Elite Dangerous: All playable ship stats compared

Combat fitted ships

Combat fitted means that ship has best (and most expensive) modules for combat (including Mirrored Armor) – Power Plant, Thrusters, Frame Shift Drive, Power Distributor and same time lightest Sensors and Life Support because those modules do not influence ships combat capabilities. In Internal Compartments always combat fitted ship will have best rating Shields in highest class compartment, some Shield Cell Banks. You can have better shields with Prismatic shields, but they are heavier (speed, pitching will suffer a little) and prismatic shields require more power from power plant, so only few ships can fit them and still have all best weapons, modules, shield boosters and shield cell banks.

Combat stat table

Ship Name	Price Combat Fitted	0pip Speed	4pip Speed	Boost	Pitch 4pip	Pitch 0pip	Shields	Armor	Jump	Hardpoints
Sidewinder	1130000	108	237	371	8	10.8	95	210	13.53	2U 2S
Eagle	1770000	188	251	406	7.2	8.6	122	140	16.02	1U 3S
Hauler	1262000	80	227	318	9	10.6	119	90	19.58	2U 1S
Adder	3000000	107	236	371	9	11.6	143	315	18	2U 2S 1M
Viper mk III	6000000	198	317	396	11.2	13	250	245	12.15	2U 2S 2M
Viper mk IV	11000000	189	291	367	12	14	318	525	20	2U 2S 2M
Imperial Eagle	3000000	220	313	415	8.8	11.8	163	210	15.82	1U 2S 1M
Cobra mk III	12000000	149	299	427	8.4	11.6	174	420	18.8	2U 2S 2M
Diamondback Scout	9000000	184	304	412	8.8	10	254	420	20.18	4U 2S 2M
Type 6		94	231	367	12.8	15.6	113	162		3U 2S
Diamondback Explorer	20000000	156	254	329	11.2	13.8	314	525	25.34	4U 1L 2M
Asp Scout	18000000	118	237	323	8.6	10	281	630	20	2U 2S 2M
Keelback	18000000	97	216	318	13.2	18.4	299	385	19.76	3U 2S 2M
Asp Explorer	45000000	135	280	381	9.4	11.6	423	735	24.83	4U 4S 2M
Imperial Courier	13000000	226	287	390	9.6	11.4	612	280	14.62	4U 3M
Vulture	35000000	220	244	394	7.8	9.4	607	560	14.72	4U 2L
Federal Dropship	90000000	110	198	329	11.6	17	411	1050	13.17	4U 4M 1L
Type 7		62	185	308	16.2	24.8	108	216		4U 4S
Federal Assault Ship	100000000	170	238	397	8.5	10.7	383	1050	15.34	4U 2L 2M
Imperial Clipper	140000000	206	341	432	9	11.2	551	945	15.59	4U 2L 2M
Federal Gunship	160000000	108	184	303	13.6	17.4	514	1225	12.3	4U 4M 1L
Fer-de-Lance	170000000	247	292	394	9	11	1033	788	11.89	6U 4M 1H
Python	240000000	157	258	337	11	13.5	716	910	14.65	4U 2M 3L
Type 9	420000000	42	136	209	17.6	23.6	706	840	12.64	4U 3M 2S
Anaconda	700000000	90	202	268	13.2	16.4	1428	1838	16.93	8U 2S 2M 3L 1H
Imperial Cutter	1400000000	175	219	350	18.7	23.6	2451	1400	15.46	8U 4M 2L 1H
Federal Corvette	900000000	103	206	268	12.6	16	1919	1295	11.87	8U 2S 2M 1L 2H
Orca	187400000	223	334	423	13.5	17.2	364	770	14	4U 2M 1L
Cobra mk IV	11000000	104	208	312	11.8	14.2	242	420	16.64	2U 3S 2M

Top speed: Maximum speed for combat fitted (usually) ship with 4 Pips to Engines, 0 Pips to Engines and top Boost speed.

