Gn-22C 'Comet'

[Comrade Jenkens]

The Comet is a small capital ship designed for patrol around a single planet and its moons. It is a well balanced and manoeuvrable ship yet still retains the famous MK-IV armour of its predecessors making it a tough nut to crack for hostile fighters. The Comet can support 3 crew for a limited amount of time yet lacks a hitchhiker module for extended use. Delivery to distant planets is still possible due to a probe core allowing the ship to be flied unmanned. 6 NERVAs and two aerospikes mean that the tradition of impressive acceleration is still kept up and rear mounted landing legs combined with good TWR allow landing on many planetary bodies.

1: Nerva

2: Aerospike

3, 4, 5: Missiles (make sure you're throttled up)

Crew: 3

Weapons: 9 Hornet-IIIs

Parts: 303 fully armed

Cost: 22,000 kerbits

TWR: 1.03

dV: 4000m;/s

Craft: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1vtu5qfblr0m4y/Gn-22C.craft

Kerbal for scale

[Goodle...]

Epic ship. you just never stop surprising me with excellent designs

[RSwordsman]

Very cool looking.

[Spartwo]

The effects of

3 low:

http://i.imgur.com/vTsBSst.png

http://i.imgur.com/ymB5MoW.png

1 medium:

http://i.imgur.com/HFiZQp0.png

http://i.imgur.com/LaJVzkU.png

http://i.imgur.com/36REpX1.png

1 high:

http://i.imgur.com/EnohpTc.png

http://i.imgur.com/58o6Baq.png

http://i.imgur.com/EXZYJlA.png

Caliber rounds on the craft.

Edited January 14, 2014 by Spartwo

[andrew123]

The main challenge with viably sized ships is that the fuel tank will almost always be toast even if the armor survives. Even if a few do survive, they can pose serious balancing issues.

[joedude69]

Thats hawt

[Comrade Jenkens]

Thank god for thrust limiting now. That will allow ships to function even when off balance because of damage. I could replace the wing panels with metal ones to make the armour more effective but the don't look as nice.

Good to have someone stress testing my ships though.