Demon Eye class 3T Grav Tank

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Designed and manufactured at TL–10, these vehicles were license built at Felid (world), along the Distant Fringe. The vehicle has a crew of three: driver, gunner and commander. These probably date from models used during the Scybrian Wars.

Grav Tank
Tech Level TL–10
Mass 3 dton
Cost {{{cost}}}
Mode Grav
Type
Speed maximum 1,881kph
cruise 1,411kph
NOE 140kph
Cargo 0
Crew 3 Driver, Gunner and Commander
Passengers 0
Armament Plasma A Gun
TAC missile launcher
VRF Gauss Gun

Demon Eye class 3T Grav Tank, TL 10

The vehicle's crystaliron armor sheaths the chassis to levels of protection equivalent or superior to starship hull metal. This design is sealed with life support for the crew in vacuum and protected forces roles. It features heavier frontal armor on the moderately sloped chassis front, proof against most current weapon systems. Traditionally deployed in companies of ten tanks with 30 crew, support units are concentrated at higher levels. One of the fundamental trade offs in the design was the decision to put a 8MW off the shelf, stock plasma gun into a stabilized turret on the vehicle's deck with {[TL|10}} direct fire control. Modern analysts insist that this is not sufficient versus other modern Grav Tanks. A standard 40 MW fusion power plant is installed, which can share stock parts with a wide variety of military vehicles across the Distant Fringe. For greater self defense and to partially compensate for their lighter armor, a VRF Gauss Gun is installed with expensive TL–10 point defense fire control. This weapon will also shred any infantry that gets too close as well. Finally, a magazine TAC missile launcher was installed in the chassis to provide some small hope of defeating heavier armored vehicles. Originally intended as an APC which explained the lighter plasma gun and armor, the excess room is filled with abundant fuel which gives this tank excellent range when compared with several contemporaries.

Chassis:

Height: 2m (+0.5m turret); Width: 3.5m; Length: 6m.
Total usable volume: 42m³
Total mass loaded: 146.84341 metric tons
Hull Material: Crystaliron
Armor: Chassis front, 52; turret front 48, turret and chassis sides 42, turret and chassis rear, belly and deck 40.
Target Size DMs: +2 low, +0 high hits
Production Cost: Cr3,874,149.5

Movement:

The Grav Tank has 1.3791821 maneuver Gs. NOP flight is limited by available TL–10 avionics, and not the 400 tons of thrust.

Speed:
Maximum, 1,569kph / 1,307cm; Cruise, 1,176kph / 980cm, NOP 150kph/125cm.
Movement effect on fire: None

Weapons:

Full weapons stabilization.

Turret Mounted Plasma Cannon

This powerful plasma cannon has a 20 MW input, and a 4.8 MW output. It is an custom design and is fitted with TL–11 direct fire control. The weapon has some burst radius in addition to impact penetration for greater area effect against adjacent targets at short and medium ranges. It can engage a single target per firing phase and is automatically spotted when it fires. It is an attempt to keep pace with more advanced fusion guns deployed on more sophisticated enemy tanks.

Direct Fire Characteristics: Plasma Cannon
Effective Range Long Range Extreme Range
2.19km (56)/30m(40) 4.38km (44)/20m(28) 8km (17)/10m(1)

Remote Weapons Mount

There is a laser rifle mounted with the 4cm RAM AGL on the top of the turret, which can be used for target designation. It has a 100 shot battery.

Direct Fire Characteristics: Laser Rifle
Effective Range Long Range Extreme Range
180 m (9) 360 m (4) 1,800 m (1)

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

TAC Missiles

There are twenty 20.7987kg 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 5.5km range. It takes a single crew member to manually reload these missiles externally if additional rounds are available. The homing missiles struggle to achieve intercepts against vehicles protected with advanced ECM abilities. Twenty HEAP 50 homing missiles are included in the price.

Characteristics: HEAP Warhead Missiles
Type Range Price
Homing HEAP 50 5.5km Cr339.7987
Homing HE 28/4/5 5.5km Cr331.7987
Target Designated HEAP 50 5.5km Cr439.7987
IR Follow Up HEAP +8 5.5km Cr439.7987

Power / Equipment:

Power: a 84 megawatt fusion power plant
consumes 126 liters of fuel/ hour; fuel capacity 3,083.6 liters, enough for 24.4 hours.
  • Sealed environment with extended life support for 3 crew (proof against CBR/NBC threats);
  • laser sensor 5+ to detect linked to 100 bottles of prismatic aerosols
  • extensive ECM
  • map box
  • thermal and image enhancement
  • 5 power LASER communicator
  • 5,000 power radio
  • 100 power target acquisition LADAR

Maintenance

Vehicle 5

Electronics 25

Weapons 65

References & Contributors / Sources

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