Imperial Army Looking to Purchase New Light Tanks (open)

[Greater Narkova]

The AMX 13 90 has been in service with the Imperial Army since the company began manufacturing the tank, and has served the Imperial Army well on multiple occasions, providing highly mobile heavy firepower to airborne and amphibious forces, but as the empire begins to modernize its military, the aging AMX 13 has become more and more obsolete, and now the Imperial Army is looking to upgrade its light cavalry forces to a newer, better vehicle, and is offering a Commision of 3.6 billion dollars for a contract to manufacture 155 units of a new light tank

[Zhouran]

Iron Tiger Armored Solutions Message Dear High-Ranking Figures of the Imperial Army of Greater Narkova We have heard that the Imperial Army of Greater Narkova needs new light tanks to replace the AMX-13, and luckily we have the solution. Here at Iron Tiger Armored Solutions, our mission is to supply and sell armored vehicles to our clients, with products ranging from armored personnel carriers to main battle tanks, all for an affordable price. The vehicles we sell here are all certified by the Military Technology Export Bureau for selling abroad, to clients ranging from poorly-equipped rebels to powerful militaries. The National Defense Industry Administration is responsible for supplying us with products made from Zhouranese military contractors. In order to match pace with the requirements of the Zhouranese People's Army and foreign militaries, armored vehicles in the nation are manufactured through highly-sophisticated additive manufacturing and multiaxis machining for quick, easy, efficient and precise manufacturing, and assembled at automated productions lines in order to be swiftly ready for use. As a result, Zhouranese armored vehicles of the 21st century are of top-quality and have been built with extreme accuracy, leaving no room for accidents and errors. Thanks to industrial-level additive manufacturing and multiaxis machining, the armored vehicles we sell here are cheap, affordable and easy to be sold at a very high amount. Not only that, they were created by their manufacturers to be fully-reliable, very durable, highly robust, and capable of operating in some of the most dangerous and intense battlefield out there today. For your military's needs, we offer the Type 14 light tank. While it may not be a main battle tank, its powerful Type 1126 125mm smoothbore gun, high-hardness steel and tungsten reinforced composite armor, and sophisticated electronics allows it to provide the firepower of modern main battle tanks, but with greater tactical and strategic mobility. Regards, Iron Tiger Armed Solutions

[Greater Narkova]

(Image) Iron Tiger Armored Solutions Message Dear High-Ranking Figures of the Imperial Army of Greater Narkova We have heard that the Imperial Army of Greater Narkova needs new light tanks to replace the AMX-13, and luckily we have the solution. Here at Iron Tiger Armored Solutions, our mission is to supply and sell armored vehicles to our clients, with products ranging from armored personnel carriers to main battle tanks, all for an affordable price. The vehicles we sell here are all certified by the Military Technology Export Bureau for selling abroad, to clients ranging from poorly-equipped rebels to powerful militaries. The National Defense Industry Administration is responsible for supplying us with products made from Zhouranese military contractors. In order to match pace with the requirements of the Zhouranese People's Army and foreign militaries, armored vehicles in the nation are manufactured through highly-sophisticated additive manufacturing and multiaxis machining for quick, easy, efficient and precise manufacturing, and assembled at automated productions lines in order to be swiftly ready for use. As a result, Zhouranese armored vehicles of the 21st century are of top-quality and have been built with extreme accuracy, leaving no room for accidents and errors. Thanks to industrial-level additive manufacturing and multiaxis machining, the armored vehicles we sell here are cheap, affordable and easy to be sold at a very high amount. Not only that, they were created by their manufacturers to be fully-reliable, very durable, highly robust, and capable of operating in some of the most dangerous and intense battlefield out there today. For your military's needs, we offer the Type 14 light tank. While it may not be a main battle tank, its powerful Type 1126 125mm smoothbore gun, high-hardness steel and tungsten reinforced composite armor, and sophisticated electronics allows it to provide the firepower of modern main battle tanks, but with greater tactical and strategic mobility. Regards, Iron Tiger Armed Solutions

Your offer is being considered, however we must consider all options before deciding

[The Selkie]

To: The Imperial Arms Commision, Greater Narkova.

Return Adress: Fiona Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan, Cathéide House, Office 65-C, Traverse, Farpoint Island, Free Lands of the Selkie.

Sunday, 24th of July, 2016.

Dear Sirs and Ma'ams,
your request for a new light tank useable in airborne and amphibious operations reached Traverse on Farpoint Island and with it the doorstep of Gabha Blacksmiths Limited. As such, we would like to offer you the Cealg Light Tank.
All other information, which might be of use, can be found in the appendix.

If you wish, you can send a group of observers to Traverse to see the Cealg Light Tank in operative action with the exercises of the Farpoint Island Force together with the MFC held in August. The travelling expenses of the group would of course be our charge.

I eagerly await your reply.
With kind regards,
Fiona Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan
Representing Gabha Blacksmiths Ltd.

