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UI-4052 Cralias
- Airship Biological Weapon -


- the UI-4052 flying over Axel Bay -

- Image A - Image B -

WEAPON INFORMATION:
Purpose: Large Scale Chemical Weapon
Manufacturer(s): ----
Date Started: ----
Date Completed: ----
Date Destroyed: 2040

Armaments: none
Firing Range: ----
Energy Source: Electricity (?)
Height: ----
Width: ----
Length: ----
Weight: ----

OVERVIEW:
The UI-4052 Cralias is a large airship, much like its advanced cousin, the UI-4053 Sphyrna. However, the Cralias is not meant to be a combat vessel, but rather, a large weapon itself.

The UI-4052 was first sighted over Axel Bay, a large industrial city on the Usean continent in 2040. Its flight path was set on a collision course with the many large smoke stacks within Axel Bay. A communication from an unknown source had informed UPEO Command that this airship was filled with chemical gases intended to poison all occupants that lived in the city.

A UPEO AI pilot named 'Nemo', was sent to clear a path for the UI-4052 by destroying any of the large smoke stacks which would destroy the airship and release its chemical weaponry.

As the UPEO fighter destroyed the smoke stacks, a single fighter, known as the UI-4054 was in the area monitoring the Cralias. There were reports that the UI-4054 was engaged by the UPEO pilot, but these could not be confirmed, since it would be sighted more than once during the war. The smoke stacks and a large bridge section was destroyed and the Cralias eventually made a crash landing in a large lake nearby, which did not cause the UI-4052 to explode. A single hydrofoil launched out of the Cralias, but was sunk by the UPEO fighter.

It is believed that the UI-4052 Cralias was the Ouroboros' first attack during the war of 2040, but no solid evidence has been found, leaving this thought unofficial.


SOURCES:
Ace Combat 03: Electrosphere (the game itself)

CREDITS:
Antare for the pictures

[JianDaoXiao]

UI-4052 Cralias drawings:


UI-4052 Cralias model: 1:750 escale, same with his hidrofoil






Unnamed Inteligent (UI) collection:

[Antare]

Could be my speculation but I think the Cralias is just a transport/ship for people that was hijacked and filled with a bio weapon to ram into any convenient tall thing (shades of 9/11 there). The above photo i took has windows on the side and the lower bulge is probably the observation deck.

[JianDaoXiao]

Article Edited. Updated the Format.
Also, we need credits for the images.

@Antare.
high five

[Heinkel]

Hi five? that's so.... random XD

[Gracidia]

If an armed variant of the UI-4052 Cralias is built, it would be armed with two Missile Launchers and four Phalanx CIWS-type AA Guns.

The UI-4052 Cralias is a large airship, much like its advanced cousin, the UI-4053 Sphyrna.

My friend, you are quite fluent in stating the obvious.

Ugh, urge to flame rising...

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

@ Russian something..


We already know Cpt. obvious.