The Balm Armoured Fighting Vehicle is an armoured assault vehicle in service with the Imperial Jade Navy. It is designed and built by Wernham-Hogg of the Jade Empire.
Recognising the need for a multi-role armoured support vehicle, the Kokobusho contracted Wernham-Hogg to develop a smaller version of the Solace C7 Main Battle Tank. Using many of the same systems, the Balm is much more lightweight and has a modular turret system which can be used to mount a variety of equipment packages. The standard model is equipped with an Arisaka Type 30 Repeating Noroi Gun, effective against light armour, aircraft and infantry. It also has a coaxial 14mm coilgun firing Q-Cyl ammunition. It carries 1200 rounds of ammunition.
The Balm utilises a light version of the Dragonscale composite armour system, the exact design of which is unknown but is believed to include umi-tetsu mesh ceramics, void-titanium angular plating and several elastic layers protecting it from kinetic impacts, baffling jet and shaped charges using a shatter gap and crack deflection, among other characteristics. A thin coating of superconducting vitredeur is overlaid on top which permits the armour to absorb and reduce the damage received from directed energy weapons.
The Balm uses a Wernham-Hogg A3 Hydrogen Cell Engine and has an operational range of 600 km off-road on internal fuel with a top speed of 90 kmph off-road. Its onboard sensory suite is primarily used for local defense, with spoofing systems to confuse attempts at accurate detection and the ability to actively interfere with incoming guidance systems. It has high survivability ratings with excellent crew escape ratings, and is outfitted with an automated SilverBrig vehicle-mounted situational awareness and active protection hard kill system, which can intercept short-range and fast-moving projectiles such as AGMs. |
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