Soviet Bloc
09-12-2003, 19:39
F-57A "Molniya" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter
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The F-57A was designed and developed from the guidelines and requisites set forth by the New Air Force Management and Future Air Force Plan set up a year ago at the last central meeting of the ARSB's Parliament. This aircraft was more acurately designed to replace every other interceptor/fighter in the Soviet Bloc Air Force (as was also said in the NAFM/FAFP agreement). The Future Air Force fleet of the future will consist of the following aircraft: F-52A Advanced Fighter, DP-02A Advanced Multi-Role Aircraft, F-57A Advanced Air Superiority Fighter, F-225A Advanced Steatlh Precision Strike Bomber, B-65A Advanced Medium Stealth Bomber and the F-55A UCAV Advanced Fighter.
The F-57A was designed with three things in mind: superior weapons capability, superior tracking and targetting systems, and superior maneuverability and speed. The F-57A excels beyond each point stated in the FAFP part of the agreement and makes this the most technologically advanced and superior aircraft in the New Future ARSB Air Force. Its name reflects its sheer power and speed, 'Molniya' mean 'lightning'.
Engines
The F-57A utilizes twin ARSB-developed advanced SB-APDE-ATF-375XA pulse-detonation engines which give the F-57A unmatched speed and maneuverability. The massive engines, coupled with the ARSB's advanced turbine system and the ARSB's Advanced Three-Dimensional AQT-80 Vectored Thrust system which can vector the engine's massive amount of thrust at angles up to 80 degrees and using enough speed to complete a full 160 degree conversion in about three seconds, meaning this aircraft can do full S-maneuvers without losing speed, control, or stability. Each engine can put out an amazing 44,000 pounds of thrust which can propel this aircraft to speeds of Mach 3.2 although the normal cruising speed is Mach 2.7.
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_Interceptor_VI.jpg
Caption-Picture of scale model of actual aircraft
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_interceptor_rear-view.jpg
Design
The F-57A was designed with three factors in mind: intimidation, aerodynamics, and weapons payloadability. It succeeded in all areas. This aircraft was designed to provide optimal control surfaces (note the multiple canards) while still providing a highly aerodynamic frame and body to withstand the stress and heat associated with high-speed flying and maneuvering. Note the seperated engine 'bays', this was a design feature that increased air flow underneat the aircraft, which increases pressure which creates more lift and therefore provides more maneuverability to the aircraft. Each engine compartment was designed to provide optimal air flow and dynamics for increased maneuverability and speed options.
The two following pictures are of the scale model for the actual aircraft:
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/future_interceptor_V.jpg
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_Interceptor_VII.jpg
Weaponry
Being chiefly designed to fulfill the air combat and interceptor capabilities of the Future Air Force, the F-57A was primarily developed to maintain and use air to air munitions of medium to close range type. It has numerous hardpoints for weapons to be mounted on including wingtips, four hardpoints underneath each wing, and three hardpoints underneath the fuselage.
The F-57A also maintains a single 30mm advanced chain gun which uses a small ALMRS/TTAC-03Mk II firing solution computer to track targets in a small cone in front of the weapon. This cannon system, the ACST-30 System, uses the computer to utilize information from the aircraft's radar and other sensors to track an aircraft in front of the F-57A in a small cone that radiates outwards. The ACST-30 is mounted in a semi-sealed 'bubble' underneath the aircraft and can maneuver inside this bubble to fire on enemy aircraft. This means that the F-57 only has to point its nose in a general direction while its cannon moves and locks onto the aircraft then opens fire either on its own or by the pilot's control.
Systems (Avionics and Weapons)
The ARC/MSR-57 is the central targetting, tracking, and firing solution computer and branches out into the following other subsystems:
SB-AIRCST-15S which is the ARSB-developed Infrared Search and Track system. This system scans the entire area and at ranges up to 120 km for any heat signature. When a signature is found, the system tracks the target and provides the weapons computer a firing solution, then a missile can be fired and that missile's own guidance system can take over and steer the missile to its target or it can receive updates from the aircraft's computer.
SB-AMRQ/R72 This system is the F-57A's advanced medium range radar.
