BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
A flying wing designed bomber that follows the new design doctrine of the CRAF fleet's new generation of fighters and bombers. This is a deep-strike heavy bomber designed to strike from a distance into enemy territory and annihilate high value enemy targets. With its crew of five it is capable of disguising itself quite ably and then executing its assigned mission. In the event it runs into trouble it has a dedicated navigator to rapidly plot hyperspace jumps to escape its predicament and in that time it has EM-2500's in rapid-traverse autoturrets which deploy from seamless sections of the hull to protect the ship against its pursuers. It is most comfortable in space, where its large dimensions do not hinder it as badly as it does within atmosphere and where thermal scans are more difficult to get results. It is also near-suicide for a Spectre to close with its opponent, even if its engines can outrun most patrol ships and some lesser starfighters. Due to the high cost of these bombers their crews have a massive amount of training and investment imparted to them, so the loss of a Spectre is a strategic loss, not just a tactical one.
- Intent: To create a replacement for the NTB-1010 "Fortress Buster" Bomber for the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
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- From: This ArtStation collection
- By: Nicholas Lim on ArtStation
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Crossroads Defense Industries
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Model: NTB-1340 "Spectre" Strike Bomber
- Production: Limited
- Material: Titanium, Alusteel, Thruster Components, Sensor Components, Holographic Imagery Equipment
- Classification: Strike Bomber
- Length: 30 Meters
- Width: 50 Meters
- Height: 11 Meters
- Armament: High
- x4 EM-2500 Paired Twin Heavy Repeating Laser Cannon in retractable turrets.
- Can hold x44 FFB-1200 bombs at full capacity (66,000 lbs/~30,000 kg of ordinance)
- Can hold x180 "Arrowhead" Air-to-Ground Missiles
- Can hold x22 "Savage V" Strike Missiles
- Defenses: High
- Squadron Count: Low: 8
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive Class: Class-1 (Primary), Class-5 (Emergency)
- Large Bomb Bay with mounts for rotary missile dispensers and bomb racks.
- Space for a pilot, co-pilot, a bombardier, an engineer, and a navigator.
- Small crew cabin with cots for long missions.
- Extended range to hit targets far from safe operating bases.
- Folding wings and folding vertical stabilizers for more compact storage aboard a ship.
- Deflector and atmospheric reentry shields, strength is standard for a craft its size.
- Electronic and deployable countermeasures for helping to break missile and sensor locks.
- Advanced targeting computers linked to powerful sensor package capable of pin-pointing small moving targets from low orbit and placing guided munitions right on top of it.
- Powerful engines capable of rapid acceleration
- Outer skin of holographic imagery projectors linked to visual sensors capable of mimicking the view of their linked cameras and creating a holographic image "bubble" around the bomber in an attempt to hide it from visual identification from any angle.
- Muffled thrusters for minimizing sound profile.
- Specialized cooling system for the holographic imagery system.
- Encrypted data-links to the larger CRAF battle net.
- Laser cannon turrets are linked to high-grade autoturrets and targeting computers.
- Large flexible bomb or missile loadout.
- Effective visual camouflage system.
- Fast hyperdrive and sublight engines.
- Rapid hyperspace calculations are possible thanks to its dedicated navigator.
- Strong armor plating and construction.
- Very effective defense laser cannon turrets.
- High endurance design means it can depart on long arduous missions without the need for a support ship.
- A very heavy bomber, its maneuverability is average in space but in atmosphere it is far more sluggish.
- Expensive, its holographic imagery system and its associated cooling and computing system is expensive and costly to manufacture and maintain.
- Requires highly-specialized maintenance personnel and equipment to keep these bombers running at full readiness.
- Requires a large hangar to accommodate them.
- Requires a very highly-trained crew to operate at full operational effectiveness.
- Cannot mask itself to those who pay close attention, its counter-detection measures are not true stealth technologies, for instance thermal scans can reveal their presence but not necessarily a pin-point location, life-form scans from most ship-mounted systems will pick out its close-together five-man crew, and magnetic scans from equally powerful scanners can also detect their presence. In a nutshell: most military scanners can detect them.
- Visual camouflage systems have their limits, especially vulnerable to bright flashes of light or complex moving backgrounds disrupting their imaging systems.
- Rapid and unexpected changes in lighting or environment can overload the holographic projectors for a short period, revealing the bomber's position.
A flying wing designed bomber that follows the new design doctrine of the CRAF fleet's new generation of fighters and bombers. This is a deep-strike heavy bomber designed to strike from a distance into enemy territory and annihilate high value enemy targets. With its crew of five it is capable of disguising itself quite ably and then executing its assigned mission. In the event it runs into trouble it has a dedicated navigator to rapidly plot hyperspace jumps to escape its predicament and in that time it has EM-2500's in rapid-traverse autoturrets which deploy from seamless sections of the hull to protect the ship against its pursuers. It is most comfortable in space, where its large dimensions do not hinder it as badly as it does within atmosphere and where thermal scans are more difficult to get results. It is also near-suicide for a Spectre to close with its opponent, even if its engines can outrun most patrol ships and some lesser starfighters. Due to the high cost of these bombers their crews have a massive amount of training and investment imparted to them, so the loss of a Spectre is a strategic loss, not just a tactical one.
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