Water Viper Silent Running
Overview and History
Vehicle Specifications   General Stats
Name: Water Viper Silent Running   Threat Value: 872
Vehicle Type: Walker   Offensive Value: 1,470
Production Type: Limited Production   Defensive Value: 304
Cost: 2,906,666.67 dinars   Miscellaneous Value: 841
Manufacturer: Mandeers Heavy Industries   Size: 6
Use: Underwater Gear   Original Default Size: 10
Height: 4.7 meters   Indv. Lemon Dice: 2
Length: 3.4 meters   Crew: 1
Width: 3.4 meters   Bonus Actions: 0
Avg. Armor Thickness: 81 mm
Armor Material: Classified   Armor
Standard Op. Weight: 7320 kg   Light Damage: 16
Primary Move Mode: Walker (43 kph)   Heavy Damage: 32
Secondary Move Mode: Submarine (39 kph)   Overkill: 48
Deployment Range: 475 km
Sensor Range: 3 km   Vehicle Availability
Communication Range: 10 km   Availability Threshhold: 9
Powerplant: Turbine   Max Number on Field: 3
Engine Output: 570 hp  
    Movement
Electronics   Primary Move Mode: Walker
Sensors: 0   Combat Speed: 4
Communications: 0   Top Speed: 7
Fire Control: 0   Secondary Move Mode: Submarine
    Combat Speed: 3
    Top Speed: 6
    Maneuver: 0
Weapons
Quantity Name Code Arc ACC Damage Range ROF Ammo Special
 1
  Fragmentation Cannon
 FGC
 F
 +1
 x7
 1/2/4/8
 
 20
  AI, Frag, Under/Over Water
 2
  Light Rocket Pack/32
 LRP/32
 F
 -1
 x12
 1/2/4/8
 +4
 32
  IF, Under Water
 1
  Anti-Personnel Grenade Launcher
 APGL
 Rr
 -1
 x3
 1/2/4/8
 
 6
  AE0, AI, IF, Under/Over Water
 1
  Spike Gun
 SKG
 F
 -1
 x12
 0/0/0/0
 
 5
  
 1
  Vibroblade
 VB
 F
 0
 x8
 0/0/0/0
 
 0
  
Perks
Name Rating Game Effects AUX
 Aquatic Sensors BOTH
 
  Dual Purpose
 AUX
 ECM
 2
  Offensive Electronic Warfare equipment
 AUX
 HEP: Underwater
 
  -
 
 Limited Life Support
 
  Life support for 1 week
 AUX
 Manipulator Arm x2
 6
  Can punch
 
 Reinforced Crew Compartment
 
  Absorbs first "Crew" hit
 
 Smoke Launcher
 
  10 shots
 AUX
 Stealth
 3
  Add rating to Concealment
 AUX
 Wide Angle Searchlight
 2
  F Arc; Rating times 50 meters
 AUX
Flaws
Name Rating Game Effects
 Difficult to Modify
 
  -2 on Repair and Modify rolls
 Annoyance
 
  Stealth reduced to Rating 1 out of water
 Man. Flaw
 -2
  Submarine reduced in maneuver.
Defects
Name Rating Game Effects
Variants
There are no variants.
Designer Notes
In TN 1932, New Bajan engineers from Chindo-Sladge Industries, working in cooperation with Mandeers, designed the South's first underwater stealth Gear, dubbed the Water Viper Silent Running. The use New Baja might make of such a machine is cause for concern in some circles, but Mandeers insists it has broken no laws and sells the Viper SR to all legitimate parties, includin gthe Republican Army's Legion Noire and some units of the Humanist Alliance Protection Force. Nevertheless, the capabilities of the Gear are seen as cause for concern. The machine is most amazing for its stealth coating, consisting of layers of thermal and sound insulating polymers covered in a sheath of radar-absorbent material (RAM); this skin provides excellent "silent running" capabilities underwater (defeating sonar and other methods of detection) and on dry land. The Water Viper Silent Running is further equipped with an ECM pod and its turbines are retrofitted to reduce cavitation, making the Gear, in the words of one Legionnaire, "one with the water." The Viper SR also packs a significant punch, most obviously a pair of twin SRWI Requin-72 torpedo racks mounted over its insulated engine casing. As well, the Gear's anti-personnel greande launcher is moved so that it fires to the rear, while a spike gun is attached to the left arm for close range penetration -- a particularly dangerous possibility in underwater combat. Taking advantage of its superior sensor abilities, the Water Viper is also equipped with modified smoke launchers that will discharge murky clouds of slightly charged particles into the water.