Post by New Dornalia on Jan 13, 2015 14:02:18 GMT -5
Perun/Zmey Gorynych Hypersonic Kill Vehicle
OOC: Thanks to Allanea and Urmanian/GPH for the names.
The Perun HKV is a hypersonic cruise missile developed at the behest of the External Research and Intelligence Section for use by the Kherson Liberal Republic as part of Operation Wolverine (GHWOLVERINE), aka the Ravenstenskia War. Although a seeming anachronism, its origins are decidedly more modern.
Origins
The Perun began life as the M400 “Gryphon” Artillery Missile, created as part of the Next Generation Ground Missile Project commissioned by the CRE’s Army. At the time of the announcmenet of the project, the main artillery systems used by the CRE were the Earthshaker Mk. 22—a heavily modified and modernized version of the standard Imperium of Man artillery gun—as well as the M1337 Mobile Rocket System, along with smaller derivatives for use as artillery. All were stout, and gave yeoman service. But they were also somewhat out of date.
However, being that Dornies love a good Corporate Cold War, the procurement process became filled with intrigue, expensive junkets to Vegas, and what appeared to be a disturbingly high amount of hookers and prank wars.
In the end, two major competitors emerged—the M400 Gryphon, created by Powerthirst Arms, and the “Super M1337” project (later known as the M1337A9E1 series) by United Armscorp. The latter was essentially an evolution of the M1337 missile, although it was heavily modified and extensively redesigned to the point where only 40% of the original could be used as spares. The former was a newer design, harkening back to the days of the Pershing 2 and SS-20s of the Cold War, but using new tools such as repulsor-assisted minimissiles.
In a series of tests conducted in the Pacific Ocean, the Super M1337 was picked in a stunning upset, despite the M400 being given the top likelihood of victory. Despite threatened litigation from Powerthirst Arms and a Senate Hearing, however, no evidence was found of wrongdoing. The M400s were thus left in storage in Texas while Powerthirst Arms fought potential bankruptcy.
Cut to the present. In a controversial decision, ERIS decided to buy up the old prototypes for a song. Their allies in the Ravenstenskia War wanted cruise missiles, preferably hypersonic. Although the DCI herself protested the decision, she eventually came around after a short debate with her friend and DDCI, William K. Colby. The old prototypes were taken to New Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, and a team of scientists was assigned to them under the aegis of ERIS scientists. Using resources from the ongoing Inter Stellar Ballistic Missile programs, the scientists set out to make a feasible large scale cruise missile that without using atomic weaponry, could deliver high levels of damage to fortified positions.
Method of Travel
The Perun/Zmey Gorynych class of missiles is a three stage cruise missile designed to achieve hypersonic speeds. This is done using a combination of lightweight composites for the body (e.g. carbon fiber), repulsorlift drives sourced from Ford Bakura, and a newly designed solid fuel propellant and motor.
When activated, the Perun missiles first perform a soft launch using four repulsorlift engines mounted on the lower stage to first force the missile off of the launcher at high speeds. Then once the desired altitude is reached and the rocket levels off, the first stage falls off and a small package of preprogrammed nanites consumes the motor and the stage to prevent capture and reverse engineering.
Then, a solid fuel motor in the second stage activates, along with banks of repulsors on the second stage, boosting the speed of the craft and pushing it further onward. The repulsor banks aid in gaining speed, and also provide a degree of thrust vectoring to steer the missile toward its target, guided by an onboard computer with either preprogrammed coordinates (using either Dornie-supplied systems, MT level GPS and such, or Menelmacari systems—gonna have to check with Menelmacar about this), or steered with live, updated information feeds as it goes up to Mach 8.
As the missile approaches its target, the second stage falls off, and a repulsorlift booster now guides the third stage onto target and maintains speed. When close to the target, the next act depends on the warhead installed. With a single melta warhead, the boosters steer the warhead to a top attack profile, and then drive the warhead down into the target as it arms, the warhead going off. With the Stark-type Multimissile Warhead, a similar “top attack” profile is used, but instead of one warhead, a series of independently steered and targeted MIRVs is similarly driven downwards at their respective targets using repulsorlift drives.
The Zmey Gornych version of the system functions similarly, but uses a live data feed to interact with ground based intercept scanners, and its attack profile obviously goes after enemy aircraft.
