Dr. Spontaneous
CSS-C-15 Seacock/MCDM-1 Thuan Thien
While the Union of Songun Republics lacks the technological sophistication of many Western forces in NATO and beyond, it nevertheless possesses a great deal of innovation insofar as being able to modernize, enhance, or clone legacy systems. The monstrosity depicted above is certainly indicative of that fact. Indeed, the MCDM-1 (Modernized Coastal Defense Missile-1; frequently referred to as the Thuan Thien by reverential Vietnamese figures) is the result of a grotesque marriage between the chassis of a Soviet-designed 2S7 and a joint Sino-Vietnamese imitation of the American Mk. 11 Guided Missile Launching System configured predominantly for the RGM-84 Harpoon. The result is a hulking, beach-crawling snail equipped with two anti-ship missiles with mostly unknown characteristics and an assorted array of electro-optical and maritime tracking radars to help deliver the streaking missiles to their targets.
Regardless of the exact capabilities of the missiles, the US and its partners have naturally assumed they are meant to skim the sea and strike the waterlines of valuable vessels operating in the green waters of the South China Sea. Thus, NATO has appropriately designated the system as the CSS-C-15 Seacock. Additionally, Western-aligned intelligence services have been able to discern at least one significant limitation of the Seacock, which is the inability to achieve high firing angles without having the turret positioned perpendicular to the tracks. The unwieldy nature of the turret's arms mean either the missiles themselves will come into contact with the hull or the backblast will, resulting in unintended damage either way. While this shortcoming doesn't completely undermine the efficacy of the system as a whole, it does suggest that the unit requires some setup time, or that shrapnel or other similar objects could potentially damage the moving parts that enable the turret to fire properly. Like other large missile systems, this means the CSS-C-15 is probably more lethal when prepositioned than when used reactively. Nevertheless, this chimera is just one more threat the United States and East Asia Defense Association must contend with to contain communist militarism in the Indo-Pacific.
Credit to Awe for the little electro-optical tracker towards the front of the turret. Can't remember what I ripped it from, but I'm sure he was the originator.
CSS-C-15 Seacock/MCDM-1 Thuan Thien
While the Union of Songun Republics lacks the technological sophistication of many Western forces in NATO and beyond, it nevertheless possesses a great deal of innovation insofar as being able to modernize, enhance, or clone legacy systems. The monstrosity depicted above is certainly indicative of that fact. Indeed, the MCDM-1 (Modernized Coastal Defense Missile-1; frequently referred to as the Thuan Thien by reverential Vietnamese figures) is the result of a grotesque marriage between the chassis of a Soviet-designed 2S7 and a joint Sino-Vietnamese imitation of the American Mk. 11 Guided Missile Launching System configured predominantly for the RGM-84 Harpoon. The result is a hulking, beach-crawling snail equipped with two anti-ship missiles with mostly unknown characteristics and an assorted array of electro-optical and maritime tracking radars to help deliver the streaking missiles to their targets.
Regardless of the exact capabilities of the missiles, the US and its partners have naturally assumed they are meant to skim the sea and strike the waterlines of valuable vessels operating in the green waters of the South China Sea. Thus, NATO has appropriately designated the system as the CSS-C-15 Seacock. Additionally, Western-aligned intelligence services have been able to discern at least one significant limitation of the Seacock, which is the inability to achieve high firing angles without having the turret positioned perpendicular to the tracks. The unwieldy nature of the turret's arms mean either the missiles themselves will come into contact with the hull or the backblast will, resulting in unintended damage either way. While this shortcoming doesn't completely undermine the efficacy of the system as a whole, it does suggest that the unit requires some setup time, or that shrapnel or other similar objects could potentially damage the moving parts that enable the turret to fire properly. Like other large missile systems, this means the CSS-C-15 is probably more lethal when prepositioned than when used reactively. Nevertheless, this chimera is just one more threat the United States and East Asia Defense Association must contend with to contain communist militarism in the Indo-Pacific.
Credit to Awe for the little electro-optical tracker towards the front of the turret. Can't remember what I ripped it from, but I'm sure he was the originator.