Type-51w 'Huā zi' MRRL(Muti-Role-Rocket-Laucher)
The Huā zi is designed to correct a fatal flaw in our armaments a critical lack of explosives. It's a 105mm rocket coming in a number of lengths for multiple roles. The design is quite simple with the rocket contained in steel tubes and each being ignited by an electric charge. The longest version is designed for heavy artillery and able to (inaccurately) bombard enemy positions from miles away. The medium version is has a range slightly greater then our current 50mm cannon. The short version is design for infantry use, the only real difference between each rocket is the amount of propellant it has. A key advantage of the rocket is unlike our cannon they can fired on the move from our hovercrafts thanks to their massively lower recoil, letting them operate in more of a close fire support role.
In addition to the normal HE charge the Huā zi makes use of a brand new thermobaric warhead. This rather nasty warhead is completely loaded with fuel rather then a fuel-oxidizer mix like most explosives. On impact a small bursting charge ruptures the case and the fuel ignites on contact with the air creating a slow moving(for an explosive) blast and shortly there after a vacuum. This means that should it fail to defeat the enemy armor which is unlike unless they upgrade beyond medium, the warhead can 'seep' in and still kill or disable the tanks crew. It's also extremely effect at cleaning out bunkers and pillboxes of all organic matter. Any U.N observers are to be reminded that weapon almost always kills with it's shock-wave or vacuum and therefor isn't in volition of article 3.
The infantry version is no more then a tube with a pistol grip and trigger attached. After flipping off the safety the soldier pulls the trigger which causes a double-action hammer to hit a piezoelectric crystal and ignited the rocket, afterwards the tube is discarded. The Huā zi should be easily mounted on our hovercraft and destroyer in whatever XbyX configuration our engineers deem suitable(I have no clue how big our vehicles and ships are).
Impossible Difficulty: 4The
Type-51w 'Huā zi' MRRL(Muti-Role-Rocket-Laucher) is our attempt to develop heavy rocket artillery, medium rocket artillery, shoulder-mounted rockets, and thermobaric warheads in a single design.
Our design team starts off with building medium rocket artillery first, as it is likely to be the simplest to develop and easiest to mount on the Qi-Chu hovercraft or Dogbite destroyer. The Type-51w 'Huā zi' is a "medium" rocket artillery piece. The rocket artillery piece features 2x4 steel tubes each containing a single 750 mm long 80 mm caliber rocket with cordite propellant and a modest HE warhead and stubby stabilizing fins. Range extends out to about 5 km's with a modest area of affect. Accuracy is comparably worse than our Sunrise field gun, but it has a greater range and a much higher rate of fire as all tubes can be fired at once. Reloading takes a long time, and the exhaust is quite noticeable. The back-blast is quite dangerous and able to set flammable objects such as grass, rubber, or wooden decks on fire. When mounted on the Qi-Chu or Dogbite a steel shielding plate must be put in place to protect the area behind the artillery. When mounted on the Qi-Chu accuracy noticeably degrades, likely due to the poor stabilizing legs. Can be mounted on the Qi-Chu or Dogbite (by replacing the turrets) for +1 Oil. 1 Ore, 3 Oil.
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