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 Posted: 06-Sep-2005 23:23 Post subject: Vesdechod BT-IFV-57 |
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VEHICLE CONSTRUCTION REPORT
Vehicle: Vesdechod BT-IFV-57
Tech Base: Inner Sphere - Level 3
Chassis Design: Tracked
Vehicle Mass: 35 tons
Engine: 140 V2 Ks I.C.E
Vehicle Movement:
Cruise Speed: 43.2 km/h
Flank Speed: 64.8 km/h
Armour Type: 1/Star Slab Standard
Armament:
2x NSVT Machine Gun
1x MV Mk 17.5AL Light AC/5
2x U81 HSF System Grenade Launcher
1x SRAT-2 SRM 2
1x Unknown Infantry Bay
Manufacturer: Mendeleyev Design & Engineering
Location: Rostov
Communications System: O/P COM-211
Targeting & Tracking System: O/P 2000JSA
OVERVIEW:
Designed in 3057, the Vesdechod is a well armored infantry fighting
vehicle, designed to support advancements of mechanized infantry
on the front lines. Though it was released with much fan fare and
considered to be a hallmark of its time, its actual reputation has
suffered due to shipping problems with the production company:
Mendeleyev Design & Engineering.
The light Vesdechod was quick to produce, often a single unit could
be produced in 24 hours thanks to efficient and simple design.
Because of this, the marketing team had made many sales, and the
production was matching output. However, shortly after development
began the Comintern (Communist Intersteller) had declared war on a
number of roving pirate bands, in an effort to wipe them out. Quickly
comandeering jump ships to supply the war effort, new units couldn't
be shipped, and much of the material was taken to supply troops on
the front lines against pirate BattleMechs. Costumers were not happy
and Mendeleyev Design & Engineering has suffered as a result.
CAPABILITITES:
The Vesdechod is a simple design meant to supply heavy direct fire
power to infantry units advancing against bunkers or other infantry
units. When combined with motorized or mechanized infantry, the
Vesdechod provides a very effective frontline unit. Often times it
provides enough armor, firepower, and speed to fight the often far
more expensive mechanized units it might encounter.
However, as a vehicle, it does have the weakness of succebtability to
massive firepower. To get around this, the Vesdechod has been
equipped with as much offensive firepower as possible: machine guns,
autocannon, missiles, and grenade launchers. When applied quickly,
the Vesdechod is able to quickly slaughter enemies. When applied
slowly, it is quickly cut down.
The Vesdechod also is a fully integrated unit, carrying two scouts.
These two soldiers often carry a radio and maybe a single heavy
weapon, allowing the unit to feel out the opposition that the
Vesdechod might encounter. Such integrated combat models are the
typical tactical doctrine of the Comintern.
DEPLOYMENT:
Though it sees limited deployment with the Trinity Alliance, the
Outworlds Alliance, and the Federated Suns, the Vesdechod sees
her strongest deployment with the Comintern.
Desperetly in need of fire power since loosing Bryant, the Comintern
settled worlds just coreward of the Taurian Concordat. Althouth this
territory was very tempting at first, as it gave the Comintern the
oppertunity to build on many rich worlds, with rich trading partners
close by, it was plagued by pirates. As such the Comintern Defense
Force (CDF) has taken it upon itself to take whatever armored units
are available, as they are needed. As such the vast majority of
Vesdechods IFVs are in the hands of the CDF.
VARIANTS:
Though the Taurian Concordat has worked on modifications of the
Vesdechod to increase infantry carrying capacity at the expense of
armor, no known variants are known to be in production.
NOTABLE CREW/VEHICLE:
Master Chief Andrei Sakharov and his four man crew are prime
examples of what the Comintern Defense Force are looking for in a
vehicle crew. Armed with their tank, two infantry, and a light mortar
system, Sakharov was able to trap and finally break a pirate infantry
outpost that he and his scouts had discovered.
The scouts cut the pirates communcation in the opening salvo, their
well placed mortar round crashing right on top of the lightly protected
microwave dish. The pirates responded with two large field guns as
well as portable autocannons mounted into their bunker. The scouts,
knowing they were outpowered, withdrew to report to Sakharov what
they had encountered.
Knowing that the field guns would be able to delay an armored forces
advancement, Sakharov knew that he had to attack while the outpost
was still out of communication. This oppertunity might only last for
another hour, and that was naivelly optomistic. So ordering his scouts
into the tank he slammed the pedal to the metal and brought the tank
as close to the outpost as he could without being detected. The two
scouts then brought their mortar system to an isolated spot and waited.
Two minutes later the Vesdechod came roaring over the hills straight
at the bunker, its main cannon firing hard, and its machine guns
raking the hillside. Mortar shells also began to fall, and quickly the
bunker crumbled, the enemy scattered and were hunted down.
The CDF would end up sending nearly two battalions of tanks past the
marked ranges of the artillery position, and Sakharov and his crew
were all awarded the Order of Bryant for their couragous actions.
Type/Model: Vesdechod BT-IFV-57
Mass: 35 tons
Vehicle Details: Crits Mass
Internal Structure: 20 points (Reinforced) 0 7
Engine: 140 I.C.E 0 10.00
Cruise: 4 MP
Flank: 6 MP
Heat Sinks: 0 0 0
Cockpit and Controls: 0 1.8
Vehicle Crew: 3 0 0
Turret Equipment: 0 1
Sponson Turret Equipment: 0 0.5
Armor: 48 points Standard 0 3
I.S Armor
Front: 4 12
Left / Right: 4 / 4 8 / 8
Rear: 4 8
Turret 1: 4 12
Weapons and Equipment: Loc Heat Shots Slots Mass
1 Machine Gun L. Sponson 0 100 2 1
1 Machine Gun R. Sponson 0 0 1 0.5
1 Light AC/5 Turret 0 40 2 7
1 Grenade Launcher Left 0 N/A 1 0.5
1 Grenade Launcher Right 0 N/A 1 0.5
1 SRM 2 Turret 0 50 2 2
1 Infantry Bay Body 0 N/A 1 .25
Crits and Tons Left: 2 0.00
Vehicle Cost: 538,199 C-Bills
Battle Value: 187
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