Fighters

This page should be updated due to game changes.
Reason: The fighter and fighter-bomber mechanics changed heavily in the Citadel expansion.

Capital ships can only use fighters and fighter-bombers, they cannot use subcapital drones (light, medium, heavy, and sentry drones).

Fighters

Fighters are frigate-sized drones that do cruiser-sized damage and can only be fielded by carriers and supercarriers. They are capable of warping, and will pursue a target into warp - the only escape from fighters is to jump system or to dock. They need the same amount of bandwidth as heavy drones (25 Mbit/s), but compared to them, fighters are a little faster, do a little more damage, and are much tougher.

Each race has each its own fighter, and their damage is split between the race's primary and secondary damage types, but otherwise they are very similar to each other. There are only Tech 1 fighters (no Tech 2 or Faction variants). In order to use fighters you need to train  Fighters (which also improves the damage of your fighters).

Faction	Fighter	DPS	Speed	Orbit	EHP
Amarr	Templar	33	2125 m/s	5000 m 250 m/s	12,900
Caldari	Dragonfly	33	2000 m/s	5000 m 225 m/s	12,200
Gallente	Firbolg	33	2250 m/s	5000 m 280 m/s	12,400
Minmatar	Einherji	33	2500 m/s	5000 m 300 m/s	12,400

Fighter-bombers

Fighter-bombers are anti-capital-ship drones, and can only be used by supercarriers. They launch torpedoes (which are integrated into the fighter-bombers; you do not need to carry ammunition for them!) which do tremendous DPS to very large targets, and can be very dangerous to slow battleships. However, they pose little threat to smaller ships, because their torpedoes have very slow explosion velocities (60 m/s) and very large explosion radii (2250 m). Just like fighters, they can also enter warp.

Each race has its own fighter-bomber drone, but aside from the different damage types, they are very similar to each other. Additionally, there is a Sansha faction fighter-bomber (the Shadow), which does slightly more damage than the Tech 1 fighter-bombers, but is ludicrously expensive. Fighter-bombers need the Fighter Bombers skill (which also increases their damage).

A Tech 1 fighter-bomber costs about as much as a battlecruiser.

Faction	Fighter	DPS	Speed	Orbit	EHP
Amarr	Malleus	93	1485 m/s	20 km 175 m/s	25,800
Caldari	Mantis	93	1400 m/s	20 km 158 m/s	24,400
Gallente	Cyclops	93	1575 m/s	20 km 196 m/s	24,800
Minmatar	Tyrfing	93	1750 m/s	20 km 210 m/s	24,700
Sansha	Shadow	100	2500 m/s	20 km 158 m/s	25,200

			Damage
Faction	Fighter	Fighter-bomber	Prim	Sec
	Templar	Malleus
	Dragonfly	Mantis
	Firbolg	Cyclops
	Einherji	Tyrfing
Fighter-bombers do only the primary damage type. Fighters do 70% primary and 30% secondary damage types.