Designation: Lockheed SF-3A Lancer II Space Fighter

I. Dimensions:

II. Service History:

• Served with the RDF Spacy from 2008 until 2017.

III. Type:

• One man space fighter gunship.

IV. Propulsion:

• 2 x Rocketdyne DRoE-4 reaction engine in tail section, providing 130 kN thrust each.
• 4 x protoculture cell for power generation.

V. Performance:

• Range (space) : Delta-v limit of 3.4 kps.
• Powercell endurance : Full function for 140 hours.
• Design-g limits : 1.9 g max acceleration.

VI. Electronics:

Radar System:

• Hughes AWG-20 X-band pulse-Doppler radar, providing long-range detection and tracking of targets at all altitudes, as well as extensive surface search, attack, navigation, and mapping modes.

Optical tracking:

• Thomson DOS-1900 multi-band digital camera system, for medium range spherical UV, infra-red imaging and optical band detection and tracking
• Thomson LT-3 multi-frequency laser ranger and designator
• Zeiss TS-1D long range telescopic array for visible/IR spectrum.

Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS):

• Elettronica Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
• OlDelft Infra-red Warning Receiver (IRWR)
• Westinghouse ALQ-200 active radar jammer
• Chaff dispenser
• Flares
• Active missile jammers.

VII. Armament:

• 2 x RRG mk2 electromagnetic cannon, firing self- guiding plasma warheads mounted on maneuver thruster units. Total supply 120 shells.
• 6 x Euromissile StarStrike specialized space missiles. Warhead is equivalent to the one on the Stiletto missile, and the StarStrike utilizes 'burn and drift' tactics.
  Range and speed n/a, delta-v capacity 2 kps. Missiles are ejected sideways from 2 launch ports in front of the lower engine section.

VIII. Armor:

The skin of the Lancer II is composed of an advanced titanium-steel alloy. The armor stops all small arms fire, provides good protection against heavier infantry weapons, such as a 12.7mm machinegun round, and fair resistance to light mecha-mounted weaponry, such as the Zentraedi 22.3mm HE autocannon round. The internal consumable supplies are enough to last for two days.

IX. Development:

The ungainly Lancer II space fighter made up the majority of the manned airgroup (for lack of a better word) of the early -0 version Armor platforms, and a significant fraction of the original aircraft complement of the SDF-1 Macross. Since this craft was a space fighter only, no attention needed to be given to aerodynamical shaping, and the result was made up of, rear to front, two engines (one on top, the other on the bottom), a fuel tank, the power plant, pilot compartment and computer systems in a rectangular housing with a magazine for six missiles in the lower hull, and then the main weapon system. Since the main task of the fighter was anti-mecha warfare, the armament was designed to take out mecha at long range with the main cannons, and to eliminate any mecha that broke through the main gun's perimeter with the StarStrike missiles. The main cannons fired a new plasma warhead, coupled to guidance thrusters and a seeker-head package for terminal guidance, fired through the Lancer's double barreled rail-gun in the direction of enemy mecha. This system made a large ammunition load possible and was, in effect, a hybrid of missiles and later-era plasma-shell cannons. A large sensor antenna was placed on top of the main section. The Lancer II was used by the Armor ships as well as by the SDF-1, although this system was only used once by the larger ship, during the Zentraedi Holocaust. The few Lancer fighters that survived that battle were re-assigned to the remaining Armor ships, and were soon replaced by the early model VF-6A Alphas.

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