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This is just a test to see how the specs are. But I took a challenge that was extended of drawing and making my own aircraft. But i still havn't been able to post the picture on the internet yet. All pictures on this thread will be hand draw by me.

X-201
Class: Stealth Fighter/Bomber
Crew: 1
Length: 16m
Wing Span: 10m
Height: 4.2m
Speed: 4 mach
Weight: 16,000
Max take off weight: 52,000lb
List of what it has:
A) Laser guided system
B) 20mm cannon
C) Vertical landing and lift off
D) Engine In-Take
E) Heat resistant panels
F) Internal weapons bay(the thing sticking down is only a panel that drops down when you fire a missal from there.)
G) One turbo powered engine

Weapons:
Internal Bay:
6 Aim-101s(see below for specs)
4 Aim-09s
4 LGB-09(see below for specs)
4 GLAC-02 bombs(see below for specs)


Internal:
1 20mm cannon


Description:
This aircraft is a excellent stealth aircraft. Its heat resistant panels allow it to make it invisible to heat guided missals. Its vertical take off and landing allow it to land almost every where allowing it to be even more stealthy. It has new Nano soft stealth technology in its panels. The panels don’t allow about any sound waves or other stuff that would cause radar to even find it get through. Its slick, smooth panels and everything else make it invisible to radar, on radar it looks like a bird if the radar is strong enough to even see birds on screen.


Price: N/A Still in testing, soon to come out if passes all testing


Aim-101
Range: 70miles
Weight: 1,500lb
Type: Radar guided, or heat

LGB-09
Range: 100 miles
Weight: 2,000lb
Type: Radar, heat, laser or GPS guided

GLAC-02
Warhead: 3,000lb
-area damage: .4 miles
Weight: 4,000lb
Type: GPS or laser guided


OOC: I will get the picture up as soon as i am able to post it on the web. But im having such a hard d*mn time with angle fire so im just going to make my own web page with a program i used at school, but i have to get it.

A tad small for 16 AAMs, and what's a "turbo-powered engine"?

It is also a bit flat (height 2.4m only?)

A few spelling mistakes too:

Its Missiles, and its Through instead of Threw.

and what _Taiwan said too.

It's too light.

16missiles will weight much more than the max take off weight allows excepically when you factor is fuel and everything else.


A height of 2.4M is ok but only if this doesn't include height of land gear

A tad small for 16 AAMs, and what's a "turbo-powered engine"?

It is also a bit flat (height 2.4m only?)
Did i say "16", opps i think i meant 14 or 12. I don't what a turbo engine is I just came up with it i gues. Yeah I gues 2.4m is to small. Im looking at the picture now looks more about 4-5m.

what's a "turbo-powered engine"?

Turbofan
Turbojet
Turboprop

One of those 3

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2
Yes i am future but this is a semi-future aircraft. Also i never said that at mach 4 it couldn't be seen. At mach 4 you can see it as hell on radar.

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2
Yes i am future but this is a semi-future aircraft. Also i never said that at mach 4 it couldn't be seen. At mach 4 you can see it as hell on radar.

At supersonic speeds radar cross section would remain very much the same, the reason why stealth won't work well is because ground crews would hear your sonic boom and inform the radar station where you were and they would be able to track you just by chancing search mode.

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2
Yes i am future but this is a semi-future aircraft. Also i never said that at mach 4 it couldn't be seen. At mach 4 you can see it as hell on radar.

At supersonic speeds radar cross section would remain very much the same, the reason why stealth won't work well is because ground crews would hear your sonic boom and inform the radar station where you were and they would be able to track you just by chancing search mode.
Oh ok, well im not much of a expert on this stuff. I'll ask my friend about that at school tomorrow.

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2
Yes i am future but this is a semi-future aircraft. Also i never said that at mach 4 it couldn't be seen. At mach 4 you can see it as hell on radar.

At supersonic speeds radar cross section would remain very much the same, the reason why stealth won't work well is because ground crews would hear your sonic boom and inform the radar station where you were and they would be able to track you just by chancing search mode.

Actually at top speed the exhaust plume of an SR-71 is 4x larger on a radar screen then the aircraft itself. The problem with high speed stealth aircraft is stealth coatings are affected by heat and stealthy designs aren't the most aerodynamic. Think about why the F-22 only goes Mach 1.8 while the F-15 goes Mach 2.5.

Mach 4 AND stealth? You must be future tech, seeing as no stealth aircraft has flown faster then Mach 2 and no combat aircraft has ever exceeded Mach 3.2
Yes i am future but this is a semi-future aircraft. Also i never said that at mach 4 it couldn't be seen. At mach 4 you can see it as hell on radar.

At supersonic speeds radar cross section would remain very much the same, the reason why stealth won't work well is because ground crews would hear your sonic boom and inform the radar station where you were and they would be able to track you just by chancing search mode.

Actually at top speed the exhaust plume of an SR-71 is 4x larger on a radar screen then the aircraft itself. The problem with high speed stealth aircraft is stealth coatings are affected by heat and stealthy designs aren't the most aerodynamic. Think about why the F-22 only goes Mach 1.8 while the F-15 goes Mach 2.5.
Well the heat resistant panels lower the heat factor.

Actually at top speed the exhaust plume of an SR-71 is 4x larger on a radar screen then the aircraft itself. The problem with high speed stealth aircraft is stealth coatings are affected by heat and stealthy designs aren't the most aerodynamic. Think about why the F-22 only goes Mach 1.8 while the F-15 goes Mach 2.5.

ah well.

Slow and steady is the way to go(if you don't want to be seen)

The remember that stealth aircraft has much higher bypass ratios than the SR-71. Thats alone would help with the exhuast plume.

Actually at top speed the exhaust plume of an SR-71 is 4x larger on a radar screen then the aircraft itself. The problem with high speed stealth aircraft is stealth coatings are affected by heat and stealthy designs aren't the most aerodynamic. Think about why the F-22 only goes Mach 1.8 while the F-15 goes Mach 2.5.

ah well.

Slow and steady is the way to go(if you don't want to be seen)

The remember that stealth aircraft has much higher bypass ratios than the SR-71. Thats alone would help with the exhuast plume.
Yes but see the good thing with this aircraft is that if you drop a bomb with it you can get out of there fast as hell. So you go to the target slowly then you speed off to make a quick get away.

Stealth, Mach 4, and Vertical Takeoff? come on now

Stealth, Mach 4, and Vertical Takeoff? come on now
Yes all that is possible exept for the stealth at mach 4. But who says you only have to go at speeds of mach 4? You would burn out all your fuel if you only went at mach four. You know that mach 4 is its "max speed", you know that right?

iirc, you only hear the sonic boom when a craft passes through the sound barrier(either accelerating or decellerating); once they're supersonic, there's no sonic boom when they pass.

iirc, you only hear the sonic boom when a craft passes through the sound barrier(either accelerating or decellerating); once they're supersonic, there's no sonic boom when they pass.

However, they do send out very loud shockwaves that are quite capable of reaching the ground... thus the reason Concorde couldn't fly over populated areas.

iirc, you only hear the sonic boom when a craft passes through the sound barrier(either accelerating or decellerating); once they're supersonic, there's no sonic boom when they pass.

Thats not true, the aircraft continues to make a sonic boom as it travel at over MACH1.