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AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical ReadoutVALIDATED
Class/Model/Name: Donnernkugel
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3025
Vessel Type: Conventional Fighter
Rules: Level 1, Standard design
Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 30 tons
Frame: Daimler FzGDk
Power Plant: Maybach 180 Turbine
Safe Thrust: 6
Maximum Thrust: 9
Armor Type: Longanecker PlastiSteel Standard
Armament:
2 Diverse Optics Type 18 Medium Laser
Manufacturer: Daimler FlugzeugWerks
Location: Stampfer
Communications System: Siemens SAComm
Targeting & Tracking System: Siemens SAGTrac
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== Overview:==
As the numbers of serviceable Aerspace assets dwindled, those remaining
were needed more and more to establish space superiority. This left fewer
AeroSpace assets to support ground units. Even as Daimler engineers worked
on a new AeroSpace fighter design, other Daimler engineers were working on a
less-expensive conventional fighter that could perform as a ground-attack
unit, freeing up valuable AeroSpace fighters. In 3004, Daimler
FlugzeugWerks rolled out their first design, the Donnernkugel (Thunderball).
== Capabilities:==
The Donnernkugel is designed to operate from rough airstrips or roads with
little support besides maintenance and fuel. With its all-energy weapon
loadout the fighter does not need ammunition, and its V/STOL capability frees
the fighter from the need for a long runway. The simplicity of its
airframe and avionics makes the Donnernkugel very easy to maintain, and the
modular nature of the avionics and powerplants makes it easy to stock spare
parts.
The Donnernkugel is powered by the Maybach 180 ducted-fan turbine.
Specially designed outlets on the underside of the fighter can be opened to
redirect the thrust of the turbine downwards to achieve vertical take-off.
The Maybach 180 is a new design, but it was designed to be reliable and
fuel-efficient in the crudest of field conditions. the turbine is placed
in the fighter in order to ease the task of maintaining and removing the
powerplant if necessary.
The Donnernkugel is armed with two Diverse Optics Type 18 medium lasers.
While the lasers require extra heat-sinks and complex power amplifiers, the
lasers do not require ammunition, freeing a Donnernkugel pilot from worrying
about running out of ammunition. The lasers also make the fighter a highly
effective strafer and a decent dogfighter. The laser emitters are placed to
either side of the nose of the fighter, with the power amplifiers back behind
the pilot. This was done to make the job of field maintenance easier, as
the laser systems are easily the most complex part of the fighter.
While the avionics on the Donnernkugel won't win any awards for power or
accuracy, they are simple and rugged. A side-effect of this is that a new
pilot can be trained on a Donnernkugel in a short period of time. The
communications system in particular is serviceable but it was felt that an
atmospheric craft did not need a communications system with near-system range.
The Siemens SAGTrac targeting system was designed primarily to aid the
pilot in attacking ground targets, though it has tolerable performance in a
dog-fight.
== Deployment==
The Donnernkugel can be found on most planets that are well away from any
front lines as garrison fighters, and in some smaller merc units that lack any
AeroSpace fighters of their own. Some Davion units in the Chaos March have
purchased Donnernkugels to use as guerrilla fighters.
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Class/Model/Name: Donnernkugel
Mass: 30 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant: 180 Turbine 14.00
Power Amplifiers: .50
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 6
Maximum Thrust: 9
Structural Integrity: 6 .00
VSTOL Equipment: 1.50
Total Heat Sinks: 4 Single 4.00
Fuel: 3.00
Cockpit, Avionics & Attitude Thrusters: 3.00
Armor Type: Standard (30 total armor pts) 2.00
Standard Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Nose: 11
Left/Right Wings: 7/7
Aft: 5
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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2 Medium Laser Nose 5 -- -- -- 6 2.00
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TOTALS: Heat: 6 30.00
Tons Left: .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 319,010 C-Bills
Battle Value: 238
Cost per BV: 1,340.38
Weapon Value: 453 (Ratio = 1.90)
Damage Factors: SRV = 6; MRV = 0; LRV = 0; ERV = 0
BattleForce2: MP: 6, Armor/Structure: 1 / 0
Damage PB/M/L: 1/-/-, Overheat: 0
Class: FL; Point Value: 2
