Argo RAFT

Argo Astronautics · Medium Freight · flight ready

The Argo RAFT is a medium freight ship from Argo Astronautics with a crew of 2–3 and 192 SCU of cargo. It moves at 140 m/s in SCM and 990 m/s in NAV mode, on 115,700 hull HP and 14,400 shield HP. In game it sells for 3,366,560 aUEC at New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville, or rents from 67,331 aUEC a day. On the pledge store it lists at $190.

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Overview

Crew: 2–3
Cargo: 192 SCU
Mass: 668,067 kg
Hull HP: 115,700
Shield HP: 14,400
Size class: 3
Length: 39.5 m
Beam: 23 m
Height: 12 m
Pledge (USD): $190

Which containers fit its 1 cargo grid, from 1 to 32 SCU.

In-game price & where to buy

Type	aUEC	Terminal	System	Reported
Buy	3,366,560	New Deal - Teasa Spaceport - Lorville	Stanton	11d
Buy	3,543,750	Teach's Ship Shop - Levski	Nyx	16d
Rent / day	67,331	Vantage Rentals - Lorville	Stanton	26d

Prices as reported to UEX Corp, fetched 28 Oct 2026; crowd-sourced, so they can differ by shard and drift between reports. The Reported column is the age of each report.

Flight performance

SCM speed: 140 m/s
Max (NAV): 990 m/s
Boost fwd: 340 m/s
Boost back: 150 m/s
0 → SCM: 5.46 s
0 → max: 38.64 s
Pitch: 30 °/s
Yaw: 30 °/s
Roll: 75 °/s
Pitch (boost): 36 °/s

Acceleration and boosted handling are the numbers most loadout tools skip; they decide fights as much as DPS.

Weapon fitting interactive

0 DPS burst

Fit a pilot gun to each hardpoint; the totals update live. Gun data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860. Opens on the highest-burst gun per slot.

S1 S1

Burst: 0 DPS
Sustained (60 s): 0 DPS
Alpha (one volley): 0

Pilot-fired guns only, at the size each mount accepts. Guns inside turrets are left out on multi-crew ships, because the game data does not say which seat fires them. Sustained is the average damage per second over 60 seconds of holding the trigger: burst DPS times the share of that time the gun can fire, then capped by the magazine. For an energy gun the share is fire time / (fire time + recharge delay + recharge time), where fire time is the capacitor load divided by shots per second. For a gun with overheat data it is time to overheat / (time to overheat + cooldown). A ballistic magazine that empties inside the minute caps it at rounds x damage per shot / 60. The ship's shared weapon power pool is not modeled. Alpha is the damage of every fitted gun firing once. Gimbal tracking and missiles are not modeled. Your build is saved on this device and shareable by link.

Component fitting interactive

Swap the shield generators, power plant, coolers and quantum drive. Shield, power, cooling and quantum figures below update with the fit. Component data from build 4.10.2-LIVE.12881860.

S2power plant S2power plant S2shield generator S2shield generator S2shield generator S2cooler S2cooler S2quantum drive

Shield HP: 14,400
Shield regen: – HP/s
Power requested: – of – segments
Cooling requested: – of – segments

Shield HP adds the strongest 2 generators, because this ship powers at most 2 at once (its shield power pool). Power and cooling are what the ship requests with shields up: the rest of the ship as the game data gives it, plus the fitted shields and coolers at their maximum draw. Requests above supply are normal; the in-game power pips decide what runs. Quantum range is the ship's quantum fuel divided by the fitted drive's fuel use. These relations were checked against every stock ship in the data before use. Saved on this device and shareable by link together with the gun build.

Quantum travel

Quantum speed: 275,943 km/s
Quantum range: 1,101 million km
Spool time: 8 s
10 Gm jump: 70 s

With the stock quantum drive. Fit another drive above and these figures follow it.

Signatures

IR: 15,487
EM (idle): 55,328
EM (max): 101,438

Infrared and electromagnetic emission with the stock loadout. Lower is harder to detect and lock.

How it compares

Metric	Value	Rank of all ships	Rank in Medium Freight
SCM speed	140 m/s	213 / 234	15 / 17
Max (NAV) speed	990 m/s	190 / 234	8 / 17
Pitch rate	30 °/s	175 / 234	5 / 17
Max pilot-gun DPS (burst)	840 DPS	176 / 192	12 / 13
Max sustained pilot DPS (60 s)	793 DPS	176 / 192	12 / 13
Max pilot alpha (one volley)	1,008 damage	174 / 192	12 / 13
Hull HP	115,700 HP	40 / 234	6 / 17
Shield HP	14,400 HP	85 / 234	13 / 17
Cargo	192 SCU	28 / 118	10 / 17
In-game price	3,366,560 aUEC	64 / 140	1 / 12

Rank 1 is best (highest, or cheapest for price) among ships that carry that figure in this build's data. Full lists: ship rankings.

Related ships

Head to head

Other Medium Freight ships

All hardpoints

Shield 2

shield_generator_2 S2
shield_generator_1 S2

Power 2

power_plant_1 S2
power_plant_2 S2

QuantumDrive 1

quantum_drive S2

Cooler 2

cooler_2 S2
cooler_1 S2

FlightController 1

controller_flight S1

paint S1
cockpit_flair_hang S1

MidRangeRadar 1

radar S1

Full component slots (shields, coolers, power plant, quantum drive) shown above; interactive fitting for those is coming. The weapon DPS fitter is live higher on this page.