Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
 

Hi guys

I am trying to stat a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk drone and have come up with the following:

TL: 8
Vehicle: RQ-4 Global Hawk
ST/HP: 99
Hnd/SR: +2/3
HT: 11f
Move: 3/179
LWt.: 16.125
Load: 1.5
SM: +5
Occ: 0
DR: 6
Range: 14'154
Cost: $222M
Loc.: Wi3Wr
Stall: 55
Notes:

I took most of the information from Wikipedia and the USAF:

-> http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets...obal-hawk.aspx
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northro...ns_.28RQ-4B.29

But as you can see, I still have a lot of question marks in my stats. These I would like you to help me fill.

Thanks!

Cheers

Onkl

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Re: Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
 

Oh no. 1G is "fighter jet with the afterburners going" and this thing is more in the ballpark of a commercial jet in thrust to weight.

I look at the "business jet" on p.465 of Campaigns and it's Acc 4. Even that might be a little high. Stall sped is probably better than the 55 listed for the business jet though. The Global Hawk has long straight wings.

Re: Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
 

I'm not using G's, I'm using the formula from Spaceships on the page I listed. That said, I might go with an Acceleration of 4, that probably makes the most sense. Stall speed is garnered from the actual stats for the drone itself...

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Yeah, for the most part that looks pretty good however for acceleration it's a simple matter of looking up it's engines thrust and divide that by it's weight.

From a quick search it's engine is a Rolls-Royce F137-RR-100 with 7,600 lbf of thrust. Fully loaded a globalhawk weighs in at about 32,000lbs giving us a Basic move of around 3.

Also for DR, I'd say that 6 could work if we go by the fact for some odd reason GURPS tends to give normal cars a super high base DR of around 5 or so but realistically I doubt it would even really rate having DR2 having maybe 2 to 3mm of composite paneling for "armor" on average.

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Damn, I didn't know that. Thanks. I think I'm going to talk to my best friend (he's worn out several copies of GURPS Vehicles) and do a blog post on converting aircraft to "basic" GURPS stats.

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Heh, no problem though in your second post you did get pretty close and would be about right if we assume a lower load.

I'm also looking very forward to seeing that post. Here's a doc that can help a bit, scroll down to pg. 116. It's for Transhuman Space but it uses a more updated version of Vehicles rules for figuring an aircraft's stats.

Re: Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
 

Well, I was agreeing with Fred actually. But yeah, thanks for this. I appreciate it.

Re: Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk
 

Thanks guys, you're great!