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[Norgarth]

Umm, how about its above my paygrade? cause, seriously, I'd brought up the a-26 concept cause I'd found a model and thought that many forward facing coilguns (or heck, even space refited Ma Deuces) might have a useable application somehow.

Hah!  Sorry about that.  Someone drops Bolos into the convo and I go nuts.  :p
Really, though, if Ben wants a 'door knocker' craft of that sort... he'll wave up some A-10 Warthogs.  I think the fact that most of the fuselage on those things being taken up be the gun itself makes it worthy on its own.  Also, armor and redundancy.  This would be a fighter craft that is all but impossible to shoot down or even mission-kill.  Plus, I'd ditch the 30mm Gatling gun in favor of something far more beefy - a 105mm coil gun.  Now that is a door knocker!  Sure, it'd only be able to caryy, what, about six or eight rounds?  But if you hit a target with even just a small flight of these little monsters, their hardened placements are gonna be crying 'mommy' in no time.  And if we need to, we can equip them with one or two coil gun pods in the 20mm range (probably the same ones the F-EZigs use).  That'll put down anyone that thinks they're easy pickings despite their (relatively) slow speeds.  (Might be slow, but holy hell can they turn!)

Well, a Warthog does traditionally carry a shitload of bombs/missiles as well as it's tankbuster gun.  Just add the gunpods onto a couple of the ordanance hardpoints.
  
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