For dedicated anti-aircraft firepower when other PEC forces are tied up fighting enemies on the ground, the PEC decided that they would need a vehicle mounted on the expendable and highly modular Conqueror chassis to do the job.
1 VEHICLE
Capacity[]
None.
Sensors[]
All Shields carry a full suite of environment sensors (windspeed, gravity, atmosphere composition, etc.) It also carries an independent thermal camera with Radar targeting assistance for its weaponry and has a four-point LADAR for all-around drive assistance.
Anti-Surface Weaponry[]
None.
Anti-Aircraft Weaponry[]
Cobra Fangs (4)[]
The Cobra Fangs air defense turret is a small radar-controlled dual-THEL weapon system capable of slicing an aircraft into three pieces at a distance of 30 kilometers-- which includes straight up, too. Four are mounted on the roof of the Shield.
Upgrades[]
Weaponry[]
TM487 (6)[]
Although rapid-fire high-energy lasers are adept in taking down enemy aircraft, if they fly too high or are too far away, they are still unable to be engaged. Problem solved. The Shield can get a battery of six TM487 chemical rocket-boosted SCRamjet-powered active-Radar-homing missile touting 1-kiloton nuclear warheads. They are able to hit Mach 12 and destroy an airborne target 360 kilometers away, even straight up.
Protection[]
The Shield is clad in self-healing ceramic plating backed by spall liner. Able to resist a pressure-assisted 8' Olympium sabot,if penetration happens, the epoxy glue microcapsules in the ceramic plating can allow a fractured piece of ceramic plating to return to roughly the same level of integrity. It has a composite v-shaped undercarriage that not only diverts an explosion under the vehicle outward, but also flexes instead of shattering if pushed beyond its mechanical strength. Active defenses consist of a powerful area denial electromagnetic wave jammer that hopelessly blinds enemy guidance, as well as a directional EMP pulse firer.
Locomotion[]
The Shield runs on four high-output electric motors, each putting out 900 horses. A massive graphene-enhanced lithium polymer battery sits just above the titanium chassis, which can power the vehicle's electronics, weaponry and motors all at full draw—for 2 hours. A miniature MCFR sits inside a radiation-shielding chamber in the front of the vehicle, giving off a steady 1 GW per second to power the vehicle and/ or recharge the battery. Since the Reactor is the most expensive part of the entire vehicle, it is kept in a titanium-ceramic module that allows it to be recovered from a knocked-out Shield and reused in new ones. The vehicle can hit 100 kmph on a paved road, and keeps the vast majority of it off-road.