STOVL Dropships for Sale!(slight PMT)
Sileetris
02-08-2005, 09:55
OOC: Big, long writeup coming soon. I say these are slightly PMT because in theory a modern airforce could have them, certainly an advanced one could. I call them STOVL because they usually wouldn't be used with direct VTOL takeoff unless they are carrying really light cargos. The price reflects the assumption that VTOL tech had seen more uses than just the Harrier and is more highly developed than the real world; these things are in mass production.
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"Tropic" D-21 Light Dropship
Cargo and Manpower:
Crew: 2; Pilot, Copilot/Mission Manager
Troop Capacity: 16
MedEvac: 10 Beds, 2 Attendants
Cargo Capcity: 7,000kg (Max Dimensions lxwxh: 8m x 3m x 2.8m)
Dimensions:
Length; 13.5m
Wingspan; 21m
Height; 7m
Weights:
Unloaded; 10,400kg
Loaded; 17,400kg
Maximum Takeoff; 19,400kg
Powerplant:
Engines; 2x High-bypass Turbofans with VTOL Thrust Tubes
Thrust; 25,000 lbf each (111.2 kN each)
Performance:
Maximum Speed; 950km/h
Combat Range; 2,000km
Ferry Range; 4,000km
Sensor Systems:
360 Passive radar, Forward facing Active radar
Millimeter Band radar
Pilot/Copilot IR/NV
GPS
Armament:
Nose mounted 25mm Gatling Gun with 500 round drum
4x Wing Hardpoints, 2,200kg total payload
2x Door Stands for HMGs
(In gunship configuration;
HMGs replaced by 2 additional 25mm Gatlings
Rear mounted 105mm Howitzer or 40mm Bofors)
Countermeasures:
Chaff, Flares, IR Blinders, Basic Radar Jamming
Pilot/Copilot Ejector Seats
Special Notes:
Rubber Tread Landing Gear
Unit Cost:
$50 Million
OoC: Just wondering, with a cockpit configuration like that, how would the pilot/co-pilot safely eject?
Other than that, this looks pretty good.
Vladeck Ifram
02-08-2005, 10:06
OOC: Nice, wouldent mind having one IRL ;)
Sileetris
02-08-2005, 22:15
Bump!
To answer your question on ejecting, basically the entire forward canopy is ejected via explosive bolts, pretty conventional.
To answer the question in advance, yes these are helicopter carrier capable!
Sileetris
03-08-2005, 01:39
Bump!
Bump!
To answer your question on ejecting, basically the entire forward canopy is ejected via explosive bolts, pretty conventional.
To answer the question in advance, yes these are helicopter carrier capable!
In that case, you probably shouldn't refer to that counter measure as "Pilot/Copilot Ejector Seats," since the seats don't actually eject.
Sileetris
03-08-2005, 01:54
No no, I mean the windows are ejected and then the seats eject, just like a conventional ejection system. By canopy I meant the windows, not the entire cockpit.
Oooooh. Right. That seems dangerous...
Sileetris
03-08-2005, 04:29
Bump!
Taledonia
03-08-2005, 07:18
Looks like an adapted Pelican dropship from Halo.
Sileetris
03-08-2005, 07:38
Why, thanks for the comment on the original drawing and statistics...
Sileetris
03-08-2005, 20:29
Bump!
Sileetris
04-08-2005, 01:38
Bump!
Tonissia
04-08-2005, 01:43
We wolud Like to Purchase 10,500 Of them
Sileetris
04-08-2005, 03:08
Order confirmed, they will be delivered over a period of 4 years.
We wolud Like to Purchase 10,500 Of them
$525,000,000,000! How big is your Defence Budget?
Sileetris
04-08-2005, 21:29
Well duh, he just pays over the next decade or so I'd guess. Kinda like how you don't immediately pay for your entire house. We'll get our money somehow.
The Velkyan Union
04-08-2005, 21:34
*dun dun dun*
Sileetris
05-08-2005, 05:07
Bump!
Fujishima Corporation
05-08-2005, 14:42
SIC:
The Fujishima Corporation would like to purchase 250 of these dropships for USD$12,500,000,000. If possible, we would like the production rights to these vehicles, as well.
Payment will be wired over a period of two years, if this is possible.
Junichiro Fujishima
CEO
Fujishima Corp
Sileetris
05-08-2005, 17:58
Confirmed, delivery will take less than 1 year.
Included in the order price is the production rights of replacements up to the number originally ordered (you have license to build 250 on your own).
Full production rights cost $20 billion.
No resale is allowed in any case.
Fujishima Corporation
05-08-2005, 18:33
Confirmed, delivery will take less than 1 year.
Included in the order price is the production rights of replacements up to the number originally ordered (you have license to build 250 on your own).
Full production rights cost $20 billion.
No resale is allowed in any case.
Hmmm.....then I will purchase the full production rights, by diverting funds from the Law and Order Budget as well as the Defense Budget. This can actually be paid....right now. Thanks!
Junichiro Fujishima
CEO
Fujishima Corp
Sileetris
05-08-2005, 18:48
Confirmed, rights granted.
Thrashia
05-08-2005, 19:26
I would like to purchase to production rights. 20 billion wired.
Zepplin Manufacturers
05-08-2005, 20:02
((OOC Generally speaking, as a rule, dropships tend to well "drop" in from orbit. The entire point of a dropship is the orbit to ground insertion and ground to orbit retrieval of force, that is indeed the definition of a “dropship”. Therefore I feel obliged to point out that craft is not a dropship but an air transport in the same rough operating roles as any conventional helicopter transport or an Osprey type craft all of which are quite capable of true VTOL. One last point that airframe really doesn’t look like its up to safely going supersonic much less de-orbiting. ))
Thrashia
05-08-2005, 20:05
You have a point there Zep. and thats why I'm changing my order to jsut by the rights. Then I can me it a real dropship.
Sileetris
05-08-2005, 21:16
((OOC: As a rule nothing, there was a game called Dropship in which the dropships weren't orbit-to-ground shuttles. The idea behind using a VTOL plane design is it has a much higher maximum speed and range than a helicopter or the extremely faulty tilt-rotor planes.))
Thrashia: Order confirmed, rights granted.