this does look like an effective design and it raises a question what would be it's purpose on the battlefield air superiority, ground support or even as a multirole platform?
It's an air superiority fighter/bomber. In the context of the story it came from it was developed in secret by the Whitewolven empire using technology they stole from the Atlantians.
essentially. remember, this is an alien world, they haven't made as many advances in rocket tech as we have, most of thier propulsion devices are crystal driven, and crystals are very expensive, too expensive to be used as munitions.
Claymores?