T249 Vigilante

* Default
* Gunslinger

## Crew

* Commander
* Driver
* Gunner

The **T249 Vigilatne** is a Tier 9 progression armored fighting vehicle under Oscar Faraday's dealership.

## History

Class: Self-Propelled Anti-Aircaft Gun (Prototype)

Developed: 1956-1962

Service: N/A

Vehicles Built: 3

Operators: N/A

By the 1950s, the Americans were struggling to provide their armored forces with adequate anti-aircraft capabilities. Additionally, the American projects of tracked AA platforms with guns had an additional enemy that was far more powerful than any Soviet airplane – the U.S. Military. During this era, anti-aircraft (or even aircraft) guns in general were regarded as obsolete and it was believed that guided missiles would be the next big thing. The Vietnam War would prove that notion wrong, but that is a story for another time.

It was during this time that the Vigilante was introduced with the work on the weapon system beginning in 1956. It was a project undertaken by the Sperry Corporation with three prototypes made at some point in the late 1950s. The chassis was a heavily modified M113 APC, on which a massive radar-controlled turret, armed with a six-barrel T250 37mm rotary cannon. The vehicle had a crew of three. The crew was protected by generally thin aluminum armor, similar to that of the M113 APC. What this meant was protection against small arms (but little else).

Mobility was generally comparable to the original M113 APC and the suspension was also taken from the M113 but the vehicle was made longer and had a special feature where it could be locked to become rigid in order to better withstand recoil. And some recoil it was – the 37mm T250 Gatling gun was capable of firing up to 3000 high-explosive rounds per minute from a 192-round drum (emptying it in under 4 seconds), although a reduced rate of fire was available as well, should the Vigilante engage ground soft targets. Against armored targets, the gun wasn’t very effective due to the fact that the only shells available for it were high-explosive.

The three prototype vehicles were tested until 1960 but with the focus shifting towards missiles and a lot of hopes being put into the Mauler program that ran in parallel with the Vigilante, cancelation was but a matter of time. The development ran until 1962 or so, at which point it was mothballed, only to re-surface in the form of the Sperry DIVAD proposal in the late 1970s. One of the three prototypes survived and is currently displayed in the Fort Sill museum in Oklahoma.

## Vehicle Traits

* Harder to Spot: When moving slowly, this vehicle does not lose any camouflage and can effectively creep around.
* Autocannon Only: This vehicle is armed only with a (usually more powerful) autocannon.
* Gatling Gun: This vehicle is armed with a multi-barreled rotary cannon with an extremely high rate of fire, which is, however, prone to overheating.

## Ammunition

* **Accuracy (Fully Aimed)**: 0.16 °
* **Magazine Type**: Overheat
* **Shots Before Overheat**: 11
* **Cooldown Time**: 2.00 s
* **Burst Fire Rate**: 3,000 rd/min
* **Damage Randomization**: ± 5 %
* **Penetration Randomization**: ± 5 %
* **Ricochet Angle**: 67 °

## Upgrades

### Armor

T249 Stock Armor
 The vehicle's light armor offers basic protection from autocannon and machineguns.

### Weapon

**Stats:**

* **Magazine Type**: Overheat
* **Magazine Size**: 192
* **Burst Fire Rate**: 3,000.00 rd/min
* **Depression/Elevation**: -6.0° / 85.0°

## Abilities

**Description:**Increases your vision range and the ability to spot enemies hiding behind foliage (bushes, canopies) at the cost of your own camouflage factor. In other words, activating this ability makes you easier to spot.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 150mm at 150m; 113mm at 500m

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