Horizons Cobra MK IV

[ikej]

So where does one go to buy the Cobra MK IV and about how many credits will I need to purchase it?

 

[CaptainDuckman]

There are quite a few stations. There's a thread listing some of them here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=212037
Can't quite recall the price I saw listed, but was in the 750k credits range.

 

[Saltyseadog]

I suppose it really depends on where you are based. I bought mine yesterday at Ising Dock in the 109 Piscium sector for 550,000cr with the discount at Li Yong-Rui systems. Here is a link to a thread which should help. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155377&page=44

 

[Mohenjo]

I bought one, but I'm not liking it. It's really slow and not as sturdy as I expected. Decent firepower, I suppose, but not much use if you can't point it at the enemy. The only good thing I can say is that it has lots of equipment slots.

 

[RG-870]

With the 15% discount my A-graded Cobra Mk IV is worth around 10-12 million credits. But to be honest, the ship sucks terribly. It is just bad ship design come true as they took the Cobra Mk III, made it bigger (= heavier), gave it another gun but without upgrading the subsystems which are exactly the same as in a Mk III. Therefore the Mk IV lacks almost everything that made the Mk III such a great and well balanced ship. The Mk IV is incredibly slow (a Hauler outruns it), is as agile as a turtle, has ok-ish jump range and drains the small power distributor in no time.
Some people see it as a planetary explorer and I admit it has the number and required classes for those modules. But flying over the surface of a planet at ~300 m/s is a pain. Even for that one purpose I prefer the Mk III and live with the smaller cargo capacity and maybe just one SRV instead of two.

For almost any purpose there is a better ship than the Cobra Mk IV. I wish they had not made it an exclusive item which is the main justification for most people why the ships sucks so awfully.