Eye Fighter

The first officially recognized "Star Fighter" the MX 01, dubbed by pilots as the "Eye Fighter" because of the Spherical command pod. Propelled by a single early fusion engine and a set of eight thruster blisters. Caries a payload of twelve anti ship missiles and has two ball turrets with a pair of anti-missile auto-guns.

Built in the early days of the first space war, the MX01 was intended to be a manned weapons platform to strike at larger inter-planetary vessels . However the MX 01 designers had not anticipated their enemy developing it's own single crewed combat craft and the Mx 01 quickly found itself outmatched against smaller, faster opponents.

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This is the first in a series of Sketchup models I'm working on. following the development of space fighters through the history of my primary original sci-fi story universe (that I've yet to give an official name).

Keep an eye out, there will be more fighters coming