The Federal Corvette is my chosen warship and totally worth the rep grind to obtain, the hours of engineering and hundreds of millions of credits invested. Put a Guardian FSD Booster in one of the class 5 compartments, you'll need the extra 10.5 light year jump boost.

It's stuff like this that makes me want to play ED again...

The Corvette is a corvette. Literally. It's the smallest thing short of a capital ship. It's what the Federation sends when they really want a problem to go away but all the big girls are busy.

Love my corvette, The Royal Fortune named after the flag ship of Bartholomew Black Bart Robert’s. I have it on my console edition sadly and not on my odyssey edition. It’s fully engineered and an absolute hammer, I show up to high CZ’s and clean house truly a beast of a ship. The grind was intense and the engineers grind even worse, it’s not as fast as my FDL by any means but I came from flying a Conda the Adventure Galley and its miles more maneuverable. Love it, if you are a commander looking for a powerful ship that forgives you for sometimes not being the most skilled pilot out on the field, this is it. Happy flying, see you in the black.

This is the ship we all look up to! Badass, feared and... versatile? I have a friend that flys this thing as a main ship for everything, we went exploring on my carrier and hopped onto fighters to blast around. Then we got beauty shots in front of a black hole. This ship does everything with precision and power. I love it Great video, this ship deserves a special place in every hangar

A lot of ships can do the whole "Shoot first, ask questions later" routine. Not the corvette. Pilots of a corvette, and any crew members along for the ride, only shoot. No point asking questions. The target can't answer fast enough before they are dust, and dust won't answer, either.

1:32 the dropship is one of the coolest looking ships in the game, it looks like an F117 Nighthawk with a forward swept wing design.

excellent as always! I love all your reviews and look forward to new releases!

My first AX ship was a Corvette, and I've never much time and effort into a single goal in a video game as I did with Thunder Child (the name is a War of the World reference). It took 8 months to unlock engineers, gain Fed rank, earn money, unlock system permits, collect materials, and unlock Guardian modules, during which I constantly refined the design and watched hours and hours of AX combat vids. I actually built three other ships during the process that i needed to further the final goal. It was worth it, and taking the completed ship out for the first time was immensely satisfying. And as a bonus, the things I unlocked and strategies I learned have made every ship I've built since then SO much easier! She was built in the Bubble, but with the intention of being stationed in the Pleiades, so i actually engineered two separate FSDs - one with the range to get there (but with power requirements that wouldn't allow full use of weapons), and the permanent FSD for use in combat one i got there. That's how precisely optimized for combat she is/was. There's nothing wasted. I could've flown out there in a different ship and paid the small fortune (by my standards back then) to have her shipped, but there was no way i want going to take her out there myself. I have a special bond with that ship. She's definitely not the best AX ship (though i did bag a Cyclops with her just past night), and new modules that have come out since then would require a full redesign to implement, but she introduced me to AX combat while opening up the galaxy to me. Plus, she looks absolutely badass... 😎

just engineering this beast has taken me forever. theres so much to tweak and optimize that i had to sit down in excel and inara and plot out the mats needed. turns out i need to do it in 3 phases. Core internals, defenses/internal reinforcements and lastly weapons. i have no doubt itll be an absolute monster once its done but my god is it a lot.

Excellent video as always. I like the Vette, but most often as a decent earning target in assassination missions in my Python. It's a bit dodgy in PvP too as you can't bug out if the going gets tough. Cutter can at least run for it. But in PvE it is a fun ship and as you say it can be outfitted in so many different ways to vaporise enemies...hours of fun.

Happy New Year Commander! Glad you are continuing your very enjoyable videos. I do like my Corvette: it is my BGS war ship.

Great video, my first watch. I've come to thoroughly enjoy the Corvette, as my multi-purpose heavy mission runner, my go-to for squadron CZ ops. Mucho fun.

The federal corvette is simply my favourite combat ship, I'm aware about its struggle in PVP but I'm convinced that there's a way to overcome those downsides and make this ship a scary player FDL bug swatter. I mean my commander callsign is not Kirk007mb if I don't use every knowledge I have and every modification that the game has to offer to do so.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." *~President Teddy Roosevelt*

Just got my Corvette today, and without engineering, those two huge hard points make a fat difference in firepower. Definitely not disappointed

Just to add the placement of the huge hardpoints is unique. Being behid you are able to stay in the turn at very close range with them pointed at the opponent. The Conda and the Cutter both have got the huge hardpoint below main deck, that makes it impossible to point it in a turn at close range. The only way to do that for them is in reverse with pitch up. While the corvette can go forward and pith up and devastate at very close range. The way to exploit that feature is as shown in the video two multicannons specially engineered for the purpous either supercharged or fast fire. For the big and the 2 mediums are recommended lasers either long range to compensate for low speed or efficient. Or if you intend to fight only at short range frags lol. The small hardpoints are generally used for their special effects not for their fire power.

the corvette isn't for getting into fights. it's for stopping them before they even get their hopes up

I do love my Vette for PvE pirate combat. Set up with 3 beam lasers and 4 multicannons, it absolutely shreds opponents with amazing rapidity. Plus, it just looks like it's ready to fight.

