Foster

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

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Least your missing the auto loader.

@PrinceAlexus

T-62 never had it, and was the primary soviet tank in the Afghan war. Only T-55s and T-62s were sent to the sandbox.

So yes, the crews' worry is justified.

Further concern is the 5TDF engine derrived from the T-64 it'll be using

A few T-64 tanks were tested in Afghanistan during January 1980, but were quickly withdrawn without seeing combat because their engines did not perform well in the high altitude necessary for Afghan operations

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

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What do you mean “sounds good”? You ever seen a tank disappear in a rice paddy?

@Massasauga

That's SE Asia, thankfully.

No, this means we're going to Stan-land.

*Norkie T-62MV goes into a cold sweat*

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

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Ex-Red Army tank tugs his collar awkwardly

@Smike

More awkward would be that Tank-Rex is a refurbished Chonma-Ho that served in the middle East during early post-Heavenfall (2008-2010) before joining Shattered Steel (and probably ran into @Massasauga's M60A3 in the re-lit Iran-Iraq and Central African conflicts of ~2012 before "Present day" 2014).

So there's a chance these tanks may have rattled the same houses.

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

The Motley Crew

Crew Position: Commander
Name: Marcus Grable
Age: 42
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance: Salt and pepper hair, lean and tanned
Nationality: Israeli
Personal Outlook: Consummate professional that drew the short end of the stick to herd these lost souls to victory
History: Former IDF attack-helicopter (AH-64) pilot in the early 2000s, was medically discharged after being involved in a mid-air collision in 2006 (one fatality and leaving him and two others critically wounded for a time). After recuperating, he was approached to act as a liaison-officer for some foreign volunteer tank-force that had approached to aid Israel in the conflicts that followed post-heavenfall. After a few years he retired fully from the IDF and became a full-fledged mercenary.
Personal Weapons: Uzi

Crew Position: Gunner
Name: Marlene Abdelkadar (possibly a fake name)
Age: 22
Gender/Sex: F/F
Appearance: Long black hair and curvy
Nationality: Libyan
Personal Outlook: Jaded and protective
History: Has had bad history with the ISL, has refused to elaborate
Personal Weapons: MP5K

Crew Position: Loader
Name: Richard P. Sawyer
Age: 28
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance: Red-haired lumberjack
Nationality: Canadian
Personal Outlook: Easy-going/care-free jokester
History: The one who bankrolled/facilitated the acquisition of their tank
Personal Weapons: M32 Grenade launcher

Crew Position: Driver
Name: Adrian Vance
Age: 25
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance:
Nationality: Italian
Personal Outlook: The swift quiet type, he tends to get things done and out of the way.
History: Former Group-B rally driver, heavenfall kinda ruined his track and his record, was later talent-scouted by Sawyer to drive tanks. To be honest it was either this or using his skills to smuggle goods for the black market.
Personal Weapons: BM-59 Mk III

Tank-Rex

Name: Tiran-6AG (Formerly a Cho'nma II, given Ukranian modifications in Korea to aid the IDF in this ficrional setting, hence the fictional nomenclature for the T-62AG modification making actual sales)
Type/Role: Second-Line Main Battle Tank
Reference Links: T-62 Cho'nma T-62AG Tiran-6
Modifications/Upgrades: Aside from the 5TDFM engine upgrade, larger fuel-cells, Nizh ERA, and being re-gunned with the 120mm/L50 KBM-2, plus default Cho'nma turret-bustle extension, also acquired a 14.5mm KPV mounted to the gun-mantlet in addition to an automatic grenade launcher mounted atop the loader's hatch and additional Tiran-6 style stowage-boxes added to loader's side of the turret for ready access to Strela-3 MANPADS.

Standard Ammo loadout: 35 rounds of 120mm (K279 APFSDS [15 rds], M337 STUN [nil unless mission precludes use of lethal force], and M339 HE-MP-T [10 rds]), 5 KONUS GLATGMs, 450 rds 14.7x114mm, 4x Strela-3 MANPADS, 2500 rds 7.62x54mm, 240 rds 40mm.

Color Scheme: /Originally North Korean or Chinese three-tone pattern; later, Syrian Two-tone Green/Sand. Afghan and Pakistani schemes considered but rejected.