ARC-57 computer system is the F-57A's tracking portion of the ARC/MSR-57 computer package. Using the IRST and the AMRQ/R72 radar, this system can track nearly three-hundred (300) targets at ranges of nearly 350 km. This powerful system can also bring firing solutions on up to 50 targets in a 100km range depending on the range of the missile and can also identify up to 20 of those targets. The ARC-57 can also identify target headings and trajectories at the farthest range and display them inside the pilot's helmet or on the advanced deep HUD.
MSR-57: This portion of the package is the main targetting computer. It can actively target nearly one hundred of the tracked objects that the ARC-57 is tracking and can bring up firing solutions on 60 of them at once and fire on up to six simultaneously. This system also relies on the IRST and the radar to provide up to date target information for it to process and turn into firing solutions.
AHVDS- The Advanced Helmet-mounted Visual Display system is a three-visor system mounted on the pilot and weapon officer's helmets. One visor folds over the left eye and displays target information as well has current speed, heading, weapons selected, a small forward-facing radar screen cut, and altitude. The second visor folds over the right eye and displays weapon information, fuel, ammunition, lock-on variables, displays arrows to show where enemy fighters are and display a chevron over an enemy fighter when its locked on. The third visor covers the entire face and can track targets across the visor, it displays other information the two smaller visors don't. A fourth visor is the basic sun-visor. But, when the sun-visor is down, the three information-displaing visors change brightness to where the information is easy to read in the darker conditions.
ACST-30 uses the computer to utilize information from the aircraft's radar and other sensors to track an aircraft in front of the F-57A in a small cone that radiates outwards. The ACST-30 is mounted in a semi-sealed 'bubble' underneath the aircraft and can maneuver inside this bubble to fire on enemy aircraft. This means that the F-57 only has to point its nose in a general direction while its cannon moves and locks onto the aircraft then opens fire either on its own or by the pilot's control. the firing solution computer for the ACST-30 is a small version of the ALMRS/TTAC-03Mk II.
AMS/MC-MS3: This system links together the motor controls in the wings, aileroins, tail, canards, and the thrust vectoring into one system. Combined, these control surfaces make the F-57A so maneuverable it's almost hard to believe. This system also links them with fiber optic cable technology and advanced servo systems to provide smooth, precise handling and quick response to commands, making this fighter so smooth and agile to operate, a trainee who's flown a trainer jet could hop in one of these and seem like he's been flying it for years.
Armor
The F-57A is outfitted with an extensive, lightweight armor underneath the radar-absorbant materials and frame. Most of the armor is provided by using honeycombed kevlar and epoxy resin with a layer of extremely dense plastic threads, capable of stalling all anti-aircraft rounds and prevening the aircraft from breaking up and improving survivability in event of a SAM hit. The aircraft also uses many new alloys and composites including Titanium Carbonate (CO3) and pure titanium to provide tensile strength in extreme maneuvers and/or crashes.
Crew Survivability
The aircraft maintains twin SB-ASEV-41A ejection seats that meat all ARSB standards for safe operation and have three activation points: between the crewmember's legs, just under the seat; one to the right of the crewmember, next to the seat; and two located behind the crewmember's head.
The cockpit area is armor protected and strengthened. Each crewmember is given the AHAAN protective aerial suit, which is self sealed and has a small back-pack device that contains nearly two hours of oxygen. When the crewmember is sitting in the aircraft's seat, a small nozzle is locked into a reciever unit and oxygen from tanks on the aircraft are diverted into the suit. These suits will protect the crew from NBC threats and are pressurized, they are also G-suits. The entire cockpit is also sealed and pressurized, with heated, breathable air running freely from onboard air tanks. The aircraft can recycle its own air and carries an onboard supply of fourteen hours.
Picture of the AHAAN protective suit:
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/F-225A_Flight_Suit.jpg
Stealth Features
The F-57A wasn't necessarily designed with stealth in mind although it does have a few notable stealth features:
Radar-absorbing paint, significantly reduces RCS
Advanced heat-dampering systems that fool infrared systems
Countermeasures
The F-57A maintains a single electronic countermeasures system (the AFFC/SIRR-12) which uses a small radar dome underneat the aircraft to locate the incoming radar pulses of a radar-guided missile, it then fires its own radar pulses at a set frequency and size (determined from the missile's radar pulses). This confuses the enemy radar and usually causes it to believe that it has reached its target, it then explodes... The secondary portion of this countermeasures suite is its medium range (40km for this jamming) computer jamming system which can jam radars at their computer core and infrared systems. This usually proves very effective.
