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Thats a lot of dV that thing is packing

and spacemines! Spacemines will save us all from that invasion!

Yep, thats popular area.

from surface? Achieving a stable orbit around Laythe from sea level requires a delta-V of ≈2800 m/s. Says wiki...

Nope, if you want that you´ll have to stick a probe body somwhere on the ship

Good news everyone - creator and a pilot of this SSTO will be helping us with delivering vital cargo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMOzbtZAfWM

I´ve send you PM about that

Ha! Thats you I saw on youtube delivering that payload in that huge airplane to Laythe? :-O

I love that he is using that central girder as a spine of the ship - it give is so much resiliance againts enemy attacks. Fuel tanks may get destroyed, but ship can hold together just fine. Currenlty I use XC-305 commissioned as Marduk Class Light Escort Cruiser (MCLEC) and XF-100 commissioned as Grasshopper Class Frigate. XC-305 has amazing range and I believe that it can go to Laythe and back to Kerbin without refueling on Laythe, also it is better protected and can carry 4 passangers - something I´ll often use, since my mythership can´t carry more than crew of 3. Having 12 hardpoints for smart missiles is good enought for me, since I can put more supplies on big docking ports. XF-100 - light, agile and heavily armed. Having same 12 hardpoints for carrying ordonance XF-100 can deliver a punisihing strike. It packs enought dV to patrol for long time in Kerbin system and I´m sure, it will be useful even in Joolian system, since it is quite fuel efficient it will be better than those fuel hungry cruisers for some aplications. XC-701B - It is a gamechanger. Big ship, loads of fuel, plenty of power and it looks just like anything else due to its bridge siting sligtly off center line of the ship. I´m still waiting to recieve first production model equiped according to my specs and with launch stage. Then it will by commissioned as "Carina Class" and will provide security to my operations in Joolian system and it will propably carry some cargo and supplies as well. It is true capital ship.

Well, we can put them againts each other to see who will be victorious

Nice, it is shaping up. 1. We´ll deliver giant ComLink array to Laythe and also a MCLEC Essex cruiser to provide securit in orbit of Laythe. 2. In next launch window 2-4 SSTO shuttles will be delivered to Laythe so we can begin our surface operations - maybe even singal beacons will be deliverd to Laythe. 3. Delivering/landing signal beacons, delivering colony ship. 4. Flying tons and tons and tons of supplies to Laythe. ... Ok and lets brainstorm where to establish our colony! - we need a flat area to build an airstrip nearby - colony needs to be near equator to save fuel If our ground refueling program for aircrafts will be successful we´ll maybe introduce multiple colony locations.

Aproval granted find a way to launch it! This is pretty damn awesome! Can those 3 poor kerbals get out of that Mk.3 cockpit?

How to get XF-100 into orbit without cheating?

more base letss aircraft would be nice, otherwise I like it - and mind it needs to get to Laythe somehow

Well, yeah, but ... 1. I dont like mods for any game... 2. Keeping whole crew supplied with same mods 3. When I started I was awatinig resources any moment 4. And yes, keeping colony supplied with fuel is gargantuan task...

I dont care much, but I want those sweet sweet cockipits!

Ok, just make it to get into Kerbin orbit and to dock and I´ll or someone else handle the rest Important notice I´ve decided to step down a little bit of those huge military spendings which were cutting major part of Project BABYLON budget. So announce cration of KADF - Kerbin Auxiliary Defense Force - a civilian unit authorized to provide security in Kerbin-Mün-Minmus system and guarding key locations and instalations. Force will be exclusively equiped with XF-100 light patrol crafts which are adopted as a "Grasshopper" class frigate. If KADF will be successful their authority may be extended outside the Kerbin inner system. Few pics from training missions: On patrol in keo-stationary orbit guarding ComLink array.

Well it depends on delivery system - if the beacon has it´s own Laythe trabel stage then no docking, if not - it will be transported hooked up to DCMS ship propably like that:

KADFs (Kerbin Auxiliary Defense Forces) XF-100 on a routine patrol to a ComLink array on keo-stationary orbit.

Yep, propably 4 jets VTOL I presume - like Macey Dean did, seems most practical to me - you dip it into atmo and the you flight to desired position and land via helps of parachutes, don´t need to be big and part count is concern... KD3: Great to hear!

Well, we need a colony ship for droping on surface,thats propably only big ship thats missing...

Anyone who wants to be test pilot or engineer take a look at the save file, fly and test those ships, take a look at the stations and come up with ideas...

I would at least like to see some features of those sweet cockpits in stock game - the displays for example, those are kinda important

Heh, launching XF-100 was fun, since I don't want any struts residues to spoil the line of the ship I did crazy contraption but it did work :-D

Everything is better when delivered in box!