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PILUM
This is the "Pilum"
a multirole drone-starfighter.
"Designed as a long rage defense device, or mass dog-fighter ship, it use a nuclear reactor to power a railgun cannon.
This weapon offers an enormous destruction power, but also produces big ammount of electromagnetic radiations. To use a drone instead of a uman-piloted spaceship, is the best (less expansive) way to survive a long railgun exposure.
The main weapon, can shot explosive shells, or even a non-lethal web, mainly used to wrap enemy ships and break their solar power plant without killing the crew or destroying the hull...most of the time...."
this was born as an idea of a defensive device for colonial station in "near space" and near future: for space/orbital station, lunar stations, or Mars stations. After the defensive phase, i decide to power it up with nozzles and rockets, and other things to make it more suitable to starfighting role!
Thank you Tromas for this contest! I had real fun on bulding something "realistic"!!!
PILUM
This is the "Pilum"
a multirole drone-starfighter.
"Designed as a long rage defense device, or mass dog-fighter ship, it use a nuclear reactor to power a railgun cannon.
This weapon offers an enormous destruction power, but also produces big ammount of electromagnetic radiations. To use a drone instead of a uman-piloted spaceship, is the best (less expansive) way to survive a long railgun exposure.
The main weapon, can shot explosive shells, or even a non-lethal web, mainly used to wrap enemy ships and break their solar power plant without killing the crew or destroying the hull...most of the time...."
this was born as an idea of a defensive device for colonial station in "near space" and near future: for space/orbital station, lunar stations, or Mars stations. After the defensive phase, i decide to power it up with nozzles and rockets, and other things to make it more suitable to starfighting role!
Thank you Tromas for this contest! I had real fun on bulding something "realistic"!!!