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## Overview

“破甲铁卫”[Pò Jiǎ Tiě Wèi]

(Allies: PojiaTiewei / Iron Guard)

Designation:Anti-armour

Designer：Scientific Industry 6th Base/Huining Institute of mechanical equipment of Fenghou Group/Husu Union Industry

Training Headquarters：Joint exercise base of the north desert area

Field-Trained at: Infantry Garrison

Creed：“Format like stars, tough as rocks”

Key Features:

>> 1A-124 “Iron Guard”individual combat system

-32mm electrothermal chemical gun

-Electromagnetic anti-armor railgun (projectile diameter 25.6mm)

-Enclosed combat power armour(heavy ceramic armor integrated)

-Portable composite armor shield

-Small high density superconducting battery pack×4

>> Foldable crosswind sensor for individual deployment

>> Short-term life support system

## Background

**WIP！！！**

With the successful development and being equipped of "Longyan" individual combat system, even though it still has some defects in terms of reliability and cost, the superior tactical performance of the system and the substantial improvement of infantry combat effectiveness have deeply moved the Celestial Army. After training, the infantry units who can reasonably use the system are surprised to find that their ability to fight against enemy infantry groups has been greatly improved, and even against enemy infantry groups that are far more than expected and have suppressive firepower, they can still compete with them at an acceptable loss.

Naturally, the Celestial military obviously does not intend to be satisfied with this: after the success of "Longyan", exoskeletons with other designation for infantry have naturally started their own research and development work. Except the "Longyan" which is the "basic type" and is more moderate in design, some exoskeletons with specialized functions or structures are also necessary. For the army combat system, infantry dressed in "Longyan" can only be regarded as light infantry no matter how they are: their firepower delivery ability has not made a qualitative leap, It is still unable to effectively confront the enemy's armored forces without trench and blockage; Once without vehicles, they can't even retreat from the impact of the enemy's armored forces.

In order to solve this problem, the army proposed a theoretical scheme of heavy exoskeleton, and defined the use of this type of exoskeleton as special for firepower units, that is, it is required that it can independently use all types of anti vehicle weapons and support weapons. There is no doubt that the research and development of this type of exoskeleton was carried out by the Huining Institute of mechanical equipment, which has a Longyan design experience.

Not willing to stand still, Huining Institute has made two design: the first design is a simple "Longyan" improved variant, which greatly improves the load-bearing capacity, and can easily carry full-automatic grenade launchers, medium-sized anti vehicle missiles, 80 mm mortars and other weapons; Of course, it's just an alternative. The Second one is a revolutionary design. Designers and engineers from the Huining Institute have turned the powersuit that existed only in science fiction and movies into reality: compared with the open exoskeleton kit of Longyan, the new heavy exoskeleton system adopts a fully enclosed design, with amazing load-bearing capacity and power output through servo motor system; It has NBC protection capabilities and is equipped with a complete life support system. In theory, the wearer can keep standby freely for two to three days without removing armor, or directly enter the NBC area to perform combat tasks without additional preparation. In addition, they still use the force feedback system which has been very mature in "Longyan" as the wearer's control means of the exoskeleton. Considering the industrialization and large-scale requirements of the design, production, use and maintenance of various exoskeletons (full name external auxiliary mechanical structure) systems that will inevitably exist in the Celestial in the future, the army will separate such designs and name them as power armor, rather than simply classify them as combat exoskeletons.

In the army's conception, soldiers wearing power armor are firepower support soldiers belonging to the front-line combat forces, and their corresponding weapons are nothing more than curved trajectory support weapons and anti-armor support weapons; The former is mainly responsible for anti personnel and anti shelter, while the latter is responsible for anti armor. Thanks to the compatibility brought by the huge auxiliary power output, it seems that it is not difficult to choose the right weapons for this type of power armor. From anti vehicle missiles to medium-sized mortars, they can be easily carried and used. Therefore, the representatives from all sides soon reached an agreement on the curved trajectory support weapons, that is, to use the new 80mm medium-sized mortars that have been installed for a long time; However, in the aspect of anti armor armament, all of them hold our own opinions and do not give in to each other.

