PFS - AVAA - Aquila Gunship

5/4/20 - Updated cockpit with control seats, cleaned the armor. 8/4/19 - Updated with Whip's Radar Script, fixed name on Grav Alignment

100% Vanilla

Aquila Gunship

Mass: 1203385 kg (empty) Cargo: 2 Large Containers Hydrogen: 5 Tanks Oxygen: 11 Tanks Power: 8 Small Reactors, 24 Batteries Weapons: 5 Hydra Turrets (10 Gatlings each)

Crew: 4 - 1 Pilot, 1 Gunner, 2 EW Operators

Lore

The Aquila was originally created as a Guard craft, where it served as a customs interceptor against SSTO craft. Although it is not designed to enter space itself, its high altitude makes it fully capable of dealing with craft on the edge of the atmosphere, and its focus on atmospheric flight ensures that it will be more efficient than its prey.

Shortly after its introduction, the Military took an interest in the Aquila, wishing to use it as an aerial command platform. It was equipped with the latest in sensor suites, communications technologies, and jamming suites, for a full range of Electronic Warfare options. In this way, the Aquila acts as a medium between orbital craft and atmospheric craft, where it can stay out of the optimal range of both, and help to coordinate forces below. It is even equipped with Laser Antennae, should its crew wish to take over drone controls.

Far from defenseless, the Aquila has 5 Hydra AA turrets that make short work of incoming enemy fighters and missiles, and it is also equipped with a decoy countermeasure system.

---------------- USER MANUAL ----------------

To pilot the ship, sit in one of the passenger seats, open the console with "K" and then go to the group labeled "Control" and hit "Control"

[img=https://i.imgur.com/sAErcaa.jpg] [olist] [*] Toggle between Flight Mode/VTOL Mode [*] Toggle Hydrogen On/Off [*] Toggle Landing Gear [*] Pistons inertial sharing On/Off (turning this off makes the craft more maneuverable, but less stable) [*] Begin Decoy Deployment [*] Turn off Decoy Iterator (this stops the deployment process. Wait 5 seconds, hit 6 again, then hit 5 to launch again) [*] Gravity Alignment On/Off (use when idle to stop nose pitching) [*] Reverse Thrusters On/Off

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NOTES

The machine spirit of this vehicle sounds very angry, but rest assured. Aside from its violent noises and protests, everything has been stress tested and you are 99.9% unlikely to break apart in mid-air.

Scripts

MMaster - Automatic Configurable LCD Whiplash141 - Artificial Horizon, Turret Slaving, Gravity Alignment, Rotor Thruster Control, Radar

Misc

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