The F-57A has three types of disposable countermeasures, numbers listed in ( ) :
Flares- infrared countermeasure (26)
Chaff pods- radar countermeasure (22)
Electrical Disturbance pods- creates a surge of electricity in an area and can mess up a missile's computer (4)
Other
This aircraft has an air-refueling nozzle for boom-type refueling.
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_interceptor_IV.jpg
Specifications
Role: Advanced Air Superiority Fighter
Crew: 2 (pilot, weapons officer) in a tandem-type configuration
Length: 59.50 ft.
Wingspan: 41.00 ft.
Height: 15.23 ft.
Empty Weight: 41,000 lb.
Maximum Weight: 63,000 lb.
Fuel Weight: 10,200 lb.
Armament Weight: 18,800 lb.
Powerplant: 2x SB-APDE-ATF-375XA pulse-detonation engines
Maximum Thrust: 44,117 lbs per engine
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.2 Cruise speed: Mach 2.7
Initial Climb Rate: 44,000 ft/min
Service Ceiling: 86,650 ft.
Range: 1,670nm (combat); 3,100nm (ferry)
G-Limits: -7 / +11
Weapons: Two wingtip hardpoints, four hardpoints underneath each wing, three fuselage hardpoints TOTAL HARDPOINTS= 13
1x SB-AGX-30 30mm Six-barreled cannon with 250 rounds of ammunition
Total armament weight that can be carried: 18,800 pounds
Cost-
$202 Million USD
Naval Version (Strengthened frame, strengthened landing gear, slightly more fuel load, treated skin and frame, salt/humidity-proof equipment) Cost:
$211 Million USD
Production rights will not be sold
---------
10% discount to region members
20% discount to allies
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_Interceptor_IX.jpg
The F-57A was designed and developed from the guidelines and requisites set forth by the New Air Force Management and Future Air Force Plan set up a year ago at the last central meeting of the ARSB's Parliament. This aircraft was more acurately designed to replace every other interceptor/fighter in the Soviet Bloc Air Force (as was also said in the NAFM/FAFP agreement). The Future Air Force fleet of the future will consist of the following aircraft: F-52A Advanced Fighter, DP-02A Advanced Multi-Role Aircraft, F-57A Advanced Air Superiority Fighter, F-225A Advanced Steatlh Precision Strike Bomber, B-65A Advanced Medium Stealth Bomber and the F-55A UCAV Advanced Fighter.
The F-57A was designed with three things in mind: superior weapons capability, superior tracking and targetting systems, and superior maneuverability and speed. The F-57A excels beyond each point stated in the FAFP part of the agreement and makes this the most technologically advanced and superior aircraft in the New Future ARSB Air Force. Its name reflects its sheer power and speed, 'Molniya' mean 'lightning'.
Engines
The F-57A utilizes twin ARSB-developed advanced SB-APDE-ATF-375XA pulse-detonation engines which give the F-57A unmatched speed and maneuverability. The massive engines, coupled with the ARSB's advanced turbine system and the ARSB's Advanced Three-Dimensional AQT-80 Vectored Thrust system which can vector the engine's massive amount of thrust at angles up to 80 degrees and using enough speed to complete a full 160 degree conversion in about three seconds, meaning this aircraft can do full S-maneuvers without losing speed, control, or stability. Each engine can put out an amazing 44,000 pounds of thrust which can propel this aircraft to speeds of Mach 3.2 although the normal cruising speed is Mach 2.7.
