[Star Wars, 3e] V-Wing Airspeeder

[Phaelen Bleux]

Slayn & Korpil V-Wing Airspeeder
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/V-wing_airspeeder

The V-wing seats one pilot. Use Piloting (Aerospace) skill. The engines consume 55 gph of water, giving the vehicle a range of 5,900 miles on a single tank of fuel. However, the scramjet increases fuel consumption to 186 gph, greatly reducing endurance.

Subassemblies: Body with Superior Streamlining +3, 2 High Agility Wings +1, 2 Weapon Pods +1, 3 Retractable Skids +0.
Power and Propulsion: 2,730-lb. thrust Fusion Rocket Drive plus 2,620-lb. thrust Antimatter Thermal Drive with 525 gallons Water in an Ultralight Fuel Tank (Fire 0) and ½ gram of Antimatter in an Antimatter Fuel Bay; 100-kW Nuclear Power Unit (5 year lifespan), 15,000-lb. Contragrav Generator, 18,378,800-kWs Rechargeable Power cell for blaster cannons.
Occupancy: 1 NCS.
Cargo: 50 kg (5.5 cf.)

Armor
All: 4/165 (Radiation PF 10).

Weaponry:
2x Medium Blaster Cannons [Pods:F] (200 shots each).*
*Linked.

Equipment:
Body: Military GPS, advanced radar/laser detector, HUDWAC, inertial navigation system, IFF, small computer with terminal (Complexity 5), RVO (Piloting) program, Targeting program, medium-range communicator with scrambler (5,000-mile), 300-mile AESA (Scan 26), 450-mile PESA (Scan 27), 1 man-day limited life support, crashweb, full stabilization for blaster cannons.

Statistics:
Size: 12 m. x?x ? m. Payload: 2.39 tons Lwt.: 7.07 tons
Volume: 195 cf. Maint.: 13 hours Price: $2,306,724

HT: 12. HPs: 606 Body, 261 each Wing, 22 each Pod, 54 each Skid.

aSpeed: 625/875 aAccel: 4/7.5 aDecel: 20 aMR: 5 aSR: 5
Stall Speed: 0.

Design Notes:
Body is 195 cf; Wings are 19.5 cf each; Pods are 26 cf each; Skids are 9.75 cf. Structure is Heavy, Standard with Superior Streamlining. Armor is Expensive Metal. Sealed. Computerized controls. Design speeds matched the “historical” values. The NPU provides an extra 10 kW which can be used to recharge the blasters’ power cell, but not fast enough for combat use.

Ion drives, as described on Wookieepedia, are actually more analogous to GURPS Fusion Rocket drives, and so this was the drive used. Note that these drives produce hot, radioactive exhaust.

The scramjet was modeled by adding an secondary Antimatter Thermal Drive to produce the extra thrust. I envision this drive as an additional module in the Fusion Rocket Drive that dumps antimatter and additional water into the drive system, creating extra thrust much like modern-day afterburners. This drive uses 0.01 grams of antimatter per hour of afterburning, allowing for 50 hours of scramjet use before the antimatter needs to be replaced.