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, 2014-02-03
Hypersonic Spacefighter v1.0 (TL12) Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer This aerospace fighter is equally at home in the atmosphere or in low orbit. She is optimized for hypersonic dogfights with a gatling blaster and a quartet of short-range, high-acceleration missiles. The Hypersonic Spacefighter has three sublight thrusters, one mounted in the fuselage and two in the wing roots. Her airframe is stressed for more than 40 G. The pilot and the systems operator sit in a gel-filled capsule to protect them from high-G maneuvers. The controls use direct neural interfaces, which can overwhelm untrained pilots with a torrent of information -- there are no manual overrides. It takes 10 seconds to recharge one blaster shot. Subassemblies: Body +4, two standard Wings +2. Powertrain: Three 60,000-lb. super reactionless thrusters; two 40,000-lb. contragrav generators; 12,000-kW super MHD fusion reactor; 8,100,000-kWs rechargeable power cell. Occ: 2 CCS. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* 4/240* * Plus DR 750 force screen. Weaponry 5.12-MJ Gatling Blaster Cannon [Bod:F] (791 shots) +2. 400-lb. Weapon Bay. Equipment: Body: Full stabilization for Gatling Blaster Cannon; two medium-range neutrino communicators; two very-long-range gravity ripple communicators with scramblers; 300-mile AESA; 60-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; 60-lightsecond FTL scan detector; precision navigation instruments; two IFF; two inertial navigation systems; two terrain-following radars; two HUDWACs; 36 aircraft decoy dischargers; two C7 hardened minicomputers; two neural induction fields; full fire suppression system; FSR 10 heavy duty, stealth force screen generator (DR 750); 3-man full life system; crew escape capsule; two G-seats; two womb seats; two gravity webs. Wings: 300-lightsecond FTL radars; 300-mile PESAs; 300-mile multiscanners. External: Radiation shielding; sculpted. Statistics Size: 30'x15'x10' Payload: 0.4 tons Lwt.: 10 tons Volume: 720 cf Maint.: 38 man-hours Price: $63,019,840 HT: 12. HPs: 3,000 Body, 900 each Wing. ASpeed: 9,000 aAccel: 180 aDecel: 172 aMR: 43 aSR: 4 sAccel: 9 G sMR: 9 Design Notes Body is 600 cf, with radical streamlining, underbelly skids, and total compartmentalization. Wings are 60 cf each, with controlled instability. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive, responsive. Armor is expensive laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls. 13.771 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 19,200 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 troop shuttle. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
