[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 711 – Heavy Tilt-Jet Utility Transport

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2008-06-09

Heavy Tilt-Jet Utility 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 Heavy Utility Transport is a high-wing aircraft with turbofans in 
swiveling wing pods. The rear ramp and two smaller side doors allow the 
transport of bulky cargo or small vehicles. The cockpit has seats for a 
pilot, a copilot and a cargo master. The Heavy Transport is armored and 
slightly stealthy, typical of average national armies or good corporate 
security forces. It cannot hope to penetrate modern air defenses.
  The turbofans burn 240 gallons of jet fuel per hour of routine use. A 
load of fuel is $3,600.

Subassemblies: Body +4, six retractable Wheels +0, two Wings +2, two 
  Pods +2. 
Powertrain: Two 12,000-lb. vectored, afterburning, super turbofans;
  20,000-kWs advanced battery.
Fuel: 1,200 gallons jet fuel (fire 10).
Occ: 3 RCS.   Cargo: 480 cf.

Armor      F      RL     B      T      U
Body:     4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80
Wheels:   4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80
Wings:    4/40   4/40   4/40   4/40   4/40
Pods:     4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80   4/80

Equipment:
  Body: Two long-range radios with scramblers; two medium-range laser 
communicators; two 12x LLTVs; 20-mile, multi-mode, LPI radar; 5-mile 
radscanner; two flight recorders; navigation instruments; two IFF; three 
inertial navigation systems; two military GPS; terrain-following radar; 
four C3 hardened, small computers; three terminals; full fire 
suppression system; cargo ramp; 6x8 man-hours limited life support; 3 
crashwebs. Wings: 15 aircraft decoy dischargers each. External: Modest 
stealth; modest emission cloaking; modest sound baffling.

Statistics
Size: 48'x40'x12'   Payload: 9 tons    Lwt.: 18 tons
Volume: 1,264 cf    Maint.: 11 hours   Price: $3,259,750

HT: 10.   HPs: 900 Body, 50 each Wheel, 338 each Wing, 113 each Pod

aSpeed: 740   aAccel: 22   aDecel: 22   aMR: 5.5   aSR: 6
Stall Speed 0. Ceiling 17,175 yards.

Design Notes
  Body is 1,000 cf, with very good streamlining. Wheels are 50 cf, 
retract into body. Wings are 96 cf each. Pods are 36 cf each. Structure 
is medium and expensive. Armor is expensive composite. Self-sealing 
tanks. Sealed structure. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver 
controls. There are 103 cf of empty space in the body. Empty weight is 
18,000 lbs.
  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: A really big shuttle.