Approved Tech Breshig War Forge Consolidated 'Araniik' Point-Defense System

[Shuklaar Kyrdol]

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(Mounted on a tracked test platform. Universal launch tubes later replaced with MMOL-02 Modular Mass-driver Ordnance Launchers)​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION​

• Intent: To submit a point-defense system for use as an emplacement, on vehicles and on ships for Breshig War Forge Consolidated, Strill Securities and select others.
• Image Source: Here.
• Canon Link: N/A.
• Permissions: N/A.
• Primary Source: Point-defense cannon, Pantsir-S1.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION​

• Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
• Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and it's subsidiary, Strill Securities.
• Market Status: Closed-Market.
• Model: 'Araniik' Point-Defense System
• Modularity: Variants for ground side emplacements, vehicles and for use on ships all exist.
• Production: Minor.
• Material:
  • Export model: Duranium frame, reinforced Duraplast-molecularly bonded Duranium composite armor plating, Hexheim ERA, Agrinium mesh and Thermal gel lining, cryoban cooling system, combat de-ioninzer, Ultrachrome circuitry, electronics and wiring.
  • Mandalorian customer and internal model: Stesr'gar frame, reinforced Duraplast-Stesr'gar composite armor plating, Hexheim ERA, Agrinium mesh and Thermal gel lining, cryoban cooling system, combat de-ioninzer, Ultrachrome circuitry, electronics and wiring.

SPECIAL FEATURES​

• Armament:
  • HJB-03P Heavy Jamming Beam Projector
  • Tractor/Pressor Beam
  • x2 Fire-linked MMOL-02 Modular Mass-driver Ordnance Launcher
    • Typically loaded with:
      • 8x Tra'beviiin-class Brilliant Missiles
      • 6x Tbarsr-class Guided Baradium Cluster Missiles
      • 6x E'yarhakya-class Brilliant Interceptor Missile
  • x2 Fire-linked MA-02 Mass-driver Autocannon
  • Ammunition feed on all variants can be connected to a larger internal store on most platforms for increased ammunition capacity.
• Sensors, Targeting and Communications:
  • SPAA/Emplacement variant:
    • Sensor(s):
      • General Purpose Scanner (unable to bypass stealth systems)
      • Target Identification Network
      • Heat Sensor
      • Photoreceptor(s)
      • Vehicle-grade Micro-optics
      • Vehicle-grade Infrared Motion Sensor
      • Heat Detector
    • Scanner(s):
      • Vehicle-grade Low-feedback Scanner
      • Energy Scanner
      • LIDAR
    • Controller/Processor:
      • Full 'Manda' tactical battlenet compatibility
      • Heuristically learning Gunnery Droid Brain (with targeting assistance when manual override engaged)
    • Targeting Suite:
      • Multi-Frequency Target and Acquisition System
      • Multi-Spectral Target Assessor
      • Targeting Visor
      • Heavy Targeting Optics
      • Macrolaser Tracker
      • Sragivagr Compatible Combat Multi-view Display
      • Target-aggressor Attack Resolution Software
      • Combat Sensor
    • Communications:
      • Comm Unit Scrambler
      • Communication Wave Descrambler​
      • Commlink (wired and wireless network)
      • Comm Laser
      • Communication Security Features:
        • Socketguard
        • Echo Pulse
        • Pyrowall
    • Optical Transducer Panel(s)
  • Starship/station variant:
    • Sensor(s):
      • Dedicated Energy Receptor
      • Electro Photo Receptor
      • Life Form Indicator (cannot bypass stealth systems)
      • Radiation Sensor
      • Long-range Heat Detector
    • Scanner(s)
      • Energy Scanner
    • Controller/Processor:​
      • Full 'Manda' tactical battlenet compatibility
      • Heuristically learning Gunnery Droid Brain (with targeting assistance when manual override engaged)
    • Targeting Suite:
      • Ranging Laser
      • Macrolaser Tracker
      • Sragivagr Compatible Combat Multi-view Display (for manual override)
    • Tracking Systems:​
      • Target Acquisition and Tracking, Countermeasures Compensation augmented Tracking Computer
    • Communications:
      • Comm Unit Scrambler
      • Communication Wave Descrambler​
      • Commlink (wired and wireless network)
      • Comm Laser
      • Communication Security Features:
        • Socketguard
        • Echo Pulse
        • Pyrowall
    • Optical Transducer Panel(s)
• Computers:
  • 'Sragivagr' Control Suite
• Power:
  • 'Argu'a' Isotope-5 Reactor
  • Backup Cryogenic Capacitor(s)

STRENGTHS​

• 'Manda' Tactical Battlenet Compatibility: The turrets extend the ship/vehicle's sensor net and provide more data such that the Manda's ability to coordinate weapons fire is only made more effective. Additionally, the system treats Araniik modules in range of each other as part of a battery, allowing for better target prioritization and engaging of said priority targets.
• Fast-track: The Araniik is can track all manner of targets, from incoming ordnance to starfighters and repulsor craft.
• Advanced Stabilization: The Araniik features advanced weapon stabilization, allowing for extremely accurate fire from it's mass-driver autocannons.
• Powerful and Comprehensive Sensor Suite: The Araniik's sensor suite affords it extremely comprehensive detection, tracking and targeting capabilities. It's sensors and scanners creative a composite profile of all targets which when paired with the analytic capabilities of the Manda battlenet module makes for a reliable, resilient and very capable platform.
• Deadly Armament: Both the twin mass-driver autocannons and mass-driver missile launchers used by the Araniik are both more than capable of engaging everything from small droids to even small corvette sized craft. Batteries of Araniik PDS can potentially engage larger corvettes with their combined fire, though the efficacy of this varies based on how well or poorly protected the target is.
• Resilient: The Araniik is well protected against all manner of damage, from energy and kinetic to ion. This lowers the chances that the emplacement will be neutralized by a SEAD strike or by a target that was not successfully engaged.

