Specification

Name : Project H - 1E3, designation "Tigris" (tiger)
Class : Main Battle Tank
Nation : Zacrucia
Manufacturer :
Zacrucia Metalwork,
- Heavy Armor Division (main)
- Light Armor Division (during rearmament period, 1989 - 1995)
In Service :
- 1988 - 2008, (Zacrucia)
- 1990 - 2013 (Duhn - Faerie)
Number built : ~ 600 units, 100 were exported to Duhn-faerie
Operator :
- Zacrucia
- Duhn-Faerie

Crew : 4 (TC, Gunner, Loader, Driver)
Suspension : Hydropneumatic
Dimension :
- Mass : 77,5 Ton
- Length : 10,9 meters (gun forward)
- Width : 4,3 meters
- Height : 3,9 meters
Armament :
- 1x 120 mm smooth-bore cannon
- 1x 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun

History

Development

Development start in the 1983 when the "2 Combatants Massive War" getting more intense, after witnessing a more advance weapon of war from both side, and a couple of smaller neutral nations got attacked. Made the Zacrucia's Defense council started to look for a replacement for most of Zacrucia old weaponry.

The plan was to make a new heavier medium tank that able to both attack and withstand the new tanks that popping up in the battlefield and the project called "Project Heavy", the first chassis was finished in late 1985 while the turret was finished in mid 1986, mainly because they're waiting for the new cannon to finish it's development.

The first fully functioning prototype, named "Heavy - 1", was submitted to be tested in late 1986, the Defense council were mostly happy with the test, and said that the tank need some revision mainly the engine, and the suspension. And the later "Heavy - 1E2" solved those problems.

"Heavy - 1E3" which later designated as "Tigris" is the last prototype model before the mass-production. The design was already accepted on "Heavy - 1E2", this one made in effort to streamline and to re-calibrate the tooling, which doesn't change the tank at all. Production start in 1988 and lasted until 1998.

Even though the war ended in mid 1989 in cease fire from both side, the mass production still continue, because the uncertainty of the situation. Around 600 tanks were made, where around 100 tanks were exported. And a handful of test bed made out of the chassis are made.

Combat

Tigris doesn't see much combat, beside the flushing out the Western Kingdom army from the Duhn-Faerie nation and reclaiming taken land after the war ended.

Control

Pitch - Forward and Backward
Roll - Turn
Yaw - Rotate turret (Activate 1), and TC's camera (Activate 2)
Trim - Gun elevation (Activate 1), and Chassis tilt (Activate 4)

Activate 1 - Activate turret and gun movement
Activate 2 - Activate TC's camera
Activate 3 - Headlight and NVD (if activate 1 and/or 2 active, the headlight turn off. But, turn on NVD for Gunner sight {Activate 1} and/or TC's camera {Activate 2})
Activate 4 - Activate Active Hydropneumatic system
Activate 5 - Turn on Blackout convoy light
Activate 6 - None
Activate 7 - Opening Hatches
Activate 8 - Turning the engine on/off

Gallery

so ah, I tried to add some picture here. But for some reason I can't. From what I read, I need to have 200 points to upload picture into a description (I don't know if its true or not) and since I only have 45 points as the making of this. so I'm sorry, but this is the best I can do.

-Tigris firing it's main armament

A couple of Photos when the Tigris undergoing a maintenance and showing it's engine and the engine bay

-First picture

-Second picture

-Third picture

-fourth picture

Note

Finally I finished it, this is the first time I enter a challenge and it was quite fun. I hope you guys like it, and I'm sorry if the damage model a bit off , my laptop cannot handle spawning other build, even if it only the main chassis without anything. And also sorry for lack of detail, again my laptop cannot handle it, he's already struggling with this one. well, thank you for coming in, and have fun with this.

I'm sorry if the sentences are weird, English is not my native language, tho you're allowed to correct me, and I'd be more than happy to learn the correct grammar and such.