The Vipers

Viper Mk II

The Mk II is the workhorse of the current fleet. Not as sophisticated as the Mk VII in terms of electronics and armaments, the Mk II is very durable and can operate under the most harsh conditions. And the Mk II is loved and known for its capability of "never letting its pilot down".
The Mark II is a long, sleek vehicle with specialized features for zero-g and atmospheric combat, and reconnaissance.
The fore section comprises the nose back to the cockpit. Located there are the forward RCS systems for maneuvering the craft; the forward landing gear; the main avionics and sensor packages and the single-seat cockpit.
The stern comprises the main engines, numerous RCS maneuvering jets, fuel tanks, wings and vertical stabilizer. The wings themselves contain the kinetic energy weapons (KEW), their munitions storage and feeds. Mounting points beneath the wings allow missiles, munitions pods and other items to be rack-mounted.
The wing's roots contain the main landing gear, retracted during flight. The Mark II's shape is distinctive because of the offset "intakes" mounted just behind the cockpit. The port / starboard "intakes" incorporate small but powerful reverse thrust engines that can quickly counter a Viper's forward momentum in an emergency.

Viper Mk VII

The Viper Mk VII is a multirole aerospace fighter. Designed as a replacement for aging Viper MkII design, the Mark VII is a versatile craft which can carry most forms of ordinance. The Mark VII's sophisticated fly-by-wire and computer-managed systems push the envelope of fighter maneuverability. It's the pinnacle of current fighter design, the Mark VII will serve the Fleet for decades to come.

Viper Mk VIIe - StrikeViper

The Viper MKVIIe is an assault variant of the Mk VII and developed for a capital ship assault support role. The VIIe has an expanded two-seat canopy for the addition of a weapons officer, a reinforced spaceframe, and expanded primary and secondary ordnance capacity. Although less maneuverable than the MKVII, the VIIe has a higher thrust-to-weight ratio, enabling greater top speed. Designed to deploy pinpoint ordnance against the subsystems of capital ships, a powerful FLIR/TADS system developed to defeat electronic countermeasures replaces what would normally mount the third KEW on the MKVII chassis. The Mark VIIe can declaw a enemy capital ships, enabling Raptors and Battlestars to land their killing blow.

The Raptor

The Raptor is usually operated by a crew of two (one pilot and one ECO or WSO), has synthetic gravity on board, and is controlled by means of a fly-by-wire system. It is capable of atmospheric flight and is also equipped with a short-range FTL engine, allowing it to make short faster-than-light hops. Due to its size and shape, a Raptor is not launched from a battlestar's launch tube, rather, it deploys from the forward end of a flight pod.
As a scout, Raptors can:
Undertake short and medium-range scans to detect electromagnetic, heat or other signatures from other vessels.
Scan planetary surfaces for signs of life, energy output, or to locate and assess mineral deposits.
Scout ahead of its parent warship in other planetary or celestial systems for any signs of hostile intent or stellar conditions prior to the parent ship's arrival.
Undertake search & rescue operations after an engagement.
When scouting, Raptors can operate independently, or in concert with other Raptors and Vipers.
As an ECM platform, the Raptor contains a full suite of electronic countermeasure and monitoring tools, enabling it to:

Jam wireless or relay transmissions (by wireless or optically) from other spacecraft.

Scramble control signals used by guided weapons.

Undertake IFF operations for Viper squadrons.

In addition to reconnaissance and scouting, the Raptor can also undertake the following roles:

Airborne warning & control and electronic countermeasures platform supporting Viper operations.

Serve as Marine assault craft.

Ambulance / evac vehicle.

General purpose transport.

Combat Search and Rescue.

Secure communication with other vessels.

Launching decoy drones.

Combat assault vehicle.

In the transport role, a Raptor is capable of carrying around eight to ten adults in addition to the two-person crew. In the assault role, it can carry a squad of eight equipped Marines.

Atmospheric Operations
The Raptor is designed for atmospheric as well as space-based operations. However, a critical element for atmospheric operations is that to remain airborne requires fuel: once in an atmosphere, the engines must be run constantly to maintain lift and to hover. Depending on the composition of the atmosphere itself, this can place severe strain on the Raptor's engines.
Due to their overall configuration and bulk, Raptors may also suffer from poor handling at low speeds, and rely heavily on directed thrust to remain airborne.

