you in about two months.

Kevon Narmel
Head of Research and Development
Illiorian Arms
Glasgen Island

OOC: Meh, oh well.

IC:
TO: Gen. (ret.) Kevon Narmel, Illiorian Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We are sorry, but due to regulations about the GPS-DS technology, we are not allowed to export it in any form. NWI will take care of the modifications, but we thank you for your offer. We would be happy to accept your offer of 6 test units, and two months will be a good time frame. Thank you again.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

OOC: I'll probably place my order around sunday...

OOC: W/e works for you... and consider the test systems on the way... gotta do some work now.

Bump for the night

To: Barbarosean MoD,
From: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms

Dear Sirs,

Perhaps Croofkur Arms could interest you in our MUVA17 Scorpion, a light weight multi role vehicle with exceptional ampbhibious capabilities:


MUVA 17 Scorpion

http://www.meatballs.terminator.org.uk/crookfur/images/MUVA17.jpg

Length: 5.3m
Height: 2.1m
Width: 2.6m
Engine: CFPW F72 multi fuel turbine
Max speed: 110kph on road, 7kph in water
Range: 700km
Payload: 1.4tons
Max weight (loaded): 5650kg
Crew: 2 (plus 5 troops)

The Scorpion is easily reconfigurable and features a modular armour scheme allowing protection levels ranging from STANAG lvl 1 all the way up to STANAG lvl 4 to be carried (the lvl 4 would only be over selected areas).

Price wise a unit price of $60,000-90,000 woudl be offered depending on the equipment and armour fittings.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,
Karen Jenkins

Morvonian Republic Arms works would like to present the Lsase Recon car

Low Silouete advanced Survailance equipment recon car (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5443/lsasereconcarfc9.jpg)

First made for recon duties for armored units. The versitility of the car allowed it to carry on in many different branches with many different jobs. The mobility and air-transportability made it a wonderful edition to special forces groups, light infantry divisions and para-infantry operations, as well as marine units. The light armor of the car was solved by the Utal missle defence unit, which uses radiation to scramble guided-rockets. Working in packs of three, one will usually have advance survailance equipment and only light arms, while the other two will carry the heavier weapons and replace the advanced camera equipment.

90,000 to 100,000 per unit, 4 will be given for trial purposes for free, if no purchase is made, the car will be returned ASAP.



LSASE recon car



Dimensions:
Length 5.71 m
Width 2.49 m
height to roof 1.79 m
overall height 2.18 m
combat weight approximately 9.7 tonnes
gross weight approximately 1 0.0 tonnes
Room for 6 (2 driver and gunner)
Navigation
inertial navigation system
gps support
inertial computer unit
North-seeking gyroscope
positioning accuracy, own vehicle 1 0 metres, circle error probability (CEP)
positioning accuracy, target 1 0 metres, circle error probability (CEP)
observation and Reconnaissance
number of windows 5
periscopic sight and 2 vision blocks in the gun mount
extendible sensor with ccd camera, thermal imager, laser range finder
sensor head fully elevated height 3.29 metres
sensor traverse range +- 220 degrees
sensor elevation range -30 to +30 degrees
Armament
gun mount with periscopic sight for
40mm grenade launcher,40 mm automatic cannon, anti-tank launcher, or
7.62 or.50 calibre machine gun.
traverse range n x 3600
elevation range -10 to +40 degrees
basic load automatic cannon 32 rounds
basic load 7.62 machine gun 250 rounds
vehicle command and Control
Intercom
vhf radio (GE) sem 80/90
vhf radio (NL) trc 9500
hf radio (GE) hrm 7400
radio data transmission
voice radio communication
Telegraphy
Mobility
engine output 179 kW
maximum torque 819 nm at 1650 rpm
maximum road speed 115 kph
maximum reverse speed 23 kph
maximum forward slope 60 degrees
maximum side slope 35 degrees
angle of approach and departure 36 degrees
Overhang 45 degrees
Range, road approximately 860 km
Range, cross-country approximately 400 km
fuel consumption 21.5 litres per 100 km
selectable rear-wheel drive/ front-wheel drive
selectable differential lock
turning radius 6.3 metres
fording depth 1 metre
programmable tire pressure control system
Swimmable, speed 5.2 Km/h
Accessories
cable winch, 5 tonnes
nbc protection system
fire warning and extinguishing system
Air-conditioning
rearview camera system
Armor plate attachments giving 35mm of extra protection to all sides.
Missle protection unit

TO: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill one of our contracts. We have some questions about your design. Please reply as soon as possible.
1. What is the mounted weapon on the roof of the vehicle?
2. Is the design fully enclosed, or are there openings in the back walls or roof?
3. Are there any modifications to be made for stealth operations, such as a missile defense system?
4. Is the engine shielded? (AKA, less noise, and harder to hit with enemy fire)

Answering these questions for us will help us in deciding upon a winning design for our contract. We once again thank you for submitting a design, and wish you the best of luck.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

TO: Morvonian Republic Arms Head of Sales
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill one of our contracts. We have some questions about your design. Please reply as soon as possible.
1. Are there modification to allow the LSASE Recon Car to have a varing amount of armor?
2. Is the periscope retractible?
3. Is the engine shielded? (AKA, less noise, and harder to hit with enemy fire)
4. What are the points of entry and exit?

