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For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with stuff I had laying around.

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Logistics is the backbone of any modern (para)military organization and without a strong backbone that organization is doomed to collapse. Since much of that effort is simply moving one needed thing from one point to another, the OSA commissioned their design team to scratch-build an automated logistics carrier to do just that. The 'Coonhound' is, in its default configuration, a heavy-duty hover truck scaled to move a single standard shipping container from here to there in (nearly) all environments and under (nearly) all conditions.

As mentioned, they are fully automated and can move their cargo from 'A' to 'B' with minimal intervention - point and click, collect cargo here, deposit it there - though there is both an emergency physical access and a remote control system. They are technically armed, with a pair of small IR laser emitters useful for little more than harassing standard infantry, but most have been field-upgraded with a cluster of multi-spectrum smoke grenade launchers so they can provide their own cover and attempt escape. Since they are mostly solid-state, they are very dependable but conversely difficult to repair in the field.

Given the general usefulness of the design and utility trucks in general, the OSA's industrial wing has opened several manufacturing lines devoted to production both for use and for export. While the hover version is quantifiable better all around, there is enough demand that one line is producing a wheeled version with a conversion generator that can burn pretty much anything that will burn. While slower, this variant is also cheaper and easily within the budget of individual civilian purchasers.

Of course the first thing someone did when they got their hands on one was turn it into a technical. Thanks to the heavy-duty frame and engine, it is more than up to the task and some truly monstrous creations have been spotted here and there.

Description
For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with stuff I had laying around.

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Logistics is the backbone of any modern (para)military organization and without a strong backbone that organization is doomed to collapse. Since much of that effort is simply moving one needed thing from one point to another, the OSA commissioned their design team to scratch-build an automated logistics carrier to do just that. The 'Coonhound' is, in its default configuration, a heavy-duty hover truck scaled to move a single standard shipping container from here to there in (nearly) all environments and under (nearly) all conditions.

As mentioned, they are fully automated and can move their cargo from 'A' to 'B' with minimal intervention - point and click, collect cargo here, deposit it there - though there is both an emergency physical access and a remote control system. They are technically armed, with a pair of small IR laser emitters useful for little more than harassing standard infantry, but most have been field-upgraded with a cluster of multi-spectrum smoke grenade launchers so they can provide their own cover and attempt escape. Since they are mostly solid-state, they are very dependable but conversely difficult to repair in the field.

Given the general usefulness of the design and utility trucks in general, the OSA's industrial wing has opened several manufacturing lines devoted to production both for use and for export. While the hover version is quantifiable better all around, there is enough demand that one line is producing a wheeled version with a conversion generator that can burn pretty much anything that will burn. While slower, this variant is also cheaper and easily within the budget of individual civilian purchasers.

Of course the first thing someone did when they got their hands on one was turn it into a technical. Thanks to the heavy-duty frame and engine, it is more than up to the task and some truly monstrous creations have been spotted here and there.