Avionics

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Not to be confused with the Avionics component for Landing Craft. Strictly meant for Railjack.

Avionics
An Avionic installed on the grid, showing its rank (4) and capacity cost (8)

Avionics comprise the modular subsystem components of a Railjack, analogous to Mods for Warframes or weapons. In-game, they appear as pickups surrounded by a yellow aura.

Mechanics

Avionic Grid that is over Avionics Capacity. Notice how Avionics that are over capacity are locked from use.

Avionics can be installed into the Railjack's 15 Grid Sockets: 9 Integrated, 3 Tactical, and 3 Battle. Integrated, Tactical, and Battle Avionics can only be installed into their respective slots, with the additional requirement that Battle Avionics each have a specific Battle Grid Socket into which they must be installed (for example, Seeker Volley, a slot three Battle Avionic, can only be installed into the third Battle Grid Socket).

The Railjack has a limited Avionics Capacity, which can be increased by the Railjack's Reactor. Each installed Avionic will reduce the Railjack's available Capacity by its Drain value. If an Avionic's Drain exceeds the current available capacity, it cannot be installed without first removing another Avionic or installing a Reactor with more Avionics Capacity. Also, just like Mods, the same Avionic cannot be installed twice regardless of its rarity.

Currently, all available Avionics can be traded amongst players.

Dirac

Main article: Dirac

Avionics can be upgraded with Dirac to increase their potency, also increasing their Avionics Capacity Drain. Any given Avionic can be upgraded a maximum of one, four, or seven times. The upgrade process expends Dirac, but does not cost credits.

Dirac to rank		Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Common	From Previous	10	20	40	80	160	320	640
	From Rank 0	10	30	70	150	310	630	1270
Uncommon	From Previous	20	40	80	160	320	640	1280
	From Rank 0	20	60	140	300	620	1260	2540
Rare	From Previous	30	60	120	240	480	960	1920
	From Rank 0	30	90	210	450	930	1890	3810

Additionally, Grid Sockets can be upgraded up to three times each, further increasing the potency of any Avionic slotted into them by one level per upgrade without incurring any additional drain for the slotted Avionic. Upgrading Grid Sockets expends successively more Dirac each time: first 200, then 600, then 1800 Dirac for a total of 2600 per Grid Socket.

Spare Avionics can be scrapped to gain Dirac. The amount received depends on the rank and rarity of the scrapped avionic. Scrapping ranked Avionics refund 75% of the invested Dirac plus the base scrapping Dirac.

Dirac from scrap	Rank
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Common	5	13	28	58	118	238	478	958
Uncommon	10	25	55	115	235	475	955	1915
Rare	15	38	83	173	353	713	1433	2873

Integrated Avionics

These modules provide a passive bonus to the stats of the Railjack. Each Sigma Railjack comes with three unique "starter" Integrated Avionics (Houseless versions of  Hyperstrike,  Bulkhead, and  Hull Weave) pre-installed.

View Integrated Avionics List▾▾

Icon	Name	Description
	Ablative Shell	Reduces Chem damage taken by Railjack
	Anode Cell	Increases Railjack shield recharge rate
	Artillery Cheap Shot	Gives Forward Artillery a chance not to consume Dome Charges
	Breach Adrenaline	Increases Railjack shield recharge rate during a hull breach
	Bulkhead	Increases Railjack health
	Conic Nozzle	Increases Railjack base speed
	Cruising Speed	Increases Railjack base speed when no enemies are nearby
	Deep Hold	Increases Resource Forge maximum capacity
	Forward Artillery	Increases Forward Artillery damage
	Hardened Casing	Reduces the chance of a hull breach
	Heat Sink	Reduces Incendiary damage taken by Railjack
	Hull Weave	Increases Railjack armor
	Hyperflux	Increases Railjack Flux Energy capacity
	Hyperstrike	Increases turret damage
	Ion Burn	Increases Railjack boost speed
	Last Stand	Increases turret damage when Railjack health is low
	Maxima	Increases Railjack shield
	Ordnance Cheap Shot	Gives Ordnance a chance not to consume Munitions when used
	Ordnance Velocity	Increases Ordnance projectile speed
	Overloader	Increases maximum Munitions capacity
	Phasic Weave	Reduces Ionic damage taken by Railjack
	Polar Coil	Increases turret heat capacity
	Predator	Increases turret critical chance
	Quicklock	Decreases Ordnance lock-on time
	Revo Reducer	Reduces Revolite usage
	Ripload	Decreases Ordnance reload time
	Section Density	Increases turret critical damage
	Sentient Fortitude	Reduces damage done to Railjack shields by Sentient enemies
	Sentient Scalpel	Increases turret damage against Sentient enemies
	Thermatic	Reduces Frost damage taken by Railjack
	Turret Velocity	Increases turret range and projectile speed
	Warhead	Increases Ordnance damage
	Winged Cyclone	Increases nearby Archwings' speed
	Winged Force	Increases nearby Archwings' shields
	Winged Steel	Increases nearby Archwings' armor
	Winged Storm	Increases nearby Archwings' damage

Tactical Avionics

These modules provide special abilities that can be deployed through the tactical map screen.

