Ironcia
23-04-2007, 11:26
Sky Lord, medium tactical helicopter
Sky Lord – UH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/DragonFly2tailupdate1a-1.png)
Sea Lord – NH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/SeaLordA.png)
Dark Lord – SH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/SkyLordSpecOps.png)
Introduction of the Sky Lord.
As you may know helicopters have been used in nearly all the worlds militaries for decades and in that time their performance in terms of speed and manoeuvrability and their ability to perform a wide variety of missions and functions have increased by such a magnitude that today the helicopter is a vital part to any military in terms of logistics, reconnaissance, attack and rapid reaction.
To that extent the Ironcian military charged the McConnell and Branning Aerospace development company with the design and construction of several prototype helicopters using the latest technologies and materials in its construction and electronics systems to provide a low RADAR visibility while maintaining the unique multi-functionality that rotary wing aircraft naturally have.
The engineers at McConnell and Branning delivered Sky Lord, which represents the current limit of Ironcian technological ability in transport and special purpose helicopter design. The electronics suite is state of the art, the body and rotors return a RADAR front cross section 1-1000th of a hellfire missile making it very difficult to detect.
Protecting the Lord’s
The pilot and co-pilots wrap-around seats are armoured to protect from high velocity 30mm rounds through the use of multi-layered composite armoured protection, which consists of a layer of titanium reinforced steel, ballistics hardened ceramic plates and a Kevlar anti-spall layer.
The aircrafts under body skin from the rear cabin forward is resistant to up to 25 millimetre high-velocity rounds from distances over four hundred metres and 20 millimetre rounds at point blank ranges, through the use of similar composite armour layers, however the main skin of the aircraft is a titanium reinforced aluminium and Kevlar anti-spall protection, but to a thinner thickness to maintain the aircraft natural speed and agility advantages over hostile fixed firing positions.
Although the Sky Lord has a naval variant, in the Sea Lord, the Sky Lord comes equipped with strengthened naval landing gears as standard as well as the pre-stressed chassis providing the aircraft with a much wider range of abilities and possible roles with just minor or no systems improvements
The Silent Power Horse
The two 3,000 hp gas turbine engines of the Sky Lord produce 1,550kw of power for the aircrafts extensive internal systems and give the aircraft a high maximum flight speed as well as the fuel efficiency to give the vehicle an endurance of over seven hours on internal fuel load alone.
In-flight the Sky Lords advanced engine power and rotor attitude management systems enable the helicopter to accelerate from a hover at two hundred feet to an almost maximum dash speed of 300 km/hour in under thirty three seconds through a one hundred foot steep dive and then from maximum dash speed of 342 km/hour perform a high speed turn and return to hover in a radius of less than fifty seven metres, giving the Sky Lord an envious edge in manoeuvrability and speed.
The engines and fuel system are controlled by a developed fuel/power management system that continually monitors the engines power out put to fuel consumption levels and maintains a continual balancing act between the two gas turbine engines to maintain the most efficient fuel consumption possible while also maintaining peak performance trough the main drive rotor.
The Rotors are constructed from carbon/glass material design with rugged Nomex honeycomb and rohacell foam formed into an advanced flick tip design which reduces rotor noise along with a NOTAR counter rotation device to eliminate tail rotor noise.
The flick tip design of the main rotors has the side effect of creating a vortex of clear sight within the normally blinding and, critically, aircraft threatening dust storm effect during landing and take-off in dry soil, sand and snow.
The engine intakes have particle screening devices to protect the engines from the damaging effects of foreign particles on the engines while heat reducing suppressant’s on the exhaust system reduces the Sky Lords IR signature making it a harder target to identify and track through heat seeking means.
