Icarus Assault Shuttle

the Federation. Designed primarily as an assault craft, the Icarus is equipped with both phasers and torpedo tubes. Additionally Starfleet decided to equip Icarus class shuttles with the experimental Tri-Cobalt Mine that is deployed through an aft launcher of the vessel and designed to disable the shields of enemy vessels and allow marines to be transported over quickly. The Tri-Cobalt Mine has been considerably modified since the torpedo variant was banned due the subspace damage they caused and now the Tri-Cobalt warhead no longer possesses the extreme yield which caused subspace damage. This allows the Tri-Cobalt mine to be a suitable weapon for assault craft.
The Icarus Class Assault Shuttle was developed as part of Starfleet’s new initiative into providing more capable auxiliary vessels in order to fulfill the variety of missions encountered by ships of