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RF-21A Mystic Multi-Role Fighter

North Romakia
23-06-2004, 03:55
RF-21A Mystic Fighter


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The RF-21A was designed to give North Romakia a viable, domestically-built and produced alternative to the vast amount of imports. It was designed with North Romakian terrain and climate in mind and designed with what we needed in an aircraft. Our engineers spent months developing its airframe, its wing structure, and its engines. Advanced controls were also needed to keep this design stable but it was done.

Numerous technologies were incorporated into this design from foreign designs including its forward swept wings.

The RF-21A was also built to fulfill many roles, it maintains a GSh-23L 23mm (ripped off of Soviet aircraft) cannon for dogfighting or strafing ground targets and it has an impressive 7 hardpoints that can carry up to 4000 kg of munitions (not counting the wingtip hardpoints). It also maintains numerous targetting and sensor equipment including optional FLIR, LANTIRN, and other sensor pods. On board, it carries a GPS uplink, a laser designator system, an advanced air and ground targetting radar array, and an infrared search and track system. Any type of munition can be placed on the XFR-2, including air to ground rockets, missiles, bombs or air to air missiles, unguided rockets, or even extra fuel tanks.

The RF-21A is currently outfitted with the NATO-codenamed Flash Dance radar (off of Su-27s), IRST (infrared search and track) and TV sensors, RWR, and a ballistic bombsight as well as optional laser designator pod.






Specifications

Role: Multi-Purpose Fighter
Crew: 1 (pilot)
Length 49 ft, 3 in (15.02 m)
Span- 27 ft (8.24 m)
Ceiling- 18000 meters
Cruise range- 1150 nm
In-Flight Refueling- Yes
Internal Fuel- 2350 kg
Payload- 4000 kg

Powerplant: 2x Farway II Finbine turbofan... (Exports will have two Oriel II Turbojets- 19000 pounds each)
Thrust: 33,000lbs each (total- 66,000lbs)

Maximum Speed: Mach 1.9
Cruise speed: Mach 1.5



Weapons: 1x GSh-23L 23mm with 600 rounds of ammunition, 7 hardpoints (three on each wing, one fuselage hardpoint), also missile positions on wing tipes

Weapons payload- 4000 Kg


Cost- $22.5 million USD