War Lord’s
The Sky Lord’s weapons load out will of course vary depending on the mission parameters but an over view would show that the Sky Lord is a capable aircraft in any role it may be placed. As the Sky Lord’s design is as a utility helicopter with a view to tactical troop transport it is sure to say that weapons load is limited to the degree of how stealthy the platform should be. The helicopter has a chin mounted rotating three barrelled 30mm calibre machine gun for anti-personnel use and against light armoured vehicle and has a capacity of 350 rounds. The wings or weapons carrying pylons are fully removable but when fitted each wing has two under wing mounts with each one capable of carrying either four racked anti-tank/armour (or equivalent) missiles or one pod of nineteen 2.75mm rockets or one machine gun pod with up to two thousand rounds and each wing tip mount is capable of carrying two Air To Air Missiles (ATAM) each, or a total of 1,550 kg of armament or electronics warfare pods per weapons carrying pylon or a total of 3,100kg of armament across both weapons carrying pylons.
The Chin mounted rotating three barrelled machine gun is slaved to the co-pilots helmet mounted display (HMD) unit and turns to follow the co-pilots head so aiming is achieved by merely looking at the target. While the pilot has FLIR to aid with Nap-Of-the-Earth (NOE) flying the co-pilot has a rotating IIR camera as well black and white and colour digital video cameras mounted on the nose which are used for targeting and follow the movements of the co-pilots helmet.
The guided anti-tank/armour missiles can be aimed in this way or with the use of the nose mounted milimetric RADAR which displays on the cock-pit digital display screens and through the HMD if selected by the pilot.
The Sea Lord has the capability of carrying the same weapons load out as the Sky Lord the electronic systems are tailored for maritime efficiency and specifically to extend the range of the parent vessels RADAR and/or Sonar range enabling the quick and precise identification of possible enemy vessels beyond the horizon or RADAR limit of the parent vessels. The Sea Lord has the same standard weapons carrying pylons that equip the Sky Lord and are capable of carrying loads of up to 1,550kg of weapons and electronic load. The necessary size of warship threatening weapons limits the Sea Lord to just one anti-ship missile or torpedo per weapons carrying pylon along with the two tip mounted Air-to-Air Missiles (AAM).
For Covert Operations or low visibility operations it is recommended that the weapons carrying pylons should not be installed and the helicopters chin mounted 30mm rotating three barrelled machine gun should be the only weapon externally mounted, to minimize the RADAR cross section of the helicopter.
Leading edge electronics
The Sky Lord is equipped with a two seat cockpit for pilot and co-pilot with each seat having six digital multi-function display screens showing mission map area with waypoint reference, digital artificial horizon, engine and electronics status, integrated radar display, Forward Looking Infra-Red display and weapons status and lock-on warning display.
The Sky Lord boasts a comprehensive communications suite linked to the 2000C-OF Databus and controlled by sophisticated algorithms which select the most appropriate form of communications from the available types which include VHF short range radio, UHF long range radio set, Satellite communications systems and internet based wide band encrypted Closed-Net Communications set all tied into the AE/RSC-12D NETCOM communications module which has easily removable systems trays for quick repair or upgrading of the system.
The cockpit displays are fully compatible with most Night Viewing Glasses and Helmet Mounted Display equipment.
The Sky Lord utilises digitised avionics and Fibre-Optic technologies which, along with the Sky Lords other electronic systems are EMP protected, through the use of power-surge retarding overload circuits which absorb excessive system fatal power-surges and either earths the charge in to the composite and power absorbent structures of the main rotor or for lesser charges into the helicopters batteries. The Sky Lord is rated to operate in the EMP and radiological intensive environment of the nuclear battlefield.
Military Standard Databus-2000C-OF
The Military Standard 2000C-FO Data Bus is a fibre optic Data bus. This system has been develop for Ironcian indigenous aircraft programmes and provides a uniquely reliable Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and radiation effect resistant module.
The Military Standard 2000C-FO has a 64 bit architecture with a nominal through put of 4 gigabytes per seconds, capable of linking every aircraft system together. Every part of the 2000C-FO data bus has a redundant counterpart to safeguard against the threat of an aircraft fatal equipment failure.
