The A-18 Crossbow is a heavy bomber in the service of the Terran Confederation.
Specifications
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Crossbow Corvette -CUT-
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Mass
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400
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Ship Number
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15
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Class
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Capital Ship
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Scale
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0x400
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Shield Recharge
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5
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Fuel
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300000
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Damage
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70
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Explosive Force
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20000
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Maximum Speed
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35 kps
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Cruise Speed
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10 kps
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Acceleration Rate
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1
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Yaw Rate
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4
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Pitch Rate
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4
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Roll Rate
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4
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Angular Inertial
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4000
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Guns
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Particle Cannon (2)
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Missiles
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Spiculum IR (8)
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Torpedoes
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Torpedo (4)
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Turret
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Flak Turret (2)
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Front Shield
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200 units
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Rear Shield
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200 units
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Front Armor
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150 units
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Rear Armor
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150 units
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Left Armor
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100 units
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Right Armor
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100 units
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Images
External
Wing Commander Academy
Weapons of the Terran and Kilrathi Fleets illustration
Internal
Wing Commander Academy
Forward (Defense Console Damaged)
Appearances
Special Operations 1
Wing Commander Academy
TCSN Academy Simulator Handbook
The Crossbow is a formidable Confederation anti-capital ship bomber. It combines impressive armor and shields with good maneuverability and traveling velocity. The fighter is equipped with torpedoes, Friend-or-Foe missiles and an array of blasters that include a rear turret. It was a contingent of Crossbows that destroyed the Grakneth’ Dak, a Kilrathi capital ship first sighted near Gorath.
Corvette
Background
The 3D mesh that was ultimately used for the Crossbow introduced in Special Operations 1 was originally built for Wing Commander 2 where it was intended to be used for what was called the Crossbow-class corvette. The Crossbow corvette was one of several ships cut from the game to reduce the overall size but the assets were reused in 1992 for a new ship Special Operations 1 also called the Crossbow (now a bomber). As part of this process, the Special Operations 1 artists re-textured the mesh to appear to be a smaller spacecraft, replacing multiple decks with a single cockpit and dropping the green-with-yellow-numbers color scheme associated with Wing Commander II's capital ships. The original Crossbow texture scheme is still visible in one place: for Wing Commander Academy, artists rendered a 'turnaround' of each ship which rotate when selected on the mission design menu. The new sprites were rendered from the original Crossbow corvette rather than the Special Operations 1 update, making the green paint scheme visible. The original corvette-textured Crossbow model created by Origin for the game is available for download here. Additionally, a set of specifications for the cut ship have been identified from a preserved printout of Wing Commander II's in-progress ship statistics.
Specifications
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SO1 Player
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Length
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Mass
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Small
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Ship Number
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15
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Class
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Bomber
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Shield Recharge
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4
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Gallery
Wing Commander Academy screen showing the unused 'green' Crossbow corvette
Render of the Crossbow mesh with corvette textures
Unused Crossbow corvette specifications (1/2)
Unused Crossbow corvette specifications (2/2)