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Haaregradia Begins to Upgrade Her Fighters

Soviet Haaregrad
12-02-2004, 06:53
Fifth generation with a generation of experiance.

F-33D/E/F Sniper

Primary Function: Air Superiority Fighter
Contractor: Klimov Design Bureau OKB
Power Plant: 2x TF404-240-V 24 000lbs thrust turbofan
Length: 58' (17.68 meters)
Height: 25'6" (7.78 meters)
Wingspan: 39'4" (12 meters)
Ceiling: 56 000'(17 075 meters)
Speed: Mach 2.25
Ferry Range: 2 250 miles
Empty Weight: 23 030lbs (10 446kg)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 56 500lbs (25 628kg)
Armament: 1x GAU-25-3 25mm gattling cannon with 300 rounds, 2 wingtip, 8 underwing and 1 underfuselage hardpoints capable of carrying up to 22 046lbs (10 000kg) of disposable ordinance, including AA-8 Aphid, AA-10 Alamo, AA-11 Adder, AA-12 Archer AAMs, ARM-10 Killer ARM, many other ASMs, smart and dumb bombs, cannon pods, rocket pods, ECM pods and fuel tanks
Unit cost: $40 000 000USD
Conversion In Lieu Of Procurement: $ 8 000 000
Crew: 1, 2 for E model
Notes:
-F is a special carrier varient
-significant upgrade based on MiG 29/33/35 Fulcrum
-uses 3D thrust vectoring engines
-uses newly developed RDR-360 synthetic aperture radar system, including a front sensor with a 300km range and a rear sensor with a 120km range
-able to track 16 targets at a time and fire at 4
-able to engage stealth targets
-full look down/shoot down
-includes 6 different active air-to-air modes(one being anti-stealth), 4 different air-to-surface modes and a passive mode for SEAD

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The picture is of the old version, this one is stretched by 1'10" and has a pod for the rearward-facing radar, like the Su 27 series has.

So far Haaregradia has ordered 2 446 Snipers converted to this standard as well as 624 new build aircraft.

Order Revised:

All new build aircraft have been canceled, only 1 616 airframes have been destined for conversion. The F-27 has begun entering service much earlier then expected.

OOC: This thread will be part salesfront and part show off what's going to fill the gap in between our forth generation fighters and fifth generation.
Soviet Haaregrad
23-02-2004, 04:59
A-24C/D Avenger

Primary Function: Multipurpose tactical strike bomber
Contractor: Pan-Haaregradian Defence Institute
Power Plant: 2x TF933-240 24 000lbs thrust turbofan
Length: 53'6" (16.0 meters)
Height: 15' (4.5 meters).
Wingspan: 37'6" (11.25 meters)
Ceiling: 60 000-plus feet (18 200 meters)
Speed: Mach 2.2 at high altitude, clean with full internal bomb load, more then Mach 1 at all altitudes, Mach 0.89 with full weapons load
Range: 2 000 miles(3 200km) on internal fuel only, 3 400 miles(5 440km) with internal and 4x 370 gallon(1 485L)drop tanks
Empty Weight: 25 000lbs (11 340kg)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 62 000lbs (27 270kg)
Armament: 1x GAU-30-1 30mm cannon, 2 AA-8D Aphid AAM for self defence, up to 12 000lbs(5 455kg) of stores internally in main bomb bay, up to 12 000lbs(5 455kg) of stores externally on four hardpoints
Unit cost: $56 000 000
Conversion In Lieu Of Procurement: $ 8 000 000
Crew: Two, pilot and weapon systems officer
Notes:
-redesigned to fit two next-generation TF-933-xxx engines
-turret cannon deleted in favor of a fixed cannon
-dorsal missile bays can now be fitted with fuel tanks in place of AA-8D missiles
-improved fly-by-wire system
-fitted with all new avionics suite:
-64 bit computer
-RPQ-420 super-high resolution synthetic aperture radar
-improved terrain-following radar
-higher resolution FLIR
-high-resolution TV
-improved ECM suite
-new combat databus system allowing aircraft to communicate with each other and hand-off targets
-ALQ-224 Peeker Seeker advanced radar location system(originally installed on the EA-24A/B model)
-improved nav/attack systems
Current Versions:
A-24C Avenger - land based, low observability strike bomber
A-24D Avenger - carrier based, low observability strike bomber
U-24A Avenger - land or carrier based, low observability utility and Carrier Onboard Delivery aircraft
MU-24A Avenge Blue - land or carrier based covert insertion/resupply aircraft
KU-24A Avenger - land or carrier based, low observability utility and inflight refueling aircraft
S-24B Avenger - carrier or land based ASW aircraft
E-24B Avenger - carrier based Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft
EA-24C/D Avenger - carrier or land based Electronic Counter Measures and Signal Intellgence aircraft
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