notes=If you want to shoot the tower at 30km, bring 1200mm Arties, one or two tracking computers instead of the tackle and offline the neuts.</li><li>If you can't fit T2 guns, bring meta 4 (the range fit should fit with meta 4 1400 Arties if you downgrade one or two plates to meta 4 which would be fine).}}
Development The Tempest is one of the Republic Fleet's key vessels; a versatile gunship proficient at long-range bombardment and capable of dishing out specialized types of damage with great effectiveness. A well-rounded squadron of Tempests has been proven time and time again to be an invaluable wild card in a fleet battle, one which opponents should ignore at their own peril.
SHIP BONUSES
Minmatar Battleship bonuses (per skill level): 7,5% bonus to Large Projectile Turret rate of fire 5% bonus to Large Projectile Turret damage
Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects.
Drones
Drone Capacity
75 m³
Drone Bandwidth
75 Mbit/sec
Targeting
Max Tgt. Range
67.50 km
Max Locked Targets
7
LADAR Sensor
20 points
Sig. Radius
360 m
Scan Res.
100 mm
Structure
Structure Hitpoints
6,800 HP
Mass
99,500,000 kg
Volume
450,000 m³
Cargo Capacity
600 m³
Frigate Escape Bay
1 Frigate
Armor
Armor Hitpoints
7,000 HP
Armor Resistances
EM
60
THR
35
KIN
25
EXP
10
Shields
Shield Capacity
6,800 HP
Shield Resistances
EM
0
THR
20
KIN
40
EXP
50
Summary
The Tempest is one of two Minmatar Attack Battleships. It's bonuses favour Large Projectile Turrets, unlike the Typhoon which focuses on Battleship-size missles/torpedos. With 5 mids and 6 lows the Tempest can be shield or armor tanked, both are equally common. With the recent tier 3 battlecruiser (Tornado) the primary role of the tempest (pvp sniping) has been overshadowed. None the less, the tempest is still widely used in skirmish warfare. The Tempest is relatively quick and agile, for a battleship.
Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Tempest for a specific or it's common role(s) can be written here.
