Raven

The Raven is one of the fastest Frigates and the cheapest ship in the game.

Description
The Raven is a fast and maneuverable Frigate that can distract bigger ships and can outmaneuver them, getting into their blind spots. Its major weakness is that it's not really durable, preventing it from fighting alone for extended periods of time.

Advantages

 * Very agile.
 * Easy to remake in the event of it being destroyed.
 * Overall, a great ship for beginners.
 * Spinals do decent damage against shields and have a good rate of fire.
 * Cheap.
 * Has a turret

Disadvantages

 * Low amount of health, staying at top speed is critical to staying alive.
 * Very low damage against enemy hull.
 * Hard to aim with, making attacking hard unless against big and easy to hit ships.
 * Slow for a frigate, even the Wasp beats it in terms of speed.

Strategy

 * Sometimes overestimated by new players and try to fight better ships or bases ending with them losing their Raven.
 * Useful for distracting enemy base turrets and destroying enemy fighters.

Trivia

 * The Raven might be designed as the known plane F-18 hornet
 * The Raven is the smallest ownable combat ship in the game currently.
 * It's one of the most common starter ships.
 * The cheapest ship in the game.
 * There is a ship called by the same name in EVE Online.
 * Good for scouting enemy fleets as it has high speed, warp drive, and although it is very weak, firepower.
 * Received a remodel decreasing its size and slightly altering appearance, a minor buff soon followed, adding its small flak cannon.
 * Certain players will spam this ship. one player spent over 100k credits doing so.