Mercury (Armored Vehicle)
| Mercury | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Infantry Fighting Vehicle |
| Place of origin | Griffincrest Oil Incorporated |
| Service history | |
| In service | 2006 - present |
| Used by | Griffincrest Oil Incorporated |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Griffincrest Oil & Platinum |
| Manufacturer | Griffincrest Oil & Platinum |
| Unit cost | $3.4 million |
| Produced | 2006 - present |
| Specifications (Mercury) | |
| Weight | 16.33 tonnes |
| Length | 7m |
| Width | 2.67m |
| Height | 1.95m |
| Crew | 3 |
| Passengers | 8 |
| Armor | Modular ceramic-aramid shell with armor panels |
Main armament | 30 mm autocannon |
Secondary armament | Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun M32 light machine gun pintle mounted Two 76 mm Smoke and Fragmentation Grenade Launchers |
| Suspension | Wheeled |
| Speed | 70 mph |
The Mercury is an armoured personnel carrier meant to excel at fast desert and urban warfare, and has been created to defend countries around the globe, as the environments around are becoming increasingly more and more violent. The Mercury has already seen service on the battlefield under a variety of different flags including some very controversial ones.
Armament
The Mercury is armed with a variety of weapons, and is capable of dealing with any ground based threat that is sent in its way. Its primary weapon is an Orbit International manufactured 30mm autocannon. The main ammunition of the autocannon is the 30mm depleted uranium armor piercing round, giving the Mercury the ability to hold its own and even destroy MBT's fielded by many of the world's military forces today.
The secondary armament of the Mercury is a powerful Asgarn 12.7mm machine gun mounted co-axially to the main gun. The primary purpose of the Asgarn is to assist the crew in aiming the larger 30mm, but this weapon is powerful also enough to slice through most lightly armored vehicles, and allows the crew to save ammunition for the 30mm gun by not having to expend it on trying to find the target, or on lighter targets. The Asgarn also gives a massive firepower boost especially when engaging infantry, and also gives the Mercury a form of defense when faced with low flying helicopters.
There is also a pintle mounted Otagian designed M32 Light Machine Gun positioned on the Mercury as a supplementary weapon, which gives the vehicles an even bigger edge when facing hostile ground troops, and can assist the Asgarn in keeping helicopters from tearing up a Mercury formation.
The final bit of munition for the Mercury comes from its ancillary weapon, which is two 76 mm smoke and fragmentation grenade launchers. These provide cover for not just the Mercury itself, but also for the men who are fighting around it by allowing them to have the cover of a smokescreen or by pummeling their enemies with fragmentation grenades.
Fire Control
The very first Mercury to roll out of production was not equipped with any sort of fire control, and relied on your basic point and shoot method of firing. This problem, however, was very quickly taken care of. Shortly after the Mercury was opened up to the public, the Quincy Mining Company, out of Alcona & Hubris stepped up with a solution to the problem.
Quincy Mining realized that the Mercury was designed for use by minimally trained security personnel, and so did not attempt to sell any form of complicated fire control device. Instead, they presented the company with a simple infra-red targeting system. The addition of this system greatly improved the accuracy of the Mercury , especially at night, and has been credited with the reason behind the vast majority of the Mercury's combat kills world wide.
Armor
The Mercury does lack in armor thickness considerably, having only 60mm of armor on it. This problem, however, is helped considerably by the fact that add-on armor is available, and is used on almost every Mercury worldwide.
A mine protection kit and an NBC protection kit, made up of an overpressure system are available, and fire and explosion suppression systems come installed on all of the vehicles.
Armament
Ammunition (Ready): 210 rounds 30 mm Ammunition (Ready): 440 rounds 12.7mm Ammunition (Ready): 100 round box 6.5mm Caseless Ammunition (Ready): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm Ammunition (Stowed): 400 rounds 30 mm Ammunition (Stowed): 1320 rounds 12.7 mm Ammunition (Stowed): 3200 rounds 6.5x40mm Caseless Ammunition (Stowed): 8 Smoke Grenades 8 Frag 76 mm