Goliath I class Armored Fighting Vehicle

Wheeled AFV
Tech Level	TL–5
Mass	~62 dton
Cost	{{{cost}}}
Mode	Wheeled
Type
Speed	road 35kph cross country 7kph
Cargo	2m³ 2,000kg
Crew	40 (2) Drivers, Gunner, Commander, Engineer, 2 Cooks, Engineer, Medic, 32 Loaders
Passengers	60
Armament	39cm High Velocity CPR

Designed and manufactured at TL–5, these vehicles were commissioned and license built for the Mytas Colonial Occupation Forces on Mytas (world). This was done at the insistence of Lyssana (world), along the Distant Fringe. The vehicle has a Lyssanan crew of forty: a main driver, assistant driver, chief gunner, 32 loaders, 2 cooks, engineer, medic and commander, and carries sixty armed and equipped colonial conscripted Mytas troops. These have served with occupation forces for twenty years.

Mytas 62T class Wheeled AFV, TL 5

The vehicle's soft iron armor sheaths the chassis to levels of protection sufficient to resist small arms and light anti-tank weapons. This design is sealed with over pressure for the crew and passengers in chemical/bacteriological/and nuclear protected forces roles. Each vehicle is viewed as a discrete infantry company. One platoon crews the vehicle with two platoons of infantry dismounts. The vehicle was envisioned as a land battleship. It has a turret, more at home on a wet navy cruiser or battleship, with a ~15" (39cm) naval gun. It has four massive 6m tall steel wheels with independent power and steering for each wheel. The disadvantage of these wheels is the massive ground pressure, which so handicaps off road speed and mobility.

One of the fundamental trade offs in the design was the decision to omit a main weapon in a stabilized turret on the vehicle's deck.  A stock power plant is installed to save mass and cost, the grav modules do not need to compete for power.  The turret is fitted with a laser rifle for target designation and a 4cm RAM AGL for suppressing softer targets.  The TAC missiles appear as an expensive afterthought and their range is limited.  They require a great deal of maintenance to keep operational and crews complain that the weapons load is insufficient to kill all enemy tank models.  They must attempt to flank units to score killing strikes.   

Chassis:

Height: 10m (+2m turret); Width: 8m; Length: 10m.

Total usable volume: 856m³

Total mass loaded: 1,352.125 metric tons

Hull Material: Soft Iron

Armor: Chassis front, turret front 36, turret and chassis sides 32, turret and chassis rear 28, belly and deck 20.

Target Size DMs: +18 low, +2 high hits

Production Cost: Cr1,893,182.7

Movement:

The ground pressure is 11.267708 tons/m2. The power to weight ratio is 8.3202.

Speed:

Road, 35kph / 29cm; Cross Country, 7kph / 5.8cm.

Movement effect on fire: move less than 1/2 -4 FFP, No EFP; move more than 1/2 No Fire.

Weapons:

No weapons stabilization. Can not move and conduct indirect fire missions.

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Turret Mounted 39cm CPR High Velocity Weapon

There is a laser rifle mounted with the 4cm RAM AGL on the top of the turret, which can be used for target designation. Rounds mass 624kg and the vehicle has storage for 40 rounds of ammunition.

Direct Fire Characteristics: 39cm High Vehicle Gun

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

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The automatic 4cm RAM grenade launcher comes with 1,600x HEAP (36) grenades. It can engage 2 targets and has a +2 signature.

Direct Fire Characteristics: RAM GL

Effective Range	Long Range	Extreme Range
370 m	750 m	1,500 m

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TAC Missiles

There are twenty 22.1835kg capacity launch rails in a pod on the side of the turret. They use a 17cm HEAP 50 warhead or a HE 28/4/5 warhead and both have a 8.367km range. It takes a single crew member to manually reload these missiles externally if additional rounds are available, or carried in the cargo space. The homing missiles struggle to achieve intercepts against vehicles protected with advanced ECM abilities. Ten HEAP 50 target designated, and ten HE 28/4/5 homing missiles are included in the price.

Characteristics: HEAP Warhead Missiles

Type	Range	Price
Homing HEAP 50/HE 28/4/5	8.367km	Cr341.1835/333.1835
Target Designated HEAP 50/HE 28/4/5	8.367km	Cr441.1835/433.1835
IR Follow Up HEAP +8	8.367km	Cr441.1835/433.1835

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Power / Equipment:

Power: a series of huge 11.25 megawatt internal combustion diesel fired boilers, geared into a huge transmission for 4x4 drive.

consumes 10,125 liters of fuel/ hour; fuel capacity 92,579 liters, enough for 9 hours.

• Sealed environment with over-pressure for 100 crew and passengers(proof against CBR/NBC threats);
• 10 smoke dischargers,
• headlights, search light,
• workshop, field kitchen, medical kit,
• 2m³ 2,000kg cargo
• radio direction finder +1 DM
• 5,000 power radio

Maintenance

Vehicle 5

Electronics 19

Weapons 2

Suspension 7

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