kushan freighter replace

[Jinx]

off of the homeworld ships - and especially freighters - the kushan is probably still one of the most popular ones due to its OK stats ( the other one is the turanic freighter that is quite popular, too - but that one was remodelled by someone else from what i remember )

so i just made this quick model - its a basic design with a large cargo "belly". - since kushan ships are zoner ships ( at least they are developed by them - or something ) ... it got the light BW skin and some white parts, marking it as a rather civilian ship. - its very blocky and very much the size the "homeworld" variant had. ( so it fits into a docking bay in battleships etc )

the upper left picture ( framed in red ) shows the current kushan freighter - for those that don t know this ship.

the new one features a easily visible cargobay door ( lower left picture ) - and the sideways thrusters are actually that - vertical thrusters ( well - there s no engine effect coming out - but still )

the design looks slightly similar to a pimped up CSV - but that doesn t mean its junkers:laugh:- its just a logical design haha.

edit: textures look strange sometimes when the skin is reflecting. - the reason for that is that the graphic card adds a bloom effect on bright parts.

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[Boss]

Machine entities take notes!

To be honest, I think V-22 when I see that. Looks nice.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Jinx]

uh - what? - whats v-22...

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[Boss]

V-22 Osprey. It's a tilt-engine VTOL aircraft in the US Armed Forces.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Jinx]

oh, you re right - it looks similar... i should become a military weapons designer. bet it took the US army billions of $ to come up with that design - and i made mine up just while i had lunch.:laugh:

looks like that thing really works - or it is a fake photo? never seen such a plane - why don t they just use a helicopter? or these whatsname - the british jets that can launch like a helicopter, too.

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[Boss]

Reasoning behind the Osprey is this: Even though it can only carry half as many as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter (32 floor loaded troops, or 24 on benches), it can make three trips in the same time. It takes off like a helicopter, then transitions to horizontal flight once it's around 200 feet up.

Maximum speed: 275 knots (316 mph, 509 km/h)
Cruise speed: 214 knots (246 mph, 396 km/h) at sea level
Range: 879 nmi (1,011 mi, 1,627 km) (unrefueled)
Combat radius: 370 nmi (430 mi, 690 km)
Ferry range: 2,417 nmi (2,781 mi, 4,476 km)
Service ceiling 26,000 ft (7,925 m)

It's a LOT faster than a Black Hawk:

Never exceed speed: 193 knots (222 mph, 357 km/h)
Maximum speed: 159 kt (183 mph, 295 km/h)
Cruise speed: 150 kt (173 mph, 278 km/h)
Combat radius: 368 mi (320 nmi, 592 km)
Ferry range: 1,380 mi[13] (1,200 nmi, 2,220 km)
Service ceiling 19,000 ft (5,790 m)


That Brit jet is the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II.

The Armed Forces spent 50 billion to design the thing, with a 70mil flyaway cost.

Not a fake, the craft's real.


EDIT: Crap...I just wrote an exposition on an aircraft in a ship dev thread...

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Tenacity]

hm... looks very junker like (which I dont mind at all, more ships for us! =)

I think it was turkish that made a CSV-style Large Junker Freighter as a replacement for the turanic freighter model, and it was pretty good too.

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