---
esi_data:
  fitting_stats:
    cpu_output: 515
    high_slots: 7
    low_slots: 4
    med_slots: 6
    powergrid_output: 1150
    rig_slots: 3
  group: Combat Battlecruiser
  hull_stats:
    hp_armor: 3500
    hp_shield: 5250
    hp_structure: 4000
  name: Ferox
  race: Unknown
  skill_requirements:
  - level: 1
    skill_id: 33096
  type_id: 16227
  velocity: 145
faction: Caldari State
faction_group: Empire
image: /16227.png
last_updated: '2026-04-20T03:24:56.538603'
ship_class: Combat Battlecruiser
source: eve-university
source_stats:
  armorem: 50
  armorexp: 10
  armorhp: 3500
  armorkin: 25
  armortherm: 45
  bandwidth: 25 Mbit/sec
  bonuses: "<b>Caldari Battlecruiser bonuses (per skill level):</b><br>5% bonus to\
    \ Medium Hybrid Turret damage<br>10% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret optimal range<br><b>Role\
    \ Bonus:</b><br>\u2022&nbsp;Can use one Command Burst module<br>25% bonus to Medium\
    \ Hybrid Turret optimal range and falloff<br>50% bonus to Command Burst area of\
    \ effect range<br>"
  capacitor: 2,900 GJ
  cargohold: "475 m\xB3"
  class: Combat Battlecruiser
  cpu: 515
  dronebay: "25 m\xB3"
  externallinks: ''
  extrahold: ''
  extraholdtype: ''
  faction: Caldari State
  forumlinks: ''
  grouping: Standard Battlecruisers
  highlights1: Can use Command Burst module
  highlights2: High amount of High Slots
  highlights3: ''
  highlights4: ''
  highs: 7
  hulltype: Ferox Class
  inertia: 0.66
  info: Designed as much to look like a killing machine as to be one, the Ferox will
    strike fear into the heart of anyone unlucky enough to get caught in its crosshairs.  With
    the potential for sizable armament as well as tremendous electronic warfare capability,
    this versatile gunboat is at home in a great number of scenarios.
  launchers: 0
  lows: 4
  mass: 14250000
  maxlockedtargets: 8
  maxvelocity: 145
  mediums: 6
  powergrid: 1150
  quote: Clear action requires unquestioned dominance.
  quote_attribution: Executive General Heika Torigo
  reqskills: '*{{RequiredSkill|Caldari Battlecruiser|I}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|III}}

    ** {{RequiredSkill|Caldari Cruiser|III}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|II}}

    *** {{RequiredSkill|Caldari Destroyer|III}}

    **** {{RequiredSkill|Caldari Frigate|III}}

    ***** {{RequiredSkill|Spaceship Command|I}}'
  scanres: 195 mm
  sensortype: Gravimetric
  sensorvalue: 19 points
  shieldem: 0
  shieldexp: 50
  shieldhp: 5250
  shieldkin: 40
  shieldtherm: 20
  shipid: 16227
  shipimg: Ferox.jpg
  shipname: Ferox
  sigradius: 325 m
  structurehp: 4000
  targetrange: 75.00 km
  tech: ''
  totaltraintime: 1d 21h 16m 40s
  turrets: 6
  variations: '{{Ship|Vulture}}, {{Ship|Ferox Navy Issue}}'
  volume: 252000
  warpspeed: 3.5 AU/s
  warptime: 11.75 s
  wikireferences: ''
source_url: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Ferox
tech_level: Tech 1
title: Ferox
type_id: 16227
validation_score: 1.0
---

<img src="/16227.png" alt="Ferox" width="300" style="float: left; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 300px;" />

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## Summary

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The Ferox is generally more popular as a PvP ship than a PvE ship, as when in combat with NPCs, the limited range of blasters or limited damage of railguns do not combine well with the Ferox's slow speed and large signature radius.

In particular, the Ferox has spent several years as one of the most popular ships in very large nullsec fleets. It is cheap, durable, and its railguns can project damage to very long ranges. Its popularity has resulted in it receiving several nerfs over 2018 and 2019, but it is still a solid low-tech, even -usable, fleet ship. (It speaks volumes that two of its great competitors in this role, the Eagle and Muninn, are both Heavy Assault Cruisers and thus significantly more expensive and skill-intensive, and the Ferox still sees significant use.)

Outside of nullsec fleets, the Ferox also sees popularity in lowsec as a brawling-blaster platform, relying on its innately thick battlecruiser hull, six turret hardpoints, and often an XL Ancillary Shield Booster, to grind enemies apart faster than they can break through it.
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## Skills

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Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Ferox for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.
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## Tactics

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No sub-article about Ferox roles or piloting tactics. You can write them here.
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## Notes

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The Ferox is a type of trout found in the lakes of the British Islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
## Patch History