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The goal is achieved it has been printed and painted. My paint job is not good, and I make no excuses for that. I don't have the patience. This was good enough for me.

I've been thinking a lot about this design, and here is how I think it works:

See the panel behind the rear cockpit? That panel opens and a large, pre-packaged clip of torpedoes, missiles, bombs, or mines can be loaded back there. The weapons officer (in the rear cockpit) can then select the different types of ordnance which are then transferred into the launchers, which are in the sponsons on either side of the fuselage. Torpedoes and missiles are launched forward from between the finned grills under the cockpits. Bombs or mines are released out the bottom.

The two turrets have multiple fire modes and can be controlled from either cockpit, though the weapons officer has override authority. The guns can be locked forward to function like fixed starfighter cannons under the pilots control. They can be set to stutter fire mode for ground strafing or to overcharge for armored targets. The turrets can be assigned a threat sector and will fire back at anything that approaches from that sector. They can also be locked onto a target and will fire continuously at the target or set in a "fire-back" mode (like the Jade Sabre) to return fire when fired upon. Each turret can be assigned a different mode separately. For instance, during a bombing run the gunnery officer may lock one of the turrets forward and assign it to the pilot. They could then assign the other turret to a threat sector behind and above to protect their rear during the attack run. He then goes head down selecting and assigning his torpedoes to individual targets.

The front blade of the ship (the part that looks like the ARC-170 nose) houses a powerful and sophisticated scanner array that can be used both for targeting and reconnaissance. The ER-71 can also forward its targeting data to other ships. Paired with a flight of X-Wings or E-Wings, an ER-71 can enhance the precision of those starfighters, coordinating strikes to achieve maximum impact. On ground support missions, the ER-71 can even provide precision targeting to fleet gunners for precision orbital strikes.

I know I don't have a picture from the rear, but the large engine nacelles are uprated variants of the Y-Wings engines. Allegedly the domes on the old Y-Wings was the sensors. Since those were moved to the nose, the domes could come off, increasing the engines efficiency and making them more efficient transitioning between space and atmosphere. The rear part of the sponsons (the sticky-out bits at the rear of the fuselage) house two more ion engines. These are sprint engines. While the ER-71 cruises on the big engines in the nacelles most of the time, for attack runs the two sprint engines increase speed to match that of an X-Wing. These engines are really only used for short durations as they really increase the draw on the reactor and can take power away from other critical systems.

If you want the STL to print it for yourself, well...I have given the files to www.patreon.com/slightly_used_… and www.patreon.com/onilcreations/ as thanks for their services to the Star Wars modeling community. I don't know what their plans are for it, but you can ask and support their work.

Description

The goal is achieved it has been printed and painted. My paint job is not good, and I make no excuses for that. I don't have the patience. This was good enough for me.

I've been thinking a lot about this design, and here is how I think it works:

See the panel behind the rear cockpit? That panel opens and a large, pre-packaged clip of torpedoes, missiles, bombs, or mines can be loaded back there. The weapons officer (in the rear cockpit) can then select the different types of ordnance which are then transferred into the launchers, which are in the sponsons on either side of the fuselage. Torpedoes and missiles are launched forward from between the finned grills under the cockpits. Bombs or mines are released out the bottom.

The two turrets have multiple fire modes and can be controlled from either cockpit, though the weapons officer has override authority. The guns can be locked forward to function like fixed starfighter cannons under the pilots control. They can be set to stutter fire mode for ground strafing or to overcharge for armored targets. The turrets can be assigned a threat sector and will fire back at anything that approaches from that sector. They can also be locked onto a target and will fire continuously at the target or set in a "fire-back" mode (like the Jade Sabre) to return fire when fired upon. Each turret can be assigned a different mode separately. For instance, during a bombing run the gunnery officer may lock one of the turrets forward and assign it to the pilot. They could then assign the other turret to a threat sector behind and above to protect their rear during the attack run. He then goes head down selecting and assigning his torpedoes to individual targets.

The front blade of the ship (the part that looks like the ARC-170 nose) houses a powerful and sophisticated scanner array that can be used both for targeting and reconnaissance. The ER-71 can also forward its targeting data to other ships. Paired with a flight of X-Wings or E-Wings, an ER-71 can enhance the precision of those starfighters, coordinating strikes to achieve maximum impact. On ground support missions, the ER-71 can even provide precision targeting to fleet gunners for precision orbital strikes.

I know I don't have a picture from the rear, but the large engine nacelles are uprated variants of the Y-Wings engines. Allegedly the domes on the old Y-Wings was the sensors. Since those were moved to the nose, the domes could come off, increasing the engines efficiency and making them more efficient transitioning between space and atmosphere. The rear part of the sponsons (the sticky-out bits at the rear of the fuselage) house two more ion engines. These are sprint engines. While the ER-71 cruises on the big engines in the nacelles most of the time, for attack runs the two sprint engines increase speed to match that of an X-Wing. These engines are really only used for short durations as they really increase the draw on the reactor and can take power away from other critical systems.

If you want the STL to print it for yourself, well...I have given the files to www.patreon.com/slightly_used_… and www.patreon.com/onilcreations/ as thanks for their services to the Star Wars modeling community. I don't know what their plans are for it, but you can ask and support their work.