"The pounding, drums of angels at war, it was deafening."

Been waiting on myself to find the motivation to finish this, mostly just bombshells irl been holding me back, finally finished this after 7 months. But enjoy this futuristic artillery piece.

Controls

Ag 1 to fire
Vtol+trim to aim

History

Operation

The Barge Fire artillary peice, developed in 2051 in the
bjac.co Engineering Complex, and first deployed in foreign countries within the same year, was built as tentions with north korea were escalating with the south china sea dispute, 400 were deployed near the DMZ, and another 200 were deployed around the border of south korea, not to mention the 500 deployed in japan as a means of second to final defence, and the 200 deployed in australia. The barge fire is a tricky weapon to operate, requiring a team of soldiers expertly trained to deal with the weapon 24/7 to be used at full capacity, otherwise it is close to useless, meaning just to set up one installation it would cost 1.5 million, not to mention maintainance.

Usage

The barge fire is a behemoth cannon firing 250mm 800kg projectiles at mach 3, able to peirce through any tank like it was protected with wet paper, the cannon was also nuclear capable, but bjac.co declared an oath to only load nuclear if deemed necessary, for now the cannon fires kinetic, explosive, shrapnel, and HEAT rounds, a chemical round was a consideration for retaliation against north korea's use of chemical rounds, but this was declined by NATO for obvious reasons. The weapon was originally conceived to be placed on naval barges, hence the name, but due to issues with maintainance, putting the weapon on a ship would've just complicated the issue dramatically.

The Drum of Angels

In 2051 during the heated korean war 600 barge fires were deployed in south korea for defence and retaliation, this was known as the wall of steel, and in 2052 it was put to the test with advances towards seoul from north korea, 250 barge fire squads were given the mission of holding back north korean troops or "So help me god for every civilian that is hurt, a scar will be drawn across the back of your legs, do i make myself clear?!" said the Lieutenant General tasked with the management of the 250 barge fire squads to defend seoul. In 48 hours, 2 million civilians had to be evacuated, the capitol had to be moved 39 miles south and 102 barge fire squadrons either died, or were captured. But cause of these 410 men and women, 2 million civilians survived, this acheivement did not go un-noticed, these soldiers were remembered as Angels by south koreans.

Specs

System type: Supercooled railgun

Muzzle velocity: Mach 1 - Mach 3
Round width: 250mm
Round weight: Kinetic 1360kg - Conventional Explosives 560kg - HEAT 690kg - Shrapnel 440kg - Fission 1048kg

Max Inclination: 23°
Max Depression: 19°
Max Range: 18km

Cost Per Unit: 1,025,000$
Program Cost: 540,000,000$