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MRF-05 Luna Released

MassPwnage
26-11-2005, 22:40
Description: The folks at Pwnage Ordance Corp. decided to make a multirole fighter to supplement the ASF-08 "Spirit Dragon". Hence the MRF-05 Luna.

Type: Multirole fighter.
Length: 19.2m
Width: 4.11m
Wingspan: 11 m
Height: 5.1m
Propulsion: 2x MP Ordnance High-Powered 3d thrust low bypass vectored turbofans making 50,000 lbs. of thrust each.
Wings: Aeroelastic switchblade wings with retractable foreplane canards.
Construction: Samurai Folded, "20 sided die," Silicon Carbide and amorphous nickel aluminum superalloy w/ cobalt carbide and metallic titanium glass infusement. Optional carbon nanotube reinforcements to the wings are possible.
Empty Weight: 15,500 kg
Normal Weight: 28,820kg
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 38,000 kg
Fuel Weight: 8000kg in 8 seperate aerogel and spectra wrapped tanks
Normal Payload: 3500kg
Maximum Payload: 18,300 kg (don't try this at home)
Range: 3200 km
Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 93,300 ft.
Conservation of Fuel Speed: Mach 1.1
Cruising Speed: Mach 1.8
Supercruising Speed: Mach 2.6
Maximum Combat Speed: Mach 3
Maximum Speed: Mach 3.4 (Pushes turbofan tech to its limits)
Stall Speed: 80 km/h
Rate of Climb: 62,800 ft/min (governed)

Armament: 3 internal bays, 1000 kg capacity each, 4 wing pylons, 2000 kg capacity each.
3x 25mm RAC Chaingun with combustible casings.

Crew: 1

Sensor Kit:
Electronically scanned, synthetic apeture, ultra wide band, low side lobed radar. Very Low Probability of Intercept.
LPI and NPI detective passive radar with 3rd order and higher order statistical supression computers, signal seperation/analysis and parallel filter arrays.
Forward and backward looking Infrared and Thermal Imaging.
Fiber optic thread LIDAR
Terrain reference radar, LPI
GPS uplink
Compass
Sensor Integration System

Avionics:
Flight integration system
FC3S4 Fire Control System
Fly by light system
Helmet projection controls.
Holographic integration displays.

Stealth:
External electrochromic RAM surface.
RAM coating on the leading edges.
Aerogel and Thymonel-8 piping lined engines for exhaust cooling
Low observability engine exhaust ports
Nose shaped for reducing sonic boom.

E/W and Countermeasures:
AESA-II 10x150 point radar and communications jammer.
100 point active radar cancellation
Shtora-V electronic interrogation suite with launch detection and hostile IFF finder.
Shtora-V communications finding system.
Air deployed VIRSS barrier
Flares and Chaff

Safety:
Spectra wrapped pod based ejector seat with first-aid, survival and communications kit.
Fluorine based fire extinguisher.
Pilot distress kit.

Price: $160 million
Production Rights Cost: $16 billion