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The [[Fringian Heavy Fighter|Heavy Fighter]] is a combatant [[smallcraft]].
 
The [[Fringian Heavy Fighter|Heavy Fighter]] is a combatant [[smallcraft]].
* It is a [[Paramilitary ship]] and a [[Fighter]].
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* It is a [[paramilitary ship]] and a [[fighter]].
  
 
== Description / Specifications ==
 
== Description / Specifications ==

Revision as of 18:19, 29 January 2019

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Unpublished, non-canon smallcraft design.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Canon Unpublished, fan design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.

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.
Basic Ship Characteristics [1]
No. Category Remarks
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.
2. Crew Total Crew Complement: 2
  • x1 pilot,
  • x1 weapons/electronics specialist.

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.

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.
  • The engineering section is controlled from the cockpit. Access to the machinery can be gained via a sealable hatch.
4. Electronics The vessel is fitted with a Model/2 computer: no backup computer is installed.
5. Hardpoints x1 hardpoint.
6. Armament The normal weapons fit-out for a Heavy Fighter is:
7. Defenses The hull is unarmored.
  • 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 3 Tons.
10. Cost The basic cost of the vessel is MCr44.700.
  • The ship is a standard design. Detailed architectural plans are widely available and no design fee is chargeable.
  • 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 of each unit to MCr35.760.
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 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

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