MK. 23 LANCER
Coalition of Free Systems
#Fighter #Multi-role
Notably Flown by:
Ens. David Miller
Lt. Kala K'Satra
Lt. Mike O'Ghallagher
Cpt. Aris Al-Masri
Role
Multirole
- Interceptor
- Attacker
- Fighter
Sortie Configurations
Screening
- 1x 30mm Rotary Gauss Auto-Cannon
- Nose mounted
Close Air Support
- 1x 30mm Rotary Gauss Auto-Cannon
- nose mounted
- 2x 'Sledgehammer' Unguided Munition
- wing mounted
- Launch assisted 120kg (Tungsten-Carbide) rods
- Kinetic Energy Penetrator (KEP)
- Variable yield (Impact velocity dependent; approx. 225kg TNT equivalent at 3km/s)
Interception/Air Superiority
- 1x 30mm Rotary Gauss Auto-Cannon
- nose mounted
- 8x 'Bolt' Guided Missile Platform
- wing mounted
- Several Variants
- Sling 1
- infrared laser guided
- missile hunts for the "painted target"
- infrared laser guided
- Sling 2
- ultraviolet search and track
- tracks objects that stand out against the background radiation of the universe and looks for bloom in the UV spectrum due to the ionization of particles.
- ultraviolet search and track
- Sling 3
- Quantum Entanglement
- fires out photons until they hit a target and bounce back, the ship's computer compares them to their entangled twin, then hands over to missile computer for launch and tracking
- Quantum Entanglement
- Sling 4
- ATR/Fractal Mapping
- missile is equipped with a high-resolution camera and a local AI model trained on Fractal Monitoring. It 'sees' the shape of a ship and tracks it.
- ATR/Fractal Mapping
- Sling 1