Although plan A, the plasma cutter, has a good performance in close range, it is limited by the energy consumption of individual soldiers, and its power decreases sharply with the increase of range, which is naturally unacceptable to officers and soldiers of Celestial Army; It is true that the Army of the Rising Sun uses them as its main infantry anti armor weapons, but this is mainly because its ideal combat area is the mountainous and urban areas of their island, which are suitable for close combat, and the disadvantages in range are not obvious.

The same problem exists in plan B, the laser weapon: the limitation of individual carrying leads to the serious shortage of output power, and it is only better than nothing to deal with heavy armored targets. Although it can burn the observation equipment or even melt the surface armor, it still lacks direct damage means; Even if we can refer to the scheme of "melting through armor by pooling higher energy level energy" used by Rhine Army spectral weapons, the short range and excessive energy consumption can not be accepted by the Celestial army.

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As for plan C, although the anti vehicle missile still has an important place in the various weapons with the help of a series of new technologies, and even has a feeling of being old but still strong, it is still unable to do its job well: the emergence of composite armor and explosive reaction armor once made people say that missiles are useless, but the tandem warhead and the top trajectory quickly hit back at these rumors...

However, with the passing of several decades, the emergence of active defense system and new reactive armor of the armored forces in various factions has once again led to doubts about the comvat efficiency of anti vehicle missiles.

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In a word, the three plans were criticized by the other two groups as "Plagiarist", "Old fool" and "Visionary". There was a heated discussion and a full exchange of views. After the general staff office and the general armament office finally finalized the plan, they finally came to a consensus: in this case, we had to look back on the kinetic energy projectile, which has the longest history in the anti vehicle weapon. There is such an old saying that "[placeholder]".

But, high muzzle speed is one of the necessary hard conditions if want to penetrate the armored vehicle through kinetic energy. If want to reach the muzzle speed, a suitable long barrel as the acceleration field is Necessay. However, the total weight of weapons integrated according to this idea is obviously not what infantry can carry: This is why the infantry's anti-tank guns are soon rolled over by the wheel of history, only the anti equipment sniper rifle has become a reserved weaponof a few elite troops.

fortunately, there seems to be a very suitable choice among the existing technical reserves of the Celestial: the miniaturization work based on the experimental electromagnetic weapon is proved feasible by the military industry department, and the combat quality and recoil force of its final product "ultra light" electromagnetic gun are also within the range that this type of power armor can bear; As a result, the selection of standard anti armor weapons for power armor is settled. The individual electromagnetic gun developed by Husu Union Industry and Scientific Industry 6th Base is required to penetrate 192mm homogeneous armor steel at a 30 degrees angle of of incidence at a distance of 1280m。

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A strategist participating in the discussion joked: "this is really the pendulum has swung back. One hundred years ago, we tried every means to find a way to fight against vehicles besides kinetic projectile, but now, we went back to this old way. "

Yet people's optimistic attitude towards the research and development of ultra light electromagnetic gun can not affect the objective research and development progress. It is necessary to not only ensure the penetration depth to the target, but also try every means to reduce the weight. The requirement of both side affects the development process of the electromagneticanti-armor railgun; Results when the time limit is approaching, the weapon system can only temporarily select the PBFD-5 electrothermal chemical gun which was the a technical reserve, and take it as the temporary scheme of the new power armor anti armor weapon to cope with the small-scale production, acceptance testing and preliminary equipment that will be carried out in the near future. The result of such behavior is that the penetration depth of the initial model under the same conditions can only reach more than half of the predetermined requirements, so that in some extreme cases in the early stage of the war, some soldiers equipped with the power armor will disassemble the anti vehicle missile system on the vehicles and use it to make up for the fire defects.

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As a complete set of individual combat system, the finalized power armor and its supporting equipment are vividly named "Iron Guard". In the field test and tactical training, even as an alternative, the use of the electrothermal chemical gun still provides valuable experience for the Armorcrusher Iron Guards, the unit code name of which comes from the self proclaimed infantry equipped with the "Iron Guard" combat system; As a result, when the PBFD-7 electromagnetic anti-armor railgun entered active service in the war, everyone quickly adapted to this more powerful and handy new weapon.