Answering these questions for us will help us in deciding upon a winning design for our contract. We once again thank you for submitting a design, and wish you the best of luck.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

TO: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill one of our contracts. We have some questions about your design. Please reply as soon as possible.
1. What is the mounted weapon on the roof of the vehicle?
2. Is the design fully enclosed, or are there openings in the back walls or roof?
3. Are there any modifications to be made for stealth operations, such as a missile defense system?
4. Is the engine shielded? (AKA, less noise, and harder to hit with enemy fire)

Answering these questions for us will help us in deciding upon a winning design for our contract. We once again thank you for submitting a design, and wish you the best of luck.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

TO: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military
FROM: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms

Many thanks for takign the time to look over our submission, now to your questions:
1: The weapon in the ilusstration is the E5 Heavy Automatic Grenade Launcher details of which can be found HERE (http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_NS_Draftroom/index.php?showtopic=2824).

2: The Scorpion is full enclose with a removable roof hatch and removable side and rear doors, the enclosed body shell can be replaced with a open roll cage body if so desired, although obviously this woudl reduce the amount of armour that cna be carried.

3: While an Anti missile system would go a long way to reducing the amount of stealth the vehicle would have (what with most of them relying on soem kind of active sensor) such a device could be fitted. In terms of stealth the basic model has only minimal measures taken for signature reducation but if required the armour panels can be repalced with RAM panels which would still provide a degree of ballaistic protection ableit at a reduced level, maximum armour protection using RAM panels would be in the region of STANAG lvl2 with lvl 3 over vital areas.

4: the engine block is cosnidered a vtial area so would would receive the maximum protection from each amour kit depending on the angle of attack. The basic model only features basic audiable and thermal engine signature reduction but an imporved engine muffling system can be fitted, although the turbine engine with electric drive is already notably quieter than conventional engines.

Yours Sincerely
Karen Jenkins

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

TO: Morvonian Republic Arms Head of Sales
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill one of our contracts. We have some questions about your design. Please reply as soon as possible.
1. Are there modification to allow the LSASE Recon Car to have a varing amount of armor?
2. Is the periscope retractible?
3. Is the engine shielded? (AKA, less noise, and harder to hit with enemy fire)
4. What are the points of entry and exit?

Answering these questions for us will help us in deciding upon a winning design for our contract. We once again thank you for submitting a design, and wish you the best of luck.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea


We thank for taking into consideration our proposal.

1.Yes there are kits for this, but also simple modifcations on the ground can allow more armor plate to be added, for whatever situation you find yourself in, allowing this machine to do everything from frontline recon to engineering duties. Its main protection though is its speed and missile defence systems.

2.To a certain point, about 1/4th its original size, or completly removed to add more firepower. Which includes anything you can put on, as long at the triger of the weapon can be activated safly by the auto systme on the turret.

3.The engine is a Rotowka CYT, instead of puting the whole engine in one big block of steel, each major part in reinforced on its own, the engine also contains redundant parts, so if a part should fail you have 1-3 more to use. All the individual major parts are on a chassie to be able to quickly remove the whole thing and save the mechanics time, the armor on the parts can stop 14.5 mm rounds and is made of a mixture of alloys ans senthetic materials to cut down on weight. The engine is also sheilded from water to allow the car to swim, making up for the advance heat control system. Sound is reduced through the holes in the armored packts for the parts, allowing the sound to expand and bounce around before exiting, thus reducing sound.

4. The gunner/camara operator has a hatch much like that of a tank. On the drivers half of the car opens up down the center to allow speedy exits and entrances.

- An entire APC line to be used as the main APC in the BAF. Needs to have multiple varients to make it useful as tank support, anti-tank, speedy troop transport, light mobile artillery, recon vehicle, and SOF insertion vechile. Winning Design Payment: $25 Billion Price per unit to worked upon winning design selection.

Aequatian Military Industries offers the M4A3 Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle. Although there are only two variants available, we can develop the necessary variants your armed forces require.

M4A3 Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle

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M4A3 Spartan MCV

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M1200 Vampyr Air Defence Vehicle armed with Quad-linked M125A6 35mm Automatic Cannons and MIM-230 "Talon" LIDAR-guided, High-Velocity Missiles.

Overview

The improvement programme for the Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle comes after the reviews of combat operations in The World Soviet Party against the mercenary forces of the Griffincrest Corporation and the heavily armoured Stormtroopers of the nation of Undershi, where many of the systems already installed on the M4A2 Spartan were seen as ineffective. The improvements are set to increase the effectiveness of all systems aboard the Spartan MCV, nearly rendering it a completely new vehicle.

