While the main research departments are devoted to the improvement of the mech divisions of the new OMNI Forces, the Ministry of Defense announced during a press conference a new main battle tank, the MBT-38 "Chants in Do Minor". Gregory Yuvich, the representative of the Ministry that talked during the conference, said that the new tank would become the second main tanks of the Antanaresian Forces. The design of the tank demonstrates how the engineers of R&D have understand the evolution of the battlefields in the world. The MBT-38 includes several differences from the normal main battle tanks. First of all, the crew of the tank has a visual of 360° degrees around the turret, thanks to a system composed by cameras and laser/thermal revelation system. Second, the tank has a less powerful main cannon, if compared with other vehicles of the same class, but faster. A special recharge system allow the cannon to load three shots at the same time and fire, in less than two seconds, all the three shots. Near the main cannon, the Chants can count on two secondary side cannons caliber 55mm. The two cannons, independent from the heaviest cannon, can be used for AA defense and to eliminate infantry or smaller vehicles. With light missiles that, at the end, complete the weapon systems, the tank has a powerful armament.
The MBT-38 can count on a new improved defense system. The armor was improved with a second layer of titanium, mixed with a composite alloy that will improve the resistance of the hull. The crew, like in the new mech of the OMNI, is located into a sort of cabin, a structure inside the body of the tank, with a secondary armor, a secondary little generator and a back-up system. The cabin, according to the words of the engineers, would help the crew to be protected in case of heavy damages. The main armor of the tank is composed from a reactive shields of micro-missiles and expansive charge that can protect the MBT-38 from most of the normal attacks. Secondary armaments and a fast, powerful, motors can easily compares the speed and the range of activities of this new battle tank to a normal mech. All the defensive and the offensive systems are coordinate with the ODYSSEY System, a new computer system, not much different from the COBAS System installed in the ships of Antanares. ODYSSEY is a fast calculator that links all the activities of the tank and allow the commander to have all the information handy. The ODYSSEY also links the tanks between themselves, allowing a little division to operate strictly and coordinated.
Appear really strange that, after a series of improvement and modifications to the mech department, to help the rise of these new vehicles in the battlefield, the Ministry of Defense decided to return on the development of new, more powerful and efficient, tanks. For some analysts, the Federal Government and the OMNI would simply expand their strategies and possibilities with the expansion of their vehicles park. The MBT-38, anyway, could be easily considered a sort one of the most powerful and efficient tanks actually in the world.
According to the projection of the Ministry, in the next six months the OMNI would receive the first five hundreds vehicles, with complete support pack for the adaption to every field.