ZTS2 Sardinia (1,000,000 kg ion/atmospheric thruster only jump ship)

This is the ZTS2 Sardinia, the second-largest atmospheric jump ship that I've ever made, and the largest to be powered only by atmospheric and ion thrusters (as I, yet again, spit in the face of Keen's hydrogen-only rule without using mods).

Seeing as how it's the second-largest SSTO jump ship that I've ever built, I named it after Sardinia, the second biggest island in the Mediterranean Sea (considering how I have a Greek-themed naming system for my ships).

The ship weighs slightly more than a million kilograms and measures longer and wider than a Boeing 747-400. It's slightly bigger than the Rhodes, my other main flying wing jump ship.

Like the Rhodes, however, the ship is fairly light for its size at the cost of armor plating, does not having much more than 2 missile launchers for defense, and only fits three people (this time in tandem though, so all cockpits can be used to fly the ship, although only the front-most cockpit has group controls set up that are needed for takeoff).

The ship has 2 jump drives, one under each wing just below and in front of each engine intake. Since it weighs less than 2.5 million kilos, there is no weight penalty and it can make full use of the jump drives' full range, totaling 4,000 kilometers when fully charged.

The base idea I had for this was for a "beefier" version of the Rhodes. It was supposed to be bigger and yet retain that flying wing design aspect. The small reactors which power the ship stick out of the side of the ship's fuselage, and are stacked on top of each other. The design aspect is such that they're supposed to sort of resemble the piston heads on an internal combustion car engine (even though we all know this would not work in space).











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