Imitora
10-11-2003, 10:55
This post is all OOC knowledge, so that when I start using the Yellow Jacket, you know whats up. I actually developed these a while back, but jumped on the band wagon and went space tech, but now I'm back to earth, so yeah. I know I'm missing some of the stuff that was on the original, but because those damned mods deleted the thread it was from, I had to start from scratch. And yes, I know this is presented like an IC post, but it isnt. If it was IC, then it would be maybe a paragraph at most, and I wouldnt be telling you everythgin it has on it.
Imitora's first indiginous project, the Yellow Jacket has been and will be the front line fighter for the Imitoran Colonial Marine Corps Air Operations Unit for years to come. Based off the F/A-18E Super Hornet airframe, the Yellow Jacket is slightly larger to compinsate for new engines allowing more power, meaning higher speeds, better acceleration, and all around higher performance.
Weapons have also been upgraded, and not only can this new Hornet be equiped with the famous AIM-54 Pheonix long range missle, but also the new Imitora AIM-150 variable tracking and targeting advanced medium to short range air to air missle, or VTT-AMRAAM. It can also carry all standard weapons available for the Super Hornet, and many weapons not available with slight, inexpensive modification to the airframe hardpoints.
The F/A-18H and F/A-18K (single seat multi-role varient and dual seat attack role, respectivly) represent the future of air operations in war, with a 'crystal cockpit', meaning all physical instruments have been replaced with liquid crystal displays to show all nessacery tactical information for the pilot. It also includes a touch screen display to make information to the pilot more readily and easily available.
Using cues from teh F-15E Strike Eagle, F-14D Super Tomcat, and the F/A-18E Super Hornet, the Yellow Jacket's AN/APG-700 Advanced Tactical Radar represents the finest in tactical radars. The AN/APG-700 is capable of tracking up to 25 aircraft, and targeting and fireing on up to 15 at once, with an effective targeting range of just over 150 nautical miles. The search radar is capable of over 200 miles of effective searching. For ground attack operationg, the AN/APG-700 is amazingly effective, allowing for the targeting of up to ten ground based targets, and should teh aircraft be equiped properly, firing on all ten. However, the most amazing feature is the emplyment of a retractable 'sensor turret' which works with the same principle as the targeting radar on teh A-6E Intruder. The 'turret', designated the AGAR-50 is mounted just behind the forward landing gear, and upon activation, is used for ultra acurate laser, FLIR, TV, and other forms of Air to Ground targetting and guidance. In fact, the AGAR-50 can provide a near perfect crystal clear image on the Ground Attack Display in the cockpit. The AGAR-50 also works in conjunction with the AN/APG-700 to provide the pilot with a Terrain Following Radar that can be used to the point where the pilot, based on his skill, can safely fly the aircraft at less than 100 feet above physical ground level.
Also included in the radar suite is the LGTR-87 LIDAR. The LIDAR uses a laser instead of your standard radio wave in order to measure distance, speed and the like, allowing for even more acurate targeting of enemy units. The LGTR-87 also comes into play with the VTT-AMRAAM.
While the Yellow Jacket is capable of carrying many weapons, by far the best is the VTT-AMRAAM. The VTT stands for Varible Tracking and Targeting, meaning the missle can aquire, track, target, and attack its intended target in many ways. Long range searching is done using the LGTR-87, by pinpointing an enemy aircraft with the laser. If the intended target is a transport or AWACS style aircraft which is less likely to outmanuver the missle, the VTT-AMRAAM will rely on the LGTR-87 for its full flight. However, should the situation arrise where many targets present themselves, the AIM-150 will track, target, and attack an enemy aircraft like the AIM-120. Utilising a new, somewhat complicated AI system recently developed, the VTT-AMRAAM, can identify the make/model of its target, and identify between chaff and the actuall target aircraft. In this situation, the VTT switces to its final means of tracking/targeting, a heat IR seaking warhead, simialr to the one used in the AIM-9X. However, the IR seaker not only tracks engine heat, it also tracks frictional heat, so in teh case of a stealth aircraft which gives off minimal engine heat, the AIM-150 will still be able to use its IR seaker at close range.
Continuing the modification trend, the F/A-18H uses a new localy produced engine. With the help of GE, Imitora Military Industries was able to design and develop the F550-GE-600. The F550-GE-600 is a turbofan afterburnign engine, capable of propelling the F/A-18E to speeds of upwards of Mach 2.45, with 28,000lbs of thrust. However, the engines are also 28% more fuel efficient than the F414-GE-400s. Coupled with a larger internal fuel store, this increases mission time a full 35% over the Super Hornet. The Yellow Jacket also uses a three dimensional thrust vectoring system, giving the an already nimble aircraft even greater agility.
Although no expense was spared turning the F/A-18H into an ultimate offensive weapon, the Yellow Jacket has some amazing defensive features. First is the ALQ-35, which autmatically tracks all projectiles not identified as an aircraft, and should one of these projectiles come within a danger zone of 200 feet of the Yellow Jacket, it automatically launches appropriate countermeasures. However, the most unique feature of the Yellow Jacket is the Athena and Spartan systems. The Athena system consists of a supercolled computer designed to negate teh radio frequencies of enemy radar by absorbing the waves through several miniscule antennas, and sending teh waves back out in a way so that they have no return frequency. The technology was purchased from New Empire, whose scientists can explain it much better. The Spartan system is an automated jamming system designed to flood enemy radars. The Spartan pod, which takes up one underbody hardpoint if used, litteraly floods radar's with scatter and background signals, making the already stealthy (due to design) Yellow Jacket, harder to pick up. It can also be used to make enemy forces think that twic the force of Yellow Jackets is approaching, therefor causing automated defense weapons to open fire on nothing.
