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F3000 “Rapier II” Advanced Air Superiority Fighter

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Embodying everything that aeronautical science has learned in the 20th century, the F-3000 is destined to be the top gun of the 21st century. Developed by Demidia’s ESCO Aviation it will be the cornerstone of any allied air force over the next 25 years, This is the fighter of tomorrow, bristling with the products of advanced science, relying on new technology for a hi-tech victory in aerial combat, in any theatre of war.

Specifications

Contractor: ESCO Aviation

Wing Area: 840 sq. feet.
Total Engine Thrust: 36 000 lb
Level Speed: Mach 2.6+
Total Length: 61.2 Feet
Wing Span: 44.2 Feet
Horizontal Tail Span: 28.4 Feet
Total Height: 16.24 Feet
Track Width: 9.4 Feet
Engines: ESCO Iroquois IV Turbofans
Max. Takeoff Weight: 35 000 lb
Max. Internal Stores: 18 000 lb
Weight Empty: 28 867 lb
Ceiling: 58, 000 ft
Crew: 1
G-Limit: 9+

Outer Surface Components
40% Titanium (Georgetown Metal Works)
30% Composites (Adtopolis Engineering)
15% Aluminum (Adtopolis Foundary)
15% Thermo-Plastic (DAUC Plastics)

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Inner Structure
The structural loads of the F3000 are absorbed by multiple titanium-composite bulkheads. In a triangular pattern.

Wings
The Rapier II has large wings to allow it to perform at high speeds, they also double as fuel tanks. The leading edge allow it to have an extremely high angle of attack over 75 degrees.

Weapons Bay
The weapon bays are all internally concealed (much like a stealth bomber). On the low bottom left and right sides of the aircraft. The missiles are ejected out by a downward-sloping revolver-type release sytem which allows for a fast fire. The aircraft can house:
- 2 external AIM-9 Sidewinders
- 6 internal AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM)

Armament
The F3000 features a right wing root mounted 27mm Rotary Cannon. The bullets fired are longer than traditional rounds and are spun using a high-tech carbon composite.

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Landing Gear
The landing gear is produced by Adtopolis Engineering, and is a tricycle type with the rear pylons featuring tandem wheel undercarriages allowing it to take off and land in hazardous conditions.

Stealth
To be stealthy, a plane must:
- Be hard to see with the naked eye.
- Making no sound.
- Heat signature must be minimal.
- The plane must absorb radar beams.
- Contrails and other signatures must be eliminated.

Radar Protection
The F3000 was designed to be as stealthy as possible, the Rapier II is triangular shaped to reflect radar waves away from radar stations. As another feature, radar absorbent material covers the entire fuselage

Heat Reduction
Heat signatures are a weakness to any stealth aircraft, the Iroquois IV Engines featured on the Rapier II are designed to minimize heat, the tail of the plane also helps conceal to heat signature of the aircraft. Like the B-2 Bomber certain chemicals are “sprayed” on the entrails of the aircraft which cool the exhaust and eliminated and visual engine by-products.

Turbulence Reduction
Turbulence is caused by the movement of the plane through the air. The Rapier is EXTREMELY aerodynamic to eliminate any turbulence caused by the Mach 2.6+ speed of the Rapier.

Visual Stealth
A special paint scheme hides the plane from view with the naked eye, also a special cold acid is sprayed on the exhaust as the leaves the plane to eliminate any contrails produced.

Tracking
The tracking suite is new to the Rapier II and not found in its predecessor. It involves the use of a multifunction information distribution system (MIDS) that calculates targets through the use multi-source integration. In lamens terms radar, sonar, IR, and satellite tracking systems are routed via datalink to a central processing mainframe. This allows the aircraft to track targets around the world via a touchscreen computer. This system allows for an unprecidented ability to track bogeys worldwide.

Cost: 52 Million Dollars

Please comment.

[OOC: You could remove one of the 27mm cannons. Most fighters these days only have one, and rotary barrelled cannons (such as Gatlings) are rather space-intensive and heavy.

You could expand the main internal bay to carry four AIM-120C with two side-mounted bays for AIM-9X.

With regard to sonar, not really possible on a fighter. Radar, infra-red, or laser are your best bets in MT fighter design.]

I imagine sonar would be used in close range engagements? If so... it's unnecessary and too slow.

