Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-24142455-20150122231806/@comment-24142455-20150123122141

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Dr. Halsey made her way passed the testing range and into a recently constructed laboratory. She could still see small clouds of nanobots putting finishing touches on either electrical systems or decorations in the main lobby. The UAC had captured a (now broken) hovertank from Tenelapis, unknown where it was gotten from. It was reverse engineered successfully, with a second prototype made, but members at UACHIGHCOM favored the HT program instead. After finding an autoloader in the tank, similar developments were installed onto some of the HT tanks, despite some requests by others. Essentially, reloading did go a bit faster and could go up to 10 rounds per minute, if the coils for the MK-120mm MACs did not charge up for so long. She had ordered development into those systems of the tank.

Tests from railgun systems showed stress on the barrel, and even having both fuse together, making field repair extremely difficult, so the coilgun was put in for the sake of efficiency.

She looked over her notes, armor. The tanks had formidable armor in the front of them, protecting the hover equipment, most of the front was armor besides a few systems and equipment. She planned to mount small metal shields around the jets for protection against shrapnel and nearby explosions.

The HYDRA missile pods would remain, for the sake of crew safety. Even if the missiles were hit, they would explode outside of the tank, keeping the crew on the inside safe from harm.

Recoil on the tank was not bad at standard fire mode, but when fully charged, the tank was pushed pack quite a bit, and one nearly flipped over when firing from the side at full charge. Side jets would be added on to reduce some of it, and add stabilizing to that are, but she did not keep her hopes up. She decided to keep full charge for long range bombardment instead.

Due to the main usage of ferromagnetic tungsten rounds with depleted uranium cores, there was no propellant inside the shells due to the coilgun, which she considered making the tank safer in a way, though she had her doubts with the micro nuclear reactor. Tons of protection was placed on it, weighing down the tank a bit, but for keeping the crew safe was her goal. The tank could theoretically cruise at about 60kph, with a top speed of 75kph, but only for crossing long stretches of flat land, mainly suitable for Tenelapis's surface. One feature she personally was looking for was to have a seal around the tank for combat without an atmosphere, but due to the size (and lack of airlocks) only space suits could be used, unless she made a whole new tank design, something she was reluctant to do.

Never less, she continued her work, and soon got word of the incident at the AIF