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M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer
Crew: 4(Commander,Gunner,Driver,Loader)
Combat Weight: 28,100 kg
Power-to-Weight Ratio: 32hp/tonne
Hull Length:7.8 meters
Overall Length:8.8 meters
Width: 3.4 meters
Height to Turret Roof:2.9 meters
Engine: V-8 900 hp
Fuel Capacity: 520 Liters
Fuel Consumption (Road): (4 kilometers per liter)
Fuel Consumption (Cross Country): (2 kilometers per liter)
Operational Range(Average): 432km
Maximum Speed (Road): 123km/h
Maximum Speed (Cross Country): 60km/h
Traction: 8x8
Fording Depth: 1.5 meters
Deep Water Depth: 3 meters
Slope: 30° Gradient, 15° Side Slope
Obstacle: .8 m Vertical; 2.46m Trench
Main Gun: 120mm/55 cal ETC Smooth bore cannon
Stowed Main Gun Ammunition:
60 rounds
-8x M-122 Anti-personnel round
-12x M-120 HEAT
-12x M-121 Kinetic Energy Penetrator
-28x M-119 High Explosive Projectile
Gun Depression/Elevation Range: -9°/+29°
Barrel Length: 6.6 Meters
Secondary Armament:
1x 14.5x105mm
-hatch mounted
-1000 rounds stored
2x Lancer Anti-Tank Guided Missile Launcher
-8 missiles stored
Smoke Discharger's: 4x twin 81mm Smoke Grenade Launchers
Armour Protection (Actual Thickness minus ERA)
Hull - Glacis: 105mm
Hull - Lower Front: 70mm
Hull - Side: 85mm
Hull - Rear: 70mm
Turret - Front: 75mm
Turret - Front Angle:80 mm
Turret - Side: 65mm
Turret - Rear: 45mm
Turret - Roof: 60mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 80mm
Background:The M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer is a hybrid between gun armed Tank Destroyers such as the B1 Centauro and missile armed ones as M901 ITV. This marriage of long range firepower with a high speed, highly mobile vehicle creates a weapon system that can eliminate tanks and enemy armored vehicles at long range and get out of hostile areas quickly.
Project History
The M-72 Sentinel was created to fill a need in Binarian forces for a fast, highly armored recon vehicle capable of deep penetration behind enemy lines to disrupt enemy supplies lines and the power projection capabilities given by enemy Main Battle Tanks and Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Designed by Clyde L. Choate, the lead designer at Binarian Ground Combat Systems' Light Armor Division. Originally a pet project of his after his son, a war correspondent in the Red Colonial uprising witnessed the B1 Centauro used in great effect in destroying Loyalist tanks and IFVs when deployed in small raiding parties. However, they were no match when faced with equal numbers of tanks. To make up for this, he decide to arm it with a larger, more powerful 120mm ETC cannon, and a pair of Lancer ATGM launchers.
Armament:
The M-72 Sentinel is armed with the M-785 120mm ETC L55 smooth bore cannon, a pair of Lancer ATGM Launchers, and a 14.5x105mm machine gun on a hatch mount. This give the M-72 considerable ability when engaging a wide range of targets.
M-785 120mm ETC L55 smooth bore cannon
The M-785 120mm ETC L55 Smooth bore cannon is the primary offensive weapon carried by the M-72. With a long range and high muzzle velocity, it can deliver long rod penetrators with sufficient speed and Kinetic energy to penetrate the equivalent of 900mm rolled homogeneous armor at 1200mm. This is enough to destroy most battle tanks at medium range. Although, it can be defeated by Explosive Reactive Armor. It can also fire a shotgun like projectile containing dozens of 10mm tungsten projectiles perfectly suited to engage lightly armored vehicles such as logistical trucks, light IFVs, parked aircraft, and massed infantry. This projectile is designed to kill entire squads that are hiding in thick vegetation, and in thin walled structures. The High Explosive rounds are filled with 12 kilograms of RDX and has much less propellant the other projectiles to make more room for the high explosive charge.
Lancer ATGM Launcher
The Lancer ATGM system mounted on the Sentinel is state of the art. The missiles are packaged in a two tube system. Each tube holds one Lancer ATGM. The missiles are fired one at a time out of the one use package. With a diameter of 234.8mm, each missile is stored inside a tube, 3 cm apart from the other. The launcher component is made up of several key components. The launch rail is located directly in the center between the two tubes that hold the missiles. At the base of each tube is an igniter. On the right side of the rail, there is a ignition coil. When a tube is on the rail, the coil completes the circuit with the igniter. When the missile is fired, a current is transfered into the coil, with goes into the igniter, which fires the rocket motor on the missile. On the rail is a motor that turns the tube to place on side of the tube on the firing coil. There is also a CO2 valve, which releases pressurized CO2, propelling the spent tubes forward and reading the rail for the next shot. The Magazine component is located at an angle in the side the hull, with one on the left, and another on the right side. At the bottom of the magazine is a piston, when activated, raises a missile tube up toward the the launch rail. Each magazine holds 3 sets of tubes. This gives the Sentinel considerable firepower in the field.
Hull Design:
The Front of the M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer is where to ends of the bottom armor plating and the top side slopes meet. The under side is mounted with 7 points that extend 40cm past the end of the point. This gives it the ability to punch through think vegatation such as hedgerows, and thin walls. When working with infantry, this gives them the ability to add an additional entry point into a structure. The side of the M-72 offers considerable protection against small arms fire. Although in capable of stoping tank rounds or ATGMs. Instead of raw protection it relies of speed and a knock out first punch to defeat enemy tanks.
Price: 7.4 Million USD
Domestic Production Rights are not for sale
Exportation is limited to 500 vehicles per nation.
