BARD PAPER: SARA0053

Series 200 Gun Boat

design by Antony Farrell

The Alston League, situated in the Banners Sector has just placed an order for twelve of these boats to supplement the larger system defence boats in the league navy. Built around a 400Mw laser lance and carrying two missile barbettes the gunboat is able to take on a variety of targets, including smaller warships.

These vessels are now offered for sale to customers, either built locally at the Alston yards or licence built. Against the typical virus infected ship they are a potent weapon. Built using an airframe hull the gunboats can also be used in a ground attack role where the laser and missiles can be used to good effect.

If there is a weakness in the design it is in the armour. In order to fit the large laser many compromises had to be made, these being principally in reduced armour. The lasers rate of fire of 200/30 minutes was also below that originally specified.

Series 200 Gun Boat

General Data

Displacement: 250 tons	Hull Armor: 40
Length: 46.25 meters	Volume: 3500 m³
Price: 229.740794 MCr	Target Size: S
Configuration: AF Wedge	Tech Level: 11
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 3,707.0522 / 3,490.2917

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 751 Mw Fusion Power Plant, 1 year duration (50Mw/hit, 112.65 m³ fuel, 0.9289Mw surplus)

Jump Performance: None

Jump Fuel: 0 m³

G-Rating: 3G HEPlaR (125 MW/G)

G-Turns: 84, 15.625 m³ fuel each

Maint: 141

Electronics

Computer: 2xTL-11 Fibre-optic computer (0.7 Mw each)

Commo: 1xMaser (1000 AU; 0.6 MW), Radio (300,000km; 10 Mw)

Avionics: TL10+ Flight Avionics, TL11 Terrain Following Avionics

Sensors: 300,000km AEMS (10 hex; 60 Mw, DF Capable), 1x90,000km PEMS Fixed array (3 hexes; 0.15 Mw), 1x150,000km PEMS Folding Array (5 hexes; 0.25 Mw), 3xRunning Lights (0.0001 Mw each)

ECM/ECCM: EMS Jammer (1 hex;50 Mw), EM Masking (3.5 Mw)

Controls: Bridge with 8 bridge workstations, 10 normal workstations

Armament

Offensive 1xTL-11 400-MJ Laser Lance (Loc:4/5; Arcs:1 ;222.2223 MW;0 crew) 2xTL-11 Missile Barbette (Loc:14,15; 0.15 Mw each;1 crew each, 5 missiles or recon probes each)

Defensive: None

Master Fire Directors: 1xTL-11 (3 Diff Mods; Beam 10 hex; 6.22 MW; 1 crew)

Name	Short	Medium	Long	Extreme
400-MJ Laser Lance	10:50-1/16	20:48-1/15	40:24-1/8	80:12-1/4

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended Life Support:(0.7 MW)

Grav Compensation: 2Gs (17.5 MW)

Crew: 31 (10xEngineer, 2xElectronics, 1xManeuver, 3xGunner, 2xMaintenance, 9xShip's Troops, 4xCommand)

Crew Accommodations: 16xSmall Stateroom (0.0005 Mw each)

Passenger Accomadation: None

Other Facilities: None

Cargo: 47 m³ 1 Small Cargo Hatch

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None

Air Locks: 3

Notes

Total Fuel Tankage: 1425.15 m³ (99.7605 tons), Purification plant purifies total maneuver fuel in 30 hours, Fuel scoops (10% of ship surface), fills tanks in 1 hour.
Crew requirements are calculated by using FFS1 Mk 1 Mod 1 crew model.