Guidance Systems
AE/ASA-32 is the Sky Lords location, attitude and altitude finding systems and utilises satellite position finding devices and inertial guidance algorithms to obtain a global position plus or minus three metres of the aircraft actual real world location while narrow band RADAR altimeter provides height reading accurate to less than one centimetre variance of actual height.
Missile Approach Warning Systems
The AE/PIR-60 is a passive Infrared Receiver designed to provide warning of Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and pass information to countermeasures systems. The System warns of hostile missile approach, enabling the employment of evasive manoeuvres and electronic and/or infrared countermeasures.
The systems sensor continually spins through 360 degrees watching the ground for missile launch evidence. When it detects an IR signature it is referenced against the systems threat database and gives the aircrew a visual warning of the missiles bearing to the aircraft as well as an audible warning tone.
The AE/PEO-63 is a passive Electro-Optic missile warning system designed to provide warning of Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and deliver information to countermeasures systems and the aircrew via a visual warning of the missiles bearing in relation to the aircraft and an audible warning tone. Enabling the employment of evasive manoeuvres and electronic and/or infrared countermeasures.
Instead of a rotating sensor module it uses four fixed IR sensors located around the aircraft in two or more sensor domes and detects the radiation associated with the rocket motor. That heat source is then cross checked against the threat database and sub-programming algorithms distinguish between threat and non-approaching radiation sources.
RADAR Warning Receivers
The AE/RWR-43F is designed to detect incoming RADAR signals, identify and characterize those signals to a specific threat and alert the aircrew through visual display on the digital display screens and an audible warning tone.
The AE/RWR-43F utilises multiple sensors placed around the body of the aircraft that receive a broad range of RADAR emissions. Those signals are then analysed by the systems core electronics unit and threat database and relevant information is passed on to the crew via visual and audible alerts.
The AE/PWR-41D is a digital threat warning system which monitors the aircrafts environment for pulsed RADAR signals, characterize and identify them, and then alert the crew of their existence via audible warning tone and visual display showing the emitters bearing in relation to the aircraft.
This system has the capability to detect all pulse RADAR associated with hostile surface-to-air missiles, airborne interception and anti-aircraft weapon systems.
Infrared Missile Countermeasures
The AE/AIC-54 system is an omni-directional and electronically fired Active Infrared Countermeasures set which protects the Sky Lord from air-to-air and ground-to-air heat seeking missiles. The system is designed to provide jamming of all known infrared threat missile systems by confusing or decoying threat missile systems.
RADAR Countermeasures
AE/CPW-511 system is an automatic Continuous Wave (CW) and Pulse-Doppler (PD) RADAR systems jamming unit designed in a modular construction to ease system upgrades and repairs.
The system can operate as a stand alone countermeasures system or work in conjunction with detector systems identifying threat systems while the AE/CPW-511 systems generates jamming signals in various formats to counter threat RADAR signatures.
The Sea Lord Helicopter electronic systems are exactly the same as the Sky Lord Helicopters electronic systems but with the inclusion of the AE/ERA-46 Extended range millimetric RADAR system which is routed through the aircrafts Databus system. The sensor system is attached to the undercarriage of the helicopter and scans a 360 degree sweep every half second with two transmitter receiver units fixed back to back on to a rotating fixture. The information received is interpreted by the systems modular control system and is fed to rear cabin displays manned by a RADAR systems operator.
Other systems include the AE/VSS-81 aircraft deployable sonar system which is operated by lowering a sophisticated microphone into the water below the aircraft to depths of up to one hundred meters with the ability to process and identify signals down to a depth of 2,000 meters. The system routes the reading or detected sound waves through a discriminator filter which can be used to phase out background noise and increase the sound foot print of possible hostile submarines this information is then displayed on the Sonar Operators display mounted in the rear cabin of the aircraft.
