You're ignoring the ship size. Asp X is medium. Mandalay is medium. A very light medium can go fast (mass vs thruster). A very light small can go fast.
That's asking a lot for a heavy small ship. If it was a medium (frontier could have cheated by having the dimensions be just above the small pad size) then there would have been so much more potential.
Believe me, my friend, I really want it to go fast. I want it to be Mandalay levels of handling. Go fast, do crimes. But here we are.
Since it will start out an Arx ship, it should still be decent. But I am a little sad it's a small. A light, fast medium cobra was a heck of an offering.
I just can't ignore the numbers.
Do you assume that somehow 4A trhuster on Medium ships are different that the same trhusters on Small ship with the same hull mass?
Ok, so what about that:
M pads compared together:
Scout - 150 T hull mass. Speed 188/341
Mandalay - 230 T hull mass. Speed 244/356 with the same size of thrusters as Scout...
similar for some S pads:
Cobra Mk IV - 210 hull mass. 150/300
DBX - 260 hull mass. 203/328
As I said... hull mass is just an indicator, but that doesn't mean that new Cobra with similar modules than old Cobra Mk IV will have the same performance. There is more than just how many modules/mass/pad size...
As I said, just check the numbers.
All that about Cobra mk V are just predictions, so saying that this ship is that or that is just guessing. And I love predictions and guessing, but I can't rate the ship becasue of that. But we need just wait few days probably for partners streams.
