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[Parsely]

Welcome to Caterynagrad, engineers! My name is Master, and this lab belongs to me! This lab bears the name of the Boss. When he personally entrusted it to me, he made it clear that it's more than a lab... It's a symbol! It is also my house! As such, you will respect this design floor, you will respect this equipment! Most importantly, you will make the former Premier proud, by designing for me the most formidable weapons ever known to man! Get me? Hail Amerika! Now, get to work!

The OOC thread for this game is here, and you should probably read it. The basic rules are that each year you get to design a weapon or piece of equipment, then you may revise that design or an existing one, and then everything goes into production and you get to find out if your weapons are doing better than the Amerikan ones.

Here is the current state of the USAA's army:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Weapons and Equipment:
- Type 500 MRAAM: A mid-range air-to-air missile. Uses precise IR to lock onto its target. High speed, low maneuverability. [1 Chemical, 1 Ore, Inexpensive]
- Type 400 Autocannon: A six-barreled rotary autocannon used on jet fighters. Reliable and cheap. [2 Ores, Inexpensive]
- Type 12 Automatic Machine Pistol: A machine pistol with a 30 round box magazine, commonly worn by veteran fighter pilots but spurned by the younger generation. Famous for its room-clearing ability, its bulk and inaccuracy are overshadowed by its impressive rate of fire. [1 Ore, Inexpensive]
- Type 600 ARM: The weapon is bulky because of the radar-detecting system included in the body of the missile. This would normally reduce its range very badly, but a new ramjet design gives it enough fuel to have some decent range. The Type 20 Interceptor has to be modified with a central mount in order to carry this missile, because it weighs just as much as two MRAAMS. The missile is far too slow to be used in air-to-air engagements (moves below mach 1) and only anti-ground warheads are developed for it. [1 Chemical, 1 Ore, Inexpensive]
- Type 700 ASAT: Air to space missile with a kinetic kill warhead: this three-stage missile is only capable of being launched from a stratospheric fighter, which includes the Type 20. It's inserted into orbit, assisted by the jet's speed, where it then attempts to intersect with the target. Uses infrared technology developed in-house.

Technology:
- Metric system. Meters, kilograms, liters.
- Firearms
- Alloys
- Jet engine
- Rocket engine
- Chemical monopropellant
- Automated Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC)
- Digital computers
- Radar
- Infrared Sensors

Cosmonauts and Pilots:
- Quantity Amerikan Products: Amerikans are known for their highly competent workforce and perfectly legal mass-production techniques and policies, thanks to the deposing of inefficient capitalism. A lack of worker unions means that occasionally the Amerikans earn a special revision credit that they can use, but only to reduce the expense of a design. The credit is still subject to the normal rolls. You do not have to use all credits if you do not wish to.
- Type 111 Flight Sleeve: A skintight suit that places mechanical pressure on key points of the wearer's body to prevent blood pooling, and also assist in breathing. This allows cosmonauts and aircraft pilots to fly at high altitudes, and withstand g-forces that would normally cause a man to pass out. Grabs one rather uncomfortably in the crotch. Comes with accessories for use in space. [2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]

Vehicles:
- Type 20 High Altitude Interceptor: A sturdy jet that can fly comfortably in the stratosphere. Very fast, but has been known to disintegrate when flying near top speed—even in the low drag situations it normally finds itself in—and pilots are discouraged from opening up the throttle. Can only carry a light payload of two Falcon MRAAMs and a 30mm autocannon with 5 seconds of gun time. Has short-range onboard radar. [2 Ores, 2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]
- Type 3000 3-Stage Rocket: A solid fuel booster [small] rocket used to push payload up into LEO. There have been scattered incidences of accidental explosions on the launchpad during the handling of propellant, not always resulting in the complete destruction of the rocket. Experts say that the sensitivity of the propellant used is leading to these accidents. [3 Ores, 3 Chemicals, Inexpensive]
- Type B Military Satellite: A prototype satellite mounted with high-power photographing technology for capturing detailed images of enemy territory. Equipped with a special reentry vehicle armed with a parachute for getting film safely to the ground. Anticipated problems with retrieving the canisters continue to delay the project's deployment to outer space. [1 Ore, 1 Chemical, Inexpensive]
- Type Z, Model A Manned Capsule: A large capsule that can hold up to 6 cosmonauts, but limits are stretched on long journeys when filled with the maximum number of occupants. The capsule has a modular interior for easy modification. This version is cheap, with only basic life support and propulsion systems, and powered by batteries.

