This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2011-12-05
Dragon Republic Type 15 Medium Utility Dropship v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The Type 15 Dropship is the most common orbit to surface transport in the Republic Navy. She can carry 32 tons down to the surface of a world and back to the orbiting starship or transfer station. The cargo bay for containers, pallets, and surface vehicles is almost 15 m long (plus two meters for the rear ramp) and 3 m wide over most of the length. The passengers sit on folding benches along the sides. The small cockpit has seats for a pilot, a copilot, a navigator and a load master. The life support lasts for just six hours at maximum capacity, plus six hours reserve, but the usual payload are two or three medium vehicles with their crew, perhaps twenty people total. The fusion rockets use 10,000 gallons of reaction mass per hour. Subassemblies: Body +6, two Wings +3, ten retractable Wheels +2. Powertrain: Two vectored 250,000-lb. fusion rockets; 50-kW super MHD fusion reactor; four 270,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Fuel: 8,000 gallons water. Occ: 4 RCS, 36 folding CS. Cargo: 2,800 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Wings: 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 4/80 Wheels: 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 3/10 Equipment: Body: Two very-long-range radios with scramblers; four medium-range laser communicators; six x2 LLTVs; two 48-mile AESAs, LPI; two 30-mile PESAs; 5-mile radscsanner; precision navigation instruments; two IFF; two inertial navigation systems; terrain-following radar; four HUDWACs; deceptive jammer, rating 4; 24 aircraft decoy dischargers; two C4 hardened minicomputers; four terminals; full fire suppression system; cargo ramp; refueling probe; two 40x6 man-hour limited life systems; cramped toilet; 40 crashwebs. External: Modest emission cloaking; modest stealth; basic chameleon; puncture-resistant tires. Statistics Size: 72'x36'x27' Payload: 66 tons Lwt.: 100 tons Volume: 10,000 cf Maint.: 39 man-hours Price: $66,625,800 HT: 10. HPs: 4,500 Body, 450 each Wing, 120 each Wheel gSpeed: 700 gAccel: 35 gDecel: 15 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 5 Ground Pressure Extremely High. No Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 3,225 aAccel: 50 aDecel: 6 aMR: 1.5 aSR: 7 Stall Speed 0. sAccel: 2.5 to 3.8 G sMR: 2.5 delta-V 191,821 mph Design Notes Body is 9,640 cf, with superior streamlining. Wings are 180 cf. Wheels are 482 cf, retract into body. Structure is medium, advanced. Improved suspension and brakes. Armor is advanced composite. Sealed. Ultra-light, self-sealing tanks. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 670.34 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 68,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: Less payload, more missiles. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
