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[HDI] PDS-M18419
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Tags: ship, small_grid, safe
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6 Apr, 2022 @ 8:37pm
11 May, 2022 @ 6:42pm
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[HDI] PDS-M18419

Description
Producer: Hephaestus Defense Industries [HDI]

Utility: Personnel Drop Ship
Reg #: M18419



The PDS-M18419 is a multi-environment personnel insertion flight craft. Equipped with both atmo and ion thrusters, the PDS is able to operate both in space and on planets.

With the design taken from the UD-4L Cheyenne, the PDS is the little cousin in the dropship line. Unlike the UD-4L, the PDS is able to insert troops into urban environments with more ease and provide more target specific aerial support as opposed to the blanket bomb strategy relied upon by its bigger cousin.

Internal passenger capacity includes a 6 man squad accommodations with access to weapons, cargo, and seats for safe transit.

Lowering ramp offers sufficient protection and an easily traversed platform for disembarking marines. Hinged wheels allow the PDS to lower them and securely land with no worry for damage to hull while also retracting to provide better aerodynamics while in flight.

Onboard weapons include 2 gatlins, 2 forward rocket pods, 4 assault cannons, and 2 assault cannon turrets allowing the PDS to sustain considerable suppressive fire and the ability to take on mid to heavily armored small targets such as tanks, APC's, and other air craft.

[HDI] is not associated with Weyland Yutani (WY) in any way and have designed this vessel in accordance with the contract with the USCMC in 2119AD.

43 Comments
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Tine 31 Aug, 2022 @ 7:18am 
Ship lacks thrust to go into space from planet
Cmdr. DoomForge™ 28 Jun, 2022 @ 1:22pm 
I will likely change the exterior some over time to make it more of an original, but things irl and other stuff have slowed it down a little lately. The end goal is new thrusters, power systems, and also a door doubling as a boarding ramp for entry.
Cmdr. DoomForge™ 28 Jun, 2022 @ 1:21pm 
Found one I had of the passenger space, seats though are temporary since I wanted to attempt some of my own in the future. That door goes into what will later be the comms and medical terminals, serving also as a divider space leading to the pilot area.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2795689723
Cmdr. DoomForge™ 28 Jun, 2022 @ 1:15pm 
It will be a good while yet for that since I've hit a bit of a slowdown for attempting to make the model parts I wanted on the final design, but I do at least have a screenshot of it in a factory bay. Sorry to say that it has a lot of the similar exterior parts at this present time, but internally is completely different with a full interior space leading from the passenger area to the cockpit.

Here's a front view of it though:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2794702228
Sevyrs  [author] 28 Jun, 2022 @ 12:16pm 
Hey! Glad it helped! Please let me know when you post it, looking forward to it.
Cmdr. DoomForge™ 28 Jun, 2022 @ 12:08pm 
Seeing this back then helped make it possible, so thanks again for sharing this great build concept here.
Cmdr. DoomForge™ 28 Jun, 2022 @ 12:01pm 
Finally made one of my own squad assault gunships a while back partially based on this style with an interior cockpit and room for 6 passengers, as well as an area that would later be updated to have a comms station. Thickened the armor for the hull and added 3 more auto cannon turrets as well. Its not posted though, just locally saved. There's more I wanted to do but don't have the right model parts yet. For now its still a prototype.
Sevyrs  [author] 12 May, 2022 @ 6:33am 
Also, creating a large version of this sounds fun. I might do that.
Sevyrs  [author] 12 May, 2022 @ 6:32am 
The rocket launchers aren't a piped weapon. They are manual load like the original rocket launchers. That is why they have no conveyor setup. Also the PDS is a 'little cousin' to the UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship model used in the Alien franchise. You can find examples of it in the movie Aliens and from various affiliated comic book works. I'm currently working on a Cheyenne that can carry my APC but that is a difficult project to achieve considering the blocks available in SE.

Also, it sounds interesting, this Skunkwork server you mentioned. Is it an SE server or a Discord server?
Biltema 12 May, 2022 @ 5:49am 
Sevyrs- The rocket launchers are not connected but thats ok, I use modded weapons. I would love if you could do a large ship with same design.
This ship is super cool. I even changed all the thrusters into proficent or elite for skunkwork server. We do have a creative server there in case you wanna try out things.

Where did you get the design from btw? It's super cool! :) Thank you for the design and all the hard work but also for the feedback! :)