Beautifully made and entertaining! 👍👌 But: Type7 isn't medium, it's large 🤓☝️

Yellow Ships🎉! We love Yellow in our Mining Squadron!

As nice a combat ship the Corvette is, there's no Corvette that will worry me in my FDL....

The corvette is my daily driver, i will fly nothing else, now gimme my legs so i can walk around in it ya bastards

I like the kraits more for any given task, but my Vette "Wild Blue Yonder" is the pride of my fleet. It's the ship I go to when I want to just brain-off a haz res or high intensity combat zone, or solo a wing assassination mission. Hell, I even have a second one for mining. Fill it with Painite once and my carrier is paid for until next year.

This is the ship you use to give everyone in the haz res the finger. Lol I named mine The Middle Finger

A small warship aka- a Corvette

I earned the last 4 ranks to Rear Admi solely in combat. I figured if I was to fly one of the most powerful ships, I may as well know how.! It flies like a fluter in the wind. I can stay on most targets with FAoff and what is too fast my SLF gets.

I far prefer the Python but when it is time to clean house. It's the Corvette for the win. Happy New Year, Chap. o7

Love that paint job. Is it avaliable in the store? (Not some special one obtained i CG or something). Good video!

+1👍 Federal Corvette o7

My favorite combat sluggers, I got two: one for hazrez fragging and one for long duration piracy expeditions. But outfitting those two really cost me a quite a lot of credits and materials.

Love that paint scheme! Looks like a pissed off wasp

0:25 absolute bonklord

To buy it is ez to upgrade is pain, usualy im mining platinum with type 10 and get 170mil in one go, but damn the grind💀

the type 7 is a medium ship?

this ship can do anything yet here is what it feels like. spend a few game hours getting to where you want to be. spend a short time winning. then a few game hours getting back to where you were. its so painful to go anywhere. you can mine a massive amount, kill everyone who tries to rob you, then spend a REALLY long time going to a station to sell your goods. oh well, whats the rush?

What paint job is that?

my covette is great i can go to a hazardous site and make 10 million before i run out of ammo still with 100% hull only thing that stops me continuing is ammo,yes i can make more ammo but that uses precious resources, my FDL is hopeless it gets its butt kicked i barely manage 2 million in bounties before having to retreat in emergency.

nice video as always though i would say the t10 is definitely larger than the corvette

Whats top speed on one of those fully laden ?

I´m playing Elite for 5 years now... I still have no access to the Federal Corvete

What's the skin on the corvette in the video?

Best Hazrez/conflict zone/PVE ship. Don't PVP, you get whacked, ship is too slow and too fat of a target, but for PVE, it's epic.

I hate the federation, so I wont get this ship, but I have to admit it's pretty. I'd rather get my huge Imperial Cutter still, long live the Empire !

btw Type 7 is Large size

Are turreted beams viable on it then?

What about the smiley face on the roof? Edit: first and subbed

Isolating pitch and roll from other ships is pretty unfair, doesn't say anything about how a ship flies. The t7 has the best yaw in the game but it's not exactly a good Combat ship. And the mamba has one of the best flight models in the game, pitch rate outside of boost is pretty irrelevant

Made useless by P II. Corvette has a useless large hardpoint. I used it to safely transport 400 cargo but I found the T10 is better with 9 turrets. No doubt the T8 will mean many players selling their corvettes. It does do well as a passenger transporter. Not worth the grind.

fdl review?:)

Never understood the appeal of this ship. In terms of firepower, the Type 10 and Anaconda have it beat. Huge hardpoints look cool, and yes they're very clearly overcompensating for something, but in terms of actual destructive capability... they come up short in almost all loadouts other than heavily engineered Plasma Accelerators. No actually I do understand the appeal of the ship. She's far too agile for her size, in terms of manoeuvrability. Considering the guts of the ship are basically identical to an Anaconda, flying this ship is like having the arsenal of a heavy ship with the agility of a medium ship. Which is kind of... I dunno, a bit of a cheat.

the best there is! I go to BP and a bit around it. 13000 jumps 🙂 I did the grind twice for my second free account 🙂

"Is expensive" - Well, looking at my nearly 4 Billions of credits nothing seems like "very expensive" anymore. except for a Carrier maintnance...