Approved Tech Guernica ordnance launcher

[Jessica Med-Beq]

A Guernica fitted with three bombs the size of a medium Deathball

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Intent: To provide an ordnance launcher capable of fitting multiple sizes of ordnance for a future starfighter submission
Development Thread: If necessary
Manufacturer: Ringovinda Systems
Model: Guernica ordnance launcher
Affiliation: Open market
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-Produced.
Material: Quadanium, standard missile launcher components
Classification: Proton bomb launcher
Size: Starfighter-mounted
Length: 4.3 meters
Weight: 2 tons (empty)
Ammunition Type: Starfighter-mounted ordnance
Ammunition Capacity: One of the following:

• 2 heavy Deathballs or Tearstunners
• 4 medium Deathballs or Tearstunners
• 8 standard proton bombs (light Deathballs or Tearstunners)
• 16 standard proton torpedoes or concussion missiles

Effective Range: Starfighter-mounted ordnance standard
Rate of Fire: Single action, once every 2 seconds
Special Features: Can fit any starfighter ordnance up to 3.8 meters long and 533 mm wide: if it fits, it fires so long as the entire launcher is loaded with a particular type of weapon

Strengths:

- Able to fit a wide variety of ordnance, both in type and caliber

Weaknesses:

- Can only fit one type ofordnance at a time
- Targeting options are limited by the ordnance loaded in it and those of the launch platform
- Bulky
- Limited to bombers, in which case it counts for 2 standard bomb bays

Description: This ordnance launcher is designed in order to mount the medium and heavy Deathballs and Tearstunners internally, rendering their launch platforms less vulnerable by virtue of presenting smaller targets. In effect, it negates the need for medium and heavy Deathballs and Tearstunners to rely on external mounts to be used, unlike most bombers equipped with the Flex-Tube proton torpedo launcher or equivalent, which can only fit ordnance up to 203 mm wide. In a bid to cut costs, Ringovinda Systems eschewed equipping the launcher with its own targeting computer, instead relying on the targeting computer onboard the launch platform for targeting the ordnance launched.

Possible applications include bombers whose operators value the ability to fit multiple calibers of ordnance for different mission profiles, more than just different types of ordnance, giving them more flexibility than the Flex-Tube, albeit with no gain in capacity. It can launch a standard proton torpedo or concussion missile every two seconds (and also the same could be said for fitting larger-caliber weapons like the Deathballs or Tearstunners).

 

[ADM. Reshmar]

RESEARCH REVIEW
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Star Wars Canon:
Pending initial review
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Starwars Chaos:
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WITHOUT DEV THREADS
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WITH DEV THREADS
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SUGGESTIONS
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[ADM. Reshmar]

[member="Charzon Loulan"]

ok a few issues.

first this will break your previous submissions as they have a clear weakness and this is bypassing that weakness.

I am not outright saying it can not be done but it will need some limitations

It is big and would not fit in most fighters if you think about the area they have inside them for stuff, But this is star wars and we have space magic.

A fighter can have a space bomb launcher with 2 proton bombs in it. They basiclly take the place of a launcher with 4 warheads. So technically a Fighter can carry 4 proton bombs. if it has no missile or torp launchers. So if your light bomb is equal to a standard proton bomb that would be what the standard bomb bay would hold. Thus a bomb bay on a fighter can hold 1 of the medium bombs and the heavy would be too big.

So I feel like this should be limited to bombers only. I generally let Bombers bomb bays have twice the ordinance as a standard bomb bay since they are bombers and have to be slower according to the template. Also they can have more launchers to make up for the room. So On a bomber the bay could reasonably hold one of the heavy variants.

I think the best way to go about this would be to make it count as 2 standard bomb bays/warhead launchers and limit it to bombers. This way you can get the payload you are looking for.

2 heavy, 4 medium, 8 light deathballs or standard proton bombs, 16 Proton torps or concussion missiles.

 

[Jessica Med-Beq]

The submission I'm using that implement for will be a bomber anyway and all the restrictions are now made clear.

[member="Reshmar"]

 

[ADM. Reshmar]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Spencer Varanin"]

 

[Raziel]

Approved.