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The '''Lightning''' is the [[Imperial Navy]]'s premiere air superiority fighter, with agility unmatched by any other Imperial flyer thanks to its distinctive forward-swept wings.  Though its primary weapons are a long-barreled [[autocannon]] and twin-linked [[lascannon]]s for engaging enemy aircraft, it can be fitted with one of several varieties of missiles and bombs to specialize in anti-armor, anti-infantry, or anti-air operations.

=== Lightning 'Strike' ===

The 'Strike' variant Lightning is the same airframe, but with more missiles or bombs instead of the underslung autocannon.

== Real Life ==

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing Forward-swept wings] have been tried on real experimental aircraft, and they do confer some benefits, like enhanced maneuverability, improved airflow and the possibility of a more compact airframe.  It also comes with the drawbacks of instability (though modern avionics can make the minute corrections required to keep the aircraft steady) and a risk of the wings twisting themselves to pieces at high speeds.  These issues meant that it took about 50 years from the idea's conception before prototype high-performance fighter aircraft with forward-swept wings could be built (the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29 Grumman X-29] in 1984, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47 Sukhoi Su-47] in 1997).

It took the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] over five hundred years to fix these issues in the Lightning, and they didn't even come up with the idea themselves -- they had to find the [[STC]] first.

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