F-302
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The F-302 Fighter is a fictional spacecraft in the science-fiction television show, Stargate SG-1. It is the production model of the X-302 prototype and the first production series craft using reverse-engineered knowledge of alien technology.
F-302 Overview
Like its counterpart, the Goa'uld Death Glider, the F-302 is an unshielded, two-seat strike craft. Since Earth's technology is still less advanced than that of the Goa'uld, the F-302 is slower and less maneuverable than a glider, even though (or perhaps because) it possesses three different sets of sublight engines. The X-302 prototype also possessed a fourth engine, a hyperspace window generator (or more colloquially, a hyperdrive), which was the smallest of its kind due to its use of naquahdriah instead of the more-stable but less-powerful naquahdah. Unfortunately, the 302's hyperdrive engine currently does not work as intended, due to instability caused by the Naquahdriah. The hyperdrive is only capable of short range tactical jumps. Production models are known to still be equipped with hyperdrives. Furthermore, its inertial dampener is only ninety percent effective when pulling negative G's.Since Earth's efforts to create a directed energy weapon have so far proven unsuccessful, the F-302 is armed solely with a payload of modified air-to-air missiles. These modified AIM-120 AMRAAMs have a warhead enhanced with naquahdah and a shield modulator, which in theory allows the missile to bypass shields. The shield modulator proved ineffective against the Ori shields on the satellite weapon in the episode "Ethon". F-302s are also apparently armed with a pair of projectile cannons (though of an unspecified caliber and type), as seen in the Stargate Atlantis Season Two episode "The Intruder".
The F-302's first combat mission took place in the Stargate SG-1 Season Seven episode "Fallen (Part 1)", when it was flown by Colonel O'Neill and Major Carter in a strike against Anubis mothership. In the Season Seven episode "Lost City (Part 2)", several squadrons of F-302s escorted the Prometheus to Antarctica, where they defended the cargo ship piloted by SG-1 against an attack wave of Al'kesh and Gliders.
USAF offworld bases such as the Alpha site and the Gamma site, seem to have at least two F-302s stationed on the premises, as seen in "The Scourge" and mentioned in previous episiodes
The Late USAF Prometheus and the USAF Daedalus both carry a complement of F-302s as part of their arsenal. Atlantis' puddle jumper capability has also been augmented with a number of F-302s and a magnetic grappling system to allow for the F-302s to be parked in a puddle jumper bay.
Current bases of operations for the F-302 are the following:
- Earth
- Atlantis (believed to be at least 8)
- Alpha site (at least 2)
- Gamma site (at least 2)
- Daedalus (8 -16, second bay may be used as extra storage capacity for atlantis resupply)
- Odyssey (16)
- Korolev (16)
- Most likely the Beta Site contains some as well
Trivia
- The F-302's have had various call signs including: -
- * "Airstrike"
- * "Flight"
- * "Blue leader"
- * "Delta 1-4"
- "Snake skinners 1st SFW" was clearly seen on the badges of many F-302 pilots, it is believed this is the squadron that defends Earth, with the SFW standing for Stargate Fighter Wing or Space Fighter Wing.
X-302
The X-302 Experimental Fighter is a fictional spacecraft in the science-fiction television show, Stargate SG-1. It resembled the X-301, but was built entirely from Earth-constructed components, using reverse-engineered knowledge of alien technology.
It was first seen in the opening episodes of Season 6. The X-302 has four sets of engines, two traditional jet engines, two aerospike engines, one rocket motor, and a Naquahdriah-based hyperspace window generator. Its conventional engines are assisted by an inertial dampening system that allows the craft to achieve orbit. The first prototype was used to save the Earth from Anubis's plot to detonate the Earth Stargate with an Ancient weapon system. Although it was lost in the process and its hyperdrive turned out to be too unstable to use safely, the X-302 was considered a success and went into production as the F-302.
Trivia
- During O'Neill's and Sam's test flight to Abydos, it was given the callsign "Abydos One"
- During O'Neill's flight out of our atmosphere with the gate strapped on, it has a callsign "Starflight"
X-301
The X-301 Experimental Fighter is a fictional spacecraft in the science-fiction television show, Stargate SG-1. The X-301 fighter visually resembles a cross between a Goa'uld Death Glider and a Nighthawk Stealth Fighter (F-117).
Only seen in the Season 4 episode "Tangent", the X-301 was Earth's first attempt to reverse engineer Goa'uld technology. The initial design of the craft used some components directly from two Death Gliders which almost proved fatal to its passengers when a preprogrammed booby trap sent the craft into outer space during a test flight. It did, however, pave the way for the development of the X-302 and X-303.
Unlike the later X-302, the X-301 was little more than a captured Goa'uld Death Glider that had been retrofitted to accommodate human technology. Earth engineers were unable to understand many of its systems (particularly the energy weapons), forcing them to remove or replace whatever they could not make functional. As such, the X-301 was equipped with a pair of Naquahdah-enhanced AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles modified with shield frequency modulators, which Major Carter believed could take out a Goa'uld mothership. Unfortunately, the technicians analyzing the Death Glider failed to discover a hidden 'recall device' which the System Lord Apophis had installed in his Death Gliders following Teal'c's betrayal. After Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c were rescued from the runaway craft during its first test flight, further work on the X-301 prototype was abandoned in favor of the X-302.
Trivia
- During O'Neill's and Teal'c's test flight, it was given the callsign "Digger One".
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