[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 736 – Stealth Payload Drone

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on 
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  Onno Meyer, 2008-12-01

Stealth Payload Drone v1.0 (TL11)
  Copyright 2008 by Onno Meyer

  The Stealth Payload Drone carries small loads from orbiting starships 
to first contact teams on the surface of a world. The cylindrical cargo 
bay, about 7” wide and 24” long, is sandwiched between the avionics in 
the nose and the power pack in the rear. In secondary roles, the Drone 
can deploy surveillance robots, or even small missiles in support of a 
recovery operation turned 'hot'. 
  The power cell lasts for 66 minutes at full thrust. 

Subassemblies: Body -1. 
Powertrain: 200-lb. vectored super reactionless thruster; 45,000-kWs
  rechargeable power cell.

Armor     F      RL       B       T       U
Body:   4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100   4/100

Weaponry
20-lb. weapon bay [Bod:U].

Equipment:
  Body: Two medium-range radios with scramblers; medium-range laser 
communicator with scrambler; 5-mile AESA, LPI; two 5-mile PESAs; 5-mile 
multiscanner; level 9 surveillance sound detector; IFF; global 
positioning system; two C5 hardened, small robot brains; high-security 
alarm; 0.0001 kT self-destruct. External: Radical emission cloaking; 
radical sound baffling; radical stealth; intruder chameleon.

Statistics
Size: 6'x1'x1'   Payload: 20 lbs.   Lwt.: 100 lbs.
Volume: 2 cf     Maint.: 44 hours   Price: $208,480

HT: 12.   HPs: 15 Body

aSpeed: 2,685   aAccel: 40   aDecel: 28   aMR: 7   aSR: 2

sAccel: 2 G   sMR: 2

Design Notes
  Body is 2 cf, with underbelly skids and radical streamlining. 
Structure is medium, advanced, responsive, robotic. Armor is advanced, 
fireproof ablative. Self-sealing. 0.08 cf of empty space. Empty weight 
is 80 lbs. 
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], Robots, VXi, and VXii (including the armor 
volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: A larger sensor drone.