Elite: Dangerous Blog

The new ship will be called the Vulture.

The ship is shown next to it's stable-mate the Eagle, bottom left.

As you can see, it's larger than the Cobra Mk III and is classed as "a heavy fighter" armed on a par with a Python or Clipper.

"Vulture"

As the bird name suggests it's probably a Core Dynamics ship, like the Eagle.

Mike Evans (Frontier Developer) mentioned that the Vulture would be THE heavy fighter ship (very good at flying and fighting, pretty much bad at anything else).

Specification confirmed by Mike Evans that has dribbled out via forum comments:-

• 2 x Large Weapon Hardpoints
• 4 x Util slots
• Class 4 Power Plant
• Class 5 FSD Drive
• Class 3 Life Support
• Class 5 Power Distributor
• Class 4 Sensors
• Class 3 Fuel Tank
• 2 x Class 1 slot (empty by default)
• 1 x Class 2 slot (empty by default)
• 1 x Class 4 (Class 3 Cargo Rack by default)
• 1 x Class 5 (Shield Generator by default)

In terms of speed, acceleration & manoeuvrability it will be similar to an Eagle, not as fast but more consistent across pip levels.