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Crew

Crew Position: Commander
Name: Marcus Grable
Age: 42
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance: Salt and pepper hair, lean and tanned
Nationality: Israeli
Personal Outlook: Consummate professional that drew the short end of the stick to herd these lost souls to victory
History: Former IDF attack-helicopter (AH-64) pilot in the early 2000s, was medically discharged after being involved in a mid-air collision in 2006 (one fatality and leaving him and two others critically wounded for a time). After recuperating, he was approached to act as a liaison-officer for some foreign volunteer tank-force that had approached to aid Israel in the conflicts that followed post-heavenfall. After a few years he retired fully from the IDF and became a full-fledged mercenary.
Personal Weapons: Uzi

Crew Position: Gunner
Name: Marlene Abdelkadar (possibly a fake name)
Age: 22
Gender/Sex: F/F
Appearance: Long black hair and curvy
Nationality: Libyan
Personal Outlook: Jaded and protective
History: Has had bad history with the ISL, has refused to elaborate
Personal Weapons: MP5K

Crew Position: Loader
Name: Richard P. Sawyer
Age: 28
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance: Red-haired lumberjack
Nationality: Canadian
Personal Outlook: Easy-going/care-free jokester
History: The one who bankrolled/facilitated the acquisition of their tank
Personal Weapons: M32 Grenade launcher

Crew Position: Driver
Name: Adrian Vance
Age: 25
Gender/Sex: M/M
Appearance:
Nationality: Italian
Personal Outlook: The swift quiet type, he tends to get things done and out of the way.
History: Former Group-B rally driver, heavenfall kinda ruined his track and his record, was later talent-scouted by Sawyer to drive tanks. To be honest it was either this or using his skills to smuggle goods for the black market.
Personal Weapons: BM-59 Mk III

Tank-Rex

Name: Tiran-6AG (Formerly a Cho'nma II, given Ukranian modifications in Korea to aid the IDF in this ficrional setting, hence the fictional nomenclature for the T-62AG modification making actual sales)
Type/Role: Second-Line Main Battle Tank
Reference Links: T-62 Cho'nma T-62AG Tiran-6
Modifications/Upgrades: Aside from the 5TDFM engine upgrade, larger fuel-cells, Nizh ERA, and being re-gunned with the 120mm/L50 KBM-2, plus default Cho'nma turret-bustle extension, also acquired a 14.5mm KPV mounted to the gun-mantlet in addition to an automatic grenade launcher mounted atop the loader's hatch and additional Tiran-6 style stowage-boxes added to loader's side of the turret for ready access to Strela-3 MANPADS.

Standard Ammo loadout: 35 rounds of 120mm (K279 APFSDS [15 rds], M337 STUN [nil unless mission precludes use of lethal force], and M339 HE-MP-T [10 rds]), 5 KONUS GLATGMs, 450 rds 14.7x114mm, 4x Strela-3 MANPADS, 2500 rds 7.62x54mm, 240 rds 40mm.

@Foster

@Rhona W@Massasauga Crew and tank-block be done(ish, I may still add pictures)

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Pretty sure "Nuclear Ontos" was one of my ideas that infected the internet in 2008.
(I had some help)

The big red button is new, though... mostly because nuclear fratracide (one premature nuke causing all the adjacent nukes to dud) is a thing.
-It's literally how Nike-Zues was expected to be a valid ABM system, just yeet a sheet of nuclear deletus up into the exosphere and frag-out the entire incoming wave. Granted, some of the soviet IRBMs were going to be chemical and a couple of the ICBMs would be biological, but that was what I-HAWK could deal with (at least well enough to stay in the fight).

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Maybe a m109 or a Panzer Geppard... the 35mm AA tank.

@PrinceAlexus

35mm goes chonk-chonk-chonk

And it comes with a free smiley-face

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Hmm. Interesting

@PrinceAlexus

Get in here already. We've already started baking cookies.

I will be acquiring upgrades for the tank as we go on in this thread. The crew will be Strategically Transporting Equipment to Alternate Locations.

@Massasauga

Early joint-ops in the middle-east, colorized:

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

Potentially the only timeline it'll see combat.

Wish the same could've been said for the T-80UM-1.

Shattered Steel - Armoured Fist. An RP about modern armoured vehicles in an alternate world- ON HIATUS

I'll be getting my modernized Sherman up! The old girl can't have any rest.

@AvaP

That may be a bit problematic

This rules out antique vehicles such as most World War 2 tanks and armoured vehicles, as they are long-since retired, other than a few exceptions - but given the setting and how it has advanced, even they would be likely long-gone by the time the RP takes place.
The general rule of thumb is 'As long as there is a reference page for it online, and it's not an original creation, it should be okay'. Meaning, if you can find a webpage or website with at least some technical details for the vehicle you wish to use and there was at least some kind of effort to construct it, then it's allowed.

Still, the M4, Centurion, and T-34 are solid girls. But if it doesn't pan out, may I suggest an India-pattern Vickers MBT Mk 1 if T-55 Leon isn't up your dark alleyway?