The Higgs F-277 Lightspeed is a high-speed twin engined interceptor aircraft built by the Higgs Aircraft Industry. It was based on a 1970 design requirement for a high-performance interceptor. Powered by two afterburning turbofans, the Lightspeed has insane acceleration, and in testing it was easily capable of taking off of the USS Beast, the Navy’s primary carrier, without the use of a catapult. The aircraft, being designed with speed in mind, has no cannon armament, to reduce weight and drag. The canopy is small, affording the pilot only direct ahead views and no peripheral vision. In the production model, however, the pilot had the advanced ability to switch on X-ray, allowing him to see through the cockpit walls. Hardpoints are two large inboard ones and two wingtip hardpoints, all for missiles.