Landship

Not to be confused with Tanks.

A Landship is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Landship designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret. Landships first saw use during the Copper War.

Modern landships are versatile mobile land weapons platforms whose main armament is a large-caliber landship gun mounted in a rotating gun turret, supplemented by machine guns or other ranged weapons such as anti-landship guided missiles or rocket launchers. They have heavy vehicle armour which provides protection for the crew, the vehicle's munition storage, fuel tank and propulsion systems. The use of tracks rather than wheels provides improved operational mobility which allows the landship to overcome rugged terrain and adverse conditions such as mud and ice/snow better than wheeled vehicles, and thus be more flexibly positioned at advantageous locations on the battlefield. These features enable the landship to perform well in a variety of intense combat situations, simultaneously both offensively (with direct fire from their powerful main gun) and defensively (as fire support and defilade for friendly troops due to the near invulnerability to common infantry small arms and good resistance against most heavier weapons), all while maintaining the mobility needed to exploit changing tactical situations.

Fully integrating landships into modern military forces spawned a new era of combat: armoured warfare.