By knowing top speed with 0 and 4 pips you can easily calculate speed at each any other pip 1-3 because increment is linear.

In this example maximums speed with 4 pips is 237 meters per second and with 0 pips – 108. With 2 pips speed will be right inbetween 108 and 237 – 172 m/s, with 1 pip between 0 (108 m/s) and 2(172 m/s) – 140 m/s and with 3 pips between 2 (172 m/s) and 4 (237) pips – 204 meters per second. That way by knowinbg top speed at 0 and 4 pips you can calculate accurately top speed at 1,2 or 3 pips.

Top boost is top speed that you can achieve with boost – with better Power Distributor you will have bigger Engine capacitor and can boost more often.

Boost speed is not affected by pip amount to Engine capacitor.

360 degree pitch: Time needed to perform 360 degree pitch with 4 and 0 pips to Engines

while having your throttle in the middle (blue sweet spot) for best agility.

Faster you can pitch – faster you can enemy back into your field of view and keep firing, so for combat oriented ships pitching is one of the most important stats, especially because in Elite: Dangerous yaw is deliberately slow by design –

you will roll and pitch mostly and use yaw only to fine tune your aim.

Shields always will represent the highest possible value of regular (not prismatic) shields that every ship can have with highest class, best rating A regular shield generator and full load of best rating A shield boosters. So if ship has 4 Utility mounts they are filled with rating A Shield Boosters, each of which will increase shield strength by 20%.

Armor: No ship has Hull Reinforcement Packages but all combat ships have Mirrored Armor, so you can improve Armor value a lot by bying hull reinforcement packages.

Jump: jump range for fully combat fitted ship.

Weapons: Hardpoint amount and classes. There are 4 classes for hardpoints now – Class 1 or Small, Class 2 or Medium, Class 3 or Large and Class 4 or Huge. Small and Medium weapons have damage penalty (around 33%) if used against Large ships. Ship size is determined by required landing pad size when docked. Small weapons will have damage penalty against Medium and Large ship hull but will do 100% damage against Small ship hull, Medium weapons will do 100% damage against Small and Medium ships but have 33% damage penalty against Large ships and Large and Huge weapons will have no damage penalty. Keep in mind that damage penalty is only applied to damage done to Hull, weapons receive no damage penalty against enemy ship shields – so against shields Small and Medium weapons do 100% of what they re supposed to.

Maximum utility slots ship has that can be used for Shield Boosters, Scanners, Heat Sinks, anti missile defense and similar modules.

Trading and general stats

Trade fitted ships usually have no weapons, no utility modules, most modules lightest that you could fit on that ship except best Frame Shift Drive, smallest best A rating shield you can fit and all rest internal compartments filled with cargo racks only.

Basically unladen jump range for trade fitted ships is very similar to exploration fitted ship jump range. I didn't try several ship (sidewinder, vulture, viper, eagle) trade builds because they make no sense, you can get cheaper ship with more cargo.

