Castilla y Belmonte
12-01-2008, 19:10
Journal of International Armed Forces
Sistemas Terrestres Segovia Readies to Release ‘Nakíl Killer’
‘Nakíl Killer’ is how the Lynx E is being advertised by Castillian defense company Sistemas Terrestres Segovia. The Lynx E is the export version of the internationally acclaimed carro de combate Lince, a lightweight, highly lethal battlefield chariot. With its ultra-compact advanced gas turbine engine, matted to a power pack which also boasts of a next-generation electric transmission, the Lince achieves never before comprehended off-road velocities and a much more acceptable gas mileage. The 103mm automatic cannon armed tank has preformed so well in foreign tank tenders that the tank will soon begin series production in Doomingsland and Izistan. Furthermore, the government of Castilla y Belmonte, Sistemas Terrestres Segovia and the military of The Silver Sky are currently putting the finishing touches to a third contract. The Lince is being marketed to other specific nations, as well – mostly NATO allies or regional neighbors. At forty-five tons, with the protection of a sixty-five ton tank and a lethality surpassing the majority of today’s armor, how can one resist the Lince?
Unfortunately, the Castillian government has prohibited world-wide export and has only allowed contracts to be established with nations that have the potential of a strategic partnership of grave importance to the kingdom. Consequently, Sistemas Terrestres Segovia has opted to design an export version of the tank. The official name is the Lynx E – E for Exportación, or Export –, although it has also been termed ‘Lince Austere’. STS has promised a cheap tank with the capabilities of any other tank on the export market, or more. Most importantly, the Castillian manufacturer promises that the Lynx E ‘will be able to defeat the Nakíl, at least on a one on one basis’. The company also said, during a press release, that the new tank will cost between seven and nine million dollars – half the price of most ‘next-generation’ tanks. To accomplish designing a tank with this kind of price tag, STS has opted to forge the Lynx E out of a balance of highly advanced material and less shiny parts. The company has also awarded a number of contracts to foreign manufacturers to decrease production costs.
Two Juumanistran defense companies – their names still unrevealed – will provide a fire control system (FCS) and a compact diesel engine. STS revealed that the engine will have a power output of 1,800 horsepower, which gives an idea of the potential weight class of this new tank. It is rumored that the FCS will be based on that used on the Juumanistran Kyton main battle tank. This latter armored fighting vehicle is an ultra-advanced heavyweight main battle tank and is currently being manufactured at around twenty-five million dollars per unit. If it is true that it is this fire control system which will be used by the Lince E, the Castillian export tank will have one of the most advanced fire control systems in the world –on par with that of the Castillian Lince and the Nakíl 1A2. The Juumanistran fire control system will give the Lynx extraordinary hunter-killer abilities, matted to a tank which will most likely be designed for tank versus tank warfare. Castillian electronics companies may add their own touch any Juumanistran fire control system to enhance its performance, as compared to the Nakíl 1A2 and Nakíl 1A1U. Finally, it is also rumored that the Lynx may include a Juumanistran hydrostatic mechanical transmission. Any transmission will not be as fancy as the electric transmission currently used by the Lince, but it will give the Lynx excellent steering capability, affordability and maintainability.
Journal of International Armed Forces has attained complete information on the upcoming tank’s suspension. Hsaio Motor Corporation will begin manufacturing its patented active torsion-bar suspension for the Lynx, and these will be assembled on the tank in STS’ factories. Hsaio has also agreed to allow client nations to produce the suspension indigenously if STS’ contract is for indigenous production of the tank. This suspension will give allow the Lynx to attain a similar ride to the Lince, but at the price of increased weight and bulk. Nevertheless, the suspension is considerably cheaper due to lower manufacturing costs achieved through a greater degree of simplicity and because the suspension is already being manufactured in large numbers for the Type 90 main battle tank. This suspension will be matted to roadwheels with an allowable vertical deflection of 550mm, which is extremely high and only included in a very limited amount of main battle tanks. According to the Castillian defense company, the Lynx will have a respectively high cross-country maximum velocity.
The tank is destined to be armed by an all-new 120mm electrothermal-chemical main gun, designed and produced by Calzado y Bayo. The company has recently introduced a temperature-independent high-energy advanced solid propellant which will debut on the export market, along with the new gun and the new tank. The co-axial and remote top weapons still haven’t been chosen, and the company is looking for a foreign defense company to fulfill the contracts opened by STS. Otherwise, the co-axial gun will be the same as the Lince’s – the G379 25mm autocannon. Any top machine gun will be mounted on the same HammerFist remote weapon station used by the Lince, which will also become the remote weapon station to be mounted on future mine protected vehicles to be revealed by MecániCas. Armament wise, the Lynx is looking to be superior to the Nakíl 1A2 and 1A1U – at least, that is what the company is trying to market. A standard ETC gun won’t make the cut, so therefore we suspect that the company has other tricks up its sleeves to increase the gun’s lethality. When asked how the company planned to defeat the reportedly high protection levels of the Nakíl 1A1U’s frontal arc the company replied, ‘The Nakíl’s protection levels as advertised are utterly ridiculous. With the armor levels implied the tank probably should weigh ten tons more than it already does. Furthermore, we have had chances to study the tank’s armor placement in the Nakíl 1A1GU and we have found that their technology is inferior to what we used on the Lince. Consequently, we believe that the actual protection levels of the Nakíl are much lower than has been stated publicly and we fully believe that our future tank gun will easily dispatch the Macabee tank.’
