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Presenting now the C-312 Globemaster IV, the new Bonstocknian strategic airlift, tactical airlift, and refueling aircraft. It is designed to fit all of our diverse needs.

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The aircraft has a new design with delta wings, making it faster and able to carry more equipment. The jet can easily carry 150 tons of equipment, or two M1A2 MBTs. It also has seats on the side for carrying the crews of the tanks. Three or four smaller tanks can be carried as well.

In addition, when configured for air refueling, the aircraft can carry about the same amount of feul as a KC 767, making it a versitile refueler, while almost instantly able to reconfigure to cargo carrying.

Designed to carry 200 troops or 150 paratroopers, the aircraft can operate from smaller airbases. It can land on dirt fields in good conditions, though this may cause maintenance problems. Preferably, the aircraft shoould land on a large airbase, but it can land on pretty much anything a C 17 can land on. Then its equipment can be rolled straight into battle.

The aircraft has an advanced electronic counter measures system, designed to jam all known air to air missiles. The system, known as Bonstocknian Aircraft Missile Protection Ability (BAMPA), is able to track dozens of incoming missiles at once, and individually blind their sensors, causing them to tumble out of control. In emergencies, the tracker can be targeted to an enemy aircraft. Most modern fighters would be knocked out of control by a short jolt, and especially with aircraft like the F 22 or F 35, this could prove fatal.

If requested, the aircraft can also be fitted with the BLCIWS (Bonstock Light Close In Weapons System). It is a small chain gun designed to fit on small ports in the side of the aircraft. It can destroy missiles, and even aircraft at short range.

The C-312 is fitted with two advanced engines developed for years at various Bonstocknian laboratories. Building off of scramjet technology and using advanced new fuels, and using its new design, the aircraft can acheive supersonic speeds.

Specifications:

Range: 13,000 miles unrefueled
Payload capacity:
200 troops
150 paratroopers
2 M1A2 MBTs
6 M2 IFV
24 HMMWVs
8 5 ton trucks or refueling trucks
150 tons of cargo
Speed: Mach 1.5
Armament: Possible BLCIWS, BAMPA countermeasures package
Price: $500 million

When has an aircraft been worth 500 million USD? When it is the BEST there is.

However, the aircraft is not on sale due to the civil war in Bonstock. We will sell them off as soon as the war ends.

Also presenting the new F/A-45 Swallow:

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The F/A-45 was designed using new advancements in aerodynamics technology. Using a new design with bent wings and the new Flygsmotor Hypersonic Switch engine, it can achieve high speeds for low level penetration and high level interception, while being able to acheive low speeds for landing on extremly small airfields. It can land on highways and even on small dirt strips.

The Flygsmotor Hypersonic Switch is really two integrated engine systems. One of them is a scramjet that can propell the F/A-45 up to Mach 10 in short bursts. But it also has a small, compact conventional engine, that can go extremely slow for strafing runs, and then zoom out when the engines are switched again.

The program has been classified for years, along with a sister bomber aircraft (see below), under the codename "Project Microphone." Though it was planned to keep both aircraft classified, the Civil War is now prompting us to put them directly from the laboratories into service.

The aircraft is equiped with two new Bonstocknian radars, in a system known as Target Aquisition and Sorting Computer (TASC). The new system ustilizes information from satellites and scans of the targets to detirmine what the target is and wheter or not it is friendly or enemy. It has a database of the radar cross sections and thermal cross sections of thousands of different aircraft, and can lock onto any one of them with ease, making stealth almost completely obselete. Thousands of targets can be tracked in its advanced computer, and the pilot can use his HUD to automatically detirmine friendly, enemy, and even neutral targets, making it easy to detirmine what to and what not to attack. The missiles automatically lock onto enemies that appear to be of the most threat. Ones coming dead on are known. Also included is an alarm which sounds when an enemy plane is on the pilot's tail, allowing the pilot to instantly fly out of harm's way. Pulling advanced manuevers, it can easily get behind an Su 47 Berkut which was just on the F/A 45's tail. It is the first Western aircraft known to be able to do this.

The flight instruments are automatically shown on the pilot's HUD display, along with the targets. The computer is embedded inside the pilot's helmet, and it is remotely connected to the plane, allowing the pilot to turn his head to see targets in back, which the computer can lock onto without turning the plane. When looking at the control panel, the HUD system automatically gives a descrition of the intruments, so the pilot never accidently presses a button, even with minimal training.

In addition, the plane comes complete with the BAMPA countermeasures system. When out of missiles, the pilot can target enemy planes and knock them out of the sky using this jamming system.

More on the plane later (ooc: gotta go to bed now)