WEAKNESSES​

• Data Parsing: The additional sensor data means that there's more data for targeting suites to parse. In the case of platforms equipped with the 'Manda' tactical battlenet, this is usually not a problem, but can lead to buffer overloads.
• Limited Ammunition: Both the system's main weapons have a notably limited ammunition supply, and even when connected to a larger ammunition supply stored in whatever platform they're mounted on, they consume ammunition faster than an energy based weapon of the same classification/configuration.
• Loader Malfunction/Feed Damage: Damage to the MMOL-2's carousel loader or the MA-02's feed will prevent new ordnance from being loaded and in the case of the latter, it will prevent new rounds lower than the damaged part of the feed from being loaded.
• Cooling System Malfunction: A cooling system malfunction in either weapon will prevent them from firing as the safety features kick in to prevent the weapon from damaging itself.
• EMP/Ion Damage: Most of the components of the system are sensitive to EMP/Ion damage, and while well protected, should said protection be overwhelmed, those components are likely to be rendered inoperable.
• Tractor Shroud: Tractor shrouds, and clever deployment of the same, can neuter the Araniik's tractor/pressor beam, negating one of it's advantages.
• Sympathetic Detonation: While the MMOL-2 is mounted internally, should a penetrating shot penetrate the weapon's outer casing and enter the ordnance storage, it could potentially set off ordnance, sympathetically detonating other stored ordnance and quite possibly destroying the platform the Araniik is mounted on.

DESCRIPTION​

"When it comes to establishing a defensive cordon, accept nothing but advanced, reliable, Mandalorian technology."​

- Araniik marketing slogan.​

The Araniik was developed for both internal use and export as a AAA system that could be emplacement, vehicle or starship mounted. The use of a single system as such better allows for coordination between systems mounted on multiple platforms. Vehicle and emplacement mounted systems, for example, can seamlessly work together to defend a location. The Araniik boasts fast track capabilities, advanced weapon stabilization and powerful, comprehensive sensor suite which allow it to make efficient use of it's deadly weapon systems. What rounds off the system's obvious advantages is it's resilient frame that allows it to take a staggering amount of damage before failing. ​

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Ever since it's inception, the Araniik has seen multiple updates, and the latest version notably features the inclusion of the FJB-03P heavy jamming beam projector and the tractor/pressor beam. The inclusion of such has altered how the Araniik engages potential targets. Once any Araniik detects a target, the engaging of said target is handed off to whichever system is best suited to do so. This is determined based on positioning, whether any particular system is already engaging another target and ammunition count. ​

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Once the target has been assigned to a weapon system, it is first engaged using the jamming beam to reduce chances that the Araniik or whatever it is protecting are engaged before the system can engage the target. Once this happens, the system ascertains what missile (if any are left) is best suited to engage the target, and launches it. Should there be no missiles in the carousel of either launcher, it will instead engage using it's mass-driver autocannons, which it will also do if the missile did not destroy the target. While it is engaging with it's gun, it will ascertain whether a second missile launch is necessary and act accordingly. When the target is close enough, the system will utilize it's tractor/pressor beam, selecting whichever is more beneficial based on the target's velocity. ​

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To truly get the best out of the Araniik, it is best to make use of a Manda tactical battlenet module. The turrets extend the ship/vehicle's sensor net and provide more data such that the Manda's ability to coordinate weapons fire is only made more effective. Additionally, the system treats Araniik modules in range of each other as part of a battery, allowing for better target prioritization and engaging of said priority targets. ​

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The Araniik's flaws bar one come from it's components rather than any major flaw in the system. This flaw in particular lies in the system's strain it places on targeting systems with the additional data they have to parse. The additional sensor data from the Araniik's suite means that there's more data for targeting suites to parse. In the case of platforms equipped with the 'Manda' tactical battlenet, this is usually not a problem, but can lead to buffer overloads.​

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The next two major flaws are from the system's use of weapons with a notably 'limited' ammunition supply, and the ammunition handling systems themselves. The former can be partially negated through the use of larger internal ammunition stores in each platform, though the latter is not so easily fixed. Damage to the MMOL-2's carousel loader or the MA-02's feed will prevent new ordnance from being loaded and in the case of the latter, it will prevent new rounds lower than the damaged part of the feed from being loaded. While the MMOL-2 is mounted internally, should a penetrating shot penetrate the weapon's outer casing and enter the ordnance storage, it could potentially set off ordnance, sympathetically detonating other stored ordnance and quite possibly destroying the platform the Araniik is mounted on. Additionally, a cooling system malfunction in either weapon will prevent them from firing as the safety features kick in to prevent the weapon from damaging itself. ​

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All the components used by the Araniik, while well protected against EMP/Ion damage, are also liable to be completely neutralized should that protection prove to be inadequate. ​

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Finally, while they do not cause significant problems for the Araniik, tractor shrouds, and clever deployment of the same, can neuter the Araniik's tractor/pressor beam thus negating one of it's advantages. ​

 

[MANIAC]

Shuklaar Kyrdol

Very nice and detailed submission and very powerful. However the strengths and weaknesses are balanced, but since this is a powerful sub, please use it responsibily and try not to abuse it.

Approved.