Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Hanuman IFV

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The Hanuman IFV is an heavy Anti-Infantry vehicle of the Regal Sultanate of Elona. Planned to be voiced by.

Tactical analysis

 * Bullets swift as the wind: Armed with two 15mm very heavy machine guns, two coaxial 5.56mm light machine guns, two hull mounted 7.62mm medium machine guns, and two pintle-mounted DShK 12.7mm heavy machine guns, the Hanuman offers punch that devastates infantry and can threaten to chew up light vehicles and battlesuits in kind. The storm of lead vomited out by a Hanuman is also very suppressive, bringing whole formations of infantry screeching to a halt.
 * Protective winds: Despite not carrying anyone despite the title of IFV, the Hanuman still can provide some extra support to the men by diverting power from its ammo feeds to rapid cover deployers that spray instacrete to the sides; rapidly hardening into light cover.
 * One with the wind: The DShK HMGs also double as anti-air weaponry and give it a modicum of air defense.
 * Fragile as the wind: The Hanuman is to put it lightly, doomed against tanks and only marginally effective against heavy structures. It at best can hope for rear shots, and when faced with heavier vehicles, hasn't a shot in hell. Its armor also is, like most IFVs, not up to par with a tank, and it is helpless against multiple aircraft.

History
"I can barely breathe in this thing..."

"Better than being on foot, at least."

"Who farted!?"

-Typical conversation between Hanuman crewmembers.

The Sultanate much admires the Voshkods despite some statements against its government. The reliable hardware, masses of men and materiel, and unrelenting firepower all are things that the Sultanate seeks for its own military. When Encantadia's Pincer ICV and Voshkod's BMP-3 Mauler was unveiled, Elona soon decided it had to have one of its own. Dragging up a concept for a new IFV meant to replace the BMP-1s after Desert Rage, Elonan brass began a long process of constantly changing demands. What had started as a supersized Jackson was mashed together with machinegun boat concepts and Gallian multi-turreted tanks until the end result was a two-headed monstrosity that couldn't actually transport anything due to the need to fit so many bullets and secondary systems.

Now armed with no less than eight machine guns of various calibers, the Hanuman was quickly rushed to service not as part of the counter-offensive against Clique forces as was expected, but in the defense of Hyboria against the Clique tide as the nation that once saved half of (Korea) from falling to (Stalin) revealed itself as both a world power and a would-be world conqueror. First, the Hanumans were rushed to southern Indochina to shore up the Encantadians, but the Imperials cut down the teething machines whose incredibly confined quarters thanks to their small turrets made for abysmal ergonomics. Then it was driven back from Dragon and Lotus Clans, then Encantadia, then Sumeru, then deep into Elona itself before the larger turreted Hanuman mark II could come out.

While the new Mark II was still an uncomfortable, cramped space, the crew at the very least were merely half-blind rather than three-quarters blind. Finally, a line in the sand was drawn and the new Hanuman earned far more respect as it held down Imperial infantry and cut through light vehicles with a storm of bullets. By the time the war ended, the Hanuman became an integral part of the Sultanate, especially thanks to the decision to implement barricade emplacers to quickly provide some cover for Elona's vast numbers of infantry.

Now seeing service in the war-torn areas of Askaira since Desert Rage, the Hanuman can be quickly identified by the chatter of its machine guns and the sound of hardening goop. As much as the crew members hate to operate it, the infantry loves to have it by their side, all while being secretly thankful that they never tried finding some way to squeeze any infantry in there, in that dark, confined space where going through a mission without at the very least a bruise is a miracle.