[gurps] Sub Trek

[Onno Meyer]

Jonathan wrote:
> Your multirole submarine design should suit my purposes for the most
> part, although I do have a certain fondness for the deep-sea fighter
> concept - that is, small high-speed craft that take full advantage of
> Bernoulli's Principle both for diving purposes (i.e., wing-like diving
> surfaces instead of ballast tanks) and to survive the pressures of the
> deep (if you go fast enough, the pressure along the side of your hull
> is reduced; I suspect that supercavitation is related to this effect).

I think my Multirole Submarine will be something that could have been
a second-line UEO troubleshooter, the boat that minds the Pacific while
Bridger cruises the Atlantic, or vice versa. Slightly smaller and slightly 
slower than the SeaQuest, but useful for the same kind of adventures.

I'm going to boost the endurance (mostly food supplies, since it uses 
fusion power) and the strategic weaponry (ABM and SLBM). She has 
room for 4,000 cf of subcraft, which could be a sub-shuttle and a few 
crabs (in UEO service) or a flight of subfighters.

Unlike the Planetary Defense Submarine a couple of weeks ago, the 
new boat can carry marines, or scientists, or refugees.