trendi Belion, TL 15 Superheavy Grav MBT (Striker)

Last Updated 28 October 2002.

Description

The Belion is a superheavy grav main battle tank, commissioned by Caradoc LIC for use by a small but elite force for planetary defence. As such, it can engage both surface and orbital targets. In fact, many military observers refer to it as a "pocket SDB" rather than "just a tank".

The Belion has a crew of 4 (driver, commander, main gunner, secondary gunner). Its turret mounts a ship's fusion gun and a rapid pulse fusion Y gun, with direct and point-defence fire control.

Each Belion is rated as High Guard factor-5 INDIVIDUALLY! A platoon of four tanks is factor-6, and a company is factor-8. A battalion comes out to (16x4) 64 tubes, which translates to three batteries of factor 9, plus one battery of factor 6.

Endurance is 75.25 hours continuous at max output. They are rather pricey...

Statistics

Dimensions: Chassis height, 3 m; width, 9 m; length, 22.5 m (45 disp. tons)
Turret height, 2 m; width, 9 m; length, 15.75 m (21 disp. tons)
Total ship tonnage, 75 disp. tons; Total usable volume, 95.04 cu m
Weight, 5506 tons (cannot float).
Price: Sale, MCr50 (assumed); Build, MCr41.5; Profit MCr 8.5 (assumed).
Movement: Max 360 kmh/300 cm, Cruise 270 kmh/225 cm, NOE 90 kmh/75 cm.
Movement Effects on Fire: None.
Armour: Chassis front, 90; sides, 82; rear, 79; deck/belly, 71.
Turret front, 90; sides, 82; rear, 79.
Tgt Size DMs: Low +10, High +5.
Equipment: 5000-power radio x 2, 5000-power radio jammer, 10000km laser communicator, 5-power terrain-following ladar, headlights x 2, heads-up display, map box, battle computer, laser sensors, 5 smoke dischargers, 10 prismatic aerosols, interior vision screens (no windows), sealed and pressurised environment, life support for 4.
Power: 603 MW fusion power plant consumes 904.5 l per hour, fuel capacity enough for 75.25 hours at max (68063 l). Grav generators produce 6680 tons of thrust, being 1.3Gs total.
Weapons: Characteristics of the vehicle's weapons are given below. The ship's fusion gun can engage 1 target; the rapid pulse Y gun can engage 2 targets, or 16 dice of targets in point defence mode. Both guns are automatically spotted when fired.
Weapon Effective Long Extreme
Ship's fusion gun 2100(103)/21(87) 4200(91)/14(75) 8500(68)/7(52)
RP-Y fusion gun 527(71)/5(55)+2 1054(59)/3(43)+2 2108(36)/1(20)+2

Design copyright © 2002 Andrew P. Madden.

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