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UV-119 "Thrush" Light Dropship

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The UV-119 "Thrush" is Ikuyo Aerospace's first foray into small ships and offers a compact and extremely versatile light dropship perfectly suited for deploying light vehicles and small fire teams. With a full hydrogen propulsion sweet and 10x internal hydrogen tanks, the UV-119 is capable of performing five orbital ascents and surface landings as well as circumnavigating any 1G planet - all while carrying up to 4x passengers (and one pilot) and a myriad of light vehicles. When it's time to refuel, the UV-119 makes it easy, requiring only Ice to produce hydrogen and surplus power enabling it to be run in the very most remote corners of the system. While too small to be equipped with its own Jump Drive, the Thrush was designed with deployment aboard the internal hangars of any Ikuyo Aerospace ship (Including the LCH-10 Marshall or the FS-17 Ijichi) in mind. It's a small ship, and an even smaller investment - so why not try flying your own UV-119 "Thrush" today?

• None in Stock Configuration: 2x fuselage and 2x wing hardpoints available for gatling guns, autocannons and rocket launchers.

• All Environments: Capable of flying on all planets/moons up to 3G.
  
• Pressurized Interior: Full pressurized interior with weapon rack, cargo containers, 4x passenger seats and 1x pilot seat. Left side can be adapted to hold a survival kit at the expense of 2x passenger seats.
  
• External Cargo Lock: In addition to the single magnetic plate used as landing gear, the UV-119 also comes with a second external cargo lock used to carry small ATVs, Dune Buggys and other ground vehicles.
  
• Highly Survivable Design: The UV-119, while lightly armored, is all the same a supremely durable craft. With universal double redundancy, one entire half of the ship can be destroyed and the remaining occupants will still be able to remotely pilot it to a safe landing.
  
• Survival Ready: Fully plumbed and survival ready. Printable by virtually any welder array, including those in the FS-17 "Ijichi". Comes with enough hydrogen for over 15 minutes of cruising flight time.

• PCU: 2899
  
• Block Count: 500
  
• Non-Armor Blocks: 278
  
• Triangles: 349,156
  
• Grid Mass: 26,463kg
  
• Lifting Capacity: 135,000 kg

One optional script is included by default. Whiplash141's automated drop pod script (found here), while entirely optional does enable highly fuel efficient landings (although you should ensure your velocity vector is at least 7.5 degrees below the horizon before engaging). Additionally, one empty programmable block has been included for end user customization (although an automated GPS supply drop script is in the works).

This ship is vanilla and uses a number of DLCs. Heavy Industry, Warfare II, Wasteland and Decorative Blocks are all used for cosmetics but none should be required for critical ship functionality.

This ship has been a long time coming. Basic hydrogen shuttle craft are probably my most build and used survival ships but I never really had one I was happy with until now. My previous shuttle, the Valkyrie 2A was far too large for its functionality and my light drop ship (a vanillified custom remake of Taidyr's Hrist shuttle) wouldnt have been fit to release with the Ikuyo Aerospace line. The FS-17 also gave me inspiration to create a dedicated ship to fill the hangars with. I envisioned having something small capable of transporting a few people and a jeep to and from the surface, with both the dropship and ground vehicles being built by the welder array in orbit.

I've designed a few small vehicles to work with this ship. They can be found in the attached collection.

I'm always open to suggestions or ideas so please let me know if you have any! I'm doing some work right now to enable this ship to do fully automated GPS guided planetary supply missions but am a noob with Space Engineers scripting so any tips or help would be greatly appreciated! If there are also any specific variants people would like to see please let me know.