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Aerospace / A Boondoggle Monsoon

« Last post by Wildfire on Today at 17:18:19 »

Okay been bored and playing around with meklab and thought I'd see what I could do if I was one of those nostaligic Admirals upgrading an anicent hull.

I rationalised teh NAC's to just NAC/20 and added a few more to allow bracketing where able. Added AMS and NL45 in 5 bay lots to all locations as a keep away I can still hurt you guesture. My normal max armour and a comm scanner, I left the N-PPC bays and missle launcher alone

Oh and I gave it a speed boost to keep up with the young whipper snappers :)

Monsoon Battleship (LF) (2700)
Mass: 1,310,000 tons
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Advanced)
Introduced: 2700
Mass: 1,310,000
Battle Value: 193,549
Tech Rating/Availability: E/E-X-E-F
Cost: 27,983,706,000 C-bills

Fuel: 6,000 tons (15,000)
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Sail Integrity: 6
KF Drive Integrity: 26
Heat Sinks: 3525 (7050)
Structural Integrity: 90

Armor
    Nose: 528
    Fore Sides: 434/434
    Aft Sides: 386/386
    Aft: 244

Cargo
    Bay 1:  Fighter (18)            2 Doors   
    Bay 2:  Small Craft (8)         2 Doors   
    Bay 3:  Cargo (184055.0 tons)   1 Door    

Ammunition:
    1,920 rounds of Anti-Missile System [IS] ammunition (160 tons), 
    60 rounds of White Shark ammunition (2,400 tons), 
    2,400 rounds of NAC/20 ammunition (4 tons)

Dropship Capacity: 6
Grav Decks: 3 (95 m, 65 m, 55 m)
Escape Pods: 12
Life Boats: 32
Crew:  102 officers, 420 enlisted/non-rated, 87 gunners, 76 bay personnel

Notes: Equipped with
    lithium-fusion battery system
    1 Naval Comm-Scanner Suite (Large)
   2,358 tons of lamellor ferro-carbide armor.

Weapons:                                       Capital Attack Values (Standard)
Arc (Heat)                                 Heat  SRV     MRV     LRV      ERV    Class       
Nose (1,030 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
4 Naval PPC (Medium)                       540  36(360) 36(360) 36(360) 36(360)  Capital PPC 
1 Capital Missile Launcher (White Shark)   15   3(30)   3(30)   3(30)    3(30)   Capital Missile
    White Shark Ammo (20 shots)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
FRS/FLS (895 Heat)
3 Naval PPC (Medium)                       405  27(270) 27(270) 27(270) 27(270)  Capital PPC 
1 Capital Missile Launcher (White Shark)   15   3(30)   3(30)   3(30)    3(30)   Capital Missile
    White Shark Ammo (20 shots)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
RBS/LBS (715 Heat)
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
3 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                180  60(600) 60(600) 60(600)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (300 shots)
3 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                180  60(600) 60(600) 60(600)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (300 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
ARS/ALS (880 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
3 Naval PPC (Medium)                       405  27(270) 27(270) 27(270) 27(270)  Capital PPC 
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser
Aft (1,015 Heat)
2 Naval Autocannon (NAC/20)                120  40(400) 40(400) 40(400)   0(0)   Capital AC  
    NAC/20 Ammo (200 shots)
4 Naval PPC (Medium)                       540  36(360) 36(360) 36(360) 36(360)  Capital PPC 
5 Anti-Missile System                       5   2(15)    0(0)    0(0)     0(0)   AMS         
    Anti-Missile System Ammo [IS] (240 shots)
5 Naval Laser 45                           350  23(225) 23(225) 23(225) 23(225)  Capital Laser

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Fan Fiction / Re: With A Bared Sword (AU)

« Last post by FedRatCowboy on Today at 17:11:35 »

Do we know if Romano Laio is still kicking or is she taking the forever dirt nap yet?

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Aerospace / Re: A (Royal?) Titan in 2750

« Last post by Wildfire on Today at 17:10:46 »

1.  Ouch, doesn't that DRASTICALLY alter the price tag?
  IIRC I tried that on an Overlord-Command & it was crazy bad.   Better to keep them on Warships IMO.

