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Affiliation: Waste Rangers
Ownership: N/A Intent: The Intent of this is to provide the Waste Rangers with a fairly inexpensive though standardized Air Attack Vehicle which will primarily be used upon Zonju V for patrols and attack missions as well as potentially off world should we get a ship large enough to carry a few with their wings folded up. As it is an early starting vehicle it is very cheap, using much older though easy enough to replace or re build out of date technology. It is designed solely for fairly high mobility within an oxygen based environment. Model: AF-16 Ranger Custom. Size: 4.08m H x 11.99m W x 9.83m L Weight: 3,700Kg Armor Rating: Though lightly armoured, the Ranger custom is extremely hardy. Its external armour is on the weaker side of average, able to withstand low calibre weapons in the handgun to submachingun range as well as light blasters. The Engine block is the strongest part of the plane with the most armour, capable of shrugging off most shots from moderate power cartridges and blaster weapons without much an issue though repeated fire may quite possibly hit something important within the engine bay. The Cockpit possesses a few extra layers of armour packed between it and the skin allowing it to withstand shots from moderately powered catridges and blasters for a limited periof of time, a single shot though blocked likely compromising the armour around it for futher shots that land nearby. Overall, the airframe itself is extremely tough, even with a large number of holes running through the wings and tail sections without a huge issue until structural integrity is completley compromised. The most effective weapons against these planes are flak weapons and thermobaric missiles, both of which can cause severe damage to the plane without a whole lot of issue. Propulsion: The Ranger Custom is powered by a heavily modified 45 litre Rosenthal X-16RC engine outputting 2,600Kw of power on a 20% oxygen mixture of air. Armament/Equipment:
Description: The AF-16 Cropduster started as an Early Rosenthal production aiming to provide a cheap farming vehicle to farmers in areas where times were tough and costs needed to be kept to a minimum. In the beginning a number of technical challenges needed to be overcome in its research and development, going through many phases of research and development to reach the final project. After all, nobody with more than two brain cells to rub together had made such a vehicle in thousands of years. The initial development was based on the technology of much more primitive cultures that had been absorbed recently into the alliance, using schematics for their primitive warplanes as the basis for the project. Despite selling Millions upon millions of units galaxy wide, the low production costs for such a larger and expensive to ship Item lead to only marginal profits, leading the company to open source the specifications to the public while discontinuing production, allowing it to live on. The Ranger Custom, a derivative model, came into existence through the recovery and re-engineering of a number of scrapped stock AF-16 units. Through the tinkering of The Waste Ranger's resident mechanic, many modifications were made to make the plane into a higher quality warplane, suiting the Rangers low budget needs while providing an effective platform to be used on their home planet of Zonju V. The Modifications to it start at the frame itself, though mostly stock as far as the construction goes, dura steel tubing making up the majority, a number of reinforcements to it were made, in particular re-welding it all together with a phrik based alloy lending the joints, and by extension the frame itself, an incredible rigidness and integrity. The main skin, or Armour if you will, was constructed primarily from durasteel. The Internals such as the engine mounts and cockpit interior were framed with titanium to lower the weight and shift its center of gravity rearward towards the wings. At the heart of the beast lies the incredibly powerful Rosenthal X-16RC Engine, traditionally, this engine cranked out about 2,100 Kw of Power in a standard 20% Oxygen mixture. This engine though was also heavily modified, and not just to lighten it up. From the base up the engine was reworked. The Valve springd were replaced with beryllium ones, The cylinders were rebored and the pistons were replaced with high quality forged ones, capped off with an inexpensive phrik durasteel alloy to withstand much greater pressures. The Crankshaft was replaced with a much lighter one based upon a racing model. Fly wheel was replaced with a titanium variety, fuel systems were replaced entirely. Almost everything one could create or otherwise find lying around for aftermarket