Phoenix-class Gunship

The is a Plainsfierian Gunship.

Description
The Phoenix is a gunship designed for atmospheric air support for infantry forces, preforming close range strafing runs and engaging enemy with heavy ordnance. The Phoenix is fitted with full stealth capacity, rendering it invisible to RADAR, LIDAR and infra-red signatures, has active phased array camouflage, operates a pair of twin repulsor engines on rotating assemblies. The Phoenix has lightened ceramic, carbon nanotube and ablative armour, giving it good defence for a vehicle of it's class. It is piloted by a pilot and a gunner, who also operates the electronic warfare systems. The Phoenix can jam enemy RADARs and radio and mask it's own and friendly signals. It is powerful enough to go trans-atmospherically, but lacks sufficient space capability to operate as a space fighter. It has six internal pylons capable, each one capable of carrying two air to air missiles, three anti-tank missiles, a single multi-purpose cruise missile, a single multi-purpose bomb, or a anti-capital ship missile. The vehicle has four 12mm caseless cannons fixed forward on two independent ball turrets, both directed by the gunner through his neural implants. It carries advanced decoy systems, allowing it to fire off optical/infra-red blinding flares and RADAR decoys.

Ordnance

 * Nymph Interceptor Missile: The Nymph missile is a high speed, ultra-agile air to air intercept missile for use in air and space conditions. It features advanced RADAR, optical and infra-red guidance, with a RADAR receiver for additional guidance against jamming attempts. It's warhead is a explosively boosted pseudo-EXCALIBUR rod with incendiary effects.
 * Sylph Strike Missile: The Sylph is a RADAR/infra-red/Electromagnetic guided anti-tank missile with a tandem HEAT charge, firing a EXCALIBUR molten jet.
 * Sprite Heavy Missile: Sprite missiles have variable payloads and guidance systems fitted to a rocket motor capable of long range engagement and long loiter times. It can fit anti-radiation or satellite/inertial guidance for engaging RADAR stations or long range, independent cruise missile like missions. It can fit solid high explosive, tandem HEAT or cluster submunitions (with a choice of high explosive, anti-tank or incendiary bombs).
 * Dryad Bomb: A adjustable bomb, with optional guidance packages for bunker busting or long range guidance with GPS/inertial guidance system, and optional payloads, including cluster bombs, high explosive, incendiary, thermobaric, anti-tank submunitions, cratering submunitions, plasma cluster munitions or solid compressed high yield plasma munitions.
 * Pixie Intedictor Missile: The Pixie is a relatively small missile using infra-red, optical, RADAR and anti-radiation missile guidance, to home in on its target. It carries a small anti-matter charge, sufficiently strong enough to crack open the outer armour of most heavy warships.