FTL Operations
Raptors are fitted with small, general purpose FTL drives, but unlike larger drives on capital ships, they seem to be limited to ten to twenty FTL jumps, depending in part on the amount of tylium fuel being carried.

Life Support
The main flight deck / cabin of a Raptor is fully pressurized. However, crews operate in flight suits and helmets to help protect them against any hull breach. The cabin can also be depressurized and used in space rescue operations. The forward pilot and co-pilot seats can eject in an emergency as the forward canopy is blown away prior to the ejection.

Propulsion
2x fixed sublight engines mounted aft
1x small-scale FTL system
RCS points

Armament

Offensive
Raptors are normally unarmed as they make for a poor general-purpose fighter. The craft have an internal weapons bay capable of holding both offensive and defensive weapons. They are also capable of carrying heavy external armaments on four wing hardpoints, two wingtip hardpoints, and two fuselage hardpoints on the sides of the Raptor's body. Known weapons carried include:
nuclear missiles
bombs/munitions pods
quad racks of missiles
multiple-tube rocket batteries mounted on the fuselage points
dual Kinetic Energy Weapons

Defensive
The Raptor's contours provide it a reduced DRADIS signature to avoid detection. In addition, the craft carry an assortment of pods to aid in communications or defense as well as electronic countermeasures such as a jigger.
Up to 6 decoy drones
Up to 4 communication drones
Up to 4 sets of flares
Up to 4 chaff pods

Layout
The Raptor is an angular vehicle built for function, not aesthetics. The forward section consists of a flight cabin with side-by-side seats for the pilot and ECO/WSO, with a large bubble canopy providing wide fields of view both forward and side. The flight cabin opens into the main compartment where a workstation containing early warning, electronic countermeasures, and other equipment is manned by the ECO/WSO when not co-piloting the craft.
Access to the Raptor's main compartment is primarily through a large port-side hydraulic door, and a floor-mounted hatchway provides access through the deck. A pressurized docking skirt can also be extended from the underside, enabling the Raptor to dock to the hulls of other vessels. In assault missions, marines can use this skirt to breech a hull and board a hostile vessel.
Aft of the pressurized area are the FTL drive and main sublight engines. Port and starboard stub wings provide additional lift during atmospheric flight, and winglets reduce drag and provide step access to the wings and hull. RCS thrusters are placed throughout the craft for landing, maneuvering and stabilization.

Support vessels of the Thalassian and Galatean Military (TGM)

Due to the very small size of the Talassean and Galatean Military, the vast area on Thalassa and Galatea which they need to cover and the delicate financial situation, the government introduced a doctrine to meet this dilemma. It's the so called "One-Vessel-One-Mission"-doctrine. It means, that on each mission only one vessel will be send. The vessel need to be capable of transporting troops, save delivery of those troops and support. What emerged from this program were three vessel which are designed to meet the need of different threat-levels of missions.
All support vessels have no capabilities of extra-atmospheric flight.

Gunship: Thunderbird

The Thunderbird is the heaviest support vessel of the Thalassian and Galatean military. It is armed with two 100mm cannons in front and six 50mm guns at the sides. Furthermore they can hold a massive loadout of rockets and bombs. In a standard configuration they are equipped with twelve HD-51 Arbalest long-range missiles, 24 HD-70 Lightning Javelin missiles, anti-ground-version and two Lance missile pods armed with either HS-24 or HS-48 dumbefire rockets.
Alternatively they can be armed with GBU-102 Tercio bombs or even with the N4 Nessus low-yield tactical nuclear warhead.
In its rear-mounted transport-bay it can transport one platoon (40 men) with light support crafts which may be needed for their mission or two squads (20 men) with heavier support crafts. In any way, the bay is very crowded and the transport not very comfortable, especially on longer inbound-flight to the mission-area.

The Thunderbird is meant to meet only the missions with the highest threat-level, were brute force and a large number of soldiers on the ground is required.

Dropship: Phoenix

The Pheonix is the medium support and multi-role vessel . It has capabilities of airsupport for the troops on the ground but they are limited. The offensive capabilities of the Pheonix are limited, unlike the Thunderbird it can't blaze a path for the troops like the Thunderbird.
Standardly the Pheonix is armed with two 15mm guns, six HD-70 Lightning Javelins and two Lance missile pods. The Javelins can be replaces by either four HD-51s, AGM-41s or a combination of the two.
Capable of transporting two squads without any support craft or one squad with light support craft, the phoenix is meant to meet missions with a medium-threat level. The Pheonix is also used for general patrol duties and supply runs.

