New Sovietskiy T-90UM1 Main Battle Tank:

The more powerful 125 mm armed Main Battle Tank of the SSSR before the coming of the Rifts; Though the initial T-90 was just a stopgap measure until the introduction of the T-95, the T-90U, a lengthened, updated version proved an excellent tank, with a considerable ammo capacity and hence fighting capacity, able for sustained combat and capable of surviving heavier hits than the T-80UM3, while at the same time having a faster road and off-road speed thanks to the new gas-turbine engine and later nuclear fusion.

It was developed from the T-90 after the Communist government was reformed in Russia and joined with the Communist government of the Ukraine (The resurgence of which, oddly enough, had been what prompted the Russia-Ukraine war of 2012, the primary catalyst for the return of Russia to Communism) that this tank was developed. By this time, Byelorussia and Kazakhstan had rejoined the SSSR voluntarily because of failing economies, and in 2016, through a series of assassinations, revolutions, and outright invasions lasting three years, the entirety of the old SSSR was reformed, during a time when the USA was preoccupied with peacekeeping in India, which had been promptly invaded by Pakistan after their military forces were devastated in the American-Indian war of 2012, and the collapse of NATO because of further unification of the European Union, and it's reformation into an organization of the same name but encompassing countries such as Canada, Iceland, Norway, and oddities such as South Africa, Brazil, and Japan, countries excluded from the Asian and South American Blocs, and the European Union.

This gave the Soviet Union virtually free reign to reform its self out of the ashes of the collapse of the 1990s, and the T-90U was designed with lessons learned from the Ukraine-Russia war, a completely improved version of the original T-90.

It also was well used during the brief border clash between China and the SSSR in 2023 during which China tried to annex Mongolia, and the SSSR stopped them. Annexing Mongolia in the process, though no formal war was declared and the fighting as limited to Mongolia it's self.

It was also a standby on the firing line during the Afghanistan intervention from 2026-2034 when, after nearly nine years of grueling warfare, the SSSR also annexed that country and put down the rebellion in it; Payback for the Afghanistani war of the 1980s.

The tank also saw service in the only true client state of the new SSSR, the People's Socialist Republic of Cuba, during this period.

The T-90UM1 was the Mega-Damage version of the T-90U, and used in many more countries, as the African nations, their populations virtually annihilated by pandemic with some two hundred million dead during the "Great Pandemic" of 2035-2042, in which over 200 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa perished from a combination of AIDS, Ebola, Q Fever, Lasso, various more common diseases, and tribal, ideological, and civil warfare; A crisis that the West could do nothing about but did spurn on considerable medical advances, slowly recovered and turned to the SSSR for military assistance in the "New Cold War".

Model Type: T-90UM1
Vehicle Type: Main Battle Tank
Crew: Three (Driver, Gunner, and Commander).

M.D.C. by Location:

	[1] Tractor Treads (2):	100 each
	Weapons Turret:	250
	125 mm smooth-bore gun:	75
	10 mm turret mounted Railgun:	50
	5 mm Co-axial Railgun:	25
	Multi-Option Jammers (2):	25
	[2] Main Body:	425

Notes:
[1] Depleting the M.D.C. of a tread will immobilize the tank until it is replaced. Replacing a tread will take 1D6x10 minutes by a trained crew (2 replacements are carried on board) or three times as long by the inexperienced. Changing the tread is only advisable when the vehicle is not under attack.
[2] If all the M.D.C. of the main body is depleted, the vehicle is completely shut down and is unsalvageable.

Speed:
Ground: 55.9 mph (90 kph) maximum road speed; 43.5 mph (70 kph) off-road.
Maximum Range: Unlimited (Nuclear Fusion power supply; 5 years.)

Statistical Data:
Height: 7.2 feet (2.225 meters) to top of commander's cupola.
Width: 12.4 feet (3.78 meters)
Length: 35.7 feet (10.875 meters) including gun barrel.
Weight: 60.4 tons (54.8 metric tons).
Power Source: Nuclear fusion reactor; Must be refueled every five years, otherwise effectively unlimited.
Cargo Capacity: Minimal, enough for equipment with crew
Black Market Cost: 3,000,000 Credits to build, usually double that today to buy one. If fitted, any extra weapon systems will add to the cost of the tank; T-90s are usually found very heavily modified, though they are quite common.
Tank crews often personalize them with their pay in the armies of the assorted warlords to be considerably different from these Soviet-Era specifications. T-90UM1s (Normally simply called "T-90s") still in the service of the New Sovietskiy, however, follow these specifications to the letter.

Weapon Systems:

