NationStates Jolt Archive

Much against the wishes of the Attican government, an anonymous source inside Krudener Luftigwaffen has gone thru considerable risk, leaking a confidential image of the upcoming Kr-900 ground attack aircraft--

http://www.kuattech.com/kr900.jpg

doesnt look very powerful, but i guess you can judge a book by it cover

The same person managed to take this model of a finalized aircraft... but right after he sent it, he was cought, and arrested.

http://www.kuattech.com/Kr9002.jpg

That's an f'in big load of machine guns O_o

That's a lot of explosives on that thing. A little bit of concentrated fire on certain areas and that thing is a flying deathtrap.

I like the idea.

External rocket pods like that shouldnt cause too much trouble, those look quite heavily armored. I take it this is meant to operate as a dive bomber of some sort meant for high altitutude operation? It seems like it has significant weight and drag though, will those engines really be sufficient? I would interpret this as a slow tankbusting aircraft. It looks like it could actually endure quite a bit, especially considering its a biplane. It might be better to give it 4 or even 8 engines though, not necessarily powerful ones, but redundant systems might be good. Might also want to drastically increase the size and highten the paylod since with escort these might be quite survivable. If that course is taken the RPG boxes could be ditched too i suppose and it could be adapted for high altitude bombing.

Due to the sheer drag of this design and the biplane configuration i think it would be best suited as such.

OOC: It would be difficult to add extra engines, because it uses tilt jets, similar to the tilt props on the V22 Osprey.