The Lynx will have a three-man crew, and one of these will be the situated in the turret. The second will be in the turret basket, and the driver in the chassis. The tank’s main gun will be autoloaded by a compact autoloader stored in a turret bustle, in front of the pulsed power supply for the gun. The high-output diesel will be situated in the front of the chassis, like in the Lince, and the rear area will be able to hold either more ammunition or a four-man mounted infantry team. Not much information has been given about armor protection, but STS assures that this armor will be at least ‘level 3’ armor – level 1 refers to steel, level 2 to the composite armor used on Juumanistran JBT.14s administered to the country during the Castillian Civil War, level 3 to the armor used on the Lince and level 4 to the same with explosive reactive armor. The Lince is level 4, and although the company has referred to level 3 their experiences with explosive reactive armor design suggests that the export tank will also have reactive armor.
Despite these promising attributes, outselling the Nakíl will be a very difficult task. Castilla y Belmonte and Sistemas Terrestres Segovia do not have the same level of reputation as The Macabee Empire and Kriegzimmer. Furthermore, to date the Nakíl has sold no less than seven million copies of the four known production models of the tank (Nakíl 1A1, Nakíl 1A1U, Nakíl 1A1GU and Nakíl 1A2). STS is hoping to replace Nakíl fleets in nations that use them in large numbers, and is hoping to cater to other nations which don’t currently use the Nakíl as their main battle tank. With the low price STS is also hoping to persuade tank producing nations to choose the Lynx over their indigenous projects due to the low cost. The more the Lynx is produced the less it will cost over time and the company is hoping to be able to sell the tank in mass for very cheap prices. This will make it for affordable for nations to acquire and maintain ultra-large tank fleets. In other words, the Lynx will make possible both quantity and quality – it units two important factors to make an unbeatable team. Nevertheless, the Lynx will need everything it can get in order to become the most widely exported tank in history (a title which currently belongs to the Nakíl).
Sistemas Terrestres Segovia Readies to Release ‘Nakíl Killer’
‘Nakíl Killer’ is how the Lynx E is being advertised by Castillian defense company Sistemas Terrestres Segovia. The Lynx E is the export version of the internationally acclaimed carro de combate Lince, a lightweight, highly lethal battlefield chariot. With its ultra-compact advanced gas turbine engine, matted to a power pack which also boasts of a next-generation electric transmission, the Lince achieves never before comprehended off-road velocities and a much more acceptable gas mileage. The 103mm automatic cannon armed tank has preformed so well in foreign tank tenders that the tank will soon begin series production in Doomingsland and Izistan. Furthermore, the government of Castilla y Belmonte, Sistemas Terrestres Segovia and the military of The Silver Sky are currently putting the finishing touches to a third contract. The Lince is being marketed to other specific nations, as well – mostly NATO allies or regional neighbors. At forty-five tons, with the protection of a sixty-five ton tank and a lethality surpassing the majority of today’s armor, how can one resist the Lince?
Unfortunately, the Castillian government has prohibited world-wide export and has only allowed contracts to be established with nations that have the potential of a strategic partnership of grave importance to the kingdom. Consequently, Sistemas Terrestres Segovia has opted to design an export version of the tank. The official name is the Lynx E – E for Exportación, or Export –, although it has also been termed ‘Lince Austere’. STS has promised a cheap tank with the capabilities of any other tank on the export market, or more. Most importantly, the Castillian manufacturer promises that the Lynx E ‘will be able to defeat the Nakíl, at least on a one on one basis’. The company also said, during a press release, that the new tank will cost between seven and nine million dollars – half the price of most ‘next-generation’ tanks. To accomplish designing a tank with this kind of price tag, STS has opted to forge the Lynx E out of a balance of highly advanced material and less shiny parts. The company has also awarded a number of contracts to foreign manufacturers to decrease production costs.
