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The largest transport in the Shenyang air force is now to become a close support weapons platform of a larger caliber than the AC-130U. This is the next step in support in the SAF, when the AC-130 just isn't enough.

Here are the specs:

Powerplant: 4x 43,000 pound st TF39-GE-1C turbofans
Dimensions:
Wingspan: 223 feet
Length: 247 feet
Wing Area: 6,200 square feet
Range:3400miles
Crew: 20 (2 pilots, 1 navigator , 2 officer, 15 gunners/reloaders)
Armament:
2 125mm howitzers
1 105mm howitzer
2 40mm guns
4 20mm guns
4 miniguns

Other featrures:
FLIR
Advanced stability computers (to compensate for the recoil)
1 in. steel armor on sides
flare pods in wing mount pods
chaff in wing mount pods
Thrust vectoring added to original engines
radar
radar jamming (sends distorted signal to reciever)
rear door removed, replaced with plate
avionics upgraded
storage compartment now gun deck
flight computer and other equpment is modular for easy replacement
EM shielding on electronics
lcd flight moniters
floor reinforced
engine mounted closer to wing

Gun placement:
this is the order from front of the aircraft to rear.

125mm howitzer
GAU-19
20mm gun
40mm gun
20mm gun
GAU-19
105mm howitzer
GAU-19
20mm gun
40mm gun
20mm gun
GAU-19
125mm howitzer

Ammunition is kept on the opposite side from the guns, though a sufficient amount to keep the aircraft firing the howitzers is kept on the with the guns.
40mm, 20mm, and GAU-19s are fed via disintegrating belt feed to the guns from their ammo stores. 20mm and 40mm revolver cannons.

Cost: 30 million usd

So, any suggestions for anything to change?

You said that you have a crew of twenty, but your explanation in parentheses only has 18. :)

(OOC: I thought about doing somethingsimilar to this but..figured it'd be too out there. To see it done..and on something of larger scale...christ...this beast'll be interesting.)

Suggestions would be a little bit more detail...write out some of the conversions made, any other additional systems (Particularly defenses...this thing'll need them). Talk about placement of weapons of not actually having a diagram to help show. This thing will have to of gone through a number of changes so...yub.

Nice job. I got prod rights, right?

Yes do you do. Thank you for the imput so far, I'll make these modifications, any other suggestions are still welcome.

bump for the new mods

BUMPy roads ahead

A little better on the crew, but you're still missing one. Add an officer. :)

Bump

If Doom's got prod rights, I'm assuming all members of CAD do as well. As for a price, I'd say around 5 billion apiece. It may seem expensive, but some of the systems and munitions carries a pretty nice cost. You also may want to make munition packages. Their prices can depend on what's in them and how much. All in all, 10/10

Five billion? What you smoking? I'd say around thirty mil, little cheaper than a raptor.

Your right all of C A D does, and what are you smoking?

Weapons kits under development

Weapons kits are as follows:

Standard (see top post)
Heavy bombardment:
125mm Howitzer
125mm Howitzer
40mm Gun
40mm Gun
125mm Howizer
40mm Gun
40mm Gun
125mm Howitzer
125mm Howitzer

Cost(package): 1 million usd

Anti-infantry:
105mm howitzer
40mm gun
20mm gun
GAU-19
GAU-19
105mm howitzer
GAU-19
GAU-19
20mm gun
40mm gun
105mm howitzer

Cost(package): 75000 usd

Ditch the miniguns, they require you to come in too low for your aircraft to be safe and they have a nasty habit of managing not to destroy trucks (hence why they gradually disappeared from the AC130 during veitnam). They are great for small gunships like the AC-47 or helicopter platforms such as the ACH-47 but useless on anythign bigger.
You could repalce them with GAU-19s (as is happening to soem of the AC-47s that are soldiering on) a C5 woudl need to fly too high even for them.

Soem detaisl on exactly what type of guns we are talking about would help, are the 20mm guns simple blow back operated cannons or soemthign more modern such as the vulcan or a revolver gun?

Thanks for the input.

BUMPity, BUMP, BUMP.

Bump

BUMP for any new suggestions

OOC: 30 Billion??? Don't you think that's a little expensive?

OOC: Oops! Typed that at 9pm est and was on the edge of sleep. I've fixed it though, thank you for pointing that out.

IC: We thank you for pointing that mistake out, we made a pricing error. Please know that the people responsible have been sacked.





Please note that the people resonsible for hiring the people who were sacked have been sacked.

Hey, I wonder what this does... OH! It BUMPs the thread!

Is that an enemy unit!? No, its a BUMP!