Armament Systems

The primary armament of the M4A3 Spartan mechanized combat vehicle is the turret-mounted, computer-controlled gyrostabilized 40mm M132 Automatic Cannon. The development of the 40mm M132 Automatic Cannon began as a replacement for the 35mm M125 Automatic Cannon which has been in service as the standard small caliber cannon since it replaced the original 25mm M242 Bushmaster cannon. The design requirements are different however for the M132 cannon compared to the older M125 since the latter was originally designed as an area suppression weapon for use against enemy infantry units and a later developed to use anti-armour rounds, the former will be designed from the outset as an accurate, anti-armour weapon with area suppression capability.

The M132 cannon is a recoil-operated, self-loading weapon with an electromagnetic assist which is capable of firing repetitive shots and short bursts of up to eight rounds (two clips of four rounds each), and has a cyclic rate of fire of 80 rounds per minute. Ammunition is fed in four-round clips with the empty shell cases being ejected forwards out of the weapon to avoid turret clutter. The weapon operates on a long-recoil system (much like the 30mm L21A1 RARDEN cannon) in which both the barrel and breech initially close together. To allow for spent ammunition casings to be ejected, the barrel recoil ceases while the breech continues to extract the spent cartridge case, which is then ejected forward out of the turret. The barrel then moves forward again, following after an interval by the breech which loads another round.

The cannon uses a smoothbore barrel, for the use of its primary armour-peircing discarding sabot tracer (APDS-T) ammunition, which also benefits from electromagnetic (EM) rails along its length to maintain a high velocity for the rounds being fired so as to produce the optimal striking velocity of 1,900m/s. The system is fully enclosed and the internal section of the weapon only protrudes a mere 50cm into the turret space. The gun is charged by a small, powered cocking/loading handle and no fumes can penetrate the turret. The cannon has a double feeder, allowing for two types of ammunition to be ready for firing which are preloaded with a clip of both M950 High-Explosive Airburst (HEAB) and M951 Armour-Piecring Discarding Sabot Tracer (APDS-T). The vehicle carries a total of 120 HEAB and 80 APDS-T rounds.

The primary ammunition type of the M132 cannon is the M951 armour-piercing discarding sabot tracer (APDS-T) round using a depleted Uranium kinetic-energy penetrator with a 13.5mm diameter and 108mm length. With the use of the electromagnetic rails along the barrel of the cannon, the round can achieve up to 1,850m/s upon striking a target, allowing for almost 400mm of penetration against Rolled Homogenous Armour equivalent.

Secondary ammunition for the weapon include the M950 high-explosive airburst (HEAB) which contains a proximity fuse which is set to the distance determined by the vehicle’s laser rangefinder. Although it can be used in its primary fashion, it may also be used as a standard HE-FRAG round, especially in urban terrain, where its proximity fuse can be set to delay detonation after the round has penetrated an obstacle such as a wall or building.

The vehicle has also been provided with a pair of M5 Launchers for the effective BGM-225 Goblin-series optically-guided anti-tank missiles. The launchers each hold a preloaded round while another eight are carried inside the vehicle for reloading through a door atop the passenger compartment. The missiles carried can consist of both the A and B variants, ammunition load outs for the weapons are chosen by the unit commander in the theatre of operations. Mounted coaxially to the M132 cannon is an 8.5mm MG68 light machinegun which is also stabilized, allowing for firing on the move, and carries a total of 1,000 rounds of ammunition with a 1:6 ratio of tracer/ball ammunition.

Fire Control Systems

The gunner is provided with improved sights with the use of the Thermal Observation and Gunnery Sight, Mark VII (THOGS VII) which is integrated with the WillTell, Mark V Fire Control System and a Discrimination Carbon Dioxide Laser Rangefinder. The THOGS VII uses a stabilized 12x Power Day Sight with optional thermal viewer suite and with positive target identification up to ranges of 10,000m. The commander also has a view through this main sight on a separate display at his/her station. There is also a backup 8x Power Day sight which can be used by the gunner should the primary sight become damaged.

The commander, in addition to his/her main sight viewer, has a monitor connected to the Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer with an attached Carbon Dioxide Laser Rangefinder for the commander to designate targets for the gunner and can enter them into the WillTell, Mark V Fire Control System's memory so that the gunner can quickly engage them with the main gun by selecting them from a list of targets provided on the gunner's monitor.

The WillTell, Mark V All-Digital Fire Control System is an improved version of the long legacy of computerized systems used in Aequatian tanks. It uses twin 128-bit Processors with an Aequatian Electronics Industries AEQ-MIL-9028D Databus and is fully integrated with other systems, including the Advanced Battlefield Information Control System (ABICS), Air Density Meter (ADM), Wind Direction and Speed Monitoring System (WDSMS), Main Gun Wear and Distortion Meter (MGWDM) and Thermal Observation and Gunnery Sight, Mark VII (THOGS VII) with Carbon Dioxide Laser Rangefinder.

