Firefighting Chopper
Mass: 30 tons
Movement Type: VTOL
Power Plant: Fuel Cell
Cruising Speed: 75.6 kph
Maximum Speed: 118.8 kph
Armor: BAR 4
Armament:
Communication System: Unknown
Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown
Introduction Year: 3000
Tech Rating/Availability: D/X-E-D-D
Cost: 352,088 C-bills
Type: Firefighting Chopper
Chassis Type: VTOL (Medium)
Technology Base: Inner Sphere (Standard)
Mass: 30 tons
Battle Value: 62
Equipment Mass (tons)
Chassis/Controls 13.5
Engine/Trans. 4.0
Cruise MP:7
Flank MP:11
Heat Sinks 0 0.0
Fuel 1.0
Armor Factor (BAR 4) 19 0.5
Internal Armor
Structure Value
Front 2 6
R/L Side 2/2 4/4
Rear 2 3
Rotor 2 2
Weapons
and Ammo Location Tonnage
None
Cargo
Bay 1: Cargo (Liquid) (5.915 tons)1 Door
Notes:
Features Amphibious Chassis and Controls Modification
Fluid Suction System[Standard](1 ton)
Recon Camera(0.5 tons)
Lift Hoist/Arresting Hoist(3 tons)
I came up with this one a bit ago. Essentially trying to figure out the ways that firefighting can be conducted with battletech technology. This particular helicopter is able to carry 5915 liters of water or flame retardant in an internal bay with a door that allows it to be dumped out onto a flame. A recon camera feeds detailed information back to the firefighting crew which allows them to line up an optimum flight path and/or detect any problematic hotspots to dump their load on if they haven't yet been tasked with perimeter control.
The helicopter is amphibious which allows the chopper to land in a body of water in order to use the fluid suction system to suck up tremendous amounts of water from any local body of the stuff so that it doesn't need to go back to an airport to fill back up.
Now according to Bambi's pamphlet, the dry mass of a 10,000 liter bambi bucket has a dry mass of 240 kg. If I assume that's with Tech C construction, this chopper should be able to carry a 14500 liter Tech D bambi bucket, something over twice the chopper's internal capacity which is great for perimeter construction, but if you're on hotspot control you need to get down closer to the flames for the same accuracy.
It uses a Fuel Cell engine in the 3000s because that gives it more weight to work with and while fuel cells are unreliable in combat until the clan invasion era, the most combat this chopper is likely to see would be mentally unstable randos with shotguns assuming the police don't pounce on them first for transfer to an asylum, and that's in the absolute worst possible scenario.
