Panzer Olympia

The Panzer Olympia, short for Panzerkampfroboter Olympia, is an Austrasian made unmanned ground combat vehicle. Olympia was created to meet the requirements set out by the Austrasian Reichwehr's Panzerkreis as part of their realization of the armed forces Kohorte-30 concept, which laid out a vision of a battalion-sized combined-arms armoured force based on manned-unmanned teams. Olympia built on prior work by RKW and REST in the 1970's and 1980's studying concepts for MBTs which combined very high power-to-weight ratios, advanced fire control and high ROF main armament and combined it with contemporary developments in Austrasian industry led by Talos Technik and ElektronWerke in automation, networking, remote-sensing and active protection. The radical step of removing the crew entirely from the vehicle was made in anticipation of a future battlefield where advanced in anti-tank weaponry would make it impossible to guarantee an acceptable level of safety for the crew; by removing them the Olympia could maintain the traditional place of the MBT at the spearpoint of the attack.