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Technical Data
Model number: YFS-101
Classification: test type energy
weapon-optimized fighter
Manufacturer: Browning Engineering
Corporation
Operator: Browning Corp
First deployment: CY 20
Crew: 1 pilot and 1
navigator/gunner in cockpit
Length: 17 meters, wingspan 16.70
meters
Weight: 84 metric tons
Armor type: “1D” carbyne
laminar armor
Powerplant: cold fusion reactor,
max output 2950 KW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 5x
16,800 kg, 2x 32,600 kg, 4x 35,200 kg, 2x 25,000kg; top speed 4212
kph; maneuvering thrusters: 26
Sensors: radar, thermal, optical
array; Vercingetorix laser targeting system
Fixed armaments: x2 plasma cannon,
power rated at 1.3 MW, mounted under wings; x2 30mm Vulcan cannon,
mounted in nose
Special equipment: A.I. operating
system, transformation capability, nuclear self-detonation device
General
Notes
When Tesla Browning took up the aegis of
Project S from the defunct Seed Corp, he endeavored to repurpose
Sekaino Megami’s superweapons against the Coalition. The VCD-2
would remain the centerpiece of the dread weapons system, but the
destroyer lacked a viable targeting module.
The Project S team submitted several
outboard targeting platform proposals. The idea of installing the
Vercingetorix laser targeting system in a fighter craft emerged as a
leading concept. Reasoning that a fighter’s high mobility and
integrated weapons would maximize ease of deployment while affording
the module built-in protection, a prototype was soon approved.
Browning Corp based the YFS-100 prototype
on Maximus Darving’s HVRJ-2 airframe. For extra defense, they added
carbyne laminar armor pioneered on the XCD-001-1. These design
elements enabled the fighter to perform unaided atmospheric entry
from outer space, greatly extending the VCD-2’s effective range.
Kazoku War ace Zane Dellister contributed a pair of wing-mounted
plasma cannons to give the fighter superior offensive capabilities.
Having produced a successful proof of
concept in the YSF-100, a test type unit, the YFS-101, was soon green
lighted. The test type resembled the prototype almost exactly, except
the HVRJ-2’s pair of nose-mounted Vulcan cannons was restored. The
caliber of the weapons was increased from 20mm to 30mm, granting
extra punch against small-medium support vehicles and personnel.
The YFS-101 was never intended for
deployment in the field. But when a shuttle carrying the One-Series
XSeed prototype crashed in the Taklamakan Desert in CY 20, Zane
himself piloted the testbed fighter in a desperate bid to rescue his
wife Dorothy. When Dorothy proved dead at the Socs’ hands, Zane
swore revenge, culminating in a suicide strike using the YFS-101’s
nuclear self-detonator.
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