This is a personal work in progress concept model of a sci-fi main battle tank.
The TBT-77 Adaptive Tracked Land Assault System (ATLAS) Generation 2 is an original design intended to fit in my personal science fiction setting.
The ATLAS is intended to operate as an aerially deployed fast attack, breakthrough, and heavy fire support vehicle. It is also a fully unmanned system, controlled remotely by mass networked AI via a quantum entanglement transceiver unit.
Technical specifications:
General
Weight:
-56 tons (combat loaded)
Dimensions:
[Classified]
Power and Mobility
Power Sources:
-x2) Singularity pulse turbine drive engines, ~1540 horsepower|~1148 kilowatt output after transmission loss
-x1) Singularity pulse turbine auxiliary power unit, ~1120 horsepower|~835 kilowatt output to generator
Auxiliary Drive:
-x2) Electric drive motors, ~485 horsepower|~362 kilowatt output after transmission loss
Transmissions:
-x2) Continuously variable ratio track drive transmissions
Suspension:
-x2) Adaptive track tensioning wheels
-x10) Variable road wheel suspension arms, environmentally adaptive tension/damping and ride height
-x2) Lightweight composite segmented band tracks
Armor and Protection
Hull and Turret Armor:
-Unified carbon composite shell augmented with additional classified materials
Active Defense:
-x5) High intensity laser anti-missile emitter units with integrated smoke/chaff grenade launch tubes
-Reactive armor components distributed throughout primary armor zones
Armament
Main Cannon:
-x1) 172 millimeter 8 stage electromagnetic coil driven linear accelerator cannon, capable of direct and indirect fire engagement
-x2) 13.4 millimeter 8 barreled electrothermal chemical stacked munition machine gun pods, mounted coaxially with independent elevation per pod
-x2) Modular independent secondary weapon system mounting points. Equipped by default with:
--x2) Dual 41.4 millimeter electromagnetic coil driven linear accelerator automatic cannons, mounted in stations with independent rotation and elevation
-x2) Retractable 3 tube guided missile pods
Command and Control
Onboard Control:
-x1) Procedural combat task execution AI (non-sentient) tasked with control of discreet vehicle systems and compression of incoming sensor data
-x1) Quantum entanglement transceiver unit, linked directly to host vessel for command and control communications to onboard AI
-x1) Remote command Independent Virtual Entity (IVE) (sentient) combat control unit, responsible for complete task-force control functions and data coordination
Situational Awareness
Primary Sensor Package:
-Full range visual spectrum video sensors, stereo
-Thermal imaging video sensors, stereo
-Long range electromagnetic field sensors, multi-positional
Situational Awareness Sensor Package:
-Full range visual spectrum video sensors, 360 degree visibility from multiple sensor locations
-Thermal imaging video sensors, 360 degree visibility from multiple sensor locations
-Forward-facing ground scan radar system
-Long range gravitational density distortion radar system
-Omnidirectional positional audio sensor array
Weapons Sensor Package:
-Main cannon bore alignment and target confirmation video sensors, stereo
-Main cannon laser rangefinder system
-Secondary automatic cannon bore alignment and target confirmation video sensors, stereo
-Secondary automatic cannon sighting video sensor cluster, visual range and thermal imaging video sensors, stereo
Internal System Sensor Package:
-Function diagnostics sensors, installed in all major component sections
-Magnetic compass
-Orbital reference global positioning system
©2015 Douglas Kehrly, all rights reserved
Work in progress, design not final.
TBT-77G2 ATLAS 3D View