Bullfrog class Fighter Tender

Bullfrog class Fighter Tender
Homegrown subsector navy subcraft carrier.
Type: VL Fighter Tender
Category	BCS
Size	7,000 Tons
Hull Configuration	Cylinder Hull
Streamlining	Unstreamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–14
Engineering
Computer	Model/2 bis
Jump	J-1
Maneuver	2 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	70
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	130
Officers	22
Enlisted	108
Marines	12
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	629.1 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Year Operational	1094
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr2,383.96, MCr1,907.17 in Qty.
Architect fee	MCrJames Kundert
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	VL-07U21
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Also see	Subcraft Carrier - Carrier
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: James Kundert
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard.

The Bullfrog class Fighter Tender is a subcraft carrier warship.

• It is a military ship and a Fighter Tender.
• It functions as part of the Inar SysDefCom.

Description (Specifications)

It is a vessel with 2-G and J-1 performance with a unstreamlined cylinder hull. Being unstreamlined, it requires the fuel shuttles for normal operations.

• It carries significant armament and a military defensive suite.
• It ordinarily carries an entire complement of subcraft and a few drones. Like most Inari designs, the Bullfrog is a tail-sitter, with its fighter complement arranged around it like a huge carousel. The listed cost and weight does not include the 24 subcraft. The Bullfrog is meant to carry two squadrons of the locally produced Wart class Heavy Fighters, in addition to four Bubble class Fuel Cutters.
• It has a 130 sophont crew and 12 marines.

Image Repository

1. A Bullfrog class Fighter Tender in deep space deploying small spheroid subcraft.
   

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown in the sidebar. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Duchy of Inar based out of Inar (world) has a vibrant TL-14 or TL-E ship building industry, known for innovative designs and clever Naval Architecture. They are best known for their unstreamlined cylinder hull tail-sitter ship designs and sphere hulled smallcraft specialized for star system defense. They also build some of the finest fusion guns and ECM systems in Imperial Space.

It is a System Defense Carrier that was designed on Inar (Deneb 1213) in 1094.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: The Bullfrog is normally used as a mobile fighter base within a home system. It is more a "fighter tender" than a true carrier. As it normally is part of a system's defense fleet, it only uses its nominal jump ability as a last ditch escape, or for in-system jumps. The shape of the hull and the placement of the fighters allows this ship to operate as a tender while grounded (...on an airless moon, for instance), and systems which operate Bullfrogs often construct supply bunkers with this in mind.

Class Naming Practice/s: No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Warship - Fighter Tender:

1. Type VT class Fighter Tender
   1. Bullfrog class Fighter Tender

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This ship was originally designed using MegaTraveller ship design rules. Marc Miller. Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), .

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• Marc Miller. Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 56-89. (Design Sequence Used)
• EXTERNAL LINK: GypsyComet's Shipyard ^{dead link}
• Author & Contributor: James Kundert