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The Raysian Aerospace RB-225-800 Megafortress

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Role: Tactical Superbomber/Airborne Warship
Airframe: Heavily Modified Antonov An-225 Design
Crew: 2 Pilots, 3 Engineers, 5 C&C Officers, 3 Bombadiers, 21 Gunners
Length: 305 feet
Wingspan: 335 feet
Wing Area: 15,000 sq. ft.
Payloadless Weight: 1,200,000 lbm (including armor, fuel, and built-in weapons)
Armor:: Extra 24mm of Titanium plating coating the ventral surfaces, and 10mm coating the dorsal.
Max Takeoff Weight: 1,790,000 lbm
Max Payload: 250 tons (500,000 lbm)
Engines: 6 Raysian Electric PJ-1390 Mostly-Reversable Jet Turbofans rated at 155,000 lbf each (1,200,000 lbf reversable)
Max Speed: Mach 0.9 (600 mph)
Range: 8000 miles (12800 km)
Ceiling: 38,000 ft
Armament: 19 manned 50 Calibur bubble turrets (WWII bomber style)
10 Bridge-Controlled QAAM launchers (18 QAAM-28 missiles each)
18 Separate Bomb Bays that can hold a total of 250 tons of payload
1 5 MegaWatt Anti-ICBM Airborne Laser (on nose)
Several banks of Chaff and flare deployers
Takeoff Distance: 8,000 ft.
Landing Distance (With reverse thrust): 9,800 ft

NOTE: Some may ask why this design was chosen over the BWB jumbo jets that Raysia Aerospace also manufactures. Although the BWBs are able to carry more weight, they make much larger targets, are slower, less maneuverable, and are harder to land at non-Raysian airports. The RB-225 series is able to land at most international-size airstrips.

Special Systems: The RB-225-800 is meant to serve as a member of a bombing airgroup just as well as it is on solo. This plane houses a Brother (http://www.bateshome.com/jordan/brother.htm) system command suite, which can share information with all of Raysia's forces via sattelite or radio telemetry. It carries several radomes to scan both air, ground, and long range. It also has numerous digital cameras and infrared suites that can feed data into the Brother system and convert the pictures, cross it with the radar, and send precise data on enemy and friendly locations to everyone in the air or on the ground.

Combat Performance notes: The MegaFortress is built to withstand moderate heavy enemy fire and fend off a decent ammount of enemy air support by itself. But if you want this airship to stay in good shape, I suggest giving it a decent fighter escort. But don't let this thing's lone-wolf attitude overpower it's great performance as a battlegroup bomber. A flight of 18 of these guys will form an intimidating destructive force so powerful and so unstoppable that they almost wouldn't need any air support.

Price: 225 Million

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OOC: If you ask me, it seems a bit cheap. The Airbus A380 goes for (most recently) $260m.

OOC: If you ask me, it seems a bit cheap. The Airbus A380 goes for (most recently) $260m.really? Then that actually seems about right. I have a frightening economy, and manufacturing capabilities that make airbus look like a garage shop... so that'd be about 1/3 the price at the most, plus the armor and weapons and systems, similarly well produced.

Gun turrets are largely useless, most attacks on it are going to be made from several miles away. If you're gonna have guns I'd go with fewer, unmanned, 20/25mm cannons.

Rear turrets are especially useless as at normal attack speeds the bullets are going to fall straight out of the end of the gun.

Gun turrets are largely useless, most attacks on it are going to be made from several miles away. If you're gonna have guns I'd go with fewer, unmanned, 20/25mm cannons.

Rear turrets are especially useless as at normal attack speeds the bullets are going to fall straight out of the end of the gun.The guns are for close anti-air fire.

Remember, we are playing nationstates, the game where your enemy is likely to send 1500 F-22s after 18 bombers ;)

Gun turrets are largely useless, most attacks on it are going to be made from several miles away. If you're gonna have guns I'd go with fewer, unmanned, 20/25mm cannons.

Rear turrets are especially useless as at normal attack speeds the bullets are going to fall straight out of the end of the gun.The guns are for close anti-air fire.

Remember, we are playing nationstates, the game where your enemy is likely to send 1500 F-22s after 18 bombers ;)

Very true. ;)

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