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, 2011-12-19
Dragon Republic Type 18 Heavy Utility Dropship v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2011 by Onno Meyer The Type 18 is used to carry heavy equipment from orbiting starships to the surface of a planet. Her nominal capacity are 160 tons of cargo, but the real limit is volume -- the Heavy Dropship can lift 300 or 400 tons from an earthlike world, if they fit into the hold. The Heavy Utility Dropship has an upper deck with the cockpit and the passenger cabin and a lower deck with the cargo bay. The bay is roughly 30 m long, 5.5 m wide, and 3 m high, with a narrow extension forward to accommodate long railgun barrels. The Dropship has a single refueling boom, which can be used with modular tanks in the cargo bay to turn her into a tanker. At a first glance, the Type 18 is similar to the Armstrong class used by the Union. Both have wide bodies, small delta wings, and rough field wheels. The Armstrong is a little more rugged, and the Type 18 has more payload and delta-V. The fusion rockets use 50,000 gallons of reaction mass per hour. Subassemblies: Body +8, two Wings +4, twenty retractable Wheels +3. Powertrain: Two vectored 1,250,000-lb. fusion rockets; 100-kW super MHD fusion reactor; four 270,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Fuel: 40,000 gallons water. Occ: 4 RCS, 96 NS. 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; four inertial navigation systems; terrain-following radar; four HUDWACs; deceptive jammer, rating 4; 24 aircraft decoy dischargers; two C4 hardened minicomputers; four terminals; five full fire suppression systems; 10-man airlock; spacedock (for 7,500 cf of subcraft); refueling probe; refueling drogue; two 100x12 man-hour limited life systems; two cramped toilets; 100 crashwebs. External: Modest emission cloaking; modest stealth; basic chameleon; puncture-resistant tires. Statistics Size: 120'x60'x30' Payload: 330 tons Lwt.: 500 tons Volume: 50,000 cf Maint.: 46 man-hours Price: $90,711,100 HT: 10. HPs: 24,000 Body, 2,700 each Wing, 360 each Wheel gSpeed: 700 gAccel: 35 gDecel: 15 gMR: 0.5 gSR: 5 Ground Pressure Extremely High. No Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 4,375 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 48,000 cf, with superior streamlining. Wings are 1,000 cf. Wheels are 2,400 cf, retract into body. Structure is heavy, expensive. Improved suspension and brakes. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Ultra-light, self-sealing tanks. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 3,563 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 340,000 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: A TL15 transport. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
