Post by MikDaTv on Jan 5, 2010 0:21:17 GMT -5
Introduction:
The HH-324, or "Albatross" is a purely atmospheric craft developed by the Cerberus Corporation along a parallel line of design as the Hawk Fast Attack Scout. While the Hawk was designed as an attack craft, carrying payloads of weapons so that it can support ground forces, the HH-324 is a transport. It uses the same ducted rotar design as the hawk but it has a more powerful engine to lift a larger frame.
Technical Specifications:
Length - 17.3 Meters
Width - 9.5 meters wide
Weight - 10,655 Kilograms
Crew - 2 Pilots
Passengers - 16 fully loaded infantrymen
Max Speed - 1,150 Km/H
Max Ceiling - 6,300 Meters
Engines/Powerplan
Engines - 2 ducted rotary fans, 1 Repulsor
Powerplant - 4 large, rechargeable power cells
The craft is powered by a bank of rechargeable power cells that are housed in the tail section. The power cells can be recharged by the spinning of the rotor blades or through use of a shore tie recharging cable.
The power cells provide energy for all the systems on the ship, from the rotary fans to the electronics in the cockpit. The repulsor engine provides partial lift to the craft, making the ship neutrally buoyant. The ducted rotary fans provide the remaining lift required to get the craft off the ground.
Forward motion is provided by a combination of the repulsor engine and the rotors allowing the craft to reach a maximum top speed of 700 miles per hour but it's cruising speed is around 350 miles per hour.
Weapons
Guns:
2, door mounted Z-6 rotary blaster cannons.
1 turreted autoblaster mounted under the nose.
Warheads:
2 missile pylons with 4 missile hard points each.
The ships weapons are based around infantry support and landing zone clearing. It's door mounted Z-6 rotary blasters have a full field of fire on either side of the craft and the gunner can stand on an extending platform in order to turn the weapons totally forward.
It's turreted autoblaster has a 180 degree field of fire covering the front of the craft and can depress 60 degrees downward. It has a firing rate of 2300 blasts per minute and each bolt has enough power to blast a pineapple sized hole in concrete.
It has two warhead pylons, one on either side of the crafts nose. Each pylon has 4 missile hard points that can hold up to a 3,000 pound missile.
Crew:
The HH-324 has two pilots and two gunners but ship can operate with only a single pilot if need be though. The second pilot is present to take over from the first pilot on longer flights, as well as navigate and monitor the crafts sensor equipment.
The two gunners operate the door mounted Z-6 rotary blaster canons and are tethered into craft to prevent them from falling out.
Layout:
The craft has two main compartments. The cockpit has two seats and room enough for both pilots. The cockpit is separated from the passenger compartment by a bulkhead with an airtight hatch.
the passenger compartment has two rows of seats in the center of the compartment. each row holds 5 seats and the rear of the compartment has another 6 seats against the bulkhead. The center seats can be removed to make the passenger compartment more open to better carry cargo.
Passengers/Cargo
The HH-324 can carry 16 fully loaded infantry troopers along with 1,400 pounds of cargo internally. It can carry up to 12,000 pounds externally using cargo straps or magnetic clamps. That means, using cargo straps, the craft can haul something the size of a light ground vehicle over distance.
Armor/Protection:
The craft is made mostly from quarter inch hardened aluminum but the cockpit has an additional layer of quarter inch durasteel. The deck of the passenger compartment is made from inch thick durasteel to provide protection for the troops within from low powered ground based weapons.
The cockpit and repulsor are also surrounded by a thin copper mesh faraday cage for protection from light Ion weapon strikes.
The tail section houses a flare deployment system that will can drop ECM Flares to throw off incoming missiles. It has 10 flares it total but fires them off in groups of 5.
*Note* The Flare Deployment System can also be loaded with long burning illumination flares to light up night time battle fields.
Sensor/anti-sensor Systems:
The HH-324 has a very standard areal radar system that can accurately detect contacts in the air as far as 200 miles out. Accuracy begins to decline after that until nothing can be detected at it's max range of 350 miles.
In addition to this areal radar it is equipped with a forward scanning surface radar that is used to specifically find ground based targets for missile attack or to scout an area for friendly infantry. This radar's max range is 300 miles of open country but only scans within a 45 degree angle in front of the craft.
As a stealth system, the craft is equipped with 3 sound dampening units. One is located at the center of each rotor and a third is located just above the repulsor engine. These sound dampening units render the craft almost totally silent. However, because the sound dampening units mess with the localized air pressure to dampen the sound generated by the craft, the rotors will become unstable and it's max flight ceiling will be reduced to a mere 200 meters and max speed reduced to 400 Km/H. Even with those reductions, it's not recommended to fly the craft in stealth mode for extended periods of time.
Because of it's small size, partially mechanical flight system, and simple electronics, the craft puts out a much smaller Electromagnetic Signature then other, pure, repulsorcraft making it harder to detect. Compared to a LAAT/i it's lighter, faster, has significantly less surface area, and much less dependent on advanced electronics making it much harder to detect on standard sensors.
