Mustang Class
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| Mustang class | |
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| Class Information | |
| Category |
Runabout |
| Dimensions | |
| Length |
25.2 meters |
| Width |
15.6 meters |
| Height: |
6.9 meters |
| Engines | |
| Warp nacelles |
2 |
| Cruising speed | Warp 5 |
| Maximum speed |
Warp 8.95 |
| Defensive Systems | |
| Phasers |
6 Type-XI phaser banks |
| Torpedo launchers |
|
| Quantum |
35 (micro) |
| Shields |
MLSS |
| Hull |
Ablative Armour Type One |
| Personnel | |
| Officers |
2 |
| Passengers |
25 |
| [Source] | |
The Mustang Class is a Starfleet auxiliary support craft attached normally to starships and stations to be used for short range combat missions. This class is designated as a runabout type vessel as it mainly built to be operated by more then two people for longer term missions duration.
The Mustang Class runabout was designed to be a small combative support craft for starships and fighters. They were built to hold themselves longer in a fire fight and be able to transport personnel through extreme conditions (like a war zone) at a fast pace.
This class of runabout became useful and versatile during the Borg War. At least one (or sometimes two) runabouts of this class are assigned to each ship which has room in their shuttlebay to hold them.
Namesake
Mustang Class runabouts get their names from a small, hardy, hardiness, grace, speed, independence, naturalized horse from the North American west. From 2400 those Mustang class runabouts that are created were named after different breeds of horses.