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A Carteneau with a spare tire at the top and its cannons retracted
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a mobile anti-aircraft platform
- Image Source: Military Today
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: M1134
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Model: Carteneau mobile anti-aircraft
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel
- Classification: Mobile anti-aircraft
- Role: Anti-aircraft
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Armament: High
- 3 flex-tube launchers
- 4 Anoat repeater electromagnetic plasma cannons (in two 360x90 mounts)
- Defenses: High
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Propulsion: Wheeled
- Minimum Crew: 3
- Optimal Crew: 4
- Passenger Capacity: 0
- Cargo Capacity: Very Small
- Integrated rangefinder
- Long-range communications array
- Sensor array
- Environmental control equipment (temperature control, air purifier, containment field)
- Electronic warfare package (sensor-jamming ECM, ECCM)
- Inertial compensator
- Tensor field generator
- Refrigerator unit
- Shield generatorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slat_armor
- Slat armor: While less effective at defending against projectile attacks, it can still disrupt tandem charges and is lighter, as well as safer, than conventional ERA
- Sloped armor: It forces projectiles and energy weapons to travel greater distances inside the plating to penetrate it
- Can fulfill both anti-aircraft and anti-infantry roles
- Heavy protection
- Wheels are vulnerable to even small arms fire
- Limited missile ammunition
The Carteneau mobile anti-aircraft was borne from the realization that the Hwacha was proven to be deficient in an anti-aircraft role: it was more akin to rocket artillery than a dedicated anti-aircraft platform, and it also proved to be too lightly armored to be of much use in area defense. A new innovation that allowed to afford some level of armor without rendering it too heavy is slat armor, which is mostly made up of slatted durasteel grids covering key areas of the vehicle, giving it a caged feel. While not as effective as ERA in defending against projectiles, it allows infantry and other soft units to operate closer to the vehicle in area defense. It also incorporates sloped armor, forcing projectiles and energy weapons to travel greater distances across armor plating to penetrate it. Finally, rounding out the defenses are shield generators.
Its armament suite comprise three flex-tube launchers, capable of accommodating missiles, including but not limited to, SAMs up to the size of a proton torpedo, and also two twin turrets of Umbaran electromagnetic plasma repeater cannons, capable of being used against infantry, light vehicles as well as aircraft. However, outfitting missiles also means there is only a finite amount of ammunition a Carteneau can carry.
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