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_Interceptor_VI.jpg
Caption-Picture of scale model of actual aircraft
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_interceptor_rear-view.jpg
Design
The F-57A was designed with three factors in mind: intimidation, aerodynamics, and weapons payloadability. It succeeded in all areas. This aircraft was designed to provide optimal control surfaces (note the multiple canards) while still providing a highly aerodynamic frame and body to withstand the stress and heat associated with high-speed flying and maneuvering. Note the seperated engine 'bays', this was a design feature that increased air flow underneat the aircraft, which increases pressure which creates more lift and therefore provides more maneuverability to the aircraft. Each engine compartment was designed to provide optimal air flow and dynamics for increased maneuverability and speed options.
The two following pictures are of the scale model for the actual aircraft:
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/future_interceptor_V.jpg
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_Interceptor_VII.jpg
Weaponry
Being chiefly designed to fulfill the air combat and interceptor capabilities of the Future Air Force, the F-57A was primarily developed to maintain and use air to air munitions of medium to close range type. It has numerous hardpoints for weapons to be mounted on including wingtips, four hardpoints underneath each wing, and three hardpoints underneath the fuselage.
The F-57A also maintains a single 30mm advanced chain gun which uses a small ALMRS/TTAC-03Mk II firing solution computer to track targets in a small cone in front of the weapon. This cannon system, the ACST-30 System, uses the computer to utilize information from the aircraft's radar and other sensors to track an aircraft in front of the F-57A in a small cone that radiates outwards. The ACST-30 is mounted in a semi-sealed 'bubble' underneath the aircraft and can maneuver inside this bubble to fire on enemy aircraft. This means that the F-57 only has to point its nose in a general direction while its cannon moves and locks onto the aircraft then opens fire either on its own or by the pilot's control.
Systems (Avionics and Weapons)
The ARC/MSR-57 is the central targetting, tracking, and firing solution computer and branches out into the following other subsystems:
SB-AIRCST-15S which is the ARSB-developed Infrared Search and Track system. This system scans the entire area and at ranges up to 120 km for any heat signature. When a signature is found, the system tracks the target and provides the weapons computer a firing solution, then a missile can be fired and that missile's own guidance system can take over and steer the missile to its target or it can receive updates from the aircraft's computer.
SB-AMRQ/R72 This system is the F-57A's advanced medium range radar.
ARC-57 computer system is the F-57A's tracking portion of the ARC/MSR-57 computer package. Using the IRST and the AMRQ/R72 radar, this system can track nearly three-hundred (300) targets at ranges of nearly 350 km. This powerful system can also bring firing solutions on up to 50 targets in a 100km range depending on the range of the missile and can also identify up to 20 of those targets. The ARC-57 can also identify target headings and trajectories at the farthest range and display them inside the pilot's helmet or on the advanced deep HUD.
MSR-57: This portion of the package is the main targetting computer. It can actively target nearly one hundred of the tracked objects that the ARC-57 is tracking and can bring up firing solutions on 60 of them at once and fire on up to six simultaneously. This system also relies on the IRST and the radar to provide up to date target information for it to process and turn into firing solutions.
AHVDS- The Advanced Helmet-mounted Visual Display system is a three-visor system mounted on the pilot and weapon officer's helmets. One visor folds over the left eye and displays target information as well has current speed, heading, weapons selected, a small forward-facing radar screen cut, and altitude. The second visor folds over the right eye and displays weapon information, fuel, ammunition, lock-on variables, displays arrows to show where enemy fighters are and display a chevron over an enemy fighter when its locked on. The third visor covers the entire face and can track targets across the visor, it displays other information the two smaller visors don't. A fourth visor is the basic sun-visor. But, when the sun-visor is down, the three information-displaing visors change brightness to where the information is easy to read in the darker conditions.
ACST-30 uses the computer to utilize information from the aircraft's radar and other sensors to track an aircraft in front of the F-57A in a small cone that radiates outwards. The ACST-30 is mounted in a semi-sealed 'bubble' underneath the aircraft and can maneuver inside this bubble to fire on enemy aircraft. This means that the F-57 only has to point its nose in a general direction while its cannon moves and locks onto the aircraft then opens fire either on its own or by the pilot's control. the firing solution computer for the ACST-30 is a small version of the ALMRS/TTAC-03Mk II.