parts was created. And finally, another thing was added, a special War Emergency Power system that fed additional pure oxygen normally intended for occupants into the engine itself for an increase in power quivalent to the percentage increase. Overall, this ranges from its base power of 2,600 Kw to nearly 10,000 Kw when taking full oxygen intake, something that would last a mere ten seconds at most. Interestingly, the plane was designed with a system to allow it to operate both as a biplane, and a monoplane. The lower set of wings aren't so much attached to the frame as they are hooked onto it, for ejection should one need to cut the drag and speed up. The initial reasoning for this was simple enough, More space on the wings was more space that equipment could be loaded, additional space for external fuel tanks or even cargo drops without needing to take up space that would otherwise be better put to use fitting weapons and other machinery it could carry. In terms of the actual weaponry it can carry, the AF-16 was designed not with any specific weapon in mind, but rather a number of hard points upon which equipment, or in the rangers case weaponry, could be added or taken away. Things both built by the company and systems that the individual tinkerers had dreampt up. The Ranger version is equipped with a built in weapon though, a pair of machine guns in front of the cockpit aimed through archaic means. In terms of hardpoints, it has eight in total. Two on the bottoms of the top wings, Two on the bottom of the bottom wings, two which exist in the corners where the top wing meets the plane, And two more running along the bottom side of the plane itself. Technologically the planes themselves are, currently, fairly technologically backwards. They feature no real electronics and those it has are largely based upon much the much older vacuum tube model of electronics, which despite rendering it almost immune to electro magnetic interference leaves leaves it without many capabilities. The Interior of the cockpit is mostly analogue gauges and the like displaying everything from engine speed, altitude, temperature, oxygen levels, RPM, and ammunition counts, albeit likely inaccurately at best. Aside from a fancy pants radio, the most technologically advanced thing the plane has is an array of repulsors that exist to assist the plane in landing and allowing for vertical take offs, which exist along the bottoms of the wings, the bottoms of the main body, itself, and on the top of the wings for emergency use. It also possesses a basic off the shelf sensor system for detecting nearby moving objects, this though is routed separately from the plane and wirelessly broadcasts to a cheap datapad within the cockpit. |
| MANUFACTURER: | Rosenthal Galactic/Scalia Gray |
| PRODUCTION: | AF Series Crop Duster |
| MODEL: | AF-16 Crop Duster V1 |
| DESIGNATION: | AF-16 Ranger Custom |
| AFFILIATION: | Waste Rangers |
| AVAILABILITY: | Special Order/Open Source |
| MODULARITY: | High |
| COMPOSITION: | Durasteel, Titanium, Various |
| OWNERSHIP: | None |
| DESCRIPTION: | The AF-16 Cropduster started as an Early Rosenthal production aiming to provide a cheap farming vehicle to farmers in areas where times were tough and costs needed to be kept to a minimum. In the beginning a number of technical challenges needed to be overcome in its research and development, going through many phases of research and development to reach the final project. After all, nobody with more than two brain cells to rub together had made such a vehicle in thousands of years. The initial development was based on the technology of much more primitive cultures that had been absorbed recently into the alliance, using schematics for their primitive warplanes as the basis for the project. Despite selling Millions upon millions of units galaxy wide, the low production costs for such a larger and expensive to ship Item lead to only marginal profits, leading the company to open source the specifications to the public while discontinuing production, allowing it to live on. The Ranger Custom, a derivative model, came into existence through the recovery and re-engineering of a number of scrapped stock AF-16 units. Through the tinkering of The Waste Ranger's resident mechanic, many modifications were made to make the plane into a higher quality warplane, suiting the Rangers low budget needs while providing an effective platform to be used on their home planet of Zonju V. The Modifications to it start at the frame itself, though mostly stock as far as the construction goes, dura steel tubing making up the majority, a number of reinforcements to it were made, in particular re-welding it all together with a phrik based alloy lending the joints, and by extension the frame itself, an incredible rigidness