Ship Name	Trade Fitted	Jump Laden	Mass Lock	Hull mass	Landing pad	Stock Price	Max Cargo	Max Jump
Sidewinder			6	25	S	32000	10	24
Eagle			6	50	S	44800	14	25
Hauler	183000	16.94	6	14	S	52720	22	32.48
Adder	476000	19.53	7	35	S	87800	26	32
Viper mk III			7	60	S	142900	22	21.28
Viper mk IV			7	190	S	285800	50	25.7
Imperial Eagle			6	50	S	110800	14	23
Cobra mk III	2000000	20.61	8	180	S	379700	60	28.53
Diamondback Scout	2200000	24.43	8	170	S	564300	28	28.25
Type 6	3000000	19.47	8	155	M	1045900	112	30.73
Diamondback Explorer	7000000	29.47	10	298	S	1894700	52	34.26
Asp Scout	6500000	24	8	150	M	3961000	52	33.19
Keelback	4500000	19.43	8	180	M	2000000	88	28
Asp Explorer	12100000	25.24	11	280	M	6661000	128	37.84
Imperial Courier	3000000	17.43	7	35	S	2542000	30	33.53
Vulture			10	230	S	4925000	56	22.36
Federal Dropship	19600000	15.17	14	580	M	14314000	164	19.66
Type 7	21000000	17.17	10	420	L	17472000	232	25.16
Federal Assault Ship	25000000	19.13	14	480	M	19814000	96	22.94
Imperial Clipper	28800000	17.08	12	400	L	22295000	248	27.52
Federal Gunship	41200000	15.02	14	580	M	34700000	168	19.5
Fer-de-Lance	53200000	16	12	250	M	51567000	70	20.94
Python	63000000	16.58	17	350	M	56978000	292	28.81
Type 9	102620000	13.03	16	1000	L	76555000	532	20.2
Anaconda	160000000	21.44	23	400	L	146969000	468	41
Imperial Cutter	240000000	16	27	1100	L	200000000	792	25.7
Federal Corvette	190000000	11.5	25	900	L	182000000	616	21.15
Orca	55700000	14.63	15	580	L	48539000	184	20
Cobra mk IV	2500000	17	8	210	S	764000	88	24

Mass Lock Factor: Each ship has mass lock factor and if 2 ships meet then one ship will mass lock other (if both have same mass lock factor then both ships will mass lock each other).

Mass locked ship will charge frame shift drive into Super-Cruise much longer than normal. Mass lock do not slow down charging frame shift drive for Hyperjump.

Max jump range: Approximate maximum jump range that ship can achieve with best Frame Shift Drive and with as few and as light modules as possible, usually that means no shields, no weapons, no utility modules and with smallest class and lightest available Power Plant, Thrusters, Power Distributor and other modules – useful to increase jump range for trading or exploration oriented ships, so this value is just informative and with crafting we will be able to double our jump range by using frame shift drive injections.

Jump laden: maximum jump range with full cargo hold.

Price for stock variant of ship without any discounts – you can find ships with 10% discount at Founders World if you are founders level backer to the game or reach Elite ranking in Combat, Trading or Exploration – any one of those, sometimes after completing Community Goal you will have a chance to buy specific ship for limited period of time with discount – usually those are bigger than 10% and sometimes even up to 30-40%.

Max Cargo: Maximum cargo that ship can have without shields.

About outfitting modules

Most modules are available in different classes. Higher the class better the module, i.e., Fer-de-Lance got buffed in 1.5 update and can now fit one class higher power plant which has much higher power output thus allowing to have better modules active at the same time.

Most modules have ratings from A to E (rating A being the best and E the worst).

What everyone should know is that A always will give you best performance, D almost always will be the lightest module in its class (great for having better jump range) and B being the heaviest but supposedly with best protection against enemy fire, however, latest tests revealed that B rating modules actually are not better than A rating modules of same class at taking damage, but this at some point probably will be fixed.

About weapons

There are three kind of weapons:

Thermic – most effective against shields;

Kinetic – most effective against hull, but not so effective against shields;

Explosives – missiles and mines, very weak against shields but highly effective against hull;

Some weapons inherit properties of kinetic and thermic weapons at the same time – Rail Guns and Plasma Accelerator making them unique weapons that are good against shields and hull at the same time. Rail guns are best weapons at damaging modules but they are very limited in ammo (which is completely irrelevant since crafting was introduced making them almost only option for PvP players). Plasma Accelerator has 105 rounds and for some unknown reason Plasma round velocity is much higher than same class Cannon making cannons useful only if you prefer point blank combat or just have not enough power from power plant. With crafting you can search for materials and craft ammo- one reload will only reload one weapon.

Weapons (depending on their class and enemy ship size) receive damage penalty against hull but there is no penalty against shields. Small weapons receive damage penalty against medium and large ships, medium weapons receive damage penalty against large ships while large and huge weapons do not receive any damage penalty. Damage penalty is around 33%. There are 2 weapons that are excluded from damage penalty – Rail Guns and Cannons.