Tornado Missile

Tornado Missile
Yield x Warheads	50,000 x 8
Speed	312 m/s
Range	24.9 km
Cooldown	ms
Target Acquisition	Autonomous
Fusing	Impact
Guidance	Dumbfire
Area of Effect	m
Ware Tornado Missile Cargo Class M Volume 8 Min. Price (Cr) Ave. Price (Cr) 16,844 Max. Price (Cr)

Overview

The Tornado swarm dumbfire medium missile is most useful employed on fighters strafing larger targets. Its ability to deal respectable damage to such a target makes it the most popular dumbfire missile.

Commentary

The Tornado is wasted on smaller ships, but adds considerable destructive ability to a smaller ship conducting a combat operation against a larger one. The missile's only real drawback is the mammoth amount of cargo capacity that the munition gobbles up.

Note: There are no pre-existing factories for this missile. However, the factories can be bought from some Split shipyards and are fully functional. The Tornado is a highly dangerous missile, used by fighters for close-in strafings. (the missile fires as 8 separate warheads in quick succession, making its total damage 400mj.) Occasionally, Xenon fighters will drop them.