Approved Tech 255mm Artillery Cannon

The Monster · Mar 30, 2021

..........FREEBIRDS.. INDUSTRIES..........

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

Intent: To resubmit an old factory sub to comply within Factory Template standards, with minor improvements
Image Source(s): Gallery
Canon Link: None
Permissions: None
Primary Source: Original Sub

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Manufacturer(s): Freebirds Industries
Affiliation: Freebirds Industries, Confederacy of Independent Systems
Market Status: Closed-Market
Model: H-3
Modularity: You can use different types of ammo.... that's really it
Production: Minor
Material(s): Phrik-B and Phrik-A breech ring and breech block, Phrik-B core with Phrik-A outer covering chamber, Phrik-B barrel lined with FM-003 coating to help reinforce the barrel against heat generated by rounds, outer covering with FM-002 to help with corrosion of the barrel, Mk. II CAD ammunition

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Classification: Heavy Kinetic Artillery
Size: Large
Weight: Heavy
Ammunition Type: 255mm Mk. II Cased Telescopic Ammunition
Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Small
Effective Range: Extreme
Rate of Fire: Average
Damage Output: Extreme
Recoil: Average

SPECIAL FEATURES

This Artillery Piece is able to target things even beyond line of sight with properly trained gunnery crews, allowing you to send 255mm artillery shells essentially where ever you want.
While you can't mount this onto most vehicles it is small enough that you can mount it to specifically designed heavy vehicles to give you the capability to make this weapon mobile.
This has the power to shoot rounds that are capable of not only getting into space, but getting into space off a high gravity planet and then punching a hole in the side of a capital ship.
Cased Ammunition means you use different rounds for different targets, maximizing effectiveness. Rounds utilize the newer technologies of MK.II CAD making them allow for higher pressures, which mean greater velocities with reduced size.

STRENGTHS

This gun is absurd - The 255mm gun is designed for one thing and one thing only. Destruction. This gun has the ability to not only drop massive shells onto enemy positions to annihilate them and everything around them, but to do so at ludicrous ranges. And the weapon's even rated for rounds that are capable of being fired into space at smaller capital ships, capable of doing extreme damage, even from a mobile weapons platform.
Accuracy - If you have a well trained crew on this weapon, you can effectively put rounds on top of each other 30 kilometres away, or if you're just diabolical, you can use several rounds and fire them over the course of a minute or so, and make them all land at the same time using the different flight paths of the rounds as they travel to the target. Ever wanted someone to think you're attacking with an entire Artillery Battalion but you only have three guns at your disposal? Now you can, have fun.

WEAKNESSES

Long Range Weapon - You aren't going to use this weapon against anything that's close enough to point a rifle at you and fire. Period. This gun will literally tear itself off of whatever mounting you put it on when you try that because it's a 255mm cannon. So try to keep it protected from direct ground or air based assaults.
Pick your shots - This is another one shot, then reload type of weapon system. And based on most vehicles, you're gonna need an extra truck just to carry this thing's ammo. Don't forget to protect them both.

DESCRIPTION

This weapon was designed by the Surric Defense Forces for indirect fires and even for attacking space targets from ground positions. This weapon is massive, and while it is extremely accurate, you also need a huge vehicle or a vehicle specifically designed for this weapon to use it. This cannon is able to use any kind of rounds that are designed for the weapon, which makes it able to attack multiple kinds of targets with ease. This includes dropping high explosive rounds to annihilate enemy positions, to even firing Ground to Space APFSDS rounds. And not only does it hit things hard, depending on rounds it can fly through things with extremely prejudice. And it's accurate out from tens of kilometres, able to fire at things that are technically beyond it's horizon. So if you want to hit things with a bus, from extreme ranges, and absolutely destroy them, this weapon will accomplish those tasks with ease. Just remember that you have to reload every time you fire, and you're not going to shoot things that are too close to you. You keep that in mind and this weapon system will work wonders.

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John Locke .