[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 619 – Dragon Republic Type 50 Heavy Lift Helicopter

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2006-09-04

Dragon Republic Type 50 Heavy Lift Helicopter v1.0 (TL9)
  Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer

  Compared to their Terran Union counterparts, Dragon Republic armored 
vehicles are small and underpowered. The Type 50 Heavy Lift Helicopter 
is one of the reasons - all of the vehicles in an armored division are 
designed to fit into this transport or the older Type 27 tiltrotor. 
  The Type 50 has a boxy fuselage with coaxial main rotors to keep the 
cargo ramp free of obstructions. The cockpit has four workstations for 
the pilot, the copilot/gunner, the navigator/tail gunner and the cargo 
master. The cargo hold is roughly 50' by 12' by 12', with a niche over 
the cockpit to accommodate the long barrel of MBU railguns. The fusion 
reactor is mounted on a bulge on over the hold.
  The Heavy Lift Helicopter is armed with four PD lasers. Banking away 
>from a threat unmasks the tail mount and the two belly mounts, so that 
is the usual response to a hot LZ ... the Type 50 is too sluggish for 
air assaults. 
  The reactor has enough power to recharge two shots every second.

Subassemblies: Body +6, Coaxial Rotors +3, ten retractable Wheels +2. 
Powertrain: 30,000-kW CAR drivetrain; 32,000-kW super MHD fusion
  reactor; eight 270,000-kWs rechargeable E cells.
Occ: 4 RCS.   Cargo: 5,960 cf.

Armor       F      RL       B       T       U
Body:     4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120
Rotors:   4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120
Wheels:   4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120   4/120

Weaponry
400-kJ Point Defense Laser [Bod:F] (600 shots) +2.
400-kJ Point Defense Laser [Bod:B] (600 shots) +2.
Two 400-kJ Point Defense Lasers [Bod:U] (600 shots) +2.

Equipment
  Body: Full stabilization and cyberslave mounts for the 400-kJ Point 
Defense Lasers; two long-range radios with scramblers; six medium-range 
lasercoms; two 10-mile LPI AESAs; two 10-mile thermographs; 2.5-mile 
multiscanner; precision navigation instruments; two IFF; two inertial 
navigation systems; military GPS; two terrain-following radars; two 
HUDWACs with pupil scanners; level-8 deceptive jammer; 48 aircraft decoy 
dischargers; two C4 hardened minicomputers with four terminals; compact 
fire suppression system; cargo ramp; 5-man NBC kit; 45-man NBC kit; four 
crashwebs; cramped toilet. External: Basic stealth; basic emission 
cloaking; basic sound baffling; basic chameleon. 

Statistics
Size: 96'x80'x30'   Payload: 60 tons       Lwt.: 100 tons
Volume: 8,160 cf    Maint.: 14 man-hours   Price: $8,080,150

HT: 12.   HPs: 7,500 Body, 1,800 Rotor, 240 each Wheel

aSpeed: 300   aAccel: 5   aDecel: 10   aMR: 2.5   aSR: 6
Ceiling 3,245 yards. 

Design Notes
  Body is 8,000 cf. Rotor is 160 cf. Wheels are 400 cf. Structure is 
heavy and standard, with heavy compartmentalization. Armor is advanced 
composite. Folding rotors. Smartwheels. Self-sealing. Computerized 
controls with duplicate maneuver controls. There are 49.92 cf of empty 
space in the body for further upgrades. Empty weight is 80,000 lbs. 

Weapon          Weight Volume Cost    Power WPS VPS CPS TL
400-kJ PD Laser 50     1      $10,000 900    -   -   -  9

Weapon          Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D  Max   RoF 
400-kJ PD Laser  -   ver.  imp. 6d     20 20  4,000 8,000 16*

The TL9 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the optional armor 
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: A Traveller TL12 Safari Ship.