FCT Flying Monitor

Now the flagship of the Fanaglian Royal Air Service, the Flying Monitor ushers in a new generation in air superiority. Originally designed by Enzo Tagan just before the Great Coup in 1871, most were skeptical, even mocking, of the experimental ship’s strange design. However, the ship with its innovative envelope design, which is divided into three individually-insulated pontoons that are in turn subdivided into several pockets within, proved invaluable in the war, confirming the Flying Monitor as a ship to be feared. The material of the envelope is a still-experimental and top-secret material that not only acts as a light armor against small arms fire, but also as a flame retardant.

Since 1873, most of the Monitors in the employ of the RAS have been fitted with two four-barrel 1-inch Nordenfelt guns at its bow. It is driven by four arm-mounted propellers that are connected via chains to twin 400kW ASW steam engines, which are operated independently to steer the ship.