Next fighter

[ray245]

What should earth next fighter be designated? F-303 or F-304 or F-305? If it is F-303, it might be confused with the battlecruisers.

[Lord §okar]

305 is free.

[immhotep]

F-303 that the answer and ive already designed the ship

The F-303:

The F-303 is the third in series of advanced tauri fightercraft. It predecssors were good ship, the x-301 was a failure but the f-302 was able to survive against multiple foes and take out anubis's highly advanced flagship.

The hyperdrive of the F-302 was designed for use with naquadria, the kelownens super element, that opened up the universe for us,according to the US goverment at least. The hyperdrive was not fully effective because of the instability of the naquadria and could only be used in short jump (bypassing shields was the upside of this apartent flaw though).
Since then the hyperdrive has been further refined by the Tokra, the Hebridens and the Asgard, in return for access to the new element for use in the creation of their own ships; this refinement has made it posible for the F-303's hyperdrive to travel as far and as fast as an Alkesh or Teltak(cargo ship) class vessel, a significant achievement because the ship has only been enlarged by 20% X,Y,Z dimensions.

The weapons have also been inproved by replacing guns and bullets with Rail guns( a weapons that the US goverment is utalising in all field right now after it proving itself effective in defeating many ships and by SG teams trialing it offworld and quoting 'its awesome, the power and potential of these guns are incredible but they feel just like the weapons of the previous decade'.

In addition to the Naquadria hyperdrive being inproved, Shield generation has also been decreased in size to be able to fit smaller ships, for example our F-303. Yes the F-303 has a shield, a very small,weak and experimental shield. The shield isnt very strong but is able to aid the fighter in the battle by allowing several round of fire to be given off without damage taken, by that time the battle is usually over because Rail gun weapons are good weapons for a fighter craft to be equipped with, speed is always on the side of the Tauri when the F-303 is put in to play.

Hebriden/Human ion drives are making the speed of the F-303 very important, the F-303, in terms of speed runs ring around every ship out there, the ion drive can power a ship to over 1.3 million m/s, meaning this ship can cover a distance from earth to pluto in just under 4 hours(at least those were the speed tests performed upon it,' time taken to reach pluto at full ion thrust speed).

The F-303 is a formidable craft, it is by far our most important ship, even more so that the BC-303's because it can be made in great numbers, is armed to the teeth, is fast, has shields and can take on most small craft( such as the alkesh) and survive without a problem.

The Craft was so good according to many,even the Asgard said the craft was a brilliant step forward for our fleet, that the US goverment felt confident enough to stake a wager on it:
The hebriden scientist working on the project made a bet, if The F-303 came 1st in the loop on kon garat he would give earth plans to every ship in the race( the tech con group also agreeed), and any technolgy that was used in them but if it lost then they must make him part of any future discovery Earth makes and give them plans for the Daedalus Hyperdrive for use in their own development.

The F-303 unfortunatly came 3rd but the scientist gave Earth plan for most of the ship anyway when he was drafted for the Athena project( see above, the hebriden technolgy included is down to him), and was allowed to come to atlantis on the ships he helped build( he is competent at piloting both ships and know about both of them in detail).

The F-303 is turning the tide of fighter/MS combat upside down, capable of great speeds, good firepower, shielding and reasonable hyperspace travel it is a great accomplishment for the Tauri and space flight as a whole, all races we are in contact with are impressed with the craft and respect that it is something to be fear and certainly not underestimated; i think is good for us to be proud that for the moment all ship in our fleet are capable of hyperspace travel. something the goauld and even the ancients did not accomplish.

F-303 ship specifications:

Race: Tauri/Hebriden, Asgard systems used.

First built: year-2010 ship dock Gaia, Tauri system,Milky way Galaxy.

hull: Trinium,carbon and titanium alloy

Size: L.16m CW.4m WS.18m H.2m

Engines: Hebriden Ion propulsion drives, F-302 hyperdrive but refined by Asgard and Tokra for practical hyperspace travel enablement.

Shields: Mini Naquadria powered,modiefied and adapted Teltak shield, enhanced with hebridden Low power anti- solar radition field( the ones used to protect against radiation and the heat of the sun in Space Race, but compressed by the naquadria utilisation in the power)

Weapons: 2 Rail Cannons( similar to Glider cannon but with railguns more powerfull than the EMRG-1000 used by SG teams) as well as 8 AA naquadah enhanced missiles.

Power: Naquadria Reactor for Hyperdrive and shields, naquada reactor mark I powering all other systems.

Communications: tokra subspace comms unit(contact between different squadrens in different systems possible but not other galaxy's) and standard Long range Radio,

other systems: RADAR/Sensor array(retroed teltak),Storage of small items/clamping of item/deploymetn of object possible, no cloak as yet but room is their for one,no Asgard beams, inertial dampners, life support/lighting/heating, no gravity generator but inertial dampners do create the same effect as the gravity generator would.

support craft: science probe can be deployed. but no other craft.

concept images:




Well this is the F-303, enjoy. and comment/poke holes at will!

[SmallTimePerson]

1 problem with ur little write up.
Even though I have never seen SG-1, i believe that the X-301 never became an F-301.

The F-303 is the third in series of advanced tauri fightercraft. It predecssors were good ship, the f-301 was a failure but the f-302 was able to survive against multiple foes and take out anubis's highly advanced flagship.

[immhotep]

ok ill edit that sorry.

[SmallTimePerson]

what program did you use to draw the space craft?

[immhotep]

i didnt they are from a game called X2: the threat. but they are exactly what i was looking to make so i used them. i cant draw anything on pc or in real life .

[SmallTimePerson]

or in real life .

join the club

[immhotep]

you can or you cant!

[JedI Master of the Gate]

How bout makeing the F-303 fighter, it would be the production model of the X-303 fighter (Change the Post Production name of the Prometheus to BC-303, and have the production model named Prometheus). The F-303 would be a Cargoship, used to transport things, when we can't use beam tech (or when we don't want to).

[alaskannut]

305 is free.

So is 304...

[Lord §okar]

EDIT: Meh, not bothered.

[general ben]

How bout makeing the F-303 fighter, it would be the production model of the X-303 fighter (Change the Post Production name of the Prometheus to BC-303, and have the production model named Prometheus). The F-303 would be a Cargoship, used to transport things, when we can't use beam tech (or when we don't want to).

the F stands for fighter so it would be a cargoship.

[Hatcheter]

How bout makeing the F-303 fighter, it would be the production model of the X-303 fighter (Change the Post Production name of the Prometheus to BC-303, and have the production model named Prometheus). The F-303 would be a Cargoship, used to transport things, when we can't use beam tech (or when we don't want to).

You really can't have two entirely different things called -303. The next space fighter would have to start at -304.

Also, as was mentioned, a transport would be a C- designation in the USAF (C- indicates it is a transport craft). This makes the BC-303 a bomber/transport. The -302 should probably be properly designated the SF-302, to indicate it's Spaceplane status.

Current Designations of U.S. Military Aircraft

[Lord §okar]

I think it's been said that BC is an impromptu designation (or it's been appened to the list of them) corresponding to the type "battle cruiser" (which is odd considering 303s aren't battle cruisers by any stretch of the imagination).