Vehicle Name: Crusader R116
Faction: Nobus, Military.
Height: 3.75m / 12'
Width: 4.5m / 15'
Length: 12m / 40'
Physical Appearance:
Weight: 75,000kg / 165,346lbs unloaded, 78,000kg / 171,960lbs combat weight.
Power Systems: KEMET 'Marx' Ceramic Super Capacitor. Allows for 70 (+/-) hours of basic operation (locomotion, turret tracking, running onboard systems) and 20 (+/-) hours of combat operation (averaging 10 - 12 shots of the main guns per hour).
Type: Main Line Battle Tank.
Abilities:
Speed: 35kph / 22 mph cruising speed, 27kph / 17 mph combat speed.
Defensive Systems: 5th generation composite; including high-hardness steel, tungsten and plastic filler with ceramic component. Mk3 Trophy / ASPRO-C active counter-measure system (three shots). Laser-Baffler magnetic field to passively counter laser-guided weaponry. 'After market' heat-resistantablative ceramic Up-Armour plates.
Crew:4 (driver, gunner, technician/radio man, crew commander).
Levels: Driver compartment (front center of vehicle), technician compartment (below turret), turret (gunner, crew commander).
Equipment: Active ECM, Passive ECM, laser comms system, broad-band radio comms, Multi-spectrum imaging suite, laser designation.
Cargo Hold: None.
Weapon Systems:
Main Cannons: Dual NORTHROP GRUMMAN LR17 235KW Laser. Effective Range: 6k / 4 mile. Fires a short, high-intensity beam of light and energy capable of cutting through upwards of 1m / 3' of previous generation tank armour per second of sustained fire. Secondary damage include electrical backlash and EMP effects against un-hardened electronics, and extreme thermal radiation.
Missile Pod: Capable of mounting a variety of missile systems. A few examples of possible rockets or missile types are listed below.
- Scatterable micro-rockets: A long range fire-and-forget rocket which releases between one and three dozen smaller bomblettes or dumb-fire rockets to 'pepper' an area (usually meant for use against soft-skinned vehicles or dismounted infantry)
-Guided missiles (laser, heat, GPS (smart), etc) (surface-to-air, surface-to-surface)
Maximum Effective Range: 450km / 280 mile combat range.
Weapon range depends on style of missiles or rockets, ranging between 8km / 5 miles to upwards of one to 20 km / 12 miles at most.
Rate Of Fire: LR17s are capable of 4 - 8 shots per minute, sustainable over ten minutes before built-in safety systems required a ten minute cool-down.
Payload: 'Unlimited' for the LR17s, so long as the Capacitor's power supplies last.
History: Has come into wide-spread use by Nobus following the War. Early prototypes saw action during the conflict, but did not come into wide-spread manufacture until the end days of the War. Named due to their use as a line-breaker and titan-hunter role, predominately in counter-attack scenarios.