1. 125 mm Smooth Bore Cannon/Missile Launcher: Mounted in the turret. The T-90UM1 enjoys a +2 to strike for the main gun using the laser targeting sight (not for the ATGMs). The T-90UM1 can also fire the AT-20 ATGW through the 125-mm gun; Truly a multi-purpose weapon that is considerably effective against enemy armor and robots alike.
   Maximum Effective Range: Direct fire range is 6,561 feet (2,000 meters). Has a quadrant site that allows the Sabot (APSD) rounds to be fired indirectly out to 30,839 feet (9,400 meters). Range for missiles varies with short range missile type; Usually AP rounds are carried (Go to Revised bomb and missile table).
   Mega-Damage: (HE): 1D6x10 with a blast radius of 20 ft. (HEAT): 2D6x10, blast radius of 10 ft. (AP): 2D8x10. (APSD): 2D4x10. (PLASMA): 2D8x10+5, blast radius of 20 ft. Mega-Damage for missiles is as per short missile type; almost always Armor Piercing (Go to Revised bomb and missile table).
   Rate of Fire: Twice per melee.
   Payload: 50 gun rounds; Usually 11 HE, 11 HEAT, 11 AP, 11 APSD, and 6 Plasma. 5 HE, 5 HEAT, 5 AP, 5 APSD, and 3 Plasma are stored in the carrousel; The next twenty eight rounds (including missiles) require two and a half minutes (Ten melee rounds) by an untrained crew to load into the carrousel, and 90 seconds (Six melee rounds) by a trained crew. The remaining four rounds for a second reloading can be done in two melee rounds for an untrained crew and one for a trained crew. An additional round can be stored, ready to fire, in the main gun. If they are available, this is usually a plasma round so that the tank can deal with a surprise attack of any type. With the exception of the New Sovietskiy, most powers in Russia have extremely limited supplies of Plasma rounds; Substitute them for one more each of the other types of rounds, and if a round is carried in the barrel, it will probably be HEAT. Ten AT-20 ATGWs; These are essentially a surface to surface version of the standard Rifts short range missile. Armor piercing versions are standard, though plasma and even fusion versions were made. Five are stored in the carrousel; The other five can be counted in the reload times for the carrousel above.
   Bonuses: +2 to strike at all times with cannon shells from the laser sight; No penalties to fire when the vehicle is moving. APSD shells have a +4 bonus for long range fire from the Quadrant sight, but only when the vehicle is not moving. No Bonuses for firing the AT-20s.
2. 10 millimeter Railgun: Mounted in a mini-turret atop the main turret, this gun has a 360 degree swiveling fire-arc and is capable of tracking aerial targets even directly overhead the T-90UM1.
   Maximum Effective Range: 4,920 feet (1,500 meters)
   Mega Damage: Single shot does 2D4 and 20 round burst does 1D6x10+10
   Rate of Fire: Equal to combined hand to hand attacks of gunner/commander.
   Payload: 1200 rounds (60 bursts).
3. 5 millimeter Light Railgun: Co-axially mounted with the main gun. Standard light railguns for use against personnel in MDC body armor.
   Maximum Effective Range: 2,000 feet (609.6 m)
   Mega Damage: One round does 1D4 M.D.C. to M.D.C. targets or 6D6x10 S.D.C. to soft targets. Twenty round bursts do 4D6 M.D.C; Forty round full bursts do 1D4x10
   Rate of Fire: Equal to combined hand to hand attacks of gunner and driver, respectively.
   Payload: Carries 4,000 rounds (100 full bursts or 200 half-bursts).
4. Multi-Option "Shtora-8A" Jammers (2): These are multi-purpose jamming devices designed to stop incoming missiles and confuse an enemy targeting the T-90UM1
   Effect: Each firing launches two Chaff rockets, two Flare rockets, and the tank begins emitting a large cloud of smoke, both standard and Anti-Laser Prismatic Aerosol; The Chaff rockets detonate and spread Chaff over the area, the flare rockets floating down by parachute; Effects last for one minute (4 Melee rounds.) The Chaff rockets have a 20% chance of interfering with the course of enemy missiles each (40%, total) that are radar guided so that they miss the tank. The flares have the same percentages, except with IR-guided missiles. The Anti-Laser prismatic aerosol causes -4d4 damage to any laser beam striking the tank (With the exception of X-ray lasers and variable frequency lasers; X-Ray lasers suffer no damage modifiers, and variable frequency lasers do not suffer the penalty after two test firings into the cloud to find the right frequency), and adds a +4 difficulty to targeting the tank with a laser guidance system or visually.
   Rate of Fire: Usually once every four melee rounds; Effects are not cumulative.
   Range: Around the tank only; Rough distance of 80 ft (24 m) around tank.
   Payload: Sufficient for twenty firings; One of each type of jamming option from each side of the vehicle.

Sensors:

• Anti-Aircraft Radar: Range of 10 miles (16 km); Capable of tracking up to 10 targets simultaneously, this radar serves to guide the 10 mm Railgun in engaging aircraft (+2 to targeting aircraft and missiles with the 10 mm Railgun), and providing early warning of incoming aircraft and missile attacks; The radar can be programmed to shut off immediately if it detects an aircraft firing a missile, incase the missile is a radar-homing HARM type. The radar is highly ineffective against ground targets (-60% to sensor rolls.)
• Quadrant sight for long-range targeting of Sabot rounds: +4 to firing the long-range Sabot rounds only, when the vehicle is not moving.
• Data-interlink transmitters: For using targeting data from scout vehicles for firing the Anti-Tank missiles or Sabot rounds. Bonus varies on the quality of the data being provided, but all data would allow the tank to fire over obstacles if the scout vehicle is in the right position. The normal effective battlefield range is 5 miles (8 km).
• Full Infrared viewing mode: Range of 2 miles (3.2 km), with IR searchlight (+3 to detecting targets with IR when in use, however, +3 to detecting the T-90UM1 with IR equipment when in use, as well.).
• Two Periscopes: Has up to x100 magnification for commander and driver to view out of while maneuvering the vehicle. Visual targeting sight with same magnification possible for gunner.
• Laser targeting system: For main gun, range of 2,000 meters.

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Initial Writeup by Marina O'Leary (LusankyaN@aol.com ).

Minor Reformatting and revisions by Kitsune (E-Mail Kitsune ).

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