BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
A weapon designed as the go-to ship-mounted turret as well as a space-station and ground-defense turret for the CRAF. Designed as a weapon that can deal with a corvette or large freighter in short order thanks to its two mounted guns and its rapid rate of fire, this weapon is a common sight on CRAF warships and at CRAF facilities such as those around shipyards and bases. This weapon is seen in numbers around facilities and usually has its command center controlling a full battery with a large ammunition bunker underground with powerful autoloaders within the turrets being fed by ammunition hoists. Usually, batteries follow the standard CRAF model of six emplacements per battery, providing a great deal of firepower for the officer in command of it.
This weapon's long-range advantage isn't nearly the same as its larger cousins, and it is not capable of reaching anywhere outside of low orbit, where its effectiveness is only a note when lots of these weapons concentrate their fire. However, at shorter ranges, large numbers of these weapons can be lethal if the recipient isn't careful. RPers will also need to know that this weapon will eventually exhaust its ammunition without a resupply.
- Intent: Create a multipurpose medium ship-mounted weapon for the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces' ships.
- Image Source: Based on the B-2LM Turret
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Crossroads Defense Industries
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Model: J-28 Medium Proton Cannon Turret
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel, Titanium, Duraplast, Proton Cannon Components
- Classification: Proton Cannon Turret
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Proton Shell (203mmx1200mm)
- Ammunition Capacity: Large
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: High
- Stopping Power: Very High
- Recoil: High
- A boxy turret with twin guns fed by a fast ship-powered autoloader.
- Does not have crewmen inside the turret itself.
- Designed to be capable of successfully engaging corvettes and smaller ships as well as massed volley fire against fighters.
- Can be set to an auto-firing mode to fire on ships or firing explosive air-burst round proton rounds at smaller craft.
- Fast-tracking turret mechanics.
- Small dome on the top of the turret possesses a single radar and thermal sensor for tracking fighters which activates on command when in point-defense mode.
- Powerful weapon system.
- Rapid rate of fire.
- Can fire airburst shells.
- Rapid traverse and elevate rate of the weapon system, can track fighters at medium-close ranges.
- Relatively cheap ship-mounted weapon.
- Ammunition is small for a proton cannon.
- Can be set to an autoturret firing mode.
- Turret is rather large.
- Needs a powerful fire control system.
- Not able to take on cruiser-sized ships except en masse.
- Can be a pain to maintain.
- Requires a large amount of ammunition.
- Can't engage fighters very accurately from close range.
- Does not have an IDF capability.
A weapon designed as the go-to ship-mounted turret as well as a space-station and ground-defense turret for the CRAF. Designed as a weapon that can deal with a corvette or large freighter in short order thanks to its two mounted guns and its rapid rate of fire, this weapon is a common sight on CRAF warships and at CRAF facilities such as those around shipyards and bases. This weapon is seen in numbers around facilities and usually has its command center controlling a full battery with a large ammunition bunker underground with powerful autoloaders within the turrets being fed by ammunition hoists. Usually, batteries follow the standard CRAF model of six emplacements per battery, providing a great deal of firepower for the officer in command of it.
This weapon's long-range advantage isn't nearly the same as its larger cousins, and it is not capable of reaching anywhere outside of low orbit, where its effectiveness is only a note when lots of these weapons concentrate their fire. However, at shorter ranges, large numbers of these weapons can be lethal if the recipient isn't careful. RPers will also need to know that this weapon will eventually exhaust its ammunition without a resupply.
