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
The Sea Skimmer has a very specific combat role: On planets whose surfaces contains large bodies of water, counter-insurgency operations and civilian shipping protection is often required. Normally they would use land based hovercraft or armed civilian ships, as these are quite inexpensive in comparison to designing and building a dedicated water craft. With very few wet navy ships around, it was surprising to see a new design. The Sea Skimmer uses a standard displacement hull, with 3 mounted wings/foils that are lowered when the ship is traveling at high speed in excess of 190 kph.
Armament
Designed to quickly close with pirates and operate in a counter-insurgency role, the Sea Skimmer's turret mounted Coventry 4 Tube Missile System allows a 360 degree field of fire. To provide protection against infantry the Sea Skimmer mounts Sperry Browning Machine Guns on the port and starboard sides as well as the stern.
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 downgraded 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