Armour Protection

The M4A3 Spartan is provided with an armoured suite similar to that of the M20 Mackall series main battle tanks, although much lighter than the heavy composite armour, but no less robust. The outermost layer of armour consists of an Iron-Cobalt-Nickel alloy reinforced with Carbon, Chromium and Molybdenum to provide protection against small arms, shell fragments and splinters (this layer also helps to protect the underlying composites from unnecessary damage). A second layer consists of a Boron Nitride Composite Mesh which is designed to greatly disrupt both kinetic-energy and explosively-formed penetrators due to its low solid density and highly-efficient ballistic heat conduction, respectively. It also possesses an extremely high tensile strength, which is up to sixty times stronger than Rolled Homogenous Steel Armour. This layer is designed to provide the sloped armour of the tank protection from damage when struck by kinetic-energy penetrator (KEP) munitions and to ensure that the underlying composite layers are not comprimised.

The most protection, however, is provided by the layering of Boron Carbide ceramic composite which is encased within the same Iron-Cobalt-Nickel alloy reinforced with Carbon, Chromium and Molybdenum to provide structure. The alloy/ceramic composite provides a great amount of protection against shaped-charge anti-tank weapons such as infantry rockets like the M136 AT-4 and RPG-7. Along the inside is a Boron/High-Strength Polyethylene Synthetic Fibre Layer which protects interior personnel and vehicle systems from radiation and electromagnetic (EM) threats with a shielding rating up to 16 kRads of particle and electromagnetic radiation. It also provdes an Anti-Spall Protective Layer for interior crew and systems protection should a round be successful in penetrating the outer armoured layers.

More write-up coming...

Specifications - M4A3 Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle

Crew: 3 (Vehicle Commander, Driver, Gunner) + 10 Passengers
Combat Weight: 34,500kg
Ground Pressure: 307kg/m²
Power-to-Weight Ratio: 26.1hp/tonne
Hull Length: 7.60m
Overall Length: 7.60m
Width: 3.90m
Height to Turret Roof: 2.45m
RBC Protection System: Aequatian Military Industries (Special Warfare Division) AEQ-CPS-M1 Compact Crew Protection System with Attachments for Infantry MOPP and Crew Masks.
Engine: Aequatian Automotive Industries (Propulsion Division) AEQ-V24-UF Liquid-cooled, V-12 cylinder, 50.0-Litre, 4-stroke exhaust, turbo-charged universal fuel (Primary: Biodiesel) engine, developing 900hp (672 kW) @ 2,600 rpm
Powerplant: Aequatian Automotive Industries (Propulsion Division) AEQ-APU-M3 Liquid-Cooled Biodiesel Auxiliary Power Unit generating 90kJ for Vehicle Subsystems
Transmission: Aequatian Automotive Industries (Components Division) AEQ-HT-M900 Hydro-kinetic with 5 forward and 2 reverse gears.
Fuel Capacity: 450 gal. (1,135 Litres)
Fuel Consumption (Road): 3 Mpg (1.27 kilometers per litre)
Fuel Consumption (Cross Country): 1 Mpg (0.425 kilometers per litre)
Operational Range (Average): 364km
Maximum Speed (Road): 75km/h
Maximum Speed (Cross Country): 59km/h
Maximum Speed (Reverse, 2nd Gear): 32km/h
Fording Depth: 1.3m
Deep Water Depth: 1.6m
Underwater Drive: 3.5m
Slope: 60° Gradient, 35° Side Slope
Obstacle: 0.85m Vertical; 4.35m Trench
Main Gun: Aequatian Military Industries (Gun Division) 40mm/-calibre M132 Automatic Cannon with M98A2 Gyrostabilization Unit
Main Gun Ammunition Types:
M950 High-Explosive Airburst (HEAB)
M951 Armour-Piecring Discarding Sabot Tracer (APDS-T)
Stowed Main Gun Ammunition: 200 Rounds (120 M950 HEAB; 80 M951 APDS-T)
Gun Depression/Elevation Range: -15°/+45°
Secondary Armament:
Two Single M5 Launchers for BGM-225 Goblin Anti-Tank Guided Missiles with 10 Rounds
One Coaxial-mounted 8.5mm MG68 Light Machinegun with 1,000 Rounds
Provision for one cupola-mounted weapon.
Smoke Dischargers: 2x twin 90mm Multiple Smoke Grenade Launchers
Fire Control Systems: Aequatian Digital Enterprises WillTell Mark V Fire Contol Suite integrated with Advanced Battlefield Information Control System (ABICS), Air Density Meter (ADM), Wind Direction and Speed Monitoring System (WDSMS), Main Gun Wear and Distortion Meter (MGWDM) and Thermal Observation and Gunnery Sight, Mark VII (THOGS VII) with Carbon Dioxide Laser Rangefinder.

- A multi-purpose, high tech assault carbine. Must be able to be used as both an assault weapon and a marksmenship rifle. Other varients helpful. To be used as a SOF weapon, with the possibility of outfitting entire army with it. Winning Design Payment: $100 Million Price per unit to be worked upon winning design selection.

