Newtype
10/14/08 12:33 PM
75.52.182.110
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Overview: The Tagger Drone VTOL was designed to avoid many attacks and quickly bring its Light TAG to bear on a target.
Capabilities: The Tagger Drone VTOL can, using its 25 I.C.E. engine and jet boosters, move at a flank speed of nine hundred meters in ten seconds making it very fast. It is designed to be expendable. Its chin turreted Light TAG can tag beam a target repeatedly if signaled to by its controlling person. If the Tagger flies into the effect radius of an opposing ECM suite then it can, due to its program, return to its controlling person's last known position within 60 meters. It has a C3 Slave to make ranged attacks for other units in its network easier.
Tagger Drone VTOL specifications
Tech: Inner Sphere
Mass: 5 tons
Cruise: 15
Flank: 22.5 (30)
Top: 30 (37.5)
cockpit & controls & sensors: 0.5 tons
drone equipment & dronesensors: 1 ton
structure: wooden 0.25 tons
rotors: 0.5 tons
25 I.C.E. engine & jet boosters: 1.1
Light TAG & chin turret 0.55 tons
C3 Slave: 1 ton
remaining tonnage: cargo 0.1 tons
Edited by Newtype (10/14/08 12:48 PM)
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Cray
10/18/08 01:21 AM
97.97.243.184
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Outstanding! Genius! I love it!
I say that because I made the same thing years ago and used it until I was banned from using artillery and other guided munitions. 
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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Newtype
10/23/08 11:18 AM
75.52.182.110
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Good. Ok Cray make sure this design is in the next TRO. The wooden structure can catch fire like woods hexes and takes double damage that normal conventional vehicular structure can take. Nine hundred meters is roughly the extreme range of semiguided LRMs.
Edited by Newtype (10/23/08 11:25 AM)
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Karagin
10/24/08 02:51 PM
72.178.75.99
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I like it. Nice job.
Karagin
Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything.
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Zandel_Corrin
11/05/08 06:11 PM
123.2.140.247
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Surprisingly not bad.....
I'd see it shot out of the sky pretty quick but it might get a telling hit in before that....
BTech rules really don't give VTOLs much life no matter how good they are..
Galaxy Commander
Zandel Corrin
Night Dragon Clan
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Prince_of_Darkness
11/06/08 03:08 PM
205.202.120.139
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Quote:
Surprisingly not bad.....
I'd see it shot out of the sky pretty quick but it might get a telling hit in before that....
BTech rules really don't give VTOLs much life no matter how good they are..
You do realize that Cray made it first several years ago, right?
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Zandel_Corrin
11/06/08 06:13 PM
123.2.140.247
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Yeah i did see that....
Gratz cray.....
I'd let you use it...... but you'd learn to have my LB-5X ACs.....
Galaxy Commander
Zandel Corrin
Night Dragon Clan
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MaiShirunaiispretty
04/21/09 12:22 PM
207.160.205.13
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Newtype, use remaining cargo tonnage (0.1 tons) and since crew person isn't needed in this drone you should be able to reduce cockpit control tonnage by 0.05 tons to make tonnage available for 0.25 jet boosters while removing previous 0.1 ton jet boosters.
Wow, those bracing maneuvers sure do come in handy when firing proximity fused precision cluster flak ammo at a Balancer LAM. Unfortunately they make my 'Mech an immobile target for that LAM. Oh well, at least I'm getting partial cover.
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Newtype
04/21/09 12:30 PM
207.160.205.13
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Sounds reasonable, MaiShirunaiispretty.
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Cray
04/21/09 02:31 PM
147.160.136.10
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Quote:
Newtype, use remaining cargo tonnage (0.1 tons) and since crew person isn't needed in this drone you should be able to reduce cockpit control tonnage by 0.05 tons to make tonnage available for 0.25 jet boosters while removing previous 0.1 ton jet boosters.
For the Love of all that's Sane, you're talking to yourself, HeroChip. Stop it.
MaiShirunaiispretty posted from IP address: 207.160.205.13
Newtype posted from IP address: 207.160.205.13 just 8 minutes later
This was weird even back on rec.games.mecha, and you fooled no one.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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MagnificentChipBurcham
02/21/12 09:02 PM
207.160.205.13
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I forgot to mention: the Tagger Drone VTOL uses alcohol as its fuel to prevent air pollution and therefore while alcohol is in the fuel tank any Engine Hit causes a fuel tank explosion.
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Cray
02/21/12 09:30 PM
173.168.112.109
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Chip, you've got a life time ban. Coming back under new names only repeats your violations of the posting rules (no second attempts, no bypassing bans).
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
Disclaimer: Anything stated in this post is unofficial and non-canon unless directly quoted from a published book. Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon.
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