The AE/VSS-81 has a complimentary system which utilises deployable single use sonar system which can work either as a stand alone system or in tandem with the reusable AE/VSS-81. The AE/DSS-84 has eight disposable sonar sensor units which are deployed in a manner that three to eight microphones would detect separate sound foot prints of a hostile submarine or multiple hostile submarines from different angles which is then fed through a modular processing unit and displayed on a visual display mounted in the rear cabin of the aircraft and manned by a Sonar Operator and also through the sonar operators earphones allowing for the accurate positioning of hostile submarines.
The Dark Lord again has the same standard electronics and weapons systems as the Sky Lord with the inclusion of the AE/CPW-511-B which has enhanced countermeasures capability than that of the AE/CPW-511, with increased threat database and improved autonomous response times and increase probability of a single unit jamming CW and PD RADAR systems.
Specifications
Main rotor diameter - 16.2m
Tail rotor diameter - 3.8m
Overall length rotors turning - 19.9m
Height - 5.4m
Width - 4.5m
Weight empty - 8,433kg
Weight fuelled - 9,983kg
Fuel Tanks -
1- 1,400l
2- 1,000l
3- 1,000l
Typical mission weight - 11,600kg
Cabin Dimensions
Cabin Length - 4.8m
Width at floor - 2.2m
Height - 1.8m
Cargo - 16 combat equipped soldiers or, 1,200 kg
internal or 4,100kg of equipment + 25%
emergency short range lift.
Performance
(perfect daytime conditions)
Maximum Take-off weight 14’500kg
Never exceed speed, dash speed 342km/hour
Cruise speed 297km/hour
Range, Combat 390km + 4 hour loiter.
Range, onboard 1680km
Range, HIFR Unlimited/Crew Stamina
Service ceiling 5486m
Cost
Sky Lord UH-45 – 16,000,000.00 (sixteen million)
Sea Lord NH-45 – 17,600,000.00 (seventeen million, six hundred thousand)
Dark Lord SH-45 – 16,400,000.00 (sixteen million, four hundred thousand)
Sky Lord – UH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/DragonFly2tailupdate1a-1.png)
Sea Lord – NH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/SeaLordA.png)
Dark Lord – SH-45 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q230/Ironcia/Aircraft/SkyLordSpecOps.png)
Introduction of the Sky Lord.
As you may know helicopters have been used in nearly all the worlds militaries for decades and in that time their performance in terms of speed and manoeuvrability and their ability to perform a wide variety of missions and functions have increased by such a magnitude that today the helicopter is a vital part to any military in terms of logistics, reconnaissance, attack and rapid reaction.
To that extent the Ironcian military charged the McConnell and Branning Aerospace development company with the design and construction of several prototype helicopters using the latest technologies and materials in its construction and electronics systems to provide a low RADAR visibility while maintaining the unique multi-functionality that rotary wing aircraft naturally have.
The engineers at McConnell and Branning delivered Sky Lord, which represents the current limit of Ironcian technological ability in transport and special purpose helicopter design. The electronics suite is state of the art, the body and rotors return a RADAR front cross section 1-1000th of a hellfire missile making it very difficult to detect.
Protecting the Lord’s
The pilot and co-pilots wrap-around seats are armoured to protect from high velocity 30mm rounds through the use of multi-layered composite armoured protection, which consists of a layer of titanium reinforced steel, ballistics hardened ceramic plates and a Kevlar anti-spall layer.
The aircrafts under body skin from the rear cabin forward is resistant to up to 25 millimetre high-velocity rounds from distances over four hundred metres and 20 millimetre rounds at point blank ranges, through the use of similar composite armour layers, however the main skin of the aircraft is a titanium reinforced aluminium and Kevlar anti-spall protection, but to a thinner thickness to maintain the aircraft natural speed and agility advantages over hostile fixed firing positions.
