SS Festung Panzer
Name: SS Festung PanzerDesignation: Heavy Tank
Crew: 7
Armor:
Main Chassis: 2 inches titanium alloy, 10 inches durasteel, 4 inches ablative
Turret: 1 inch titanium alloy, 4 inches durasteel, 1 inch ablative
Speed: 120 km/hr without weapons charged, 100 max with weapons charged, 80 km/hr efficient, 60 km/hr while weapons charging
Height: 5 meters
Length: 20 meters
Width: 8 meters
Weapons:
Turret: 135 mm cannon x1
20 mm cannon x1
Twin blaster cannon x2 coaxle
Air Defense Turret: Quad laser cannon x1
Main Chassis Front: 30mm chain gun x1
Twin blaster cannon x1 coaxle with chain gun
Main Chassis Rear: Twin blaster cannon x1
Description: The largest and most powerful tank developed by the SS, the Festung Panzer is designed to supplement units of Blitz Panzers, becoming the spearhead for tank sections. It's three twin blaster cannons can target infantry or light vehicles, while its 30mm chain gun, 20mm cannon, and 135mm cannon can obliterate enemy armor. Its quad laser cannon is good for air defense and, occasionally, additional rear support. The rear is the weakest area, with only a twin blaster cannon covering it.
It's armor is incredible. The main chassis has at least 14 inches of armor, both durasteel and ablative, as well as a 2-inch titanium alloy skin. In order to achieve minimum speed, the armor in the turret had to be shaved to 5 inches, but that is still enough to take multiple hits from lighter weapons and even a few from larger ones.
While the speed of the Festung Panzer may seem fast for its size and mass, much of the main chassis is consumed by the engines. The Festung Panzer uses a varient of a hydro-electric engine that yields a massive power output, the result of nanotech research and experiments with the Blitz Panzer and the Skorpion. Once again, the exhaust is emitted from the gap between the turret and the chassis, leaving the integrity of the hull intact.
The Festung Panzer is the first of the SS tanks to come with varying styles of camoflage. It is covered with a thin layer of fiberplast that changes color with the push of a button. It comes in varients of desert, urban, wooded, snow, plains, jungle, rocky, and night, each with a specific pattern to enable the tank to blend in with its surroundings. It is expected that more varients will come out in software update packages.
Sensors and communications on the Festung Panzer are also state of the art. The Festung incorporates visual, sonar, and radar scanning, all available at the navigator's station. It also comes with the latest in Imperial jamming and anti-jamming software as well as the line-of-sight stealth comm used in the Phantom Mk II.
As the Festung Panzer is such an advanced tank, security is quite tight. A new system of authorization has been devised, incorporating vocal patterns, retinal scans, palm and fingerprint readers, and DNA sampling of the tank commander and drivers before operation. Anti-intruder methods include dangerous electric shocks that are guaranteed to render a person unconscious or a droid inoperable.
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Comments
#67 6:52am 27/09/07
And none of you were there.
The choppers... the choppers...
#66 5:58am 27/09/07
Vietnam was not a war about fighting for one's country. Vietnam was a war were a whole lot of people died for no good reason. And it is not someone's civil duty to die half way across the world because their president decided to get them involved in a messy conflict. If a facist state is marching down the street, burning everything in their path, okay.
But Vietnam was never necessary, and so the draft dodgers did nothing wrong by refusing to go and die. And while I agree that some protesters might have mistreated soldiers, to tar everyone with the same brush is simply foolish. Likewise, whereas some might have broken laws, that does not automatically make them traitors nor does it mean all did so. Americans broke many laws during the Revolution, yet I see no tarring of your entire nation for that little stunt.
[QUOTE]I believe we should stay in [Iraq] until every last fundamentalist Islamic terrorist is dead or in prison somewhere.[/QUOTE]As for that, don't hold your breath. I suppose no one ever taught you that violence begets violence? Or you haven't noticed that there are more terrorists in Iraq today than there were in 2003? You cannot destroy terrorism - as long as there are disaffected people who turn to violence terrorism will exist. And violence is not an answer, because it simply proves that the terrorists have the right idea. If you invade a sovereign nation, it tells them that violence is a solution.
#65 3:35am 27/09/07
I wouldn't say that disagreeing with the government is anti-American. However, I do believe that the actions of said protesters were well within the limits of being anti-American. 1) They defied the rule of law. 2) They mistreated the returning soldiers, men who were just doing their duty for their country. 3) They dodged their civil duty when called upon to join the military and fight for their country (something called draft-dodging). That, in my estimation, is anti-American.
