Editing Killer Whale

{{InfoBoxWeapon
| name = Killer Whale<br>Killer Whale-T
| Type = [[Capital Missile]]<br>[[Teleoperated Capital Missile]]
| Tech Base = [[Star League]]<br>[[Inner Sphere]]
| Year Availability = [[3051]] ([[Federated Commonwealth|FC]])<ref name="TMp292"/><br>[[3056]] (T)<ref name="TMp292">''TechManual'', p. 292, "Heavy Weapons And Equipment - Table"</ref>
| Year Introduced = [[Early Spaceflight]]<ref name="TMp292"/><br>[[3056]] (T)<ref name="TMp292"/>
| Heat = 20<ref name="TMp342">''TechManual'', p. 342, "Inner Sphere Heavy Weapons And Equipment Table"</ref>
| Damage = 4 Capital<br>40 Standard<ref name="TMp342"/>
| Minimum Range = N/A
| Short Range = 1-12
| Medium Range = 13-24<br>N/A
| Long Range = 25-36<br>N/A
| Extreme Range = 37-48<br>N/A
| Tons = 150 standard launcher<ref name="TMp342"/><br>160 KW-T
| Mass = 50 tons per missile 
| Critical Slots = N/A
| Space Slots = N/A
| Tons per Shot = 50<ref name="TMp342"/>
| Cost (unloaded) = 150,000<ref name="TMp292"/><br>165,000 (T)<ref name="TMp292"/>
| Ammo Cost (per ton) = 20,000 (each missile)<br>17,000 (each missile)
| BV (1.0) = 769 (launcher), 96 (each missile)<br>923 (launcher), 115 (each missile)
| BV (2.0) = 769 (launcher), 96 (each missile)<br>2,306 (Teleoperated launcher), 115 (each teleoperated missile)<ref name="TMp318">''TechManual'', p. 318, "Aerospace Weapons And Equipment BV Table"</ref>
}}

== Description ==
The heavyweight of the [[SLDF]] Navy's three anti-fighter missile systems, the '''Killer Whale''' can destroy an [[aerospace fighter]] with one hit. After the fall of the [[Star League]] and the loss of [[WarShips]], production of this missile stopped. Only when WarShips reappeared during the [[Clan Invasion]] was production restarted.

Like its sister missiles, the primitive guidance packages the post–[[BattleTech eras|Succession Wars]] era [[Successor States]] could manufacture limited the Killer Whale's effectiveness. To overcome this, weapons manufacturers under contract to the [[Draconis Combine Admiralty]]<ref name="TMp292"/> created the '''Killer Whale-T''' by removing the bulky guidance system and replacing it with communications links that let gunners guide the missile like a remote-controlled aerospace fighter. The ability to manually guide the missile and change targets more than made up for the Killer Whale-T's inability to target small craft.<ref name="AT2p41">''AeroTech 2'', p. 41, "Teleoperated Missiles"</ref>

== Models ==
The Killer Whale missile system only has one model, produced on the following planets:

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| [[Alarion]]
| [[Port Sydney Naval Shipyards]]
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| [[Tamarind]]
| [[Technicron Manufacturing]]
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| [[Galax]]
| [[Federated-Boeing Interstellar]]
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== Variants ==
The '''Peacemaker''' is a 500 kiloton nuclear missile, the largest tactical nuclear weapon, which is based on the Killer Whale missile and can be fired from an appropriate launcher.<ref name=H:RW195>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 195</ref> It can also be launched by purpose-built silos to attack either surface or orbital targets.  When operating in an atmosphere, the Peacemaker takes just a little over twenty-three minutes to travel its maximum range of 10,000 kilometers.<ref>''Jihad Hot Spots: 3070'', p. 135, "Peacemaker"</ref>

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[AeroTech 2]]''
* ''[[Jihad Hot Spots: 3070]]''
* ''[[TechManual]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]''


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