Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Hanuman AFV

"Guns cooled and ready for battle!"

-Hanuman AFV

The Hanuman AFV is a medium anti-infantry combat vehicle operated by the Regal Sultanate of Elona that is based on the BTR platform. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*

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The Elonans much admires the Voshkod Army eversince being their allies. The reliable hardware, masses of men and materiel, and unrelenting firepower all are things that the Elonans seeks for its own military. When the BMP-3 Mauler was unveiled, India soon decided it had to have one of its own. Dragging up a concept for a new APC meant to replace the aging BTRs, Elonan brass began a long process of constantly changing demands. What had started as a supersized BTR was mashed together with machine gun boat concepts and Ascalian multi-turreted tanks until the end result was a two-headed monstrosity couldn't actually transport anything due to the need to fit so many bullets and secondary systems. Though they do later have APCs and IFVs via from Haqqislam just before Desert Rage.

Now armed with no less than six machine guns of various calibers, the Hanuman was quickly rushed to service not as part of the counter-offensive against Guardian as was expected, but in the defense of Askaira against the Guardians in Operation Desert Rage. First the Hanumans were rushed to southern Encantadia to shore up the Canthans, but the Aquilans cut down the teething machines whose incredibly confined quarters thanks to its small turrets made for abysmal ergonomics. Then it was driven back from (Thailand) and (Malaysia), then (Myanmar), then (Bangladesh), then deep into their home 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 Aquilan infantry and cut through light armor with a storm of bullets. By the time the war ended, the Hanuman became an integral part of the Harkonnen forces, especially thanks to the decision to implement barricade emplacers to quickly provide some cover for India's vast numbers of infantry.

Now seeing service in the war-torn areas of Askaira, 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.