SV Warrior class 4T Grav Tank

Built for the government of Sudi Verisia (world) for internal security missions. They are also used by army and marine forces associated with the Sudi Bureau of Militia. These TL–12 Grav Tanks are designed to destroy enemy armor and provide a break through force to exploit weak points in enemy defenses. They are provided with powerful and expensive fusion power plants. This vehicle has ample power to keep the weapon powered up at all times and still develop 530tons of lift. Yet this design is small enough to be carried aboard ships of the Sudi Verisian Navy in place of a standard Air/Raft. It is fast but is considered by many to be lightly armored for a main battle tank. The weapon load out and counter measures however, are state of the art. The stock 31MW input X class Fusion Gun is considered standard for this tech level. The VRF Gauss Gun is favored with an ample ammo supply to provide near endless point defense fire control versus missiles, grenades and indirect fire missions. They are highly sought after to provide much needly overwatch protection to more delicate and valuable vehicular assets. In addition it can shred enemy infantry. It is considered pretty fast but some complain about the small two man crew as a design limitation. Despite the point defense system's ability to go into an automatic sentinel mode, the over worked commanders are rarely able to effective manage TAC missile fire missions and employ the enormous direct fire fusion cannon at the same time. The missiles are huge, pack a wallop yet lack range for their size because of the oversized warheads. The extensive electronics suite requirements mean this vehicle is a maintenance nightmare. No less than 6 expert technicians are required to keep these monsters flying. Despite its price tag, they have enjoyed extensive export sales with generous arms deals among foreign clients.

SV Warrior class 4T Grav Tank
Tech Level	TL–12
Mass	4 dtons
Cost	Cr6,536,762.46
Mode	Flight (Grav)
Type	Grav Tank
Speed	maximum 1,987kph cruise 1,490kph NOE 160kph
Cargo	None
Crew	2 Driver, Gunner/Commander
Passengers	0
Armament	(Turret) Fusion Gun X, VRF Gauss Gun 4x TAC missiles

SV Warrior class 4T Grav Tank, TL 12

The vehicle has a crew of two (driver, gunner/commander) and mounts a 31MW input stock X class Fusion Gun with TL–12 direct fire control in the turret. It also mounts a VRF Gauss gun in the fully stabilized rotating turret on the chassis deck. The sensors and communications are considered excellent. The 5,000 power radio is a standout unit and supports excellent range which permits satellite uplinks while on the move. The TAC missiles allow it to engage light and fast vehicles at a distance thanks to the 300km range of its RADAR target acquisition sensors. The superdense armor is slab sided and unsloped yet meets or exceeds hull metal standards for deployment in a protected forces setting. The crew need not worry about CBR/NBC or other hostile environments, there is an airlock, the hull is sealed, pressurized with life support for two crew.

Chassis and Turret:

Height: 2m (+1 m turret); Width: 3.2m; Length: 8m.

Total usable volume: 56m³

Total mass loaded: 187 metric tons

Armor: Chassis front: 50; Chassis sides 43, rear 40, belly and deck: 40.

Armor: Turret front 50; turret sides 43 and rear 40.

Target Size DMs: +2 low, +0 high

Production Cost: Cr6,536,762.46

Movement:

Onboard gravitic generators produce a maximum of 2.83 G's thrust.

Speed:

Maximum: 1,987kph / 1,655cm; Cruise: 1,490kph / 1,241cm, NOE: 160kph/133cm.

Movement effect on fire: None

Weapons:

Full weapons stabilization.

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Fusion Gun X

This off the shelf fusion gun X has a 31 MW input, and is a stock design and is fitted with TL–12 direct fire control. The weapon has a burst radius in addition to impact penetration for greater area effect against adjacent targets. It is expected to destroy enemy MBTs out to long engagement ranges. It can engage a single target per firing phase and is automatically spotted when it fires.

Direct Fire Characteristics: Fusion Gun X

Effective Range	Long Range	Extreme Range
4,500m (67)/4(51)	9,000m (56)/3(40)	18,000m (32)/1/(16)

Secondary Coaxial Weapons The dorsal 2.4mx2mx1m turret features superdense armor and mounts a VRF Gauss Gun with advanced sentinel point defense fire control TL–12 to contend with infantry and light vehicles.

Direct Fire Characteristics: VRF Gauss Gun

Effective Range	Long Range	Extreme Range
1.5 km (21)+8	3 km (19)+6	4.5 km (17)+3

The VRF Gauss Gun has storage for twenty continuous feed ammo drums for a total of 600,000 rounds, enough to allow 468.75 fire phases of sustained fire. It roll 10d6 versus incoming ballistic fire missions. It can engage 16 targets in 15 seconds and has a +4 signature.

TAC Missile Systems

The Grav Tank has four tactical missile vertical launch silos in the chassis deck behind the turret. These are huge 250kg missiles and are armed with a pair of shaped explosive demolition charges in the 40kg warhead. This 200 demo point total produces a penetration of 61 versus hard steel armor. An IR follow-up missile is under development, but has yet to see deployment. Some reason that it is currently unnecessary to defeat the armor of most vehicles this model faces on the battlefield. These missiles have a long range version and a high performance interceptor variant.

Direct Fire Characteristics: Shaped Warhead 61 Missiles

Type	Range	Price
Homing	24.9km or 14.9km +10 DM	Cr709
Teleguided	22km or 12km +10 DM	Cr2,107
OP Radio Guided +3DM	23.5km or 13.5km +10 DM	Cr608
Target Memory w/Radio	19.5km or 9.5km +10 DM	Cr7,405
Target Memory w/Fiber Optic	9.5km +10 DM	Cr7,305

The target memory missiles are very expensive fire and forget FAF, they use the radio link for the teleguided components for longer range and the shorter range fiber optical wire link when jamming is present. The vehicle comes equipped with one teleguided missile when LOS is unavailable, one operator guided using the radio command link, and a pair of the target memory missiles. One has the radio link and the other uses the fiber optics. The FAF missiles suffer versus fast moving targets (x1.5 speed MOD), the hypervelocity and +3 targeting bonuses somewhat offset this disadvantage. These 250kg missiles are too big to carry reloads and too heavy for the crew to move. Specialized support vehicles with cranes are required for reloads.

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Power / Equipment

Power: large stock 84 megawatt fusion power plant

consumes 126 liters of fuel/ hour; fuel capacity 8,983.44 liters, enough for 71.2 hours or ~2.9days.

• TL–12 Avionics
• 300 Power target acquisition RADAR;
• Map box;
• Image enhancement and thermal image for vision blocks and night operations;
• 5,000km range radio communication system;
• Extensive ECM;
• Battle Computer;
• 1,000km range MASER communication system;
• Laser sensor 4+, with 100 bottles of prismatic aerosol;
• Externally mounted (threat detection/early warning) RADAR direction finder with a combination of x404 2cm cannisters, of either IR decoy flares and/or chaff w/25cm burst radius to stop IR homing missiles and foil RADAR respectively.

Maintenance

Vehicle: 5

Weapons: 20

Electronics: 87

References & Contributors / Sources

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS