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FV210 Degu Main Battle Tank


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The FV210 Degu main battle tank from Cayuna Islands Military Industries (CIMI) was commissioned by the King of the Cayuna Islands to fulfill the role of a main battle tank for His Royal Army’s armoured forces. It is intended to defend the liberty which the residents of the United Kingdom of the Cayuna Islands enjoy from external threats. It provides unmatched capability against any currently available main battle tank and shall prove to be a viable force well into the future.



Weight: 58.5 metric tons
Height: 2.3 meters
Width: 3.6 meters
Length: 9.6 meters
Crew: 4 (driver, loader, gunner, commander)
Engine: 1200hp CIPS 665D Turbo Diesel Engine
Transmission: Integrated KPT PowerTrans Series 6
Speed: 55+ km/h (Varies with terrain)
Armour: Bolt on armour, steel/laminate and ERA option

ARMAMENT
120mm CIMI M47 Smoothbore (40 rounds carried)
7.62mm L94A2 Coaxial
2x Pintle Mounts for light machine gun or AA .50 caliber

Smoke systems:
12 smoke launchers (6 on each side of turret)


SYSTEMS

Primary Gunnery Sight – Forward looking infrared with laser rangefinder

Commander’s Sight – Bolt-on independent infrared imager with laser rangefinder

Driver’s Sight – Passive image-intensifying periscope

Ballistic computer and digital fire control system

Communications system with analog/digital capability and data transmission ability

GPS

Additional space for future upgrades



Price: 5.000.000 Crown

<<OOC: It's best to put the price in NS Dollars, instead of your nation's own currency.>>

OOC: First of all, I am actually shocked that someone new managed to make such a detailed design. For that good sir, I congratulate you. If you are interested in NS weapon designing, then be sure to check out the NS Draftroom (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?act=idx) for critique and comments.

The only critique that I can manage at this late hour is that the height is a little bit short for your average MT battle tank. While this is not an outstanding problem considering some RL tanks are a similar height, I suggest raising it another 20cm-60cm or so would do the trick.

[OOC: Shush, Emmerian! It's bargain!

All kidding aside, Emmerian's right. To illustrate, here's the exchange rate for my currence and yours. 1 Waadas = 11.6767 Crowns. A Degu would theoretically cost me a bit less than a half million Waadas. Economics is an evil but simply game. Always charge exorbinant prices in the strongest currency. :D

But on to business...how readily could you mount a ROWS?]

OOC: The main gun should be at least an ETC 120 mm smoothbore, in order to take on most NS tanks. Also, there should be more detail on the tank's armor. Otherwise, this is much better than most people's first tank design.

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OOC- I appreciate the input from everyone, I'll look at the pricing, armor, and armament in more detail. Some changes may be in order. Again, thanks! As for a ROWS, I assume you mean some sort of remote weapon system and yes, it should be fairly easy as we intended for some of these tanks to mount a remote controlled .50 caliber machine gun.

FROM: Mokastana Bureau of Secret Actions
TO: Cayuna Islands Military Industries (CIMI)

We admire your tank design and its price, and are willing to purchase 1,000 of said vehicles for 5 billion crowns, which we would like to pay $800 million NS Dollars instead, to ensure simplicity. All payments will be in cash to be transported to an airfield of your desire by our transport planes, at no cost to you. Unless you would like the money in other ways.

OOC:

Current economics: (Using NSTracker (http://nstracker.jfsoftware.com))

C$6.5313 = $1(NS)
1,000 X C$5 million = C$ 5 billion
C$ 5 billion divided by C$6.5313 = 765.544 million(NS)

current NS$ price of tank: $765,544.38

wow, even I feel like I am taking advantage of these low price to much.