View Tactical Avionics List▾▾

Icon	Name	Description
	Battle Forge	Reduces Resource Forge cooldown time
	Battle Stations	Temporarily boosts turret damage
	Breach Quanta	Temporarily stalls a hull breach
	Death Blossom	Temporarily prevents turrets from overheating
	Fire Suppression	Fixes a single fire hazard
	Flow Burn	Temporarily increases Railjack speed and boost speed
	Form Up	Recalls all teammates to the Railjack and heals them
	Intruder Stasis	Temporarily freezes all enemy boarding parties
	Squad Renew	Heals all Railjack squad members
	Void Cloak	Makes the Railjack invisible at the expense of engine speed

Battle Avionics

These modules provide powerful abilities that are used similarly to Warframe abilities. Unlike Tactical and Integrated avionics, however, they cannot be slotted freely into any of the available slots. Each Battle Avionic fits into a specific one of the three available spots and no others, and will not show up in as an option in the other two.

Activating any Battle Avionic consumes Flux Energy that can be produced in Railjack Payload & Resource Forge.

View Battle Avionics List▾▾

Slot	Icon	Name	Description
Defense
		Blackout Pulse	Emit a pulse that disables and damages ships
		Countermeasures	Deploys flares to destract enemy projectiles
		Munitions Vortex	Deploys a bubble that absorbs damage and projectiles
Offense
		Particle Ram	Creates a damaging shield-like projection
		Shatter Burst	Deploys an explosive area of effect
		Tether	Ensnares enemies, increasing vulnerability to Railjack weaponry
Super
		Fiery Phoenix	Enhances the Railjack, leaving a trail of damaging fire
		Seeker Volley	Deploys a volley of homing missiles
		Void Hole	Creates a field that draws enemies to its center

Patch History

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

• Scrapping ranked Avionics refund more of the invested Dirac (75% just like Mods).

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

Avionics Changes:

When it comes to Avionics changes, there’s an overarching goal: Simplify Avionic management.

• Each Integrated Avionic Type will now only exist with a single Manufacturer rather than three Manufacturer flavors. What this means is that there won’t be 3x variants of the same Avionic.
• Consolidated Avionics have had their Avionic Capacity Drain altered so that on average the Integrated Avionics now consume 20% less. This ensures players can more comfortably fit the builds they want in the new consolidated system based on Feedback from the Public Test Cluster.
• The ‘retired’ Integrated Avionics will be removed from players inventory via a script on login.
• The remaining Integrated Avionic for each Type will take on the values of the previously highest valued Avionic of its Type.
• ALL Dirac used to upgrade Integrated Avionics will be refunded. This applies to both retired and remaining Avionics.
• ALL remaining Integrated Avionics will have their Upgrades drained.
• Added ‘Incomplete’ tab/category to the Avionics screen in the ‘Configure Railjack’ panel, Mods Segment screen, and the Codex.
  • Avionics, Mods, and Arcanes that are not owned are marked as ‘preview’ in this category and those that you own but have not ranked to Max are also in this category.
• You can now Chat Link Avionics!

Hotfix 27.0.11 (2020-01-16)

• Changed base Avionics so they all have at least one rank to address difficulty knowing which ones you can scrap and which ones you can't, due to the ‘no ranks’ Avionics stacking with all other unrankeds:
  • Lavan Ablative Shell
  • Lavan Heat Sink
  • Lavan Last Stand
  • Lavan Thermatic
  • Lavan Phasic Weave
  • Lavan Predator
  • Lavan Winged Force
  • Lavan Winged Steel
  • Vidar Last Stand
• To accomodate for the base Avionic change above, other Avionics have been changed:
  • Vidar Predator: Higher base stat and higher drain
  • Vidar Winged Steel: Lower drain
  • Vidar Winged Force: Lower drain
• Increased the Range of Winged Cyclone, Winged Force, Winged Steel, and Winged Storm to 1000m.
  • This also fixes these Archwing based Avionics for Railjack also affecting the Railjack itself.
• Toned down the FX for both the Particle Ram and Fiery Phoenix Battle Avionic when aboard the Railjack.
  • This change is being made due to plenty of feedback requesting less visibility-inhibiting FX.

Hotfix 27.0.6 (2019-12-18)

• You can now trade Avionics in your Dojo or Maroo’s Bazaar!

Update 27.0 (2019-12-13)

• Introduced.