M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer
Crew: 4(Commander,Gunner,Driver,Loader)
Combat Weight: 28,100 kg
Power-to-Weight Ratio: 32hp/tonne
Hull Length:7.8 meters
Overall Length:8.8 meters
Width: 3.4 meters
Height to Turret Roof:2.9 meters
Engine: V-8 900 hp
Fuel Capacity: 520 Liters
Fuel Consumption (Road): (4 kilometers per liter)
Fuel Consumption (Cross Country): (2 kilometers per liter)
Operational Range(Average): 432km
Maximum Speed (Road): 123km/h
Maximum Speed (Cross Country): 60km/h
Traction: 8x8
Fording Depth: 1.5 meters
Deep Water Depth: 3 meters
Slope: 30° Gradient, 15° Side Slope
Obstacle: .8 m Vertical; 2.46m Trench
Main Gun: 120mm/55 cal ETC Smooth bore cannon
Stowed Main Gun Ammunition:
60 rounds
-8x M-122 Anti-personnel round
-12x M-120 HEAT
-12x M-121 Kinetic Energy Penetrator
-28x M-119 High Explosive Projectile
Gun Depression/Elevation Range: -9°/+29°
Barrel Length: 6.6 Meters
Secondary Armament:
1x 14.5x105mm
-hatch mounted
-1000 rounds stored
2x Lancer Anti-Tank Guided Missile Launcher
-8 missiles stored
Smoke Discharger's: 4x twin 81mm Smoke Grenade Launchers
Armour Protection (Actual Thickness minus ERA)
Hull - Glacis: 105mm
Hull - Lower Front: 70mm
Hull - Side: 85mm
Hull - Rear: 70mm
Turret - Front: 75mm
Turret - Front Angle:80 mm
Turret - Side: 65mm
Turret - Rear: 45mm
Turret - Roof: 60mm
Turret - Gun Mantlet: 80mm
Background:The M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer is a hybrid between gun armed Tank Destroyers such as the B1 Centauro and missile armed ones as M901 ITV. This marriage of long range firepower with a high speed, highly mobile vehicle creates a weapon system that can eliminate tanks and enemy armored vehicles at long range and get out of hostile areas quickly.
Project History
The M-72 Sentinel was created to fill a need in Binarian forces for a fast, highly armored recon vehicle capable of deep penetration behind enemy lines to disrupt enemy supplies lines and the power projection capabilities given by enemy Main Battle Tanks and Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Designed by Clyde L. Choate, the lead designer at Binarian Ground Combat Systems' Light Armor Division. Originally a pet project of his after his son, a war correspondent in the Red Colonial uprising witnessed the B1 Centauro used in great effect in destroying Loyalist tanks and IFVs when deployed in small raiding parties. However, they were no match when faced with equal numbers of tanks. To make up for this, he decide to arm it with a larger, more powerful 120mm ETC cannon, and a pair of Lancer ATGM launchers.
Armament:
The M-72 Sentinel is armed with the M-785 120mm ETC L55 smooth bore cannon, a pair of Lancer ATGM Launchers, and a 14.5x105mm machine gun on a hatch mount. This give the M-72 considerable ability when engaging a wide range of targets.
M-785 120mm ETC L55 smooth bore cannon
The M-785 120mm ETC L55 Smooth bore cannon is the primary offensive weapon carried by the M-72. With a long range and high muzzle velocity, it can deliver long rod penetrators with sufficient speed and Kinetic energy to penetrate the equivalent of 900mm rolled homogeneous armor at 1200mm. This is enough to destroy most battle tanks at medium range. Although, it can be defeated by Explosive Reactive Armor. It can also fire a shotgun like projectile containing dozens of 10mm tungsten projectiles perfectly suited to engage lightly armored vehicles such as logistical trucks, light IFVs, parked aircraft, and massed infantry. This projectile is designed to kill entire squads that are hiding in thick vegetation, and in thin walled structures. The High Explosive rounds are filled with 12 kilograms of RDX and has much less propellant the other projectiles to make more room for the high explosive charge.
Lancer ATGM Launcher
The Lancer ATGM system mounted on the Sentinel is state of the art. The missiles are packaged in a two tube system. Each tube holds one Lancer ATGM. The missiles are fired one at a time out of the one use package. With a diameter of 234.8mm, each missile is stored inside a tube, 3 cm apart from the other. The launcher component is made up of several key components. The launch rail is located directly in the center between the two tubes that hold the missiles. At the base of each tube is an igniter. On the right side of the rail, there is a ignition coil. When a tube is on the rail, the coil completes the circuit with the igniter. When the missile is fired, a current is transfered into the coil, with goes into the igniter, which fires the rocket motor on the missile. On the rail is a motor that turns the tube to place on side of the tube on the firing coil. There is also a CO2 valve, which releases pressurized CO2, propelling the spent tubes forward and reading the rail for the next shot. The Magazine component is located at an angle in the side the hull, with one on the left, and another on the right side. At the bottom of the magazine is a piston, when activated, raises a missile tube up toward the the launch rail. Each magazine holds 3 sets of tubes. This gives the Sentinel considerable firepower in the field.
Hull Design:
The Front of the M-72 Sentinel Tank Destroyer is where to ends of the bottom armor plating and the top side slopes meet. The under side is mounted with 7 points that extend 40cm past the end of the point. This gives it the ability to punch through think vegatation such as hedgerows, and thin walls. When working with infantry, this gives them the ability to add an additional entry point into a structure. The side of the M-72 offers considerable protection against small arms fire. Although in capable of stoping tank rounds or ATGMs. Instead of raw protection it relies of speed and a knock out first punch to defeat enemy tanks.
Price: 7.4 Million USD
Domestic Production Rights are not for sale
Exportation is limited to 500 vehicles per nation.