A remake of my old T-104 MBT with new weaponry, realistic ammo amount and new lore

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[Description]

The T-104 MBT, a Nekoslavian Main Battle Tank developed by Blin Industry in the 1980s. This tank is designed to replace the old MBTs such as T-103, Leopard 1, Leopard 2k, Chieftain, Centurion and Stridsvagn-103 as their survivability and mobility were suppressed by the M1 Abrams Series MBT and the Black Eagle Tank.
This tank was start develop in 1980 and begin to produce and get into service in 1987. It have excellent frontal armour protection, great mobility and powerful main armament which once penetrated and knocked out serval Abrams-X and T-14 Armata in the final stage of the 3rd Continental War.

[Specifications]

Size

Width: 13.5ft; 4.1m
Length with gun forward: 31.9ft; 9.7m
Length without gun: 28.7ft, 8.75m
Height (without tracks): 9.9ft ; 3m

Propulsion and Speed

Maximum Forward Speed: 75km/h; 40knots; 46.6mph
Maximum Backward Speed: 70km/h; 37.8knots;43.5mph
Engine Power: 700hp
Engine type: Diesel Engine (get called Jet Engine cause its loud af)
Estimated Driving Time: 70+ Minutes On road/ 35+ Minutes Cross Country
Estimated Operational Range: >5,250km On Road/ >2,625km Cross Country

Armament Specs

125mm Smoothbore Cannon

Loading method: Soviet Type Carousel Autoloader & French Revolver Type Autoloader
Loading Speed: 3.5 Seconds
Ammunition in game: APFSDS * 30 rounds;
HESH-FS (B.E.S.H-FS) * 15 rounds
Ammunition in lore: APFSDS, HEAT(-FS), BESH(-FS & Smoothbore modified), ATGM
Muzzle velocity: 1734m/s for APFSDS; 690m/s for HESH-FS (B.E.S.H-FS)
Vertical Guidance: -4.5°/+14°

30mm Auto-cannon

Loading method: Magazined Autoloader
Loading speed: 0.5 Second
Ammunition in game: HE-VT
Ammunition in lore: AP, HE, HE-VT
Muzzle velocity: 960m/s
Vertical Guidance: -6.75°/+45°

Armour and protection

Hull

Armour type: Composite Armour (Front)/ Regular Armour (Side and Rear)
Front Upper and Lower glacis: 260mm
Side & Rear armor: 150mm

Turret

Armour type: Composite Armour (Front)/Regular Armour (Side & Rear)
Front Upper and Lower: 500mm
Side and Rear: 200mm

[Controls]

Driving Controls

Pitch (W,S key on PC): Move Forward or Backwards
Roll (A,D key on PC): Turn Left or Right

Turret Control/Firing Control

All are camera controlled

"Go Pro": Just go pro camera
"30mm cannon": Controls the 30mm Auto Cannon
"125mm Main Gun": Controls the 125mm Cannon

[Design]

T-104 turret is very similar to the German Leopard 2A5 or Chinese Type 96 tanks, while the hull is a traditional design with slopped frontal armour, which is identical to T-62, T-54, Centurion, Vickers MBT (early versions), Conquer Tanks or other early Cold War Era tanks.

Armour and protection

Based on the experiment on the battlefield, the old tank's frontal armour is obsolete againest the 105mm L/7 or 120mm cannon from the M1 Abrams series tank and the 125mm from the Black Eagle Tanks . As result, T-104 have composite armour on the front with the thickness of 260mm, which the 105mm, 120mm and 125mm will struggle to penetrate at the distance that more than 1000m. Within 1000m, even they penetrate, the damage are limited by the armour panel inside the tank.
The side armour are also pretty thick, its for avoid the enemy can penetrate the tank easily when the tank is slightly angled, of course a good side angle shot can knock it out just like the other mbts.
To avoid the ammunition detonate, theres a 300mm thick composite amour surrounding the carousel, which protect the ammunition from enemy fire. Basically, it is extremely difficult to make the T-104 do the turret launch, unless there's a very powerful projectile penetrate the carousel armour and blow up the ammunition. However, even the ammunition get exploded, the driver will be saved by the blowout panel that divide the driver and the carousel; Surprisingly, even the crews in the turret may survive the explosion. First, there's also a blowout panel and a blast door separate them and the carousel, which partly protected the crew from explosion and decreased the damage that will do to the crews. Second is there's a seatbelt for the crews as they will remain seated, which also helps them when they get launched with the turret. Well the only issue is they can't be saved if the turret launched too high in the air...

Armament

The 125mm cannon is respectively fed by 2 types of auto loader. The first auto loader is a T-72/T-90 type autoloader, located under the turret floor. The second one is a French Revolver type autoloader, located at the back and the right side of the turret.
Both autoloader can finish the loading procedure within 3.5 seconds.
But for the HESH rounds, they can only be fired in a rifled cannon. So the HESH rounds were modified to be able to fire in a smoothbore gun.

