Vulture Droid Carrier

Vulture Droid Carrier

"Escort carriers coming in, they're Vulture-class droid carriers!"

- A report by a Unionist recon aircraft

The Vulture Droid Carrier, also known as the Vulture-class droid carrier, the Vulture-class escort carrier, and often nicknamed the VDC, was a model of small oceanic Aircraft carrier operated by the navy of the Confederate States of Earth, a nation comprised of 95 separatist nations which broke away from the Union of Earth States and allied themselves with the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

After the Confederate States began receiving Separatist military assistance they decided to create a model of small carrier to carry Vulture droids into battle and provide escorts and additional Combat Air Patrols to protect the larger fleet carriers.

Looking like a smaller version of a standard carrier, the Vulture Droid Carrier was roughly half the size of the Tigershark-class aircraft carrier, the standard Confederate oceanic carrier vessel, and could carry about 200 Vulture droids into battle, these droids were stored below decks in standing formation and would be brought to the deck by lifts.

As a carrier the type was effectively dependant on more offensively-minded warships to protect them from attackers, though had a respectable armament of 40 lasers cannons in 20 double turrets as well as 10 J-1 AA guns, which were modified versions of the J-1 semi-autonomous proton cannon, which were pretty the J-1 proton cannon removed from its frame and placed on an AA mount, the J-1 AA gun was dual-purpose and excelled at destroying bomber aircraft and surface targets, making the carrier a risky target for any surface vessel smaller than a battleship.