[roguevalkyrie]

Is it known if the Terr ans and Vasudans ever use planet based starfighters?

[Scourge of Ages]

As in starfighters that can operate in atmosphere, regular fighter aircraft, or starfighters that are based on a planet and have to launch to space for every mission?

If either of the first two, I think it's a pretty good assumption that they did.

[Thaeris]

If I recall correctly from the FS Reference Bible, all FS fighters can operate in the atmosphere. How well they do that is up for debate, but you should assume that they can take off and land from planetary bases.

[Rodo]

yeah... I would love to see an Ursa taking off ground and staying in the air

[Thaeris]

Given the way FS ships handle, I'm going to assume they've got some "inertial-damping"/"acceleration-modifier" (AKA "anti-gravity") stuff going on. Given the way you walk about ships, this may not be too far off. You might even be able to modulate the shields to a degree to reduce air friction about some of those rough edges.

Of course, space-bound only craft are also understandable. For instance, when writing/doing concept art on Cardinal Spear's GTB Gorgon, that is indeed supposed to be a space-only craft (according to my interpretation  ). Something like the Ursa would also be a candidate for this treatment... can you imagine a real-world Ursa... 

...Of course, that wouldn't hurt the Ursa as it's still perfectly capable of unleashing on a planet with HUGE BOMBZ!!! 

[The E]

Just the image of a Myrmidon laying waste to a mid-sized city using only half a bank of Tempests makes me smile a bit ... and also think about the incredible overpoweredness of FS2 fluff.

[Snail]

Kilotons doesn't need to be kilotons of TNT. Could be kilotons of wet matches.

[Scotty]

Honestly Snail?  The only thing measured in Kilotons is yield, when referring to explosions.

[Aardwolf]

Kilotons of wet matches' yield is still yield, Scotty.

[NGTM-1R]

Given the way FS ships handle, I'm going to assume they've got some "inertial-damping"/"acceleration-modifier" (AKA "anti-gravity") stuff going on. Given the way you walk about ships, this may not be too far off. You might even be able to modulate the shields to a degree to reduce air friction about some of those rough edges.

as much as admitted that FS ships have antigrav as a natural extension of their artificial gravity technology in one the developer emails. Aldo posted a thread about it once.

They might even retain their slow speeds in atmosphere as a way to make it marginally possible to use missile weapons against each other (shockwave issues would normal result in a huge number of crashes at high speed), but I doubt you really want to be chucking around the multi-kiloton stuff in an atmosphere anyways.

Kilotons of wet matches' yield is still yield, Scotty.

Yield calculations have always been done in terms of TNT. It's a pretty reasonable assumption they still are, unless you have evidence otherwise.

[Snail]

Honestly Snail?  The only thing measured in Kilotons is yield, when referring to explosions.

Honeslty Scotty? Yield is measured in tons of TNT. 1 kiloton is equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT.

[General Battuta]

Kilotons doesn't need to be kilotons of TNT. Could be kilotons of wet matches.

I'm Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite theory on the forums.

Way to miss the point, Scotty!

[Snail]

stfu i was srs

[Colonol Dekker]

A tonne of housebricks or a tonne of feathers. The results the same. And I for one would sanction a Pegasus to fire a tempest or two on enemies of the state. Or i'd send an Apollo with two MX-50s back in time to win WW2 early.
 
 
I believe that the GTA must have had at least one or two planetary fighter bases.
 
The Vasudans had fighter escorts leading the prime evac.
 
Stands to reason we as the superior species have a counterpart.

[Mongoose]

Kilotons doesn't need to be kilotons of TNT. Could be kilotons of wet matches.

I'm Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite theory on the forums.

This really would be a fantastic way to resolve tech-room wankery.  Just state that no one uses TNT anymore, so the yield scale is based on a much more weaksauce substance.

[haloboy100]

A tonne of housebricks or a tonne of feathers. The results the same. And I for one would sanction a Pegasus to fire a tempest or two on enemies of the state. Or i'd send an Apollo with two MX-50s back in time to win WW2 early.

Let's drop a Helios on those damn fascists!

[headdie]

i belive in the FS1 vasuda prime bombardment cini you see a seth, another fighter and a transport operating in an the atmosphere escaping a city befur the lucy's beam hits

[Paladin327]

in the "Fall of Vasuda Prime" cutscene (great stuff btw, check it out if you havent" we see a satis and a Chronosis freighter flying in atmosphere, and we also see the terran freighter stop, hover, decend, and pick up a container. i'm assuming it had the ability to take off again. so it makes sence that fighters can fly in atmosphere and such

[General Battuta]

in the "Fall of Vasuda Prime" cutscene (great stuff btw, check it out if you havent" we see a satis and a Chronosis freighter flying in atmosphere, and we also see the terran freighter stop, hover, decend, and pick up a container. i'm assuming it had the ability to take off again. so it makes sence that fighters can fly in atmosphere and such

Yeah, but that's strictly non-canon, sorry.

[Droid803]

Well, the tech description on the Banshee definitely suggests that it was tested under atmospheric conditions...that doesn't rule out specifically-designed planetary fighters that could mount the weapon though.

I don't think the FSRefBible is the best reference for canon as it contains a lot of cut content and stuff that was eventually changed...
The Galatea obviously isn't the ITA Repulse.
Yeah, I know it's the word of God and technically completely canon, but I have a hard time taking it as such.