[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 704 – Medium Tilt-Jet Security Transport

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2008-04-20

Medium Tilt-Jet Security Transport v1.0 (TL9)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  Some cyberpunk games proclaim that vectored thrust aircraft are more 
efficient than fixed or rotary wing aviation. That seems unlikely, but 
sometimes style goes over substance ...
  The Security Transport is based on a VTOL utility plane. It is powered
by two turbofans in swiveling wingtip pods. The armament consists of two
automatic grenade launchers in the cargo bay. The ammunition ranges from 
non-lethal riot control rounds to HE or HEAT. The security transport has 
sound baffling (which can be explained as environmental protection) and 
minimal stealth and EW gear. 
  The turbofans burn 80 gallons of jet fuel per hour of routine use. A 
load of fuel and ammunition is $7,200.

Subassemblies: Body +4, three retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +2, two 
  Pods +1. 
Powertrain: Two 4,000-lb. vectored, afterburning, super turbofans;
  three 270,000-kWs rechargeable E power cells.
Fuel: 400 gallons jet fuel (fire 10).
Occ: 4 NCS, 6 NS.

Armor    F    RL     B     T     U
All:    3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8   3/8

Weaponry
40mm Gauss AGL [Bod:L] (125 rounds) +0.
40mm Gauss AGL [Bod:R] (125 rounds) +0.

Equipment:
  Body: Door mounts for 40mm Gauss AGLs; two long-range radios with 
scrambler; medium-range laser communicator; 20-mile, LPI AESA; two 
5-mile thermographs; 5-mile radscanner; level 10 surveillance sound 
detector; two flight recorders; two sets of navigation instruments; two 
IFF; inertial navigation system; two military GPS; terrain-following 
radar; 30 aircraft flare dischargers; 30 aircraft chaff dischargers; 
four C3 hardened, small computers; two terminals; cargo ramp; 10x6 
man-hours limited life support; 10 crashwebs. External: Basic sound 
baffling; modest stealth; modest emission cloaking.

Statistics
Size: 40'x32'x10'   Payload: 2.4 tons   Lwt.: 6 tons
Volume: 720 cf      Maint.: 13 hours    Price: $2,345,248

HT: 12.   HPs: 750 Body, 60 each Wheel, 225 each Wing, 60 each Pod

aSpeed: 750   aAccel: 22   aDecel: 44   aMR: 11   aSR: 5
Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 16,960 yards.

Design Notes
  Body is 600 cf, with very good streamlining. Wheels are 30 cf, retract 
into body. Wings are 48 cf each. Pods are 12 cf each. Structure is 
medium and expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Self-sealing tanks. 
Sealed structure. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver 
controls. There are 105.71 cf of empty space in the body and 17.55 cf of 
empty space in each wing. 250 rounds of 40mm CHEM (Tear Gas) are stored 
in the body. Empty weight is 7,200 lbs.

Weapon         Weight Volume Cost    Power  WPS VPS    CPS   TL
40mm Gauss AGL 90     1.8    $54,000 2,400  0.8 0.008 $19(1) 9
  Ammo type: (1) HE, also fires HEAT at $29, CHEM (Tear Gas) at $24.

Weapon         Ammo Malf. Type  Damage   SS Acc 1/2D  Max   RoF
40mm Gauss AGL HE   ver.  exp.  6d*3[4d] 20 14  1,300 5,600 8*
               HEAT       exp.  6d*2(10)    14  1,300 5,600 
               CHEM       spcl. 6 yards     14  1,300 5,600 

  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume and 
ceiling rules) with the text format from Vehicles Lite.


Next Week: An utility variant.