The HH-324, or "Albatross" is a purely atmospheric craft developed by the Cerberus Corporation along a parallel line of design as the Hawk Fast Attack Scout. While the Hawk was designed as an attack craft, carrying payloads of weapons so that it can support ground forces, the HH-324 is a transport. It uses the same ducted rotar design as the hawk but it has a more powerful engine to lift a larger frame.
Technical Specifications:
Length - 17.3 Meters
Width - 9.5 meters wide
Weight - 10,655 Kilograms
Crew - 2 Pilots
Passengers - 16 fully loaded infantrymen
Max Speed - 1,150 Km/H
Max Ceiling - 6,300 Meters
Engines/Powerplan
Engines - 2 ducted rotary fans, 1 Repulsor
Powerplant - 4 large, rechargeable power cells
The craft is powered by a bank of rechargeable power cells that are housed in the tail section. The power cells can be recharged by the spinning of the rotor blades or through use of a shore tie recharging cable.
The power cells provide energy for all the systems on the ship, from the rotary fans to the electronics in the cockpit. The repulsor engine provides partial lift to the craft, making the ship neutrally buoyant. The ducted rotary fans provide the remaining lift required to get the craft off the ground.
Forward motion is provided by a combination of the repulsor engine and the rotors allowing the craft to reach a maximum top speed of 700 miles per hour but it's cruising speed is around 350 miles per hour.
Weapons
Guns:
2, door mounted Z-6 rotary blaster cannons.
1 turreted autoblaster mounted under the nose.
Warheads:
2 missile pylons with 4 missile hard points each.
The ships weapons are based around infantry support and landing zone clearing. It's door mounted Z-6 rotary blasters have a full field of fire on either side of the craft and the gunner can stand on an extending platform in order to turn the weapons totally forward.
It's turreted autoblaster has a 180 degree field of fire covering the front of the craft and can depress 60 degrees downward. It has a firing rate of 2300 blasts per minute and each bolt has enough power to blast a pineapple sized hole in concrete.
It has two warhead pylons, one on either side of the crafts nose. Each pylon has 4 missile hard points that can hold up to a 3,000 pound missile.
Crew:
The HH-324 has two pilots and two gunners but ship can operate with only a single pilot if need be though. The second pilot is present to take over from the first pilot on longer flights, as well as navigate and monitor the crafts sensor equipment.
The two gunners operate the door mounted Z-6 rotary blaster canons and are tethered into craft to prevent them from falling out.
Layout:
The craft has two main compartments. The cockpit has two seats and room enough for both pilots. The cockpit is separated from the passenger compartment by a bulkhead with an airtight hatch.
the passenger compartment has two rows of seats in the center of the compartment. each row holds 5 seats and the rear of the compartment has another 6 seats against the bulkhead. The center seats can be removed to make the passenger compartment more open to better carry cargo.
Passengers/Cargo
The HH-324 can carry 16 fully loaded infantry troopers along with 1,400 pounds of cargo internally. It can carry up to 12,000 pounds externally using cargo straps or magnetic clamps. That means, using cargo straps, the craft can haul something the size of a light ground vehicle over distance.
Armor/Protection:
The craft is made mostly from quarter inch hardened aluminum but the cockpit has an additional layer of quarter inch durasteel. The deck of the passenger compartment is made from inch thick durasteel to provide protection for the troops within from low powered ground based weapons.
The cockpit and repulsor are also surrounded by a thin copper mesh faraday cage for protection from light Ion weapon strikes.
The tail section houses a flare deployment system that will can drop ECM Flares to throw off incoming missiles. It has 10 flares it total but fires them off in groups of 5.
*Note* The Flare Deployment System can also be loaded with long burning illumination flares to light up night time battle fields.
Sensor/anti-sensor Systems:
The HH-324 has a very standard areal radar system that can accurately detect contacts in the air as far as 200 miles out. Accuracy begins to decline after that until nothing can be detected at it's max range of 350 miles.
In addition to this areal radar it is equipped with a forward scanning surface radar that is used to specifically find ground based targets for missile attack or to scout an area for friendly infantry. This radar's max range is 300 miles of open country but only scans within a 45 degree angle in front of the craft.
As a stealth system, the craft is equipped with 3 sound dampening units. One is located at the center of each rotor and a third is located just above the repulsor engine. These sound dampening units render the craft almost totally silent. However, because the sound dampening units mess with the localized air pressure to dampen the sound generated by the craft, the rotors will become unstable and it's max flight ceiling will be reduced to a mere 200 meters and max speed reduced to 400 Km/H. Even with those reductions, it's not recommended to fly the craft in stealth mode for extended periods of time.
Because of it's small size, partially mechanical flight system, and simple electronics, the craft puts out a much smaller Electromagnetic Signature then other, pure, repulsorcraft making it harder to detect. Compared to a LAAT/i it's lighter, faster, has significantly less surface area, and much less dependent on advanced electronics making it much harder to detect on standard sensors.
