SPECIFICATIONS


GOVERNMENT: LaGrange Colonial Republics
TYPE: Attack Shuttle
MODEL: Type-37/50 class
DATE INTRODUCED: 2137 AD  (refit 2150 AD to combat status)
LENGTH:  190 feet (57.9 meters)
WIDTH: 50 feet (15.24 meters)
HEIGHT: 80 feet (24.384 meters)
MATERIAL: Kevlar Composite
POWER PLANT:
                3x Belgarde Nuclear Reactor BNR-313K
                Belgarde Nuclear Reactor BNR-80M
OUTPUT:
                313 kilowatts (1181 kilowatts total)
                80 megawatts (powers laser cannon only)
ARMOR TYPE: Composite Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 750 tons
CREW: 42 (8 Pilots, 4 Gunners, 8 Technicians, 8 Electricians, 8 Engineers, 4 Officers, 2 Medical)

PROPULSION
             PRIMARY:
             3x OTRAG NEE-200-M10 nuclear electric engines
             SPEED: 811 mph each (2433 mph total)
             FUEL:  120 minutes each engine

             AUXILLIARY:
             38x OTRAG NEE-200-M.9
             SPEED: 80 mph each (Delta-V by arc: Forward: 640 mph, Aft: 640 mph, port/starboard: 480 mph, Dorsal/Ventral: 480 mph)
             FUEL: 93 minutes each engine

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             2x Bofors AC-S105 (105-millimeter); Effective Range: 6 miles; Payload: 150-round autoloading mechanical tray; ROF: up to 30 rounds per minute.

             SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
             4x MBDA STL-01A-4 missile tube/launchers; Missile Type: AAM-1000,  1000-pound computer guided anti-asteroid/ship torpedo/missile with 14.3-Kiloton yield nuclear warhead; Effective Range: 56 miles; Payload: 4 space torpedoes each; ROF: 1 or 2, or up to all 16 torpedoes at once for all 4 launchers.

             ASSAULT:
            1x Renault Research FF-LC-80 dual 40-megawatt laser cannon; Effective Range: 400 miles; Payload: unlimited; Rate of Fire: 1 dual blast per 10 seconds (6 dual blasts per minute)

ELECTRONICS:
             1x Radio Communications array with a 1200-mile range.
             1x Microwave radio Communications array with a 4000-mile range.
             1x RADAR sensor array with a range of 1000 miles.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
              1x En Garde Inc.  EG-ES-375 375-kilowatt electrostatic armor generator; RANGE: 15 feet; Effect: provides an electric armor that nullifies explosive weapons, and greatly reduces projectile weapon damage.

DESCRIPTION:
          Originally commissioned as a drilling/mining shuttle in 2137 AD by the LaGrange L4 colonial Republics, this spacecraft was refit in 2150 AD by the Gaullist government of LaGrange into an Attack Shuttle.  The 2150 AD refit included electro-static armor, a pair of 80 megawatt laser cannons in place of the old mining lasers, a pair of 105 mm autocannons were fitted to the nose section.  The four anti-asteroid missile launchers were retained due to their missile payload (two each launcher bringing the total to 8, which was standard at that time) being armed with nuclear warheads.  The Type-37/50 was a fine ship for the Great War period of the 2150s, but by the early 2160s the high-yield ion engine spacecraft of the Solar Empire outclassed this 2130s relic whose old thermonuclear engines simply could not propel these ships beyond the Earth Sphere.

NOTES:
This ship was inspired by the Eagle spacecraft from the 1970s TV show "Space 1999".