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Originally Posted by Anthony
My advice would be to not bother trying to make it work with GURPS Vehicles -- you're talking a fundamentally cinematic vehicle, and while GURPS Vehicles frequently does an iffy job of emulating reality, it's a lot less willing to totally ignore it.
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Honestly, Vehicles is meant more for building new vehicles from scratch. If you've already got specifications for the vehicle in question, building it in Vehicles does nothing for you. You can already translate everything into GURPS stats. David Pulver has an article in Pyramid 3/120 called "Describing Vehicles" for doing exactly that, including coming up with the 4e stats that Vehicles wont give you.
Here's a go at it using specs I found on a wiki, the aforementioned Pyramid, and High-Tech and Ultra-Tech for equipment/writeup style.
McDonnell-Douglas AV-4 Tactical Urban Assault Vehicle
TL: 9
ST/HP: 82
Hand/SR: -1/2
HT: 11f
Move: 3/171
Lwt: 4.3
Load: 2.2
SM: +5
Occ: 2+6P
DR: 40
Range: 800
Cost:$600,000
Stall: 0
Loc:G4st
A light assault vehicle designed for congested urban environments inaccessible to more traditional VTOL aircraft, the AV-4 is essentially a large van fitted with a turbofan jet engine originally meant for VTOL fighter-bombers. With the aerodynamics of a brick, the AV-4 uses brute force to stay aloft. Popular with law enforcement, corporate security, and the armed medical squads of Trauma Team Incorporated.
The crew consist of a pilot and gunner seated side-by side in the front cockpit. Behind them is a small cabin with six passenger seats and a cargo hold. The cabin is accessible by two large sliding doors on either side of the fuselage, while the pilot and gunner each have their own door as well. Armaments include two GAU-2A miniguns (in small turret) with 3,000 rounds each (HT p. 135). Avionics include a pair of computerized crew stations (UT. 24) fitted with crashwebs (UT. 224), an inertial navigation system (UT p. 74), a medium tactical radar (UT p. 64), an infrared imaging sensor array (UT p. 60), a tactical ESM detector (UT p. 62), a medium radio (UT p. 44), and two personal computers (UT p. 22).
The pilot uses Piloting (Vertol), while the gunner uses Gunner (MG) to operate the minigun-armed chin turret. Electronics Operation (Communications and Sensors) and Navigation (Air) are also useful. Trauma Team typically replaces two of the rear sets with a stretched and medical equipment. Some owners also add machineguns or other heavy weapons to the side doors.