Ship/Smallcraft Code/Type LCLA Heavy Assault Shuttle
Service/Source People’s Navy
Class Name HB.101 Caravelle
Mass/Displacement (Tons) 650
Length Overall (Meters) 63
Wingspan (Meters Min/Max) 14/43
Height (Meters Min/Max) 8/10
Fuselage Dimensions (L/W/H) 63m x 8m x 8m
Maximum Acceleration (G) 400 in Normal Space (No Independent Hyperspace Capability)
Standard Complement 265 (Includes All Crew + Standard Passengers)
Crew Complement 15
Core Crew 5 (Pilot, Copilot, Flight Engineer, Com Operator, Sensor Tech)
Other Crew (See Notes) 10 (Gunners/Loadmasters)
Passengers (Standard Rating) 250 (Marines in Unpowered Body Armor)
Emergency Capacity 300
Armament Mounted Weapon Mount Placement
Type/Number Spinal Mount (Fixed Forward) Turret/Barbette (Arm. Note 1)
Laser 5cm x2 2x1 0
Pulser 1.5cm x2 2 0
Pulser 10mm 3x2 Tribarrel 0 1x2ea DF/DA/V
Pylons (Armament Note 2) 2ea P/S 0
Hardpoints (Armament Note 3) 1ea P/S 2ea VF/V 0
Missile(s) Used PN-std AAM/AGM
Armament Notes Internal under-belly bay (15m x 6m x 1.5m) for free-fall ordnance including anti-armor and anti-personnel cluster munitions.
Notes This is the standard assault shuttle carried aboard PN Assault Transports. It is also carried aboard StateSec-configured ships in place of most of the normal complement of pinnaces.
Standard equipment includes 150 sets unpowered body armor plus smallarms (heavy pulser pistols, pulse rifles, plasma rifles, light tribarrels), ammunition, and battle dress for 300 persons, survival gear, solar power generators and solar stills, and 4,500 person-days field rations.
The type was introduced in In Enemy Hands and described more fully in Echoes of Honor.



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