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| MANUFACTURER | Targus Industries |
| PRODUCTION LINE: | Fighter Craft |
| MODEL: | Angelwing |
| TECHNICAL WEAPON DESIGNATION: | SSF 38/A5 |
| AFFILIATION: | United Kushari Federation, Deep Space Exploration Group |
| AVAILABILITY: | Restricted: DSEG |
| MODULARITY: | Weaponry, Shielding, Cargo Area |
| COMPOSITION: | Armourweave, Titanium, Shock-Absorbing Gel |
| OWNERSHIP: | DSEG |
| DESCRIPTION: | The SSF 38, known affectionately by its pilots as ‘Old Ironwing’ or ‘Angelwing’, was constructed to serve the United Kushari Federation as a general purpose fighter capable of fulfilling a long and diverse list of needs. The fighter that the UKF needed was required to be capable of defending their fleet and their installations; it needed to be able to fly close air support for ground troops; it needed to function as an interceptor and a air/space superiority fighter; it needed to be capable of quickly hauling small amounts of cargo from one side of the galaxy to the other; and lastly, it needed to be tough enough to complete its mission and return home intact, no matter the resistance it faced or the environmental conditions it had to endure. The Angelwing was the answer provided to that lengthy list of requirements. As the designers believed that survivability was key to a successful fighter, they first crafted the fighter’s chassis and engine compartments. Both were heavily armored and reinforced, with a triple canopy of defense: A layer of non-explosive reactive armor and ablative plating covered the hull, while the hull itself was built of a lightweight honeycombed composite armor placed onto a titanium skeleton. Underneath that central layer was a thin plasteel plate backed with spall-catching armorweave, with a layer of shock-absorbing gel placed between the plasteel plate and the composite armor. Together, these three layers of defense have rendered the craft completely proof against machineguns and cannon fire, with only heavy cannon -exceeding 25MM in power- proving truly effective against the craft. To provide speed and agility to such a heavy frame, the decision was made to use not one but two fusion reactors to power the craft, along with the most powerful drives that could be fitted into the craft. [The designers ended up having to extend the chassis by two meters and place additional repulsorlifts and maneuvering thrusters to accommodate the length and weight of the engine/reactor assembly.] Built into a removable cradle with its own internal shielding and capable of being jettisoned in the event of reactor containment failure, the Angelwing boasts perhaps the most powerful engines ever fitted to a fighter. Despite this, an Angelwing is not actually a very fast fighter - it can keep pace with most typical fighters, but an interceptor can outrun it without much difficulty. It is, however, incredibly nimble for its size. Capable of acrobatics equal to those performed by lighter starfighters such as those fielded by the Hutts and Republic, the SSF 38 can hold its ground against most any opponent. With its goals of survivability and speed accomplished, and rapid hyperspace travel facilitated by the addition of an attachable stand-alone hyperdrive pod, the design team turned to the remaining two necessary systems: Weapons and sensors. They constructed the craft’s weapon systems first. The team agreed that the craft would perform best as a balanced gun and missile platform, and so thusly integrated modular missile and gun bays into the design, disguising them as the distinctive ‘air intakes’ located around the cockpit and on the belly. After furnishing the craft with a sensor system that ultimately be the forerunner of the YF902’s sensors, a test platform was produced. This prototype was equipped with a belly-mounted 30MM Gatling gun, anti-tank ‘Thunderbolt’ missiles, and anti-fighter ‘Dagger’ missiles; it proved the worth of the Angelwing program when the experimental blasted its way through an entire division of drone fighter and robot tanks. The Angelwing's cockpit actually serves as an escape pod with its own built-in life support and thruster unit. It's capable of atmospheric entry and can slow its descent by deploying parachutes once in-atmo. In the event of zero atmosphere, it relies on repulsor pods and braking rockets. The windows are made from armor-grade transparasteel and are proof even against heavy machinegun rounds. The Angelwing's computing systems and comms systems are connected to allow the sharing of targeting data, but in the event that the pilot believes he is being hacked, he can physically disconnect the two systems simply by pulling a manual lever inside the cockpit, which forcibly severs the connection and makes the onboard computers impossible to remotely hack. |
| CLASSIFICATION: | Multi-role Fighter/Bomber |
| HEIGHT: | 4.7m |
| WIDTH: | 19m |
| LENGTH: | 22m |
| POWER CORE: | 2x Fusion Reactors |
| HYPERDRIVE RATING: | Class 3 |
| CREW: | 1x Pilot |
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| PASSENGER CAPCITY: | 0 |
| CARGO CAPACITY: | 200kg |
| CONSUMABLES: | 8 days: Food/Air |
| SUBLIGHT SPEED: | Atmo: 1,100km/hr Maneuverability: 8/10 |
| ROLE: | Dropship / Gunship / Fighter / Bomber |
An OOC side note. This ship existed in a previous timeline, but has been 'revamped' for modern technology. Previously constructed by CARD (Crytek Advanced Research & Development Corporation), but has been taken on by Targus Industries, for use within the United Kushari Federation's Deep Space Exploration Group (D.S.E.G.). I can take no credit for this write up, as I simply formatted it to the new template on behalf of Jiang. Some minor changes were made - a total of four words, I think.
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