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T-94 Main Battle Tank Country: Soviet Union Type: Main Battle Tank Crew: 3 (Commander, Gunner, Driver) Armament: 1x High Velocity Main Gun: Emplaced in an elevated casemate style mount packed with optics and sensors, the T-94's main gun can reliably engage targets at ranges upwards of five...

Toshiba Gunship Country: Japan Type: Gunship Crew: 2. (Pilot, Co-Pilot) Capacity: Minimal* Range: 1050 Miles* Armament: 1x Tactical Laser Pod: A low slung laser pod is mounted beneath the bow. Depending on the setting it can fire beams invisible to the naked eye and tune the intensity of the...

M-100 "Flying Frog" Country: United States Type: Heavy Cavalry Gunship/Transport Crew: 2 (Pilot. Co-Pilot/Gunner) Capacity: One Squad of Light Dragoons or a Command Compartment. Range: 1400 Miles (One Way) Armament: 1x Railgun: The Electromagnetic Railgun can fire at a cyclic rate of fire. It...

So there aren't any pictures of the M-100... or anything else... but there is the cover art which gives a fairly hopefully decent impression of what the M-100 should look like... potentially. Basically the hardcovers and various paperback releases over the years had slightly different designs...

I think that the concerns about his world-building brought up in this thread are based off of like <5% of the novel that was posted in out of context excerpts here. I even cut out chunks of internal dialogue and entire paragraphs of discussion when posted some of these excerpts, hence all of the...

Authors Note: Nothing technological here, just him expanding on the themes of the books at the very end. This is a book about nightmares. Its central theme plays on an enduring Russian nightmare. Although the Soviet Union's short-term problems will arise primarily west of the Ural...

Chapter Twenty Five: 4 November, 2020 Survivability of the M-100 After Taking Significant Damage Over the Previous Three Days Including the Rescue Landing in the Wake of the First Attack, Engaging Fast Moving Jets It was Never Designed to Do, Almost Being Blown Up by Enemy Rocket Artillery in a...

Yeah I've been a fan of the book for a while now and wanted to do a discussion on it back in... well 2020. But I never got around to it. And while the world of 2020 was fascinating, seeing a 1990 postulation of a 2020 world. But I think your viewpoint is a lot like mine and most peoples. But...

Chapter Twenty Four: 4 November, 2020 The Japanese Headquarters in Baku Remains Besieged and Largely Incommunicado After the WHITE LIGHT Electronic Warfare Attacks. But Renewed Electronic Warfare Jamming is Detected. "Still no direct communication with the rear, or with Tokyo?" Noburu asked...

Chapter Twenty Three: 4 November, 2020 Aftermath of the WHITE LIGHT Electronic Warfare Strike Upon the Japanese Headquarters and the Hope of Rescue or Reinforcement for them The communications center was a ruin. The intelligence officer speculated that the Americans had employed aircraft...

Chapter Twenty Two: 4 November, 2020 American and Soviet Officials are Discussing the Particulars of their planned operation. Includes how terrain and approach can still enhance the already stealthy approach of the M-100s. "We've looked over the terrain, and the overhead shots and the map...

Chapter Twenty One: 3 November 2020 Japanese and Allied Reaction to the Arrival of the Americans and the Scrambler Counterstrike at their Baku Headquarters which is an old Soviet fortress built into a hilltop mountainside. Even through the bunkered thickness of the walls and bulletproof...

Chapter Twenty: 3rd November, 2020 The White House Reacts to the Use of the 'Scrambler' Weapon. Defeatism is already evident in the cabinet level meeting. It's also revealed what the scale of Soviet casualties might've been. "Mr. President," he began carefully, "we would do well to remember...

The ramifications of nuclear disarmament (and the dependency on space based strategic defense instead) is one of the warning themes of the book as well. I didn't mention it (beyond the comments on space based strategic defense systems) because it wasn't really a technical part of the story I...

Chapter Nineteen: 3rd November 2020 Contact Is Immediately Lost With Assembly Area 'Silver' "Sierra five-five, This is Saber Six. Sierra five-five. This is Saber six..." Taylor knew immediately that something was seriously wrong when he heard Reno's voice on the command net. The general's...

Chapter Eighteen: 3 November, 2020 The Americans are formulating a plan to utilize the intelligence gleaned from the Japanese Operational-Tactical Brain By Trying to Figure Out a Way to Access the Japanese Control Systems "And we've been busting our asses to come up with a con-plan to...

Chapter Sixteen: 3 November 2020 Immediate Aftermath of the American Assault. Surprise was total and catastrophic. It was a catastrophe. He was looking at a space relay image of the yards at Karaganda. The devastation was remarkable, and as he watched, secondary explosions continued to...

Chapter Fifteen: Early Morning Hours 3rd November, 2020 Starts with a status check including the reveal of more M-100 capabilities as they fly through a snowstorm. "Weapon suite?" "Green." "Target acquisition suite?" "Green." "Go to environments check." "Roger," the copilot said. ...

Chapter Thirteen: South of Petropavlovsk 2nd November, 2020 Babryshkin's depleted brigade reaches Soviet lines and he summarizes the past few weeks. Babryshkin's mind searched through the scenes of the past weeks. A newsreel, eccentrically edited, played at a desperate speed.The first night...

Chapter Twelve: Omsk 2nd November 2020 American Briefing Prior to the Mission Technically, the briefing could have been conducted electronically, with all of the officers comfortably seated in their environmentally controlled fighting systems and mobile-support shelters. But Taylor had...