Striker II, SF/A-40

Theban Heavy Industries SF/A-40 Striker II Aerospace Assault Bomber

History & Data  The Striker II replaced the Striker in service with the Theban Fleet Air arm who decided to increase the craft’s overall size by ten percent allowing for a slightly larger missile payload. The Striker had two major models which were the standard models and the trainers/ELINT models. The Striker is armed with eight under-wing hard-points, one dual purpose launcher with four blocks of six SRM tubes each and four launchers with five tubes for MRMs each; there are four eleven tube MRM launchers, and a two nine tube MRM launchers, a ventrally mounted bomb bay, one ventrally mounted triple-barrel particle beam cannon, and two port and starboard mounted single-barrel particle cannons. The Delta served until 4975 C.E. when it was completely replaced in service by the Striker II.