The Monster
Monster
- Intent: To create a lighter heavy cannon for use on tanks in CIS
- Image Source: Gallery
- Canon Link: None
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: The Dire Wolves Mercenary Company, Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Affiliation: The Dire Wolves Mercenary Company, Confederacy of Independent Systems, Closed-Market
- Model: H-1 Cannon
- Modularity: Can be mounted on any vehicle that is meant to be a tank or light tank.
- Production: Minor
- Material: Tunqstoid and Duranium breech ring and breech block, Duranium core with durasteel outer covering chamber, Alusteel barrel lined with Yorik Coral polymer coating to help reinforce the barrel against heat generated by rounds, outer covering with durasteel to help with structural strength of the barrel. Lasing and rangefinder components for targeting systems.
- Classification: Tank Cannon
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: 105mm Cased Ammunition
- Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Small - One shot then reload
- Effective Range: Battlefield
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Stopping Power: Very High
- Penetration: Extreme
- Recoil: Average
- Light Tank Cannon meant for lighter vehicles than main battle tanks to give them the ability to still hit hard and do damage against any ground forces they encounter.
- Features recoil system to reduce recoil load on the weapon and vehicle allowing it to be built onto most vehicle chassis that are large.
- Accurate out to kilometres of range, being able to lase targets, even using targeting system to automatically calculate speed and lead the target for gunners.
- Capable to be matched with auto-loading system to mount it into crewless turrets to increase crew survivability.
- It's a Tank Cannon - This gun hits like a bus, and against everything. The only thing that might give this cannon trouble is targets with deflector shields and even then, it can swap to a round specifically designed for that and utterly ruin someone's day.
- It's lighter than a standard cannon - This gun was designed to be lighter than the standard heavy tank cannon and still able to do damage against all enemy armor. You want to mount this on a light tank? Go for it. An APC you need a big gun for? Too easy. Want to set up an em-placed gun position against oncoming attackers? Do it. This weapon can be used for everything.
- Not as big - This weapon doesn't have as much oomf behind it as the standard, much larger tank cannons. While this doesn't mean it has less power to punch through armor, it means that the round in question has less payload to deliver to kill the target. It can certainly disable the enemy vehicle in the first shot, but killing it outright, little bit harder.
- Single fire - Cannon is literally a single shot then reload weapon. You aren't going to rapid fire this thing, so you need to make every shot count.
This tank gun is designed for lighter vehicles such as APCs, light hover tanks, and other light to medium sized vehicles that are meant for fighting tanks. This weapon does this by having rounds that are capable of reaching velocities that are able to punch through most standard and heavy vehicle armors, but at the cost of its ability to kill what's on the other side of the tank's or vehicle armor. That doesn't change the fact that this is still a 105mm tank round meant to cripple or kill vehicles in armored warfare. And with this weapon being able to be mounted on most vehicles that aren't stupid light, and with the ability to integrate this with a crewless turret, you have a very versatile weapon system that's able to engage and destroy enemy armor at range. And used properly, you can make whatever is on the other side of this gun regret the day it was forged, or born.
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