Hurricane

HURRICANE
UEF starfighter introduced in the middle of the Rigellian War. The Hurricane was a substantial improvement over the Eagle fighters, which were barely-modified fighter aircraft from before the Century Plan. Featuring three fire-linked repeating plasma cannons, two hardpoints for a variety of missiles, and positionable wings for atmospheric insertion and improved engines, it easily surpassed the aging Vindartin-class fighters fielded by the Rigellians, but paled in terms of maneuverability against the newer Marauder-class fighter.

The Hurricane would eventually be phased out completely in favor of the Olympus Corporation's Centaur fighter, which addresses a number of defects in the Hurricane design and supplements them with advanced technologies that were impossible to refit in the older design. While a few older Hurricanes still exist as training units or have found their way to criminal syndicates or pirates, seeing a Hurricane in perfect operating condition is unheard of in this day and age.