Pinto Attack VTOL

[Elizabeth Evers]

Pinto Attack VTOL
Type/Model: Pinto Attack VTOL
Tech: Inner Sphere / 3050
Config: V.T.O.L.
Rules: Level 2, Standard design

Mass: 30 tons
Power Plant: 160 Robinson Fuse-Pak Fusion
Cruise Speed: 108.0 km/h
Maximum Speed: 162.0 km/h
Armor Type: Krupp Draco-100 Ferro-Fibrous

Armament:
3 Blankenburg Technologies Medium Lasers
1 Magna Longbow LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV
1 Beagle Active Probe
Manufacturer: Krupp Armaments Works
Location: Bochum, Terra
Communications System: Marshall Long-Talk
Targeting & Tracking System: GPT Multi-Track


Overview:
Krupp Armament Works' Pinto first entered service in 3055 as an assault VTOL Currently, both Com Guard and Explorer Corps forces use the swift, well-protected rotor-blade craft as an attack VTOL.


Capabilities:
The Pinto is powered by a Robinson 160 Fuse-Pak power plant and features Krupp Armament's new Draco-100 ferro-fibrous armor plating. The Pinto's firepower is provided by three Blankenburg Technologies medium lasers mounted in a chin turret located immediately forward of the cockpit, and a forward-firing, Artemis-equipped Magna LRM-5 system situated in a belly mount. The lasers provide the Pinto with excellent close-range firepower, while the missiles enable the Pinto to engage other units without exposing itself to medium- and short-range return fire.
A small, 1-ton cargo hold is immediately behind the cockpit. Many Pintos use the cargo space to ferry squads of conventional infantry or additional electronics.
The Pinto can also be transported and stored quite easily. The VTOL's rotors dismantle in less than five minutes, allowing Pintos to be stored in conventional vehicle or cargo bays as well as in the dedicated aerospace bays other VTOLs require.



Deployment
Pintos are employed by several Com Guard divisions, most notably the 388th (White Banshees) and 82nd (Web Cutters). A number of Pintos were also deployed with the 201st Division on Terra, but these machines were destroyed along with the rest of the 201st in Operation Odysseus during the fall of Terra in 3058. The Explorer Corps makes extensive use of the Pinto, as both a gunship and a light utility transport.
Despite Com Guard attempts to sabotage Krupp's Bochum plant, intelligence analysts believe that the Word of Blake is producing Pintos at the plant for its own use, a supposition supported by the fact that several Pintos have been spotted serving with the Word of Blake Fourth Division (Blake's Boldest).



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Type/Model: Pinto Attack VTOL
Mass: 30 tons
Equipment: Items Mass

Internal Structure: 15 pts Standard 0 3.00
Engine: 160 Fusion 0 6.00
Shielding & Trans Equip: 0 3.00
Cruise MP: 10
Flank MP: 15
Heat Sinks: 10 Single 0 .00
Cockpit & Controls: 0 1.50
Crew: 2 Members 0 .00
Rotor Equipment: 0 3.00
Armor Factor: 72 pts Ferro-Fibrous 2 4.00


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Internal Armor
Structure Value
Front: 3 20
Left / Right Sides: 3 18/18
Rear: 3 14
Rotor: 3 2


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Weapons & Equipment: Loc Heat Ammo Items Mass
3 Medium Lasers Front 9 3 3.00
1 LRM 5 w/ Artemis IV Front 0 24 2 4.00
1 Beagle Active Probe Front 0 1 1.50
Cargo (Infantry) Body 0 1 1.00
TOTALS: 9 10 30.00
Items & Tons Left: 1 .00


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Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 2,150,000 C-Bills
Battle Value: 984
Cost per BV: 2,184.96
Weapon Value: 265 / 254 (Ratio = .27 / .26)
Damage Factors: SRDmg = 13; MRDmg = 4; LRDmg = 2
BattleForce2: MP: 10, Armor/Structure: 0 / 3
Damage PB/M/L: 2/2/-, Overheat: 0
Class: VA, Point Value: 10
Specials: if, prb