Fighters

ICC

Exathra, CD-36*15693 (ICCNN) - Today Exthra Military Concepts Designs, Corporation has unveiled two new lines of starfighter craft and system upgrades to the veteran F-29.

F-29 Steelhead

Chief Design Engineer Dr. Joshua Gideon stated, "These new fighter craft will be a great asset to the Confederation fleets. With the performance and structural upgrades to the veteran Steelhead series and addition of the Gamma interceptor and Annihilator bomber to the fleet we shall see unsurpassed naval superiority."

The F-29 Steelhead has received extensive structural reinforcement and with targeting and weapons system upgrades takes its role as the premier Assault Class fighter craft for the ICC Navy.

XB-11 Annihilator

The XB-11 Annihilator is the first class of long range fighter craft designed for the expressed purpose of planet liberation. With far larger fuel capacity than that of the Steelhead coupled with her load out of planetary siege weaponry, this vessel will allow fleet commanders to surgically remove aggressor forces from safe distances without exposing the carrier fleet.

FI-8 Gamma

The FI-8 Gamma interceptor is the first fleet defensive fighter craft. With greater speed and agility the Gamma's primary roll is fleet defense.

K'Luth

Earth, Sol System (GNN) - The United Galactic Trade Organization government has recently released to the general public pictures taken by a recent deep probe mission to the Groombridge 34 system which shows the K'luth testing several new small fighter class craft.

In the news briefing earlier Captain Richard Forman of UGTO Intelligence stated, "Several weeks ago we sent several deep reconnaissance probes into K’luth occupied space. Late last week we received telemetry and imagery back from one of the probes sent into the Groombridge 34 system. We lost contact shortly there after receiving the initial data…”

Larva

“As you can see here from this first image…”

“The base K’luth Larva fighter remains largely unchanged, though scans indicate a denser hull. There appears to be a change in the weapon load out though at this time we can not confirm that analysis.”

Wasp

“Looking at image two…”

“We see here the hull plating has been stretched and the anterior plating holds obtrusive weapons load out ports that we can only assume to be bomb pylons of some sort. The military has named this new unit the Wasp bomber. Additional information is still lacking at this time as to the units abilities.”

Stinger

“This last image was missed during the initial review of the telemetry data from the probes. Its smaller and faster than the other vessels, it appears to be coated with a sensor absorbing material that makes it hard to detect until the unit is in close proximity to the sensor ship. Its believed it was one of these craft is what destroyed our probe. Considering its flight vector and speed, we can only surmise this to be some sort of fighter-to-fighter interceptor craft. We have designated this new contact as: Stinger.”