Aequatian Military Industries offers the new G28 Infantry Combat Rifle, its modular design allows for the weapon to be converted into a carbine, designated marksman rifle and light support weapon.

Aequatian Military Industries G28 Infantry Combat Rifle

With the development of the G65A1 carbine and G70 battle rifle and both weapons being adopted by the Army and Marine Corps respectively, a problem of logistics was realized as a common ammunition was no logner in use by all of the Aequatian branches. The Army's requirements called for a lightweight round which was capable of effective armour penetration (6.35x45mm) while the Marines prefered a long-range, accurate round (8.5x60mm). It was seen by a joint task force of personnel from both the Army and Marine Training and Doctrine Commands that a common cartridge was needed and that a comprimise could be reached.

The Army/Marine Joint Development looked towards Russkyan designs for a new common munition for the service rifle. What was originally examined was the 9.3x39mm Armour-Piercing Fragmenting Jacket (APFJ) round.

Armour Piercing Fragmenting Jacket (APFJ) ammunition has been developed for the 9.3x39mm cartridge, a move inspired by the .40 DDI (10x23mm Bottleneck) cartridge found in the Doomingslandi TDX .40 Caliber Standard Issue Sidearm.

The new APFJ ammunition consists of a round with a pointed tungsten nose and core section which is surrounded by a blended metal jacket which flattens upon impact with a hardened surface, or an object that is unable to be penetrated, such as a protective vest.

Should this happen, the nose and core are able to continue penetrating; initial tests of APFJ ammunition in 9.3x39mm indicate Level IV armour is penetrated at 500 meters. Upon penetrating an armoured target the hardened tungsten nose and core begin to tumble. With unarmoured targets, the case expands and fragments as the round penetrates; creating a very large wound from the fragments, and a very difficult to treat wound from the tumbling core. APFJ ammunition has a much higher velocity than other 9.3x39mm cartridges.

The round was sized down into the 6.5x55mm and the bolt and feeding mechanism from the G65A1 carbine was altered to take the new round, allowing for greater performance by the weapon. The round will replace the 6.35x45mm ARAM cartridge in all other Aequatian service weapons, including the G65A1 carbine and MG66 squad automatic weapon. (G65A2 and MG66A1 respectively)

The Aequatian variant is fitted with an M80A Floating Dot Sight with an effective viewing range of up to 1,000m. It can also be outfitted with a 40mm M206A1 grenade launcher for light infantry support and a full universal rail system.

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G28 Rifle

Unit cost: 850 Aequatian Markes
Type: Service rifle
Place of origin: Aequatian Republic
Used by: ARA, ARMC, ARN, ARAF

Weight: 2.80kg (empty)
Length: 930mm
Barrel length: 510mm

Cartridge: 6.5x55mm ARAM-KE (Aequatio)
Caliber: 6.5mm
Feed system: 30-round detachable box magazine
Operation: Gas-operated, rotating bolt; full automatic, semi-automatic, safe
Rate of fire: 700 rounds per minute, cyclic
Muzzle velocity: 1,200m/s
Effective range: 700m (point target); 1,100m (area target)

TO: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

Thank you for answering our inquiries about your design. As far as the contract goes, we have awarded Crookfur Arms with the winning design. $500 Million is being wired to your account. We wish to congradulate you on a suberp design. We will be ordering the basic design you have provided here for our Ground Strike Force at a later date (OOC: When I get to it, probably sometime next week). However, at this time we would like to order the design here, along with an improved muffler system and RAM panels. If you would please direct me to your storefront I will offically place my order. We are willing to pay upto your max price range specified, plus the cost of the improved muffler system. Thank you again for fufilling a contract for the Barbarosean Military.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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TO: Morvonian Republic Arms Head of Sales
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

Thank you for answering our inquiries about your design. As far as the contract goes, we have awarded Crookfur Arms with the winning design. However, we still wish to purchase the LSASE at a later date for a different role in our Ground Strike Force (OOC: Same as above, probably later next week). We thank you for submitting a design to us and wish you the best of business.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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TO: Head of Sales, Aequatian Military Industries
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting designs to fufill contracts of the Barbarosean Military. At this momment, we are awaiting more submissions for our APC contract, but we do like the M4A3 design you have submitted. We have considered your G28 design for our assault carbine contract, but we have chosen to go with another company for our needs. We thank you again for submitting both designs, and await other APC designs to weight against yours. We will be in touch about your M4A3 design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

We will be waiting and we thank you for looking at our design. We would also like to congradulate our Crookfur counter parts on winning the contract. If you would like we can sell you the production rights for 12 million right now, as we do not have a storefront and work throught the goverment.


Janice B. Kovos
Head of Sales
Morvonian Republic Arms

Pale Rider Arms would like to present it's M26 Assault Rifle for review by the Barbarosean military. We believe that it's superior construction and cutting edge innovations will place it near the top of your list. As for the APC contract, forthcoming upgrades of the Nezumi Oni IFV (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=506698) should meet your needs, providing anti-tank, anti-aircraft, and artillery support to your soldiers. More information on Nezumi Oni variants will be provided as they become available.