There are a number of areas in which I disagree with the government. For example, I disagree with pulling our soldiers out of Iraq. I believe we should stay in the country until every last fundamentalist Islamic terrorist is dead or in prison somewhere. I disagree with the way the welfare system is being run. I disagree with the laws allowing abortion. I disagree with the nationalization of social security and healthcare. Yet you don't see me bombing abortion clinics, or attacking the IRS; what I need to say, I say through the electoral process. I work within the rule of law to perhaps change that law.
And by the way, I also say that those who bomb abortion clinics are anti-American. Just FYI.
#64 3:18am 27/09/07
Yes, well, you also associate disagreeing with the government to being "anti-American", which roughly translates as "I was dropped on my head as a small child", so there we are.
Seriously, someone is allowed to disagree with the actions of the government without being labeled a hippie, anti-American, or traitor. That's a right America fought several wars to defend. Ironic, isn't it?
#63 3:04am 27/09/07
[QUOTE=Irtar's Best Friend, Irtar]Hey Kach: Vietnam. Nuff said.
So. *busts out his potato gun* You gotta love what you can do with some piping, a spark plug, and a some butane. BRING IT ON![/QUOTE]
In defense of Kach here, Vietnam was a defeat only insofar as two things are assumed: 1) that all defeats are caused by the military alone, and 2) it is seen as an isolated conflict rather than a battle in a larger war.
Personally, I see Vietnam as being lost by the anti-war hippie protesters (the nicest terms I can assign such anti-American individuals) and the politicians who paid attention to them. Even so, I also see it as part of a larger war against the destructiveness of Soviet Communism, i.e., the Cold War, a war that was won in the early 1990's.
And my 88mm potato gun is still ready for action. Now to go mount it on a tank...
#62 2:51am 27/09/07
Hey Kach: Vietnam. Nuff said.
So. *busts out his potato gun* You gotta love what you can do with some piping, a spark plug, and a some butane. BRING IT ON!
#61 2:02am 27/09/07
Nobody wants to see that.
Well, maybe Telan.
#60 1:38am 27/09/07
[QUOTE]I really like how one off-handed remark...[/QUOTE]
You should see what I do with my on-hand.
#59 12:14am 27/09/07
I really like how one off-handed remark from Thee Beff Pike can turn an R&D discussion into a debate about Germany v. Rest of World.
#58 12:00am 27/09/07
I have spuds.
Would you like spuds?
Spuds for SCUDS
#57 11:52pm 26/09/07
Yes Potatoes. I'm hungry
#56 10:13pm 26/09/07
Indeed, and Necros as well. The Soviet's single handed defeated Germany? Have you ever studied history? I mean even looked at the cover of a military text? Been in the same room as one?
I would hope that some sort of divine osmosis would show you that the Red ARMY IN no way even came close to defeating Germany. Even in the waning days of the war it was only sheer numbers which bested the Wehrmacht. Undermanned and underfed as well as unsupported and un supplied, the German Army bloodied the nose of the Russians at nearly every turn, namely the Seelowe Heights, Kurland, among others. It was American and British supplied equipment such as the Dodge Willy and GMC trucks as well as food like SPAM that saved Russia and aided their attack.
Short point of it - the Soviet Army was outgeneralled. Generalship however cannot win battles where there is no more ammunition or men are marching on their stomachs. And so telling Russian numbers won. I point out however as the single most telling point in my favor the casualty rate - thirty million russian soldiers to five three million (EAST FRONT) Germans - 10 to one, our favor.
Deutschland ueber alles
In regards to your vaunted Soviet Navy, it was sent to the bottom along with the rest by the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine in the early months of WWII. It was the most prepared for the invasnion of 1941 of all the soviet arms, but it still did poorly given its numbers.
WWI - need we even mention the Goeben and Breslau, two German battlecruisers that wreaked untold and unchecked havoc in the Black Sea.
Sadly, the Soviet Navy has no heraldage to the great likes of Rozhestvensky, Makarov, or the other Russian argonauts.
But let us not debate the war anymore....there was a potoato fight going on somewhere, no?
#55 9:28pm 26/09/07
stfu Kach.
#54 7:12pm 26/09/07
And then we beat the shit out of the. Lesson learned: Don't fuck with Uncle Sam.
#53 3:36am 26/09/07
[quote]"Send us more Japs?"[/quote]
Ha! Until Coral Sea came around, it was the Japs saying, send us more British, Dutch, and American vessels. With the notable exception of the first Wake Island, in which it was the Americans saying send us more Japs.
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