[RFP] Competition for Replacement of Zig Fighter

[HRogge]

That thing's *huge*. That's big enough to be a cruiser..... and oddly light. (It's the Size of an SR-71 - and about a fifth of the weight). It might be a bit too big for a Zig replacement..... like the Bellecom entries. Brilliant, but just not the right size.... it could *carry* a zig fighter or two it's that big.
 

Hmmm. I may need to work on the details a bit. Although a lot of that internal volume is taken up by fuel tanks because with the afterburners engaged, the Viper and the Cobra manage the rare feat of having worse mileage than the Ga-15

Would be a funny fact if they build the Cobra MK1 by pumping up a baloon and then waving it to get a rigid surface... still, engines and fuel tanks have mass. Okay, fueltanks with liquid hydrogen inside are very light per volume (only 70 kg/m^3).

Five minutes after this hits the Interwave, Kuat Drive Yards offers up the X-Wing...

This doesn't say much...

is it a movie X-wing like model made from paper? A WW2 double-decker names X-Wing? Something else?

(edit) were they stupid enough to enter their Boskone War time machine to the contest?

Kuat Drive Yards is the Warsie shipbuilding facility on Mars.

Which says nothing about what kind of design the X-Wing is.