Propulsion

Well the T-104 are using diesel engine, but it is very loud that it sounds like a turbine engine. However the issue can be solved by adding noise absorbing material.

[Variants]

Main Variant

T-104

The prototype version.

T-104M2 "Moderna"

The mass production version with firing control and scopes. The specs has been wrote above.

T-104XM

A temporary heavy armed version which equipped additional armour on the front to counter the Depleted Uranium ammunition fired from the M1 Abrams in the Late of the 3rd Continental War. 600+ were built and they turned back to T-104M2 after the war ends.

T-104P

Police and KDP Peace Keeping Forces version for peace keeping, jail security and against remaining United Power group. Mostly used on KDP Occupied Zone.
Instead of 125mm cannon, it used 155mm Howitzer.
Another thing is it have a small platform mounted at the back of the turret for police to kneel there and use the tank turret for cover.
It have ERA on the sides, and the rooftop have additional spaced armour to protect against RPGs.

(so why police version seems to have better protection than military versions...)

Prototype Versions

T-104-AX

The full name is T-104-Abram-X, a test bed version which uses some of the equipment from the captured Abrams-X MBT. 4 were built for testing.

T-104SM1

Planned upgraded version which will upgrade the tank into a 3rd Generation MBT, the information remains secret. However the project was cancelled when the T-106 development begins.

Export version

T-104MK/T-104E

Export version for KDP's friendly allies and countries. 10 of them were built for display purposes. Their specifications can be changed to match the user's need during the bidding.
The main difference is it using a different engine, the reason is very clear: The Original One Are Loud As F-ck.
The scopes and optics parts were left empty. It is for the users can use their own optics on this tank instead of using the old one.

Other

T-105

Self-propelled tank destroyer version, using different turret with 183mm cannon

[Operators]

Kosvland Continent Pact

Nekoslavia: 5,000+ Active, 2,000+ Reserved
Nakuria: 2,000+ Active, 550 Reserved
Sheznovakia: 1,000+ Active, 500 Reserved
KDP Peacekeeping Force: 300+ Active, 500 Reserved

[Operation History]

[2nd Continental War]

T-104 were saw in serval small combat and last 1 major battle in the final stage of 2nd Continental War.
In 1989, 15 T-104 among with the troops ambushed a United Power tank parking spot. Via carful target priority choosing, total of 30 United Power tanks were destroyed including 8 M1 Abrams (unkown variant), 10 Black Eagle Tank and 12 T-64. On the KDP side, they successfully take the parking spot, captured 5 M1 Abrams, while only 4 T-104 were damaged and they got repaired after the battle.

Battle of Enzuna Town 1991

30 T-104 were deployed in this battle to retake the Enzuna from The United Power. During the Urban combat, T-104 provides support on the troops, while sometimes doing anti-tank in the same time.
T-104 managed to take down 15 Black Eagle MBT, 10 T-64, 5 T-80 and 10 M1 Abrams. But 10 T-104 were loss, mostly when fighting in Urban Area.

[3rd Continental War]

Before the war start, 1,000+ T-104 were deployed on the KDP-United Power border as The United Power willing to start a last fight via sending a massive tank wave until the conflict start in 2007.

Great Border Tank Battle

When the war start, United Power started a Deep Operation with 5,000+ tanks and armoured vehicles including 1,000+ M1A1HC to penetrate the KDP border and their defence line.
In this massive battle, T-104 have huge amount of losses where 600+ of them were destroyed or knocked out; however, those T-104 still destroyed 2,000+ tanks, including 400+ M1A1HC and 800+ Black Eagle Tanks.
But the T-104 shows its great protection on the front, regular AP rounds can't penetrate it even at the distance of 700m, only depleted uranium ammunition from the M1A1HC were able to penetrate the front of the T-104.

North Battlefront & KDP Counter Offensive

In the final stage of the war, when KDP begin the counter offensive on United Power, T-104 were used as supporting the troops when taking the city.
Although not much tank to tank battle in the final stage of war, but T-104 still scored some kills; for the kill ratio, T-104 have 7:1 K/D when fighting M1 Abrams Series; while 15:1 on Black Eagle Tank.

The battle of T-104 and the "4th Generation Tanks"

As the battlefield pushed to the last city, United Power used all the things they got, including using the Abrams-X and T-14 Armata to fight the KDP. Of course, T-104 cannot win them at head on, but via good planning T-104 still managed to take down 8 Abrams-X and 10 T-14 by shooting them on the side. Still, 12 T-104 were loss when fighting those 4th Generation Tanks.

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[Gallery]

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[Credits]

Kennneth

His valley map for thumbnail's background
And also his Forest Airstrip map
(Although his maps might burn down my pc)

MisterT

His Stork Island for pictures

Mikoyanster

The Aeroclub 2 for gallery