Beaufort Fighter

BARD PAPER: SARA0071

Beaufort Fighter

Ok, heres a quick and dirty 1st attempt at a fighter. Kept it small and tech 14, because itll be easier to go bigger and higher tech. Basic idea was for a long range skirmisher, keeping in the 10-20 hex range from targets. This was designed with Antti Lahtinens spreadsheets, but its "basic" FF&S (so no power plant scaling etc). The things damn expensive, but its hard to lock, quick, and has a few options to allow for a range of offensive defensive stances. The lasers are optimised for a 20 hex range, and "feed" from a central HPG. Only one beam pointer used, as i assumed all were slaved to the same target. Feel free to flame away, im off to build a mini turreted version, and play with Peter Gray's ideas on gunboats.

Beaufort Fighter

General Data

Displacement: 20 tons	Hull Armor: 72
Length: 16.23 meters	Volume: 280 m³
Price: 77.13 MCr	Target Size: VS
Configuration: SL Cylinder	Tech Level: 14
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 300.81 / 292.31

Engineering Data

Power Plant: 104 MW Fusion Power Plant, 0.08 year duration (0.8 m3 fuel)

Jump Performance: None

Jump Fuel: 0 m³

G-Rating: 6G HEPlaR (10 MW/G), 3G HEPlaR Braking Thrusters (10MW/G), High-Efficiency CG Lifter (2 MW)

G-Turns: 96 (1.3 m3 fuel each)

Maint: 34

Electronics

Computer: TL-14 Fibre-optic computer (1 MW), TL-14 Standard computer (0.5 MW)

Commo: Maser (1000 AU; 0.6 MW), Radio (1 hex; 1 MW)

Avionics: Imaging EMS, inertial/gravitational positioning, 180 km/h NOE

Sensors: AEMS (16 hex; 25 MW), PEMS (2 hex; 0.04 MW), Ladar (10 hex; 2.5 MW)

ECM/ECCM: 90 sensor decoys (30 Laser, 30 AEMS, 30 PEMS), EM Masking (0.28 MW)

Controls: Flight Deck (2 normal workstations), fire control center (1 workstation)

Armament

Offensive 6x TL-14 114-MJ Spinal Laser (Loc:2x1,2x4,2x5. Arcs:1 ;3.2 MW ea ;No crew)

Defensive: None

Master Fire Directors: TL-14 (5 Diff Mods; 10 hex; 1.62 MW; 1 crew)

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (153 m3 supported volume; 0.031 MW)

Grav Compensation: 5Gs (0.765 mW)

Crew: 3 (1xManeuver, 1xElectronics, 1xGunnery)

Crew Accommodations: None

Passenger Accomadation: None

Other Facilities: None

Cargo: 2 m³

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: None

Air Locks: 1

Notes

Total Fuel Tankage: 120.8 m3 (8.6 tons) Fuel scoops (10% of ship surface), fills tanks in 1.1 hours Power: Nominal 10.7MW shortage. Power is balanced out as follows Distance running: full AEMS, no CG or Radio, Power to 4 Lasers Also used in targeting before passing off to ladar. Closing/skirmishing AEMS to 12 hex (17mw), full power to laser arrays.