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M200 Mongooseby *Ergrassa

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Vehicles / Futuristic

M200 / M203 Mongoose MBT
type: Main battle tank
manufacturer: Shelorr Aerospace
in service: M200 — from 2520; M203 — from 2523
origin: Eior Technocracy
used by: Eior Technocracy, The Greatest Star Empire of Nippon
unit cost: about 750'000 Geo

length: 7.7 meters (8.9 with gun forward)
width: 4.2 meters (6.4 wingspan)
height: 2.1 meters (2.2 for M203)
weight: 43 tonnes (40 for M203)
crew: 3

armor: front: 700
rear: 700
top: 500
bootom: 550
side: 1600 (700 w/o screens)
tower front: 1000
tower rear: 700
tower side: 700

energy shield: 1×4 MJ/sec (4 MWt total)

armament on M200:
primary: 93mm L49 particle railgun
secondary: 20mm gatling gun, dual M72 machinegun
guided: 2 × M35 Stinger AAM
defencive: dual 60mm launchers; 16 × 52mm smoke grenades

armament on M203:
primary: 130mm HEPT
secondary: 2 × dual 1.5 MWt UV lasers
guided: 4 × M35 Stinger AAM
defencive: 2× dual 60mm launchers

propulsion: hover engines, glider plates
maximum velocity: 350 kph (290 for M203)
energy source: aphratium powercore (15 MWt normal, 17.8 MWt overload)
range of operation: up to 800 km (900 for M203)

variants:
M200 Rail
M201 Mobile SAM
M203 Plasma
M204 Siege cannon

M200 was developed under new Eior cluster land troops concept - "Minimum quantity, maximum mobility". Due to the concept, armored and infantry PDF divisions correlated as 1:1. The key features of new tank should be high mobility and firepower, ease of learning to use and low cost. Development was directed to "Ocelot Works" design department of Shelorr Aerospace. The irony is that before the direction the only tanks developed by the department were the orbital ones.

All the paperwork was made in the Bureau's primiary station in Oo-Raksh starsystem. The prototype was ready in april'2522 - it was a chopper-like hovertank propulsed by four glider plates and two low-power turbofans. The primiary weapon was 93-mm L49 electromagnetic particle accelerator cannon with 8 MWt output power. What of defensive systems, well-proven Eior Arms LVS-4 Class II ECHO shield was a good addition to innovative double-layer simplified corthosis armor (so-called "C.73 polymer"). Armored vehicle operation was supplied by 15 MWt aphratium reactor.

At the moment the Technocracy of Eior independence was claimed, M200 was ready for production. But on February 12 2523 Larku Ersherr, the newly assigned Lead Defense Expert visited "Ocelot Works". He proposed the following construction chanhges:
- Additional powerful turbofan booster
- Replace specialized MRM-LV tank missiles with standard MRM-65 air missiles
- Make an alternate tank configuration with 130-mm HEPT as primiary weapon
- Attach anti-cumulative screens to side armor

When all these changes were applied, M200 "Mongoose" with FP-59 particle accelerator cannon was adopted for Eior PDF on May 16 2523. Two weeks later, M203, the simplified version with Mitsubushi Typhoon HEPT was also adopted.

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~eikka492 Apr 2, 2013

is and how is having that much angling bad? Explain please. And try shooting at the turret of a Type-59 or IS-3, and you'll see that a round shape isn't bad.

~Unknownmarksman115 Mar 29, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Seems pretty exposed and under powered with a bad gun depression and elevation and seems pretty easy to penetrate with AP shells without its shields and due to the lack of angled armor. Other than that, pretty good design!

~eikka492 Apr 1, 2013

You call 700mm a lack of armor? And if you look at the pictures It is incredibly well angled. The shield is pathetic, yes. It's enough to counter a 14kg shell flying at 750 m/s.

~Unknownmarksman115 Apr 1, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Seeing that this is a futuristic design, what makes you think that there wouldn't be any weapons that can counter that much armor? And angled armor? Sure it maybe in an angle, but it's too curvy, that can be very easy to penetrate. If the armor was more straight and had more angles, not the whole tank bein in an angle, shells woild ricochet off, but a curvy bubble like tank wouldbe easy to penetrate as a needle can to a balloon.

~eikka492 Apr 2, 2013

How is having that much angling bad? Explain please. And try shooting at the turret of a Type-59 or IS-3, and you'll see that a round shape isn't bad.

~Unknownmarksman115 Apr 2, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

The way that tank is angled, it will get penetrated, and the lack of "angled armor" like a T-34. The IS-3s turret has some angled armor but it's more smoother. The type 59 however, did pretty horrible. Go look how horrible it did in the Middle East. And if you think a round shape is a good idea? Go see the horrible history of the M4 Sherman against a Tiger, Panther, and the PzKpfW IV.

~sevenofeleven Mar 9, 2013

Looks great.

~WittyUsername816 Jan 30, 2013

Very nice design. I'm not a fan of how it looks, mostly because I enjoy the angular beauty of tanks, rather than the rounded look, but I can see this as being an effective design. Keep up the good work!

~ElysianTrooper Dec 28, 2011 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Loooks like the big, bad brother of EVE from wall-E..

Cool concept....like it.

~Yumaboy1814 Dec 23, 2011

Rouged powerful yet smooth and eloquent.

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