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, 2014-01-27
Compact Hypersonic Spacefighter v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer This aerospace fighter is optimized for atmospheric combat. Her wings and the control surfaces provide greater agility than a pure contragrav design. The fighter has a gatling blaster and a small missile bay, often with specialized ground attack loads. The pilot is protected by a gel-filled capsule with neural interface controls. Weaving through the treetops or in a hypersonic dogfight, the fighter can pull almost thirty G. It takes 25 seconds to recharge one blaster shot. Subassemblies: Body +3, two standard Wings +0. Powertrain: 36,000-lb. super reactionless thruster; two 12,000-lb. contragrav generators; 3,000-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 5,400,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: CCS. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/125* 4/125* 4/125* 4/125* 4/125* * Plus DR 375 force screen. Weaponry 5.12-MJ Gatling Blaster Cannon [Bod:F] (527 shots) +2. 40-lb. Weapon Bay. Equipment: Body: Full stabilization for Gatling Blaster Cannon; medium-range neutrino communicator; two long-range gravity ripple communicators with scramblers; 30-mile AESA; 30-lightsecond FTL radar; two 100-mile PESAs; 30-mile multiscanner; 30-lightsecond FTL scan detector; navigation instruments; two IFF; inertial navigation system; terrain-following radar; HUDWAC; C7 hardened minicomputer; neural induction field; compact fire suppression system; FSR 10 heavy duty, stealth force screen generator (reduced DR 375); 1-man full life system; crew escape capsule; G-seat; womb seat; gravity web. External: Radiation shielding; sculpted. Statistics Size: 24'x8'x4' Payload: 240 lbs. Lwt.: 6,000 lbs. Volume: 300 cf Maint.: 25 man-hours Price: $28,134,654 HT: 12. HPs: 1,800 Body, 180 each Wing. aSpeed: 6,000 aAccel: 120 aDecel: 116 aMR: 29 aSR: 4 sAccel: 6 G sMR: 6 Design Notes Body is 288 cf, with radical streamlining and underbelly skids. Wings are 6 cf each, with controlled instability. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive, responsive. Armor is expensive laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls. 34.61 cf of empty space in the Body and 5.69 cf in each Wing. Empty weight is 5,760 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 5.12-MJ Gatling Blaster Cannon 480 9.6 $68,000 204,800 - - - 12 Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF 5.12-MJ Gatling Blaster Cannon - ver. imp. 6d*35 25 23 11,000 33,000 20* The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A not so compact spacefighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
