![]() Ball Turret Laser: A retractable ball turret used to discourage blind-side attacks. Note: During certain types of intelligence gathering, the grav pods and traction drives must be shut down, as they create electro-magnetic and electro-gravimetric waves which interfere with the hyper-sensitive electronics.Ĭost and Availability: Each cost 100 million credits to build Currently 4 wings are available.īlack Market Cost and Availability: An equivalent jet or nuclear powered system COULD be made available, but it would be VERY rare, and would not have anti-grav capability, for an estimated cost of between 250 million and 10 billion credits, depending on buyer and seller.ġ. Secondary: Twin JER-m11 Hydro-Cell Jet Engines (33,000 pounds each engine) Thrust Systems: Primary: TD-001 Traction Drives. Secondary: Normal Aero-Foil effect and Hydro-Cell Jets. Power System: Quad JER-m11 Hydro-Cell Jet Engines (33,000 pounds each engine).įlight Systems: Primary: Grav Pods. Wingspan: 58.3 feet (the wings can NOT fold up)Ĭargo: Only the pilot's emergence supplies can be carried. Name: TR-3A Black Manta Model Type: Tactical Reconnaissance Model Number: 3A Crew: 2 to 4. The Black Manta has been upgraded with both the Chameleon System and Space-Drop Re-Entry Shield. The TR-3A Black Manta has been operational since then, though they did not see service during the GCW (for reasons no one wants to discuss). That's not to say that the plane couldn't fly on pure engine power and wing lift It's just she didn't usually do so. However, eventually the plane had to be brought back up for continued flight (this was the source of "some" pre-GCW UFO stories, though not all). This saved fuel, as the engines could be reduced to low-power, and the noise generated was minimal. ![]() ![]() This was due to her hyper-advanced anti-gravity assisted flight dynamics She took off and landed on these pods, but they had to be turned OFF for certain types of intelligence work, at which point the crew would begin very WIDE circles in the sky, dropping down to earth slowly like a kite coming home (a technique called "kiting"). The design was so whisper-silent that you could stand next to the wall of her hanger, with her engines on low-idle, and leave to doors OPEN and not hear her. The TR-3A Black Manta, when they were officially built as such, were also designed for stealth. The original plane, which her crew dubbed "Arti-Choke" (in hopes she would caused Iraqi SCUD missile artillery crews to choke), was a First Gulf War veteran, having been retro-fitted one night to hunt a specific weapons facility in Iraq and destroy it- The facility being a mobile biological weapons factory disguised inside a tanker truck (which, ironically, had been destroyed the night before, having been mistaken for a SCUD launcher). This was to be used in the event a rogue nuclear weapon was detected The existence of these weapons was known, but they were easy to track once the joint US/USSR (later the Russian Federation) learned how. Though conventional in nature, the explosives package of the weapons equaled the destructive power of a nuclear bomb, but for a MUCH shorter blast area (1 SQUARE mile). ![]() Her mission at the time is unknown due to a security delete.
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