Help with designing a fighter

[viperfan7 (OP)]

I'm just asking for help with fighter design and the new engine and crew system

[metalax]

Fighter design very much depends on the role it is going to take.

Fighters typically don't have the space to spare for armour and shields so speed is usually their only real defence. Use maximum power on your engine design. It may be worth using the thermal reduction tech line to reduce the thermal signature of the engine as well to allow them to get closer to an enemy that is only using thermal sensors for early warning. Also decide on what tonnage of your fighter is going to be occupied by the engines and design a single engine of that size, there is a reduction in fuel consumption and cost between 2 size 1 engines and 1 size 2 engine.

Beam firecontrols can be specified for fighters which gives them a free 4x multiplier to tracking speed.

Fighters are typically only out of their carriers for short periods. As such you can take advantage of the reduced crew requirements and hence space for crew quarters if you set there deployment times lower. At 0.5 months crew requirments are halved, at 0.1 months they are reduced to 1/3rd.

[niflheimr]

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Hood class Fighter-bomber    293 tons     2 Crew     121 BP      TCS 5.85  TH 28  EM 0
13675 km/s     Armour 1-3     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 2.25
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 58%    IFR 0.8%    1YR 11    5YR 161    Max Repair 70 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.1 months    Spare Berths 8   
Magazine 15   

Lockheed 2-80-5.811 Fighter Magneto-plasma Drive (1)    Power 80    Fuel Use 581.07%    Signature 28    Exp 25%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 0.5 billion km   (10 hours at full power)

Sikorsky S3 External Missile Racks (5)    Missile Size 3    Hangar Reload 22.5 minutes    MF Reload 3.7 hours
Smartronix FC165-R120 Compact Control Link (1)     Range 165.6m km    Resolution 120
G1 AML 3-302-101-36.2 Long Assault Missile (5)  Speed: 30,200 km/s   End: 55.8m    Range: 101.1m km   WH: 4    Size: 3    TH: 120 / 72 / 36

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes


[viperfan7 (OP)]

alright, that design shows I have the right idea with this design I have, its meant as an ultra light interceptor meant to be launched for at most less then a day, although with the new crewing system I REALLY wish we could research AI and have uncrewed ships

heres the design

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Katon class Interceptor    195 tons     2 Crew     129.4 BP      TCS 3.9  TH 28  EM 0
20512 km/s     Armour 1-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 1
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 39%    IFR 0.5%    1YR 8    5YR 125    Max Repair 70 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.001 months    Spare Berths 48   

80 EP Fighter Inertial Fusion Drive (1)    Power 80    Fuel Use 391.33%    Signature 28    Exp 25%
Fuel Capacity 5,000 Litres    Range 1.2 billion km   (15 hours at full power)

Fighter Gauss Cannon R4-8 (2x4)    Range 40,000km     TS: 20512 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8%     RM 4    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S00.5 48-5000 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 96,000 km   TS: 20000 km/s     90 79 69 58 48 38 27 17 6 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes


[o_O]

Why not just give it an engineering space, more guns and a bigger engine to compensate? 

[icecoldblood]

For your ultra-light fighters, did you select fighter only for the gauss fc? Fighter fc's have a trackig speed bonus and 20k km/s is quite low, seeing you have inertial fusion drives tech.