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Imperial Aerospace Corporation

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The Imperial Aerospace Corporation has long served the Imperium Doomanum by providing her armies with some of the world's most advanced aircraft. In countless wars of varrying intensity, ranging from small, low-scale conflicts to full-scale wars, IAC aircraft have consistently bested their opponents in the sky. In recent years, IAC has forged deals with some of the world's top aerospace manufacturers, including the Tyrandisian TPMI/EC, designer and manufacturer of the famed Sariel strategic bomber as well as co-designer of the Atratus/Shukusei air superiority fighter; the Candrian Empire's GEM Aerospace, responsible for the design and manufacturer of such aircraft as the vaunted FA 15 Cardinal, one of the most widely used aircraft in the world; MP Ordnance, another fellow co-designer of the Atratus and a manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced missiles and aircraft weaponry; The Silver Sky's Scapa Military Aviation; and, finally, Illiorian Arms.

Through this mutually beneficial partnership, IAC serves as the sole distributor for all four corporations, bringing to the world the most advanced and complete aviation storefront to date!

See our new storefront credit rewards system! (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12930182&postcount=39)



News:

Thursday, July 26th-

We are pleased to announce the opening of the Imperial Aerospace Corporation storefront! We are proud to distribute products from IAC, TPMI/EC, GEM Aerospace, and MP Ordnance.


Fighters

ACI-74 Aquila-II Advanced Tactical Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13645156&postcount=316) -
-$100,000,000 USD (ACI-74A)
-$120,000,000 USD (ACI-74A1)
-$120,000,000 USD (ACI-74N)
-$145,000,000 USD (ACI-74N1)

ACI-77 Atratus/TF-70 Shukusei 7th Generation Air Superiority Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12755481&postcount=1) - $200,000,000 USD

TF-62 Sparrow Multi-role Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10314719) - $120,650,000 (Standard) $135,000,000 (Naval) $160,000,000 (Electronic Warfare)

FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12752134&postcount=1) - $64,331,424

FA 15 Cardinal Air Superiority/Strike Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12508735&postcount=1) - $117,330,000 (Standard) $141,334,000 (D Model) $146,530,000 (E Model (Navalized D Model))

ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighter (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12910148&postcount=2) - $90,000,000 (ACI-73D) $96,000,000 (ACI-73N (Naval variant))

F/A-84 Shadow Air Superiority Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12936219&postcount=63) - $160,000,000

ARV-94 'Black Eagle' Joint Stealth Attack/Recon Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12936239&postcount=64) - $55,000,000

ISF-15 Lammasu Air Superiority Fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12921986&postcount=7) - $136,000,000

ACI-45 Audax Low-cost Multirole Fighter (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13237063&postcount=232) - $20,000,000 (ACI-45) $21,500,000 (ACI-45N Navalized Variant)


Helicopters

ACI.37M Corvus Attack Helicopter (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13433481&postcount=275) - $35,000,000

TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12935225&postcount=1) - $27,500,000

ACI.20 "Atlas"/TRU-94 "Atlas"/HH-20 "Mako" Multirole Heavy Lift Platform (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12990809&postcount=113) - $75,000,000

ACI.39 Bellicus Advanced Helicopter Gunship/Transport (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13108809&postcount=200) - $30,000,000

Bombers

SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=484971) - $1,500,000,000

B 22 Zeus Strategic Bomber (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12803737&postcount=1 ) - $574,414,330

Weaponry

ATAIM-8 "TASOGARE" (Nightfall) Cross-platform Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XSRAAM) (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12914309&postcount=12) - $358,500

ATAIM-9 "RAKURAI" (Thunderbolt)/ AC.IX Sagitta Cross-platform Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XMRAAM) (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12927244&postcount=24) - $659,000

AC-91B Cornix-II Air-Launched Anti-Tank Guided Missile (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12940073&postcount=67) - $120,000

ATAIM-10 "HANABI" Cross-platform Long-Range Air-to-Air Munition (XLRAAM) (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12982080&postcount=100) - $1,250,000

Domestic Production Liscencing:

Domestic production rights are currently not available for any items on the IAC storefront.

Discounts:

Allied States- 20%

Preferred Customers- 25%

*Customers that fit both the categories of 'Allied States' and 'Preferred Customers' recieve a 30% discount to their order

ACI-73D AQUILA
Next Generation Air Superiority Fighter

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Overview

With the entrance of service of the F-63A Air Superiority Fighter in the Soviet Bloc airforce and Dat'Pizdy's promise to export limited numbers of the aircraft at a later date, the Doomingsland Imperial Airforce/ARMA CAELVS IMPERIVM DOOMANVM (to be refered to as DIAF or, alternatively, ACID in the remainder of this writeup) realized that this meant that the world's most advanced fighter would soon be available to nations other than the Armed Republic.

This, of course, made the High Command extremely nervous. With several Woodstock Pact members having close relations with the ARSB, the Empire realized that its position as one of the world's premier air powers was on the line. Of course, they could have simply ordered F-63s from Dat'Pizdy, but that would mean DIAF would be on a level playing ground with rival powers.

This was unacceptable.

However, there were more practical reasons than pride for DIAF's decision not to adopt the F-63. The F-63 was seen as far too complex to see widespread service, and its complexity would mean that service in a desert environment such as Doomingsland would be incredibly trying. Pulse detonation engines were also seen as producing far to large an infrared signature.

Design of the ACI-73 (ARMA CAELVM IMPERATORIA) 'Aquila' (Eagle) Next Generation Air Superiority Fighter was commenced in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation's Experimental Aircraft Department. This fighter was to depart from the highly successful F-78 series' trademark 'Massive engine, massive airframe, massive RADAR signature' design characteristics and go the exact opposite way.

For a next generation fighter, DIAF wanted something that could easily slip by the RADAR of enemy fighters and launch medium range ordnance, then close for the kill with short range missiles and cannons. The F-78, while it worked just fine for this role, relied purely on active RADAR cancellation. This system was not always effective, and thus left DIAF's strategy vulnerable.

For inspiration, IAC looked at older aircraft that had formerly served in DIAF, the F/A-22A Raptor, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. These were aircraft that were stealthy purely by design.

Already possessing some of the most advanced RADAR absorbant material around in addition to RADAR-defeating electronics, IAC sought to create an aircraft that combined all of these features into one of the world's stealthiest aircraft.

Of course, the one drawback to a stealthy aircraft is the fact it requires an internal weapons bay, and when this is opened, it becomes visible on RADAR. IAC came up with a unique way to counteract this with a brand new armament suite. With a brand new payload delivery system, IAC also saw it fit to equip the aircraft with a band new cannon.

With all these features being brought into one deadly aircraft, the ACI-73 is easily one of the most deadly war machines to take to the skies, a mighty predator that feeds on others, living up to the name AQVILA.

Design

The ACI-73 departs from the highly successful 'Flying Arsenal Ship' concept that the Imperial Airforce has been employing for over one hundred years. Rather than utilizing a massive airframe with massive engines to go along with it, the ACI-73 uses a much smaller airframe, relying instead on pure stealth and maneuverability to allow for it to sneak up on enemy formations and deliver difficult-to-evade close range ordnance.

The airframe itself departs from conventional metalic construction found on most aircraft. The outer skin of the ACI-73 is a carbon-reinforced fiberglass layer. This composite provides superb protection against RADAR, reflecting the waves in different directions, making the aircraft extremely difficult to detect. Combined with this is extensive applications of RAM (RADAR Absorbant Material) to further reduce the aircraft's RCS. Beneath this is a thermoplastic inner skin. This material is capable of withstanding the tremendous heat produced by supersonic manevering, and is far more flexable that convention metals, making for a more durable aircraft. It's very characteristics grant the ACI-73 protection against LIDAR and infrared.

The skin of the aircraft is stretched over a titanium skeleton, both strong and lightweight, capable of some flexability. This is especialy important in maneuverability.

Infrared stealth is achieved through extensive use of aerogel. This material is both strong and acts as an excelent thermal insulator. Seperate compartments containing aerogel are arragned all around their aircraft's engines to allow for heat to be easily absorbed, eliminating a large amount of the ACI-73's infrared signature.

The aircraft's actual design creates one of the smallest RADAR cross sections ever to be found in a modern air superiority fighter. Easily exceeding aircraft such as the F/A-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in this characteristic, the extensively blended and shaped airframe utilizes a diamond-shaped wing configuration, the leading edges carefully blended with the fuselage, greatly reducing the aircraft's RADAR signature and making it all the more aerodynamic. Due to the instability of this shape, the aircraft becomes far harder to control, making it all the more maneuverable when coupled with the aircraft's fly-by-light system. This, coupled with the aircraft's outskin, makes for an extremely stealthy aircraft.

The actual aircraft uses RADAR absorbant paint, utilizing a two-tone grey scheme. This scheme works with the human eye to effectively blend the aircraft with the surrounding air, making it extremely difficult to visualy spot the Aquila.

Rather than using conventional horizontal and verticle stabalizers in the tail section, the ACI-73 makes use of a ruddervator system, pioneered in the YF-23 Black Widdow II. This allows for the same angle to be used on all flying surfaces, thus increasing stealthiness. Another advantage to the use of a ruddervator is it's inherant instability. This means that when it is used with fly-by-wire or fly-by-light, it dramatically increases maneuverability.

When coupled with the unstable diamond wings, ruddervators, 3D thrust vectoring, and a small, sleek airframe, the ACI-73 is easily one of the most maneuverable air superiority fighters in the world.

Armament

With the decision to stick with a smaller, stealthier airframe, the Imperial Aerospace Corporation found that large amounts of external hardpoints would defeat the whole purpose of the aircraft. Naturally, they decided to go with an internally located weapons bay. However, rather than sticking with a conventional bay, the IAC took the concept of internally stored weaponry one step further.

For the ACI-73, the IAC experimented with a brand new system. Designated the Advanced Reduced Signature Aircraft Ornance Delivery System (ARSADS), the weapon system utilizes an semi-maneuverable undercarriage that is lowered out from beneath the aircraft while firing. The system is designed to allow for the aircraft to maintain a high degree of stealth while launching orndance. Rather than using a conventional bay that, when open, presents enemy RADAR operators with a signature, the undercarriage system lowers slightly from within its own bay (just small enough to acomodate the undercarriage), and can launch up to three medium range air-to-air missiles from three seperate launch tubes. Two ARSADS launch systems are fitted on the ACI-73 side by side, taking advantage of the larger storage area, making for a total of up to six medium range air-to-air missiles.

Missile launches are aided via electro-magnetic coils, propeling the missiles out of the tubes, allowing for their engines to start a good distance from the aircraft. This means that the aircraft can remain better hidden, even when launching missiles. This also allows for ordnance to be launched during supersonic flight. Different pattern missiles can be equiped via sabots.

In addition to the larger ARSADS launching system, the ACI-73 features two smaller side bays. These bays are capable of acomodating up to two short range air-to-air missiles, granting the aircraft a safe backup in case it comes to a furball. These bays, while not nearly as unconventional as ARSADS, feature their own assist systems. Rather than simply releasing the missiles from the bay, compressed air is used to shoot the missiles out of the bay. This allows for the weapons bays to be open for only a split second when launching ordnance.

Of course, if it were to come to a dogfight, the Aquila would be severely lacking if it hadn't a cannon. As a result, the Imperial Aerospace Corporation fitted the ACI-73 with one of the Empire's most advanced systems to date.