I hope that these designs prove useful to the Barbarosean State, and that you will consider them for use.

Yours,
David Quetzal
Director of Creative Weapons

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/blaesa/PRA%20junk/ares-hvar.jpg
Length: 611.25
Barrel Length: 543.75
Mass: 4.6 kilograms
Cartridge: 6.5x40mm caseless (7.5 gram bullet)
Ammunition: 40 box magazine (optional extended magazines in 60, 80, and 100 rounds)
Muzzle Velocity: 910 m/s
Muzzle Energy: 3105.375 joules
Rate of Fire: 800 RPM cyclic (2200 RPM burst fire)
Modes of Fire: Safe, Semi-Automatic, 3 Round Burst, Full Auto
Aiming: Iron sights, integral smartgun system
Cost: 1400 USD

TO: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

Thank you for answering our inquiries about your design. As far as the contract goes, we have awarded Crookfur Arms with the winning design. $500 Million is being wired to your account. We wish to congradulate you on a suberp design. We will be ordering the basic design you have provided here for our Ground Strike Force at a later date (OOC: When I get to it, probably sometime next week). However, at this time we would like to order the design here, along with an improved muffler system and RAM panels. If you would please direct me to your storefront I will offically place my order. We are willing to pay upto your max price range specified, plus the cost of the improved muffler system. Thank you again for fufilling a contract for the Barbarosean Military.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea


TO: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military
FROM: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms

Many thanks for choosing Crookfur Arms, we are delighted to have been able to fufil your requirements in this case. Your order has been processed and approved.

Once again allow me to thank you for choosing Crookfur Arms to aide you in providing for your nation's defence.

With Warmest Reguards
Karen Jenkins


OOC:
Unfortuantly i don't have a current store from at the moment but feel free to carry otut he transaction any way you feel, be it a news post, TG or any othe rmethod you can think of.

The Undershi Arms Mk. I Viper Infantry Fighting Vehicle:

The Undershi Arms Mk. I Viper IFV is the basis of several variant designs. The primary model is (converted to MT - PMT version available upon request):

Undershi Army Mk. I Viper IFV Model A:

- Main Gun: 88mm turret mounted cannon

- Secondary Weapons: Coxial, Remote Controlled Pintle and Fixed Frontal machineguns - can be chambered to whatever your nation's standard round is.

- Armour: The Undershi Arms Mk. I Viper IFV uses chobham reinforced armour (in MT, Neo-Chobham in PMT). This material is one of the most effective armour alloys out there. The Viper's well sloped profile carries a full 65 millimeters of armour, of which 45 is Chobham on its frontal facing, 45 on each side, of which 25 is Chobham, and 20 on the rear, of which 5 is Chobham.

- Engine: The Viper IFV uses a diesel engine, which is good for two reasons - one, it resists burning more effectively than gasoline engines and two it increases fuel milage. The engine design varies with the variant, but the A variant uses a high powered engine that allows speeds of up to 45 mph.

- Transport Capacity: The A variant is primarily an infantry support/transport variant, as befits its IFV label. As such, it can carry eight soldiers, along with its crew of four.

- Crew:
- Commander
- Turret Gunner
- Driver/Fixed Forward machinegun gunner
- Loader/mechanic/radio man

The Viper uses an auto-loader system, which frees up the loader for his other duties - namely radio operation.

- Extras: The Viper Mk. I IFV Model A has several interesting features:
- Radio: Every Viper is outfitted with a radio, allowing for superior coordination of movement and action.
- Weapons lockers: The seats in the transport section of the Viper double as weapons lockers, allowing for the storage of arms and supplies for the soldiers being carried therein.
- Medical Kit Mount: Emphasising the care given to each individual soldier in the Undershi Military, the Viper IFV has a special mount for a medical kit, located in the transport area in a readily accessible location.
- Pintle Mounted Machinegun and Remote Control: The pintle mounted machine gun allows the Viper crew that much extra fire-power, which is good... however, if one fires the pintle mount, one normally does so from an exposed position. Therefore, that problem has been solved - the pintle mount can be controlled and fired remotely from the safety of the armoured interior of the Viper.


We hope you find this design intriguing - other variants exist, such as one built for an anti-tank role which sacrifices some transport capacity for the added fire-power of a 105mm cannon, and a Scout variant, which forgoes the 88mm cannon in favor of an automatic grenade launcher and a much high speed.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.

OOC: Crookfur, this thread will work.
IC:TO: Karen Jenkins, Head of Sales, Crookfur Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

The Barbarosean Military would like to officially submit an order for 2,646 units of the Crookfur Arms MUVA 17 Scorpion. An amount of USD$238,140,000 (238.14M) has been wired to the Crookfur Arms account. We would like to request these units be outfitted with improved muffler systems and be shipped with RAM panels. If there is an extra charge, please change the amount wired before the confirmation and we will confirm it on our end. Thank you.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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TO: Janice B. Kovos, Head of Sales, Morvonian Republic Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for your offer of production rights to your LSASE Recon Vehicle, and the Barbarosean Military has accepted the offer. USD$12,000,000 (12M) has been wired to the Morvonian Republic Arms account. We thank you again for your offer of production rights.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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OOC: To all APC contracts, I'll get to those soon. I'm tired right now, but just an FYI, Otagia, we will be declining your rifle contract, but thank you for your submission.

