Sea Skimmer
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| Sea Skimmer Hydrofoil | |
| Production information | |
| Manufacturer | Skye Pleasure Craft Limited |
| Mission | Littoral Combat Ship / Patrol Ship |
| Type | Hydrofoil Naval |
| Cost | 626,667 C-bills |
| Technical specifications | |
| Mass | 25 tons |
| Armor | Glasgow Limited Standard |
| Engine | 150 Skye Engines Naval I.C.E |
| Speed | 194.4 km/h |
| Crew | 4 |
| Armament |
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| BV (1.0) | 195 |
| BV (2.0) | 306 |
Description
With very few wet navy ships around, it was surprising to see a new design. On planets that it's surfaces contains large bodies of water where counter-insurgency operations and civilian shipping protection were required. Normally they would use land based hovercrafts or armed civilian ships, as they were quite inexpensive in comparison to designing and building a dedicated water craft. The Sea Skimmer uses a standard displace hull, with 3 mounted wings/foils that are lowered when the ship is traveling at high speed in excess of 190 kph.
Armament
With a turret mounted Coventry 4 Tube Missile System SRM-4 it allows of 360 degree field of fire, while the Sperry Browning Machine Guns are mounted on either port/starboard side and the stern to provide protection against infantry.
Variants
- Sea Skimmer (SRM) - This unofficial modification stripped out the Sperry Browning Machine Guns to replace them with SRM-2, also the turret mounted Coventry 4 Tube Missile System SRM-4 were also downgrade to SRM-2 to save room, and share ammunition. BV (2.0) = 381
- "Sniper" Sea Skimmer - This prototype carries a single Extended LRM-5 in the turret. To make room for the launcher, the "Sniper" removed all the close in weaponry, traded the ICE engine for a Fusion Engine, and reduced the armor protection to two tons of Heavy Ferro-Fibrous armor. Though it retains the high speed of the original Sea Skimmer, the Sniper's paper thin armor and lack of close in weaponry relegates it to shore bombardment duties. BV (2.0) = 322[1]
Gallery
Sea Skimmer
References
- ↑ Experimental Technical Readout: Corporations, p. 10