MAV-172 Mikha'Il

The MAV-172 Mikha'Il is a medium range lance fighter designed by the Entangled Order as a capital ship killer. Long, thin, and built around a single heavy penetrating e-beamer, it is meant to flank enemy fleets in numbers before engaging large warships from the side with it's spinal.

Specifications
The MAV-172's design is fairly standard for a lance fighter. Like most Qhevaki warships, it incorporate a thin, sloped fractal pyramid design, with armor focused towards the prow to take enemy fire on a charge, and with most fuel slurry packed towards the front to take penetrating beam hits.

The primary armament is a rather oversized for it's scale e-beamer, firing 800 GJ 5 TeV electron pulse trains at 10 Hz. The phased array and suite are correspondingly undersized - it is dependent on multipurpose fighters and ECM craft for support in that respect.

Serving since 1997, the MAV-172 and it's variants are a favorite of the Knights Aethra in particular, who utilize a particularly lance fighter heavy combat approach. A typical combat formation is two HAV-190 heavy fighters and one HEV-190 ECM fighters for long ranged fire and dazzling, flanked by 30 MAV-172s to move in and deliver flanking kills under the ECM, beam and missile cover of the heavier craft.