Tonnage: 30
Frame: Unknown
Engine: 210 XL
Armor: Standard
Armament:
6 Flamers
4 ER Medium Lasers
Manufacturer: Storm Phoenix
Combine
Communications System: Screeching
Hawk Standard
Targeting and Tracking System:
Firesight Standard
Overview:
The Phoenix is an older design, the first fighter to be built by the Combine
in fact, but it is unlikely to be recalled any time soon. Coordinator Toremu
Kurita asked Storm Phoenix scientists to devise a fighter which would inspire
all accompanying Combine forces by the sight of it. House Shinwa
was the first to respond with the Fire Phoenix, eventually shortened to
just the Phoenix and deployed evenly among Storm Phoenix aerospace forces.
Capabilities:
The Phoenix carries heavy armor and good weaponry, but is not very fast
for its size. The nose and wings each carry triangular weapons mounts
of two flamers and an extended-range laser, while another laser covers
the fighter's rear arc. The flamers are distributed evenly enough
that on a strafing run, a Phoenix firing all six resembles a fireball swooping
down on its target. Aesthetics, not combat effectiveness, was the
driving force behind the fighter's design.
Phoenixes see a lot of action, as the Combine's totem fighter, and are
considered purely combat machines, but they sometimes can be used for recon
missions if more suitable units are not avaliable.
Deployment:
Every SPCM aerospace battalion possesses at least a lance of Phoenixes,
and piloting one is considered a great honor. Each House aerospace
regiment deploys one patrol of Phoenixes.
Phoenix
Equipment
Mass
Engine: 210 XL
4.5
Thrust: 9
Overthrust: 14
Structural Integrity: 9
Heat Sinks: 16[32]
6
Fuel: 45
3
Cockpit:
3
Armor Factor: 104 + 10
4.5
Armor Value Free Space
Cockpit
10 + 6
-
Nose
21
3
Wings
21
3/3
Fuselage
21
1 (aft)
Engine
14
-
Weapons and Ammo
Location Tonnage
Flamer
Nose 0.5
Flamer
Nose 0.5
Flamer
RW 0.5
Flamer
RW 0.5
Flamer
LW 0.5
Flamer
LW 0.5
ER Medium Laser
Nose
1
ER Medium Laser
RW 1
ER Medium Laser
LW 1
ER Medium Laser
Aft 1
6 Double Heat Sinks
6
