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Hammond Motors Icepick

In the days when ice was stored in large lumps, ice picks were a common tool – slender, needle-like tools necessary to break up the ice before its use in cocktails or for other reasons. They were also a lethal tool of organized crime. A muscular assassin, or perhaps a group of them, could hold down a struggling victim and the sharpened spike could be used to stab him in just such a location as to cause instant death – and virtually no marks on the body. Even a professional coroner in the era would find it difficult to guess what, exactly, had happened, and the death was often ruled natural.

The Hammond Motors Icepick is not, of course, capable of being mistaken for a source of natural, or even accidental death – but in other ways, it is quite stealthy. As can be seen from the promotional image above, it is an item in the form of a standard forty-foot shipping container, housing four missile canisters and a launch control unit (which can be connected to your nation's military networks or whatever control unit you fancy). The shippnig container looks entirely normal until the 'roof' is opened, and the missiles elevate themselves to a firing position (for most missile types this is a vertical position, although some types require firing at an incline).

The missile canisters are capable of storing missiles up to 533mm in diameter, and up to 6.8 meters in length, including, but not limited to, Tomahawk, Hellion, Yore, or any other compatible cruise missiles.

By nature of the fact that the Icepick launch platform is of a standard shape, identical to FEU shipping containers as used around the world, it can be deployed on ships, trains, trucks, or any other means on which a container can be deployed.

An Icepick launcher on a rail platform

The standardized canister can house regular cruise missiles, air defense missiles, anti-ship missiles, and more exotic weapons systems such as ASROCs and tube-launched drones. That said, the Icepick does not come with an targeting system of its own, other than the abovementinoed control link, which can be used to program the missiles with trajectories, or offload targeting data from external sources.

After a discussion with the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hammond Motors had determined that, due to the great potential of this weapons system for surprise strikes and concealed deployment, it will only be made available to countries that are either allied with the Free Kingdom, signatories of the Castlegate Declaration, or otherwise in good standing with the Ministry of Foreign Afffairs.

Mass: No more than 24 tons, usually less.
Length: 12.2 m
Height: 2.59 m
Width: 2.44 m
Price: $10 million
DPR: $10 billion

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Hammond Motors Obrez Containerized Rocket Launcher

Art by the esteemed Paragania

In the civil wars that shook the world in the beginning of the 20th century, one word that joined the world's languages was the word obrez – literally, "sawed off". It meant a longarm – usually, a military bolt-action rifle, but sometimes, a hunting shotgun – cut down as short as possible, perhaps to the size of a pistol. Accuracy was lost, of course – but it allowed a Russian kulak or a Ukrainian Cossack access to a firearm he could hide in his home or conceal under his overcoat. In close quarters, sometimes with the barrel of the obrez almost pressed against a commissar's stomach or the obrez could deliver a devastating injury. Many a food confiscation party belonging to one faction or another counted its numbers low after encountering a man with an obrez.

So it is no surprise that today, Hammond Motors, a corporation with experience in producing products for discrete delivery and covert operations, has named its new containerized weapons system after the Obrez.

The system is, quite simply spoken, a TEU or FEU shipping container (the standard is a TEU, but an FEU can be ordered if the customer desired), mounted with two standard launcher pods and equipped with hydraulics to open them on command and the datalink to off-load the necessary fire control data to them. The container – being that it appears entirely standard externally – can be concealed easily among regular TEUs, or carried on any standardized military delivery platform, mounted on the deck of a landing ship to support an amphibious landing or utilized as part of a nation's shore defenses to deflect it.

Different pods are available - two to a launcher – and therefore the system can be equipped with different types of missiles and rockets:

Obrez-122 – Carries 20 122mm rockets per pod (40 rockets per container), compatible with all Grad rockets.

Obrez-220 – carries 6 220mm Manticore rockets per pod (12 rockets per container), compatible with all Manticore rockets. Also compatible with the Mercury multipurpose ATGM.

Obrez-GLSDB – Carries 4 GLSDB launchers per pod (8 per container).

Obrez-610 – This modification replaces both of the system's modules, housing in each of them a 610mm quasiballistic missile, with an effective range of 400 kilometers.

Obrez-L – Capable of launching 4 Rhongomiant loitering missiles per pod, or 8 per launcher.

It is fully possible to launch air defense missiles or surveillance drones from the tubes of the Obrez, and any other missile that our clients wish to implement, provided that the target data is fed to the missile externally by datalink (the Obrez lacks any sensors whatsoever). However, we warn that, somewhat obviously, the Obrez, while durable, is not designed for hundreds of repeat firings such as a standard MLRS. Although it is tested to be waterproof, resistant to sea salt spray, and possesses a limited resistance to small arms fire and shrapnel, such as one would expect from a robust, militarized shipping container, repeat firing cycles, especially when dealing with heavy quasiballistic missiles, may cause issues.

An Obrez unit costs $1.5 million, shipping to you without any of the missiles, but with a pair of pods of your choosing.

Unusually for such a cheap platform, we have chosen to price DPR for the Obrez at 15 billion, for the purpose of additionally excluding certain irresponsible actors from its purchase. Furthermore, after discussion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we have decided that the Obrez will only be available to nations approved by the MoFA for purchase, primarily some (not all) allies of Allanea, signatories of the Castlegate Declaration, and other states with a recorded positive record of responsible international activities.

Dimensions:
Length: 6.1 meters
Width: 2.44 meters
Height: 2.59 meters
Mass: Up to 20 tons (but usually less).

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