Note that since the invention of this missile, the Army has considered purchasing it (albeit with more Future Tech) based systems. As of now, a heavily modified version of the Perun/Zmey Gornych type known as the M9001 Rocket Artillery Platform is being tested, which essentially is a FT-ized version of the system using things like onboard tracking systems derived from the Amethyst Cloaking Device Detector and other Dornie things that make it more appropriate for mass production. It also features a “Blink Device” not available in the original version, which enables it to randomly teleport to evade enemy fire and to appear out of a random vector.
Warhead
The Perun/Zmey Gornych system can be equipped with various types of warheads for use against targets. The default is a multi-kiloton W1500 Single Unit Tandem Melta Charge. In essence, this charge is a two stage bunker buster. Upon contact, the first part slams into the offending bunker or fortification, using a shaped melta charge to force open a breach. The second part of the charge, then delivers its payload, exploding inside the structure.
The other design is the W1600 Multiple Unit Melta Charge. While the operating principles are similar to the W1500, there are six MIRVs/outright missiles instead of a single large device guided and slammed onto the target. Each individual charge is less powerful individually than the single Melta unit, but does offer the advantage of covering multiple targets at once. Owing to the fact the developer of this system watched Iron Man way too much, it is known as the “Jericho” or “Stark-type” device.
Further, there is also the Zmey Gornych modification, formally known as the W1700. This version dispenses with the melta warheads, and instead loads on six anti-air missiles designed to mission kill enemy aircraft. This is achieved using an initial SWC-sourced Ion Charge, which delivers an initial EM burst to fry enemy aircraft, followed by an airburst proton explosives to finish the job. Alternately, a Single Unit Ion Charge—W2500—or a Single Unit Airburst Charge—W2600—is available.
The Army’s M9001 version is being tested with multiple types of charges, which to list would take too long.
Launch Platform
The Missile is mainly meant to be land-based, and to enable the KLR to easily “source” parts from field recovery ops, generally can be paired with most Eastern Bloc-type missile launchers or with a simple modification, most NATO-standard devices also.
Note that the M9001 edition is more flexible—it can be launched using a special “bazooka” developed for the M70AB6 Arbalest mecha, the MAMBA Missile Artillery Launcher used by the Armored Cav on mechs like the Mad Cat Mk. II, and other such FT platforms.
OOC: Thanks to Allanea and Urmanian/GPH for the names.
The Perun HKV is a hypersonic cruise missile developed at the behest of the External Research and Intelligence Section for use by the Kherson Liberal Republic as part of Operation Wolverine (GHWOLVERINE), aka the Ravenstenskia War. Although a seeming anachronism, its origins are decidedly more modern.
Origins
The Perun began life as the M400 “Gryphon” Artillery Missile, created as part of the Next Generation Ground Missile Project commissioned by the CRE’s Army. At the time of the announcmenet of the project, the main artillery systems used by the CRE were the Earthshaker Mk. 22—a heavily modified and modernized version of the standard Imperium of Man artillery gun—as well as the M1337 Mobile Rocket System, along with smaller derivatives for use as artillery. All were stout, and gave yeoman service. But they were also somewhat out of date.
However, being that Dornies love a good Corporate Cold War, the procurement process became filled with intrigue, expensive junkets to Vegas, and what appeared to be a disturbingly high amount of hookers and prank wars.
In the end, two major competitors emerged—the M400 Gryphon, created by Powerthirst Arms, and the “Super M1337” project (later known as the M1337A9E1 series) by United Armscorp. The latter was essentially an evolution of the M1337 missile, although it was heavily modified and extensively redesigned to the point where only 40% of the original could be used as spares. The former was a newer design, harkening back to the days of the Pershing 2 and SS-20s of the Cold War, but using new tools such as repulsor-assisted minimissiles.
In a series of tests conducted in the Pacific Ocean, the Super M1337 was picked in a stunning upset, despite the M400 being given the top likelihood of victory. Despite threatened litigation from Powerthirst Arms and a Senate Hearing, however, no evidence was found of wrongdoing. The M400s were thus left in storage in Texas while Powerthirst Arms fought potential bankruptcy.
