RE: [GZG] 1980s SGII Vehicle Stats

At 11:42 PM +0000 12/30/06, Richard Kirke wrote:
>
>Ferret

Given that I own one of these....
The armor is good enough to stop .50 ball from 
the front but NOT AP. 16mm and a steep slope to 
the front. The sides and rear are thinner 12mm or 
so but will protect against ball from 7.62 NATO 
(7.62x39 should find it tough). Sensors are 
minimal (mostly mk 1 Eyeball). By then you're 
looking at a GPMG and the Mk2 modls have enough 
stowage for 10 cans of 7.62 belt. Plus more 
stowage for Sterling SMG's for the crew. A tripod 
can also be carried for dismounted use of the 
GPMG, there's even a 'plug' on the left engine 
deck to fit the socket on the tripod on.

I'd say armor 1 all around. High Mobility 
wheeled. Size 1 (2 man crew and it's smaller than 
the footprint on Most US SUVs save for Jeeps). 3 
man crew for the Mk1  ferret. I've seen Mk1/2 
ferrets with 2 GPMG's mounted and extra stowage 
for extra kit, but the Mk1s and Mk1/2s have less 
ammo stowage since they put jump seats in place 
of the stowage bins for the

Oh, for artillery spotting (one of the uses of 
the Ferret) there are provisions on the larkspur 
radio kit for up to 600 feet D10 wire to be 
attached to the intercom/radio harness allowing 
an observer on top of a hill say to talk over a 
telephone handset to the other crewmember via the 
intercom or to the wireless set (A or B set) 
allowing the terrain feature to mask the wireless 
signal and vehicle but still allow use of the 
vehicle radio "remotely" via the R box (this 
allows a retransmit function a well so a ferret 
can be used to act as a signal booster between 
two sets to extend radio range. The spool of D10 
is carried on the turret on a quick detach 
bracket. It's a send/receive function only, there 
HAS to be someone at the vehicle to tune the 
wireless set. You'd model this by allowing 1-2 
crew of a 2 vehicle patrol to move from the 
parked vehicles up to the top of a hill and use 
wireless comms from the vehicles. They could drop 
the D10 spool and easily bug out with just belt 
order web gear and two sterlings allowing for 
fast movement. No need to hump a heavier set up 
and you get some useful transmitter power out of 
the VHF C42/B45 set (15-20 watts 10 miles on RT, 
.5 watts in low power mode). The second set, (B 
set) is lower power B47/B48 is for communicating 
with manpack sets the infantry used or with other 
vehicles in the troop.

For the time there's a smaller manpack set, the 
WS A40 which is equivalent tot he Canadian 
C/PRC-26

See
http://home.hccnet.nl/l.meulstee/larkspur/larkspur1.html#SEC5

The FV432 should be able to run 3 sets on the A/B/C channel setup they
had.
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