[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 665 – Anachronistic SAM TELAR

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2007-07-23

Anachronistic SAM TELAR v1.0 (TL6)
  Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer

  In some alternate history stories, one side finds efficient uses for 
historical technologies. In other novels, genuine time travelers bring 
modern concepts with them. This SAM transporter, erector, launcher and 
radar vehicle carries three radio-guided anti-air missiles. 
  1940s-era technology does not allow homing missiles, so the radar is 
used to provide targeting information for command-guided missiles with 
a radar proximity fuse to increase the hit probability. The driver and 
commander sit in front of the tracked vehicle and the gunner and radar 
operator sit in a compartment below the missile rack. Once the TELAR is 
used in combat, an arms race between the guidance radios and radars and 
electronic countermeasures is likely to follow. A commando or espionage 
game might focus on recovering the new radio frequencies just before a 
thousand bomber raid.
  At routine travel speed, the engine burns 6.4 gallons of diesel per 
hour and the APU uses 0.4 gallons per hour. A tank of fuel is $48 and 
three missiles are $138,000 ... more than the TELAR itself.

Subassemblies: Body +4, two Tracks +3, Open Mount +3. 
Powertrain: 160-kW tracked drivetrain; 160-kW diesel engine; 10-kW 
  diesel engine; 10,000-kWs lead-acid batteries.
Fuel: 200 gallons diesel (fire 9).
Occ: 4 RCS.   Cargo: 50 cf.

Armor       F     RL     B      T      U
Body:     3/12   3/12   3/12   3/12   3/12
Tracks:   4/30   4/30   4/30   4/30   4/30

Weaponry
250mm SRBM Launcher [OM:F] (3 missiles) +2.

Equipment
  Body: Two medium range radios; IFF; fire extinguisher system; 4-man 
environmental controls. Open Mount: Universal mount for SAM Launcher; 
two long-range radios; 30-mile air search radar; advanced radar 
detector; 8 chaff and 4 smoke dischargers. External: Pin; hitch. 

Statistics
Size: 24'x8'x10'   Payload: 3 tons   Lwt.: 18 tons
Volume: 1,040 cf   Maint.: 59 hrs.   Price: $114,385

HT: 12.   HPs: 1,200 Body, 450 each Track, 500 Open Mount

gSpeed: 30   gAccel: 2   gDecel: 20   gMR: 0.25   gSR: 6
Ground Pressure Very Low. 4/5 Off-Road Speed.

Design Notes
  Body is 500 cf. Tracks are 300 cf. Open Mount is 240 cf. Structure 
is heavy and standard. Armor is standard metal. Self-sealing tanks. 
Mechanical controls. 118.95 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 30,000 
lbs. 

Weapon             Weight Volume Cost    Power WPS   VPS CPS     TL
250mm SAM Launcher 3,600  72     $19,000   -   1,000 20  $46,000 6

Weapon             Guid Malf. Type Damage      SS Spd   End Min Max RoF
250mm SAM Launcher RCG  15    exp. 6d*366[12d] 30 1,200 30  200 36k 3:9

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


Next Week: An evil little SRBM vehicle. Well, not so little.