Hellfire Missile

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Description

Blue Planet Tech Room Description

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The SES-O Hellfire Missile


Standard-issue, wide deployment, high rate-of-fire SES-O dumbfire missile with nuclear-yield explosive charge. Lethal against unshielded targets, but inflicts only reduced damage against shields. The Federation has an ample supply of Hellfires, and thus production of these missiles has been stopped in favor of Paveways and more advanced seeking missiles. First Fleet pilots swear by the Hellfire as a 'third gun', and some space superiority pilots arm their fighters' secondary banks with nothing but Hellfire packs.






Performance

Statistics

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The SES-O Hellfire Missile System (Launcher Rack)


Range 684 m
Reload time 0.2 s
Velocity 380 ms-1
Base Damage 30
Armor Damage 1.0x 30
Shield Damage 0.5x 15
Subsystem Damage 0.5x 15
Shockwave Radius 10 / 20 m
Type: Dumbfire
View Cone: N/A
Minimum Lock Time: N/A
Turn Rate (360 degrees): N/A


Notes

Veteran Comments

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Used in the exact same way as the GTM Tempest. It quickly rips apart the shields and armor of even the heaviest bombers, such as the GTB Boanerges.


Compared to its GTVA counterpart, the Hellfire fires faster, travels faster, has a 34 m range advantage and can be loaded in slightly larger quantities. However, damage per hit is considerably lower, and it does only half of its base damage on shields as compared to the Tempest's 0.6x. In addition, the huge velocity disparity between it and the three main UEF primaries—the Vulcan, Maul and Rapier—means that it is impossible to use the Hellfire in conjunction with them unless you're extremely good at doing so or within very close range of your target. The increased rate of fire also means that Hellfires can be expended quite quickly, not helped by the fact that it travels a lot slower than most common UEF primaries.