HC-32 Long Lance

The Long Lance Lance was developed in Alsen-Kir at the same time as the Halberd, and is a heavy cargo transport. It was originally intended to serve as an aerial base for a small strike team. It's design incorporated a large amount of stealth technology, was subject to the first generation of counter-gravity generators, and could stay aloft at a altitude of one hundred kilometers for twenty days.

Before it came into full production, an Alliance military convention came to a decision that any ships in the Alliance Strategic Air Command needed to have airship-to-airship combat capabilities, the few defensive weapons carried would not be adequate. The final production model incorporated additional weapons, and weapon capabilities.

Alsen-Kir has hundreds of these in their air military, Nolia has acquired thirty, three serve in every clan, with exception to Eagle and Jaguar.

Specifications:

Power plant:

two Manohar Flight Solutions Class 1 Mk 2 counter-gravity generators
three Sehgal Propulsion Beta Class 3 Flash-turbines - all Long Lance craft were updated to Charlie Class 4 Flash-turbines from 2257-2264.

Weapons:

Primary: two 5.6cm automatic cannons, two gun turret, belly mounted.
Secondary: six 3.7cm tri-barrel gatlings, individually turret mounted, lower end beams.
Secondary: up to twenty seven air-to-air missiles, three launch rails.

Compliment:
Crew: six, pilot, copilot, navigator/gunner, three technician/gunners.
Soldiers: maximum seventy. Cargo compartment can be converted to sleeping quarters, bunks would have to be broken down and stored before any operations could be commenced.

Payload:
Maximum weight, sixty metric tons,
two heavy armored vehicles, four medium armored vehicles.
(Two armored vehicles can be carried with the soldiers if they are being taken from base to a different location, but there is no room on an extended patrol.)