AppearanceInheriting his father's physique at 6'1" and weighing 228lbs with brown eyes and a crooked nose with some stubble about the same length as his short cut dark brown hair. Just short enough to not get yelled at basic training. He also inherited his father's broad face and dull looks.
With his large hands and size-13 boots along with a muscled body gives him a build above average for his age. Wearing what looks like a standard Russian infantry uniform, but if you concentrate hard enough, the material will look made out of suspiciously good quality and in a brand new condition. If you were to search his person you would somehow always find some alcohol on him in one of the many hidden pockets sewn into his greatcoat.
PersonalityLikes to be engaging and diplomatic when talking to someone while smiling. Generally to convince someone that he didn't try to steal or damage any equipment, food or anything that isn't nailed down. He isn't very convincing sometimes. Growing up on the West Coast of North America and Eastern Russian coast has caused a very awkward mix of culture and interactions. This constant movement has made him rather adaptable to changing conditions. The mixed crew and harbors never managed to firmly instill a sense of patriotism to either form of ideology although he has developed a hatred for fascism and is a strong believer in comradery. He has become very vocal and engaging with a cheerful front in contrast to his quiet upbringing in Vladivostok. Has never liked the cold climate in the North and will try to keep warm at all times.
RelationshipsTo be updated
ClassificationRifleman
SVT-40 rifle
Tokarev TT-32 pistol
SVT-40 knife bayonet 10x 10x55mm APDS rounds
20x 10x71mm APHE rounds
Experimental GearWhile researching on a new support weapon for infantry many concepts were drawn, some were approved, and very few plans had a working prototype. The
LGP rifle/flamethrower hybrid is not one these designs. Rather a side project for a particular scientist because it didn't get the approval from the bureaucratic side for funding.
Trying to make a support weapon that could suppress infantry and potentially disable armor in the small size of a single portable Infantry unit proved challenging. The result was an 80cm long rifle with a hose and wiring unit connecting a six cylinder backpack of unpressurized tanks. These tanks contained slow burning Ignition cartridges, inside one of each tank is filled with a thickened fuel. When the trigger is pressed, a small battery will send a charge through the cable to whichever cylinder is selected. This electric charge ignited the propelled that would burn rapidly causing gas buildup forcing the liquid out of the single 3.4L tank for 2-3 seconds and depending on liquid, (Napalm or Petroleum) can throw it up to 70m for Napalm or 20m for Petroleum. Once the trigger gets squeezed an entire tank will empty with no way to stop.
When used in enclosed buildings, it will cause an inferno of any wooden built structures, and in concrete or stone structures with little ventilation, it would cause a choking hazard burning up all the oxygen in a room. It can be used for close quarter engagement, although the user and team must be aware of the side effects in enclosed and wooden buildings. The prototype also has projectile launching capabilities. There are three additional 100ml propellant tanks. These smaller tanks located just below the three liquid tanks and split in half containing six units in total. Connected to them is a smaller less flexible, but stronger hose that connects to the three additional smaller barrels that run along the main barrel. All barrels have back stop pressure dividers that can block or allow gas to independently move through the system without igniting the whole unit at once. The smaller barrels also has venting ports to keep the gas from over pressurizing the main barrel.
There is a chamber in the main barrel that a single round can be inserted. It was tested with a new
Armour Piercing High Explosive round and
Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot round that worked with the gas buildup from the smaller 50ml tanks that will ignite a smaller propellant behind the cartridge propelling the bullet up to 3,500fps. It is currently limited to three flame blasts and six rounds at a time before the canisters must be reloaded. Propellant from regular cartridges can be used to refuel the smaller six tanks, and petroleum can be utilized for the liquid tanks. The sabot rounds consist of a bullet that has a tungsten tip and core covered with a copper jacket that is rifled to keep the bullet stable during flight. It also causes the bullet to spin in the barrel. When this bullet hits a target, the copper is cushioned back while the round center tungsten carbide digs into armor relying on the density of the metal and high velocity for penetration. It can currently pierce all light armor and even medium armor from the front. Heavy armor can only be penetrated from the back or sides but has shown to be able to cause a spalling effect on thick frontal armor. It is however not reliable to do so and with the limited number of shots is not recommended. Ranges tested above 50m show that the flight ballistics of the bullet loses too much velocity above this range that negates any penetration of armor although organic material will still be affected. Impact ballistics shows that within the 50m range the tungsten will either punch through the outer plate generating an immense change in pressure causing immense heat inside the interior of the vehicle or cause a spalling effect when it doesn't penetrate. Whereby the inside of the armor will deform and break apart sending shrapnel into the interior of the vehicle.
The case is made out of a heat resistant plastic that houses only the back of the bullet which will separate from the bullet upon leaving the barrel. Behind the plastic case is a small paper satchel that houses more propellant that ignites from the heat generated from the 50ml tanks propellent. The Armour Piercing High Explosive rounds are more general purpose and numerous. Capable of piercing soft and light cover and sides and back of medium armor. This round has the same characteristics and builds as the sabot, but instead of tungsten, it has a longer bullet with the back core filled with explosive and the front capped with copper then followed by hardened alloy steel in the middle. The alloy would have enough force to penetrate, and the detonator would set off the explosive compound. This round can kill crew or ignite fuel and destroy softer targets. It can also take good chunks out of walls to negate cover while wounding unarmored targets behind it. The rounds are awkward to handle, and the propellant satchel can break if handled roughly. The gun must also be using the tripod when a round is going to be fired. The force generated by the firing sequence has injured previous testers. It can, however, be used unassisted, but is highly discouraged. Pressure build-up from firing inside enclosed buildings also causes danger to the user as internal organs can be damaged from multiple uses. Because of the limited supply of hard metals such as tungsten carbide, the ammunition is limited.
