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Overview:
 The Blitzkrieg is produced on a number of planets in the backwater area of Lyran space. The orginal owner of the design went bankrupt shorty after the design was not well received by the LCAF's military which only ordered a limited number. The company quickly went under but the company's factories where keep in operation by the planetary governments they where on. The governments not wanting the factories to close took the design and marketed it around to a number of lyran arms dealers which resulted in a increased production requests. The shady lyran merchants sold the craft to whoever could afford them including enemy's of there own state. This resulted in a number of planetary governments being removed by elements of the LCAF but strangly nothing was done to stop the factories.The mercenary market is now the crafts largest buyer (some say the pirates are a close second) but there appears to be mixed reaction to the design as its cheap enough to be gotten in large numbers by low tier units well the upper tier units dislike its egg shell protection and short combat endurance due to lack of on board reloads for its main weapons.

Capabilities:
 The design was built around the four rocket launchers mounted on either side of the narrow two man cockpit. Theses launchers are simple and easy to replace and reload. The craft fires them return to the rearming point land press one button for each launcher and it releases from the craft to allow the ground crew to push it away and bring up a new launcher and attach them to the craft and its once more combat ready.[ Well it does sound simple the crews found out the hard way it wasn't that fast and for this reason many military units disliked the Blitzkrieg's main weapon system which had longer rearm times then they where lead to believe.] The orginal design mounted nothing but rocket launchers(10 total) but this was changed to take into account the need for longer combat endurance and to make easier to reload the remaining launchers. The twin SRM-4's mounted far out to the left and right of the copters wings are usually armed with inferno as well as standard ammo. Well the nose mounted LRM-5 was added to give the design a weapon with some range but its usually replaced for additional launchers or switched out for another SRM and additional ammo.

Type/Model:    Blitzkrieg
Mass:    30 tons
Equipment:         Items    Mass
Internal Structure:    15 pts Standard    0    3.00
Engine:    100 I.C.E.    0    6.00
   Cruise MP:    8         
   Flank MP:    12         
Heat Sinks:    0 Single    0    .00
Cockpit & Controls:    0    1.50
Crew:    2 Members    0    .00
Rotor Equipment:    Main/Tail Rotors    0    3.00
Armor Factor:    56 pts Standard    0    3.50

                               Internal                            Armor
                            Structure                            Value
     Front:                    3                              20
     Left / Right Sides:    3                            13/13
     Rear:                    3                               8
     Rotor:                    3                               2

Weapons & Equipment:       Loc         Heat     Ammo        Items        Mass
Rocket Launcher 15 x2            Left                                                       2
Rocket Launcher 15 x2            Right                                                      2
SRM-4                                  Left                                                       3
SRM-4                                  Right                                                      3
LRM-5                                  Front                                                      3
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Items & Tons Left:                   .00