M820A Scorpion Main Battle Tank

Scorpion

"Whats the point in replacing something thats already perfect?"

- Anonymous Tank Commander

The M808G Scorpion Main Battle Tank is the sixth iteration of the Scorpion MBT, first being fielded in 2606. It is near identical to its predecessors with only minor modifications to the tanks software and hardware. The turret combines the ideas of former versions, using the co-axial gun, while it also uses the forward turret, but with a heavy modification. The turret is now a interior operated sealed off turret, protecting the gunner from enemy fire. It features a multitude of outside cameras along with the Tanks own sensor suite to identify targets and engage them. With the sensor suite, the turret is no nloger manually moved sighted through the neural network but now operates by being slaved into the helmet of the driver, like a TADS system, who when turning his head, the turret to do the same. The turret sights are hard wired into his optical sites, giving him view of both the main gun and the drivers view.

Variations
Since the rearmament programm the UNSCMC requested a number of new vehicles. Maser-Vor engineering sorted this problem by building a wide array of support vehicles on the Scorpions chassis, as well as several other vehicles using its chassis and engine.

M808G Scorpion Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle
The M808G Scorpion AVE has removed both the turrets and these have been replaced by two high powered winches on the rear boogies and a crane in place of the turret. The front boogies carry large metal shielding for the support engineers, often armed with welders, shovels and other engineering equipment. At the front it possess a hydraulic dozer blade on each end with scarifiers for digging into hard surfaces to become a stabilizer blade, capable of giving it greater lifting weight and also move debris away. It packs a highly improved engine, taking up space formerly used by the turret, to give it greater power, along with the crane which uses a liquid metal layer made famous by the MJOLNIR armour, now cheaper to make and use because of new technologies. It is easily capapble of lifting and or pulling free a damamged or stuck Scorpion tank, along with even dragging a downed Pelican. It also has an equipment storage, with spare ceramic and titanium plating to replace damamged ones on vehicles.

M808G Scorpion Assault Vehicle Engineers
The M808G Scorpion AVE is essentially a Scorpion with a modified turret, bogies and a front and rear carrying module. The turret is now a 190mm demolitions mortar, not effective for dealing with vehicles but ideal for demolishing buildings and obstacles, though it has effectiveness against infantry. It's boogies feature large 'shield' plates, protecting the riders from enemy fire and allowing it to carry several personel in saftey. and the boogies also now carry hydraulic support struts. The two modules are made for carrying optional equipment, such as the front module, it is able to take mine ploughs, dozer blades, front load, it can use a large roll of tough material to give it and the takns following it a stable footing in muddy, sandy or other tough terrains, it can take a bungle of stiff pipe on both modules which can be layed across ditches to provide the tank and the following ones ease of movement over them. The rear module can also take a earth moving scoop, a earth borer capable of boring 2 meters, a rake for mine laying, or it can be attached to an armoured sled for pulling along sapper teams or equipment. Most of the equipment is hydraulic. It also carriers onboard equipment for cutting granite, steel or drilling along with armoured explosive carriers.

M808G Scorpion ARC
The Bridge Layer variant, the M808G Armoured Ramp Carrierm has a remvoed turret and insteads carrier a hydralic cradle carrying either 24 meters long and 4.16m wide or 13m long and just as wide. These are carried in a double hinged section and can bridge gaps 2 meters shorter than their length.