Firebird, SF/A-21

Northrop Grumman SF/A-21 Firebird Aerospace Fighter

                      '''History & Data '''

First entering service with the UNSF Air Force, Navy, & Marines in 4850 and can still be found in the service of quite a few of the older colonies reserve and civil defense units.

In total there has been four separate models but even these have had several different upgrades to even these.

There is two single seat models used for main line combat these are the A/C models, there is also two seater/bomber/EW models in the B/D models.

The Firebird is armed with a seven barrel 35mm gatling gun pod on the ventral and four under-wing hard-points for ordnance on all models and four additional ventral hard-points on the D model.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other weapons include a turret mounted anti-missile laser system mounted ventrally aft of the main gun and the A/B/D models have a single barrel, and two on the S models.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is also an AMP pack system that can sport both various weapon systems as well as a comprehensive EW and ECM systems.