Approved Tech Breshig War Forge Consolidated AMS-01 Anti-deployment Mine

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PRODUCTION INFORMATION​

• Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
• Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
• Material:
  • Base Station: Molecularly bonded Duranium frame, Molecularly bonded Duranium-reinforced Duraplast composite plating, Condensed-matter composite reinforcements, Agrinium lining, Thermal gel lining, Anti-corr coating, combat de-ionizer, and Ultrachrome wiring, circuitry and electronics.
  • Lift/Floating Mine: Duraplast frame, combat de-ionizer, Baradium, electronics, mine components.

SPECIAL FEATURES​

• Deployment: The mine can be be placed or dispersed via artillery or other specialized mine dispersal systems.
  
  • Propulsion: When dispersed via artillery minelaying rounds or aerial minelayers, the sensors maintain a configurable distance from each other by using their propulsion systems to spread out.
    
    • Micro Repulsor
• Base Station: The mine is linked to a base station that contains the majority of the processing and sensor systems. Once the base-station detects a hostile craft with ground forces conveyance capabilities, it deploys its lift/floating mine directly into the path of the oncoming craft.
  
  • Communications Suite: When connected to compatible systems, the communication suite is an auto-negotiating, frequency hopping system with a self-modulating encryption key, making it extremely resistant to jamming and interception. The comm-lasers can mimic this by rapidly shifting their broadcast spectrum.
    • Comm Unit
    • Comm Laser
    • Backup Communication Systems:
      • PTP Link (w/ PTP Encryption Device)
  • Security Systems:
    • RRDM
    • Socketguard
    • Echo Pulse
    • Pyrowall
    • Holotrace
      • Connection Trace functionality
  • Networking: The mines are all linked together in a mesh network. Additionally, while they don't have the full data analytics functions of a full Manda module they have a transmit/receive only data connection allowing them to make use of and add to the combined data fused battlefield 'image'.
  • Data Fusion: The mine employs data/sensor fusion to create a composite image using the optical, sensor, scanner, targeting and tracking systems for purposes of acquiring, tracking and engaging targets.
    • Optical System:
      • 360-degree FOV Coverage Wide-angle Electro Photo Receptor with Electrobinocular (1x - 100x magnification) functions: The Electro Photo Receptors used here have been modified with a number of additional sensor, scanner and imaging systems listed below. They are all built with the same magnification level as the listed Electrobinocular zoom. The view displayed is a composite image created from all the connected systems parsed and processed by advanced data processing algorithms and a secondary advanced Droid Brain with Gabonna memory crystal.
        • Automatic Anti-Flash functions.
        • Feed Recording: The composite sensor feed can be recorded to data cards or other storage mediums connected either wired or wirelessly.
        • Infrared Motion Sensor with supplemental long-range Motion Sensors and long-range Heat Detector.
        • Light Amplification functions.
    • Scanners:
      • EMS Scanner: The EMS Scanner can be used for targeting and tracking purposes of specific EM signatures or can store specific EM signatures for later use.
      • General Purpose Scanner (Lifeform Scanner unable to bypass stealth systems)
    • Sensors:
      • LIDAR
      • Audio Sensor with Aural Amplifier and Sonic Dampener.
    • Targeting and Tracking:
      • Gravity-wave Anomaly Tracker
      • Silhouette Signature Tracking
      • Countermeasures Compensation Computer: The C3 analyzes any countermeasures the target deploys, such as jamming, "dummy" drones, flares or chaff, and predicts the target's path.
  • Power:
    • Backup Rylith Power Cell (provides approximately 3 months of use on a full charge)
  • Lift/Floating Mine:
    
    • Explosive:
      
      • High Explosive Baradium Charge.
    • Propulsion:
      
      • Sound dampened, IR suppressed repulsorlift, with sound dampened directional micro repulsors.
      • 2x Sound dampened, IR suppressed thrust vectored turbofans.
    • Power:
      • Backup Rylith Power Cell (provides approximately 3 months of use on a full charge)
    • Optical Camouflage System
    • Guidance Modes:
      
      • Active Homing:
        
        • Pre-launch: The mine downloads target information from the base station.
        • Launch: The mine's targeting microcomputer completes preliminary planning for maneuvering and plots the course.
        • Midcourse: The targeting microcomputer compares initial target information to sensor data from it's own sensors and decides whether any maneuvering or course changes are required.
        • Terminal: The mine switches to laser gyroscope inertial guidance for the terminal phase, preventing broad spectrum jamming from affecting it to a large extent.
      • Swarm Active Homing:
        
        • Pre-launch: The mine downloads target information from the base station.
        • Launch: The mine's targeting microcomputer completes preliminary planning for maneuvering and plots the course.
        • Midcourse: The targeting microcomputer compares initial target information to sensor data from both it's own sensors and the other mines and decides whether any maneuvering or course changes are required.
        • Terminal: The mine switches to laser gyroscope inertial guidance for the terminal phase, preventing broad spectrum jamming from affecting it to a large extent.
      • Control Guided:
        
