GTB Ursa

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The GTB Ursa

Description:

FS1 Tech Room Description

The Ursa is the first bomber designed specifically for the purpose of annihilating capital ships. It carries a massive payload and is the only bomber in the GTA which can equip the Harbinger Bomb. Strong shielding and hull make the Ursa very difficult to destroy.

FS2 Tech Room Description

The GTB Ursa is the slowest bomber in the GTVA fleet. What it lacks in speed, however, it more than makes up with its massive payload. The Ursa was the first GTVA bomber designed specifically to destroy capital ships. With a rack of Helios bombs, in addition to a standard complement of Hornet missiles and Prometheus cannon, a squadron of Ursas can take out a destroyer. Ursas have the highest shielding of any bomber, along with a GTVI-designed hyper-dense hull. These help ensure that the Ursa gets close enough to deliver its payload and possibly even survive the escape.

Developer Notes

Designed to annihilate capital ships and cruisers. Slow but offers unparalleled assault bombing capability.

Veteran Comments

The Ursa is a heavy bomber. As such, you can expect it to dogfight poorly at best. Still, it is surprisingly capable in that situation...which essentially means it will last a tiny bit longer then raw shield and armor vs. enemy damage output numbers would seem to indicate. The turret's hopeless in FS1. A Banshee just doesn't cut it. In FS2 the turret has a Kayser, which isn't all that bad of a gun, but it still isn't going to help you much.

The Ursa has two primary mounts. One is a dual mount, centerline, under the nose. You want to put an all-purpose antifighter weapon there, because the other mount is impossible to effectively use against anything smaller then freighter-sized. Toss your anti-hull cannons for whacking turrets or smaller capital craft in the offset triple-gun rack.

It can get into situations where the defenses are as thick as molasses, and get out safely. It has a large amount of armor, and carries a good load of secondaries. Another useful feature is the good turret which fires a Kayser, although turrets in general aren't that useful. It has an offset triple primary, so that if you run out of bombs, you can turn on the Maxim and let 'er rip. Its a totally solid brick, but it maneuvers like one with a balloon on it and has among the slowest speeds for anything you will use in the game, period. If a missile gets a lock on you, it will be near impossible to avoid it. Use this bomber against powerful and heavily armed and armored capital ships, but if there is fighter opposition, weigh its advantages and weaknesses against the fighters.

The Ursa's high amount of shielding and armor are, however, no protection against interceptors. It is also to be noted that the Ursa's (and all bombers') turrets do not fire upon marauding ships, but rather fire upon the bomber's current target, making it useless against multiple targets.

It should be noted that in the weapons selection screen, the small twin "chin" weapon bank is actually on the bottom. The triple side-mounted bank is the top choice.

Performance:

Statistics

Type	Assault Bomber
Manufacturer	Han-Ronald Corp.
Manuverability	Very Poor
Max Velocity	45.0 - 60.0 mps
Max Afterburner Velocity	90.0 mps
Armor	Ultra Heavy
Hitpoints	550
Shields	850
Length	41 m

Armaments

• Gun Mounts

Freespace 1			Freespace 2
Bank	Guns	Standard Loadout	Standard Loadout
1st	3	Avenger	Prometheus R
2nd	2	Avenger	Prometheus R
Compatible Primaries			Compatible Primaries
ML-16 Laser, Disruptor, Avenger, Flail, Prometheus, Leech Cannon, S-Breaker			Subach HL-7, Akheton SDG, Prometheus R, Prometheus S, Morning Star, Circe, Lamprey, Maxim

• Missile Banks

Freespace 1			Freespace 2
Bank	Capacity	Standard Loadout	Standard Loadout
1st	80	MX-50	Hornet
2nd	80	Synaptic	Piranha
3rd	80	Tsunami	Cyclops
Compatible Secondaries			Compatible Secondaries
MX-50, D-Missile, Fury, Hornet, Interceptor, Phoenix V, Synaptic, Stiletto, Tsunami, Harbinger, EM Pulse, Cluster Bomb			MX-64, Emp. Adv, Tempest, Hornet, Tornado, Harpoon, Trebuchet, Piranha, Stiletto II, Infyrno, Cyclops, Helios

• Turrets

Freespace 1		Freespace 2
Turret Type	Amount	Turret Type	Amount
Banshee	1	UD-8 Kayser	1