"More power to shields Mister Sulu!"

[ArithonUK]

This spreadsheet published on the Elite forums shows the shield strengths for various classes. The figures are fascinating.

For instance, the Clipper class 7 "A" rated shields are 198MJ, but the Python can achieve better (213MJ) with a Class 4 "C" rated shield generator!

The ship itself defines the base shield strength however so typically as  ships get bigger their base strength goes up. Also a larger ship might  end up with a lower total shield strength than a smaller ship but when  receiving damage the larger ship will nullify a lot of the damage from  smaller weapons where as the smaller ship wouldn't.

See original spreadsheet here.

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[albert]

The A6 Python shield has more capacity than A7 on the Anaconda!