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"Shock and Awe"
SAW
- Intent: A nice air-to-ground "bunker buster"
- Image Source: Krupx Munitions by Wookieepedia, Missile by Xavier Henry.
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Krupx Munitions
- Model: KXM-114 SAW
- Affiliation: Open Market
- Modularity: Moderate
Production: Minor
- Material: Durasteel, Missile Components
- Classification: Missile
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Packed Baradium, Oxygen-Ignited Fuel Compound
- Effective Range: 8 kilometers
- Laser guidance system
- Shield Disruptor Package
- Bunker Buster: The SAW does not actually destroy a bunker, cavern system, or whatever else enemy combatants are hiding inside. Rather, the shockwave from the SAW's thermobaric payload ignites on contact with oxygen, creating a sustained shockwave that "bounces" around walls of enclosed spaces, ideally killing anyone inside due to the blast overpressure.
- Precise: The SAW can take out a single floor of a building without damaging the other floors and it can "reach" around corners due to the sustained shockwave, wiping out the soft targets within hardened complexes or cave systems.
- Shield Penetrator: Every KXM-114 missile is equipped with a shield disruptor package, which allows the missile to "pierce" through conventional shielding, theater shields, and planetary shields by creating a temporary gap in the shield that closes behind the missile.
- Cannot work underwater.
- Does not penetrate armor.
- Cannot function in non-oxygen atmospheres.
- Missile can be knocked out by ion cannons or an EMP.
The KXM-114 SAW model is meant to eliminate personnel inside hardened structures. The volumetric "vacuum" missile disperses a cloud of fuel when it impacts the target. This fuel cloud is ignited by oxygen, which sucks up all the oxygen in the vicinity, thus creating a "vacuum." The ignition of the fuel cloud along with the conventional baradium payload creates a much larger and longer wave of blast overpressure than a conventional missile. The shockwave bounces off of any walls in the office structure, bunker, or cave, rebounding around corners and into rooms and killing any targets inside.
