AMARC - Tucson, Arizona "HF-8 Thunderbolt" heavy fighter, fighter-bomber and recon craft. During the long years of the conquest of the Solar System, the need for a vessel more agile and faster than the Nebula class ships, and the subsequent Medusa too, became increasingly evident. A heavy, armored and high-performance fighter that's what the Fleet wanted. The Thunderbolts proved to be excellent vessels for the purpose, and soon became much feared by pirate ships. The Thunderbolts served in the role for a long time. With the arrival of the fast and agile Kolibri, the HF-8s began to prove outmatched, barely managing to stay in formation with the smaller light fighters, a situation that worsened with the outbreak of the Diamond Wars. It was proposed to retrofit the most recent blocks to extend the service until the end of the twenty-sixth century, but the craft was now obsolete. So, it was preferred to update the more modern HF-12 Black Widow. Lenght: 28m Empty mass: 60 tonns Crew: 6 Weapons: 2x plasma heavy gatling gun, 2x variable warhead missiles - underbelly pylons for ground attack weapons. Engines: 1x Fusion reactor Hyperdrive: no Inertial dampener: no Artificial gravity: no Energy shield: no Enter in service: 2410 Time to (from Takeoff at max power): Mach1 at sea level = 26 sec Mach2 at 10000m = 70 sec Mach3 at 20000m = 110sec Escape speed = 742 sec Max acceleration in the void: 4g Enter in service: 2420. Status at 2570: all blocks retired before 2550. Price in 2450: approximately 4 millions of UN credits.