Hornet class Medium Fighter

Hornet class Medium Fighter
Solomani vessel.
Type: FM Medium Fighter
Category	Smallcraft
Size	23 Tons
Hull Configuration	Needle Hull
Streamlining	Airframe Hull
Tech Level	TL–10
Engineering
Computer	Model/2 Flt
Jump	J-0
Maneuver	6 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	1
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	1
Officers	1
Enlisted	X
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	0.33 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Bain Defense Squadron
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr51.072
Architect fee	MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	FM-2A60
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	Yes
Source
Also see	Spaceplane
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	Fan: Alegoric
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Hornet class Medium Fighter is a combatant smallcraft.

• It is a military ship and a Medium Fighter.

Description (Specifications)

The Hornet class Medium Fighter was designed for service with the Bain Defense Squadron, the space force of Bain, a world lying in Spica Sector and a member of the Solomani Confederation. Though the carriers are tiny by the standards of most Solomani Confederation vessels they are occasionally called upon for Confederation service.

The Hornet is a missile platform: it generally stands off at long range and sends in barrages of missiles. Squadron tactics and massed fire are used, when possible, to help compensate for the less powerful computer performance. When they are engaged close in, the Hornets agility and armored hull offer good protection. The cockpit contains an acceleration couch that is designed to be used in conjunction with a vacc suit: the cockpit is depressurized during during combat. The lack of crew accommodations curtails its operational endurance, generally limiting it to rapid strike sorties before returning to the carrier to rearm, refuel and recharge life support. They frequently operate alongside the related but lighter Aurora class Fighter.

• The vessel is a TL-10 design.

Image Repository

A Hornet class Fighter.

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (of ten craft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (thousands of tons) where necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics

No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage	The Hornet class is constructed using a 23 Ton hull built in a needle configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving excellent atmospheric performance that is further enhanced by its onboard gravitic systems. The craft does not have an airlock: if the cockpit is opened life support integrity is lost. The vessel has a sturdy retractable wheeled undercarriage, allowing surface landings.
2.	Crew	Total Crew Complement: x1 Officer (the pilot). Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems. There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off. There is an emergency locker.
3.	Performance	The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-11, giving performance of 6-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 6. The internal fuel tankage gives the power plant 4 weeks duration. The engineering section is controlled by the pilot. The machinery is not accessible.
4.	Electronics	There is a cockpit containing a pilot's acceleration couch. Adjacent to the cockpit is a Model/2 computer that functions as a Model/1 due to the lack of a bridge: No backup computer is installed. The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, a standard sensor array, and has an avionics suite. It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command. It is equipped with a sophisticated ECM package.
5.	Hardpoints	x1 hardpoint. The listed battery is the standard configuration for the class. Alternative weapons systems may be installed for specific missions.
6.	Armament	The normal weapons fit-out for a Hornet class is: x3 fixed missile racks, firing as a single battery. Each missile rack mounts x3 standard Anti-Shipping Missiles.
7.	Defenses	The hull is heavily plated, braced and structurally reinforced, with an armor rating of 5. The vessel is not fitted with screens or other passive defensive systems.
8.	Craft	The vessel carries no subcraft.
9.	Fuel Treatment	The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 2.53 Tons. The hull is fitted with fuel scoops. The vessel is not equipped with fuel purification equipment.
10.	Cost	The basic cost of the vessel is MCr51.072 Architects Fee: MCr0.511 If multiple examples of the design are ordered all of the ships in the production run qualify for a 20% discount, which reduces the price per unit to MCr40.858.
11.	Construction Time	24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard. Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12.	Comments	Standard cargo capacity amounts to 0.33 Tons: it functions as a magazine for additional missiles. Typically x27 additional missiles are carried.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Hornet class Medium Fighter serves with the Bain Defense Squadron, the space force of Bain, a Solomani world lying in Spica Sector. It operates alongside the Aurora, Constellation and Retaliator classes of Fighters. While these elegant and purposeful Fighters are considered somewhat hard to handle and do not support extended duration missions, their overall performance is very good and they are popular with their crews.

• Members of the class are carried aboard Bengal class Carriers.

The Hornet mounts the locally designed and manufactured Misery Blue anti-shipping missile. The warhead is considered underpowered, the weapon system as a whole barely passed its proofing trials, and the design is prone to problems with its guidance systems. A number of examples of the Hornet class have been sold to neighboring worlds: they are generally refitted with standard Solomani weapons packages.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Smallcraft - Fighter:

• Type F class Fighter
  • Aurora class Light Patrol Fighter
  • Hornet class Medium Fighter

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science