The stats are totally unimportant, this is purely for my own gratification in being able to name it. I like little details like that.
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C60 Titan from Fields of Fire or Rigger 3... You're looking for the 2060 version of a Spectre?
Let me check this out. 2071 version, but yes.
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You meant the SR version, not the aircraft that would fill that *role* in SR, right? Because I'd expect LAVs to take over that function.
Disagree (LAV cannot possibly equal the payload of an AC-130, they're too small) but that's a separate topic so (if that's even possible?) let's not get into it here. : )
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AFAIK, AC-130s don't fly 'very very high', either. The first thing that springs to mind is a zeppelin
Basically, for the first part, see what StealthSigma said. For the second part, I don't want to use a zeppelin because I think they're kind of lame (which, I know, is totally subjective). I don't imagine them having to descend to a very low altitude to fire a laser straight down. (Of course, I am making lots of assumptions, including that heavy duty military vehicle laser weaponry does not care about things like cloud cover and weather the way that MP laser weaponry does.)
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Ares does have LEO laser sats capable of hitting ground targets. They used one to kill a great dragon. They hit with much less power than a Thor shot, but much more accuracy.
I may use exactly this. I thought I read Tom Dowd (<3) saying on these forums that the Great Dragon actually got bullseyed by a laser on an aircraft, which is why this thread exists.
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I wil forever deny that retcon - it was a squadron of high altitude aircraft and I'm stickin' to it.
Ah yes. This is the very thing I'm talking about.