Past experience demonstrated to the IAC that a massive 30mm cannon is not needed for shooting down a fighter. Now that it was operating with a much smaller airframe, the IAC needed to save as much space as possible. As a result, they made a somewhat controversial decision in equipping the ACI-73: Rather than using a conventional 30mm gattling cannon, the aircraft makes use of a seven-chambered 23x135mm CTA gas operated revolver cannon.

With an adjustable rate of fire of 3,100 rounds per minute, Doomingsland Defense Industries' 23mm D/ACU-A-102A Rotary Aircraft Weapons System (RAWS) provides the pilot with a tremendous amount of fire power he can put out in a short amount of time with superb accuracy, thanks in part to its mounting system. The cannon is mounted in its own semi-maneuverable bubble, allowing for the weapon to move with the turn of the pilot's head to a limited degree. In order to maintain stealth, the cannon features its own door in the exposed area. This door would be shut when not firing, as to not comprimise the aircraft's RADAR cross section.

Propulsion

The aircraft's powerplant departs from the costly pluse detonation-turbofan hybrids utilized by previous Imperial aircraft and instead uses a more conventional design. Twin D/TF-490A low bypass turbofan engines are utilized. These engines are capable of putting out up to 35,000lbs of thrust each, allowing the aircraft to attain supersonic speeds. However, on indigenous, non-export versions of the ACI-73D, the Aquila utilizes twin D/VPCBT-1A Variable Post Compression Bypass Turbofan engine. The fitting of these engines came as the result of a secret deal between the Imperial and Mekugian government, in which the Mekugians shipped several samples of their engines, and in return recieved the modified, Imperial-made version that utilized a blisk. The equipping of these engines on indigenous models vastly increases effeciency, power, and overall maintainability.

Each engine is housed in its own nacel that carefully blends with the top of the airframe , reducing drag, allowing for an even lower infrared signature, and further reducing the aircraft's RADAR cross section. The actual intake for each engine is also designed to reduce the RADAR cross section, as it is angled up and inwards to deflect RADAR beams.

Also built into the engine are multiple coolant systems (such as liquid nitrogen) that are sprayed into the engine and into the exhaust, cooling both. This lowers the heat signature resonating from the engine.

The engine itself is enshrouded in multiple aerogel chambers, reducing infrared signature greatly. This is especialy important on a stealthy aircraft due to widespread reliance on infrared search and track (IRST) systems for the detection of aircraft with low RADAR cross sections.

Rather than using conventional blades in the engines, the D/TF-490 and D/VPCBT-1A makes use of a blisk. This is basicly a unified fan for the engine, meaning all of the blades are interconnected. This means that it will be far cheaper to manufacture and easier to replace, easing the load on logistics units. However, there is no cost in thrust output.

Finally, the aircraft features the ATVS-5A system. This is an advanced 3D thrust vectoring system, allowing for the thrust of the engine to be directed as nessessary, granting the ACI-73 tremendous maneuverability when compared with older aircraft.

Avionics and Sensors

The ACI-73A Aquila features on of the world's most advanced cockpits. Dubbed the Advanced Pilot Situational Awareness Enhancing Cockpit (APSAEC), this system features an all-digital cockpit scheme, making extensive use of OLED and LCD monitors, similar to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with its touch screen systems. This particular area of the cockpit is arranged to allow the pilot easy access to all important data and putting him within easy reach of various digital control systems. HUD systems are projected directly onto the canopy, rendering the pilot a full 360 degree view of the battlefield right through his canopy. All computer and display systems are cooled via freon systems to prevent overheating.

This system is further aided by a helmet based HUD system, the Advanced Pilot Situational Awareness Enhanceing Helmet (APSAEH). This helmet is a fully self-contained unit with oxygen systems. Target data and other vital information is projected directly onto the pilot's visor. This system also grants the pilot 'look-shoot' capabilities, allowing him to target an enemy aircraft simply by looking at it. It also allows for the pilot to directly control movement of the aircraft's cannonry with the turn of his head.

The joystick is located to the pilot's right-hand side, the throttle being located to the left.

The aircraft features an extensive flight control system, designated the Advanced Aircraft Control Suite (AACS). This system is an advanced fly-by-light system, making extensive use of fiber optics. It boasts superior response compared to older fly-by-wire systems. This system is linked to the aircraft's central processor unit, which allows for more fluid, precise maneuvers. Add this system to the inherent instability of the aircraft's design, and you have what is easily one of the most maneuverable air superiority fighters on the planet, having superb control response, easily capable of pulling off seemingly impossible maneuvers.

All communications, networking, and navigation systems are combined into a single powerful suite, designated the Advanced Communications Navigation and Networking System (ACNNS).

The aircraft is fully linked to all Imperial battlefield networking systems via an uplink to the Imperial BattleNet. This allows for superb force integration, granting commanders easy access to flight data and allows for pilots to access target data gathered by friendly aircraft, easily recieve data from land based sensor systems and AWACS aircraft. It also allows for the pilot to access the positions of all friendly units. The aircraft's central processing system automatically accesses this data, creating a 3D "map" of the battlefield, displaying friendly and enemy units and ranking them accordingly, displaying range, aircraft type, armament (if known), even the callsign. Local aircraft can be easily networked without opening a satelite uplink that can potentialy comprimise the fighter's position, using an advanced direct line of sight laser communications system, similar to the system employed on the MAD.IV Main Battle Tank. Alternatvely, conventional radio systems can be used in networking.

The aircraft's central processor also takes data from the ACI-73's own sensors in the ranking of threats. Upon the detection of an aircraft, the unit automatically calculates a firing solution, allowing for quick and easy engagement of hostile aircraft.

Navigation systems are handled via satelite uplink. This system takes data and inputs it into the aircraft's central processor, giving the pilot a detailed, 3D map of the earth below, allowing for easy low altitude maneuverability. Alternatively, a map of the area can be rapidly uploaded in a burst transmission via satelite, and the aircraft's own navigation computer can calculate the position of the Aquila as it progresses, allowing for the satelite uplink to be shut down, reducing radio emmisions.

In addition to these systems, the ACI-73 utilizes an advanced, fully automated electronic warfare suite. Designated the Electronic Defense Automatic Response System (EDARS). This system consists of a RADAR Warning Reciever and a Laser Warning Reciever system, allowing for it to respond to both RADAR and LADAR systems, telling the pilot when he is being tracked or targetted. Making use of these systems and the aircraft's other sensors, particularly the DIRST-6G system, EDARS is capable of detecting incoming missiles, automatically launching chaff and flares as nessessary. Also built into the EDARS suite is the D/EJS-3A Electronic Countermeasures Suite. This system is an active RADAR jammer, designed to be used in circumstances when stealth is not nessessary (i.e., when a missile already has a lock) With new experience learned from combating the Praetonian Airforce in ViZion (a conflict in which the Aquila ultimately emerged victorious, but at great cost), IAC was commisioned by the government to further protect the aircraft from infrared guided missiles. The result of this was the D/IRJS-1A Infrared Dazzler System. This system is capable of dazzling infrared systems, preventing an enemy missile from homing in on the aircraft from its IR signature. This system has also been tied into EDARS, created a complete automated countermeasures suite.

The ACI-73 maintains an extensive sensor network designed to give the aircraft the ability to detect the enemy aircraft before the Aquila is detected, giving it the first shot in an engagement. As history has proven time and time again, the aircraft that gets off the first shot in an engagement generally comes out on top. The Aquila's sensor suite, designated the Advanced Aircraft Search and Tracking System (AASTS) is fully integrated, taking all sensor data and compiling it, putting turning it into easy to read data for the pilot to make use of.

The Aquila's primary method of detection is the DPARS-91A AESA RADAR based in a nose mounted radome. This is a long range, multi-mode, rapid scan system, capable of illuminating targets up to three hundred eighty kilometers away. The system has a Low Probability of Intercept, meaning that RWR systems will generally be incapable of detecting the ACI-73 based on its RADAR emisions. This means that the Aquila can effectively detect, target, and track an enemy aircraft without the opposing pilot even knowing the ACI-73 is even there.

This system is also capable of taking the RADAR cross sections of detected aircraft, comparing them with the Imperial aircraft database, allowing for the pilot to see what it is exactly he is targetting.

The second sensor system aboard the ACI-73 is the DIRST-6G infrared search and tracking system. This system is comprised of several infrared scanners which passively scan the surrounding air for heat signatures, picking out differing infrared levels and mapping them out for the central processor, which in turn interperates the data, picking out aircraft and displaying them for the pilot to see. This system is also cooled, allowing for greater accuracy in detecting aircraft. This system, along with the DEOT-49A Advanced Electro-Optical Tracking System provide the Aquila with a full range of sensor systems to easily hunt down and kill its prey.

Statistics:

Type: Air Superiority Fighter

Crew: One (Pilot)

Length: 14.8m

Width: 4.19m

Wingspan: 8.4m

Height: 3.9m

Propulsion: Two Low-bypass D/TF-490A turbofans

Thrust: 40,000lb (each)

Empty Weight: 7,141kg

Maximum Take-Off Weight: 15,459kg

Combat Range [on internal fuel]: 2,600 kilometers

Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 40,000 feet

Maximum Altitude: 65,000 feet

Optimal Cruising Speed: Subsonic

Cruising Speed: Mach 1.7

Maximum Supercruising Speed: Mach 2.3

Maximum Speed: Mach 2.8

Variants: ACI-73D (Airforce version) ACI-73N (Navalized version)

Price: $90 Million

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" Peace without Honor is Deadly"
Department of War Communication
The Holy Reich of The Peoples Freedom is currently undergoing a vast and hard war. In order to ensure victory against our enemies, we ask these great countries to provide us with the weapons needed to fight effectively. We wish to begin to produce the Cardinal and The Star of Fate as well as the Corvus We wish to begin producing these at our home factories, not with unlimited production rights of course, but with a limited number, in order for us to get these into the front line as soon as possible. We will allow as many inspectors and advisor's into these plants as you require, to make sure we are not stealing sensitive technology. Thousands of these units will be produced for the war, ensuring that this will be one of the most lucrative contracts ever accepted by this company. These units will be used against the CA, and we have no qualms with any nation that owns this corporation, thus ensuring the sale will not come back to bite you. The initial order is shown below. If additional incentive is required, we would be willing to give a 500 billion dollar bonus to the corporation.

x3,000 Star of Fate fighters
x2,000 Corvus
x5,000 Cardinal D Variant

Official Corporate Transmission

Regarding limited production rights, we feel that a mutually beneficial deal can be worked out that would allow for the TPF government (or whichever local manufacturer they contract) to build a limited number of the aircraft under supervision by IAC and GEM personnel. For now, we are pleased to process and confirm your order.

Official Communication from the Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office

Greetings. The Denomination of Strategy would like to procure a number of aircraft;

1,000 Star of Fate fighters (with an eye towards increasing the order in the future, for eventual adoptation as the backbone Manthian land-based air superiority fighter)
2,000 navalized Aquila fighters
2,500 FA-15 D Cardinals

We would also like to augment the B-22s presently in service with a further 400 aircraft, and to aquire 2,000 Corvus attack helicopters.

Regards

Aurum Domus Department of Defense

We would like to purchase 5 ACI-77 Atratus for use in highly secret operations.

Official Corporate Transmission

All orders have been processed and confirmed. Thank you for choosing IAC.

Official Announcement of the Allanean Department of Defense

Ladies and gentlemen!