Two Juumanistran defense companies – their names still unrevealed – will provide a fire control system (FCS) and a compact diesel engine. STS revealed that the engine will have a power output of 1,800 horsepower, which gives an idea of the potential weight class of this new tank. It is rumored that the FCS will be based on that used on the Juumanistran Kyton main battle tank. This latter armored fighting vehicle is an ultra-advanced heavyweight main battle tank and is currently being manufactured at around twenty-five million dollars per unit. If it is true that it is this fire control system which will be used by the Lince E, the Castillian export tank will have one of the most advanced fire control systems in the world –on par with that of the Castillian Lince and the Nakíl 1A2. The Juumanistran fire control system will give the Lynx extraordinary hunter-killer abilities, matted to a tank which will most likely be designed for tank versus tank warfare. Castillian electronics companies may add their own touch any Juumanistran fire control system to enhance its performance, as compared to the Nakíl 1A2 and Nakíl 1A1U. Finally, it is also rumored that the Lynx may include a Juumanistran hydrostatic mechanical transmission. Any transmission will not be as fancy as the electric transmission currently used by the Lince, but it will give the Lynx excellent steering capability, affordability and maintainability.
Journal of International Armed Forces has attained complete information on the upcoming tank’s suspension. Hsaio Motor Corporation will begin manufacturing its patented active torsion-bar suspension for the Lynx, and these will be assembled on the tank in STS’ factories. Hsaio has also agreed to allow client nations to produce the suspension indigenously if STS’ contract is for indigenous production of the tank. This suspension will give allow the Lynx to attain a similar ride to the Lince, but at the price of increased weight and bulk. Nevertheless, the suspension is considerably cheaper due to lower manufacturing costs achieved through a greater degree of simplicity and because the suspension is already being manufactured in large numbers for the Type 90 main battle tank. This suspension will be matted to roadwheels with an allowable vertical deflection of 550mm, which is extremely high and only included in a very limited amount of main battle tanks. According to the Castillian defense company, the Lynx will have a respectively high cross-country maximum velocity.
The tank is destined to be armed by an all-new 120mm electrothermal-chemical main gun, designed and produced by Calzado y Bayo. The company has recently introduced a temperature-independent high-energy advanced solid propellant which will debut on the export market, along with the new gun and the new tank. The co-axial and remote top weapons still haven’t been chosen, and the company is looking for a foreign defense company to fulfill the contracts opened by STS. Otherwise, the co-axial gun will be the same as the Lince’s – the G379 25mm autocannon. Any top machine gun will be mounted on the same HammerFist remote weapon station used by the Lince, which will also become the remote weapon station to be mounted on future mine protected vehicles to be revealed by MecániCas. Armament wise, the Lynx is looking to be superior to the Nakíl 1A2 and 1A1U – at least, that is what the company is trying to market. A standard ETC gun won’t make the cut, so therefore we suspect that the company has other tricks up its sleeves to increase the gun’s lethality. When asked how the company planned to defeat the reportedly high protection levels of the Nakíl 1A1U’s frontal arc the company replied, ‘The Nakíl’s protection levels as advertised are utterly ridiculous. With the armor levels implied the tank probably should weigh ten tons more than it already does. Furthermore, we have had chances to study the tank’s armor placement in the Nakíl 1A1GU and we have found that their technology is inferior to what we used on the Lince. Consequently, we believe that the actual protection levels of the Nakíl are much lower than has been stated publicly and we fully believe that our future tank gun will easily dispatch the Macabee tank.’
The Lynx will have a three-man crew, and one of these will be the situated in the turret. The second will be in the turret basket, and the driver in the chassis. The tank’s main gun will be autoloaded by a compact autoloader stored in a turret bustle, in front of the pulsed power supply for the gun. The high-output diesel will be situated in the front of the chassis, like in the Lince, and the rear area will be able to hold either more ammunition or a four-man mounted infantry team. Not much information has been given about armor protection, but STS assures that this armor will be at least ‘level 3’ armor – level 1 refers to steel, level 2 to the composite armor used on Juumanistran JBT.14s administered to the country during the Castillian Civil War, level 3 to the armor used on the Lince and level 4 to the same with explosive reactive armor. The Lince is level 4, and although the company has referred to level 3 their experiences with explosive reactive armor design suggests that the export tank will also have reactive armor.
Despite these promising attributes, outselling the Nakíl will be a very difficult task. Castilla y Belmonte and Sistemas Terrestres Segovia do not have the same level of reputation as The Macabee Empire and Kriegzimmer. Furthermore, to date the Nakíl has sold no less than seven million copies of the four known production models of the tank (Nakíl 1A1, Nakíl 1A1U, Nakíl 1A1GU and Nakíl 1A2). STS is hoping to replace Nakíl fleets in nations that use them in large numbers, and is hoping to cater to other nations which don’t currently use the Nakíl as their main battle tank. With the low price STS is also hoping to persuade tank producing nations to choose the Lynx over their indigenous projects due to the low cost. The more the Lynx is produced the less it will cost over time and the company is hoping to be able to sell the tank in mass for very cheap prices. This will make it for affordable for nations to acquire and maintain ultra-large tank fleets. In other words, the Lynx will make possible both quantity and quality – it units two important factors to make an unbeatable team. Nevertheless, the Lynx will need everything it can get in order to become the most widely exported tank in history (a title which currently belongs to the Nakíl).