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Line 26: ==Description== ==Description== − The '''''Dragonfly''''' was developed shortly before the [[Reunification War]] as part of a crash armament program. Although it was slow and ungainly in atmospheric flight, the [[MAF]] liked the fighter as a patrol craft and raider, fielding it by the hundreds. As the war went on, the more efficient designs fielded by the [[Star League]] states exploited the main weakness of the ''Dragonfly'': the tendency for its heavy armament to overwhelm its heat sinks. The only factory producing ''Dragonflies'' was a casualty of the Star League invasion of [[Canopus IV]], and numbers of the design have dwindled ever since.<ref name=HRW/> + The '''MM-1 ''Dragonfly''''' was developed shortly before the [[Reunification War]] as part of a crash armament program. Although it was slow and ungainly in atmospheric flight, the [[MAF]] liked the fighter as a patrol craft and raider, fielding it by the hundreds. As the war went on, the more efficient designs fielded by the [[Star League]] states exploited the main weakness of the ''Dragonfly'': the tendency for its heavy armament to overwhelm its heat sinks. The only factory producing ''Dragonflies'' was a casualty of the Star League invasion of [[Canopus IV]], and numbers of the design have dwindled ever since.<ref name=HRW/> ==Weapons and Equipment== ==Weapons and Equipment== Line 32:
Line 32: ==Variants== ==Variants== − *; MM-2 ''Dragonfly'' : Fielded in 2583, the MM-2 used technology ‘obtained’ from the [[Terran Hegemony]] by Canopian intelligence officers. The nose-mounted [[medium laser]] was replaced with a third [[large laser]], and 14 [[double heat sink]]s allowed freer use of the MM-2’s armament. The visual similarity between the two variants of ''Dragonfly'' often led to unpleasant surprises for Star League pilots as the war went on. Most MM-2s were stripped of their advanced technology during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], effectively turning them back into MM-1s.<ref name=HRW/> + *;MM-2 ''Dragonfly'' : Fielded in 2583, the MM-2 used technology ‘obtained’ from the [[Terran Hegemony]] by Canopian intelligence officers. The nose-mounted [[medium laser]] was replaced with a third [[large laser]], and fourteen [[double heat sink]]s allowed freer use of the MM-2’s armament. The visual similarity between the two variants of ''Dragonfly'' often led to unpleasant surprises for Star League pilots as the war went on. Most MM-2s were stripped of their advanced technology during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], effectively turning them back into MM-1s.<ref name=HRW/> ==References== ==References==
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| − | The '''''Dragonfly''''' was developed shortly before the [[Reunification War]] as part of a crash armament program. Although it was slow and ungainly in atmospheric flight, the [[MAF]] liked the fighter as a patrol craft and raider, fielding it by the hundreds. As the war went on, the more efficient designs fielded by the [[Star League]] states exploited the main weakness of the ''Dragonfly'': the tendency for its heavy armament to overwhelm its heat sinks. The only factory producing ''Dragonflies'' was a casualty of the Star League invasion of [[Canopus IV]], and numbers of the design have dwindled ever since.<ref name=HRW/> | + | The '''MM-1 ''Dragonfly''''' was developed shortly before the [[Reunification War]] as part of a crash armament program. Although it was slow and ungainly in atmospheric flight, the [[MAF]] liked the fighter as a patrol craft and raider, fielding it by the hundreds. As the war went on, the more efficient designs fielded by the [[Star League]] states exploited the main weakness of the ''Dragonfly'': the tendency for its heavy armament to overwhelm its heat sinks. The only factory producing ''Dragonflies'' was a casualty of the Star League invasion of [[Canopus IV]], and numbers of the design have dwindled ever since.<ref name=HRW/> |
==Weapons and Equipment== | ==Weapons and Equipment== | ||
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==Variants== | ==Variants== | ||
| − | *; MM-2 ''Dragonfly'' : Fielded in 2583, the MM-2 used technology ‘obtained’ from the [[Terran Hegemony]] by Canopian intelligence officers. The nose-mounted [[medium laser]] was replaced with a third [[large laser]], and | + | *;MM-2 ''Dragonfly'' : Fielded in 2583, the MM-2 used technology ‘obtained’ from the [[Terran Hegemony]] by Canopian intelligence officers. The nose-mounted [[medium laser]] was replaced with a third [[large laser]], and fourteen [[double heat sink]]s allowed freer use of the MM-2’s armament. The visual similarity between the two variants of ''Dragonfly'' often led to unpleasant surprises for Star League pilots as the war went on. Most MM-2s were stripped of their advanced technology during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], effectively turning them back into MM-1s.<ref name=HRW/> |
==References== | ==References== | ||