McCain's Veritech Encyclopedia:

VHT-4 Sparticus Veritech Hover Tank

 

Design: Kraus Maffei Industries
Builder: Kraus Maffei, Caddillac Gage
Operator:

VHT-3: Served with the REF Marines from 2039 until 2075.
-3A1: Served with the RF Marine From 2111 until 2147.
-3A2: Served with the RF Marines 2147 to present.
VHT-4: Served with the RF Special Forces from 2093 until 2113.
-4A1: Served with the RF Special Forces from 2113 until 2133.
-4A2: Served with the RF Special Forces from 2133 to Present.

Dimensions:

	Hover Transport:	Tank:	Battloid:
Length:	6.0 meters	7.75 meters	-
Depth:	-	-	2.0 meters
Height:	2.25 meters	4.5 meters	6.2 meters
Breadth:	-	-	4.4 meters
Width:	2.7 meters	2.25 meters	-
Mass:	26.4 metric tons

Propulsion Systems:

Engines:

4 P&W HJ-800 hover jets, max. output 71 kN of ground-effect thrust each.

Space Thrusters:

2 TurboUnion RP-2S rocket pods, attached to the leg-mounted hover jets. Max. thrust, 103 kN ea, for up to 70 seconds.

Powerplant:

2 RRL-2 Miniaturized Protoculture-cell energizer

Fuel Capacity:

8 standard canisters of protoculture
10.8 liters of D2O

Endurance and Mobility Limits:

	Hovercraft:	Tank:	Battloid:
Max Speed:	161 kph	13 kph	-
Max Running Speed:	-	-	56 kph
Protoculture Cell Endurance:	200 hours of continious combat usage
Delta-V Capacity:	0.55 kps

Offers full protection from NBC environment; a eight hour air supply.

Weapons Systems:

-3:

1 x Mauser EU-11 28mm Laser Gun Pod (front-mounted in Hovercraft mode, hand-held in Battloid mode). This gun pod fires laser pulses of up to 12.5 MJ energy per blast. The pod can fire up to 110 pulses/minute.

2 x Oerlikon PP36 triple-barrel 36mm plasma pulse cannon (arm mounted, used mainly in Tank mode, though available in Battloid as well). The weapon fires bursts of plasma annihilation discs, the typical energy expended in a burst is 5 MJ.Enough plasma for ten bursts is stored in a plasma bottle, and the mecha can generate 20 seconds worth of plasma per minute. The cannon is powered directly from the protoculture cells of the vehicle.

-3A1-3A2/-4-4A1-4A2:

1 x EU-13 Destabilizer, sub-nuclear particle beam gun with output of 10 MJ, can fire up to 30 times/minute. Draws power from its own dedicated protoculture canister, but can by fired using the plane's own power. Particles have specific, disrupting effect on force fields, and will short out a low power field completely, while high power fields may temporarily and locally cease to function.

2 x EP-14 three-barreled 80mm particle gun pod, firing 170 pulses per minute in full automatic mode, also capable of firing semi-automatic three-barrel blasts approximately once per second. This weapon fires 4.1 MJ pulses per barrel in each mode, drawing power from the aircraft's main energizers.

Electonics:

Westinghouse TPG-144 X-band pulse-doppler phased array medium-range radar with battlefield surveillance mode
Phillips AllView II multi-band digital spherical camera system, for medium range all attitude infra-red imaging, optical and ultra-violet band detection and tracking in Battloid mode.
Thomson LT-8 multi-frequency laser ranger and designator.
Selenia GroundWarrior active/passive sensor jammers.

Armor:

Armor is made of lowmass composite-materials chobham plating.

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