Mobula

The Mobula-class of airborne cruisers are large flying boats in service with the Steel Striders Navy.

Summary
With a wingspan of over 150m not including the wingtip vortex reducers, these are fairly large aircraft, and are primarily geared towards the anti-surface role. The armament consists mainly of M4 rocket-boosted glide bombs and an octette of L8 torpedoes, with a pair of defensive railgun turrets, a belly-mounted PAC, and a close-range self-defence suite of dorsal octuple S2 launchers and ventral quad simple laser turrets.

Trivia

 * Although configured as a giant flying boat, with wide sponsons for on-water stability, it is not capable of water operations.


 * While being far smaller and featuring several design changes to the wing structure, the belly of the hull, and the empennage, the Mobula-class was almost certainly inspired by the P-1114 'Gyges' class of aerial battleships from the game Ace Combat 6.