The Horizon is the premier mobile artillery vehicle of the Commonwealth Army. Used for long range shelling of hardened targets, the Horizon sees little use in most operations. Though the Commonwealth generally has little problem using overkill against dissidents, the sheer expense of lobbing high-yield missiles at targets that don’t warrant them usually discourages the deployment of these tanks.
Poorly armored for its size, the Horizon is coated in graphene, the standard armor of Commonwealth vehicles. However, the armor is kept thin to cut costs; after all, there is no point in heavily armoring a vehicle that isn’t meant to be on the front lines. Despite this, the Horizon is extremely heavy due to its enormous missiles, and can only reach a top speed of 30 miles per hour.
The Horizon carries eight Deterrence-class long range missiles as its primary weapons. These weapons have a range of 100 kilometers, and are capable of destroying armored vehicles and infantry columns with near misses. In addition to its missiles, the Horizon is equipped with a pintle-mounted anti-infantry railgun for defensive purposes.
While many Commonwealth officers question the need for such a vehicle, the top brass continue to aquire more tanks and train more crews, focusing less on pacification, and gearing more towards siege warfare, as if in preparation for war against a peer opponent, rather than poorly-equipped insurgents.