Cut to the present. In a controversial decision, ERIS decided to buy up the old prototypes for a song. Their allies in the Ravenstenskia War wanted cruise missiles, preferably hypersonic. Although the DCI herself protested the decision, she eventually came around after a short debate with her friend and DDCI, William K. Colby. The old prototypes were taken to New Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, and a team of scientists was assigned to them under the aegis of ERIS scientists. Using resources from the ongoing Inter Stellar Ballistic Missile programs, the scientists set out to make a feasible large scale cruise missile that without using atomic weaponry, could deliver high levels of damage to fortified positions.
Method of Travel
The Perun/Zmey Gorynych class of missiles is a three stage cruise missile designed to achieve hypersonic speeds. This is done using a combination of lightweight composites for the body (e.g. carbon fiber), repulsorlift drives sourced from Ford Bakura, and a newly designed solid fuel propellant and motor.
When activated, the Perun missiles first perform a soft launch using four repulsorlift engines mounted on the lower stage to first force the missile off of the launcher at high speeds. Then once the desired altitude is reached and the rocket levels off, the first stage falls off and a small package of preprogrammed nanites consumes the motor and the stage to prevent capture and reverse engineering.
Then, a solid fuel motor in the second stage activates, along with banks of repulsors on the second stage, boosting the speed of the craft and pushing it further onward. The repulsor banks aid in gaining speed, and also provide a degree of thrust vectoring to steer the missile toward its target, guided by an onboard computer with either preprogrammed coordinates (using either Dornie-supplied systems, MT level GPS and such, or Menelmacari systems—gonna have to check with Menelmacar about this), or steered with live, updated information feeds as it goes up to Mach 8.
As the missile approaches its target, the second stage falls off, and a repulsorlift booster now guides the third stage onto target and maintains speed. When close to the target, the next act depends on the warhead installed. With a single melta warhead, the boosters steer the warhead to a top attack profile, and then drive the warhead down into the target as it arms, the warhead going off. With the Stark-type Multimissile Warhead, a similar “top attack” profile is used, but instead of one warhead, a series of independently steered and targeted MIRVs is similarly driven downwards at their respective targets using repulsorlift drives.
The Zmey Gornych version of the system functions similarly, but uses a live data feed to interact with ground based intercept scanners, and its attack profile obviously goes after enemy aircraft.
Note that since the invention of this missile, the Army has considered purchasing it (albeit with more Future Tech) based systems. As of now, a heavily modified version of the Perun/Zmey Gornych type known as the M9001 Rocket Artillery Platform is being tested, which essentially is a FT-ized version of the system using things like onboard tracking systems derived from the Amethyst Cloaking Device Detector and other Dornie things that make it more appropriate for mass production. It also features a “Blink Device” not available in the original version, which enables it to randomly teleport to evade enemy fire and to appear out of a random vector.
Warhead
The Perun/Zmey Gornych system can be equipped with various types of warheads for use against targets. The default is a multi-kiloton W1500 Single Unit Tandem Melta Charge. In essence, this charge is a two stage bunker buster. Upon contact, the first part slams into the offending bunker or fortification, using a shaped melta charge to force open a breach. The second part of the charge, then delivers its payload, exploding inside the structure.
The other design is the W1600 Multiple Unit Melta Charge. While the operating principles are similar to the W1500, there are six MIRVs/outright missiles instead of a single large device guided and slammed onto the target. Each individual charge is less powerful individually than the single Melta unit, but does offer the advantage of covering multiple targets at once. Owing to the fact the developer of this system watched Iron Man way too much, it is known as the “Jericho” or “Stark-type” device.
Further, there is also the Zmey Gornych modification, formally known as the W1700. This version dispenses with the melta warheads, and instead loads on six anti-air missiles designed to mission kill enemy aircraft. This is achieved using an initial SWC-sourced Ion Charge, which delivers an initial EM burst to fry enemy aircraft, followed by an airburst proton explosives to finish the job. Alternately, a Single Unit Ion Charge—W2500—or a Single Unit Airburst Charge—W2600—is available.
The Army’s M9001 version is being tested with multiple types of charges, which to list would take too long.
Launch Platform
The Missile is mainly meant to be land-based, and to enable the KLR to easily “source” parts from field recovery ops, generally can be paired with most Eastern Bloc-type missile launchers or with a simple modification, most NATO-standard devices also.
Note that the M9001 edition is more flexible—it can be launched using a special “bazooka” developed for the M70AB6 Arbalest mecha, the MAMBA Missile Artillery Launcher used by the Armored Cav on mechs like the Mad Cat Mk. II, and other such FT platforms.