USO MEF Cobra MK III

Type: Super Cobra
The Cobra MK III first rolled off the production line at Cowell & MgRath’s vast factory shipyard in Atlas in 760 AS. The successor to the already successful Cobra MK I, it went on to be the mainstay of small trading operations. Priced competitively, the Cobra MK III continues the success of the Cobra series of ships. Cowell & MgRath later capitalised on the popularity of this ship by releasing a more expensive sister model Cobra Courier for their more demanding customers.
Even later, they produced a very high-tech model, the Super Cobra, allowing MK III owners a familiar upgrade path, but also causing some worried talk at the USO headquarters…

The Cobra MK III is one of those ubiquitous multi-role ships you see everywhere. There isn’t a space station where you can’t find half a dozen Cobras parked. It is a ship that is ‘good enough’ in every aspect – not universe shattering, merely good enough. This has made the ship poke into virtually every market segment apart from midget fighters and trading behemoths.
Every class of spaceborne being has some Cobra MK IIIs in its number from pirates to traders to government officials.

Controversy Paynou, Prossett and Salem, the original designers of the Cobra MK I, filed for bankrupcy following bad publicity after the failure of successive Cobra MK II prototypes. They were bought out by Cowell & MgRath, who redesigned the structural and internal layout from the ground up whilst retaining much of the external design features. The Cobra MK III is substantially a MK II hull with the internal structural engineering and design flaws corrected. When this became public knowledge, Cowell & Mgrath were accused of covering up the fact that the MK III was really just the MK II in all but name, and the Atlas authorities investigated the company, threatening to revoke its ship manufacturing license. The investigators discovered no foul play and, more importantly, no evidence of any design issues with the new ship, and the company recovered from the bad publicity magnificently (as shown by the popularity of the Cobra MK III).

Stats:

Ship Class: Very Heavy Fighter
Roles: Infiltration, Heavy Bombing
Weapon Mounts: 4
Armor: 27500
Cargo Space: 65
Max Batteries/Nanobots: 0/50
Shield Classes: Class 1-10 HF Shield, Class 1-10 LF Shield
Weapon Classes: Class 1-9 Fighter Turret

Additional Equipment: 2X Torpedo / Cruise Disruptor / 2X Mine, VHF Cloak, Integrated Afterburner
Integrated Equipment: VHF Cloak, Integrated Afterburner, 2x Fighter Turret
Strafe / Reverse Speed: 50%
Base Power Supply Capacity: 10500
Base Power Supply Regen: 1050
Player-Carrier: No
Can Dock w/ Player-Carriers: Yes (type /d to dock)

Military type vessel including special equipment or abilities.