M823E4 Komodo Anti-Vehicle Platform

Monitor AVP

"When your tank gun can overpenetrate the frontal armour of 3 MBTs, you know you gat something special."

- Anonymous Marine

The M811E4 Komodo AVP (E for Energy) was a modified version of the Monitor, its main gun removed and replaced with a Weapon/Anti-Vehicle Model 8 Grindell/Galileian Nonlinear Rifle

Like the Monitor, it has been lengthened, widened and heightened, with a meter added to the width and length and the vehicle is 50 centimeters higher. The main chassis has been formed into a boxy shape, with a driver/gunner on one side, a gunner on the other then a gunner where the turret formerly lay. In the centre the M8 Non Linear Rifle has been emplaced, inbetween the gunner and driver.

These combinations make a excellent tank hunting vehicle. Its low profile, Hydraulic suspension allowing it to raise the front or back boogies to change its elevation and limited gun mantle manouvrability make it perfect for ambush attacks or launching first strikes on tanks in dense enviroment.With the abilities to effective hide behind hills, in ditches, in forests and in towns, its adaptability is fathomless. Its only problem is, while facing targets on their flanks, faster vehicles can out run its turning time or the time it takes to move the gun.

The weapon itself is a marvel of modern engineering. It is capable of instantly destroying a MBT at any position in line of light, with no effect on aiming by wind or gravity. It uses a enlargened fusion core directly linked to the engine to power the weapon. The Fusion core itself is rechargable, either by a large scale power supply or by using the engine to power it. The weapon is capable of piercing 1.5 meters of Ceramic-Titanium armour usually found on Scorpion tanks.

UNSC remarks
"We never had to bother waiting for line of sight any more. During trial runs on Acturas we developed the tactic of using Sat Uplinks to aim our guns right through buildings and forests. We nailed target drones up to 4000m away doing that. The 4 version is modifed to support that fully."

"Those Sierra Foxtrots figured out how to pick up our lasers. They detected the low level 'painting' laser before hand. When they got that they got out of sight, requiring us to work on Sat Uplink, but we got away around that. Our foot boys started aiming at tanks with laser sights of the same frequencies and we started spoofing them with our defence lasers and setting up permimeter defence lasers to do the same. It was a month or so of them hiding before they realised we were messing with them and they gave up that tactic. Our kills per day reached an all time high after that."

"Up until the three we never had the engine mufflers of the M811A2. As a result, we had to switch off our engines and fire. The fusion cores had trouble starting the engine again, resulting in alot of 'deaths' during trials."