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Designation:

I. Dimensions

II. Type

• Design: Airbus Industries
• Builders: Airbus Industries
• Two flight crew light tactical military VTOL transport aircraft.
• There are a number of configurations for this aircraft:
  • Troop transport - 100 troops
  • Cargo - 120 metric tons of cargo
  • VIP - 40 passengers and 15 metric tons of cargo
  • Mobile Suit Carrier - 2 Mobile Suits and 10 men (technicians and pilot)

III Service Use

• VC-39A: Served with RDF Air Force and Spacy from 2058 until being replaced by -39B.
• VC-39B: Served with RDF Air Force and Spacy from 2063 and is still in service.

III. Propulsion

• 4 x Rolls Royce RR-2150 fusion plasma-air/reaction mass intermix turbines mounted on top of the main fuselage. Maximum thrust, 750 kN each
• 5 x Pratt&Whitney PFJ-200 fanjets providing the VSTOL capacity mounted on the main lading gear pods in pairs and one additional fanjet on the nose pod.
• Assorted small reaction thrusters and gyroscopes for all-environment maneuvers, attitude adjustment, and stability.

Powerplant:

• 1 x RRD-5 Miniaturized Fusion-cell energizer providing electrical power to the mecha.  Maximum output, 5000 kW each.

Fuel Capacity:

• 16 Standard canisters of reaction mass
• 203.1 liters of D2O reactant for fusion engines.

IV. Performance:

V. Sensory Systems:

Radar System:

• General Electric AN/APG-183 X-band pulse-Doppler radar, providing medium-range detection and tracking of targets at all altitudes.
• Westinghouse AN/APX-18 IFF secondary surveillance transponder

Optical tracking:

• Phillips AN/DOS-4800 multi-band digital camera system, for medium range traversable UV, infra-red imaging and optical band detection and tracking;

Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):

• Loral AN/ALR-33 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
• Loral AN/AIR-22 Infra-red Warning Receiver (IRWR)
• Westinghouse AN/ALQ-281(V) internal countermeasures system
• Tracor AN/ALE-16 Chaff/Flare Dispensers    
• Westinghouse AN/AMJ-8 Active Missile Jammers
• Multiple VHF and UHF antennas

VI. Armament:

• No armament standard.

VIII. Armor:

The armor on the VC-39 is a low-mass lunarium tungsten composite plating that is the standard for most Terran mecha. Aside from the good protection provided against projectiles, missiles, and other kinetic weapons, this armor is also resistant to plasma globes (annihilation discs), lasers, and fair against, particle guns too, owing to the fact that the armor can flake off and evaporate in layers under fire from such high-energy weapons, taking much of the weapon's energy and converting it into the latent heat of sublimation in the armor. The armor stops all small arms fire, and has good resistance to all weapons commonly mounted on combat mecha.

The Ajax provides full protection from nuclear, biological, and chemical hazards, using an overpressure environment activated by radiation and hazardous chemical sensors, or manually when biological warfare conditions are anticipated. The internal consumables supplies can provide atmosphere for six days maximum.

IX. Development:

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