Badger Infantry Mobility Vehicle

The Akras IMV is a 8-seat NBC-protected lightly armoured amphibious Infantry Mobility Vehicle; like their namesake animal, they're only harmless-looking until they find their pray.

Cheap and reasonably durable, they're mostly used to patrol roads and urban areas, but are fully capable of going off-road. When in active combat duty, they quickly carry squads around the battlefield, deploy them, and support the dismounted infantry from a distance.

Both the rear and the middle seats can fold down to extend the trunk area, allowing the Badge to extend its cargo capacity or function as a makeshift ambulance. A towball and heavy-duty bullbar allow it to double as a light tractor, towing trailers, caissons or artillery pieces, this makes it a favourite with artillery crews.

They're usually permanently assigned to squads, who tend to customise them according to their tastes and operational needs.

Armour
The Badger comes in 2 variants, a light and a heavy IMV.

Light Badger IMV
The light version is used in general purpose duties, for HQ mobility, as a police vehicle and with artillery units. Its 5mm composite armour and bullet-resistant glass can stop the light arms fire and shrapnel, but is vulnerable to battlefield-grade weapons. The light IMV sports a simple sunroof, allowing personnel to shoot personal weapons out of the sunroof.

Heavy Badger IMV
The heavy version is designed for combat and patrols on hostile territory, so it has 15mm composite armour is much more durable than the light, and can weigh as much as 6t at full load. The IMV armour is able to protect against most Terran medium arms and is pattern-warded with 50 monkey souls. The heavy IMV sports a ring turret operated by the passengers in the middle seat. Sometimes this is replaced with a light automatic turret sporting a variety of weapons, from LMGs to gauss rifles to an anti-tank missile launcher.

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 IMV has a top speed of 180km/h (light) or 160km/h (heavy), although both of them come equipped with speed limiters of 120km/h, which is usually the first feature removed by squads. It can also transverse rivers or calm waters, extending its operational range.