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The Type-41W Anvil is an ASU infantry support walker. It was developed and fielded late in the Third War in order to provide a highly mobile platform which could maneuver with troops through highly irregular terrain and offer fire support and reconnaissance, participating in the ASU invasion of the United States.

Overview

Powered by a GEO-880 turboshaft engine primarily fueled by diesel, it is known for its traditional rugged Soviet quality, combining proven armored vehicle concepts with new technology. It performs well in extreme cold and heat, is fast enough to be tactically fielded, and with advances in walker technology, able to function on a mere crew of 2. Though the interior is compact and somewhat cramped, it is functional and relatively well protected. It carries a balanced armament of 3-4 machine guns, a grenade launcher, and a light anti-armor canon - as well as defensive smoke screens and anti-missile laser defense system.

Battlefield Role

The Anvil fills a niche pioneered by emerging armored military walker tech produced during the Third War, that of an Infantry Support Walker. It is able to provide close-fire support and recon duties, usually to platoon sized elements. Colloquially, combat walker crews became known as Dragoons and were organized into Lances and Pairs.

Most often the Anvil is fielded in pairs to support a single platoon of infantry, following the wingman concept. The lead walker stays relatively close to the infantry, letting them stray 50-100 meters or so as necessary, and the wingman walker hangs back with the Platoon leader and his squad. This pair can provide fire support in a similar vein to close-air-support provided by helicopters, while keeping in very close contact to friendly infantry. It is also able to scout ahead from its elevated position, lay ambush by contracting legs into a "Crouch" position and turning off the engine, and facilitate heavy weapons deployment for the infantry, carrying various weapons that would normally require a team of soldiers to field. Examples of such are heavy anti-tank missiles like the SPG-9, mortars, HMGs, and grenade launchers.

The other main way Anvils are deployed is in larger groups of 4-8 referred to as Lances. A lance will often be a self-contained unit of only the walkers, not specifically accompanying any other forces. It is usually used to perform a quick, methodical sweep across an area, making use of greater numbers of walkers and their superior armor, firepower, and mobility compared to infantry. While they are more vulnerable to anti-armor attack without the infantry, the visibility advantage helps offset this as any one walker in a lance could alert all others to evade quickly. Additionally, where it is plausible to ambush one or two walkers at once, taking out four or more at a time is extremely dangerous. It would require skilled shooters with at least as many anti-armor weapons as there were target walkers, and a high level of coordination. If all the walkers are not disabled at once, the rest can very quickly face the threat and provide a hail of gunfire. This deterrence factor helps keep walker lances safe from many infantry ambushes.

Aside from this, the Anvil's top gun, while small for an armored vehicle's main gun, is highly precise and sports excellent armor penetration performance. In the hands of a skilled gunner, the gun can be trained on vulnerable areas of enemy armor, hitting munitions, engines, fuel, etc. Being equipped with an autoloader able to switch ammunition on the fly between two different stocks (usually armor-piercing and high-explosive), the canon has a good rate of fire and is adaptable to the situation. If more decisive anti-armor solutions are required, it is easily possible to mount anti-tank guided missile weaponry on the turret or sponsons.

Technical and other notes

The engine operates at around 1200 hp on diesel, and can be switched to a lower-output "quiet" mode that reduces the noise signature by about half, allowing slower walking pace movement of legs and full operation of the top turret. Aside from providing power to the legs and the turret PTO, the engine keeps a set of batteries charged that provide electricity to the on board systems and can in emergencies be used to give power to turret rotation.

Main armament consists of the two sponson-pod mounted NG-12 Sextant 12.7mm machineguns and the KB-105 Cannon which fires 57mm kinetic energy penetrators as well as high explosive rounds, which can optionally be set for airburst detonation. Additionally the Anvil may mount various weaponry on its turret and on the sides of the body that house the sponson-pods. The mini-turret below the chin normally houses an 8 gauge defensive shotgun, but this has in some cases been replaced by field modification with a sawn off KCA M1000 VHMG. Such modification is nonstandard and not officially approved due to the extreme shortening of the barrel causing problems for the weapon. Nevertheless, it was a somewhat popular modification among crews as it provided a highly effective defensive option to Anvils dangerously close to enemy infantry that might try to use sticky bombs on the legs. Despite being extremely inaccurate both due to the short barrel and the gun mount not being built for that sort of recoil (and thus tending to rattle), it was devastatingly powerful against infantry and lightly armored vehicles alike, and was able to penetrate with some effectiveness concrete, bricks, and other thick building materials. The 8 gauge shotgun already had an interrupter to prevent it firing on the walker's own legs, so this was not an issue when using the M1000 which could have easily wrecked the legs with its large round.

Initially the Anvil was designed for a crew of 3, but advances in technology eased some of the stress on the crew that required the third operator for combat effectiveness, thus standard crews consisted of two, a commander and gunner. The foremost position in the main body no longer being required, it was stripped down and up-armored to provide an incredibly strong frontal armor profile for the Anvil. On new Anvils produced, bulletproof glass originally intended for the front seat of the cockpit was used to double-layer the commander's position, further increasing protection. Cheap clear-plastic panels were still placed over the front where the old glass was, though, in an attempt to disguise this change.