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{{Infobox weapon | {{Infobox weapon | ||
| name = Timberwolf (''Madiodha'') Series | | name = Timberwolf (''Madiodha'') Series | ||
| image = Leclerc- | | image = Leclerc-openphotonet PICT6015.JPG | ||
| image_size = 300 | | image_size = 300 | ||
| caption = | | caption = Type 2016 performing maneuver drills. | ||
| type = Main battle tank | | type = Main battle tank | ||
| is_vehicle = yes | | is_vehicle = yes | ||
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| production_date = 2001-present | | production_date = 2001-present | ||
| variants = *Type 2001 | | variants = *Type 2001 | ||
**01-C | |||
*Type 2016 | *Type 2016 | ||
**16-E | |||
**16-C | |||
*Type 2024 | *Type 2024 | ||
**24-EX | |||
| crew = 3 (Commander, gunner, driver) | | crew = 3 (Commander, gunner, driver) | ||
| weight = 56.2 tons | | weight = 56.2 tons | ||
| armour = Layered titanium and ceramic | | armour = * Layered titanium and ceramic | ||
| primary_armament = | *Reactive armor blocks on front, bottom, turret (2016) | ||
| secondary_armament = *Pintle-mounted | *Reactive armor on front, bottom, turrets, track guards (2024) | ||
*Coaxial | *2x turret-mounted APS blocks (optional) | ||
*Munition-jamming EW system (optional, requires 2016/2024 computer suite) | |||
| primary_armament = 4.75" Rifled Cannon (38 rounds, one chambered, 30 HVAP rounds in auto-loader, 7 HE rounds in hull storage) | |||
| secondary_armament = *Pintle-mounted GU-1949/2012 .4" Machine Gun (3,400 rounds, tracers optional) | |||
*Coaxial grenade launcher (Smoke/fragmentation/phosphorus cannisters) | |||
| engine = | | engine = | ||
| engine_power = 1600 HP | | engine_power = 1600 HP | ||
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The Timberwolf is generally regarded as a high-crew survivability platform, with excellent speed and fuel economy, as well as relative ease-of-maintenance for a modern main battle tank. It additionally allows for a number of upgrades to improve its combat performance, defense characteristics, and further crew survivability. | The Timberwolf is generally regarded as a high-crew survivability platform, with excellent speed and fuel economy, as well as relative ease-of-maintenance for a modern main battle tank. It additionally allows for a number of upgrades to improve its combat performance, defense characteristics, and further crew survivability. | ||
=Design= | =Design = | ||
The vehicle features a similar configuration and the same caliber cannon as its predecessor, the [[Mactliat tank|''Mactliat'' tank]] (Gray Wolf) Model MBT, with numerous enhancements top reflect advancing technologies, including an auto-loader, electronic soft-kill countermeasures, a more modern machine gun, slots for additional ceramic or reactive armor blocks, improved suspension and stabilization, and more comfortable ergonomics. Later variants also include active protection systems and numerous other quality-of-life changes to the electronics suite, ammunition storage and blowout panel arrangement, a coaxial cannister launcher for antipersonnel fragmentation rounds, marker smoke, cover smoke, and mode advanced sighting systems. Designers opted to forego a fourth crew spot in the Timberwold, instead layering internal sheeting to minimize shrapnel spread within the vehicle and adding a proper evacuation port on the bottom of the hull, along with the inclusion of an air conditioning system. In addition, the turret was slightly widened from the comparatively cramped and narrow one present on the ''Mact-liat'', resolving serious issues with the gunner's mobility and the speed of disembarkment which had been noted in wargames. The use of titanium composite armor was contentious, as it dramatically affected the pricing per unit, but the advantage of greater mobility over steel and the considerable additional protection against light anti-tank weaponry and second-rate munitions eventually convinced military planners to accept the change, dependent on the inclusion of an additional layer of hull armor along key areas of the vehicle. | The vehicle features a similar configuration and the same caliber cannon as its predecessor, the [[Mactliat tank|''Mactliat'' tank]] (Gray Wolf) Model MBT, with numerous enhancements top reflect advancing technologies, including an auto-loader, electronic soft-kill countermeasures, a more modern machine gun, slots for additional ceramic or reactive armor blocks, improved suspension and stabilization, and more comfortable ergonomics. Later variants also include active protection systems and numerous other quality-of-life changes to the electronics suite, ammunition storage and blowout panel arrangement, a coaxial cannister launcher for antipersonnel fragmentation rounds, marker smoke, cover smoke, and mode advanced sighting systems. Designers opted to forego a fourth crew spot in the Timberwold, instead layering internal sheeting to minimize shrapnel spread within the vehicle and adding a proper evacuation port on the bottom of the hull, along with the inclusion of an air conditioning system. In addition, the turret was slightly widened from the comparatively cramped and narrow one present on the ''Mact-liat'', resolving serious issues with the gunner's mobility and the speed of disembarkment which had been noted in wargames. The use of titanium composite armor was contentious, as it dramatically affected the pricing per unit, but the advantage of greater mobility over steel and the considerable additional protection against light anti-tank weaponry and second-rate munitions eventually convinced military planners to accept the change, dependent on the inclusion of an additional layer of hull armor along key areas of the vehicle. | ||
