RALCADIAN LEOPARD

The S-15 (nickname: "Ralcadian Leopard" or "Leopard" for short) is a Lasa 3rd generation main battle tank, developed by Sarvorech during the 90's and 2000's, with it entering service in 2008. It's the second most used tank of DWW3, just behind the Conish MBT-26, and the 4th most used tank of all time (the top 3 are MBT-26, S-7 and Tank-26). It served a crucial role in DWW3, acting as not only a replacement for the S-10, but also for the Runa-55.

Development commenced in late 1994, and contrary to popular belief, it wasn't an ofshoot of the S-10 program that got reactivated, but is actually an almost entirely different program (the myth comes from photos of S-10s being fitted with the S-15's composite plates for testing being published, and confused for the S-15 itself). The first fully operational prototype was built in 1998, and while it showed similarities to the S-10, it also had major differences, like the bumps on the armor [I forgot what they were called] and the 2 thermal cameras.

It entered service in 2008, and proceeded to serve for the remainder of DWW3, and even past it in training missions, and small anti-terror missions in unclaimed territories.

The S-15 has a dual layered armor complection. The top layer consists of a composite (high hardness steel, tungsten and ceramic, along with some ralcadium alloys) and makes up around 75% of the total armor thickness on average (soma teas like the turret cheeks have the composite take up a much higher percentage of the thickness). The second layer is an aluminium-iron alloy, that's made more or less to be a basis for repairing the composite armour, and makes up 25% of the average thickness, but a bit closer to 50% for the average mass. This model also has explosive reactive armour bricks on the turret cheeks and front plate, along with 2 composite bricks on the side of the turret, and 2 slat like armour plates on the side, both to protect ammo storages, so the tank doesn't get ammoracked and explode.

Next up, it uses a 125mm Tossa K-125 automatically reloading multi purpose smoothbore cannon (It was originally going to be rifled for HE, and non anti tank shells, but for that, a specialised shell was created which used small crevices to stabilise itself) that can use: AP, APHE, APCBC, APDSFS, HE, HEAT, Anti concrete, and some tests were done to fit it with HESH shells, and even a Sarvorech L-IR 6T ATGM, but it was deemed unnecessary (well, this variant has an ATGM, but it's a different model, made for external attachment while on the front lines). Apart from that, it has two 15mm Tossa K-15 heavy machine guns mounted to the top, made to combat lighter armored vehicles, Aircraft, helicopters, drones, infantry and ATGMs (this is probably one of the primary features that puts the S-15 above most other tanks, as it can defend itself from drones a lot better than other tanks). It also has a Tossa T-20 high power automatic targeting laser active protection system, as a second system to defend itself from incoming secondary attacks.

OPERATORS

Kingdom of Los

The K.O.L. is the hone nation of the Ralcadian Leopard, and has produced around 3000 so far. It also has all the experimental variants except for one.

The Azkhar State

Around 1000 is operated, and they have one experimental variant, which is an S-15 turret on the body of a Runa-70

The People's Republic of Anti Los

They have around 1250, and most of them are modified for polar expeditions.

Greenada

They actually received the S-15 surprisingly late, only getting the first batch around 3 months back.