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Raysian Aerospace tests their first true Stealth Craft

13-12-2003, 10:31
Today, Raysia Aerospace finally unveiled their new, and actually their first, True-Stealth Tactical Fighter.

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/newfighter.gif

The RX-23, as it is temporarily called, is the first Raysian aircraft to utilize stealthiness on all relevant levels; radar, infrared, and even optical!

The multifaceted Liquid-Crystal skin gives it the ability to optically cloak, mimicing the scenery around it from nearly any direction. The Radar Absorbant materials mixed in with this skin have, as the name implies, givwen this plane the ability to absorb Radar, which goes along with its natural low-cross-section frame, which leaves no uneven surfaces. And to top it all off, this sleak craft's twin Pulse-Detonation/Jet Hybrid Engines (Which give her a top speed of Mach 3.4) are masked by a heat shield beneath the thrust-vectoring exhaust vents, which prevents most of the heat from showing up on Infrared.

Optical Cloak off:
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/newfighter.jpg

Optical Cloak on:
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/cloaked.jpg
[Can you see it? ;)]

Although the test model has no weapons installed, the final version will have several sets of internal bays to store a number of weapons, namely a 30mm cannon on the nose, 2 QAAM reloader systems, and 2 Bomb Reloader systems (which can easily be switched out for bomblet dispensers).

This plane will have all the latest niceties and sensors equipment, and there are even talks of an unmanned version in the near future.

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/rsig5.jpg (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88120)
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/rsig.jpg (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78939)

ooc: first-sale dibs to the person who can tell me what plane I ripped off for this model :)
Kurai Nami
13-12-2003, 12:15
BUMP

Since you asked so nicely :D
13-12-2003, 12:16
BUMP

Since you asked so nicely :Dpsst, so could you see the plane in the last pic? :P I wanted it to be invisible, but I didn't want to cheat and put nothing there, that's dumb lol
13-12-2003, 12:29
I can see the "invisible" pic.
btw were you influnced by the YF-23 Black widow when you made the other pictures?
Kurai Nami
13-12-2003, 16:25
Yeah i saw it :D, nicely done BTW..
Jeruselem
13-12-2003, 16:36
I can see the "invisible" pic.
btw were you influnced by the YF-23 Black widow when you made the other pictures?

Did that lose to the F-22? That's what I remember of it.
Virgin Atlantic
13-12-2003, 19:39
I can see the "invisible" pic.
btw were you influnced by the YF-23 Black widow when you made the other pictures?

Did that lose to the F-22? That's what I remember of it.

The F-23 was more stealthy and faster, but the F-22 was more manuverable.
13-12-2003, 19:49
I saw the plane, but only after looking hard, and I don't know if I could see it if it was going at 110 mph. Good work.
13-12-2003, 20:51
Yeah, it's based on the YF-23, but it's longer, with a different wing shape.
13-12-2003, 20:52
Oh, and this isn't final, I might slow it down and make it forward swept or something
13-12-2003, 21:11
2 more possible designs:

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/231.jpg
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/232.jpg

I'm also thinking about how I might possibly make this with variable geometry wings... but could that lose stealthiness? What if I had some sort of elastic skin to could take up the space in the joints of the wings?
TROUSRS
13-12-2003, 22:13
Bump so I can tag it on PNP.
13-12-2003, 23:40
Latest design:
http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/2334.jpg
Cyberutopia
14-12-2003, 00:08
Cyberutopia
14-12-2003, 00:08
Impressive, to say the least. Oh, and check your TGs, Ray.
Cyberutopia
14-12-2003, 00:16
Ka-Bump.
14-12-2003, 04:06
I reconized it and posted before i even saw the designtation or the little note at the bottom lol
14-12-2003, 04:22
I reconized it and posted before i even saw the designtation or the little note at the bottom lolyeah, of course, you won :P You get first dibs.

Does anyone have any final suggestions before I throw this into production? I think I'm gonna stick with the original airframe from the first pics.
14-12-2003, 04:29
Dang... if Daggoth could only design such a plane!

*throws a hissy fit*

btw Raysia, are you familar with graphics and designs arts-n-stuff like that on the computer? (photoshop.)

I'm just wondering if you make your own aircraft from your own art.
14-12-2003, 04:40
Dang... if Daggoth could only design such a plane!

*throws a hissy fit*

btw Raysia, are you familar with graphics and designs arts-n-stuff like that on the computer? (photoshop.)

I'm just wondering if you make your own aircraft from your own art....yeah... that would be why I am constantly making new pics and asking for design changes :P
14-12-2003, 06:56
Stats:

http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/rf23.jpg