Tracked APC
Tracked APC | |
Production information | |
Manufacturer | Various |
Mission | Infantry Carrier |
Type | Tracked |
Cost | 64,350 C-bills |
Technical specifications | |
Mass | 10 |
Armor | SimplePlate Manufacturers Standard |
Engine | Type 60 I.C.E. |
Speed | 97.2 km/h |
Crew | 1 |
Armament |
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BV (1.0) | 53[1] |
Description
The backbone of any vehicular military unit, APCs have been carrying infantry since the days of pre-spaceflight Terra and even in the era of Battle Armor, continue their most mundane of roles. Armored Personnel Carriers are among the least complex and sturdiest vehicles available, produced in the thousands across human inhabited space. Since a communicator is the fanciest piece of equipment they carry, they do not require any special gear to repair.[2]
Each of the three basic types of APCs has its own individual function on the battlefield. Tracked APCs are more expensive to build, but can operate in a far wider variety of terrain, mostly broken or hilly regions, than its Wheeled or Hover counterparts.[2]
The vehicle is widely available because of its numerous manufactuers in the Inner Sphere.
- Taurus Territorial Industries on Taurus [3]
- Marian Arms Incorporated on Alphard [4]
- Quickscell Company on Richvale [5] , on Ares [6] and Kalidasa ref>Objective Raids p.129</ref>
- General Motors on Salem and Kathil [7]
- Lycomb-Davion IntroTech on New Avalon [8]
- Hellespont Industrials on Sian [9]
Armament
APCs are not fighting vehicles, for their main function is to transport infantry squads from one battle to another. The "standard" tracked APC carries a single Machine Gun, carried usually only for defense against other infantry units.[2]
Variants
- There are many popular variants of Armored Personnel Carriers. The most popular mount more weapons, such as machine guns, at the expense of carried troops. Quite often these vehicles no longer carry troops, and are used purely for infantry support.
- Primitive Versions - Early (circa 2390) versions of the Tracked APC used a ton of Commercial Armor to provide protection. Though effective against small arms fire, the BAR 6 armor would quickly be overwhelmed by modern weapons. This is all the more deadly considering the low top speed (54 km/h) of the primitive APC. BV (2.0) = 57[10]
References
- ↑ Combat Operations, pg. 120
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Technical Readout: 3026, pp. 8-9
- ↑ Handbook Periphery p.118
- ↑ Handbook Periphery p.162
- ↑ Handbook House Steiner p.145
- ↑ Handbook House Liao p.137
- ↑ Handbook House Davion p.187
- ↑ Handbook House Davion p.183
- ↑ Handbook House Liao p.134
- ↑ Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives, Volume 1, p. 9