Gryphon-class Strike Fighter

The is a space and atmosphere capable strike fighter utilized by the Plainsfier Tribes.

Description
The Gryphon is a all rounder Plainsfierian fighter, being suitable for the role of heavy fighter, strike fighter, attack fighter and interdictor. The Gryphon is heavily armoured, well armed, is agile enough to engage enemy fighters in dog fights and can easily engage enemy warships or ground targets with sufficient ordnance changes. The Gryphon is fitted with full stealth capacity, rendering it invisible to RADAR, LIDAR and infra-red signatures and has active phased array camouflage.. The Gryphon has hardened ceramic, carbon nanotube and ablative armour, giving it good defence for a vehicle of it's class.

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.