Raccoon Armoured Car

Originally designed as an amphibious light armoured support for infantry vehicles, this entry-level vehicle to armoured warfare can scout, flank, screen and destroy heavier tanks with its gauss weapon.

Systems
As a reconnaissance vehicle, it is equipped with a 30x zoom multi-spectral camera, radar, electronic interception/warfare systems, and two aerial drones.

Weapons
A medium armour automatic turret houses a 25mm Gauss cannon, a 7.62mm MMG and the spy camera coaxially. It can rotate 360º, elevate 75º providing some AA protection, and depress by 15º.

Armour
The tandem cockpit is NBC-protected and its 35mm composite armour can resist 12.7mm weapons and anti-personnel land mines.

The Raccoon 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 and designates targets in the front right, a systems operator who deals with sensors and electronic warfare systems on the left rear seat, and a drone operator responsible for deploying, operating and retrieving the drones 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, between the driver and the operators. 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.

This powers the electric motors on the wheel hubs, providing computer-assisted traction control and dispensing with complex drive shafts and transmissions.

The Raccoon was so named for its ability to transverse rivers and calm waters and show up where it's not expected.