Transport and Attack Helicopter Fuse

Several engagements and missions have shown that the TGM needs a vessel which is capable of meeting the need which lie in between the mission-profiles of the Thunderbird and TTD. Therefore the Fuse was designed.
It is a transport helicopter, which can bring a squad into the fight. It's also an attack helicopter which can stay in the combat zone for further support.

Troop-Transport-Drone (TTD)

The TTD is the smallest support vessel in the TGM. It has no armaments and it's only purpose is to bring the troops to their mission area as fast as possible. Generally they are designed for the low-threat-missions, but due to their fast activation and reaction time, squads transported by a TTD are often called in to react fast and to be the first on the spot. In case of major threats their job is reconnaissance and the preparation ambushes.
As an automated vessel, the squad-commander just needs to put the destination into the nav-system of the TTD and to chose a certain approach-programm. These programs range from normal approach (normal flight hight, average speedlow-risk landing in open areas), over HALO/HAHO and speed-assault delivery to stealth approaches (low flight hight, slow speed, high-risk landing). If a squad member had the special flight-training for the TTD, he or she can also manually control the vessel.

The TTD is widely used for transport, patrols and missions of all kinds.

Light Attack Aircraft - Super Tucano (LAA-SP)

The LAA-SP is a turboprop aircraft designed for light attack, close air support, aerial reconnaissance missions in low threat environments, as well as providing pilot training. Designed to operate in high temperature and humidity conditions in extremely rugged terrain, the Super Tucano is highly maneuverable, has a low heat signature, incorporates 4th generation avionics and weapons system to deliver precision guided munitions.
It is the marines favorite support craft, because it can quickly administer air support over long range. Although they are not as powerfully armored and armed as the Thunderbird or the Phoenix, their quick deployment in multiple numbers makes them a force to be reckoned with.

Due to the fact that the pilots of the marine corps, especially the Tucano-Pilots, have a certain habitus and because the Tucano is the darling of the corps, they paint the aircrafts quite individually. Sometimes more or less but usually every Tucano-Squadron adds a certain emblem, color or symbol to each new Tucano they get. It is common that the pilots get tattoos in the colors of their squadrons or of their unofficial symbol.

Light-Armored-Vehicels (LAV), Main Battletank (MBT) and other armored vehicles

The IFV if the TGDF come in different variants: There is the IFV-30 "Jericho" with a 30mm auto-cannon turret, which supports an infantry squad with additional firepower, the IFV-MGS "Scorpion" with a 120mm gun and the standard IFV with just a standard machine gun, which serves as the main armored infantry transport vehicle. All of them can be airlifted by Phoenix and Thunderbird

The Jaguar is the Main-Battle-Tank of the TGAF

The Prowler is the heavy Tank used by the TGMC

M134

The M134 is a super-heavy-artillery truck. Only one TGDF division is equipped with these heavy guns

105mm Howitzer

120mm Howitzer "Grizzly"

Legged Squadsupport System (LSS)

An LSS with a SF-operator in the Galatean desert

Sea and Space Mule (SSM)

The SSM cannot carry as much as the LSS but it can be utilized for sea- and spaceborn operations.

Logistics

The deployable armory (DA) was designed to support besieged, encircled or just troops which can't be reached by other mean for resupply. The DA can be dropped from high or low orbit.

The Linebacker-Quadrocopter is the biggest troop- and material-transport craft of the TGDF, several MBTs or other vessels and troops can be transported with this craft.

Utility Vehicles

The general communications vehicle

Scout moped

Weapons

The TGAF use a wide range of personal weapons. Listed here are all standard weapons used by all TGAF military branches. Cheaper weapons are usually issued to the TGDF, more sophisticated weapons are used by the TGMC and all weapons and most expensive equipment is available to the Special Forces.

Assault rifles, Sniper Rifles, DMRs and machine guns:

G56, MR-56, MG-56

AK-337, MR-337, MG-337

HK 416

HK 417

M14

PR 87

Browning M2

Submachine guns:

FN P90

HK MP7

Kriss Vector

Pistols:

Colt 1911

HK UCP

FN FiveSeven

Knifes, Machete, Tomahawks:

Combat Machete

Combat Knife

Tomahawk