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Designation:
AH-88 Tomahawk Attack Helicopter Gunship
I. Dimensions
Total Height : |
5.5 meters |
Total Length : |
15.2 meters |
Total Wingspan : |
10.5 meters |
Dry Weight : |
8.5 metric tons |
Operational Weight : |
metric tons |
II. Type
- Design: Messerschmidt G.m.B.H.
- Builders: Messerschmidt G.m.B.H.
- Two man heavy attack helicopter.
III Service Use
- Served with the RDF Marines and Army from 2050 and is still in service.
III. Propulsion
Engines:
- 2 x Rolls Royce Gem 50 electrical turbo shaft engines.
Max output, 3000 shp each.
Powerplant:
- 1 x RRD-2 Miniaturized fusion-cell energizer providing electrical power to
the mecha. Maximum output, 1400 kW each.
Fuel Capacity:
- 12 Standard canisters of reaction mass.
IV. Performance:
Maximum speed @ all altitudes : |
480 kph |
Service Ceiling : |
5000 meters |
Reaction Mass Supply : |
120 hours of operational use |
Design-g limits : |
9.5 G |
V. Sensory Systems:
Radar System:
- Hughes AN/TPG-152 medium range UWB phased array pulse-Doppler, for
detection and tracking of targets, and with battlefield surveillance modes.
- Westinghouse AN/APX-16 IFF secondary surveillance transponder
Optical tracking:
- Phillips AN/DOS-3200 multi-band digital camera system, for medium range
traversable UV, infra-red imaging and optical band detection and tracking;
- Hughes AN/HCEP-9 with infra-red imagers
- Thomson AN/ LT-7 multi-frequency laser ranger and designator.
Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):
- Loral AN/ALR-26 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
- Loral AN/AIR-15 Infra-red Warning Receiver (IRWR)
- General Electric AN/ALQ-278(V) internal countermeasures system
- Tracor AN/ALE-16 Chaff/Flare Dispensers
- Westinghouse AN/AMJ-6 Active Missile Jammers
- Multiple VHF and UHF antennas
VI. Armament:
Cannon:
- 2 x Smith & Wesson 35mm autocannons: This pair of
autocannons form the primary armor busting weapons for the helicopter.
Mounted on either side of the helicopter, firing at 1000 rounds per minute,
each cannon has a 1000 round belt feed. Ammunition is a mix of Tungsten-coated
depleted Uranium Armor Piercing Spin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APSSDS),
High Explosive Armor Piercing (HEAP) and tracer rounds.
- 1 x Colt M-62 12.7mm triple barreled machinegun:
The 12.7mm machinegun is the standard weapon for anti-personnel encounters.
Firing standard and tracer rounds at 1500 rounds/minute this weapon is capable
of devastating entire formations of troops. Armor piercing capabilities are
minimal, restricted to a few centimeters of armor even at point-blank range.
Ammunition supply of 2000 rounds. Weapon is mounted under the nose in a
traversable mount.
Four wing hardpoints can each carry:
VIII. Armor:
The armor on the AH-88 is a low-mass lunarium tungsten composite plating that
is the standard for most Terran mecha. Aside from the good protection provided
against projectiles, missiles, and other kinetic weapons, this armor is also
resistant to plasma globes (annihilation discs), lasers, and fair against,
particle guns too, owing to the fact that the armor can flake off and evaporate
in layers under fire from such high-energy weapons, taking much of the weapon's
energy and converting it into the latent heat of sublimation in the armor. The
armor stops all small arms fire, and has good resistance to all weapons commonly
mounted on combat mecha.
The Tomahawk provides full protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical
hazards, using an overpressure environment activated by radiation and hazardous
chemical sensors, or manually when biological warfare conditions are
anticipated. The internal consumables supplies can provide atmosphere for six
days maximum.
IX. Development:
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Content by Jeffrey R. Spillner
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