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The [[Fringian Heavy Fighter|Heavy Fighter]] is a combatant [[smallcraft]]. | The [[Fringian Heavy Fighter|Heavy Fighter]] is a combatant [[smallcraft]]. | ||
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== Description / Specifications == | == Description / Specifications == | ||
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| Heavy Fighter | |
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![]() Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design. | |
| Type: PH Heavy fighter | |
| Size | 20 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | [[Wedge Hull]] |
| Streamlining | Streamlined Hull |
| Tech Level | TL–9 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | 2 |
| Jump | J-0 |
| Maneuver | 6 G |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 1 |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 2 |
| Officers | 2 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 0 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Origin | Distant Fringe |
| Year Operational | None |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCr44.700 (base) MCr35.760 (discounted) |
| Architect fee | MCrAde Stewart |
| Statistics | |
| Quick Ship Profile | Smallcraft |
| Images | |
| Blueprint | No |
| Illustration | No |
| Source | |
| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
| Era | 1105 |
| Reference | - |
| Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard. | |
The Heavy Fighter is a combatant smallcraft.
- It is a paramilitary ship and a fighter.
Description / Specifications
The Heavy Fighter is a reliable vessel designed to mount energy weapons as its primary armament. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled.
- The vessel is a TL-9 design.
| No. | Category | Remarks |
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| 1. | Tonnage | The Heavy Fighter is constructed using a 20 Ton hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined and has airfoil surfaces, giving good atmospheric performance.
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| 2. | Crew | Total Crew Complement: 2
Accommodations The cockpit contains x2 acceleration couches and control equipment and is fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators. It has full life support and environmental systems.
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| 3. | Performance | The vessel mounts a Maneuver-6 drive and a Power Plant-16, giving performance of 6-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 6. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient to give the power plant approximately 4 weeks duration.
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| 4. | Electronics | The vessel is fitted with a Model/2 computer: no backup computer is installed.
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| 5. | Hardpoints | x1 hardpoint. |
| 6. | Armament | The normal weapons fit-out for a Heavy Fighter is:
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| 7. | Defenses | The hull is unarmored.
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| 8. | Craft | The vessel carries no subcraft. |
| 9. | Fuel Treatment | The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 3 Tons.
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| 10. | Cost | The basic cost of the vessel is MCr44.700.
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| 11. | Construction Time | 24 weeks (5.5 months) as standard.
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| 12. | Comments | The vessel has no internal cargo capacity. |
History
An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Heavy Fighter is durable and reliable. The design is representative and a large number of variants exist, particularly with regard to the allotted weapons systems and onboard electronics. Despite their status as space fighters, designs of this type have airframe features, augmenting their handling characteristics within planetary atmospheres.
See also: Ships of the Distant Fringe
References & Contributors / Sources
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- CT Book 5 "High Guard", GDW, 1980.
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