        • Pre-launch: The mine downloads target information from the user's HUD or the weapon's smart optic.
        • Launch: The mines targeting microcomputer completes preliminary planning for maneuvering and plots the course.
        • Midcourse: The targeting microcomputer compares initial target information to sensor database station and decides whether any maneuvering or course changes are required.
        • Terminal: The mine switches to laser gyroscope inertial guidance for the terminal phase, preventing broad spectrum jamming from affecting it to a large extent.
    • Sensor, Scanner and Tracking Suite: The mine's guidance microcomputer creates a composite sensor picture by cross checking data from all of its sensors when in guidance modes where it actively uses the to acquire/track targets.
      • Dedicated Energy Receptor
      • Electro Photoreceptor
      • Long-range Heat Detector
      • Long-range Energy Scanner
      • Magnetic Signature Sensor
      • Gravity-wave Anomaly Tracker
      • Silhouette Signature Tracking
      • Countermeasures Compensation Computer: The C3 analyzes any countermeasures the target deploys, such as jamming, "dummy" drones, flares or chaff, and predicts the target's path. The C3 continues to make minor adjustments up to the microsecond before the mine impacts.
    • Communications Suite: When connected to compatible systems, the communication suite is an auto-negotiating, frequency hopping system with a self-modulating encryption key, making it extremely resistant to jamming and interception. The comm-lasers can mimic this by rapidly shifting their broadcast spectrum.
      • Comm Unit
      • Comm Laser
    • Security Systems:
      • RRDM
      • Socketguard
      • Echo Pulse
      • Pyrowall

STRENGTHS​

• Quantity is a Quality of its Own: While not nearly as damaging individually as advanced purpose built anti-air missiles, the mines are designed to be scattered across or near potential drop zones and deploy as swarms of low-sensor profile mines directly into the path of incoming dropships.
• Low-sensor Profile: Due to their size (for typical airborne signatures, not mines), optical camouflage suite and quiet, low IR signature engines, the mines are able to maintain a low energy signature.
• Nimble: The mines are capable of moving extremely quickly, easily able to place themselves in the path of oncoming craft post-launch. Additionally, they can adjust to rapid maneuvering by targets as well.
• Jam Resistant: A frequency hopping comms system and data-fused detection, tracking and targeting suite significantly reduce the chances of being affected by even the heaviest of jamming.
• Lethal: The high explosive baradium charge is powerful enough to cause cause damage with a high degree of probability to all but heavily shielded and armored dropships and gunships.
• EMP/Ion Resistant: The mine and the base station is EMP/Ion resistant thanks to both the casing material and its combat de-ionizer.
• Impact Unnecessary: The mine does not need to impact targets at all, and instead will detonate once they are in effective detonation range. Within 25 meters, the mine has the potential to vaporize objects from the sheer energy release, and causing intense concussive damage to anything out to 50 meters.

WEAKNESSES​

• Quantity Is Not Quality: A single mine lacks the capability to cause any notable damage to heavily shielded and armored dropships.
• Defensive: These mines are really only traditionally useful in a defensive scenario.
• Stealth: If not networked into a battlenet that is linked to a system with stealth detection capabilities, stealth craft and those with particularly low sensor signatures could easily slip past undetected.
• EMP/Ion: Particularly powerful EMP/Ion weapons could quite likely overwhelm the built-in protective measures and fry either or both the mine and the base station.

DESCRIPTION​

Designed as a relatively cost effective defensive augmentation to the standard approach of anti-air emplacements and the like, the AMS-01 Anti-deployment Mine is specific solution to a specific problem. While not paid to bring back ordnance, Strill Securities commanders sought out a more cost effective solution to soften up enemy dropships and gunships on approach that would allow their AA defenses to focus fire on priority targets or merely engage the survivors. For this, the company turned to the lift and floating mine technology. ​

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The AMS-01 Anti-deployment Mine is a fusion of both the aforementioned technology. Rather than rely on manual means to deploy said mines, the mines consist of a two-part system. The base-station contains the majority of the sensor, scanner, targeting and tracking kit, and is responsible for monitoring the area for targets. Once the base-station detects a hostile craft with ground forces conveyance capabilities, it deploys its lift/floating mine directly into the path of the oncoming craft.​

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The base station and the mines themselves are capable of networking to share sensor data. The base stations additionally have a transmit/receive connection capability with the 'Manda' or similar battlenets, allowing them to make use of and add to the combined data fused battlefield 'image'. This along with their sensor fusion and frequency hopping comms makes even heavy jamming have an almost negligible effect on them. ​

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The mines themselves in addition are silent, nigh on invisible and have engines with an extremely low IR signature, making them difficult to detect. This combined with their speed and maneuverability as well as their high yield high explosive baradium charge makes them very deadly indeed. However, heavily shielded and armored dropships and gunships are unlikely to be damaged by a single mine in any notable fashion owing to a lack of explosive mass. ​

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Finally, other than the potential of its EMP/Ion defenses being overpowered, the mine's final and most major flaw is the fact that it is only really useful in defensive scenarios. Fortunately that is precisely how Strill Securities and most customers who purchase it intend to use it. ​

 

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Shuklaar Kyrdol

As usual, amazing!

Approved.