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| − | The Strike Fighter is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to engage enemy units from close range. Similar designs have been in use from the time the [[Distant Fringe]] was first settled. | + | The Strike Fighter is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to engage enemy units from close range. Similar designs have been in use from the time the [[Distant Fringe]] was first settled. It is defined as a microfighter due to its small size. |
* The vessel is a TL 8 design. | * The vessel is a TL 8 design. | ||
Revision as of 20:57, 18 November 2017
| Strike Fighter | |
|---|---|
| Type: PL Fighter | |
| Size | 8 Tons |
| Hull Configuration | [[{{{hull}}}]] |
| Tech Level | TL–8 |
| Engineering | |
| Computer | |
| Jump | J-0 |
| Maneuver | 5 G |
| Armaments | |
| Hardpoints | 1 |
| Accommodations | |
| Staterooms | 0 |
| Personnel | |
| Crew | 1 |
| High/Mid Passengers | 0 |
| Payload | |
| Cargo | 0 Tons |
| Fuel tank | 0 Tons |
| Construction | |
| Origin | [[Distant Fringe]] |
| Price | |
| Cost | MCr27.900 (base) MCr22.320 (discounted) |
| Source | |
| Canon | Unpublished, fan design |
Description / Specifications
The Strike Fighter is a cheap, reliable vessel designed to engage enemy units from close range. Similar designs have been in use from the time the Distant Fringe was first settled. It is defined as a microfighter due to its small size.
- The vessel is a TL 8 design.
Hull
The Strike Fighter is constructed using a 8-dTon hull built in a generally wedge-shaped configuration. The hull is fully streamlined.
- The crew compartment includes internal grav plates and inertial compensators and has full life support facilities.
Engineering
The vessel mounts a maneuver-5 drive and a power plant 5, giving performance of 5G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 5. There is fuel tankage of 1.2 dTons, giving the power plant almost 5 weeks duration.
Main Section
The vessel is equipped with a computer model/2 and two acceleration couches.
- The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, full ECM, and an avionics suite.
Crew
The Strike Fighter requires 1 crew: a pilot. It also includes an additional position for a weapons/electronics specialist.
Weapons
The ship has one hardpoint mounting three missile launchers.
- The Strike Fighter is equipped with an auto-cannon in a fixed forward-facing mount. The weapon is ineffective against spacecraft or starships but can be used to strafe light targets. It is sometimes referred to as a "frustration weapon", serving to give the pilot a means of striking at a threat, however ineffectively, and thus providing them with a psychological release. The auto-cannon has a ROF of 200 rounds per minute: the vessel carries 400 rounds of ammunition.
Subcraft
None.
Cost
The basic cost of the vessel is MCr29.700.
- 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 their price to MCr22.320.
History
An ubiquitous design used throughout the Distant Fringe, the Strike Fighter is cheap, 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.
See also: Ships of the Distant Fringe
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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