Resources:
1 Research facility. You may initiate 1 new project each year.
3 Ores
3 Chemicals

Why are you reading when you should be WORKING? Hail Amerika!

[10ebbor10]

Type 600 ARM

A simple, air to surface anti Radiation missile. Locks on to enemy radiation emmisions, such as radar or jamming equipment, and destroys them.

[Happerry]

Type 600 ARM

A simple, air to surface anti Radiation missile. Locks on to enemy radiation emissions, such as radar or jamming equipment, and destroys them.

Sounds good to me! +1.

[Hiddenleafguy]

*Hiddenleafguy jumps in through a window! He looks a bit older then when you last saw him, but he is younger then he should be. He looks pretty cool when he lands on his feet, barely.* Never fear! Leafguy is here! Yay for communism comrades.... I mean great yes, yay capitalism ya'll.

[adwarf]

Type 600 ARM

A simple, air to surface anti Radiation missile. Locks on to enemy radiation emissions, such as radar or jamming equipment, and destroys them.

Sounds good to me! +1.

+1

[Hiddenleafguy]

I agree, plus one to you!

[Aseaheru]

Lets teach those fools to use radar even as they develop flares to fool our missiles! +1!

[Parsely]

Yay for communism comrades.... I mean great yes, yay capitalism ya'll.

The USAA are Leninist, which means they reject capitalism. The Confederates are capitalists.

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Weapon: Type 600 ARM

The weapon is bulky because of the radar-detecting system included in the body of the missile, which also reduces its range very badly. Pilots are very apprehensive about using it because of how low they'll need to fly in order to deploy it. The Type 20 Interceptor has to be modified with a central mount in order to carry this missile, because it weighs just as much as two MRAAMS. The missile is far too slow to be used in air-to-air engagements, and only anti-ground warheads are developed for it. [1 Chemical, 1 Ore, Inexpensive]

[Happerry]

Also, how do space stations and moonbases work? Generally they aren't mass produced like other craft and weapons... do we have to design each of them separately  if we want a spacedock or something?

[Aseaheru]

Also, what are the satages? Do we have design, revision, and production stages as in the other game?

[Hiddenleafguy]

I say, for our revision, we make the radar for our rocket lighter, thus making the rocket more appealing for air to air.

[Parsely]

Also, what are the stages? Do we have design, revision, and production stages as in the other game?

Didn't you read the OP? It's the same as in the other Arms Race game. That was your design, now its your revision phase.

Also, how do space stations and moonbases work? Generally they aren't mass produced like other craft and weapons... do we have to design each of them separately  if we want a spacedock or something?

You could go either way. Its possible to mass produce buildings that can then be pushed out into space. Or you can do something big and one-of-a-kind like the ISS which would be a National Effort (National Efforts might work differently in this game; I think maybe there will be a cool down duration of a year or more depending on how expensive the design in question is).

[adwarf]

Revise the Type 600 to be lighter, and have a greater effective range.

[Aseaheru]

Also, what are the stages? Do we have design, revision, and production stages as in the other game?

Didn't you read the OP? It's the same as in the other Arms Race game. That was your design, now its your revision phase.

the thread title not changing confused me.

Ah, I say we go and revise our fighter so it does not fall to bits at high speed.

[Happerry]

Also, what are the stages? Do we have design, revision, and production stages as in the other game?

Didn't you read the OP? It's the same as in the other Arms Race game. That was your design, now its your revision phase.

the thread title not changing confused me.

Ah, I say we go and revise our fighter so it does not fall to bits at high speed.

+1 from me.