May the future be kind to you Barbarosea.

And a Bump.

TO: Head of Sales, Undershi Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill a contract for the Barbarosean Military. We are sorry to inform you that your Mk. I Viper IFV has not been chosen as the winning design in our APC contract. We wish you the best of luck in future business, and thank you again for submitting a design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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TO: David Quetzal, Director of Creative Weapons, Pale Rider Arms
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill a contract for the Barbarosean Military. We are sorry to inform you that your Nezumi Oni IFV has not been chosen as the winning design in our APC contract. We wish you the best of luck in future business, and thank you again for submitting a design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

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TO: Head of Sales, Aequatian Military Industries
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill a contract for the Barbarosean Military. We are pleased to inform you that your M4A3 Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle has been chosen as the winning design in our APC contract. The contract reward of USD$25,000,000,000 (25B) has been wired to your account. We will be in contact for the details of further varients to add to the line. Upon developement, further payment may be awarded. We wish you the best of luck in future business, and thank you again for submitting a suberp design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

OOC: Aequato, what's the best place for us to discuss the extra varients I want?

TO: Head of Sales, Aequatian Military Industries
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill a contract for the Barbarosean Military. We are pleased to inform you that your M4A3 Spartan Mechanized Combat Vehicle has been chosen as the winning design in our APC contract. The contract reward of USD$25,000,000,000 (25B) has been wired to your account. We will be in contact for the details of further varients to add to the line. Upon developement, further payment may be awarded. We wish you the best of luck in future business, and thank you again for submitting a suberp design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

OOC: Aequato, what's the best place for us to discuss the extra varients I want?

We thank you for the choice of the M4A3 Spartan as your armed forces' infantry combat vehicle.

OOC: MSN may be the best, I'll TG you my address.

OOC: Sounds like a plan / bump

Kriegzimmer would like to present its own Hali-42 into the trials. The Hali-42 is not as new of a design as others, but is just as potent (or more potent). It is designed with top of the line technology, and can be rechambered to use 5.56mm ammunition (we use the .221 Orchomenos, and that's the default). All ammunition, however, must be caseless as it's inherent with the binary liquid propellant design.

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Hali-42 Assault Rifle
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[This wonderful drawing was done by Mekugi.]


Abstract:
The Hali-42 is the next generation assault rifle designed for use in the Macabee army, destined to replace the long worn Hali-21, which has been the mainstay of Macabee forces for over a decade. The new rifle is the product of better understanding of rifle mechanics, as well as the developement of newer technologies that guarantee the superiority of the Hali-42 over older designs, although the project takes a wild turn away from previous design dogmatics, including a once determined stance on keeping the conventional rifle configuration, and the uses of caseless and cased ammunition. There has also been a very steep change in manufacturing technologies and rifle theoretics that have called for a change in the conentional 5.56mm NATO round to something radically different and lighter, although no less lethal, with even less recoil. The Hali-42 is within all meanings of the name, the epitome of Macabee rifle design, never known for its small arms ordnance.

The rifle uses a bullpup configuration, following the recent rise of bullpup rifles, but attempts to capitalize on the configuration to increase potential muzzle velocity, allowing for greater penetration. It also relies on caseless ammuntion, as opposed to cased ammunition, and Kriegzimmer has underscored this by converting manufacturing to mostly caseless ammunition, although it keeps the manufacturing of cased ammunition to be able to remain selling the Hali-21 and Hali-37 in the foreign market. There has also been a very new change in the propellant, and in general length ratios of the barrel to the rest of the rifle. The designated marksman rifle as includes very powerful scope technology.

Furthermore, unlike its predecessor, the Hali-21, the Hali-42 is an assault rifle in all aspects of the name. The Hali-21 was more accurately a battle rifle, using a 7.62mm round, which is one of many reasons why the change from Hali-21 to Hali-42 ultimately occured. The Hali-42 project also made the decision of ignoring international conventionals, and opted to use more lethal, but less 'civlized' round technology, including the use of the barbette. In the end, every little changed detail makes the Hali-42 amongst the more potentially lethal assault rifles in use around the world.

The Ejermacht has announced its decision to replace all existing Hali-21 rifles with the newer Hali-42, and it's expected that the international world will respond as well - mostly those that used the Hali-21 as their standard assault rifle design. This includes at least one million rifles for frontline use in the Ejermacht alone, not including stocks for reserves and replacement. The Hali-42 has the potential of being a very widely used assault rifle.

