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Onno Meyer, 2014-10-13
Aerospace Fighter Mk.IV v1.0 (TL11)
Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer
The Mk.IV is a starfighter for atmospheric and orbital operations from
surface bases. The fighter is armed with a five-barreled gatling gravgun
and external ordnance, from antiship missiles to ground attack loads.
The Aerospace Fighter has a slim fuselage with delta wings and canards
for improved agility. The sublight thrusters are mounted in two separate
pods. The cockpit has seats for the pilot and the backseater, who has to
run weapons and sensors, hyperspace navigation and communications.
It takes 38 minutes to recharge the power cells for one minimum-speed
hyperspace entry, or 0.34 seconds to recharge a laser shot. A full load
of gravgun ammunition is $570,000.
Subassemblies: Body +5, three Retractable Wheels +1, two High Agility
Wings +2, two Pods +3.
Powertrain: Two 240,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; two
48-ton hyperdrives; 36,000-kW fusion reactor; two 18,000,000-kWs
rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 2 RCS.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100*
Wheels: 4/20* 4/20* 4/20* 4/20* 4/20*
Wings: 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100*
Pods: 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100* 4/100*
* Plus DR 400 force screen.
Weaponry
40mm Gatling Gravgun [Bod:F] (1,000 rounds) +2.
960-kJ X-Ray Laser [Bod:F] (140 shots) +2.
960-kJ X-Ray Laser [Bod:B] (140 shots) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Full stabilization for Gatling Gravgun; full stabilization and
cyberslave mounts for X-Ray Lasers; two very-long-range radios with
scramblers; four medium-range neutrino communicators; two 1,200-mile
AESAs; 1,200-lightsecond FTL radar; two 1,200-mile PESAs; 300-mile
multiscanner; 30-lightsecond FTL emergence detector; 30-lightsecond FTL
scan detector; two x200 astronomical LLTVs; flight recorder; two sets of
precision navigation instruments; four IFF; two inertial navigation
systems; four terrain-following radars; two HUDWACs with pupil scanners;
deceptive jammer, level 12; two C7 hardened, neural-net microframes; two
terminals; two neural induction fields; two 2-man full life systems;
crew escape capsule; two G-seats. Wings: 60 aircraft decoys. Pods: Full
fire suppression systems. External: Radical emission cloaking, radical
stealth; intruder chameleon; radiation shielding; thermal superconductor
armor; DR 400 force screen; four 8,000-lb. hardpoints; four 1,000-lb.
hardpoints; puncture-resistant tires.
Statistics
Size: 48'x32'x12' Payload: 19 tons Lwt.: 48 tons
Volume: 1,600 cf Maint.: 32 man-hours Price: $44,002,800
HT: 12. HPs: 4,800 Body, 400 each Wheel, 1,500 each Wing, 1,200 each
Pod.
aSpeed: 4,140 aAccel: 100 aDecel: 48 aMR: 12 aSR: 6
sAccel: 5 G sMR: 5 FTL Speed: 0.4 parsecs per day
Design Notes
Body is 1,120 cf, with superior streamlining and total
compartmentalization. Wheels are 56 cf, retract into Body and Wings.
Wings are 80 cf each. Pods are 160 cf each. Structure is extra-heavy,
expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Sealed. Computerized controls
with duplicate maneuver controls. 95.77 cf of empty space in the Body
and 41.68 cf in each Wing. Empty weight is 58,000 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
40mm Gatling Gravgun 2,100 42 $920,000 28,800 1.6 0.016 $570[1] 11
960-kJ X-Ray Laser 50 1 $20,000 51,200 - - - 11
[1] APFSDSHD.
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
40mm Gatling Gravgun APFSDSHD ver. cr. 6d*60(5) 30 20 10,650 25,500 40*
960-kJ X-Ray Laser - v(c) imp. 6d*3(2) 20 21 5,100 10,000 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 missile boat with a similar payload and longer endurance.
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