Mobile Infantry Assault Battle Armor

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Mobile Infantry Assault Armor

Mobile Infantry Assault Battle Armor (MIABA, or "Assault Armor" for short) is the new standard powered armor for front-line infantry in both the Federated Segments of Scolopendra and the Triumvirate of Yut Combined Services, replacing Mobile Infantry Standard Armor in that role. MIABA is heavier, faster, better armed, and better armored than its predecessor at the expense of being much bulkier and thus of less utility in close-quarters situations.

Systems

Structure, Propulsion, and Powerplant

Built around a Powersuit Mark VII built by TME Industries, MIABA is based off of the Horde Suits used by the Sakkrans. It stands between 2.3 and 2.5 meters tall thanks to its tiptoe "Hoppy Leg" construction, which allow it to bound over thirty kilometers an hour with training when combined with the Zero-One MonoCorporation MM/2910R military-grade myomer musculature used by the suit. Two back-mounted TME Industries Supahfly 75 superheated-air jump jets with thrust vectoring allow it to jump thirty meters a second and give it limited flight capability. It uses an XML fusion powerplant for primary power and backs it up with TME Mark VII-HD Block 3 high-density crystal-lattice batteries. This gives it sufficient power to operate for one week at full combat effectiveness or a month using walking-motive power only, and it has enough life-support consumables for three days.

Signals and Gravionics

MIABA comes equipped with a TME Roughneck-II 4800 secure broadband/QE communications suite and a TME GroPo-II VII smartlink III targeting system, both capable of interfacing with local tacnets so troopers can benefit from others' information. Physical disconnects for these systems are available in case the network is compromised beyond recovery. The Roughneck-II 4800 allows for secure communications up and down the network and to ships in orbit, while the GroPo-II VII has a feature that allows for automated fine-targeting through suit control, allowing for light anti-air duties or superior sniping capability.

While not technically a signals or ground/avionics (gravionics) system, MIABA is also equipped with active stealthing measures in the form of TME Kamo-Lion active thermoptic camouflage. While of course nowhere near perfect, it is usually sufficient to prevent opponents from detecting grounded MIABA before it can enter its optimal engagement range.

Weapon Hardpoints

Standardized weapons hardpoints on MIABA consist of a support weapon hardpoint on the right shoulder and dual squad weapon fold-out hardpoints on each arm. There are also external attachment points for utility webbing and pouches for grenades, satchel charges, melee weapons, and the like.

Performance

It has already been mentioned above that MIABA can run over thirty kilometers an hour, jump or fly up to 108 kilometers an hour, and do this with a one-week endurance between refuelings (three days in hostile environments due to life support consumption). It can lift up to one and a quarter metric tons in standard gravity for near-indefinite periods of time and larger weights for short bursts.

Weapons Loadout

Standard weapons kit for a trooper in MIABA consists of a PCM4A3 rapid-fire particle cannon rifle and a PFTM2 flow-through plasma flamethrower carbine per flip-out arm hardpoint, a MLM15A2 12.5 kilogram man-portable missile launcher with ten missiles (in a multipurpose, HE thermobaric, and AP mix), a 90mm Sakkran Chunk Projector Mk II with nine rounds and an underslung EM3A5 multimode eraser rifle, two VSM1A4 variable swords and up to 20 standard heavy grenades (mix of fragmentation, armor piercing, incendiary, and smoke).

The PCM4A3 and PFTM2s can be interchanged with various powergun, slugthrower, or pulse eraser squad weapons while the missile launcher can be fitted with atomic missile capability or be completely replaced by other support weapons, the most popular being support particle cannon.