M.Corp Jackal is a light amphibious tank (LAT) used by armed forces of the corporation.

Overview

Jackal is a light tank, designed for amphibious, airborne, and scouting operations. It can sail on its own, be airdropped, or deployed using Low-altitude parachute-extraction system.

Jackal is meant to serve in situations where main battle tanks are not available, either due to difficulty of deploying them or due to terrain not allowing their operation. Its armour provides far less protection than that on MBT, but also makes the vehicle light enough to be easily deployed from the air, along with crew and ammo.

There are three layouts of armour for this combat vehicle. One, which you see here, is the basic armour. It is a composite welded steel armour with ceramic plates and a layer of rubber. It's the lightest layout, and the only one that allows airdrops and easy amphibious operations. It can be augmented with a mesh to stop missiles with cumulative warheads.
Second armour layout adding angled plates of hollow armour to the turret and sides of the hull. It increases protection from both cumulative (HEAT) and kinetic projectiles.
Third layout adds ERA on top of all that.

Jackal is also equipped with an active hard kill defensive system, soft kill defensive system in form of infrared dazzler, and smoke grenade dispenser.

Armament of Jackal LAT consists of a 120mm main gun, equal in power to that on an average MBT. It is fed by an auto loader. It is combined with a coaxial machine gun 7.62mm. Additionally, many examples are equipped with an RCWS on the roof of the turret, armed with a 12.7mm (50.Cal) machine gun.

Crew of this tank consists of a driver, gunner, and a commander. Driver is seated in front of the turret, to the left. Gunner is in the turret right of the gun, with the commander to the left.

Propulsion of Jackal consists of an 800hp engine driving a set of rubber tracks, which propel the vehicle at the speed of up to 80km/h on land and 15km/h in the water. Rubber tracks have been chosen over the steel ones due to the easier replacement, and due to the fact that they inflict less damage to the road. The vehicle can climb at up to 35°.

Notes
- On the water, this vehicle is twice as fast as it would be realistically. I did that on purpose, as sailing over a small lake or a bay at 15km/h would be too boring.
- I have used a very simple suspension. It gets the job done better than any complex one I tried out.
- This is my first gyro-stabilized gun. Also, it's the first time I use this control scheme. Tell me if you like it.
- The rims made out of fuselage inlets obstruct climbing onto runway kerbs. That's due to their boxy colliders. There's nothing I can do about that.

Instructions

• VTOL + Yaw = drive;
• Pitch + roll = aim;
• Ag1 = coaxial machine gun;
• Ag2 = lights.

Version with reduced part count

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