and integrity. The main skin, or Armour if you will, was constructed primarily from durasteel. The Internals such as the engine mounts and cockpit interior were framed with titanium to lower the weight and shift its center of gravity rearward towards the wings. At the heart of the beast lies the incredibly powerful Rosenthal X-16RC Engine, traditionally, this engine cranked out about 2,100 Kw of Power in a standard 20% Oxygen mixture. This engine though was also heavily modified, and not just to lighten it up. From the base up the engine was reworked. The Valve springd were replaced with beryllium ones, The cylinders were rebored and the pistons were replaced with high quality forged ones, capped off with an inexpensive phrik durasteel alloy to withstand much greater pressures. The Crankshaft was replaced with a much lighter one based upon a racing model. Fly wheel was replaced with a titanium variety, fuel systems were replaced entirely. Almost everything one could create or otherwise find lying around for aftermarket parts was created. And finally, another thing was added, a special War Emergency Power system that fed additional pure oxygen normally intended for occupants into the engine itself for an increase in power quivalent to the percentage increase. Overall, this ranges from its base power of 2,600 Kw to nearly 10,000 Kw when taking full oxygen intake, something that would last a mere ten seconds at most. Interestingly, the plane was designed with a system to allow it to operate both as a biplane, and a monoplane. The lower set of wings aren't so much attached to the frame as they are hooked onto it, for ejection should one need to cut the drag and speed up. The initial reasoning for this was simple enough, More space on the wings was more space that equipment could be loaded, additional space for external fuel tanks or even cargo drops without needing to take up space that would otherwise be better put to use fitting weapons and other machinery it could carry. In terms of the actual weaponry it can carry, the AF-16 was designed not with any specific weapon in mind, but rather a number of hard points upon which equipment, or in the rangers case weaponry, could be added or taken away. Things both built by the company and systems that the individual tinkerers had dreampt up. The Ranger version is equipped with a built in weapon though, a pair of machine guns in front of the cockpit aimed through archaic means. In terms of hardpoints, it has eight in total. Two on the bottoms of the top wings, Two on the bottom of the bottom wings, two which exist in the corners where the top wing meets the plane, And two more running along the bottom side of the plane itself. Technologically the planes themselves are, currently, fairly technologically backwards. They feature no real electronics and those it has are largely based upon much the much older vacuum tube model of electronics, which despite rendering it almost immune to electro magnetic interference leaves leaves it without many capabilities. The Interior of the cockpit is mostly analogue gauges and the like displaying everything from engine speed, altitude, temperature, oxygen levels, RPM, and ammunition counts, albeit likely inaccurately at best. Aside from a fancy pants radio, the most technologically advanced thing the plane has is an array of repulsors that exist to assist the plane in landing and allowing for vertical take offs, which exist along the bottoms of the wings, the bottoms of the main body, itself, and on the top of the wings for emergency use. It also possesses a basic off the shelf sensor system for detecting nearby moving objects, this though is routed separately from the plane and wirelessly broadcasts to a cheap datapad within the cockpit. |
| CLASSIFICATION: | Fighter Plane |
| HEIGHT: | 4.08m |
| WIDTH: | 11.99m |
| LENGTH: | 9.83m |
| WEIGHT: | 3,700Kg |
| POWER SOURCE: | Rosenthal X-16RC Engine, Alternator |
| HYPERDRIVE RATING: | N/A |
| OPERATIONAL CEILING: | 14 Km |
| COMBAT RADIUS: | 900 Km |
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| PASSENGER CAPCITY: | N/A* |
| CARGO CAPACITY: | N/A** |
| CONSUMABLES: | N/A |
| SPEED: | 700-800Km/h*** |
| MANEUVERABILITY: | High-Extreme |
| ROLE: | Air Superiority |
| COST: | 5,000 Used, Base 9,500, Used, Armed |
| INTENT: | The Intent of this is to provide the Waste Rangers a low end, cheap, standardized air attack vehicle that can be used primarily on Zonju V for mission purposes both defensive and offensive. This will also be deployed off world on other planets to some extent, when we get a ship capable of carrying two or three with their wings up. |
*Whoever you can fit.
**Whatever you can fit
***Dependent on Hardpoint Equipment/Speed at Sea Level
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