Given the threat that Doomingsland poses to world freedom, given the fact that Doomani are hateful, antisemitic, murderous fascist scum, we hereby offer the following – and wonderful – offer to all nations who have already bought at this storefront:

ANY NATION OR INDIVIDUAL that will be the first to us a Shukusei, an Aquila II or I or Corvus in an unharmed state (preferably disassembled), or the blueprints thereof, will receive a reward as follows:

1 BILLION DOLLARS for the Shukusei
200 MILLION DOLLARS for the AQUILA
100 MILLION DOLLARS for the Corvus.

This money will be only delivered should our tests prove the aircraft safe to pilot, unsabotaged, and, of course, a genuine sample of it's kind. Furthermore, should any Doomani pilots be captured with the aircraft, we will double the sum.

We thank you for your attention to this short message.

Sincerely yours, the Allaneans.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

TPMI/EC would like to remind all customers who acquired the TF-70 (previously TSF-624) Advanced Air Superiority Fighter or other designs that unauthorized theft or transfer of technologies or products will lead to severe consequences. These consequences include, but are not limited to - economic sanctions imposed on the offending nation, air/sea blockade imposed by the Tyrandis Federal Armed Services, unrestricted warfare against all nationals of the offending nation of all types (including nuclear, biological or chemical if warranted), and most importantly of all, a block on future sales of TPMI/EC products.

Further, all of the above shall apply to any nation that violates the intellectual property of any component corporation of IAC.

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ATAIM-8 "TASOGARE" (Nightfall) Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munition

Cross-platform Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XSRAAM)

The ATAIM-8 air to air missile was developed by Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation in order to replace the aging ATAIM-1 series of munitions. Although reliable and highly regarded, the older missiles were considered too vulnerable to latest-generation countermeasures systems popular with a number of airforces considered potential threats to Federal Air Service dominance on a strategic level. Under the auspices of Project Unmei no Atokata, engineers at TPMI/EC proceeded to develop a successor design, which reached operational capacity shortly after introduction of the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter. Intended for use as an auxiliary armament for tactical fighters, the ATAIM-8 "Tasogare" is optimized for the modern close-range dogfight environment. The exceptional agility and accuracy of the ATAIM-8 system makes it the premier weapons solution when beyond visual range engagement is no longer an option.

Layout of the Tasogare's aerodynamic surfaces was intended to maximize the missile's agility in order to improve hit probability against targets. ATAIM-8 uses a highly unconventional aerodynamic control layout as a result - unlike previous designs such as the AIM-9 or ATAIM-1 series of weapons, Tasogare uses a split canard configuration. The forward set of canards are fixed in place and greatly enhance manueverability by generating energetic air vortices which increase airflow speed over the second set of canards located just aft of the first. Additionally, this layout improves the ATAIM-8's performance at high angles of attack by delaying airflow separation as compared to conventional control configurations. Strake extensions that run the length of the fuselage reduce exhibited drag. The swept tail surfaces swivel around the fuselage during flight to improve aerodynamic performance during high-G manuevers, a critical element in the ATAIM-8 XSRAAM's mission of engaging targets in close range.

Guidance for the ATAIM-8 is provided by a gimballed combined imaging infrared/electro-optical seeker head. The wide-angle, focal plane array used in Tasogare enables pilots to engage targets at up to 90 degrees off-boresight. The secondary EO system serves as a filter against IR countermeasures employed by a target aircraft - the seeker is capable of rejecting deployed flares by cross-referencing data regarding UV and optical wavelength emissions with the IR component. Aircraft targets exhibit low UV signatures as well as heat, thereby granting Tasogare a fairly significant level of IRCCM (Infrared Counter-Counter-Measures) capability with its advanced guidance package. Additionally, the electro-optical system generates a clear physical picture of a target in the terminal phase of the missile's flight profile which increases hit probability and lethality. The seeker head is cooled with argon gas, and enables the ATAIM-8 XSRAAM to process targets with finer temperature gradients over longer distances. Digital signals processing modules installed in the guidance section further optimizes and integrates data output from the multiple detectors in order to improve IRCCM and tracking accuracy. The guidance package is fully compatible with most HMD systems and may optionally be manually overriden for command guidance from the launching aircraft.

The ATAIM-8 XSRAAM's powerplant is a thrust-vectored gel-fueled rocket motor, which improves missile agility by a considerable degree. In order to achieve optimal kill probability, the motor uses a variable thrust profile that operates under long burn during the mid-course phase of flight to maximize range. At the terminal phase, the engine will use its fast-burning fuel component to engage in high-energy manuevers to close with the target and thus enhance the likelihood of a hit. Additionally, the engine plume exhibits minimal environmental signatures compared to conventional solid-fueled rocket motors, which improves stealth characteristics.

[Specifications]

Length: 3.25m
Width (Fuselage): 0.16m
Width (Fins): 0.68m
Weight: 128 kg
Guidance: Dual IR/EO seeker, midcourse inertial navigation
Velocity: Mach 2.6, accelerates to ~Mach 3 in terminal attack phase
Range: ~36.5km
Warhead: 8.5 kg High Explosive Blast Fragmentation

Price for Export: $358,500 USD

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Classified Allanean Response

Awesome. Can you provide tooling details as well, in the form of PDF or other universally-read grafic format? Upon finalization of deal, we will provide 50 billion dollars to our Dersconi allies, 50 times more then we promised.

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OOC: Erm, not to burst your bubble but... I never sold prod rights to the fighter. To anyone. Talked about it maybe, but ultimately decided along with Doom and MP to not give DPRs to anyone for the design.

OOC: Erm, not to burst your bubble but... I never sold prod rights to the fighter. To anyone. Talked about it maybe, but ultimately decided along with Doom and MP to not give DPRs to anyone for the design.

OOC: Damn you all, I had such an awesome post lined up. :):):):)

No problem.

OOC: Sorry for the misunderstanding, then.

The FFI liberation movement would like to purchase 2,000 of all the listed items from IAC so we can combat the evil forces of the tocrowkian reich and thera facisist nazi leader mahone we can protect our homes.

thank you -FFI liberation army

((OOC: I'm guessing the terms of your surrender to me still aren't clear to you.:rolleyes: ))

We would request that IAC ignore the above order. As of today, the FFI are no longer a sovereign nation, but rather a province of the Tocrowkian Reich, as were the terms of the ultimatum they accepted. You would not be selling to a legitimate nation (Not to say they ever were more than a bunch of sexual deviants masquerading as such), but a group of insurgents, bandits and criminals.

Thank you, and we will take steps to ensure this plague never disgraces your good storefront ever again.


-Reich Foreign Ministry-

Olmedreca is reforming its airforce and as result we need large number of new planes. So we would like to purchase 10,000 ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters.

[OOC: Curious Doomingsland/Tyrandis/The Candrian Empire/MassPwnage, how would the USAN stand on your corporate partnership discount policy?]

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ATAIM-9 "RAKURAI" (Thunderbolt) Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munition

Cross-platform Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XMRAAM)

Development of the ATAIM-9 series of weapons was initiated as a core component of Project Unmei no Atokata (Destiny Shadow). Intended to provide the Tyrandis Federal Air Service with an air intercept munition capable of engaging a full spectrum of threats from beyond-visual-range, the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM combines an advanced acquisition suite, robust countermeasure-defeating capabilities, and frightening agility into an extremely lethal package. ATAIM-9 significantly enhances TFAS tactical warfighting standards by supporting all-aspect, fire-and-forget engagement of current and future hostile airborne systems. The ATAIM-9 "Rakurai" XMRAAM serves as the primary armament of the modern Federal Air Service pilot and is designed to retain maximum potency against all current and future aerial threats throughout the course of its service life. As a complete system, the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM provides a versatile weapons solution for air intercept of a given target. Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation presided over general development efforts with limited contractural work by Imperial Aerospace Corporation.

The ATAIM-9 features a novel aerodynamic design and flight control system developed in order to maximize missile agility and thereby expand the kill probability of the weapon. Specifications laid down during initial planning phases for the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM envisioned its use primarily at beyond visual ranges. Thus, the missile employs a tail control scheme which significantly enhances maneuverability at high angles of attack, a level of performance necessary to intercept an agile target at such ranges. The ATAIM-9 XMRAAM employs reduced-span tailfins, actuated by miniaturized servomechanisms, to minimize weight and volume. These control surfaces are additionally manufactured from aeroelastic material and contribute to ATAIM-9's agility by bending and warping up to 5 degrees. A set of fixed stub wings are attached in the midsection of the fuselage in order to improve lift and range. Integrated into the aft section of the powerplant are small, side-thrusting reaction jets which bleed propulsive gas from the rocket motor for high-energy maneuvers, providing an unprecedented level of manuverability. These are only active during the terminal phase of flight, however, as they consume propellant and thus reduce range if used superfluously.

Guidance for the ATAIM-9 employs a two-stage system. At extended range, the deploying aircraft provides data regarding target disposition and velocity relative to the launch point via a secure two-way datalink. Midcourse updates regarding the changing attitude of the selected target are relayed to the missile which adjusts its flight path accordingly. Between updates, the missile operates under inertial navigation, provided by a fiber optic gyroscope in order to save weight and improve accuracy over more bulkier conventional systems. As the range is closed, the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM may engage its onboard RADAR system to track the target without need for additional updates, thus freeing its data provider to other activities. The solid-state active RADAR operates in X-band, and is able to track fighter-sized targets at up to 28 km in optimal conditions with superb off-boresight capability thanks to its electronically steered antenna. Once the ATAIM-9 has reached the terminal phase of its flight profile, a gimballed combined imaging infrared/electro-optical seeker head activates to maximize kill probability. All elements of the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM's comprehensive guidance package are hardened against attack by high-energy emissions with silicon diode shielding. The missile includes Home-on-Jam and Home-on-Emit modes as well. Due to the ATAIM-9 Rakurai's advanced multiple-detector guidance and agility, the missile has a hit probability of 98.2% in the terminal phase. The warhead is activated by a laser proximity fuze.

In order to optimize missile range, the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM employs a liquid-fueled, ducted rocket RAMjet powerplant, manufactured by Imperial Aerospace Corporation. The rocket motor accelerates the missile during the boost phase, after which the RAMjet activates to improve propellant efficiency. The powerplant is additionally smokeless, which reduces the likelihood of visual detection.

[Specifications]

Length: 3.72 m
Width (Fuselage): 0.165 m
Width (Fins): 0.52 m
Weight: 205 kg
Guidance: Multimode active RADAR, midcourse inertial navigation, terminal dual IR/EO seeker
Velocity: Mach 4
Range: ~214 km
Warhead: 15 kg High Explosive Blast Fragmentation

Price for Export: $659,000 USD

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The Olmedrecan order of 10,000 ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters is denied owning to an obvious lack of financial standing to pay for such a large request.

[ooc: Sorry, for some reason I thought I can use about 33% of budget but I guess its different, I hope this one works better.]

Olmedreca would like to purchase total 10,000 ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters, but due financial limitations we would like to split purchase into 5 parts over 5 years, so that each year we would purchase 2000 planes.

We would like to purchase the production rights to the ATAIM-9 Rakurai, if that is acceptable.


-Reich Foreign Ministry-

We would like to purchase the production rights to the ATAIM-9 Rakurai, if that is acceptable.


-Reich Foreign Ministry-

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The amended Olmedrecan order is accepted - however, final clearance must be provided by Imperial Aerospace Corporation prior to release of sale.

Concerning Tocrowkian acquisition of domestic production rights to the ATAIM-9 "Rakurai" XMRAAM, please refer to private channels.

OOC: You'll have to wait till Doom gets on, but I think he'll accept this arrangement.

Toc - If you want to get prod rights, talk to me over on IRC.

OOC: I want to replace my countries Su Phoenixes with ACI 77s, does my budget allow it?

