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Published: 2021-03-02 08:03:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 2319; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 0
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Description This light tank (that weights more than a Leopard 1a5) is armed with a 130mm smoothbore gun with a drum autoloader. The tank will be operated by a crew of 4:a commander , a driver, a gunner and a loader who's job it to take the rounds from the floor blow up panel (which will be wet like on the M4A3E8 Sherman) and load them on the blow up panel at the back of the turret. The 23 rounds in it will be stored in a plow up panel at the back of the turret and 20 more on another blow up panel in the bottom of the hull between the 3rd and 4rth wheel which will be spaced metal wheels (i accidentally made the 4rth and 5th like that).
It will use:
APFSDS round as a primary against other tanks,
HEATFS round for soft targets,
DSSS (discarding sabot smoke shell) for cover and
ATGM (2nd Gen) out of which it will carry a maximum amount of 3
The gun is also equipped with ,very hard to see on the picture, 4 outer extra recoil springs and two small suppressors to make reduce the sound but not to fully silence it, out of which the one on the edge of the barrel will most likely be not used to keep it light. The barrel will also be 25mm thick, stabilized, with a 10mm coaxial machine gun next to it which will fire AP and Tracer bullets (AMMO x 200). The turret will also make use of a system called STR (Steady Turret Ring) which will basically keep the gun pointing at one direction by the gunner's will. It will be an ON/OFF button and it will be used for when the tank is moving on to a sniping position so the gunner doesn't lose the target from sight.
The tank will also make use of smoke grenade launchers. More specifically it will have 6 smoke gradates on every "Γ" like shaped parts you see next to the cupola so that will have 24 smoke grenade launchers on the tank.
In the back of the turret you can see the 20mm RC autocannon for supporting fire with HVAP (Hight Velocity Armor Piercing) and SC (Smoke Cell) shells (AMMO x 200). The commander will be the controller and will also use it to scout with it's thermal and night vision sight (at the other side of it) along with the ,behind it, periscope which will be able to elevate 1.75 miters up and back down and make use of (hopefully) both thermal and night vision sight.

Moving on to the mobility
As a light tank it won't be heavier than 30-40 tons (i hope) while keeping the engine strong. The engine is called BULL v2 and it's designed by a friend of mine, it's estimated to have more than 1500 HP and a CVT double clutch transmission of total 8 gears. 4 forwards and 4 backwards with slow and fast mode like on most tanks. In the back and the front of the hull of the vehicle there are some tracks that will get torque from the main ones. They are there to support the main chassis to "climb" on objects that the lower front and back plate would get stack on. It's called TMMS (Tracked Mobility Support System) and i believe that it won't actually be used at least on the back of the tank but i think it is a cool idea to support a tank. The suspension is 
Hydro pneumatic for better ground clearance on cross country terrain and lower silhouette on CQC. The driver will be provided with all around cameras and one elevated from the tank on the back of the turret together with the antennas to show him the terrain around the tank. Two of the wheels are spaced wheels ,so if the hull blow up panel doesn't destroy them, more specifically the 3rd and 4rth ones (but as said earlier i did the 4rth and 5th). The turret will be able to make a full circle in 7.3 seconds (48 degrees per second).

Armor is obviously lacking. It will consist of 25mm on the ceiling and floor, 45mm in the side with 30 more below it, 80mm on the UFP and LFP with 15mm spalling shield and 90mm on the front of the turret. All composite and hopefully enough to protect it from 20 to 30mm guns from the front or if angled by 35 to 45 degrees. Not armor but a system for protection is the AFFS (Auto Fire Fighting System). You can locate it below the turret baskets above the engine deck. It basically is a fire extinguisher that will be triggered if the fuel tanks are on fire.

Note: There is an SPAAG version with a deferent turret which i will upload sometime. Fell free to tell me your opinions below! And sorry for the bad quality it's an old drawing...
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