[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 737 – Stealth Sensor Drone

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial 
redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on 
a website or the like. My site is down for rebuilding, but sooner or 
later the old stuff should reappear at   omeyer.gmxhome.de
  Onno Meyer, 2008-12-08

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

  The Stealth Sensor Drone is deployed by orbiting starships to collect 
data prior to first contact missions. The small robotic craft can enter 
the atmosphere, cruise at low altitude, and return without detection by 
most primitive sensors. The wideband EM array and sensitive microphones 
are used on stealth flights, while active systems are usually reserved 
for single pings. The drone could mount extra payloads, but it lacks a 
quick-change modular socket - any modification requires a workshop.
  The power cell lasts for 100 minutes at full power.

Subassemblies: Body +1. 
Powertrain: 1,000-lb. vectored super reactionless thruster; 450,000-kWs
  rechargeable power cell.

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

Equipment:
  Body: Long-range radio with scrambler; medium-range laser communicator 
with scrambler; 50-mile AESA, LPI; 558,000-mile FTL radar; 50-mile PESA; 
50-mile multiscanner; level 8 surveillance sound detector; IFF; inertial 
navigation system; deceptive jammer, rating 10; two C5 hardened, small 
robot brains; high-security alarm; 0.001 kT self-destruct. External: 
Radical emission cloaking; radical sound baffling; radical stealth; 
intruder chameleon.

Statistics
Size: 7'x2'x2'    Payload: -         Lwt.: 500 lbs.
Volume: 12.5 cf   Maint.: 20 hours   Price: $964,325

HT: 12.   HPs: 60 Body

aSpeed: 2,500   aAccel: 40   aDecel: 24   aMR: 6   aSR: 3

sAccel: 2 G   sMR: 2

Design Notes
  Body is 12.5 cf, with underbelly skids and radical streamlining. 
Structure is medium, advanced, responsive, robotic. Armor is advanced 
composite. Self-sealing. 3.76 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 500 
lbs. 
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume 
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: Probably a TL10 battlesuit ...