Blackhelm Confederacy
13-12-2007, 18:43
The Mercury APC
The Griffincrest Corporation is pleased to announce the creation of its first native built armored vehicle, the Mercury class LBT. The Mercury is meant to accel at fast desert warfare, and we have created it to defend our oil fields around the globe, as the environments around them are becoming increasingly more and more violent.
This was what we said when it first came out, and its purpose is no different today than it was all that time ago, albeit it is no longer termed an LBT, and is now an APC. In the increasingly hostile world of today, there is no telling how, when, where, or why a nation will destabilize and fall into chaos. The Mercury was created with the intention of keeping this chaos away from Griffincrest Oil Fields, and ensuring that all members of the Corporation are safe behind the gates of their fields. With the Mercury on constant patrols in Griffincrest facilities world-wide, oil is now that much safer, and that much less likely of falling into the wrong hands.
Armament
The Mercury is armed with a variety of weapons, and is capable of dealing with any ground based threat that is sent in its way. Its primary weapon is a Griffincrest manufactured 30mm autocannon. The ammunition of the autocannon is the 30mm depleted uranium armour piercing round, givining the Mercury the ability to hold its own and even destroy MBT's fielded by many of the world's military forces today.
The secondary armament of the Mercury is a powerful Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun. The primary purpose of the Asgarn is to assist the crew in aiming the larger 30mm, but this weapon is powerful also enough to slice through most lightly armoured vehicles, and allows the crew to save ammunition for the 30mm gun by not having to expend it on trying to find the target, or on lighter targets. The Asgarn also gives a massive firepower boost especially when engaging infantry, and also gives the Mercury a form of defense when faced with low flying helicopters.
There is also a pintle mounted Otagian designed Griffincrest manufactured M32 Light Machine Gun positioned on the Mercury as a supplementary weapon, which gives the vehicles an even bigger edge when facing hostile ground troops, and can assist the Asgarn in keeping helicopters from tearing up a Mercury formation.
The final bit of munition for the Mercury comes from its ancillary weapon, which is two 76 mm smoke and fragmentation grenade launchers. These provide cover for not just the Mercury itself, but also for the men who are fighting around it by allowing them to have the cover of a smokescreen or by pummeling their enemies with fragmentation grenades.
Fire Control
The very first Mercury to roll out of protection was not equipped with any sort of fire control, and relied on your basic point and shoot method of firing. This problem, however, was very quickly taken care of. Shortly after the Mercury was opened up to the public, the Quincy Mining Company, out of Alcona & Hubris stepped up with a solution to the problem.
Quincy Mining realized that the Mercury was designed for use by minimally trained security personnel, and so did not attempt to sell any form of complicated fire control device. Instead, they presented Griffincrest with a simple infra-red targeting system. The addition of this system greatly improved the accuracy of the Mercury, especially at night, and has been credited with the reason behind the vast majority of the Mercury's combat kills world wide.
Armour
The Mercury does lack in armour thickness considerably, having only 60mm of armour on it. This problem, however, is helped considerably by the fact that add-on armour is available, and is used on almost every Mercury in the Griffincrest Security Force.
A mine protection kit and an NBC protection kit, made up of an overpressure system are available, and fire and explosion suppression systems come installed on all of the vehicles.
Combat Weight - 36,000 lb
Length - 275 inches
Height - over Hull 77 inches
Width - 105 inches
Crew - 3 crew, room for 8 passengers
Armament
Armament Primary: 30 mm autocannon
Secondary: Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14158456&postcount=1)
Supplementary: M32 light machine gun pintle mounted
Ancillary Weapon: Two 76 mm Smoke and Fragmentation Grenade Launchers
Ammunition (Ready): 210 rounds 30 mm
Ammunition (Ready): 440 rounds 12.7mm
Ammunition (Ready): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 400 rounds 30 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 1320 rounds 12.7 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 3200 rounds 6.5x40mm Caseless
Ammunition (Stowed): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm
Export cost
3.4 million dollars
The Griffincrest Corporation is pleased to announce the creation of its first native built armored vehicle, the Mercury class LBT. The Mercury is meant to accel at fast desert warfare, and we have created it to defend our oil fields around the globe, as the environments around them are becoming increasingly more and more violent.
