NationStates Jolt Archive

From the new Lord Gohmess I Allied Military Productions Company (LGIAMPC) are some brand new kamikaze bombers. These ships are designed specifically to get onto the battlefield, eject the pilot, and crash into a structure, causing an explosion rivaling a high grade missile at a portion of their cost, not to mention, since they're piloted by humans directly, a sudden change of plans will be easy to carry out (just radio in and they're turned around to hit a new target). A limited supply of these will be issued out to regions other than The Great Archipelago of Asuga, so get them while they're available!

NUMBER AVAILABLE: 50,000

GAS-C-1 Sparrow
Unit Cost: $5m
Weight: 5.2 tons
Length: 9 meters
Width: 2.3 meters
Power Source: NP-1 Medium Grade Diesel Engine
Speed: Mach 1.5
Acceleration: 0 to Mach 1.5 in 4 seconds
Primary Weapon(s): N/A (Adjacent tanks of super-heated sodium nitrate and liquid oxygen mix and cause explosion upon ship’s impact)
Secondary Weapon(s): N/A
Primary Weapon Firing Range: N/A
Secondary Weapon Firing Range: N/A
Ammunition Storage: N/A
Armor: 2 inches of neo-steel (titanium/steel/magnesium sulfite mixture)
Maximum G-Forces: +7/-3
Escape Pod Elevation Up Feature: No
Escape Pod Speed: Mach 1.3
Escape Pod Survival Rate: 92%


Time until shipping will depend on number ordered.

It's hardly Kamakaze if the pilot survives, ne? Look more like the bottom half of a Mistel with a parachute.

And, um, 1.2 tons for the whole aircraft is just a little too light for the warhead to do anything useful.

The ship itself is meant to be described as kamikaze, and thanks for mentioning the weight, it was a typo.

Eyes scanned the data page on the computer screen of the "suicide planes" on Ebay.

"You've got to be kidding me..."

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Seems to me to be a complete waste of money...especially for aircraft...I'd be more inclined to just stick with something like long range intercontinental ballistic missles or something....cheaper, and no risk to own people's lives...

Putting a pilot in a plane and putting him on the battlefield is putting a life at risk. I can see already this is a failure so I'm scrapping the idea.