Continuing the desire to provide additional support assets for slower moving infantry heavy formations, the P-107 series of wheeled transports are a bit more advanced and tailored to more high tech worlds due to it's use of a fuel cell engine while still striving to be affordable at the same time. To deal with the fact that vehicles tend to seriously be hampered by water, the P-107 series possesses limited amphibious capabilities to allow them to move to locations otherwise unavailable, increasing the versatility and range of deployment with the squad of infantry they carry. Designed from the onset to operate on lance level to support the platoon of infantry in the field.
Please forgive the rough nature of this, as using a fuel cell means that all the math had to be done by hand for calculating BV.
Designed from the onset to give the lighter regular infantry units a heavier support vehicle than the more commonly accepted APCs in service, the P-107 was developed. While the light AC-2 is not the most powerful weapon, it gave rifle squads a longer ranged support weapon to soften up an enemy before having to charge in. Never was the P-107a intended for front line combat alone, the foot infantry squad was always accepted as it's true weapon.
Name: P-107a
15 tons Wheeled
Internal Structure – 1.5 tons
Amphibious Equipment - 1 ton – Limited Amphibious
Engine – 55 Fuel Cell – 2 tons
Cruise – 5
Flank – 8
Control Equipment - .75 tons
Turret - .5 tons
Armor – 2.25 ton 36
Front – 10 2
Sides – 6/6 2/2
Turret – 9 2
Rear – 5 2
Weapons
Light AC-2 – Turret – 4 tons
Light AC-2 Ammo (45 rounds) – Body – 1 ton
Machine Gun – Turret - .5 tons
MG Ammo – Body - .5 tons
Cargo – 1 ton
BV - 176 pts
As a low end vehicle that would be available in number, inevitably modifications would start to surface to use the chassis for additional roles. One of the first that would come up be a mobile command vehicle. While still retaining the majority of the chassis, the bulk of the internals has been replaced with a large amount of communications equipment. While a three ton system would have sufficed, inefficient but costly electronics doubled the size of the equipment, bloating it to over six tons. Despite the inefficiency, the P-107-K1 does it's job admirably as a rear echelon command vehicle while some commanders with access to better equipment would strip off the self defense MG for an additional ton of com gear, bringing the unofficial K2 variant up to battalion level equipment though this is frowned upon.
P-107-K1
15 tons Wheeled
Internal Structure – 1.5 tons
Amphibious Equipment - 1 tons – Limited Amphibious
Engine – 55 Fuel Cell – 2 tons
Cruise – 5
Flank – 8
Control Equipment - .75 tons
Turret - .5 tons
Armor – 2.25 ton
Front – 10
Sides – 6/6
Turret – 9
Rear – 5
Weapons
Communications Equipment – Body - 6 tons
Machine Gun – Turret - .5 tons
MG ammo – Body - .5 tons
And the P-107-K2. Often, the crews would leave a painted wooden rod in the turret in place of the missing MG to keep visual inspections and distant scouts from telling the difference of the K2 from the more common K1 version at a cursory glance, useful in keeping the base inspector generals at bay.
P-107-K1
15 tons Wheeled
Internal Structure – 1.5 tons
Amphibious Equipment - 1 tons – Limited Amphibious
Engine – 55 Fuel Cell – 2 tons
Cruise – 5
Flank – 8
Control Equipment - .75 tons
Turret - .5 tons
Armor – 2.25 ton
Front – 10
Sides – 6/6
Turret – 9
Rear – 5
Weapons
Communications Equipment – Body - 7 tons
As the P-107 chassis was produced in larger numbers, the experimentation expanded to use the vehicle to improve the capabilities of the light ADA units that were starting to be considered. While not the most desired chassis to use, a limited number of P-107-C1 vehicles were produced to test the concept of using the C3 command system to improve company and battalion level ADA batteries.
P-107-C1
15 tons Wheeled
Internal Structure – 1.5 tons
Amphibious Equipment - 1 ton – Limited Amphibious
Engine – 55 Fuel Cell – 2 tons
Cruise – 5
Flank – 8
Control Equipment - .75 tons
Turret - .5 tons
Armor – 2.25 ton
Front – 10
Sides – 6/6
Turret – 9
Rear – 5
Weapons
C3 Command Computer – Body – 5 tons
Machine Gun – Turret - .5 tons
MG Ammo – Body - .5 tons
Cargo – Body – 1 ton
Second line commanders sometimes got access to superior equipment and the final rare version of the P-107 would be assigned to those units. A dedicated spotter, these long duration scout vehicles would have the miserable job of having to deploy out far ahead of a unit in hiding to try to quietly report on an enemy's movements or to try and tag a heavy unit for a laser guided strike by aircraft or artillery, tube or rocket alike. Often, the S1 would have to lay in specially prepared locations to call in such a strike but immediately run from the heavy units though this was not always successful and the crews knew it. Many assigned to this vehicle would gain a bizarre and fatalistic attitude towards a posting, often stripping off things like armor and weapons in a hope to uprate the engine to better survive such a deployment though this was always frowned upon by higher ups, the motor pool was more than happy to do so in the hopes that it might allow the crew to come back in one piece. These variants were never standardized. The one thing that was loved about the posting though was that the vehicle did have a comfortable and spacious interior in it's 'stock' configuration though this never lasted long.
P-107-S1
15 tons Wheeled
Internal Structure – 1.5 tons
Amphibious Equipment - 1 ton – Limited Amphibious
Engine – 55 Fuel Cell – 2 tons
Cruise – 5
Flank – 8
Control Equipment - .75 tons
Turret - .5 tons
Armor – 3.75 ton
Front – 18
Sides – 10/10
Turret – 15
Rear – 7
Weapons
TAG – Turret – 1 ton
Guardian ECM Suite – Body – 1.5 tons
Machine Gun – Turret - .5 tons
MG Ammo – Body – .5 tons
Cargo – Body – 3 tons
