NationStates Jolt Archive

Have you ever wanted to have more firepower? Well, the Allanean Arms Porcupine is the answer to your desires. Bristling with over a hundred guns, it is, while low-tech, the most heavily armed ship of it's class, bar none.
Without further ado, welcome the Porcupine.

Note: 100 of these have been ordered by the Allanean Stellar Navy.

Name: Porcupine
Manufacture: Capsule Corporation/Allanean Arms
Power: 10 Cold Fuzion engines (8 of them are feeding the weapons).
Propulsion: Plasma drive
Length: 198 meters
Top Speed/Athmosphere: Mach 30
FTL Drive: Kazansky Drive
Gravity: Simulated
Acceleration: 3g
Armament:

Dorsal:
10 AK-630 30mm guns
3 Particle Beam Cannon
20 20mm Annihilator machineguns

Ventral:
10 AK-630 30mm guns
3 Particle Beam Cannon
20 20mm Annihilator machineguns

Port:
10 AK-630 30mm guns
3 Particle Beam Cannon
20 20mm Annihilator machineguns

Starboard:
10 AK-630 30mm guns
3 Particle Beam Cannon
20 20mm Annihilator machineguns

Forward:
4 Kinetic Missile Tubes
4 100mm autocannons


Rear:
10 PKM 7.62 mm macihneguns.
4 Rear ward pointed 140mm ETC cannons

Crew: 61.
Cost: 4 billion

Four hundred million dollars? Here's what fourty million will get you:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b-bank.jpg
Two of them. And I'm afraid what you are proposing is quite a bit more advanced, both technically and in performance and in manufacturing requirements, than two B-1B supersonic bombers.

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Only 4 billion? with all those guns?

40 billion maybe...

Those guns are oldtech, you know... ripped off old tanks/ships and mounted.

*cough*
Doesn't the Kazansky drive have a tendency to explode?

Those guns are oldtech, you know... ripped off old tanks/ships and mounted.

So basically you're saying it has zero combat capability

So basically you're saying it has zero combat capability
You know, 30mm rounds coming at you with 9km/s+ are somewhat dangerous...

*Still thinks it should read 10- 20bn US$, though*

Four hundred million dollars? Here's what fourty million will get you:
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Two of them. And I'm afraid what you are proposing is quite a bit more advanced, both technically and in performance and in manufacturing requirements, than two B-1B supersonic bombers.

Doesn't forty go into four hundred ten times?

*throws Zero-One a calculator*