OOC: I want to replace my countries Su Phoenixes with ACI 77s, does my budget allow it?

OOC: How many airframes are we talking about here?

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

As discussed previously, the Tocrowkian request for Domestic Production Rights to the ATAIM-9 "Rakurai" XMRAAM has been cleared for export. The cost of transaction will be the value of 1000 individual ATAIM-9 units, and a 10% royalty on all produced missiles. Technical details and tooling information will be provided pending receipt of funds.

OOC: Adding stuff from my other threads to this one to keep everything in one place.

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Caption: TF-70C of the Doomani Imperial Air Force (ACID), in Stormbreaker-type paint finish

TF-70 "SHUKUSEI" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter

Seventh Generation Tactical Aircraft of the Militaristic Federation

[Abstract]

Following the introduction of the SB-22 “Sariel” Advanced Strategic Bomber into frontline service with the Tyrandis Federal Air Service [TFAS], the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted a series of war games to evaluate the effects of the new aircraft type on overall TFAS warfighting capabilities. Results from this effort were mixed – although the SB-22 was determined to be more than adequate in its role of strategic bombardment, the study group found that existing TFAS assets and aircraft types would not be able to seize air superiority in a given zone of operations, thereby precluding the effective use of Sariel. The premier Federal Air Service fighter at the time, the TSF-620 “Xeon”, was found to lack the characteristics necessary in the air superiority mission. Outmoded by the formidable products of a multitude of foreign competitors, Xeon was found to be excessively burdensome to its support infrastructure due to its use of variable geometry wings, while simultaneously lacking the performance edge needed to justify such strains.

As a result, DARPA issued an emergency Request for Proposals to Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation to rectify the situation. The genesis of the Xeon’s eventual successor, the TF-70 “Shukusei”, laid with TPMI/EC’s Project Unmei no Atokata, a comprehensive secret program developed in tandem with technology partners from contacts established via the SICON tripartite pact between Tyrandis, MassPwnage, and Doomingsland. Established as a major revision of the Militaristic Federation’s air arm, Unmei no Atokata’s primary effort was to design and test a new air superiority fighter which would address the deficiencies of the TSF-620. The multinational nature of the project led to the eventual development and deployment of two different aircraft in parallel – the Aquila II and Shukusei (MRF-09 “Ritual” in MassPwnage service, ACI-77 "Atratus" in Doomani service).

The TF-70 “Shukusei” (Star of Fate) represents the absolute pinnacle of Tyrandisan efforts in aerospace development, inheriting a proud tradition of achievement pioneered by precursor designs used in all three states. Intended to surpass all other contemporary fighters in the air superiority mission, Shukusei is the result of groundbreaking efforts by TPMI/EC, working in tandem with MP Ordnance Corporation and Imperial Aerospace Corporation. Incorporating the absolute bleeding-edge in aeronautical science, the TF-70 is arguably the most capable design of its time. However, such performance comes at a significant cost in demands on pilot skill and complexity – during testing of the prototype design, three tragic crashes occurred, all of them fatal. Nonetheless, operators of the TF-70 “Shukusei” Advanced Air Superiority Fighter will possess an unparalleled advantage in air combat over any potential foe. The technologies utilized in Shukusei offers its pilot unmatched first look, first shot, and first kill capabilities. As the most advanced fighter produced to date for the Tyrandis Federal Air Service, the TF-70 will supplement and ultimately replace TSF-620s in frontline service as the older aircraft reach the end of their service lives.

[General Data]

Type: Advanced Air Superiority Fighter

Personnel: 1 (Pilot)

Contractor(s): Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation, MP Ordnance Corporation, Imperial Aerospace Corporation, IZISU Minor Industries

[Airframe]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted a series of exhaustive studies into the attributes that a follow-on design to the TSF-620 “Xeon” would require. The TF-70 “Shukusei” addresses the deficiencies of the earlier model in its unorthodox airframe layout. The DARPA study noted that existing fighter designs were optimized purely for air combat maneuvering, at the expense of stealth, much like the Xeon. This was a vulnerability that would be exploited in the design of TF-70 – the fighter was intended to provide maximum low-observability characteristics thereby enabling the Shukusei’s pilot to engage enemy fighters without being detected. However, the TF-70 is far from sluggish – the flower of SICON engineering has created an airframe that exhibits superb low-observability performance while retaining the critical agility necessary to achieve victory in the modern close-range dogfight.

Where the TSF-620 “Xeon” made use of switchblade-style variable geometry wings to maximize maneuverability, the TF-70 uses an even more unconventional design to achieve similar levels of performance while simultaneously reducing RADAR Cross Section [RCS] as demanded by Project Unmei no Atokata’s goals. To this end, the Shukusei employs a unique airframe layout that reconciles the conflict between stealth and maneuverability. The configuration of the TF-70 Shukusei is a radically new one, which utilizes dogtoothed mission adaptive wings paired with canards and flat ruddervators aft of the fighter. This unorthodox design choice generated significant controversy during the Project’s progression, which led to the separate development of the Aquila II. However, this risky decision proved to be a sound one as evidenced in the Shukusei’s amazing flight performance. This stems from the design’s inherent aerodynamic instability, which enables the TF-70 Shukusei unimpeded freedom of maneuver. However, this benefit also involves significant penalties in ease of control – the TF-70 requires an extremely high level of pilot proficiency to operate effectively, even with its use of fly-by-light electronic control systems. The mission adaptive wings in Shukusei are another aspect in which the fighter stands apart from its peers - unlike conventional designs, the adaptive wing has no conventional ailerons, flaps, slats, or spoilers but incorporates flexible leading and trailing edges able to bend into a required position without leaving gaps. These are able to move from four degrees up to twenty five degrees down as enabled by its variable wing camber mechanism. Finally, the fighter is endowed with exceptional performance at high angles of attack due to its forward fuselage chine and canards, and additionally exhibits minimal drag due to its lack of vertical surfaces. In sum, Shukusei’s aerodynamic design is optimized for the air superiority mission by both reducing vulnerability to detection and ensuring superior agility.

The TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter incorporates the highest quality of materials science in its physical frame. As derived from preliminary studies and evaluation, the fighter was designed to endure stresses of up to 13Gs, as this is the maximum level a human pilot may withstand before tissue damage occurs. The space-age materials used in the fighter were all jointly developed by the associated contractors involved in Shukusei’s development, as were fabrication methods. Much of the fighter is manufactured from composite materials, due to their role in reducing RCS – one of the main goals of the Project. The skeleton of the TF-70 is constructed from Ti-1100, a near-alpha, high strength/weight ratio titanium alloy. Monofilament silicon carbide whiskers are interwoven within a matrix of this material to impart further structural integrity and resistance to deformation. High stress regions of the airframe are reinforced with Ti-62222 alloy, most notably in areas near the variable wing camber mechanism. SICON-developed RADAR Absorbent Structure [RAS] is mated wherever possible to this base frame. The RAS is constructed of honeycombed Kevlar sections, treated with a proprietary carbon glaze, and then bonded to polyethylene/carbon fiber skins on its front and back, creating a rigid panel. Each honeycomb is 3cm in length, and absorbs incoming RF energy quite well; the relatively large gaps allow for the RAS to dependably absorb or at least weaken RADAR returns of all frequencies higher than 10 MHz. Further, new engineering techniques courtesy of MP Ordnance Corporation have allowed for improvements to the base aramid honeycomb design originally developed by TPMI/EC – the inner walls of the honeycombs are injected with a carbon-based aerogel impregnated with various RF energy absorbing compounds [see Stealth section]. The properties of this material are such that incoming RF energy is scattered further into the RAS network, which further reduces the TF-70’s already minimal RCS. For protection from hostile action, composite sandwich panels of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber, thermosets, and carbon fiber embedded in an epoxy resin matrix is bonded underneath this shell. The aircraft is skinned in a composite comprised of silicone reinforced, Schiff base salt-loaded bismaleimide resin threaded with carbon fiber, which possesses superb strength to weight ratios and a resistance to thermal stress. Uncatalyzed Michael addition with polyhydric phenols to the base resin improves structural characteristics. The dissolved Schiff base salt elements, using the bismelmide resin matrix as a binder compound, serve to further reduce the TF-70's RCS.

[Systems/Avionics]

The TF-70 Shukusei boasts an exceptionally robust and capable avionics fit, an example of the avant-garde technology that Project Unmei no Atokata championed from its conception to completion. Design of the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter’s electronics components was entirely mission-oriented – the various systems that comprise Shukusei are finely engineered to maximize the ability of pilot and machine to engage in aerial combat against any potential threat or target. All of the various disparate elements of TF-70 Shukusei’s electronics are unified under the Mark 3 Hayabusa Integrated Modular Architecture, which is the fighter’s distributed on-board computer network. Hayabusa serves to coordinate and control mission-sensitive information to the pilot on a tightly integrated software and hardware platform. The architecture is fabricated on strained silicon wafers – an innovation of TPMI/EC that enables 33% faster processing speeds than competing designs. Developed as a method to reduce the impact of physical barriers to continued transistor miniaturization, the strained silicon wafers are produced by growing a sequence of epitaxial layers of varying lattice constants (the distance between atoms in the crystal formation). The approach that is utilized for silicon wafer starting material is to first grow a silicon epitaxial layer containing germanium. When enough germanium is added and this epitaxial layer reaches a critical thickness, the lattice constant of the silicon-germanium (SiGe) epitaxial layer will stabilize at a larger lattice constant value than the underlying silicon substrate. Then a thin silicon layer is grown on top of the SiGe epitaxial layer. Eventually, the pure silicon layer stretches to match the larger lattice constant of the SiGe layer. The physical properties of this unique material enable significantly reduced electron resistance, which thereby leads to 70% faster electron flow. This allows for the incredible boost in processing performance that the Mark 3 Hayabusa exhibits.

The Mark 3 architecture is manufactured in a full-custom ASIC design, utilizing revolutionary Quasi-Delay Insensitive integrated circuits. The use of asynchronous processing logic in the TF-70 Shukusei provides several major benefits as compared to traditional versions (circuits governed by an internal clock); these include early completion of circuits when it is known that the inputs which have not yet arrived are irrelevant, lower power consumption because transistors do not work unless performing useful computations, superior modularity and composability, adaptable circuit speed based on temperature and voltage conditions (synchronous chips are locked in at optimal clock speed for worst-case conditions), easier manufacturing processes due to lack of transistor-to-transistor variability, and less produced Electro-Magnetic Interference (Synchronous circuits create enormous amounts of EMI at frequency bands near clock frequencies). The entire avionics suite is coordinated by five MP Ordnance Corporation-manufactured Central Integrated Processors [CIP], which are 4096-core processors running at 4.45 GHz, with 64 bits allocated per core and 12 GB of RAM allocated per processor. The TF-70’s subsystems are connected to the CIP via a quadruplex-redundant InfiniBand high-speed bus interface. This is a fiber optic cable network with a passive-transmissive star coupler operating at 3.75 GHz, with transfer rates of up to 48Gbit/s, developed in order to allow for the high levels of system bandwidth the TF-70’s sensors and electronics consume. Because the integrated circuits operate under asynchronous logic, signals and instructions are processed near-instantaneously, without consideration for the restraints of a clock circuit.

A key component of the TF-70’s principles of design mandated absolute systems reliability; engineers at Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation quickly realized that the traditional way of ensuring systems reliability, by stacking on layers of redundancy, was outmoded; such measures provided little more than "get you home" capability, if that. Ultimately, it was decided that the best way of raising the Shukusei’s mission reliability was to modify the overarching Mark 3 architecture in such a way that it could "repair" itself. In effect, the complexity of the structure is such that it can automatically bypass or even compensate for the failure of any individual element. For example, if a control surface fails, the unified flight control system used in Shukusei will automatically reconfigure itself, distributing control functions among the surviving surfaces.