Operation and Recoil:
This particular assault rifle operates on delayed blowback, seen in action on the Heckler & Koch G3. This is to allow the rifle all the advantages of a blowback operation without limiting range or eventual muzzle velocity. Interestingly, the first prototype of the Hali-42 actually used an inertia operation on the rifle, but theoritically, the delayed blowback can be translated into a delayed inertia, offering all the recoil operations of an inertia weapon and giving it the power an effective assault rifle needs. A lot of inspiration to incorporate the delayed blowback, roller lock operation came from the Spanish CETME modelo 58 [now replaced], which's initial design was based off the model 45 Assault Rifle.

Further recoil is handled by the exceptionally small round in use [see below], a two round burst as opposed to a three round burst, and a muzzle break. Unfortunately, all these designs are counteracted by the fact that the rifle uses a magnum configuration, powering a 73 grain round with a large binary liquid propellant.

Frequent Rounds Operated:
.221 Aluminum Orchomenos
The new .221 bullet design is designed to keep the underestimated possiblities of the .221 Fireball, but to make it even lighter, allowing for an even greater achieved muzzle velocity. Total weight of the round is 73 grains. The rifle round has excellent aerodynamic properties at long ranges, mirroring that of the Fireball, which has already been suggested by many to replace standard NATO rifle rounds for the M-16 . In fact, throughout its history, the .221 Fireball has been underestimated by most. Fortunately, its cause has been understood by Kriegzimmer, and so an improved version was destined for use on the Hali-42. At the tip the round uses a series of barbettes, first used in the American Civil War, and it's designed to cause major damage within the impact zone, making the round harder to extract, and more damaging to the human body. Beyond that, the round also uses a delayed electrical spark fuze, allowing the round to puncture, then blow, causing the explosion to theoritically occur inside the victim's body, not on impact. Maximum muzzle velocity with the .221 Orchomenos has been caught at 1,070 meters per second.
[b].223 API Orchomenos
The .223 API Orchomenos is an armor piercing projectile designed to penetrate battle suits at high velocities. The round replaces the .221 Orchomenos when an enemy is known to use battle suits, but normally, the rifle uses the .221 version. This round also uses an internal barbette to maximize potential damage, with a delayed fuze.
.221 Binary Sarin Orchomenos Biological Round
In compliance with foreign needs, a variant of the .221 Orchomenos was designed to carry Sarin to make it even deadlier. Although not standard in Macabee forces, it is a round manufactured by Kriegzimmer. In order to increase shelf life the Sarin is composed and stocked in a binary method, making shelf life rather irrelevent. The round spins on terminal flight to produce the effects of Sarin. On impact the round will cause bleeding at several points on the subject, and permanent damange to the central nervous system, possibly killing them, but more likely to put them out of action indefinately. The Ejermacht has ruled out the use of Sarin rounds, but it is a popular export. Muzzle velocity, since the round is a tad heavier, is around 990 m/s.
Additional Information:
The Hali-42's barrel is fully modular, allowing it to be exchanged quite easily by camp forges in order to use other rounds. It can also be sold with a specialized muzzle to cope with the purchasing nation's round of choice, allowing the Hali-42 to be highly versatile and not dependent on the round in use by the Ejermacht. In other words, the barrel is interchangeable, although not on the field. The rest of the rifle is modular as well, making cheap replacement parts for the rifle easy, and making for a very simple cleaning operation.

Calibre: .221 Orchomenos [capable of using the .223, .224, .225 and .220]
Operation: Delayed Inertia/Blowback
Overall Length: 113cm
Barrel Length: 64cm
Bayonet Length: 33cm
Weight [Empty]: 4.4kg
Propellant: Preforated Chemical Binary Liquid Propellant
Magazine Capacity: 45 rounds
Muzzle Velocity: 1,070 m/s
Rate of Fire: 750 rounds per minute
Semi-Automatic: Two round burst
Maximum Effective Range: 640 meters
Procurement Cost: 3,200 USD
Production Rights: 3.2 billion USD

TO: Head of Sales, Kriegzimmer
FROM: Richard B. Addford, Barbarosean Military

We thank you for submitting a design to fufill a contract for the Barbarosean Military. We are sorry to inform you that your Hali-42 Assault Rifle has not been chosen as the winning design in our carbine contract. However, the Barbarosean Military has seen another use for your design. We wish to purchase the production rights for the Hali-42 AR. An amount of USD$3,200,000,000 (3.2B) has been wired to your account. We wish you the best of luck in future business, and thank you again for submitting a design.

With Reguards,
Richard B. Addford
Barbarosean Military
The Neverending Dictatorial Land of Barbarosea

Communiqué to Richard B. Addford,

Despite the fact that the Hali-42 was not chosen for the carbine, we're glad that it was chosen to fulfill another contract - we would apologize for introducing a weapon into a contract that it wasn't meant for, but then we wouldn't have stumbled into the agreement we're working on now! With that said, everything relevant to the sale of production rights has been transferred. Anything that can be sent through secure encryptions over virtual connections has been sent; the more sensitive material has been sent by hand. We thank you for purchasing the Hali-42 and guarantee good service within the Barbarosean armed forces.

[signed]Kriegzimmer Board