Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

• ST/HP is 99 (empty weight in pounds is 14, 950).
• I'd give it a +2/3 for Handling/Stability (that's pure gut and looking at other similiar vehicles)
• SM is right (it's wingspan is 130.9 ft)
• Acceleration is a bit tricky. If we reverse engineer the number of Gs it might have as a spaceship (GURPS Spaceships, p. 35), we get around a 1 acceleration. That's probably what I'd use.
• I'd call DR a 6 (gut again)
• Stall is 55 (from here)

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.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by The_Ryujin

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.

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.

[The_Ryujin]

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

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.

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.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by The_Ryujin

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.

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

[Onkl]

Thanks guys, you're great!