Although the Sky Lord has a naval variant, in the Sea Lord, the Sky Lord comes equipped with strengthened naval landing gears as standard as well as the pre-stressed chassis providing the aircraft with a much wider range of abilities and possible roles with just minor or no systems improvements
The Silent Power Horse
The two 3,000 hp gas turbine engines of the Sky Lord produce 1,550kw of power for the aircrafts extensive internal systems and give the aircraft a high maximum flight speed as well as the fuel efficiency to give the vehicle an endurance of over seven hours on internal fuel load alone.
In-flight the Sky Lords advanced engine power and rotor attitude management systems enable the helicopter to accelerate from a hover at two hundred feet to an almost maximum dash speed of 300 km/hour in under thirty three seconds through a one hundred foot steep dive and then from maximum dash speed of 342 km/hour perform a high speed turn and return to hover in a radius of less than fifty seven metres, giving the Sky Lord an envious edge in manoeuvrability and speed.
The engines and fuel system are controlled by a developed fuel/power management system that continually monitors the engines power out put to fuel consumption levels and maintains a continual balancing act between the two gas turbine engines to maintain the most efficient fuel consumption possible while also maintaining peak performance trough the main drive rotor.
The Rotors are constructed from carbon/glass material design with rugged Nomex honeycomb and rohacell foam formed into an advanced flick tip design which reduces rotor noise along with a NOTAR counter rotation device to eliminate tail rotor noise.
The flick tip design of the main rotors has the side effect of creating a vortex of clear sight within the normally blinding and, critically, aircraft threatening dust storm effect during landing and take-off in dry soil, sand and snow.
The engine intakes have particle screening devices to protect the engines from the damaging effects of foreign particles on the engines while heat reducing suppressant’s on the exhaust system reduces the Sky Lords IR signature making it a harder target to identify and track through heat seeking means.
War Lord’s
The Sky Lord’s weapons load out will of course vary depending on the mission parameters but an over view would show that the Sky Lord is a capable aircraft in any role it may be placed. As the Sky Lord’s design is as a utility helicopter with a view to tactical troop transport it is sure to say that weapons load is limited to the degree of how stealthy the platform should be. The helicopter has a chin mounted rotating three barrelled 30mm calibre machine gun for anti-personnel use and against light armoured vehicle and has a capacity of 350 rounds. The wings or weapons carrying pylons are fully removable but when fitted each wing has two under wing mounts with each one capable of carrying either four racked anti-tank/armour (or equivalent) missiles or one pod of nineteen 2.75mm rockets or one machine gun pod with up to two thousand rounds and each wing tip mount is capable of carrying two Air To Air Missiles (ATAM) each, or a total of 1,550 kg of armament or electronics warfare pods per weapons carrying pylon or a total of 3,100kg of armament across both weapons carrying pylons.
The Chin mounted rotating three barrelled machine gun is slaved to the co-pilots helmet mounted display (HMD) unit and turns to follow the co-pilots head so aiming is achieved by merely looking at the target. While the pilot has FLIR to aid with Nap-Of-the-Earth (NOE) flying the co-pilot has a rotating IIR camera as well black and white and colour digital video cameras mounted on the nose which are used for targeting and follow the movements of the co-pilots helmet.
The guided anti-tank/armour missiles can be aimed in this way or with the use of the nose mounted milimetric RADAR which displays on the cock-pit digital display screens and through the HMD if selected by the pilot.
The Sea Lord has the capability of carrying the same weapons load out as the Sky Lord the electronic systems are tailored for maritime efficiency and specifically to extend the range of the parent vessels RADAR and/or Sonar range enabling the quick and precise identification of possible enemy vessels beyond the horizon or RADAR limit of the parent vessels. The Sea Lord has the same standard weapons carrying pylons that equip the Sky Lord and are capable of carrying loads of up to 1,550kg of weapons and electronic load. The necessary size of warship threatening weapons limits the Sea Lord to just one anti-ship missile or torpedo per weapons carrying pylon along with the two tip mounted Air-to-Air Missiles (AAM).
