Cyclone Missile
| Cyclone Missile | |||||||||||||
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| Yield x Warheads | 23,000 x 1 | ||||||||||||
| Speed | 148 m/s | ||||||||||||
| Range | 59.9 km | ||||||||||||
| Cooldown | 1,500 ms | ||||||||||||
| Target Acquisition | Targetted | ||||||||||||
| Fusing | Proximity | ||||||||||||
| Guidance | Image-recognition | ||||||||||||
| Area of Effect | m | ||||||||||||
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[edit] Overview
The Cyclone is a medium/light missile capable of demolishing smaller fighters. However, it is too slow to easily catch many of them. It has tracking ability and multiple warheads.
Similar to the Blizzard, the Cyclone Missile offers the same ability to deal with multiple targets with one armament. Again not as powerful as a one-shot unit, the missile will split into several smaller units that will engage image recognition tracking to lock down confirmed enemies in the field of engagement.
[edit] Commentary
The Cyclone is not a well-loved munition due to the comparitively large cargo space it occupies. The fact that the speed of the weapon is slower than most of the ships it can obliterate in one hit can be worked around by the launcher firing it into the path of the target. It is well suited to hitting heavier M3-class fighters but lacks the power to destroy them outright. Should it fail to strike a target, it will split into a cluster of smaller warheads, each of which will hunt down an enemy.
