Re: FSE Requin Class Strikeboat
From: Tony Francis <tony@g...>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:32:58 +0000
Subject: Re: FSE Requin Class Strikeboat
Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:
> >The design also proved popular with the Islamic Federation Navy,
> >and several variations have been developed. The crews' favorite
> >version uses MT missiles to replace the submunition packs (and
> >either the FC or armor--since MT missiles have their own FC, I'd
> >assume it's legal for the strikeboat itself to dispense with
> >FC?).
>
> I like it !
>
> Tony also mentioned that some may have found their way into the NIS
> inventory...
>
A popular NIS variant involved replacing one SubM pack with a class-1,
giving the Requin's some degree of fighter protection and helping the
crews to not feel quite so defenceless once the packs had been fired !
Tony