Re: [gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 688 – Aerospace Microfighter

[Onno Meyer]

> > Aerospace Microfighter v1.0 (TL9)
> >   Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer
> > 
> Hmm.  The kind of thing a rebellion might use?  Or perhaps a desperate
> last minute defense.  Or maybe a criminal underground.

I was thinking of bounty hunters. For an Anime, it doesn't have to 
make sense ...

> You mentioned Jupiter and atmospheric performance.  It would be
> interesting to know its maximum pressure support and how far down into
> Jupiter or Saturn it could go.  Diving into a gas giant could be a good
> way to lose pursuit from military spacecraft that aren't designed for
> atmosphere.  

According to Vehicles, the crush depth depends on the DR and the
hull shape and size. A proper military craft is almost certainly 
tougher ...

> I also wonder about how intense the magnetic and radiation
> environment is a gas giant like Jupiter.  I've read things that make me
> think it's pretty severe and at a guess I don't think this design could
> handle it.

Proper radiation shielding for the entire craft would have forced 
me to sacrifice stealth (to stay within my mass budget, that is).
So the poor guy needs a decent spacesuit, even within the craft.
 
> And for some reason that makes me think of force fields.  Does Vehicles
> have anything to handle shaped force fields?  Force field shaping could
> create atmospheric capable shapes out of a brick.   I'm visualizing
> flying into a gas giant and making 100g turns since there'd be no danger
> of the "wings" falling off.
> Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>

Coming soon to a mailing list near you (unless something comes up 
at work and I'm forced to go to my stockpiled reserve designs).

Onno