As a whole, the Mark 3 Hayabusa package is comprised of three main subsystems dedicated to mission management, sensor management, and vehicle management.

The Mission Management Suite subsystem of the Mark 3 is composed of the terrain/navigation suite, fire-control, munitions management and Electronic Warfare equipment. CIP resources are allocated to each function as necessary.

CDI-1 – Integrated navigational system of the TF-70 Shukusei, developed in order to reduce pilot workload. Where previous avionics systems treated the myriad location-determining sensors of an aircraft as a discrete source of information, CDI-1 serves to manage the data gathered by each individual system and present it to the pilot in a coherent way. CDI-1 includes two primary sources of navigational information – an Inertial Reference System and a Terrain Reference System calibrated against each other to provide for unmatched accuracy in location.

The Terrain Reference System relies on careful measurement of the terrain profile passing beneath the aircraft with a RADAR altimeter and comparison with digitally-stored geographic data. The primary advantage to using a TR system is that a standard TF (terrain-following) navigation scheme will alert enemy Electronic Surveillance Measures far sooner, due to the RADAR beam's direction. On the other hand, a TRN altimeter has an extremely narrow beam width whose energy is directed downwards, rendering virtually all ESM measures impotent, a critical component of the Shukusei’s survivability.

The Inertial Reference System is comprised of two ring laser gyroscopes and an accelerometer located in the forward fuselage, coupled with GPS uplinks compatible with most standard satellite interfaces. Only one of the gyroscopes is necessary for normal operation; data from the second is fed to the TF-70’s fire control systems to automatically adjust gun position for optimal accuracy.

MMTE-10 - Integrated fire control system of the TF-70, which monitors all phases of weapons release. Data from the Shukusei’s Sensor Management Suite is linked to this component, which constantly updates the pilot’s interface on target disposition and type. It draws on CIP resources to rapidly calculate suitable firing solutions. The MMTE-9 also functions to inform the pilot of the condition of the fighter's stores, control weapons launch sequences, as well as door controls and emergency weapons jettison.

NSER-5 - Integrated Electronic Warfare System of the TF-70. It is comprised of a number of individual subsystems, all of which are closely tied to the MMS component via the InfiniBand high-speed bus interface. Threat detection is provided by a super heterodyne RADAR Warning Receiver, capable of monitoring LPI emissions through rapid signals processing of all major RF bands. NSER-5 also features a Laser Warning Receiver, which detects laser radiation and determines its bearing, one of the more popular guidance methods employed in modern missiles. In order to quickly track missile launches the NSER-5 incorporates three Missile Approach Warners, built into a set of apertures distributed across the aircraft. To increase the effectiveness of the system the MAW is also directly linked to the countermeasures systems allowing an instantaneous response to a local launch. The MAWs include a set of Rayleigh scattering processing modules, which serves to greatly improve resolution and accuracy regarding threat disposition.

Active countermeasures equipment is fitted to the Shukusei in a series of modular apertures.

The ADN-2 infrared jammer makes use of a gimbal-mounted low-powered microwave laser to detect and jam incoming IR missiles. In order to preserve stealth characteristics, transparent lens covers manufactured from selectively permeable plastic serves to shield the device from RADAR visibility when not in use. The system is capable of jamming multiple IR and UV frequencies simultaeneously to provide improved performance.

The EOCM-6 is a pod-mounted blue-green laser used to detect and jam passive systems such as TV/FLIR automatic trackers.

The NRV-27 is the TF-70’s RF jammer which serves to emit radio frequency signals that interfere with hostile transmitter operation. The “smart skin” antenna embedded in the TF-70 Shukusei’s airframe enables the NRV-27 to engage in DRFM (digital radio frequency memory) jamming in addition to standard noise jamming modes. In the DRFM mode, the TF-70 manipulates received radar energy and retransmits it to change the return the hostile RADAR sees. This technique serves to provide conflicting and confusing information for enemy interpretation. For example, the NRV-27 may change the range the transmitter detects through alterations in the delay in pulse transmission or the velocity the radar detects by changing the doppler shift of the transmitted signal.

An XC-100 countermeasures dispenser is internally mounted, which is programmed to deploy multi-spectral chaff and flares only in the direction of a threat as determined by the NSER-5. The flares are treated with chemical additives that spoof the IR sensors of most IR guided missiles. Additionally, data from the NSER-5’s RWR set is linked to the chaff cutting mechanism – the XC-100 is sophisticated enough to interpret the RWR’s information and cut the aluminium strips to provide for maximum reflectivity to the RF band being deceived.

In practical terms, the NSER-5 serves to determine the location and nature of all threat systems, thereby warning aircrew when they are being tracked, targeted, or engaged.

The Sensor Management Suite subsystem of the Mark 3 package combines the TF-70 Shukusei’s RADAR, IRST, integrated signal processing, encrypted data, communications, and the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System interface, allocating CIP processor power to the sensor subsystems as required by the mission. With the advanced, centralized architecture employed by the TF-70 Shukusei’s avionics, the SMS implements sensor fusion for the pilot to maximize situational awareness and reduce pilot workload. By automating the task of interpreting sensor data, the TF-70 removes the possibility of conflicting data gathered by the various sensors and eliminates the need for manual cross-referencing.

AN/PSI-7 - RADAR system for the TF-70, co-developed by Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation and MP Ordnance Corporation. It is an Active Electronically Scanned Array system, mounted in the aircraft's nose, with sufficient Moving Target Indicator capability to achieve burn-through of 5th generation (F-22 level) stealth. Maximum search range of fighter-sized targets is estimated at 270 kilometers – however, the AN/PSI-7 may increase this range to 450 kilometers, though this comes at the cost of a much narrower field of view.

The AN/PSI-7's transmitter and receiver functions are composed of 3,300 individual transmit/receive (T/R) modules that each scan a small fixed area, negating the need for a moving antenna, which further decreases ESM detection probabilities as well as aircraft volume issues. Each of the T/R modules is composed of four MMIC chips - a drive amplifier, digital phase shifter, and low-noise amplifier, and a RF power amplifier. The chips are manufactured on indium-phosphide due to greater electron mobility, reduced noise, and higher frequencies of operation InP affords as opposed to more conventional semiconductor materials. To protect the antenna from detection by hostile ESM systems, it is mounted in a bandpass radome, transparent only to the band of frequencies used by the AN/PSI-7. When it is not in use, suitable electrical impulses turn the bandpass characteristic off, making it totally opaque.

The RADAR's elimination of hydraulics for antenna movements and distribution of transmission functions into the T/R modules alleviates logistical concerns. The AN/PSI-6 is a No Probability of Interception system, meaning that the waveforms of the RADAR have a much longer pulse and lower amplitude, as well as a narrower beam and virtually no sidelobe radiation. The result of this waveform modification is that the AN/PSI-7 is virtually undetectable by enemy ESM receivers, as the RF energy emitted is spread over a wide range of frequencies, hiding among the noise of benign signals that clutter the microwave region. A tertiary data channel screens hostile ECM measures.

AN/RSI-1 - Inverse Synthetic Aperture RADAR of the TF-70 which processes the Doppler shift resulting from target motion as a means of improving RADAR resolution. Thanks to shared components with the AN/PSI-7, the AN/RSI-1 is highly compact, and adds less than 30 lbs to the aircraft's weight. By measuring the much larger Doppler shifts created by the Shukusei’s own motion and the target's changes in attitudes, the AN/RSI-1 is able to extract the Doppler effects due to pitch, yaw, and roll of the different parts of the target aircraft, processing these to obtain a clear physical profile. This information is cross-referenced against a database of known aircraft types and presented to the pilot.

IECO-5 – Integrated electro-optical sensor system mounted beneath the forward fuselage. The package serves as a laser rangefinder to supplement the primary RADAR/IR sensors employed by the TF-70 during close range engagements. The pod-mounted ytterbium-doped fiber optic laser assembly is slaved to the pilot’s fire control system, and increases onboard weapons accuracy by a significant factor. When not in use, the system is retracted to preserve stealth and aerodynamic characteristics.

ISTA - Imaging Infra-red passive sensor suite of the TF-70, located on the port side of the fighter’s canopy. The ISTA package scans across red-scale wavelengths from 2.4-13 microns to enable all-aspect detection capabilities. The sensor is cooled via Freon gas, which allows for the system to interpret finer temperature gradients across longer distances. Estimated range for ISTA is quoted at 150 km in optimal conditions. All data gathered by the system is post-processed by the Sensor Management Suite to enhance resolution. The TF-70’s onboard computers incorporate sufficient processing power to track up to 400 individual signatures, although this may be increased even further with the use of external aids such as airborne control aircraft.

ICNIA - Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics suite, which combines the functions of current communications equipment, such as HF SSB (High Frequency-Single Side Band), VHF/UHF, SINCGARS, Have Quick, EJS, JTIDS, various navigational aids and transponder/interrogator facilities compatible with NATO-standard IFF systems. Based on common digital and RF processing modules built up from asynchronous logic circuits, the system allows for all these functions to be seamlessly built into just one package. It also takes up half the volume and weight of the aforementioned equipment. The Central Integrated Processors filter much of the information being passed to the pilot, presenting him with only data necessary for the phase for the mission currently being flown, to prevent information overload (optional manual override available).

The Vehicle Management Suite is responsible for cockpit controls and displays, flight and maneuver control, and engine/power control.

NACS Mk. III - Shukusei is controlled by a centralized fly by light fiber optic system that takes both control input from the pilot and feedback from the various sensors and control surfaces around the airplane. Due to the critical role aircraft response times play in the air superiority mission, a FBL control scheme was chosen for the TF-70. More importantly however, fly-by-light offers an attractive alternative to interference prone fly-by-wire systems. The popularity of EMI-based air defense weapons was not lost on TPMI/EC designers; thus, the NACS Mk. III is nearly immune to such errorneous behavior caused by outside sources. Additionally, the flight envelope characteristics of the TF-70 are programmed into the system, which prevents the pilot from engaging in maneuvers which would induce a total loss of control. A manual override is available, though its use is not recommended. Should the aircraft depart its flight envelope for any reason, however, a failsafe switch in the cockpit may be engaged that will cause the NACS Mk. III to automatically return the aircraft to level flight. Finally, the system is adaptable to irregularities in instructions due to malfunction by reconfiguring itself and biasing the pilot’s controls to compensate. All motors utilized in the flight system are brushless, which improves efficiency, reliability, and reduces generated EMI levels. The electronic control modules for the motors are manufactured by MP Ordnance Corporation.

UCS – Utilities Control System, which manages and automates the various mechanical utilities found aboard the TF-70 including primary and backup electrical systems, hydraulics (for aircraft control actuators, brakes, nose wheel steering, intakes, et al.), fuel stores and climate controls in the cockpit.

AEAD - Active Electronic Array Device, which is embedded in the outer skin. This functions as a core component of the TF-70’s avionics suite. It is comprised of embedded arrays of microscopic active transmitting elements, which are unified by the Vehicle Management Suite. Signals processing from the CIPs enable these integrated elements to act like the active elements of a phased array antenna. This permits the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter to sense and communicate in optical and other frequency bands, and in any direction from any aircraft attitude. Software developed by TPMI/EC enables all Shukuseis in flight to share target and system data via the AEAD interface, which allows pilots greater freedom for autonomous action. In addition, the distributed nature of the AEAD allows for unrivaled accuracy with regard to threat observation – the sensors may quickly identify the distance and bearing of hostile transmitter sites by coordinating information gathered by the TF-70’s RWR with the precise location that hostile RF signals impact the airframe.

