ORS R&D-Despot Wheeled Carrier
Name/Designation:D espot Wheeled CarrierLength:10m
Height:5m
Width:8m
Design: Aurora Arms-Ground Combat Division and Bakura Repulsor Co.
Troop Capacity:11
Crew:2 (1 Driver + 1 Gunner)
Weight: 60 Metric Tonnes
Weapons: 2 Aurora Arms Heavy Repeating Blaster(Turreted Dorsal), 2 Smoke Grenade Launchers(Turreted Starboard, Port), 1 Concussion Grenade Launcher(Turreted Starboard)
Shields:0 SBD
Hull:50 RU(shot in the dark I could be way over)
Speed:115 km/h
Special Devices:
Aurora Arms Foam-Filled Tires
The tires on the Despot are designed to be puncture-resistant. But in the odd chance that they are punctured the tires are filled with a quick sealing foam which is capable of supporting the weight of the Despot thus not affecting it's performance.
Repulsor Missile Defence System
Attack by starfighter/bombers or airspeeders is always a threat to ground vehicles. While they do have Anti-Aircraft Systems travelling with the Despot there is a chance that these systems could be knocked out thus forcing the Despot to rely on other means. In combination with the Bakura Repulsor Co. which has made hundreds of unique innovations into repulsor manufacture and design over the years especially in the field of miniturization, the Despot Wheeled Carrier will be outfitted with hundreds of tiny repulsor emittors placed across it's dorsal surfaces. These emittors are designed to be switched on by the driver only when missile attack is emminent because the increased power drain from the repulsors reduces the Despot's max speed to 60 km/h. The repulsors repell the missiles or grenades that are dropped/launched at the Despot. It has proven effective of decreasing the effectiveness of missile attacks by nearly 70%. The damage suffered is due to shockwaves from impacts not the actual impacts themselves.
Unloading Ramp(rear)
Commentary:
The Despot Wheeled Carrier is designed to complement the strengths and weaknesses of a mechanized infantry division in the Sovereignty Army. Currently such divisions rely on larger slower carriers such as the AT-AT walker. While the Carrier is not meant to phase out the AT-AT it is meant to address several concerns voiced by high-ranking army officials about the lack of fast, armoured personel carrier.
R&D Time:
20 Days
Start Date:2003.10.21
End Date:2003.11.10
Comments
#29 12:05am 27/10/03
I know it would get pretty far. But then it would stop and be pushed back up. Like a bouncing ball except it doesn't go back down once it's bounced.
#28 5:51am 26/10/03
Firing a bullet onto a body of water at an angle results in a skipping bullet. If you fire straight on (say, hanging from a helicopter) it goes in, and starts slowing down.
These things won't have any trouble deflecting an angled shot, just redirecting, however a missile going directly head on would get pretty close before the repulsor could stop it.
#27 5:51am 26/10/03
you fire a bullet into a lake, the bullet continues a short distance before its slowed to such a degree...
Imagine this:
=> Bullet
|| Water
=> ||
Bullet aproaches the water unabaited, full speed
|=>|
Bullet enters water, still traveling full speed but starting to suffer the effects of the thicker enviroment
|| =>
Bullet breaks the surface of the water and begins traveling at an incrementally reduced rate of speed, the new enviroment slowing it down to the point of null motion
Repulsar feilds can be liken to the water, the waves of gravitation pressing against projectiles in much the same way the water presses against the bullet.
#26 2:24am 26/10/03
Yes. Repulsors can lift an SSD, if you have a train of them six kilometres long (which you don't).
Gue: if you fire a bullet into a lake, it keeps going. If the repulsor power was such that it was like firing a gun into a piece of steel, then I can envision this as an able defence.
But the power required to stop that much energy, imo, would be more than a 5 -- or 50 -- meter craft can output.
#25 2:18am 26/10/03
Having never done that I can't give you an opinion however.
Repulsors can lift huge ships. An SSD for example weighs a @#%$ load. I think it makes up for the amount of energy your foot long missile has.
#24 1:22am 26/10/03
Consider firing a bullet into a lake..
#23 10:46pm 25/10/03
I'm not talking about weight. I'm talking about the kinetic energy inherent in an object travelling many thousands of meters per second.
#22 9:48pm 25/10/03
A)Bakuran's have the finest repulsors in the galaxy which have been designed to be unobtrusive.
B)"The Stack" in one of the NJO books was held up by a series of repulsors. It probably weighed a number of tons.
c)Missiles etc. weigh at most maybe half a ton.
d)There is very little range it can't reach way up it can only reach a few hundred meters up.
#21 6:18pm 25/10/03
I dunno how HIS imposter repulsors work, but I knew mine were a more powerful than the average industrial repulsar pad...
Something that can hold up a few thousand tons could surely stop something less than a ton traveling at high speed, if not slow it down incredably to the point it could be detonated beyond the sheilds...
#20 7:29am 25/10/03
I still doubt a repulsor could stop something moving at 40 000 km/s. Maybe, maybe, maybe, it might be able to detonate it prematurly... but I still doubt it.
#19 4:32am 25/10/03
We'll make it 80% effective. But that's a shockwave thing not an impact thing.
#18 3:52am 25/10/03
Still pending, Heir? Bump it if you want it approved...
Jan, tone down the effectiveness of the anti-missile system and I'll approve. Nothing is 100% efficient.
#17 3:46am 25/10/03
So how about them there stamp eh?
#16 3:39am 25/10/03
Yes sir, pending approval still :-P
not quite the original idea
#15 3:34am 25/10/03
Same thing as this, uses repulsor's to deflect and slow down missiles. He had researched it ages ago.
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