Combat Vehicle Technical Readout

Name/Model:         Dragonfly Attack Helicopter
Designer:           Rudel Gurken
Source(s):          Custom Mordel.Net Units
Technology:         Inner Sphere
Technology Rating:  D
Tonnage:            30
Configuration:      Combat Vehicle
Era/Year:           Star League / 2560
Rules (Current):    Standard
Rules (Era):        Standard
Rules (Year):       Standard
Total Cost:         1,564,000 C-Bills
Battle Value:       663

Movement Type:        VTOL
Power Plant:          GM 190 
Cruising Speed:       118.8 kph 
Maximum Speed:        183.6 kph 
Armor:                FiberTech Medium
Armament:             
    1 Magna Hellstar PPC
Manufacturer:         Yelm Weapons
    Primary Factory:  Fletcher
Communications:       Johnston Wide Band
Targeting & Tracking: NIRAD 210

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Overview:
    Yelm Weapons of Fletcher, then producer of the Nightshade ECM VTOL for the SLDF, was asked
    to design a series of Helicopters for use in militias and standard line regiments.
    One would have to be a heavy weight attack helicopter bringing the Magna Hellstar PPC into
    the air. It should use a standard fusion engine and standard weapons and equipment (to save
    cost and, as VTOLs tend to get lost over enemy territory, to reduce the risk of high tech
    falling into the enemies hands).
    Yelm answered with the Dragonfly.

Capabilities:
    The Dragonfly carries a formidable PPC into battle. More heavily armored than most other
    VTOLs of its time and with a speed rivaling even VTOLs half its size this attack helicopter
    (that had better been classified as gunship) gives even mech-jocks a headache. Mostly
    piloted by experienced VTOL crews it lingers at the edge of the battle rapidly switching
    positions and delivering precize heavy hits.
    Its armored searchlight illuminates enemy units from afar to aid its own fire but also that
    of friendly units.

Deployment:
    Several hundred were produced for the SLDF and well liked by their crews. Its star began to
    sink as new weapons made their way onto the battlefields: The ER large laser and later the
    ER PPC made it difficult for the Drangonflies to stay out of effectiv counterfire range.
    At the end of the 3rd Succession War only a handfull survives destuction and salvaging
    mostly around the Draconis Combine / Outworld Alliance border for whatever reason.

Variants:
    In its lifetime some field modification were done to individual machines: Swapping the PPC
    for an ER large laser and two more heat sinks and/or replacing the standard armor with ferro
    fibrous or ferro aluminium armor.

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Equipment                                                             Mass                      
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Internal Structure:                          Standard                  3.00                     
Engine:                                     190 Fusion                11.50                     
    Cruising MP:                                11                                              
    Flanking MP:                                17                                              
Heat Sinks (Single):                            10                     0.00                     
Control Equipment:                                                     1.50                     
Lift Equipment:                                                        3.00                     
Power Amplifier:                                                       0.00                     
Turret:                                                                0.00                     
Armor Factor:                                   56                     3.50                     
    Type:                                    Standard                                           

                                              Armor                                             
                                              Value                                             
    Front:                                      18                                              
    R/L Side:                                   13                                              
    Rear:                                       10                                              
    Rotor:                                      2                                               

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Weapons and Ammo                                            Location              Tonnage       
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PPC                                                           Front                7.00         
Searchlight, Mounted                                          Front                0.50         

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Alpha Strike Statistics                                                    
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Point Value (PV): 21
TP: CV,  SZ: 1,  TMM: 4,  MV: 22"v
Damage: (S) 1 / (M) 1 / (L) 1
Armor (A): 2,  Structure (S): 2
Specials: ATMO, ENE, SRCH