[Canopy]

The TF-70 features a fully modern polycarbonate canopy, which provides excellent protection against birdstrike and hostile fire. In order to improve pilot visibility and reduce optical signature, the transparency is tinted and treated with a polarized laminate. This serves to eliminate glint. Alternating layers of circuit analogue RAM and plasma-deposited indium-tin alloy are applied externally in order to absorb and prevent hostile RF signals from entering the reflective cockpit area. A layer of neoprene insulation is also present to maintain the integrity of HUD displays.

[Cockpit]

The layout of the TF-70's cockpit systems were of paramount concern to the Project Unmei no Atokata design team. Intended to maximize situational awareness for the pilot, displays and flight symbology are fully automated by the Mark 3 Hayabusa's Vehicle Management System, with processing power for sensor system integration drawn from one CIP specifically assigned to this purpose. Use of the InfiniBand high-speed bus interface allows for the high level of system bandwidth required for this application. The TF-70 features a fully digital, all-glass cockpit that has eliminated the confusing switches and dials of previous cockpit designs - this improves the effectiveness of the pilot by allowing him to concentrate on his mission, rather than his equipment.

The centerpiece of the Shukusei's cockpit avionics is a wide angle, 6 in. tall Heads-Up-Display. It is reinforced with vulcanized rubber and has minimal framing to preserve pilot visibility over the aircraft's nose. The system is capable of rendering a full range of flight and mission-critical information. TPMI/EC control software automates the displays and makes available to the pilot vital information useful to the phase of a sortie being flown at a time. The operator of the TF-70 may also queue up additional displays on the HUD or multifunction head-down displays through an intuitive touchscreen interface. All data outputs from the Mark 3 avionics subsystems are made available to the pilot through the Shukusei cockpit's AMLCD screens. The integration of these traditionally disparate elements through the Mark 3 serves to greatly enhance a pilot's situational awareness and combat effectiveness. For example, the data extracted from the CDI-1 navigational system allows for an astonishingly accurate "God's-eye-view" of the terrain surrounding the TF-70 at a point in time. Integration of CDI-1 with the Sensor Management Suite enables targeting symbology to be directly overlaid onto this map, thus providing a pilot with an unprecedented level of control over the battlespace.

There are limitations to the HUD/MFD combination however; it forces a pilot to look straight ahead in order to receive information about his aircraft and its surroundings, which leaves him vulnerable to attack at points all around him. As a result, the TF-70 features a set of Helmet Mounted Displays in the pilot's flight helmet. The helmet itself is an advanced, self-contained unit comprising the HMD, night vision equipment, microphone and headphones, and oxygen mask. Thanks to advancements in engineering techniques pioneered by TPMI/EC, the system is 20% lighter than previous-generation helmets even with the addition of the integrated electronic equipment, and provides the same level of protection. The HMD projects critical information onto a semi-reflective transparent visor in front of the pilot, and shares the symbology library used in the the HUD and MFDs. Additionally, motion-tracking capabilities are built into the flight helmet with a full six-degrees of freedom. This is linked to the MMTE-10 component of the Mark 3 avionics package, and allows for a pilot to cue up a weapon and engage targets from very-high off-boresight angles.

During simulator studies of the TF-70, TPMI/EC engineers found that pilots were unable to access their touchscreens during high-G manuevers. In order to rectify this issue, a direct voice input system was developed for the Shukusei. The DVI system incorporates advanced voice recognition techniques that enable it to respond to commands with a latency of only 80ms with an accuracy rate of over 99.7%. Additionally, it is able to interpret the pilot's voice even when distorted by the stresses of air combat manuevering or G-forces. The use of DVI enables a pilot to look down at his MFDs for a minimum of time, thereby improving his situational awareness through a significant reduction in pilot workload.

[Stealth]

Design studies for Project Unmei no Atokata conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency indicated that any successor to the TSF-620 would require significant reductions in RADAR, IR, and electro-magnetic signatures to remain competitive in the air superiority mission. Tyrandis Federal Air Service doctrine places its core emphasis on a pilot’s ability to achieve the first look and the first shot with regard to aerial combat – the DARPA investigation found that the best way to achieve this goal was to engineer the TF-70 with low-observable characteristics that would enable the fighter to remain hidden from view until the pilot of the Shukusei could engage his own missiles.

The TF-70’s unique shape and airframe design reflects this concern in a profound manner. The fighter has no vertical surfaces, and the angles incorporated on all horizontal leading and trailing edges are kept as different as possible, thereby dumping the reflected RF energy to the fighter’s port and starboard sectors. This results in large, but narrow RADAR signature spikes that are extremely difficult to track effectively. Shukusei exhibits a high degree of wing/body blending, which provides desirable aerodynamic characteristics such as improved lift, while also reducing RCS by allowing electrical surface currents to flow over the surfaces without interruption.

The TF-70’s sharp wing sweep increases the amount by which RF energy is shifted away from the forward sector. However, the resulting configuration leads to the possibility of "traveling waves", RF energy flowing on the skin of an object, to be set up. These waves can re-radiate a great deal of RF energy if they meet discontinuities such as seams, gaps or changes in surface material. To attenuate the issue, the Shukusei’s mission adaptive wing was used [see Airframe section], and all other discontinuities were either eliminated or sealed off with electrically conducting material. Ultimately, the traveling waves meet an unavoidable discontinuity, where the structure physically ends, but the amount of re-radiated RF energy is minimized by the extensive use of RF absorbers on the fighter’s skin. Other physical features have been redesigned so as to provide much less RF reflection, such as the S-curvature of the intake ducts.

The TF-70 “Shukusei” makes extensive use of an advanced RF absorbing material known as Schiff base salt. Derived from research by Carnegie-Mellon University, the material, which is a fine black powder physically resembling graphite, consists of a long chain of carbon atoms with alternating double and single bonds and a nitrogen atom interrupting the string near one end. The chain carries a positive charge, associated largely with the nitrogen atom. A negatively charged 'counterion,' made up of varying composition depending on the specific salt, sits nearby, weakly connected to the chain. The counterion prefers to sit in one of two locations near the chain. A single photon easily dislodges the counterion from one location and forces it into the other. A short time later, the molecule relaxes, and the counterion returns to its original position. Notably, certain salts required a very small amount of energy to shift the counterion - they could be triggered by RADAR energy of certain frequencies. As a result, the Schiff base salts are able to absorb radio waves, and dissipate the energy as heat. This unique property is fully exploited in the fighter’s construction - a mixture of salts tuned to surveillance frequency bands most often employed by air to air RADAR systems (X, L, etc.) are dissolved in the fighter’s bismelmide resin skin and aerogel chambers. The SBS class of materials is additionally 90% lighter than previous-generation ferromagnetic absorbers, and extremely inexpensive to fabricate.

Supplementing the SBS in reducing RCS is an epoxyide applied to the TF-70 airframe that reduces RADAR return through the use of non-organic microparticle absorbers embedded in the resin binder. Production of the material begins by coating 5-75 micron alumina spheres with a thin layer of silver and exposing the particles to selenium vapor at high temperature. The selenium reacts with the silver coating, which forms a film of silver selenide over the alumina sphere. This is loaded into the epoxyide matrix on a weight ratio of 1:1, which serves to enhance structural strength. Comprehensive studies into the absorptive qualities of the epoxyide appliqué indicate phenomenal performance – the silver selenide coated microparticles were found to reduce RCS by an astounding 20-25 decibels across the radio frequency range of 5-20 GHz. Also, the appliqué material shields the RADAR-transparent skin from being illuminated by hostile transmitters.

The exact RCS of the TF-70 is classified; however, released data indicates a reduction of at least a full order of magnitude as compared to the F-22 Raptor in most aspects.

In order to reduce electro-magnetic signature, the avionics bays built into the TF-70 are treated with Electric Wave Absorbing Material, developed by TPMI/EC. EWAM is a six-layer, non-woven cloth comprised of stainless steel and polyethyl fibers. The material is applied to the inner walls of the electronics housing in the Shukusei, and serves to eliminate electro-magnetic leakage from the on-board equipment. Under laboratory conditions, EWAM absorbs 99% of all emitted EM radiation, and serves to reduce the vulnerability of the TF-70 to passive electromagnetic sensor detection.

[Powerplant]

The TF-70/MRF-09's AFE-118 engines are manufactured by MP Ordnance Corporation. The AFE-118 is an advanced variable bypass turbofan capable of supercruise without the use of an afterburner. At its maximum output at 15,000 meters, it delivers 206.8 kilonewtons of thrust per engine, for a total of 413.6 kilonewtons of thrust. This is enough to propel the TF-70 to a maximum speed of Mach 2.9 in the Tyrandisan configuration and Mach 3.6 in the Pwnage configuration. The reason for this discrepancy in speed is because the Tyrandisan version of the AFE-118 has narrower intakes with a more deeply curved inlets, which results in a lower radar cross section as there less of a chance that radar can detect the plane's spinning fans. The MP version of the AFE-118 has wider, larger intakes with a more gradual curve in the inlet that allows for better, more efficient airflow to the engine, thus increasing both its efficiency and performance. The cost is that the Pwnage version has a slightly increased RCS vs. the Tyrandisan version. Both versions of the engine have their moving parts, such as the fan and integrally bladed compressor rings forged from single crystal titanium/cobalt metal matrices glazed with a thin layer of silicon carbide DCP cermets which acts as a thermal barrier coating. The same silicon carbide DCP cermets line the engine housing and exhaust vents as well, in order to prevent excess heat from being absorbed by the airframe itself. The intakes themselves have a flexible, mission adaptive lining that can self-adjust in order to modify the engine's bypass ratio, thus allowing for the engine to achieve maximum performance at all speeds and altitudes. The engine utilizes a counterflow thrust vectoring unit that allows for true 3d thrust vectoring without nozzles. The counterflow unit allows for thrust to be directed up to 25 degrees in any direction. The exhaust units are smokeless and do not leave any contrails.

In terms of maintenance, the engine can be accessed from either the top or bottom for easy removal. Like the F-119 used in the F-22 Raptor, the engine can be broken down into 6 modular parts and any of the modules easily replaceable. Also, the diagnostic software built into the plane's engine simplifies identification of malfunctions and other problems.

[Armament]

Main Bay

Primary armament for the TF-70 is carried internally in order to reduce RCS and improve aerodynamic performance. The TF-70 utilizes Imperial Aerospace's ARSADS-M weapon system in order to allow for the aircraft to fire its payload stealthily. Drawing on experience from the Advanced Reduced Signature Aircraft Ordinance Delivery System that was fielded on the ACI-73 Aquila (the successor of which, the Aquila II, was developed in tandem with the Shukusei), ARSADS-M is a modular system based on the highly successful design. Like ARSADS, it launches its ordinance rather unconventionally: the weapon system utilizes an semi-maneuverable undercarriage that is lowered out from beneath the aircraft while firing. The system is designed to allow for the aircraft to maintain a high degree of stealth while launching ordinance. Rather than using a conventional bay that, when open, presents enemy RADAR operators with a signature, the undercarriage system lowers slightly from within its own bay (just small enough to accommodate the undercarriage), and can launch up to five medium range air-to-air missiles from five seperate launch tubes.

