Panther Tank

The Panther Tank is Akras' main battle tank. Well armoured, destructive, capable of waging war on both the physical and electromagnetic battlefields, NBC-protected, and very mobile, this tank is a delight to its users and a nightmare to its opponents.

Its name is to keep in with Akras' line of feline names for its tanks, but also a homage to its historical precursor, the iconic German 1940s' Panther tank.

Systems
Equipped with a PluraScan(TM) multiband variable QuantaPEW(TM) open array radome, a compact 15x 360º zoom multi-spectral camera and electronic interception/warfare systems, the Panther has excellent senses and can keep and broadcast full battlefield awareness.

Weapons
An armoured automatic turret houses a 75mm gauss cannon and two retractile self-loading missile launchers capable of targeting both ground and aerial opponents. A retractile automatic 12.7mm HMG gives it full control of the battlefield against lightly armoured targets and point defence even against threats from directly above.

The turret can rotate 360º and elevate the main gun 45º allowing it to be used in an indirect fire role, and can depress 15º. These limits can be increased by tilting the entire hull using the legs' mobility.

Armour
The hull is NBC-protected and is wrapped all around in 75mm of composite heavy armour. It can resist just about anyting except Gauss weaponry and direct missile hits.The 125mm frontal plate can indeed resist AP Gauss rounds up to 75mm and most missiles.

The Panther is manned by a crew of four in separate partitions to prevent total team kill by beyond-armour effects: a driver on the front left seat, the commander who keeps battlefield awareness in the front right, a systems operator who deals with sensors and electronic warfare systems on the left rear seat, and a gunner to designate targets and select weapons systems on the right rear seat. All controls can be slaved to any partition, should the specialist be incapacitated.

The turret ring and secondary ammunition storage are positioned in the centre. It provides enough room for the breech when the weapon is elevated, for for crew to access or manually operate the systems, or to move between the seats; a proximity sensor disables the turret when someone approaches it lest its spastic target-tracking motions injure the crew member.

Mobility
Akras recent advances in heat disposal allowed it to rethink its paradigms. All Akras vehicles are now equipped with miniature Helium-3 fusion reactors thermally shielded by Heatsink Stone(TM) technology.

While the Panther is too heavy to have a full high mobility system, its twin axis unfolding tracks still allow it to rise up, walk, overcome ditches and climb ledges, though it's highly recommended that high recoil weapons are not used without all tracks firmly on the ground lest it topples the vehicle.