M42 Cobra Tank Destroyer/Fire Support Vehicle (TFCverse)

"I don't understand why the Foxtrot they decided to go with that stupid shifting turret on the original M42s, it simply was a turd, end of discussion." - Anonymous UNSC Service Member on the experimental turret that the M42 was outfitted with. 
One of the UNSCDF's icons of the Rebellion War and later the Great War, the M42 Cobra formed a vital part of the UNSCDF Marine Corp's Mechanized Infantry Regiment in the Landing Force of their formations as well as existing within the UNSCDF Army's Light Armor Divisions, forming a vital part of the infantry component. This vehicle was named for a family of venomous snakes native to Earth. 
As part of the United Family of Combat Vehicles (UFCV), the Cobra uses the basic chassis design to mount a turret that has railguns to make it both an exceptional Direct Fire Support Vehicle and a potent Tank Destroyer. However the Cobra wasn't without its faults, the original M42 was outfitted with an instantly transformable turret that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. This necessitated the cessation of production with lines being retooled to produce new models of Cobra that were either Direct Fire Support or TD variants but not both. 
==Design ==
The Cobra is part of the Unified Family of Combat Vehicles which was designed as part of the military build up that the United Earth Government undertook after the Bombing of the Far Isle by the Colonial Military Administration all but made civil war inevitable, particularly with the revelation that the United Rebel Front had sympathizers within the CMA and CAA. Thus the UFCV was developed to replace the UNSCDF's existing wheeled IFVs, TDs, and other such vehicles with a unified family. One of the major caveats of this was that the UFCV must have, across all variants the following: 
*Fully modular hybrid powertrain and fuel system across all variants
*interchangeable Plug and Play turrets for most variants
*Interchangeable Armor Packs across all models
*Interchangeable Add-on Armor that's compatible with all vehicles
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==Service History==
====Pre-Rebellion War====
====Rebellion War====
====Human-Covenant War ====
==UNSC Personal Remarks==
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