[Snail]

I'm guessing those are either Vampire decoy missiles/bombs to soak up fire, or just some gunner with a really bad aim.

[General Battuta]

While your idea about bombs soaking up fire is correct, I just want to point out that 'vampire' is naval terminology for an anti-ship missile, not necessarily indicative of a weapon name.

[Commander Zane]

What are all of those blue missile-trail looking things in the 3rd screenshot?

Speculation: I remember seeing a weapon in the Solaris video called 'grenade launcher', maybe this is that with awesomer graphics?

I don't believe they're Slammer warheads, unless the FoF was increased for the bomblets.

Actually those could be the warheads from a Pestilence cluster.

[CaptJosh]

Yeah, a "vampire" is an inbound anti-ship missile. Either subsurface to surface, surface to surface, or air to surface.

[Aardwolf]

Such weird weapon names...

[Commander Zane]

In terms of military terminoligy or in Blue Planet terms?

[Aardwolf]

I meant "Slammer" and "Pestilence"

[High Max]

;-)

[Fury]

It's been really long since we've revealed some WiH eye-candy, so here is UEA Maalik, an AWACS.
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5658/uefmaalik.png

BATTUTEDIT: just to avoid misunderstandings, yes, the model is from the Xtended mod for X3.

[Snail]

So what does it do in-game, besides increase an already infinite sensor range?

[Fury]

Provides advanced targeting data, pin-point jump coordinates, blind enemy sensors, jam or disrupt enemy weapons. Pretty much same stuff you will see GTVA counterparts doing in the campaign. Only Maalik is nearly corvette sized vessel in mass and few in numbers.

[General Battuta]

The Maalik is one of the ways the UEF tries to level the playing field against GTVA warships.

The UEF has almost perfect intelligence on GTVA targeting systems and sensors, thanks to the events at the end of Age of Aquarius.

[Fury]

You're always going the extra mile, aren't you Battuta? Topic title is misleading by the way, an AWACS is hardly a warship.

[Aardwolf]

Awww.

I was hoping it was the Arashi.

Edit: and I can't make heads or tails of the screenshot.

[Black Wolf]

That dish is grinning at me.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Waow, looks nice and complicated... HTL... *_*

[-Norbert-]

This look like it comes straight out of X3 TC.
Maybe AWACS isn't the right name though, since it is neither airborne nor used for early warning (AWACS = Airborn early Warning And Controll System).
More like a SEWS (Speaceborn Electronic Warfare System) 

[General Battuta]

Canonically, in FreeSpace AWACS stands for Advanced Warning and Control System.

[eliex]

Beautiful. Does it have a chance of survival on its own, or is it an helpless as its GTVA counterparts? 

[General Battuta]

It's much larger than the Charybdis AWACS, and like many UEF ships, it has superb point defenses. (This is really not a fighter pilot's war from the GTVA side.)