Albisat Alssahri
Albisat Alssahri
Mass: 1000 tons
Tech Base: Inner Sphere
Rules Level:
Chassis: Large Airship
Power Plant: Class F Fusion
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Armor: BAR 8
Armament:
18 RISC Advanced PDS
120 ton Internal Bomb Bay
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Equipment Type Rating Mass
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Structural Integrity: Class F Fusion 20 198
Engine: 78
Safe Thrust: 3
Max Thrust: 5
Armor: Class F BAR 8 139 6
Bays:
Bay 1: 2 Superheavy Vehicle Bays 1 Door 400
2 Arresting Lift Hoists 6
Bay 2: Infantry Compartment (100 tons) 1 Door 100
4-100m Ladders 2
Bay 3: Internal Bomb Bay (120 Tons) 6 Doors 120
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Equipment Location Mass
3 RISC Advanced PDS Fore 9
3 RISC Advanced PDS FR/L 18
3 RISC Advanced PDS AR/L 18
3 RISC Advanced PDS Aft 9
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Ammo
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RISC Advanced PDS 432 rounds 36
The Albisat Alssahri, a.k.a. 'Magic Carpet' is one of the few large airship support vehicles designed to actually engage in combat. Primarily it carries up to two 200 ton vehicles or small craft, and up to 100 tons of battle armor. It can deploy these at nearly any altitude that isn't approaching the vacuum of space. It has 4 retractable ladders which allow infantry to even re-board the ship without it landing.
It carries an array of advanced point defense systems, which not only protect it from incoming missile fire, but also a massive area around it also, forcing enemies to find other ways of engaging the ship, and anything under it's protection.
It's armor is BAR 8, nearly the heaviest armor an airship can carry, and thick enough to prevent even large lasers from penetrating the ship's hull.
Other than the vessel's passengers, it's primary armament is a massive internal bomb bay system, which has doors in multiple places across the ship, allowing it to deploy ordnance against almost any target, from HE Bombs dropped on ground units, to Air-to-Air missiles deployed against enemy aircraft. The ship even has doors on the top for this bay, which if it ascends to a high enough altitude, allow it to engage space-borne vessels with anti-ship missiles.
Weighing in at 1000 tons, this airship is a very cheap alternative for planetary defense. (sorry, did this by hand and was too lazy to calculate BV or C-bill cost, but it is gonna be a lot cheaper than most things that can deploy capital missiles, which is what an anti-ship missile basically is).
With the rise of retrotech in the inner sphere, this airship was developed to aid in planetary defense around the boarders of the Fortress Republic, and has seen action against several capellan raids. Currently only a few RCTs have one of these supporting their infantry regiments. (I'll admit, I am not even sure if the Republic even has any infantry regiments along it's boarder with the capellans, so let me know if I should correct that)