NationStates Jolt Archive

ooc: A quickie, sub 30 minutes design.

Description: The ASF-06 Coral Dragon flies at mach 11 at 130,000 feet in the air, is manueverable, stealthy and heavily armed. It also costs $180 million per unit, not including the unholy maintenance costs.

So... yea. We made a cheaper VTOL fighter that's generally better suited to import and mass production.

ASF-07 Komodo:

Dimensions

Length: 14m
Height 4 m
Wingspan: 10 m swung out, 3m folded up*

Engine: 3d vectored pulse det hybrid.
Thrust made: 68,000 lbs.
Maximum take-off weight: 35,000 kilograms
Maximum speed: Mach 3.3 (governed)
Avg Speed: Mach 2.1
"Stealth" Speed: Mach 0.9

Range: 1100nm

Weapons: 9x internal munition bays capable of carrying up to 1,000 lbs. per bay, or 4x heavy munition bays capable of carrying up to 2,200 lbs. each. Optional wing hardpoints (6x), but these reduce stealth. Also, 1 3 barreled electrothermal 25mm minigun is available.

Avionics: Simple integrated avionics command system. It's not as advanced as the ASF-06's massive suite of carbon computers, holographic interfaces and advanced controls, but it'll do. The system is fly by light, so it's hard to destroy using EMPs.

Sensors: ODLIR (Omni-directional looking infrared), Low probabilitiy of intercept active radar, passive radar, doppler LIDAR, LADAR, radio direction finder, terrain referencing system.

Communications and navigation: Dial an output broadband, GPS feed, compass.

Stealth features: Semi-stealthy shape, infrared masking, blackbody carbon/kevlar RAM honeycomb, condensation trail masking, optional variable optical camoflague. Nose fashioned to reduce sonic boom.

Countermeasures: Flares, chaff, DIRCM infrared counter measures. Optional active radar cancellation, optional radar decoy.

Cost: $95 million

Production Rights: $5 billion

*Design Note: The wings fold up vertically to facilitate storage in a tight hangar or a carrier. The wings are also foward swept wings with canards in order to promote better manueverability.

*bump* Come on, someone order this thing, it's relatively cheap.

Lol, I would, but:

A)Your nation probably wouldn't sell it to me
B)"Relatively cheap?" C'mon, not if you're only a few days old!

OOC:You do relize 130,000 feet is outside the atmosphere? And that moving mach 11 inside the atmosphere would rip the planes to shreds? Not to mention the large radar and infrared signature moving at mach-11 would produce.

ooc: The ASF-06 is a Hypersoar, that's why it's moving so high up. And it doesn't really matter what I say in the description. Anyway, comment on the fighter itself, I need to see if there are any potential flaws in the design.

ooc: bump

OOC:Another issue I have is the swept forward wing design... you cant stealth a plane with a swept forward-wing design. The odd curvatures play havoc with radar.

To: The “Great” Leader Li
From: The Oligarch of Kriegorgrad, Comrade Leader Nikolai Fedorenkov
Subject: Awful

------------

”A shoddy piece of design if I ever saw one, Kriegorgrad’s own aircraft are superior to this in everyway. Give up on this pathetic attempt to catch up with Kriegos technology, you’ve fallen too far behind to recover.“

Yours Sincerely,


The Oligarch of Kriegorgrad, Comrade Leader Nikolai Fedorenkov

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Kriegorgrad/seal.jpg

[OOC: This is way too cheap. It moves faster than modern technology has so far been able to make an atmospheric vehicle move, and yet it costs $23m less than an F-22.]

"Oh yes... yes... I acknowledge your superiority...."-The Great Leader Li.

A Hypersoar fighter is highly impractical, in the atmosphere you'd tear yourself to shreds, out of it the lifesupport and ruggedizing against vacuum would cost millions per aircraft and make it really large.

In the actual stats section I have to wonder how you got an aircraft using a Pulse det to move at even 3.3 Mach, let alone how you got a fighter to do it, and not even mentioning the fact that to get anything to move faster than about 2.6 mach without melting means either pretty exotic and expensive materials or very expensive and bulky cooling equipment. also, for a VTOL it has a pretty high maximim takeoff weight.

ooc: I raised the price to 95 million, i think i should raise it even a bit more later