Production has not been approved because of the high cost of materials involved and user vulnerability while the liquid tanks are full. It must also be mentioned that it weighs a staggering 26.5kg. This unit limits what a soldier can additionally carry.
BackgroundBorn in 1930 living a sheltered life in Vladivostok with his mother. Anatoly was always captivated when his father returned home from the merchant convoy and told stories of warm beaches, strange food and the candy he would get, but the most important thing was always the open sea. With his imagination and wanderlust running wild he would always beg his father to take him with whenever he came to visit. When Anatoly turned nine years old, his father suddenly listened to him and even though his mother protested he was allowed to go with his father on the diesel powered merchant vessel Esneh to California for two-month trips.
On his first voyage, he still felt like an only child until he started viewing the team as the rest of his family, this gradually happened after some months of being quiet and listening to the crew and his father, as they tried to make him "a proper man." They then explained that all this skill and knowledge would help him when he is older. The older men were his uncles and the younger ones his older brothers.
The ship smuggled liquor Stateside and returned with legal materials for the war effort. The team managed to make sure that the "50-year-old man" was more needed serving the Motherland on a merchant ship than getting conscripted. In 1942 things started to drastically change as the Japanese started hunting any merchant ships in the Northern Pacific after the capitulation of the northern supply route from Britain to Russia. The United States gradually began sending fewer supplies for the lend-lease agreement. Merchant shipping became a hazardous job in the Pacific, and so escorts became smaller and shipments less frequent and had to use Ports in Canada regularly. He continued working with his dad while shipping was primarily moving north to the Archangelsk port in Siberia. Several raids by small convoy raiders were repelled by the crew until they set sail from Archangelsk and on the night of 17 November 1943 a torpedo attack off the coast of Western Siberia sunk the Esneh killing most of the crew except those who managed to board the lifeboats. AA fire from the U-boat killed most of the survivors on the lifeboat including his father. Anatoly and a few survivors managed to get picked up by a fishing trawler and taken back to the Archangelsk port.
Wounded by shrapnel and with no way to contact his mother he reverted to the quiet kid that lived in Vladivostok. A survivor named uncle Andrei with the rest of the surviving crew managed to get Anatoly out of the hospital before they conscripted him. Andrei was an old friend of his father and promised that they would take care of Anatoly. Shortly afterward Anatoly started intimidating his fathers friendly and approachable demeanor from that point on to the young man that he is today. Anatoly had recovered from his wounds, and he began helping the crew making a living by using what he had learned through all his time on the ship. That included gambling, swindling, drinking and general theft at the harbor front and surrounding towns while evading and bribing the local authorities. In 1944 the team had organized another ship and enough crew to begin operations again, but this time Anatoly didn't join them on the ship. He started avoiding getting on a ship ever since the U-boat attack. He did volunteer to handle the stockpile while they were away and smuggling resumed.
In 1946 news reached the port that Vladivostok was undergoing constant air raids and blockade. By then Anatoly had developed a healthy drinking habit from the group's illegal stockpile while waiting for Andrei and the new crew to come back from the latest convoy, but after four months gave up hope of seeing them again. Having no familiar people left he tried to make his way back to Vladivostok on foot. Within the first week, the NKVD started taking an interest in him. Managing to outrun and mislead several groups from town to town. Eventually being caught at a railway station after being sighted stealing from a local warehouse. They found him in a closet and drunk from the alcohol he took.
Lucky enough not to be executed on the spot, but unlucky enough to get sent to a GULag. The camp had a factory that produced small arms ammunition and Anatoly managed to survive the next year by forming a small group in the plant that was able to trade ammo for general necessities. In the year 1947 younger prisoners were being taken out of the camp and thrown into conscription to help replenish human resources on the front.
Anatoly got himself a nice and safe posting away from the Western front as a truck driver in a supply depot. He earned the ire of the commanding officer by making fires inside the fuel storage bunker. Explaining that it was wood from storage crates and not the gasoline didn't help much. Being confined in the truck from then on, he was then sent out driving out munitions and with a promise from the commanding officer that he would be joining the front if anything were to happen to the cargo. On the third day, an accident occurred when one of the fuel trucks in convoy caught fire. Not having much luck being directly behind the fuel truck he jumped out and managed to carry most of the crates to safety. The last box, however, was already starting to catch fire but fearing for his long term safety judged that jumping into a burning truck to get it was a better option.
One of the officers present told him that running while his coat caught alight with a heavy crate of burning munitions until he jumped into a river was stupidly brave, but added that when he went back to the burning wreckage to try and dry himself that he was a moron.
When the commanding officer wanted to blame the fire on Anatoly because of his previous offenses, stopping him was the first officer complimenting Anatoly for saving the munitions and offered to take him off the officer's hands as he knew a place that could use someone so committed to serving the motherland. Anatoly could hardly refuse.
ExperienceBasic Training - A few months
FamilyGalina Morozov Mother [Alive?]
Vsevolod Morozov Father [deceased]
Andrei Smirnov Uncle [Missing]
