Frag Cannon

From Farscape Encyclopedia Project

Frag cannons are the primary armament of a Peacekeeper Command Carrier.

A command carrier typically has 4 frag cannons, two front and two aft. Each cannon is mounted on a track that allows them to move along the horizontal axis of the ship to engage targets both directly in front of, behind or to either side of the ship (though not directly above or below the ship).

Each frag cannon consists of three barrels that can be fired independently. They are usually fired one after another in rapid succession, similar to a slow gatling gun, to make the barrage harder to evade.

Frag cannons appear to be projectile based, possibly a type of railgun (although at one point Crais orders the cannons to be fired at "full power", indicating that they might simply be large scale pulse weapons; this could indicate variable power to a railgun, too). The firing range is 45 metras (similar to 45 kilometers).

Frag cannons are the heavy artillery of the Peacekeeper fleet, and are primarily used to engage capital ships. Against enemy fighters, strike craft and other lighter classes their tracking speed and rate of fire is too low to be of much use.