Technical Data
Type: Tracked Light Tank
Weight: 32.2 tons
Length: 6.58 m
Width: 3.1 m
Height: 2.02 m
Crew: 4
Main armament: 120mm rifled gun
Secondary armament:

2x machine guns,
one coaxial,
one remote weapons station

Engine:

6-cylinder 22.4 L diesel with 540 kW (720 hp)

Suspension: Torsion-bar
Operational range:

600 km normally,
850 km with auxiliary fuel tanks

Speed: 70 km/h on roads

Price per unit: 2.5 million NSD

The Cealg Light Tank is the first tank build for the SDF since around a half century, since the Cosaint MBT was phased out. Emphasizing the virtues held dear by the SDF, namely firepower, mobility and easy maintainance couple with generally low operating costs, the Cealg Light Tank is a serious thread to every enemy armoured vehicle.
With a weight of 32.2 tons, the Cealg can be airlifted and easily loaded on landing craft, as well as train carts.

Design
The Cealg Light Tank is a light armoured vehicle with a low profile, 2.02 meters high on the top of the turret, not including foldable antennas or the machine gun mount on its remote weapon station. It is a tracked vehicle with a high mobility in rough terrain, capable of wading through a depth of 1.4 meters without prior preparation, with snorkel up to 4 meters. The vehicle has a climbing ability of one meter.
The highly reliable engine is built into the front as an additional front armour, the Inneall I-42D being a 6-cylinder diesel engine, providing 540 kW at 2,400 rpm. Thanks to this, the Cealg Light Tank can reach a top speed of 70 km/h on roads and 40 km/h off-road with an internal fuel tank of 700 liters.
The suspension is a torsion bar suspension, a double break system enables the Cealg Light Tank to stop on the spot.
The Cealg Light Tank is NBC-protected.

Armour
Much of the Cealg Light Tank's survivability is related to its low profile as the armour is relatively light compared to other MBTs. 65 mm of composite armour at 75 degrees on the glacis and 32 degrees of composite armour on the sides can supplemented by ceramic plates.
The armour composite is ceramics sandwished between armoured steel from Ironcastle Ironworks, offering high protection against shaped charges and kinetic energy penetrators.
Thanks to its light weight and mobility, the Cealg Light Tank's protection does not only rely on its armour, but mainly on its tactical mobility over nearly all kinds of terrain.

Armament
The main gun is a Gabha G-155 L/44 120mm Main Gun, a light weight powerful gun up for its task against most armoured threats presented to it, especially thanks to its rifling. With its gyro-stabilization on three axis, a muzzle breaker for reduced recoil and rifling of the gun itself, the Cealg Light Tank is a highly dangerous opponent. While the turret can turn electricalley, taking fifteen seconds for one 360 degree turn, it has a reserve system enabling the crew to manually aim the turret in case of a electronics failure.
For fighting at night, the Cealg Light Tank has a low light level television camera installed into the mantlet, the periscopes of commander, gunner and loader are equipped with night vision as well.
The G-155 can fire many types of rounds, including armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, high-explosive anti-tank rounds and even grapeshot rounds - the Cealg Light Tank can carry 37 rounds in the turret.

The secondary armament is more modular, two machine guns with a calibre of up to 8 mm.
One of these machine guns is coaxial, the other on a roof-mounted remote weapons station, usually controlled by the commander from a console in the turret. The other machine gun is coaxial, aligned with the turret. Basically every modern medium machine gun can be installed in both positions, but we recommend testing it with us.

History
The SDF-Army began to experiment with tanks in infantry support roles and as a main attack arm in the 30s, but the results were, most likely due to the nature of the Free Lands geographically speaking, less then stellar.
Economic difficulties and problems with the doctrine did the rest in that regard, in the 1950s, many of the SDF-Army's tanks were either sold or decommissioned. A few were modified to armoured engineer vehicles.

For around half a century, the SDF-Army preferred APCs and infantry in anti-tank roles as well as helicopters and aircraft. With new times came new threats to the Free Lands, and as such, the SDF-Army and the SDF-Navy began modernization programs in the mid-2000s.
One part of this was the establishment of an armoured support arm for infantry support against armoured threats and buildings, which soon turned into an equal force with the Nióchan Army Reforms cooperating with the infantry as a sort-of equal to the cavalry of old.
In 2012, the first section of tanks was introduced and began tests and exercises, as well as working out usage doctrines together with the army of a friendly nation, until in 2016, the Army Reforms were introduced and reformed the SDF-Army considerably.
Today, the Cealg Light Tank is the main battle tank of the SDF-Army, despite being a light tank.

[Holy Marsh]

"Death to the Vile Lard! Death to Slavers! Death to enemies of the Chosen!"

To: Imperial Army of Greater Narkova
From: Holy Marsh Industrial Export Office
Subject: Your Needs

Greetings!

We note that the amount of money you have offered divided by the amount of units you are ordering comes out to a whopping $23.2 million dollars per unit. While it can be argued this way or that whether or not you should upscale your request or downgrade what you are offering, what isn't up for debate is what the best bang for your buck would be. TheLY10 Doberman Light Tank is the finest tank of its category in the modern day. It is faster, lighter, better armored, has superior active protection systems, carries one less crewmember, and has a far superior main armament than anything else it can be compared to. Please read the full design of the LY10 at your leisure. It is considerably more expensive than other options, but your overall costs would still be much lower than what you are offering- Lyran Arms-Holy Marsh will not accept an offer that is seen as price-gouging a potential customer. For 155 LY10s, we would ask for simply $1.4 billion rather than the $3.6 you are offering.


We await your response eagerly!

Respectfully,

Gerald Sarsi, Lead Communications Officer, Holy Marsh Industrial Export Officer
The Grand Theocratic Empire of the Holy Marsh

Thought for the day: Faith is it's own justification.