United States of Arcola Army Brigade

The predominate land based unit on the home world. Not designed to be deployed off world. Marines are used for that.

Description (Specifications)

In the Unofficial (world) system the United States of Arcola or USA is a type 4, law level 5, representative democracy, with a space patrol, galactic girl guides, Arcolian Space Brigade army, space marines, fighter pilots, and scouts. The social strata is as follows:

Social 15 President

Social 14 Supreme Court Judges/Senators

Social 13 Representatives

Social 12 Governors

Social 11 Mayor

They like to use:

Tracked MBT 12cm hyper velocity, HMG co-ax, HMG pintel

Tracked APC 3cm hyper velocity auto cannon, TAC missiles

Wheeled APC

Wheeled Scout

Helicopter

CAS Plane

Arcolian Shock Troops, US7 Rifle, Assault Bayonet(Blade)In the Unofficial system the US uses a mechanized brigade.

USA Main Battle Tank (TECH LEVEL 7)

The vehicle has a crew of 4, a driver, commander, loader and a gunner. It is armed with a stabilized 12cm hyper velocity CPR gun with TL 7 direct fire control in a turret on the chassis deck.

Vehicle Dimensions: Height: 1.22m(+1.22m turret). Width: 3.66m. Length: 7.93m.

Total usable volume: 35.698576m3

Total mass: 62.9815 tons.

Production Cost: Cr. 287,543.21

Movement: Road 65kph/54cm; Cross-Country 39kph/32.5cm.

Movement effect on fire: move < 1/2 -2 EFP, > 1/2 -2 FFP, no fire EFP

Armor: Chassis and turret front 49, chassis sides 32 and turret sides 36, chassis and turret rear, belly and deck 13.

Target Size DMs: +2 low and +2 high hits.

Equipment: sealed environment with over pressure, passive IR/LI, head lights, 200 power radio, weapons stabilization, and 12 smoke dischargers.

Power: 1.12 megawatt gas turbine engine consumes 560 liters of fuel per hour, fuel capacity 1,900 liters, enough for 3.39 hours. Ground Pressure 4.6309926 tons/m2, Power to weight 17.7829.

Weapons:

The 12cm hyper velocity gun has storage for 42 rounds, enough for 42 fire phases. Rounds mass 40kg each. It has +3 signature, can engage 1 target/phase and its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

100m 200m 350m

150m 250m 400m w/KEAP/KEAPER

Rounds available: Cost/round:

HE 19/3/3 200

HEAP 42 300

KEAP 38/34/30 400

KEAPER 36/32/28 440

Flechette 2 +6 DM 20cm 1,000

There is a pintel mounted HMG with a gun-shield for the commander. There is storage for 900 rounds, enough for 22.5 fire phases. It can engage 4 targets and has +2 signature. Its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

50(6)+3 100(5)+2 150(3)+1

There is a coaxially mounted LMG with storage for 10,400 rounds, enough for 130 fire phases. It can engage 2 targets and has a +2 signature. Its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

35(3)+4 70(2)+2 100(2)+2

Maintenance:

Vehicle: 8

Weapons: 2

Electronics: 9

Suspension: 0

USA M-2/M-3 Bradley IFV (TECH LEVEL 7)

The vehicle has a crew of 3, a driver, commander and a gunner. It can carry 9 passengers. It is armed with a stabilized single barreled 2.5cm hyper velocity gas operated auto-cannon with TL 6 direct fire control in a turret on the chassis deck.

Vehicle Dimensions: Height: 1.98m(+1m turret). Width: 3.6m. Length: 6.55m.

Total usable volume: 39.88672m3 Total mass: 27.6 tons.

Production Cost: Cr. 72,068.064

Movement: Road 65kph/54cm; Cross-Country 39kph/32.5cm.

Movement effect on fire: move < 1/2 -2 EFP, > 1/2 -2 FFP, no fire EFP

Armor: Chassis and turret front 24, chassis sides 16 and turret sides 20, chassis and turret rear, belly and deck 13.

Target Size DMs: +2 low and +1 high hits.

Equipment: sealed environment with over pressure, passive IR/LI, head lights, 200 power radio, weapons stabilization, and 8 smoke dischargers.

Power: 0.45 megawatt gas turbine engine consumes 560 liters of fuel per hour, fuel capacity 1,900 liters, enough for 9.75 hours. Ground Pressure 4.2137404 tons/m2, Power to weight 16.3.

Weapons: The 2.5cm hyper velocity auto-cannon has storage for 900 rounds, enough for 22.5 fire phases. Rounds mass 0.6kg each. It has +1 signature, a 40 ROF and can engage 4 targets/phase and its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

100m +3 200m +2 350m +1

150m 250m 400m w/KEAP/KEAPER

Rounds available: Cost/round:

HE 3/-/- 3

HEAP 6 4.5

KEAP 22/20/18 6

KEAPER 20/18/16 6.6

Flechette 2 +2 DM 20cm 15

There is a pintel mounted HMG with a gun-shield for the commander. There is storage for 900 rounds, enough for 22.5 fire phases. It can engage 4 targets and has +2 signature. Its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

50(6)+3 100(5)+2 150(3)+1

There is a coaxially mounted LMG with storage for 10,400 rounds, enough for 130 fire phases. It can engage 2 targets and has a +2 signature. Its direct fire characteristics are:

Effective: Long: Extreme:

35(3)+4 70(2)+2 100(2)+2

Maintenance:

Vehicle: 8

Weapons: 8

Electronics: 9

Suspension: 0

USA

Armored Company

HQ triumph pattern, reno command tank, (6) trenton medium tanks, (2) reno heavy tanks, (10) pioneer combat engineer teams (demo charges/mines/clearing charges)

Support: (6) Carriages from the following; up to (2) gun carriages, (2) rocket, (2) flak, (2) supply

Infantry Company towed field gun w/12 crew, 48 infantry, 24 cavalry/scouts

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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 of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science