2.  If your refitting to Royal you might as well go all in & do Gauss & MPLs too for better range/accuracy.

1. Yes though if they can build 240 McKenna's i think they can afford a few expensive dropships :) this is a royal upgrade so not for the whole fleet just some of it and probably the mjority would have been in deployed in importnat systems only.

2. Will try that, I didn't before becasue it split the laser bays but might as well give it a stab.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: 3rd Succession War info?

« Last post by SteelRaven on Today at 17:09:35 »

Everyone just assumed they found a SLDF stash, ComStar used the Jolly Roger affair and the Dragoons arrival as a excuse to purge the higher ups that they blamed for the screw up which lead to hard liners taking more power.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Thought Exercise - Capellan Confederation TO&E

« Last post by Hellraiser on Today at 16:57:12 »

the Augmented Regiment has a battalion of 'Mechs with combat vehicles and two battalions of 'Mechs with battle armor. 

Where is that from?

Last I read it was just that an "Augmented-Regiment" contained "1 to 3 Augmented-Battalions"

But nothing about it being all 3 & that its a 1/2 split?

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Thought Exercise - Capellan Confederation TO&E

« Last post by MadCapellan on Today at 16:44:12 »

Hellraiser has the right of it - the Augmented Regiment has a battalion of 'Mechs with combat vehicles and two battalions of 'Mechs with battle armor. Both is not really aeen in the same battalion.

Do you have a preferred formation weight & combat role? Should this be a cavalry battalion? A battle line? Skirmishers?

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Aerospace / Re: A (Royal?) Titan in 2750

« Last post by Hellraiser on Today at 16:42:16 »

The fluff mentions being used as a system picket at time so a squeezed in a Naval Comm-Scanner Suite to help with that role.

Ammunition:
    80 rounds of AC/20 ammunition (16 tons), 
2 Medium Laser                           6   1(10)    0(0)    0(0)    0(0)  Laser       

1.  Ouch, doesn't that DRASTICALLY alter the price tag?
  IIRC I tried that on an Overlord-Command & it was crazy bad.   Better to keep them on Warships IMO.

2.  If your refitting to Royal you might as well go all in & do Gauss & MPLs too for better range/accuracy.

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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Mercenaries Kickstarter Discussion 7: Inbound From Jump Point

« Last post by Dynodragon on Today at 16:39:40 »

Unholy fracking crap, I just got a final address confirmation email (UK), which said any changes need to be done by the 11th, which would give an, at least, bare minimum potential shipping date (any time from next week onwards); it's not much, admittedly, but is maybe some sign of movement in the next few weeks...?.

I’m in the UK as well and I got exactly the same email, it’s not a mirage is it?

I’m still expecting delivery to not take place until next year.

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Off Topic / Re: Aviation Pictures: A-Seven-th Thread--CorsAirin' Through Time and Airspace

« Last post by Hellraiser on Today at 16:39:01 »

*F-22s are supposed to be surprisingly short-legged. The F119 engines pack a lot of thrust, but their specific fuel consumption can lag the older GE F110/P&W F100 engines

You don't need to be up there long when you can ground half the enemy air force in under an hour 


OR............  when your nation has the largest logistical network on the planet.




OR Both.

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Off Topic / Re: Aviation Pictures: A-Seven-th Thread--CorsAirin' Through Time and Airspace

« Last post by chanman on Today at 16:29:11 »

The more I see those bare engines, the more i think "stealth from the front" is the game. The J-20's idea is to sneak up towards AWACS and the like & launch telephone-pole sized missiles (think Phoenix on steroids) at them; once they've launched & turn away, stealth doesn't matter as much.

No one's repeated the flat exhaust shape of the F-22/YF-23 for fighters (although they seem pretty common for UAVs). My guess is that they might have a fairly negative effect on engine efficiency* and/or afterburner performance and/or heat dissipation. The usual approach to reducing RCS from the engine** seems to be to serrate the edges of the engine nozzle

*F-22s are supposed to be surprisingly short-legged. The F119 engines pack a lot of thrust, but their specific fuel consumption can lag the older GE F110/P&W F100 engines

**The nozzles are probably the least of the Su-57's problems given the huge expanses of bare metal around the rear of the engines. Given how tightly the airframe follows the engines, maybe it's a heat dissipation issue