OOC: I agree with Isselmere it needs more missiles. If it did then I would consider buying it. -tag for any adjustments that come-

OOC: A few typos in there, adjusted now. The sonar doesnt apply to the fighter, but friendly craft nearby utilize a "mainframe" to collaberate the radar/sonar/IR of all nearby friendly craft to track targets.

[OOC: So you meant a datalink or multifunction information distribution system (MIDS), which seems to be the new term for datalinks in the popular aviation journals. You would also want to stress multi-source integration (MSI) of the aircraft's own sensor data and that of friendlies using the MIDS to "provide the pilot with the best possible situational awareness", or similar.]

Correct.

OOC: I am a fan of big guns and the such, but we need a little bit more information. What fasion are the missiles inside the aircraft? People just say "missiles in and then they fire" No idea on the clips, loading, and unloading. The Raptor has a straight-clip system, meanning they are at an angle and are launched once the one infront has and is retracted. This is inefficant in dogfighting. More or less strike purposes. It would help if you were to elaberate, as to know its reflexes.

What is the engine's output, and are you fan of Tom Clancy? (That layout, on what Stealth is, is a direct wording from Tom Clancy's 106th Air Superiority)

Oh, and I would not pick the Raptor for this mission. I'd take the Widowmaker II, it is a favorite of most pilots in its promises, and it is in fact better than the Raptor, but then again, politicans don't know good birds when they see them.

I have never read a Tom Clancy book. The Sidewinders are wingtip mounted while the AMRAAM's are fired from an internal weapons bay in the fuselage using a fast-firing revolver set at a downward angle.

The missiles on late 1950s to 1970s generation fighters were mostly either rail-launched or piston-fired (meaning that a piston-ejector was fired, extending the ejector arm and forcing the missile from the aircraft, commonly used in conformal or semi-recessed missiles), but the F-102 and F-106 used fast operating internal missile rails which are just as quick, if not quicker, as an AIM-120C coming off of an F/A-18's conformal station.

I wouldn't want to fly in any aircraft named the "Widowmaker" -- though perhaps you meant the "Black Widow II" -- because that never refers to the enemy's pilots, but one's own when its used for planes. (F7U Cutlass, F-104, etc.)

OOC: Slight name confusion, sorry 'bout that. I always mess up on planes that simular names.

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Updated.

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We would like to order 500 of this most excellent flying machine

We are interested in purchasing a pair of aircraft for testing and evaluation. If this is satisfactory then we will purchase a much larger number, or perhaps even apply for a limited production right.

To: The blessed Chris

Your order of 500 ESCO Aviation's F3000 "Rapier II" Advanced ASF in the amount of 26 Billion Dollars has been: DENIED

Reason: Credit has been rejected.

We apologize for any inconveinience.

ESCO Aviation
Customer Service

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To: Independent Hitmen

Your order of 2 ESCO Aviation's F3000 "Rapier II" Advanced ASF in the amount of 104 Million Dollars has been: ACCEPTED

Reason: N/A

Thank-you for our order.

ESCO Aviation
Customer Service

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To: ESCO Aviation Customer Service

Thank you very much for the expidient return of our order. We hope that these aircraft match our expectations with them, and hope to return for a larger order in the near future.

-The Office of the Secretary of the AirForce.
Procurement Section

Updated and bumped.

((To be stealthy (from RADAR), a plane must:
1) Have no external weapons, unless said weapons themselves are designed to be stealthy, however, these weapons will still increase it's RCS (RADAR Cross Section)
2) Have no right angles
3) Have some form of RADAR Absorbant Material. The RAM that America uses is highly classified, however, Signaflux is available for other nations.

To be IR stealthy, a plane must
1) Have specialized leading edges.
2) Have specialized exhaust nozzels.

The F/A-22, which is what you have pictured actually has (one) 20mm cannon, and can carry eight missiles/bombs internally, but it also has room for another eight missiles externally plus four fuel tanks. Once those are expended, granted they'd have to be equipped first, the hardpoints are dropped and the F/A-22 drops from looking like a Cessna on RADAR to looking to be a hummingbird.))

The image is more like a guideline, not the actual image of the aircraft.

[OOC: Demidia, I suggest you join this site (http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_NS_Draftroom/index.php) for expanding potential as a designer and knowledge in designing warfare units for the NS world.]

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