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METEOR | Hypersonic Airborne Aircraft Carrier
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Moving out of scraps despite its age, as people are still finding this and faving it even in 2021. This needs an overhaul, but that will be sometime in the future.

Old Design - New one without background graphic: fav.me/d7xcta9 - Posted: 30 August, 2014. (Seems like more people prefer this one, though)

Download to see all details. Image is large.

The 1,800 foot-long carrier was armed with top and bottom-mounted railgun batteries and fleet of expendable Kamikaze-bomb drones.

The carrier employs a devastating hit-and-run strategy; after it has jumped into Hyper Cruise, it re-enters over the target, releases drones, and jumps back into Hyper Cruise in as little as five minutes. It then re-enters somewhere else on the planet minutes later to set up another attack to take place nearly simultaneously. As many as three attacks can be mounted/managed within two hours anywhere in the world. Complete chaos before anyone even knew what hit them.

For more focused, longer offensives, the carrier will begin re-entry, launch a salvo of missiles that will release a "chaff storm" over the target area ahead of its arrival. It then launches as many as five of its "Warbler" Electronic warfare planes that will set up a perimeter as much as 100 miles from the mothership and provide additional telemetry and targeting data in the case that METEOR must use its RADISK assembly for jamming. When jamming is active, all weapons and drones make use of SONAR and LASER targeting for their weapons. Drones will use other drones' lasers for targeting, and even relay the targeting info back to the mothership's railgun and CIWS batteries.

METEOR's CIWS and flak batteries create an impenetrable kill-zone around the carrier that not even missiles can break through. The weapons are so precise, that landings can be safely carried out during a full barrage.

METEOR also carries a nose-mounted standoff missile system that can wipe out as many as 100 separate targets simultaneously as far as 200 nautical miles away. In addition, it carries a countermeasure system that includes a compact EMP generator weapon meant for aiding in escape.

The carrier's nose-mounted chemical laser is relatively weak, and used as an anti-satellite weapon, and for damaging aircraft. However, its primary use is targeting up to five separate targets close-range for other weapons to lock-on to.

METEOR gets its name from its appearance in its re-entry phase, which decelerates it from MACH 20 to just below Mach 1.

The Carrier's single experimental XR-50 Reaper UCAV has proven to be a deadly asset, typically sanitizing the airspace shortly before it's slightly vulnerable jump to Hyper Cruise.

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The airframe itself is loosely-based off of real-world technology and plans: www.nasa.gov/missions/research… | www.llnl.gov/str/Carter.html

Description
METEOR | Hypersonic Airborne Aircraft Carrier
_____________________________________________

Moving out of scraps despite its age, as people are still finding this and faving it even in 2021. This needs an overhaul, but that will be sometime in the future.

Old Design - New one without background graphic: fav.me/d7xcta9 - Posted: 30 August, 2014. (Seems like more people prefer this one, though)

Download to see all details. Image is large.

The 1,800 foot-long carrier was armed with top and bottom-mounted railgun batteries and fleet of expendable Kamikaze-bomb drones.

The carrier employs a devastating hit-and-run strategy; after it has jumped into Hyper Cruise, it re-enters over the target, releases drones, and jumps back into Hyper Cruise in as little as five minutes. It then re-enters somewhere else on the planet minutes later to set up another attack to take place nearly simultaneously. As many as three attacks can be mounted/managed within two hours anywhere in the world. Complete chaos before anyone even knew what hit them.

For more focused, longer offensives, the carrier will begin re-entry, launch a salvo of missiles that will release a "chaff storm" over the target area ahead of its arrival. It then launches as many as five of its "Warbler" Electronic warfare planes that will set up a perimeter as much as 100 miles from the mothership and provide additional telemetry and targeting data in the case that METEOR must use its RADISK assembly for jamming. When jamming is active, all weapons and drones make use of SONAR and LASER targeting for their weapons. Drones will use other drones' lasers for targeting, and even relay the targeting info back to the mothership's railgun and CIWS batteries.

METEOR's CIWS and flak batteries create an impenetrable kill-zone around the carrier that not even missiles can break through. The weapons are so precise, that landings can be safely carried out during a full barrage.

METEOR also carries a nose-mounted standoff missile system that can wipe out as many as 100 separate targets simultaneously as far as 200 nautical miles away. In addition, it carries a countermeasure system that includes a compact EMP generator weapon meant for aiding in escape.

The carrier's nose-mounted chemical laser is relatively weak, and used as an anti-satellite weapon, and for damaging aircraft. However, its primary use is targeting up to five separate targets close-range for other weapons to lock-on to.

METEOR gets its name from its appearance in its re-entry phase, which decelerates it from MACH 20 to just below Mach 1.

The Carrier's single experimental XR-50 Reaper UCAV has proven to be a deadly asset, typically sanitizing the airspace shortly before it's slightly vulnerable jump to Hyper Cruise.

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The airframe itself is loosely-based off of real-world technology and plans: www.nasa.gov/missions/research… | www.llnl.gov/str/Carter.html