Designation: Glaug Eldare (Officer's Pod Armored Vehicle)

I. Dimensions:

Eldare without Glaug docked:

• Length : 14.4 m
• Width : 16.2 m
• Height : 10.2 m
• Weight : 40.6 metric ton

Eldare with Glaug docked:

Length :	20.4 m
:	23.9 m (With arms in flight position)
Width :	16.2 m
Height :	10.2 m
Weight :	81.8 metric ton

II. Type:

• One man aerospace fighter mecha.

III. Service history:

• Served with all arms of the Regular Zentraedi Forces and Border Fleets from 1843 onwards.

IV. Propulsion:

• Three Varrebotsz type 15 plasma-shock expansion engines, mounted in the rear of the Glaug Eldare. Each thruster has a maximum sustained output of 550 kN.
• One Varrebotsz type 16 plasma-shock expansion engine on the underside of the Glaug Eldare, pointing aft. This thruster has a maximum sustained output of 260 kN.
• Assorted manouvering and attitude thrusters.
• Fuel Capacity: 12 Standard Canisters of Protoculture.

V. Performance:

• Maximum speed @ 32.000 meters in a Earth-like atmosphere : 4550 kph
• Delta-v capacity: 4.3 kps.
• Average cell duration : 150 hours continuous operational use.

VI. Electronics:

Glaug systems:

• The Glaug Eldare can only operate with a Glaug battle pod docked, and thus is equipped with the full sensor suite of the Glaug in addition to the sensors of the Eldare proper.

Radar tracking:

• VOMA1-SS (*) phased array radar with spherical coverage, with various search, scan/track, navigation and reconaissance modes.

Optical tracking:

• VOMA1-SS Multi-band digital camera system, for medium range all attitude infra-red imaging, optical and ultra-violet band detection and tracking.
• VOMA1-SS Multi-frequency laser ranger and designator.

Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):

• VOMA1-SS Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
• VOMA1-SS Infra-red Warning Receiver (IRWR)
• VOMA1-SS Active sensor jammer
• VOMA1-SS Chaff and flare dispenser

(*) Terran designation. The Tirolian designers considered the sensors part of the design and did not assign separate designations for these systems.

VII. Armament:

Glaug weapons:

• The Glaug Eldare can only operate with a Glaug battle pod docked, and thus is equipped with the full armament of the Glaug in addition to the weapons of the Eldare proper.

Missiles:

• 24 x Touwhaug Diwtszilt missile launchers in 8 missile bays (with 3 launchers each) located forward in the side engine sponsons. Each launcher has 9 Glatrlan Diwhaug Universal Dogfight Missiles (UDM) in a single row. The Eldare carries a total of 216 Glatrlan Diwhaug missiles. Each Touwhaug Diwtszilt can only fire the uppermost missile at one time, but the launcher can cycle to the next missile in less than half a second.

VIII. Armor:

The armor of the Glaug Eldare is composed of an advanced titanium-steel alloy. The armor stops all small arms and heavy infantry weapons fire, provides reasonable resistance to light mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Zentraedi 22.3mm HE autocannon round, and poor resistance to medium mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Valkyrie's 55mm APFSDS round.

IX. Development:

To enhance the capabilities of the Glaug command battle pod in aerospace and spaceborne missions, where the danger long range guided missile attack were far larger than planetside, the Eldare armored vehicle was designed and built in conjunction with the Glaug pod. The aim was to increase the survivability and fighting power of the Glaug by enhancing manouverability and acceleration, as well as adding a more appropriate (to space) armament.

The resulting Eldare was a thruster, sensor and weapons package that could be bolted on a standard Glaug main body, after removal of its legs. As such, it was essentially the same in function as the Super Valkyrie equipment or the earliest design proposals for the Beta fighter.

Although the Eldare booster sported additional sensors, these were mostly designed to fill the blind spots created by bolting the Eldare onto the Glaug body, and did not offer any appreciable boost in combat capabilities, although they did facilitate reconaissance and navigation. The major enhancements were in speed and manouverability, which was greatly enlarged, as well as in armament. As the Glaug proper mounted sufficient particle beam firepower, the Eldare was equipped with missiles: 24 launchers for Glatrlan Diwhaug dogfight missiles were fitted to the Eldare (though these small missiles had to be launched at short range and in multiple salvos to be effective). The Glaug-Eldare combination, albeit relatively rare, has served with success and distinction to the present.

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