For Covert Operations or low visibility operations it is recommended that the weapons carrying pylons should not be installed and the helicopters chin mounted 30mm rotating three barrelled machine gun should be the only weapon externally mounted, to minimize the RADAR cross section of the helicopter.
Leading edge electronics
The Sky Lord is equipped with a two seat cockpit for pilot and co-pilot with each seat having six digital multi-function display screens showing mission map area with waypoint reference, digital artificial horizon, engine and electronics status, integrated radar display, Forward Looking Infra-Red display and weapons status and lock-on warning display.
The Sky Lord boasts a comprehensive communications suite linked to the 2000C-OF Databus and controlled by sophisticated algorithms which select the most appropriate form of communications from the available types which include VHF short range radio, UHF long range radio set, Satellite communications systems and internet based wide band encrypted Closed-Net Communications set all tied into the AE/RSC-12D NETCOM communications module which has easily removable systems trays for quick repair or upgrading of the system.
The cockpit displays are fully compatible with most Night Viewing Glasses and Helmet Mounted Display equipment.
The Sky Lord utilises digitised avionics and Fibre-Optic technologies which, along with the Sky Lords other electronic systems are EMP protected, through the use of power-surge retarding overload circuits which absorb excessive system fatal power-surges and either earths the charge in to the composite and power absorbent structures of the main rotor or for lesser charges into the helicopters batteries. The Sky Lord is rated to operate in the EMP and radiological intensive environment of the nuclear battlefield.
Military Standard Databus-2000C-OF
The Military Standard 2000C-FO Data Bus is a fibre optic Data bus. This system has been develop for Ironcian indigenous aircraft programmes and provides a uniquely reliable Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and radiation effect resistant module.
The Military Standard 2000C-FO has a 64 bit architecture with a nominal through put of 4 gigabytes per seconds, capable of linking every aircraft system together. Every part of the 2000C-FO data bus has a redundant counterpart to safeguard against the threat of an aircraft fatal equipment failure.
Guidance Systems
AE/ASA-32 is the Sky Lords location, attitude and altitude finding systems and utilises satellite position finding devices and inertial guidance algorithms to obtain a global position plus or minus three metres of the aircraft actual real world location while narrow band RADAR altimeter provides height reading accurate to less than one centimetre variance of actual height.
Missile Approach Warning Systems
The AE/PIR-60 is a passive Infrared Receiver designed to provide warning of Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and pass information to countermeasures systems. The System warns of hostile missile approach, enabling the employment of evasive manoeuvres and electronic and/or infrared countermeasures.
The systems sensor continually spins through 360 degrees watching the ground for missile launch evidence. When it detects an IR signature it is referenced against the systems threat database and gives the aircrew a visual warning of the missiles bearing to the aircraft as well as an audible warning tone.
The AE/PEO-63 is a passive Electro-Optic missile warning system designed to provide warning of Surface to Air Missiles (SAM) and deliver information to countermeasures systems and the aircrew via a visual warning of the missiles bearing in relation to the aircraft and an audible warning tone. Enabling the employment of evasive manoeuvres and electronic and/or infrared countermeasures.
Instead of a rotating sensor module it uses four fixed IR sensors located around the aircraft in two or more sensor domes and detects the radiation associated with the rocket motor. That heat source is then cross checked against the threat database and sub-programming algorithms distinguish between threat and non-approaching radiation sources.
RADAR Warning Receivers
The AE/RWR-43F is designed to detect incoming RADAR signals, identify and characterize those signals to a specific threat and alert the aircrew through visual display on the digital display screens and an audible warning tone.
The AE/RWR-43F utilises multiple sensors placed around the body of the aircraft that receive a broad range of RADAR emissions. Those signals are then analysed by the systems core electronics unit and threat database and relevant information is passed on to the crew via visual and audible alerts.
The AE/PWR-41D is a digital threat warning system which monitors the aircrafts environment for pulsed RADAR signals, characterize and identify them, and then alert the crew of their existence via audible warning tone and visual display showing the emitters bearing in relation to the aircraft.