The cannon, at a 4.75" caliber, is slightly larger than the typical 120mm cannon found in standard battle tanks, with the weapon on the Type 2001 being rifled and designed for traditional finless rounds. Types 2016 and 2024 use a smoothbore, which is incapable of firing older rounds but much more suitable for modern fin-stabilized rounds. This makes the Type 2001 more functional as low-bar-of-entry models for trainer units and as a solid choice for countries with less robust native armaments industries to supply, while Types 2016 and 2024 are the premier models used by Faneria itself and its first-rate buyers. Functionally, the ''Madiodha'' has proven itself an equal for most modern armor outside the Caphirian and Urcean armies and faster than those that do outmatch it. | The cannon, at a 4.75" caliber, is slightly larger than the typical 120mm cannon found in standard battle tanks, with the weapon on the Type 2001 being rifled and designed for traditional finless rounds. Types 2016 and 2024 use a smoothbore, which is incapable of firing older rounds but much more suitable for modern fin-stabilized rounds. This makes the Type 2001 more functional as low-bar-of-entry models for trainer units and as a solid choice for countries with less robust native armaments industries to supply, while Types 2016 and 2024 are the premier models used by Faneria itself and its first-rate buyers. Functionally, the ''Madiodha'' has proven itself an equal for most modern armor outside the Caphirian and Urcean armies and faster than those that do outmatch it. | ||
== Variants == | ==Variants== | ||
[[File:Leclerc-IMG 1744.jpg|left|thumb|400x400px|Original Type 2001 with prototype paint scheme.]] | |||
There have been several upgrade packages since the Timberwolf's introduction to keep its technological edge in light of modern wartime experiences. After additional development, the Type 2016 variant of the ''Madiodha'' was introduced, adding a smoke cannister, flare, and grenade-launching system to the turret for medium-range deployment of markers, concealment, and additional antipersonnel weaponry based on the loadout fitted by the crew. Several design edits to the hull, including internal compartmentalization and blowout sections, were made, and the Type 2016 was launched into full production to replace the shorter run of Type 2001s. | |||
The design of the Type 2016 variation was the subject of heated debate, as it originally featured a license of an advanced Caphirian active protection system, which violates the traditional ban on foreign electronics in Fhainnin weapons systems. The Type 2016s APS also suffered from programming issues when interfaced with the Madiodha, leading to many crews removing it to prevent misfires, leaving the Type 2016 mainly distinguished by its reactive armor blocks. | The design of the Type 2016 variation was the subject of heated debate, as it originally featured a license of an advanced Caphirian active protection system, which violates the traditional ban on foreign electronics in Fhainnin weapons systems. The Type 2016s APS also suffered from programming issues when interfaced with the Madiodha, leading to many crews removing it to prevent misfires, leaving the Type 2016 mainly distinguished by its reactive armor blocks. | ||
The Type 2024 introduced an entirely native-manufacture APS as well as an updated version of the passive electronic countermeasures and the rearrangement of reactive plating. | |||
==Suppliers== | The Type 2024 introduced an entirely native-manufacture APS as well as an updated version of the passive electronic countermeasures and the rearrangement of reactive plating. Additionally, its grenade system was replaced a larger purpose-built variant for firing flares, mine detonation cord, and launching some launch-deployed variants of light drone and loitering munitions; the antipersonnel function of the launcher was replaced with a pintle-mounted machine gun. Both the 2016 and 2024 received command variants, while the 2016 additionally has an engineering variant with bridging and dedicated mine-clearing packages. The 2024 additionally has an advance heavy recovery variant in development. | ||
==Suppliers == | |||
The parts for the Madiodha are manufactured entirely within Faneria, with the major companies involved being: | The parts for the Madiodha are manufactured entirely within Faneria, with the major companies involved being: | ||
*[[Madrat Motor Design]]: Produces the engine and ventilation system. | *[[Madrat Motor Design]]: Produces the engine and ventilation system. | ||
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Generally speaking, the tank is designed with easy winterization and rougher terrain in mind, making maintenance in regular conditions aside from the computer systems easy to manage next to many competing tanks. Maneuver training or numbers are important for operations against heavy armored units, but quiet deployments to conflicts abroad have proven the platform's effectiveness against most systems produced outside of the major powers. The ''Madiodha'' is not a razor-edge tank in terms of its secondary armament and defense systems, but functions competently with consistency and handles well even with inexperienced crews, making it a solid platform for retrofits and a basis for future designs. | Generally speaking, the tank is designed with easy winterization and rougher terrain in mind, making maintenance in regular conditions aside from the computer systems easy to manage next to many competing tanks. Maneuver training or numbers are important for operations against heavy armored units, but quiet deployments to conflicts abroad have proven the platform's effectiveness against most systems produced outside of the major powers. The ''Madiodha'' is not a razor-edge tank in terms of its secondary armament and defense systems, but functions competently with consistency and handles well even with inexperienced crews, making it a solid platform for retrofits and a basis for future designs. | ||
=Foreign Purchases/Licensing and Use= | =Foreign Purchases/Licensing and Use= | ||
[[File:Leclerc-openphotonet PICT5995.JPG|thumb|300x300px|A Type 2016 on deployment in Varshan [[Final War of the Deluge|post-invasion]] during conflict with warlord forces.]] | |||
In 2018, a total of 34 Type 2001s were sold to Hendalarsk at a heavy discount of 3 million Taler/unit, for a total of 102 million Talers. An additional four Type 2001s were gifted to [[Ashkenang]] in 2020, along with two Type 2016s in 2022. In 2024, one of the Hendalarskan units was briefly returned to Faneria for intensive maintenance following a failed truck-loading. | In 2018, a total of 34 Type 2001s were sold to Hendalarsk at a heavy discount of 3 million Taler/unit, for a total of 102 million Talers. An additional four Type 2001s were gifted to [[Ashkenang]] in 2020, along with two Type 2016s in 2022. In 2024, one of the Hendalarskan units was briefly returned to Faneria for intensive maintenance following a failed truck-loading. | ||