The Blessing Self-Propelled Artillery Assault Gun is a heavy armoured vehicle in service with the Imperial Jade Navy. It is based on the Halcyon Type-K APC frame and is armed with a W160 Linear Accelerator, capable of firing 160 x 1000 mm slugs and missiles. The standard munition for the W160 is the IdaiTech Atlatl MTM, an active-guided beyond-visual-range missile which can deliver a variety of payloads to targets up to 150 km distant. The W160 can also mount conventional warhead shells for medium-range encounters and area bombardment, using delayed-activation warhead mechanisms to avoid accidental detonation. The Blessing is also equipped with a coaxial 12.7 mm coilgun firing Q-Cyl ammunition. For active defensive it mounts a flare and chaff launcher and 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 Blessing utilises the Dragonscale composite armour system, the exact design of which is classified but is believed to include heavy 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 Blessing uses a Wernham-Hogg A4 Hydrocell Engine and has an operational range of 400 km off-road on internal fuel with a top speed of 40 kmph off-road. Its powerful onboard sensory suite is used both for target acquisition and fire control and 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. |
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