All in all, the Yellow Jacket represents everythign that the world's air forces have strived to achieve. Ultra manuverable, stealthy, deadly, and very much survivable, the Yellow Jacket will be the pincale of air combat for years to come.
Imitora's first indiginous project, the Yellow Jacket has been and will be the front line fighter for the Imitoran Colonial Marine Corps Air Operations Unit for years to come. Based off the F/A-18E Super Hornet airframe, the Yellow Jacket is slightly larger to compinsate for new engines allowing more power, meaning higher speeds, better acceleration, and all around higher performance.
Weapons have also been upgraded, and not only can this new Hornet be equiped with the famous AIM-54 Pheonix long range missle, but also the new Imitora AIM-150 variable tracking and targeting advanced medium to short range air to air missle, or VTT-AMRAAM. It can also carry all standard weapons available for the Super Hornet, and many weapons not available with slight, inexpensive modification to the airframe hardpoints.
The F/A-18H and F/A-18K (single seat multi-role varient and dual seat attack role, respectivly) represent the future of air operations in war, with a 'crystal cockpit', meaning all physical instruments have been replaced with liquid crystal displays to show all nessacery tactical information for the pilot. It also includes a touch screen display to make information to the pilot more readily and easily available.
Using cues from teh F-15E Strike Eagle, F-14D Super Tomcat, and the F/A-18E Super Hornet, the Yellow Jacket's AN/APG-700 Advanced Tactical Radar represents the finest in tactical radars. The AN/APG-700 is capable of tracking up to 25 aircraft, and targeting and fireing on up to 15 at once, with an effective targeting range of just over 150 nautical miles. The search radar is capable of over 200 miles of effective searching. For ground attack operationg, the AN/APG-700 is amazingly effective, allowing for the targeting of up to ten ground based targets, and should teh aircraft be equiped properly, firing on all ten. However, the most amazing feature is the emplyment of a retractable 'sensor turret' which works with the same principle as the targeting radar on teh A-6E Intruder. The 'turret', designated the AGAR-50 is mounted just behind the forward landing gear, and upon activation, is used for ultra acurate laser, FLIR, TV, and other forms of Air to Ground targetting and guidance. In fact, the AGAR-50 can provide a near perfect crystal clear image on the Ground Attack Display in the cockpit. The AGAR-50 also works in conjunction with the AN/APG-700 to provide the pilot with a Terrain Following Radar that can be used to the point where the pilot, based on his skill, can safely fly the aircraft at less than 100 feet above physical ground level.
Also included in the radar suite is the LGTR-87 LIDAR. The LIDAR uses a laser instead of your standard radio wave in order to measure distance, speed and the like, allowing for even more acurate targeting of enemy units. The LGTR-87 also comes into play with the VTT-AMRAAM.
While the Yellow Jacket is capable of carrying many weapons, by far the best is the VTT-AMRAAM. The VTT stands for Varible Tracking and Targeting, meaning the missle can aquire, track, target, and attack its intended target in many ways. Long range searching is done using the LGTR-87, by pinpointing an enemy aircraft with the laser. If the intended target is a transport or AWACS style aircraft which is less likely to outmanuver the missle, the VTT-AMRAAM will rely on the LGTR-87 for its full flight. However, should the situation arrise where many targets present themselves, the AIM-150 will track, target, and attack an enemy aircraft like the AIM-120. Utilising a new, somewhat complicated AI system recently developed, the VTT-AMRAAM, can identify the make/model of its target, and identify between chaff and the actuall target aircraft. In this situation, the VTT switces to its final means of tracking/targeting, a heat IR seaking warhead, simialr to the one used in the AIM-9X. However, the IR seaker not only tracks engine heat, it also tracks frictional heat, so in teh case of a stealth aircraft which gives off minimal engine heat, the AIM-150 will still be able to use its IR seaker at close range.
Continuing the modification trend, the F/A-18H uses a new localy produced engine. With the help of GE, Imitora Military Industries was able to design and develop the F550-GE-600. The F550-GE-600 is a turbofan afterburnign engine, capable of propelling the F/A-18E to speeds of upwards of Mach 2.45, with 28,000lbs of thrust. However, the engines are also 28% more fuel efficient than the F414-GE-400s. Coupled with a larger internal fuel store, this increases mission time a full 35% over the Super Hornet. The Yellow Jacket also uses a three dimensional thrust vectoring system, giving the an already nimble aircraft even greater agility.
Although no expense was spared turning the F/A-18H into an ultimate offensive weapon, the Yellow Jacket has some amazing defensive features. First is the ALQ-35, which autmatically tracks all projectiles not identified as an aircraft, and should one of these projectiles come within a danger zone of 200 feet of the Yellow Jacket, it automatically launches appropriate countermeasures. However, the most unique feature of the Yellow Jacket is the Athena and Spartan systems. The Athena system consists of a supercolled computer designed to negate teh radio frequencies of enemy radar by absorbing the waves through several miniscule antennas, and sending teh waves back out in a way so that they have no return frequency. The technology was purchased from New Empire, whose scientists can explain it much better. The Spartan system is an automated jamming system designed to flood enemy radars. The Spartan pod, which takes up one underbody hardpoint if used, litteraly floods radar's with scatter and background signals, making the already stealthy (due to design) Yellow Jacket, harder to pick up. It can also be used to make enemy forces think that twic the force of Yellow Jackets is approaching, therefor causing automated defense weapons to open fire on nothing.
All in all, the Yellow Jacket represents everythign that the world's air forces have strived to achieve. Ultra manuverable, stealthy, deadly, and very much survivable, the Yellow Jacket will be the pincale of air combat for years to come.