Quorra class CAS Plane
| Quorra class CAS Plane | |
|---|---|
 Quorra class CAS Plane | |
| Tech Level | TL–5 |
| Mass | 10 tons |
| Cost | 210,401.5539 |
| Mode | Flight (Propellor Aircraft) |
| Type | Close Support and Transport Vehicle |
| Speed | 300kph |
| Cargo | 0 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Passengers | 12 |
| Armament | (12) 250kg HE Bombs, (2) 2cm Autocannons, Quad MMGs in the tail gunner's turret |
| Reference | Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr. |
| Striker Design Sequence Used | |
The Quorra class CAS Plane is a combatant Aircraft.
- It is a military vehicle and is used for close air support and to insert small units of airborne commandos.
- It was commissioned and designed for Bezik Dragoon Guards Regiment.
Description (Specifications)
Quorra class CAS Plane (TECH LEVEL 5) used by the conscripted occupational force known as the Bezik Dragoon Guards Regiment: The vehicle has a crew of 3, a pilot, co-pilot/radio operator, and a tail gunner/crew chief in two simple cockpits and a crew station. It can carry 12 passengers, usually airborne commandos fitted with parachutes. Equipped with simple controls in a simple airframe. It can carry (12) 250kg HE bombs between its two underwing bomb racks. It carries two forward firing 2cm single barreled, high velocity, gas operated autocannons, one in the leading edge of each wing. The tail gunner mans a quad turret with four MMGs.
Basic Vehicle Characteristics
- Vehicle volume: loaded combat ready 600m3, with wings removed for transport loaded 200m3.
- Total mass: 10 tons empty, loaded: 13 ton.
- Production Cost: Cr. 210,401.5539
- Movement:
- Loaded Maximum 300kph/250cm, Cruise 225kph/187cm, Minimum 140kph/117cm.
- Movement effect on fire: None
- Damage Points: 10
- Agility: 3
- Turns: 45o
- Equipment: map box with GPS, basic ECM, the pilot has on-demand thermal vision integral to their flight helmet, 40 power target acquisition RADAR, and a 1,000 power radio.
- Power: The simple airframe mounts 0.014705882MW basic turboprop engines producing 0.294117647 tons of thrust and consuming 0.088235292 liters of fuel per hour, internal fuel capacity 604.63529 liters, enough for 6,852.5 hours or 285 days. Thrust to weight produce 0.25G's loaded. Range: loaded 1,541,820km on internal fuel.
- Weapons:
- There is a stabilized air-cooled laser rifle in a ventral targeting pod under the nose. This laser can be used for target designating the cluster bomb. It can engage a single target, and has a battery for 100 shots. Its direct fire characteristics are:
- Effective Long Extreme
- 18(9) 36(4) 180(1)
- There is a 250kg bomb hardpoint under the fuselage. The typical load is (1) 250kg laser guided iron bomb with 30cm CBM warheads 21/9 +12DM. They cost Cr 2,850 each and one is included in the plane's price.
- There are two wing tip 29.3kg capacity TAC missile launch rails. There is no on-board guidance provided. The missiles have a homing guidance package. They mount 18cm HEAP 50 warheads, ill suited for the air-to-air role, but ideal for anti-tank work. The missiles cost Cr350.8 each and have a 17km range. Two missiles are included in the price.
- Maintenance:
- Vehicle: 12
- Electronics: 18
- Weapons: 4
History & Background (Dossier)
These crude TL–5 propeller driven airplanes are designed as a jack of all trades, they function as light transports of a 12 man squad of airborne paratroopers, light bombers with three tons of heavy bombs, and attack planes with twin autocannon for strafing surface targets of opportunity. are essentially the same planes as the C-47 Gooney Bird class Light VTOL Scout Planes with a different payload package and mission profile. An initial order of four custom proto-type Valiant class VTOL Recon Scout Planes planes was made. Pam felt she needed a tiny recon drones. These were unavailable and she was forced to use small manned platforms. Their primary function is to find targets with their 40km range RADAR. They first saw combat in her inaugural mercenary ticket for use on Aramanx/Aramis (Spinward Marches 3005). Rumor is she plans to acquire another as soon as finances permit. These were designed for a mercenary Dream Ticket, to be built with money provided upfront by Sternmetal Horizons an interested megacorporation. The total unit budget was MCr30. They are envisioned to be barebones, the minimum plane at the lowest price. It has an advantage of its VTOL maneuverability to elude more conventional interceptors sent against it. The basic ECM makes it a little more difficult to target with native RADAR, with their avionics package they can fly in a low profile nape of earth attack mode. Skilled forward observers are required to coordinate these planes for close air support.
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- Striker Design Sequence Used
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science