Rosdivan
29-10-2007, 21:43
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Test example of Juggernaut rocket
Juggernaut. An unstoppable force that will crush all in its path, the Juggernaut siege rocket lives up to its name.
Tired of watching fixed fortifications stymie assaults and of urban battles chewing up entire armies, and always aware of opportunities for profit, the engineers at Zivka Aerospace decided to build a weapon capable of reducing even the most reinforced surface fortification to rubble and clearing large swaths of cities. No more would costly infantry assaults or air strikes need to be made, simply lob the Juggernaut and watch the opposition turn to dust or an organic mist.
In the most scientific of methods, combining extreme inebriation with a handy magic 8-ball, it was decided that a warhead of nine thousand pounds of PBXN-103 would prove most suitable. The runner-up, five hundred hamsters deployed as cluster munitions, failed when more sober calculations showed that, despite the hilarity, it was fairly easy to armor against Mach 3 rodent impacts. This large warhead explodes with the energy of over eight tons of TNT. For comparison purposes, the American MOAB is filled with 18,700 pounds of H6 and has the energy of twelve tons of TNT. The Juggernaut only possesses an impact fuze, however, which means that it cannot conduct an air blast for a wider spread of damage. An end-user may modify this though, installing a barometric or radar proximity fuze of their own if they so desire.
Of course, one can't very well reduce a strongpoint if one doesn't hit it, now can they? Out of sheer laziness, a modified form of the GPS/INS guidance system in the famous JDAM kit was adopted for the rocket, the challenges of developing a new guidance package for the rocket being considered far too much trouble in the miseries of hangover. A semi-active laser seeker, with an accompanying 1m CEP, was also considered but this was rejected on the grounds of:
Hangover
Being dumb
Hangover
Involving effort
Hard
Pointless since the blast will take out most buildings within a one hundred meter radius and a 15m CEP is more than acceptable on those grounds, thankyouverymuch
Hangover
Being an SRBM, with an operation range of 200 kilometers, the Juggernaut has a short time of flight, no more than three minutes, and less if the Juggernaut is fired at less than its maximum range. This allows only a very short reaction time to enemy ATBM defenses, which is helpful as this is the only countermeasure the Juggernaut possesses. The nice fat radar target does make it a useful training aide for one's own ATBM crews however. Given the low price of the Juggernaut, available for export at a paltry five and a half million USD, it doubles as a useful and expendable peacetime training aide, with a large and very noticeable incentive for crews who miss.
The Juggernaut has now been made available for export by Zivka Aerospace by permission of the Ministry of Defense. Due to Rosdivani armament export laws and trade protectionism, no domestic production licenses, though Zivka is more than happy to accommodate requests for an inventory maintenance contract. Please also indicate whether you will be chartering your own shipping or will be reliant upon Zivka to arrange shipping through Rosdivani companies. Please be aware that this will incur a ten percent surcharge to the order.
Length 49 feet 7 inches (15.1m)
Diameter 5 feet 10 inches (1.8m)
Wingspan 13 feet 5 inches (4.1m)
Launch weight 31,034 pounds (14,080 kg)
Warhead 9,000 pounds of PBXN-103 (4,083 kg)
Propulsion Storable liquid fueled motor, 65,000 pounds for 70 seconds
Speed Maximum 1394 m/s, impact at 1088 m/s
Operational range 108 nautical miles (200km)
Guidance GPS/INS with 15m CEP
Typical system reaction time 10 minutes
Time of flight: 3 minutes
Export price 5,500,000 USD
Test example of Juggernaut rocket
Juggernaut. An unstoppable force that will crush all in its path, the Juggernaut siege rocket lives up to its name.
Tired of watching fixed fortifications stymie assaults and of urban battles chewing up entire armies, and always aware of opportunities for profit, the engineers at Zivka Aerospace decided to build a weapon capable of reducing even the most reinforced surface fortification to rubble and clearing large swaths of cities. No more would costly infantry assaults or air strikes need to be made, simply lob the Juggernaut and watch the opposition turn to dust or an organic mist.
In the most scientific of methods, combining extreme inebriation with a handy magic 8-ball, it was decided that a warhead of nine thousand pounds of PBXN-103 would prove most suitable. The runner-up, five hundred hamsters deployed as cluster munitions, failed when more sober calculations showed that, despite the hilarity, it was fairly easy to armor against Mach 3 rodent impacts. This large warhead explodes with the energy of over eight tons of TNT. For comparison purposes, the American MOAB is filled with 18,700 pounds of H6 and has the energy of twelve tons of TNT. The Juggernaut only possesses an impact fuze, however, which means that it cannot conduct an air blast for a wider spread of damage. An end-user may modify this though, installing a barometric or radar proximity fuze of their own if they so desire.
Of course, one can't very well reduce a strongpoint if one doesn't hit it, now can they? Out of sheer laziness, a modified form of the GPS/INS guidance system in the famous JDAM kit was adopted for the rocket, the challenges of developing a new guidance package for the rocket being considered far too much trouble in the miseries of hangover. A semi-active laser seeker, with an accompanying 1m CEP, was also considered but this was rejected on the grounds of:
Hangover
Being dumb
Hangover
Involving effort
Hard
Pointless since the blast will take out most buildings within a one hundred meter radius and a 15m CEP is more than acceptable on those grounds, thankyouverymuch
Hangover
Being an SRBM, with an operation range of 200 kilometers, the Juggernaut has a short time of flight, no more than three minutes, and less if the Juggernaut is fired at less than its maximum range. This allows only a very short reaction time to enemy ATBM defenses, which is helpful as this is the only countermeasure the Juggernaut possesses. The nice fat radar target does make it a useful training aide for one's own ATBM crews however. Given the low price of the Juggernaut, available for export at a paltry five and a half million USD, it doubles as a useful and expendable peacetime training aide, with a large and very noticeable incentive for crews who miss.
The Juggernaut has now been made available for export by Zivka Aerospace by permission of the Ministry of Defense. Due to Rosdivani armament export laws and trade protectionism, no domestic production licenses, though Zivka is more than happy to accommodate requests for an inventory maintenance contract. Please also indicate whether you will be chartering your own shipping or will be reliant upon Zivka to arrange shipping through Rosdivani companies. Please be aware that this will incur a ten percent surcharge to the order.
Length 49 feet 7 inches (15.1m)
Diameter 5 feet 10 inches (1.8m)
Wingspan 13 feet 5 inches (4.1m)
Launch weight 31,034 pounds (14,080 kg)
Warhead 9,000 pounds of PBXN-103 (4,083 kg)
Propulsion Storable liquid fueled motor, 65,000 pounds for 70 seconds
Speed Maximum 1394 m/s, impact at 1088 m/s
Operational range 108 nautical miles (200km)
Guidance GPS/INS with 15m CEP
Typical system reaction time 10 minutes
Time of flight: 3 minutes
Export price 5,500,000 USD