This system has the capability to detect all pulse RADAR associated with hostile surface-to-air missiles, airborne interception and anti-aircraft weapon systems.
Infrared Missile Countermeasures
The AE/AIC-54 system is an omni-directional and electronically fired Active Infrared Countermeasures set which protects the Sky Lord from air-to-air and ground-to-air heat seeking missiles. The system is designed to provide jamming of all known infrared threat missile systems by confusing or decoying threat missile systems.
RADAR Countermeasures
AE/CPW-511 system is an automatic Continuous Wave (CW) and Pulse-Doppler (PD) RADAR systems jamming unit designed in a modular construction to ease system upgrades and repairs.
The system can operate as a stand alone countermeasures system or work in conjunction with detector systems identifying threat systems while the AE/CPW-511 systems generates jamming signals in various formats to counter threat RADAR signatures.
The Sea Lord Helicopter electronic systems are exactly the same as the Sky Lord Helicopters electronic systems but with the inclusion of the AE/ERA-46 Extended range millimetric RADAR system which is routed through the aircrafts Databus system. The sensor system is attached to the undercarriage of the helicopter and scans a 360 degree sweep every half second with two transmitter receiver units fixed back to back on to a rotating fixture. The information received is interpreted by the systems modular control system and is fed to rear cabin displays manned by a RADAR systems operator.
Other systems include the AE/VSS-81 aircraft deployable sonar system which is operated by lowering a sophisticated microphone into the water below the aircraft to depths of up to one hundred meters with the ability to process and identify signals down to a depth of 2,000 meters. The system routes the reading or detected sound waves through a discriminator filter which can be used to phase out background noise and increase the sound foot print of possible hostile submarines this information is then displayed on the Sonar Operators display mounted in the rear cabin of the aircraft.
The AE/VSS-81 has a complimentary system which utilises deployable single use sonar system which can work either as a stand alone system or in tandem with the reusable AE/VSS-81. The AE/DSS-84 has eight disposable sonar sensor units which are deployed in a manner that three to eight microphones would detect separate sound foot prints of a hostile submarine or multiple hostile submarines from different angles which is then fed through a modular processing unit and displayed on a visual display mounted in the rear cabin of the aircraft and manned by a Sonar Operator and also through the sonar operators earphones allowing for the accurate positioning of hostile submarines.
The Dark Lord again has the same standard electronics and weapons systems as the Sky Lord with the inclusion of the AE/CPW-511-B which has enhanced countermeasures capability than that of the AE/CPW-511, with increased threat database and improved autonomous response times and increase probability of a single unit jamming CW and PD RADAR systems.
Specifications
Main rotor diameter - 16.2m
Tail rotor diameter - 3.8m
Overall length rotors turning - 19.9m
Height - 5.4m
Width - 4.5m
Weight empty - 8,433kg
Weight fuelled - 9,983kg
Fuel Tanks -
1- 1,400l
2- 1,000l
3- 1,000l
Typical mission weight - 11,600kg
Cabin Dimensions
Cabin Length - 4.8m
Width at floor - 2.2m
Height - 1.8m
Cargo - 16 combat equipped soldiers or, 1,200 kg
internal or 4,100kg of equipment + 25%
emergency short range lift.
Performance
(perfect daytime conditions)
Maximum Take-off weight 14’500kg
Never exceed speed, dash speed 342km/hour
Cruise speed 297km/hour
Range, Combat 390km + 4 hour loiter.
Range, onboard 1680km
Range, HIFR Unlimited/Crew Stamina
Service ceiling 5486m
Cost
Sky Lord UH-45 – 16,000,000.00 (sixteen million)
Sea Lord NH-45 – 17,600,000.00 (seventeen million, six hundred thousand)
Dark Lord SH-45 – 16,400,000.00 (sixteen million, four hundred thousand)