Turtle class Tracked Tank Destroyers

Built on Fyce (world) for internal security and counter insurgency missions. They form the basis for the newly formed company of tank destroyers. These TL–10 vehicles are envisioned to destroy vehicles, they are lacking in their abilities versus infantry units beside their AP mines. Their armor is good, almost rated for full vacuum. They fall short in the Protected Forces role because of the weaker armor on the chassis belly. Which is only rated to defeat light IEDs and mines. The vehicle name stems from the slow cross country speed.

Turtle class Tracked Tank Destroyers
Tracked Tank Destroyer
Tech Level	TL–10
Mass	~2.86 dtons
Cost	Cr496,915.47
Mode	Tracked
Type	ATGM Carrier
Speed	Road 80kph Cross country 24kph
Cargo	None
Crew	3 Driver, Gunner and Commander
Passengers	0
Armament	(Turret) TAC Missile Launcher

Turtle class Tracked Tank Destroyers, TL 10

The vehicle has a crew of three (driver, gunner and the commander). The vehicle is a very low profile armored slab. All of the crew sit very low in a semi-reclined position. It is sealed and pressurized with life support for all of the crew to protect from CBR/NBC threats and to cope with the hostile environment. On Fyce (world) the crew usually wear their vacuum suits inside the vehicle which is fitted with an air lock. They hook up to the on board life support and save their oxygen tanks for EVAs. The vehicles 19m³ suspension is rated for 131tons, as a result the high ground pressure dramatically lowers the cross country speed. The vehicle's mass precludes many bridges, and slows cross country speed to 30% of road speed. The smoke launchers are problematic in the trace atmosphere of their current deployment but may come in handy when and if these vehicles are shipped off world.

Chassis and Turret:

Height: 1m; Width: 4m; Length: 10m.

Total usable volume: 40m³

Total mass loaded: 168.73544 metric tons

Armor: Composite Laminates Chassis front, rear, sides and deck 50; chassis belly 20.

Target Size DMs: +1 low, no high hits

Production Cost: Cr496,915.47

Movement:

Speed:

Maximum Road: 80kph / 66cm; Cross Country: 24kph / 20cm.

Movement effect on fire: move 1/2 or less -4 FFP, no fire EFP; move more than 1/2 no fire

Weapons:

No weapon stabilization.

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Laser Rifle

Direct Fire Characteristics: TL 9 Laser Rifle

Effective Range	Long Range	Extreme Range
180m (9)	360m (4)	1,800m (1)

This laser rifle has a 100 shot can also be used to designate targets in a low power mode, for artillery rounds and some of the TAC missiles carried internally in the vehicle chassis.

Beehive AP System To protect versus unwanted infantry incursions the vehicle is fitted with a beehive Anti-Personnel flechette system. Brackets for (12) AP mines each with a 2cm flechette warhead which features a 5cm danger space and PEN 3, with a wire command link and proximity triggers. Three are mounted across the front, rear and both sides to provide 360 degree coverage. They each cost 112Cr and a full load is included in the vehicle's purchase price. These have to be manually reloaded. They can shred foot mobile troops.

TAC Missile Systems

The Turtle class Tracked Tank Destroyers have a vertical missile tube launch silo which fires out of the vehicle deck. Equipped to launch 23kg missiles with storage for 40 missiles. These have to be manually reloaded by a single crew member. They use either a 15cm HEAP 47 anti-tank warhead or a 15cm HE 25/4/4 anti-aircraft warhead. Some of the missiles available have both a long range version and a high performance interceptor variant. The typical load out is listed below and is included in the vehicle's purchase price.

Direct Fire Characteristics: TAC Missiles

Type	Range	Price
x10 HE Homing	21.5km or 11.5km +10 DM	Cr368
x10 HEAP Target Designated	21.5km or 11.5km +10 DM	Cr637
x5 IR Follow-up +8 HEAP	21.5km or 11.5km +10 DM	Cr437
x15 Heap Operated Guided w/ Maser Link+3 DM	10km	Cr236

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Power / Equipment

Power: a small 2 megawatt output fusion powerplant

consumes 3 liters of fuel/ hour; fuel capacity 442 liters, enough for 147.3 hours or 6.1 days, and a 11,784km range road march.

Ground Pressure is 8.880812632tons/m2, it doesn't get stuck in soft ground, mud, snow, or sand

The power to weight ratio is 11.85

• 500 Power radio
• 10 Power Target Acquisition LADAR
• 5 km MASER Communications
• Thermal and Image Enhancement for vision blocks and night operations
• Map Box w/ GPS
• Line Charge
• Chemical Mine Sniffer
• 10 Smoke Launchers

Maintenance

Vehicle: 8

Weapons: 3

Suspension: 4

Electronics: 14

References & Contributors / Sources

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• 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