The A21 Jeep
Vehicles by Old Crow, Figures by GZG. Painted by John Treadaway. Terrain scratch built.

 

The A21 "Jeep"

The Fabrique National A21 1100k Load Platform and Weapons Carrier - more usually called a "Jeep" (for obvious reasons) - is in ubiquitous usage amongst better equipped mercenary units and other military and civilian areas.

The Jeep has no independent "power source" of it's own, utilising power stored in ion batteries to drive it's fans into a steel plenum chamber. The batteries can be charged from any power source - though this can be a lengthy business taking as much as 36 hours from low voltage, domestic supplies. In use with the Slammers regiment, these vehicles are usually recharged when at rest from the fusion bottles of Blower tanks or Combat Cars in less than three hours. One tank has outlets for four jeeps (or eight infantry skimmers – see Skimmers). One Combat Car has outlets for two jeeps or four skimmers.

The variety of weapon systems mounted in this vehicle is vast, but can include any of the following:

Auto grenade launchers; buzz bomb racks; 10cm mortars; twin 'K' mount 2cm powerguns and tri-barrels powerguns mounted in various locations (pintel, side, front etc).

Other companies fit weapons as large as 3cm twin Power guns to jeeps although this system is mounted on a lengthened chassis version of this vehicle. The A21 Jeep is occasionally used to tow larger weapons and whfeled trailers.

The Slammers also regularly use the Jeep with a fitment of an electronic suite for specialist functions: location detection, reconnaissance etc.

The A21F uses a semi-rigid ‘fabric’ skirt made from a Flexible Polymer instead of the steel plenum chamber of the A21. This increases speed and reduces driver training times (especially for those who already have civilian ACV experience) as the expense of durability and combat resilience.

Other Vehicles

A12 Lightweight Jeep – UL Vehicles Corp, Telaria
The A12 is a small vehicle with a crew of two: driver and passenger. It is designed around a central cabin area with a folding tubular chassis and plenum chamber. The vehicle’s ‘skin’ is formed from rigid polymer ‘clip on’ panels with additional semi-rigid ‘fabric’ panels and a skirt made of similar material. The A12 has a folding windscreen and three light weight, carbon fibre and titanium fans. The crew compartment is lined with mono-filament re-enforced ballistic cloth panels

Almost everything is sacrificed on the A12 for weight – without its storage batteries the A12 masses only as much as an infantry skimmer – but, in consequence, the vehicle has little protection against anything except slug throwing small arms.