Confederate Dauntless Colonel
- Intent: A mass-produced lightweight infantry anti-tank weapon
- Image Source: M72 LAW
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: RPG-7, M72 LAW
- Manufacturer: Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Affiliation: Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Model: M128 LRPG
- Modularity: Iron sights can be swapped for more complicated sights
- Production: Minor
- Material: Lightweight steel and rocket components
- Classification: Light Hand-held Anti-tank Rocket Launcher
- Weight: 2.5 KG
- Size: Small
- Ammunition Type:
- Frag Missile - Frag Missiles are missiles packed with high explosive, and after detonating, saturating the area with lethal metal shrapnel. Despite the fact that it is intended to be used against exposed infantry, they can be used with reasonable effectiveness against light vehicle targets or heavily armored infantry.
- AT Missile - AT Missiles are primarily intended to serve as anti-vehicle weapons, and contain an extremely powerful HEAT charge. When it detonates, it forces a solid lance of metal that can penetrate large amounts of armor. It has a minimal blast radius, though. It can be used well against fortified emplacement as well, able to break ferrocrete walls down.
- HE Missile - HE Missiles are solely fitted with a extermely powerful high-explosive charge, designed to break up light fortifications, disable light vehicles, and target exposed and open infantry.
- Ammunition Capacity: Extremely Small One shot per missile
- Effective Range: Average Effective Range: 330m Max range: 1000m
- Rate of Fire: None
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Recoil: None
- Easy to use: The weapon is extremely easy to use. The sights are simple and modular. Targeting and firing are easy. One only needs about an hour's training to be decently effective. This makes it a great weapon to equip militiamen or be used as a training apparatus for more elite troops.
- Simple and reliable: The weapon is basically a tube with an electric firing mechanism. This makes it extremely easy to manufacture on a massive scale. It is also extremely cheap to make. It's simplicity also compliments its reliability. It can be dragged through the mud and beaten with an iron rod yet it'll still function correctly. As long as one keeps the tube clean and straight, it can fire its payload.
- Killing power: Due to using a HEAT round for the AT rocket, no matter how long the range is, it will always have the same killing power. Impact power does not matter.
- Light and small: It's light and small and can be carried by a single infantryman with much ease. This makes it a good weapon to be used by light or airborne infantry. The fact that it can be telescoped means that it is even possible to hide the launcher, with the payload still inside, within a large duffel bag or baggy enough clothes.
- Limited range: Unlike, dedicated anti-tank platforms, it lacks long-distance killing power. The rocket launcher only has an effective range of about 330m and beyond that, it is widely inaccurate and unpredictable. After 1000m, it's the absolute maximum range, the rocket self-destructs.
- Backblast: Like many conventional infantry anti-tank launchers, it has a backblast, where hot gases are expelled when the rocket or rifle is discharged. The backblast area is dangerous to ground personnel, who may be burned by the gases or exposed to overpressure caused by the explosion. In confined spaces, common in urban warfare, even the operators themselves may be at risk due to deflection of backblast by walls or sturdier civilian vehicles behind them. It is recommended to have at least 2 meters for a safe area though, in great emergencies, a meter safety distance will prevent major injuries.
- Blast: When the launcher fires, the powder booster charge creates a cloud of light grey-blue smoke that can give away the position of the gunner. It is advised that gunners rapidly change positions after firing to avoid retaliatory fire.
The M128 LRPG is a 66m is a reusable and durable anti-tank shoulder-mounted launcher. It's durability, simplicity, and effectiveness makes it a prime weapon for mass-production and use by the Confederacy. The weapon was created when CIS high command in conjunction with Dauntless command decided that their units needed a reliable, effective, and yet mass-produced anti-tank weapon. Emplaced weapons were deemed to be too unwieldy to be used during mobile warfare and that the common combat squad needed tank-killing abilities if they were to face down the foes of the CIS.
The weapon consists of an RPG within a launcher consisting of two tubes, one inside the other. The two metal stamped parts can be telescoped out and in, reducing its size. The outer tube protects the inner tube, holds the iron sights, and elongates the barrel for accuracy. The inner tube contains both the rocket-propelled grenade and the firing charge. The grenade itself is a HEAT round capable of penetrating over 500m of steel. Though there are other variants that be launched as well. The grenade is launched by a booster charge that clears it from the launcher. However, in firing, it creates a dust cloud and a bright flash that could give away the position. After that, the rocket motor kicks in and can carry the grenade up to 900m, though 330m is its effective range. Once in flight, fins extended to stabilize the grenade and ensure that the tip hits straight. After that is has a range of about 1000m. It has a fuze that dictates at what distance does the rocket self destruct, often set at about 900m.
During combat tests is has been rated well by testers to be easy to use and understand, though the range leaves something to be desired. It was seen to be extremely good at knocking out a tank's systems, be it the sensors or barrels of the guns. It was great at knocking out tank treads, giving it the nickname "Tread-kriffer." It was rated to be extremely good at knocking out fortified emplacements and destroying entrenched infantry. The sight can be changed from simple iron sights complicated night sensors. Its small size, lightweight, and reliability make it the preferred weapon for light infantry, paratroopers, and infiltrators.
Easy to mass produce, easy to use, easy to maintain and easy to kill with. Despite its simplicity, it is no joke and punches above its belt. It is a lethal weapon that strikes fear into the hearts of tankmen for it could be anywhere, around that street corner, hidden in that shrub, or that man in the crowd.
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