The Sand Devil

The Sand devil is a Light combat platform that packs the firepower of a heavy, its made for mass production and is basically a cheaper version of the heavier tier Jaguar platform.
The drive train of the Sand devil is derived from the jaguar concept but made more compact, However the Sand devil does not utilize a battery cell  system, it instead feeds DC directly from the generator to the DC motor.
this is also it's weakness, as an engine failure directly effects the usability of the platform, There's however a small compact backup battery cell directly underneath the cupola,
that is only and can only be used as backup power cell for vital survivability electronics and APS, it's not sufficient for driving the large DC motors.

as the development of the jaguar platform ends AEROSTHAL LTD wanted to develop a cheap light mass production platform that uses the same drive train technology as the jaguar concept.
The Sand devil is not part of the Jaguar vehicle family line, but it uses most of the jaguar production parts and is largely inspired by the platform concept itself.

The sand devil futures a fully autonomous turret set of four different turret designs. the sand devil can potentially be unmanned, just like the Omorgus MBT as it utilizes the same concept.
unlike the Omorgus MBT purchased Jaguar XM models can not be retrofitted to The Sand Devil, as the platform is unique.  

Much of the armoring is designed to be light, making it an easy one shot death track, Because of this the APS suite is boosted to have more protection Modules covering the entire vehicle effectively twice, also the detection suite has more range and a higher and more accurate scanning area upping the countermeasure effectiveness of projectile detection, tracking and engagement. 

The vehicle is light armored but packs the punch of a heavy tank, the platform is shorter in platform length compared to the Jaguar, this is done to make it more maneuverable in urban terrains.
because of its light structure the platform out-preforms the Jaguar platform easily on speed, it makes up for its light armoring by packing the weapons of a heavy tank, making it a fast agile heavy light tank,
Ideally used as anti tank / tank hunter or artillery Support.

The vehicle itself is driven by a diesel-electric drive train, much the same as the ones used in the jaguar platform, the diesel engine is located at the front of the vehicle and drives an AC generator, AC is converted to DC and directly fed to the DC motors, the tank has a flat V shaped belly, the tracks are driven by two Liquide cooled brushless DC electric motors, (left and right have there own motor), it has a selectable DC electric or diesel drive option, the diesel can drive the front if needed via a selectable drive, or the DC motors can drive the tracks via a back drive. (thus the diesel engine can also drive the tracks, but not as fast and with less torque)
The Sand devil can be used as a fully autonomous tank, but it can also still be driven by a driver as there's potentially space for a one or two crew.

The Sand devil utilizes a fully autoloaded mechanism and a conveyor-drum autoloader, the conveyor-drum mechanism is located at the back of the turret in a armored compartment with blow off hatches, this part features two rolling conveyor drums and is used for storing specialized ammunition that tends to be more dangerous, unlike the Omorgus MBT it has no carousel part however for the M2 body variants a large ammunition feed system is located underneath the turret, this means the M2 variant can store lots of ammunition for the smaller caliber turrets.

On the roof the sand devil M1 has an 14.5 mm automatic HMG, two APS modules, a gunner auxiliary periscope, two gunner multi-spectral Fully panoramic stabilized sights, (wich is unique) The sights can individually track targets 
and this is revered to as a "Chameleon eye system". under neath the  140mm mantlet a Target trajectory measurement system is located with an FLIR camera feedback system giving a unique readout to the gunner about the trajectory of the artillery system, this feature enables the gunner to be more accurate at artillery range finding, ideal used for hill (top down) fire Support. (by targeting with an artillery trajectory one can engage a vehicular target via a top down attack, hitting your opponent at it's weakest spot "the roof" copeled with the Three shot burst one can effectively strike a target with a precise triple hit, leaving no engagement time for top APS measures,
after every three shot burst the main cannon has to be lowered down to refill the revolving drum. 
the combat platform (without turret) always has 4 APS modules, each APS module has 9 Intercepting miniature launched self aiming grenade missiles that can destroy an incoming target at a maximum theoretical range of +20 meters of effective detectable range from the vehicle, the miniature grenade missiles are air-burst tungsten Schrapnell based and aim for the tail-end of a incoming ATGM missile, (neglecting anti APS armored warheads),
the M1 has 6 modules wich means it can track six targets individually, every module has an assigned flank so the vehicle is always fully covered. each separate module can track up to 10 targets max, and engage 4 targets in a row.
the APS modules can be replaced for a different turntable APS system if needed, the platform itself always has one spare system in storage and 24 APS missiles stored for refill.

The main gun of the Sand devil is a liquide-cooled, 140mm, it's cooled for achieving a higher rate of fire of 188/200 rpm with conventional shells, but this can only be done in bursts of three shots as it has a special revolver loader.
the suspension used on this tank is a torsion bar suspension (so nothing fancy here).

the Sand devil can be produced in three different combat variants, Every variant has a different combat layout, the lower the layout the cheaper to mass produce, the cheapest combat suite for the M1 has to be operated by two crew minimum, Additionally there's space for two crew at the front (left and right) the advancements of the combat suites are categorized in levels, meaning level  1, 2 and 3. (1 is cheap, 2 is Medium 3, is High end.)
The medium level suite (level 2) and high-end combat suite (level 3) for the Sand Devil are made so one crew can operate the entire vehicle or parts of it, there's only a right seat for the driver-operator and the needed extra on-board computer systems are placed at the left side. This combat suite is designed so it can be man operated by one crew. The turret for instance can also be manually controlled by an operator at the base (much like a drone) but the driver can still drive the vehicle manually, and vise versa the vehicle can be controlled by an operator at the base, and the turret controlled by a gunner in the vehicle.
The high-end combat suite (level 3)  has the extra benefit of the platform to be fully used as drone, and has more advanced sensor equipment, it replaces the right seat with extra power-banks and ammunition storage,
this suite however can not be operated manually, but is easier to down-grade to a medium suite and still benefit from the more advanced sensor equipment of the level 3, this slight alteration is to be categorized as a (level 2,5).

There are some unofficial levels, those are level 0, 2,5 and level 4, those are or the bare bone vehicle (level 0) or a slightly variant in between said levels (2,5) and level 4 is basically a complete retrofit of all systems by more advanced armament systems, (hover tank, rail-gun, laser so basically a future retrofit.)

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Maybe I'll add more info later, Construction wise I will also make this design in 3D hopefully, like I did with the other tanks, (I know some parts are a bid far fetched,)
though with this design I was aiming for an light VTOL delivery tank, that featured an somewhat interesting heavy load out to combatant heavier tier tanks