Mostly as a thought experiment that came up from a conversation, with the big heavy warships taking back to the seas... we saw the problem of 'Wow, that is a LOT of AA on these monsters.' Well, being a pair of old hands at Harpoon, we almost immediately thought of the old terror of the skies, the Backfire. Well, producing one of these massive beasts with conventional fighters was purely out and not wanting to resort to larger aerospace, ie: on the cheap, meant having to go into the large support vehicles and thus, we rolled out a nice stand off artillery bomber... one that would actually have a place it seemed even without a big carrier, fast cruiser, or convoy to sink.
Anyway... here is a moderate recreation of the Backfire (with appropriate fully loaded weight!). We had to cut a lot of corners to get something fast and capable but it worked for the though experiment.
Type: Backfire
Weight: 125 tons
Type: Large Support, Fixed Wing
Equipment
Chassis Tech E 16 tons
Engine Tech F Fuel Cell 69.5 tons
Cruise 7
Flank 11
Structural Integrity: 7
Range: 950 fuel points 19 tons
Armor 44 pts Tech E Bar 8 2 tons
Nose 12
Wings 11/11
Tail 10
Weapons
Arrow IV Launcher Front 15 tons
Arrow IV ammo (5) Body 1 ton
External Hard Points: 12 2.5 tons
Typically 2 Anti-ship Arrow missiles or 2 Arrow IV missiles and 2 Light AA missiles if a stand off against interception was a concern.
It is not a great weapon but it does give a conventional weapon capable of stand off attacks against ground targets and formations, capable of getting in and then burning back out quickly with the relatively fast speed of the bomber. It also allows to be a good hypothetical enemy to begin working up counter attack strategies for. Still not sure if the conventional bomber would be able to fire it's Anti-ship missiles at a dropship in near space but it also put an interesting threat to descending or ascending dropships.
Like I said, it's a thought experiment.