Tough and agile, the Broadsword carries a decoy flare launcher that draws defensive fire away from high-value targets like bombers and their payloads. However, it can falter if faced with the need to deal the killing blow itself.
–In-Game Description
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The Broadsword is a quintessential escort fighter, designed to fly ahead of bomber wings and distract the target with decoy flares as well as flux it up with the dual Light Machine Guns. It sacrifices some speed for extra armor and hull, which is just as well since it's still faster than all bombers with explosive payloads anyway. Note the terrible flux dissipation stat - after little over two seconds of continuous fire the kinetic DPS will drop to about 25% of advertised; as the description indicates, it really requires support from other wings to be effective.
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