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B-65 Shortsword-class Bomber

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Name: B-65 Suborbital Long-Range Bomber
Craft: Misriah Armory B-65 Suborbital Long Range Fighter
Type: Low-altitude bomber
Scale: starfighter
Length: 27.3 x 35.3 meters
Skill: starfighter pilot
Crew: 3; skeleton: 1/+10
Cargo Capacity: 250kg
Consumables: 1 week
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Move: 365; 1,050kmh
Hull: 5D
Sensors

  • Passive: 25km / 0D+2
  • Scan: 50km / 1D
  • Search: 75km / 1D+2
  • Focus: 3km / 2D+1

Weapons

  • M995 ASW/AC 30mm MLA
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Range: 10-300/800/1,500m
Ammo: 1,500
Damage: 4D+1
  • Maastricht/Raleigh Ordinance Delivery-Application System
Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Skill: staship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Ammo: 6 bombs total
  • Mark 208 Bomb
Scale: starfighter
Range: free fall
Damage: 7D
  • GBU-1105 Cryo Bomb
Scale: starfighter
Range: free fall
Damage: 5D (freezing damage)
  • XGBU-302 Disruption Bomb
Scale: starfighter
Range: free fall
Damage: 5D (Ionization)

Description

The B-65 Suborbital Long-Range Bomber, more commonly known as the Shortsword, is a UNSC atmospheric strategic bomber.

The Shortsword shares a similar design to the GA-TL1 Longsword interceptor, though it is less angular than the latter. It features elongated primary wings as well as smaller wings attached to a large boom apparatus at the rear of the fuselage. A large air intake is mounted on the dorsal surface of each wing; pronged structures, possibly ailerons, are located at the rear tip of each wing. Though the B-65 is designed to provide suborbital air support, it is capable of at least rudimentary space flight; Shortswords are often deployed from parent vessels in low orbit.

The Shortsword is typically armed with conventional bombs for performing carpet bombing runs. When releasing its payload, the Shortsword "punches" its munitions into the ground; the munitions then explode a short time later. As the bombs detonate in the order in which they are dropped, carpet bombing runs carried out by the Shortsword resemble twentieth-century napalm strikes. Bombers equipped with the M/RODAS delivery system can carry less conventional payloads such as the XGBU-302 disruption bomb or the GBU-1105 "cryo" bomb.

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