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Stillwind Fa'ot MBT and tank destroyer

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Fa'ot translate into "slow" from the main language of the Stillwind people, and for why named it 'slow' when compared to their main use of tanks (which are often light tanks) and their main belief of warfare of, "speed over attack or defense," when compared to other factions MBTs the main cannon is smaller and the armor is generally thinner, but its speed is much better than that of other MBTs nearly rivaling the speeds of lighter tank designs. Armed with a 130mm rail-cannon designed to fire it's smaller shells with nearly the same power and range as larger caliber weapons, armor ranges from 20-100mm thick of nano-crystal titanium based off the nano-titanium armor designs used used by the Xixtis on their vehicles, powered by a highly powerful nuclear fusion power-plant generating enough power to fully use all of their systems at the same time, which aids in its high speed both on-road and cross country. While, Stillwinds are smaller than most species they have encountered, export models are built larger to allow bigger species to have some comfort in using their tank designs, the tank destroyer based off the Fa'ot also shares the same name, but uses a different power-plant, weapon system and armor. The Fa'ot Tank Destroyer, while based off the Fa'ot chassis, but deploying a more powerful power-plant and weapons, but armor was thickened a bit but still uses the same nano-crystal titanium used by the MBT, while in caliber wise the 130mm rail-cannon is the same as the Fa'ot MBT but generates more muzzle energy than the 130mm rail-cannon mounted on the tank, (some models are armed with a plasma cannon). Most of the armor is only around 20mm thicker in most areas on the tank which is the other reason why the power-plant was upgraded to counter the increased weight of both the armor and the weapons, additional fire-control systems were built in to give more accuracy while both on the move and stationary. Some models, where given specialized 'cloaking' generators in order to give them more uses in ambushes that replaced the small energy shield generator that they have used. Other specialized models based off the Fa'ot chassis have been built like, anti-aircraft models both of SAMs and guns, flamthrowers, armored carriers, SPGs, and others.

I originally tried to design the tank after the T-34-85 but modernized...It failed, so I replaced the suspension with the same type as the M95 Degman uses, which is based off the M84, which was based off the Russian T-72, and I redesigned the turret to have the front end and the end after the C1 Ariete, the gun is based off a 130mm smoothbore gun, the sloop of the hull with the 'hooks' where also used in the design. I did think of using the size of the C1's turret, but the hull was too small...For more than 2/3th of the whole hull would have been used for both the turret and the turret ring, well, I did use the height of the turret, but not the length. The bottom armors, are tank destroyers which were first designed after the SU-85/SU-100, but I replaced the hull with the same hull as the tank, I have continued to use the ball/gun mantlet used by them, but this time, this TD is taller than the SU-85 or the SU-100 but odds are about as tall as the SU-100Y. I somewhat designed the area for the crew compartment after a tank destroyers I saw once, which was a ASU-85 and another tank destroyer built in the cold war. I wanted to make the end of the crew compartment for the gun that ended the same area as the SU-85, but I felt that the fighting compartment would be too small for the room of the gunner, the commander, the gun, the auto-loading system, (or at least, give them effective room to move) and the recoil of the gun.

Sizing of models are based off some sprites on jrgeneral.
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