The Benison Truck family are a series of versatile transports in service with the Imperial Jade Navy. Designed and built by Wernham-Hogg of the Jade Empire, they can be driven by a single marine, but ideally carry a navigator-gunner in the passenger seat. The standard Cargo model can carry significant amounts of materiel or roughly twenty passengers in its flatbed.
It is lightly equipped with a coaxial 14 mm coilgun firing Q-Cyl ammunition, which can be remotely controlled from inside the cab. It also has a flare and chaff launcher for protection 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. The Benison is not designed for frontline combat duties, and its armour is only rated against light infantry projectile weapons. 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 Bension uses a powerful Wernham-Hogg A4 Hydrogen Cell Engine and has an operational range of 700 km off-road on internal fuel with a top speed of 70 kmph off-road. It has a powerful communications suite, and enjoys high survivability ratings with excellent crew escape characteristics. Alternate models include maintenance, recovery and disposal units. Standard vehicles can also be equipped with light artillery in the bed. |
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