In addition to firepower, considering that the Armourcrusher Iron Guards are likely to suppress armored units in a hail of bullets, or they may have to hold fast to the front line against the enemy's firepower, or even face the direct impact of several tons of steel, the designers also prepared a portable anti bullet shield for the "Iron Guard" system, which can withstand most bullets and fragments. The shield made of silicon carbide and homogeneous steel can not only reinforce the existing field works, but also act as additional protection when there is no shelter. The deployed shield can also act as a support, for example, by stabilizing the trajectory to assist users to fire in the air, so as to expel the air units threatening the ground cluster, and even destroy the aircraft with weak armor. Coupled with the heavy armor module integrated with the power armor, the soldiers in the "Iron Guard" can often stand still in the dense firepower, which is also one of the fundamental guarantees for their high morale and self-confidence.

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Of course, allocating such a large amount of firepower and armor to a "pawn" can be said to be a behavior that challenges the rules of war, which leads to one of the few defects of the Armourcrusher Iron Guard - their movement speed is not enough to keep up with the mechanized forces, especially the enemy's medium and light armor cluster as the target. In order to deal with this embarrassing situation, several additional class hours of "design and maintenance of military vehicle active system" were added to the training of "Iron Guard" user qualification; After the course training, the "Armourcrusher Iron Guards" will be able to quickly destroy the power system and transmission structure of enemy armored units when necessary, thus greatly reducing their mobility.

As early as before the outbreak of the war, during the rebellion in a country in Central Africa, a rapid response team temporarily deployed in the Celestial Embassy firmly defended the security of the embassy, and sent a small team to rescue after receiving requests for help from other embassies. During the seven hours battle, a small team composed of six Blazretroopers and a Armourcrusher Iron Guard repelled five waves of attacks by more than 100 armed mobs. The Armourcrusher Iron Guard destroyed a BTR APC and another SPW (BTR product by the East German) APC  under the cover of destroyed vehicles and portable shields; After the battle, there were as many as 14 visible dents on the armor, which proved that the "Iron Guard" system had passed the test of moderate intensity combat perfectly.

During the war, Celestial mechanized infantry battle group in any terrain is the nightmare of other faction's light infantry battle group, and the light armored units responsible for following and supporting can't get any advantage facing ​the Armourcrusher Iron Guards; Unless they have great military superiority or stable air supremacy, their commanders will not consider the possibility of suppressing the other side only by light units under normal circumstances.

On the other hand, in the aspect of the Celestial, the picture of the Armourcrusher Iron Guards fighting against the enemy's vehicles in the face of the barrage of artillery and bullets has become one of the best descriptions of the loyalty and honor of the infantry; The Propaganda Department of the military often uses it as propaganda materials, which can promotes the honor of the Armourcrusher Iron Guards. After all, no matter how advanced the weapons are, war is a contest between people; "Building a new Great Wall for us with flesh and blood" is the highest praise given by the people to these soldiers.

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## Notes From the Field

Battlefield reconnaissance has revealed at least these facts about the Armourcrusher Iron Guard.

·**Strong armour and powerful gun** - Like Blaze Troopers, the Iron Guards have higher survivability and firepower than the anti armored infantry from other faction. But they are more expensive and it takes longer to complete the equipment before deployment.

·**Ancient Formation of scattered stars** - Iron gurads can deploy their portable shields, which will greatly improve its survivability and immune to the crushing of most enemy vehicles. For the operators, such protection is also a tranquilizer, so that they can have leisure to aim at the components about moving of the enemy's vehicle and slow down the target vehicle, but the damage to the whole structure of the vehicle will be reduced to a certain extent.

·**Aim at sky and ground** - After using the portable shield to make the preset block, benefit from the stable effect of helmet sight integrated with ballistic computer and shield bracket, the iron guards can attack on the incoming low altitude enemy aircraft, especially when dealing with the hostile helicopter. The bottom armor, which used to make the armed helicopters proud, is as fragile as Xuan paper when facing the special armor piercing projectile.

**Diligent and studious** - Although the electrothermal chemical gun and electromagnetic railgun checked and accepted by the Ministry of Military have high reliability, it is still indispensable for the maintenance of precision instruments. After the battle, the operators must do their best to maintain them, otherwise in the next battle, these "partners" will easily go wrong, and the one of the most frequent failures equipment is the railgun.

## Notes

This article is an unofficial translation.

## Remarks

1. ↑ Who the hell can tell me how to translate this!
2. ↑ Refenence from "the March of the Volunteer", the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China.