M/AD-02 Air Void

Weapon Systems

**ANAHEIM ARMS INC. M/AD-02 Air Void**

The Air Void main purpose is that of Air Defense artillery with a secondary role of area denial. To fulfill it’s primary job the M/AD-02 mounts an Mk.77 Sea Witch II 20mm CIWS designed by General Dynamics/Raytheon and manufactured by Anaheim Arms under license. The main gun is capable of firing 4,500 rounds per minute out to a maximum range of 3,600 meters with a mix of various AP and HE rounds.

**History**

The Air Void has been one of Anaheim Arms more successful products; sold mostly to Para-Military units the M/AD-02 has been used on or by most smaller planetary systems and even a few can be found in the inventories of large star nations such as the UNSF and NPE.

**Development**

Active research and development began in 4304 with the initial design taking place from May 4304 and was completed in January 4305 with the first non-operable prototypes being manufactured in mid-4305 and the first operable units in early 4306 with design/concept proofing taking place until mid-4307 when the vehicles final testing began with final approval occurring in late 4307 with production beginning shortly thereafter.

**Variants & Upgrades**

There have been six different models manufactured in the last 900 years –

-02 – Manufactured from 4308-4678 C.E.; armed with the Mk.I Sea Witch and having Ceramo-Steel armor; Series 5 sensor system.

-02A1 – Manufactured from 4680-5050 C.E.; sensor system upgraded to series 6.

-02A2 – Manufactured from 5055-5425 C.E.; 7.62mm Commander Cupola gun added; armor upgraded to lightweight titanium.

-02A3 – Manufacturef rom 5430-5800 C.E.; Mk.II Sea Witch replaces Mk.I, second 7.62mm machine gun added to driver’s blister

-02A4 – Manufactured from 5805-6175 C.E.; sensors updated to Series 7.

-02A5 – Manufactured from 6180 C.E.; sensors updated to series 8; 12.7mm machine gun added and armor upgraded to Dimonotanium ceramatite.

**Design**

The Air Void is a boxy, angular shape with a rounded dorsal section and dome shaped upper turret that holds the Mk.II Sea Witch and the commander’s cupola [which holds the 12.7mm gun and one of the 7.62mm guns]. The forward portion of the hull has the driver’s compartment which blisters upwards slightly and contains a second 7.62mm machine gun.

The craft has a standard operating range of 400 hours during standard operations but this drops to approximately 100 hours during combat situations.

The environmental system good for approximately 300 hours if the vehicle is completely buttoned up or 600 hours if the outside atmosphere is moderately oxygenated.

The craft has a top speed of 85 KPH with everything being operated off of 20 standard HBT cells with four 5-cell energizers mounted in the aft near the engine.

Finally the craft uses an Anaheim Arms AS-8/16-126 Sensor & Communications package which includes digital camera system, terrain guidance, radar, warning receiver, telescopic array, periscope, spotlights, Chaff Dispensers, Flare Launchers, Smoke Grenade Launchers, and Multi-Band Communications system.

**Armor**

The frame is 1mm thickness Dimonotanium Ceramatite with an overall plating thickness of 5mm which combined can shrug off up to 90 kJ of kinetic energy every round with all of the windows and ports being 1mm thickness mono-glass and able to shrug off up to 150 kJ of kinetic energy.

The Air Void also has a force screen system powered by five AN-M02V particle shielding system able to shrug off an additional 250 kJ of kinetic energy with a refresh rate of every twelve seconds giving the vehicle an overall defensive rating of 340 kJ of resistance before critical failure to anyone point.

**Armament**

The Air void mounts the following weapon systems –

**GD/R Mk.77 Mk.II Sea Witch 20x102mm CIWS [2A3 On] –** mounted in the front of the turret and has mixed 50,000 rounds of AP/HE.

**Browning M58HB 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun [2A5 Only] –** mounted coaxially with one of the MGM7-1 machine guns in the commanders cupola and has 1500 rounds.

**AA MGM7-1 7.62mm Machine Guns [CC – 2A2 On/DB – 2A3 On] –** One of these is mounted coaxially in the commander’s cupola and the other in the driver’s blister with each having 2,000 rounds.

**Operators**

The M/AD-02 is operated by numerous para-military and military organizations across the galaxy.

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