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Onno Meyer, 2006-08-28
Dragon Republic Type 08 Main Battle Unit v1.1 (TL9)
Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer
The Type 08 is the standard MBU of the Dragon Republic. On Earth and
the most important colony worlds, many have been upgraded to the 08/12
configuration with improved EW and commo gear. The earlier 08/10 and
08/11 variants can still be found on backwater planets.
The Type 08 is small for a first-line MBU, almost 20 percent lighter
than a Terran Union CV10 Warrior, but the Dragon Republic concentrates
on strategic mobility. The 31-tank Independent Armor Battalion has 150
soldiers and some 2,000 tons of vehicles, with a logistical footprint
comparable to some reinforced TU companies, and an Armored Corps has
enough Heavy Lift Helicopters to transport the standard 44-tank Armor
Battalion in one wave.
The main weapon of the MBU is a 60mm railgun. In the default setting
of the fire control system, it fires bursts of four APFSDSDU rounds to
chew through the ablative armor of TU CV10s. The barrel of the railgun
is more than twice as long as the hull, so the turret is placed in the
rear of the hull to keep the total length of the MBU manageable. The
secondary weapons are five 400-kJ lasers for missile defense and soft
ground targets.
The crew compartment is in the rear of the hull, below the unmanned
turret. It has seats for a commander, a gunner and a driver. Vision is
provided by tiny optical periscopes and an excellent electronic sensor
suite. The crew compartment has both NBC filters and air tanks for one
day, but no airlock - all crewmembers must suit up before a hatch is
opened.
The reactor has enough excess power to recharge one laser shot every
second. A full load of ammunition is $111,150.
Subassemblies: Body +4, two Tracks +3, full-rotation Turret +4.
Powertrain: 1,000-kW tracked drivetrain; 2,000-kW super MHD fusion
reactor; fifty 270,000-kWs rechargeable E cells.
Occ: 3 NCS. Cargo: 16 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 6/2,000 4/720 4/400 4/900 4/400
Tracks: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80
Turret: 6/4,000 4/600 4/600 4/1,200
Body and Turret + DR 200 EM armor.
Weaponry
60mm Railgun [Tur:F] (200 shots) +2.
Five 400-kJ Point Defense Lasers [Tur:F,R,L,B,T] (1,560 shots each) +1.
Equipment
Body: Four 5x LLTVs; 0.4-mile active sonar; 4-mile geophone; level-10
surveillance sound detector; navigation instruments; two IFF; two
inertial navigation systems; military GPS; two HUDWACs with pupil
scanners; level-8 deceptive jammer; 16 decoy dischargers; two C5
hardened microframes with three terminals; full fire suppression system;
3-man NBC kit; 3 man-days limited life system; three crashwebs. Turret:
Full stabilization and anti-blast magazine for 60mm Railgun; full
stabilization and cyberslave mounts for 400-kJ Point Defense Lasers; two
medium-range radios with scramblers; four short-range lasercoms; four
medium-range lasercoms with scramblers; four 5x LLTVs; 50-mile LPI
AESA; 25-mile PESA; four 5-mile PESAs; 10-mile multiscanner; 2,000-yard
laser chemscanner; five 5-mile laser rangefinders; laser spot tracker;
12.5-mile laser optics detector; 16 decoy dischargers. External: Basic
emission cloaking; basic sound baffling; basic stealth; basic chameleon;
radiation shielding; tow hitch; tow pin.
Statistics
Size: 50'x10'x8' Payload: 1 ton Lwt.: 50 tons
Volume: 1,440 cf Maint.: 11 man-hours Price: $5,700,100
HT: 11. HPs: 3,000 Body, 1,200 each Track, 1,800 Turret
gSpeed: 60 gAccel: 4 gDecel: 20 gMR: 1 gSR: 7
Ground Pressure Low. Off-Road Speed 2/3.
Design Notes
Body is 700 cf, with 60 degree F slope. Tracks are 420 cf. Turret is
320 cf, with 60 degree F slope. Structure is extra-heavy and standard,
with heavy compartmentalization. Armor is expensive laminate, with EM
armor on Body and Turret. Self-sealing. Smarttracks and improved
suspension. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls.
There are 41.7 cf of empty space in the body. 125 rounds of 60mm
APFSDSDU, 45 rounds of 60mm HE, 15 rounds of 60mm Beehive and 15 rounds
of 60mm CHEM(WP) are stored in the Turret. Empty weight is 98,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
60mm Railgun 4,900 98 $1,000,000 129,600 5.4 0.054 $780[1] 9
400-kJ PD Laser 50 1 $10,000 900 - - - 9
[1] APFSDSDU; also fires HE (* 1/6 cost), Beehive (*1/3 cost), and
CHEM(WP) (*1/3 cost).
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
60mm Railgun APFSDSDU ver. cr. 6d*72(3) 30 20 13,000 30,000 4*
HE ver. exp. 6d*10[6d] 19 8,700 20,000
Beehive ver. imp. 10d 19 8,700 20,000
CHEM(WP) ver. spcl. 13 yards 19 8,700 20,000
400-kJ PD Laser - ver. imp. 6d 20 20 4,000 8,000 16*
The TL9 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the optional armor
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A transport helicopter for the tank.
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