This was what we said when it first came out, and its purpose is no different today than it was all that time ago, albeit it is no longer termed an LBT, and is now an APC. In the increasingly hostile world of today, there is no telling how, when, where, or why a nation will destabilize and fall into chaos. The Mercury was created with the intention of keeping this chaos away from Griffincrest Oil Fields, and ensuring that all members of the Corporation are safe behind the gates of their fields. With the Mercury on constant patrols in Griffincrest facilities world-wide, oil is now that much safer, and that much less likely of falling into the wrong hands.
Armament
The Mercury is armed with a variety of weapons, and is capable of dealing with any ground based threat that is sent in its way. Its primary weapon is a Griffincrest manufactured 30mm autocannon. The ammunition of the autocannon is the 30mm depleted uranium armour piercing round, givining the Mercury the ability to hold its own and even destroy MBT's fielded by many of the world's military forces today.
The secondary armament of the Mercury is a powerful Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun. The primary purpose of the Asgarn is to assist the crew in aiming the larger 30mm, but this weapon is powerful also enough to slice through most lightly armoured vehicles, and allows the crew to save ammunition for the 30mm gun by not having to expend it on trying to find the target, or on lighter targets. The Asgarn also gives a massive firepower boost especially when engaging infantry, and also gives the Mercury a form of defense when faced with low flying helicopters.
There is also a pintle mounted Otagian designed Griffincrest manufactured M32 Light Machine Gun positioned on the Mercury as a supplementary weapon, which gives the vehicles an even bigger edge when facing hostile ground troops, and can assist the Asgarn in keeping helicopters from tearing up a Mercury formation.
The final bit of munition for the Mercury comes from its ancillary weapon, which is two 76 mm smoke and fragmentation grenade launchers. These provide cover for not just the Mercury itself, but also for the men who are fighting around it by allowing them to have the cover of a smokescreen or by pummeling their enemies with fragmentation grenades.
Fire Control
The very first Mercury to roll out of protection was not equipped with any sort of fire control, and relied on your basic point and shoot method of firing. This problem, however, was very quickly taken care of. Shortly after the Mercury was opened up to the public, the Quincy Mining Company, out of Alcona & Hubris stepped up with a solution to the problem.
Quincy Mining realized that the Mercury was designed for use by minimally trained security personnel, and so did not attempt to sell any form of complicated fire control device. Instead, they presented Griffincrest with a simple infra-red targeting system. The addition of this system greatly improved the accuracy of the Mercury, especially at night, and has been credited with the reason behind the vast majority of the Mercury's combat kills world wide.
Armour
The Mercury does lack in armour thickness considerably, having only 60mm of armour on it. This problem, however, is helped considerably by the fact that add-on armour is available, and is used on almost every Mercury in the Griffincrest Security Force.
A mine protection kit and an NBC protection kit, made up of an overpressure system are available, and fire and explosion suppression systems come installed on all of the vehicles.
Combat Weight - 36,000 lb
Length - 275 inches
Height - over Hull 77 inches
Width - 105 inches
Crew - 3 crew, room for 8 passengers
Armament
Armament Primary: 30 mm autocannon
Secondary: Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14158456&postcount=1)
Supplementary: M32 light machine gun pintle mounted
Ancillary Weapon: Two 76 mm Smoke and Fragmentation Grenade Launchers
Ammunition (Ready): 210 rounds 30 mm
Ammunition (Ready): 440 rounds 12.7mm
Ammunition (Ready): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 400 rounds 30 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 1320 rounds 12.7 mm
Ammunition (Stowed): 3200 rounds 6.5x40mm Caseless
Ammunition (Stowed): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm
Export cost
3.4 million dollars