Agrigento
20-10-2003, 04:31
The Drago 3000 has been designed to be a state of the art air dominance fighter, securing the airspace over any battlefield and guarding the skies of Agrigento. It can outfly, outperform, and outgun almost any modern aircraft in existence. Currently it has replaced all F-15's and F-22's in the Agrigentian Airforce (AAF) and compliments our EF-2000 Eurofighters.
The Aircraft incorporates a limited number of RAM ceramics surfaces. The curves on crucial surfaces and edges, which lessens the need for RAM. For example, new ceramic-matrix RAM is utilized on the engine exhaust nozzles to reduce radar and IR signatures, and a greater amount of wide-band structural RAM is used on the wing edges.
It also utilizes the state of the art Guardia Notturna Radar system. It is the Drago’s primary sensor and is a long-range, rapid-scan, and multi-functional system. It is an active-element, electronically scanned (that is, it does not move) array that features a separate transmitter and receiver for each of the antenna's several thousand, finger-sized radiating elements. Most of the mechanical parts common to other radars have been eliminated, thus making the radar more reliable. This type of antenna, which is integrated both physically and electromagnetically with the airframe, provides the frequency agility, low radar cross-section, and wide bandwidth necessary to support the Drago's air dominance mission. The radar is key to the plane's integrated avionics and sensor capabilities. It will provide pilots with detailed information about multiple threats before the adversary's radar ver detects it. In what is likely to be the most advanced airborne radar in the world, individual transmit and receive modules are located behind each element of the radar array. The transmit function of the solid-state microwave modules supplants the traveling wave tubes used in prior radars like the APQ-164. The active, electronically scanned array (ESA) configuration has a wider transmit bandwidth while requiring significantly less volume and prime power. The system represents about half the weight of an equivalent passive ESA design. Each of the hundreds of individual solid-state devices generates only small amounts of power, but the aggregate for the entire array is substantial. The electronically scanned array antenna is composed of several thousand transmit/receive modules, circulators, radiators and manifolds assembled into subarrays and then integrated into a complete array. The baseline design used thousands of flex circuit interconnects to make the numerous radio frequency, digital, and direct current connections between the components and manifolds that make up the subarray.
Specifications:
Propulsion: two FIAT C309 engines with thrust vectoring nozzles
Thrust: 38,000 lbs
Length: 62.08 feet, 18.90 meters
Height: 16.67 feet, 5.08 meters
Wingspan: 36 feet
Ceiling: 60,000 ft approx.
Speed: Mach 3 (supercruise: Mach 2)
Crew: two
Armament: · two AIM-132 Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM)
· six AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM)
· twin 20mm Gatling gun
· three 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM)
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$79 million
The Aircraft incorporates a limited number of RAM ceramics surfaces. The curves on crucial surfaces and edges, which lessens the need for RAM. For example, new ceramic-matrix RAM is utilized on the engine exhaust nozzles to reduce radar and IR signatures, and a greater amount of wide-band structural RAM is used on the wing edges.
It also utilizes the state of the art Guardia Notturna Radar system. It is the Drago’s primary sensor and is a long-range, rapid-scan, and multi-functional system. It is an active-element, electronically scanned (that is, it does not move) array that features a separate transmitter and receiver for each of the antenna's several thousand, finger-sized radiating elements. Most of the mechanical parts common to other radars have been eliminated, thus making the radar more reliable. This type of antenna, which is integrated both physically and electromagnetically with the airframe, provides the frequency agility, low radar cross-section, and wide bandwidth necessary to support the Drago's air dominance mission. The radar is key to the plane's integrated avionics and sensor capabilities. It will provide pilots with detailed information about multiple threats before the adversary's radar ver detects it. In what is likely to be the most advanced airborne radar in the world, individual transmit and receive modules are located behind each element of the radar array. The transmit function of the solid-state microwave modules supplants the traveling wave tubes used in prior radars like the APQ-164. The active, electronically scanned array (ESA) configuration has a wider transmit bandwidth while requiring significantly less volume and prime power. The system represents about half the weight of an equivalent passive ESA design. Each of the hundreds of individual solid-state devices generates only small amounts of power, but the aggregate for the entire array is substantial. The electronically scanned array antenna is composed of several thousand transmit/receive modules, circulators, radiators and manifolds assembled into subarrays and then integrated into a complete array. The baseline design used thousands of flex circuit interconnects to make the numerous radio frequency, digital, and direct current connections between the components and manifolds that make up the subarray.
Specifications:
Propulsion: two FIAT C309 engines with thrust vectoring nozzles
Thrust: 38,000 lbs
Length: 62.08 feet, 18.90 meters
Height: 16.67 feet, 5.08 meters
Wingspan: 36 feet
Ceiling: 60,000 ft approx.
Speed: Mach 3 (supercruise: Mach 2)
Crew: two
Armament: · two AIM-132 Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM)
· six AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM)
· twin 20mm Gatling gun
· three 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM)
http://www.angelfire.com/ill/agrigento/Altasmall4.bmp
http://www.angelfire.com/ill/agrigento/Weaponssystems.bmp
$79 million