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Designation:
EH-505 Lance Reconnaissance Helicopter
I. Dimensions
Total Height : |
4.5 meters |
Total Length : |
10.2 meters |
Total Wingspan : |
10.5 meters |
Dry Weight : |
4.5 metric tons |
Operational Weight : |
6.2 metric tons |
II. Type
- Design: Messerschmidt G.m.B.H.
- Builders: Messerschmidt G.m.B.H.
- One man reconnaissance helicopter.
III Service Use
- Served with the RDF Marines and Army from 2052 and is still in service.
III. Propulsion
Engines:
- 2 x General Electric GE-T99 electrical turboshaft engines.
Max output, 2400 shp each.
Powerplant:
- 1 x RRD-2 Miniaturized fusion-cell energizer providing electrical power to
the mecha. Maximum output, 1800 kW each.
Fuel Capacity:
- 12 Standard Canisters of Reaction Mass
IV. Performance:
Maximum speed @ all altitudes : |
860 kph |
Service Ceiling : |
8000 meters |
Reaction Mass Supply : |
120 hours of operational use |
Design-g limits : |
9.5 G |
V. Sensory Systems:
Radar System:
- Hughes AN/APG-152 X-band pulse-Doppler radar, providing medium-range
detection and tracking of targets at all altitudes.
- 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
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:
Internal:
- 1 x Smith & Wesson 20mm six-barrel autocannon: This
powerful assault weapon located under
the nose on a traversable mount fires at 6000 rounds per minute with a 2000 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.
VIII. Armor:
The armor on the EH-505 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 Lance 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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