Anz'kalarad Fangship

Anz'vatrin Shipyards S300A Fangship
Interceptor, Anz'kalarad Principalities Royal Defense Force

The basic architecture of the Anz'vatrin Shipyards S300A Fangship has changed little in more than a thousand years; updated shields, weapons, and engines are the only differences between this year's model and the ones that blitzed Tekel House's southern border at the outset of the United Powers War in 1225 NC. The delta-winged Fangship is poorly defended and relies on speed, agility, and its suprisingly strong armament and ECM.

Fangships are used chiefly as carrier fighters due to their short range (three jumps), and as sublight patrol vessels. You can quite easily identify the use of Anz'kalarad ships by their class number: for the S300A, 'S' stands for short-range, and 'A' for Attack.

The Fangship was originally meant to be dagger-shaped (the "fang" in "Fangship"), but as I worked it developed into a strange cross between a typical starfighter (if there is such a thing) and the F-35 Lightning II (the Joint Strike Fighter). Some detail pieces came from DarthKev's workshop (chiefly the cockpit, the section aft of the cockpit, and the grille on the outer edge of the forward wing lobe). The lasers, originally inspired by the X-Wing's, debuted on the Foxfire. I also developed the Needle missile model for this ship (it has eight, mounted externally), and for the tailfins, reused the canard wing from the Kangaroo and Orion Frigate.

EDIT: Credit actually goes to Delphi for the grille piece. However, it was not released in the Ship Component Library.