AMS/MC-MS3: This system links together the motor controls in the wings, aileroins, tail, canards, and the thrust vectoring into one system. Combined, these control surfaces make the F-57A so maneuverable it's almost hard to believe. This system also links them with fiber optic cable technology and advanced servo systems to provide smooth, precise handling and quick response to commands, making this fighter so smooth and agile to operate, a trainee who's flown a trainer jet could hop in one of these and seem like he's been flying it for years.
Armor
The F-57A is outfitted with an extensive, lightweight armor underneath the radar-absorbant materials and frame. Most of the armor is provided by using honeycombed kevlar and epoxy resin with a layer of extremely dense plastic threads, capable of stalling all anti-aircraft rounds and prevening the aircraft from breaking up and improving survivability in event of a SAM hit. The aircraft also uses many new alloys and composites including Titanium Carbonate (CO3) and pure titanium to provide tensile strength in extreme maneuvers and/or crashes.
Crew Survivability
The aircraft maintains twin SB-ASEV-41A ejection seats that meat all ARSB standards for safe operation and have three activation points: between the crewmember's legs, just under the seat; one to the right of the crewmember, next to the seat; and two located behind the crewmember's head.
The cockpit area is armor protected and strengthened. Each crewmember is given the AHAAN protective aerial suit, which is self sealed and has a small back-pack device that contains nearly two hours of oxygen. When the crewmember is sitting in the aircraft's seat, a small nozzle is locked into a reciever unit and oxygen from tanks on the aircraft are diverted into the suit. These suits will protect the crew from NBC threats and are pressurized, they are also G-suits. The entire cockpit is also sealed and pressurized, with heated, breathable air running freely from onboard air tanks. The aircraft can recycle its own air and carries an onboard supply of fourteen hours.
Picture of the AHAAN protective suit:
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/F-225A_Flight_Suit.jpg
Stealth Features
The F-57A wasn't necessarily designed with stealth in mind although it does have a few notable stealth features:
Radar-absorbing paint, significantly reduces RCS
Advanced heat-dampering systems that fool infrared systems
Countermeasures
The F-57A maintains a single electronic countermeasures system (the AFFC/SIRR-12) which uses a small radar dome underneat the aircraft to locate the incoming radar pulses of a radar-guided missile, it then fires its own radar pulses at a set frequency and size (determined from the missile's radar pulses). This confuses the enemy radar and usually causes it to believe that it has reached its target, it then explodes... The secondary portion of this countermeasures suite is its medium range (40km for this jamming) computer jamming system which can jam radars at their computer core and infrared systems. This usually proves very effective.
The F-57A has three types of disposable countermeasures, numbers listed in ( ) :
Flares- infrared countermeasure (26)
Chaff pods- radar countermeasure (22)
Electrical Disturbance pods- creates a surge of electricity in an area and can mess up a missile's computer (4)
Other
This aircraft has an air-refueling nozzle for boom-type refueling.
http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/Chlevenkov/Future_interceptor_IV.jpg
Specifications
Role: Advanced Air Superiority Fighter
Crew: 2 (pilot, weapons officer) in a tandem-type configuration
Length: 59.50 ft.
Wingspan: 41.00 ft.
Height: 15.23 ft.
Empty Weight: 41,000 lb.
Maximum Weight: 63,000 lb.
Fuel Weight: 10,200 lb.
Armament Weight: 18,800 lb.
Powerplant: 2x SB-APDE-ATF-375XA pulse-detonation engines
Maximum Thrust: 44,117 lbs per engine
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.2 Cruise speed: Mach 2.7
Initial Climb Rate: 44,000 ft/min
Service Ceiling: 86,650 ft.
Range: 1,670nm (combat); 3,100nm (ferry)
G-Limits: -7 / +11
Weapons: Two wingtip hardpoints, four hardpoints underneath each wing, three fuselage hardpoints TOTAL HARDPOINTS= 13
1x SB-AGX-30 30mm Six-barreled cannon with 250 rounds of ammunition
Total armament weight that can be carried: 18,800 pounds
Cost-
$202 Million USD
Naval Version (Strengthened frame, strengthened landing gear, slightly more fuel load, treated skin and frame, salt/humidity-proof equipment) Cost:
$211 Million USD
Production rights will not be sold
---------
10% discount to region members
20% discount to allies