Missile launches are aided via electro-magnetic coils and a high powered jet of compressed air, propelling the missiles out of the tubes, allowing for their engines to start a good distance from the aircraft. This means that the aircraft can remain better hidden, even when launching missiles. This also allows for ordinance to be launched during supersonic flight.

The primary difference between ARSADS and ARSADS-M comes in the principle of modularity.

Unlike ARSADS, the undercarriage system of ARSADS-M is designed to be quickly and easily removed by ground crews, allowing for each undercarriage to be easily swapped out. This adds a great amount of flexibility to the Shukusei, allowing for undercarriage systems designed to accommodate different types of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions (for example, an ARSADS-M undercarriage may be equipped to fire sixteen short range air-to-air missiles, or one equipped to launch a pair of 2000lb laser guided bombs; the possibilities are endless) to be utilized by the aircraft. Generally, the operation of ARSADS-M is as follows: upon returning from a sortie, the undercarriage of the Shukusei would be removed by the ground crew and replaced with a freshly loaded undercarriage configured to carry whichever type of ordnance is required for the mission. The spent undercarriage would then be reloaded with whichever type of missile it is designed to accommodate and reused, replacing an empty undercarriage on returning fighters.

Side Bay(s)

Secondary armament consists of two short-range air to air missiles carried in a pair of scaled down ARSADS-M launch carriages located to the sides of the intakes. Data from the ISTA infrared imaging suite is fed directly to the missiles for initial guidance, which allows for stealthier launch - instead of requiring their seekers to acquire the target in the slipstream, the weapons may be ejected as soon as the doors open.

Cannon

The TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter makes use of the ACAG-331, a twin barreled 25x200mm Gast gun. Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation adopted the design from MP Ordnance Corporation for its simplicity, light weight and reliability. The ACAG-331 is internally mounted in the starboard wing root and retracts into the fuselage when not in use to reduce RADAR Cross Section. The Doomani Air Force version of the Shukusei utilizes Doomingsland Defense Industries' liscence built variant of the ACAG-331, the D/ACU.230A. This version is chambered for the Doomani 23x135 CTA cartridge, allowing for a total of five hundred rounds to be carried while not sacrificing performance. Other then that, there are no major changes to the design.

Operation: Essentially, the recoil from the discharge of one of the barrels will chamber another round in the other barrel. The gun is fed from two 150 round linkless belts. The gun can adjust its direction of feed by switching the belt pawls and reversing the bolt switch, allowing for cannons on different aircraft to be easily switched out. If one of the barrels fails, the other one can operate as a standard linear operated cannon, although at a far reduced firing rate.

Ammunition: The gun fires high velocity combustible case telescoping ammunition of various types. A unique type of ammunition fired by the gun is the armor piercing combustible sabot ammunition. The sabots are designed to disintegrate after leaving the muzzle, which ensures that they are not ejected into the TF-70's intakes.

Barrels: The barrels are stellite lined with a bore evacuator in the middle to prevent fouling from being deposited in the barrel. Each barrel liner has a life of ~4,000 rounds. The end of each barrel is fitted with a recoil booster, in order to increase the rate of fire and somewhat reduce firing signature. Also, the barrels are ridged so as to disperse heat more efficiently.

Fire Control: The ACAG-331 is coordinated by the MMTE-10 electronics component, which integrates data from the inertial navigation system and Sensor Management Suite subsystems to automatically track and engage targets with superb precision. An override for manual targeting is also available in case of malfunction or pilot preference.

ACAG-331 Specifications:
Type: Twin Barreled Automatic Cannon
Ammunition: 25x200mm alternating HV/CTA HE
Operation: Gast principle.
Length: 3m
Barrel Length: 2.3m
System Weight: 86 kg.
V0 (HE): 1,400 m/s
V0 (AP): 1,670 m/s
V0 (APCS): 2,100 m/s
Round Weight (HE): 650 grams
Round Weight (AP): 605 grams
Round Weight (APCS): 580 grams
Effective Range: 3.5-4 km
Maximum Range: 8-9 km
RPM: 3600 rounds per minute, 1800 rounds per minute per barrel.

[Variants]

TF-70A - Standard, degraded capability export version (Shukusei)
TF-70A+ - Version in TFAS service (Shukusei)
TF-70B - Version in MPAF service (Ritual) - sacrifices some RCS-reduction measures for improved top speed as compared to the baseline model
TF-70C - Version in ACID service (Atratus) - uses Doomani-standard engines and cannon

[Specifications (A-variant)]

Length: 24m
Wingspan: 15m
Height: 4.8m

Empty Weight: 19,800 kg
Fuel Weight: 14,800 kg
Weapons Payload: 8,500 kg
Loaded Weight: 39,500kg
MTOW: 47,500 kg

Speed:
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.8
Max Sea Level: Mach 1.2
Max Supercruise: Mach 1.9
Maximum Speed (A): Mach 2.8
Maximum Speed (B/C): Mach 3.6
G Limits: +13/-5 G

Wing Configuration: Dogtooth delta+Ruddervators+Canards
Wing Type: Mission Adaptive Wings + Foam Fuel Tanks

Ranges:
Ferry Range: 4,200 km
Ferry Range (Extra fuel tanks): 5,500 km
Combat Radius: 1,860 km

Service Ceiling: 21,500m
Climb Rate: 20,250 m/min

Engines: MP Ordnance AFE-118 Advanced Variable Bypass Turbofan with counterflow 3d thrust vectoring, rated at 206.81 kN of thrust. Engine fans made from titanium/cobalt bladed rings coated in silicon carbide DCP cermets. Exhaust nozzles coated with the same silicon carbide DCP cermets.
Imperial Aerospace D/VPCBT-2A Variable Post Compression Bypass Turbofan [Doomani ver.]

Cannon: ACAG-331 25x200mm Gast Gun, 300 rds.
D/ACU.230A 23x135mm CTA Gast Gun, 500 rds [Doomani ver.]

Weapons Layout: 1x Internal bay, 2x Side bay, 4x Wing pylons
Internal Bay Payload: 3,000 kilograms
Internal Bay Slots: 10 slots [larger AAMs take up more slots]
Side Bay Payload: 300 kilograms
Side Bay Slots: 1
Total Internal Payload: 3,600 kilograms

[Price]

$200,000,000 USD - TF-70A or TF-70B. A+ and C variants currently not available for sale at this time.

NOTE REGARDING PURCHASE: Only client states jointly approved by Tyrandis, MassPwnage, and Doomingsland may acquire the design. Further, prospective customers must declare their intended use of the aircraft prior to release of sale.

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For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken...
The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape;
the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as the LORD has spoken.
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away:
and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

- Jeremiah 48



SB-22 "Sariel" Advanced Strategic Bomber

Sixth Generation Strike Aircraft of the Militaristic Federation



[Abstract]

With the unabated proliferation of air defense systems by a variety of countries, the Tyrandisan Imperial Air Force noted that strategic bombers suffered extremely high rates of attrition when deployed against them. As evidenced in recent conflicts, existing aircraft were simply too vulnerable to detection, and thus interception. Thus, the TIAF phased out its strategic bomber wings, opting instead to distribute the arm's force projection capabilities into the cruise missiles of the Strategic Rocket Forces and tactical attack units. Several billion dollars worth of investment into the acquisition of B-2A Spirit and B-1B Lancer units were thus flushed down the drain. However, the resulting loss of versatility became devastatingly clear during the ViZionarian Civil War, when the vaunted TIAF was unable to support its Doomingslandi and Pwnage allies with concerted air to ground operations. The lack of any strategic assets by the TIAF during the crisis and its ramifications left shockwaves within the Tyrandisan defense community; the impotence of a missile-only approach to strategic operations was revealed. Soon following the cessation of hostilities, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] initiated a Request for Proposals on a new bomber design, then referred to as the Next Generation Strategic Aircraft [NGSA]. The lessons of horrendous casualties suffered by precursor designs were not lost in this bid to regain supremacy in the field of aviation, however, as the DARPA contract mandated absolute survivability for the NGSA, even at the cost of flight performance or payload. As such, the proposed aircraft was designed to provide maximum low observability against detection schemes of all types, both passive and active. Development of the Next Generation Strategic Aircraft thus proceeded along these specifications – what emerged from the legendary Kotoko Aircraft Corporation design bureau's doors was an elegant weapons platform more than up to the task. Designated SB-22 and officially nicknamed the “Sariel”, the bomber's incredible stealth performance is the result of a complex synthesis of many engineering techniques pioneered by Kotoko. Production of the aircraft series commenced on May 15, 2006, with an expected run of five thousand airframes for the TIAF alone. The SB-22 Sariel represents the best domestic Tyrandisan military technology has to offer, and will likely remain in the re-formed Strategic Air Command's inventories until well into the next three decades.

[General Data]

Function: Advanced Strategic Strike Aircraft

Contractor: Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation

Personnel: 3 (Pilot, Mission Commander, Electronic Warfare Officer)

[Airframe]

The overriding design goal behind the development of the NGSA was stealth – this is reflected in the Sariel's complex structure. As originally envisioned by the DARPA program, SB-22's layout emphasizes reduced observability above all other functions. Secondary priorities were based around range and payload. Earlier studies by a number of private Tyrandisan defense thinktanks indicated that an integrated wing/body would be optimal; TPMI/EC's comprehensive research into the type made it a perfect match for the Sariel.

Most of the SB-22 Sariel is constructed of composite materials, due to their role in reducing RADAR Cross Section [RCS]. The frame is manufactured primarily from aluminum-nickel alloy, supported by thick layer of metal matrix composite (silicon carbide whiskers embedded in an aluminum matrix) and super plastic forming/diffusion-bonded titanium. Ti-62222 alloy reinforces high-stress regions of the airframe. TPMI/EC-developed RADAR Absorbent Structure [RAS] is then mated wherever possible to this skeleton. The RAS is constructed from honeycombed Kevlar sections, treated with a proprietary carbon glaze, and then bonded to polyethylene/carbon fiber skins on its front and back, creating a rigid panel. Each honeycomb is 3cm in length, and absorbs incoming RF energy quite well; the relatively large gaps allow for the RAS to dependably absorb or at least weaken RADAR returns of all frequencies higher than 10 Mhz. As a result, the metallic backbone of the Sariel contributes minimally to total RCS. The SB-22 is skinned in carbon fiber composites and honeycomb-type RAS, with Reinforced Carbon-Carbon [RCC] panels beneath this exterior to reduce the effect of thermal stress and improve stealth characteristics. An immensely strong sandwich of thermoplastic, Honeywell Spectra, and carbon fiber is bonded under this layer, to provide for increased survivability in case of hostile action. RF absorbing epoxyide is also applied as another RCS reduction measure. In order to keep RCS at a minimum, the SB-22 uses a mission adaptive wing. Unlike conventional designs, the adaptive wing has no conventional ailerons, flaps, slats, or spoilers but incorporates flexible leading and trailing edges able to bend into a required position without leaving gaps. The wings are able to to move from four degrees up to twenty five degrees down. Stabilization for the aircraft is aided by two steeply-canted tailfins, which also shield peripheral exhaust from infrared detection. As a whole, the Sariel is composed of smooth curves that ensure most incoming RF energy is dumped at angles well away from the front and rear sectors.

[Cockpit]

The cockpit transparencies form part of the SB-22's load-bearing structure, and conform to the same complex shaping rules as the smoothly curved airframe. As with previous designs, it is manufactured of polycarbonate, backed by a rubber insulation layer, and a thin strip of an indium-tin alloy. Lumped circuit analogue RAM cut to low-frequency RADAR is added to the exterior, which weakens the resulting RF return. The InSn coating serves to shield the aircraft interior from being illuminated by RADAR, while still allowing 98.5% of visible light to pass through into the crew. Blast curtains may also be used, should the SB-22 carry a nuclear payload.

Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation licensed an adapted version of the Advanced Pilot Situational Awareness Enhancing Cockpit [APSAEC] from Imperial Aerospace Corporation, due to their extensive experience in designing superior man/machine interfaces. The APSAEC utilized in Sariel features an all-digital cockpit scheme, making extensive use of touch screen OLED and LCD monitors, similar to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with its touch screen systems. This particular area of the cockpit is arranged to allow the pilot easy access to all important data and putting him within easy reach of various digital control systems. HUD systems are projected directly onto the canopy, rendering the pilot a full 360 degree view of the battlefield right through his field of vision. All computer and display systems are cooled via freon systems to prevent overheating. The integrated HUD/canopy is capable of displaying a full range of flight symbology, from basic information such as aircraft altitude, velocity, heading, weapons mode, etc. through to specific targeting and systems information. Input from secondary sensor devices, such as IRST and GPS uplink may be directly overlaid over the HUD. This system is further aided by a helmet based display, the Advanced Pilot Situational Awareness Enhanceing Helmet [APSAEH]. This helmet is a fully self-contained unit with oxygen systems. Target data and other vital information is projected directly onto the pilot's visor.

Flight control is provided via a twenty button HOTAS control stick, with integrated functions for all phases of a mission. In case of emergency, crew may evacuate the aircraft via ejector seats, the control sequence of which is executed via an quadruplex-redundant electronic module linked to the overall avionics architecture. Should any critical element of the aircraft fail completely, the ejection sequence will automatically engage, launching personnel in a linear profile that reduces g-force loads.

[Systems/Avionics]

Design of the Next Generation Strategic Aircraft's electronics components followed the driving principles behind the overall aircraft: stealth and survivability. To this end, the SB-22 makes use of a complex derivative of the Peregrine-II avionics architecture that powers every tactical aircraft of the Tyrandisan Imperial Air Force. Engineers at Kotoko Aircraft Corporation quickly realized that the traditional way of ensuring systems reliability, by stacking on layers of redundancy, was outmoded; such measures provided little more than "get you home" capability, if that. Ultimately, it was decided that the best way of raising the Sariel's reliability was to modify the existing Peregrine-II architecture in such a way that it could "repair" itself. In effect, the complexity of the structure is such that it can automatically bypass or even compensate for the failure of any individual element. For example, if a control surface fails, the NACS Mk. III flight control systems used in Sariel will automatically reconfigure itself, distributing control functions among the surviving surfaces.

The Peregrine-II architecture is manufactured in a full-custom ASIC design, utilizing Quasi-Delay Insensitive integrated circuits, which is a robust, asynchronous circuit that provides several major benefits as compared to traditional versions (circuits governed by an internal clock); these include early completion of circuits when it is known that the inputs which have not yet arrived are irrelevant, lower power consumption because transistors do not work unless performing useful computations, superior modularity and composability, adaptable circuit speed based on temperature and voltage conditions (synchronous chips are locked in at optimal clock speed for worst-case conditions), easier manufacturing processes due to lack of transistor-to-transistor variability, and less produced Electro-Magnetic Interference (Synchronous circuits create enormous amounts of EMI at frequency bands near clock frequencies). The entire avionics suite is driven by a Central Integrated Processor [CIP], which is a supercomputer built into the airframe. Because the integrated circuits operate under asynchronous logic, signals and instructions are processed near-instantaneously, without consideration for the restraints of a clock circuit. As a whole, the package is comprised of three main subsystems dedicated to mission management, sensor management, and vehicle management.

The Mission Management Suite subsystem of the Peregrine-II is composed of the terrain/navigation suite, fire-control, munitions management and Electronic Warfare equipment.

NGTRS-3 - Terrain Reference System, which relies on careful measurement of the terrain profile passing beneath the aircraft with a RADAR altimeter and comparison with digitally-stored geographic data. The primary advantage to using a TR system is that a standard TF (terrain-following) navigation scheme will alert enemy Electronic Survelliance Measures far sooner, due to the RADAR beam's direction. On the other hand, the SB-22's TRN's altimeter has an extremely narrow beam width whose energy is directed downwards, rendering virtually all ESM measures impotent, a critical component of the Sariel's survivability.

MMTE-9 - Integrated fire control system of the SB-22, which monitors all phases of weapons release. Data from the Sariel's sensor management suite is intrically linked to this component, which constantly updates the crew on target disposition based on the feed. It draws on the immense power of the Sariel's CIP to rapidly calculate suitable firing solutions. The MMTE-9 also functions to inform personnel of the condition of the bomber's stores, control weapons launch sequences, as well as door controls and emergency weapons jettison.

NSER-5 - Integrated Electronic Warfare System of the SB-22 Sariel. It is comprised of a number of individual subsystems, all of which are closely tied to the MMS component via a high-speed bus interface. Threat detection is provided by a super heterodyne RADAR Warning Receiver, capable of detecting LPI emissions through rapid signals processing of all major RF bands. NSER-5 also features a Laser Warning Receiver, which detects laser radiation and determines its bearing, one of the more popular guidance methods employed in modern missiles. Active jamming equipment is fitted to the Sariel in a series of modular attachments; these are the ADN-2 infrared jammer that makes use of a gimbal-mounted low-powered microwave laser to detect and jam incoming IR missiles, EOCM-6 which is a pod-mounted blue-green laser used to detect and jam passive systems such as TV/FLIR automatic trackers, and NRV-27 RF jammer. A modified XC-80 dispenser is also present, which is programmed to deploy multi-spectral chaff and flares only in the direction of a threat as determined by the NSER-5, improving Sariel's survivability. In practical terms, the NSER-5 serves to determine the location and nature of all threat systems, thereby warning aircrew when they are being tracked, targeted, or engaged.

The Sensor Management Suite subsystem of the Peregrine-II combines the SB-22 Sariel's RADAR, IRST, integrated signal processing, encrypted data, communications, and the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System interface, allocating the bomber's processor power to the sensor subsystems as required.

AN/PSI-6 - RADAR for the SB-22 Sariel, derived from the TSF-620. It is an Active Electronically Scanned Array system, mounted in the aircraft's nose, with sufficient Moving Target Indicator capability to burn through 5th Generation stealth at up to 280 kilometers. The AN/PSI-6's transmitter and receiver functions are composed of 3,250 individual transmit/receive (T/R) modules that each scan a small fixed area, negating the need for a moving antenna, which further decreases ESM detection probabilities as well as aircraft volume issues. Each of the T/R modules is composed of four MMIC chips - a drive amplifier, digital phase shifter, and low-noise amplifier, and a RF power amplifier. To protect the antenna from detection by hostile ESM systems, it is mounted in a bandpass radome, transparent only to the band of frequencies used by the AN/PSI-6. When it is not in use, suitable electrical impulses turn the bandpass characteristic off, making it totally opaque. The RADAR's elimination of hydraulics for antenna movements and distribution of transmission functions into the T/R modules alleiviates logistical concerns. The AN/PSI-6 is a No Probability of Interception system, meaning that the waveforms of the RADAR have a much longer pulse and lower amplitude, as well as a narrower beam and virtually no sidelobe radiation. The result of this waveform modification is that the AN/PSI-6 is virtually undetectable by enemy ESM receivers, as the RF energy emitted is spread over a wide range of frequencies, hiding among the noise of benign signals that clutter the microwave region. A tertiary data channel screens hostile ECM measures.

AN/RSI-1 - Inverse Synthetic Aperture RADAR of the SB-22 which processes the Doppler shift resulting from target motion as a means of improving RADAR resolution. Thanks to shared components with the AN/PSI-6, the AN/RSI-1 is highly compact, and adds less than 30 lbs to the aircraft's weight. By measuring the much larger Doppler shifts created by the Sariel's own movement and the target's changes in attitudes, the AN/RSI-1 is able to extract the Doppler effects due to pitch, yaw, and roll of the different parts of the target aircraft, processing these to obtain a clear physical profile.

MSRE-1 - Laser-Optical sensor, mounted underneath the aircraft's nose in a small pod. The MSRE-1 is a full EO package that uses a ytterbium-doped fiber optic laser to scan a 8x8 degree sector in front of the aircraft. Capability-wise, it can find a one centimeter cable at a range of two kilometers, even in poor weather conditions, thereby improving onboard weapons accuracy.

ISTA - Imaging Infra-red passive sensor suite of the SB-22 Sariel. It is a set of IR sensors mounted on the aircraft, which scans for emissions along red-scale lengths for all-aspect detection capabilities. The stabilized mounts enable each individual sensor to maintain their target within their fields of view. Up to 600 heat signatures may be simultaeneously tracked by the system. The IIR functions primarily to provide video-quality imaging of potential targets on the ground, similar to how the F-117A Nighthawk uses its infrared equipment.

ICNIA - Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics suite, which combines the functions of current communications equipment, such as HF SSB (High Frequency-Single Side Band), VHF/UHF, SINCGARS, Have Quick, EJS, JTIDS, various navigational aids and transponder/interrogator facilities compatible with NATO-standard IFF systems. Based on common digital and RF processing modules built up from asynchronous logic circuits, the system allows for all these functions to be seamlessly built into just one package. It also takes up half the volume and weight of the aforementioned equipment. The Central Integrated Processor filters much of the information being passed to the pilot, presenting him with only data necessary for the phase for the mission currently being flown, to prevent information overload (optional manual override).

The Vehicle Management Suite is responsible for cockpit controls and displays, flight and manuver control, and engine/power control.

NACS Mk. III - The Sariel is controlled by a centralized fly by light fiber optic system that takes both control input from the pilot and feedback from the various sensors and control surfaces around the airplane. Due to the critical role aircraft response times play in strategic bombers, a FBL control scheme was chosen for the aircraft. More importantly however, fly-by-light offers an attractive alternative to interference prone fly-by-wire systems. The popularity of EMI-based air defense weapons was not lost on Kotoko designers; thus, the NACS Mk. III is nearly immune to such errorneous behavior caused by outside sources.

AEAD - Active Electronic Array Device, which is embedded in the outer skin. This functions as a core component of the SB-22 Sariel's avionics. It is comprised of embedded arrays of microscopic active transmitting elements, which are unified by the Sariel's Vehicle Management Suite. Signals processing from the CIP enables these integrated elements to act like the active elements of a phased array antenna. This permits the Sariel to sense and communicate in optical and other frequency bands, and in any direction from any aircraft attitude.

[Stealth]

During studies for the design of the Next Generation Strategic Aircraft, the underlying problem of all previous bomber designs needed to be addressed. The relative ease of which enemy interception vehicles could engage strategic bombers led to the original decision by the Tyrandis Imperial Air Force to scrap its fleets of obsolete B-1B and B-2A aircraft. Ultimately, the Kotoko engineering group decided to make the proposed NGSA the stealthiest aircraft possible, primarily from experience on previous designs such as the TSF-620 "Xeon" and TAF-622 "Sparrow".

To this end, the complex shape of Sariel was decided. The SB-22 has no vertical surfaces, and the angles incorporated on all horizontal leading and trailing edges are kept as different as possible, thereby dumping the reflected RF energy into several preplanned sectors. The Sariel's sharp wing sweep increases the amount by which RF energy is shifted away from the forward sector. However, the resulting configuration leads to the possibility of "travelling waves", RF energy flowing on the skin of an object, to be set up. These waves can re-radiate a great deal of RF energy if they meet discontinuities such as seams, gaps, changes in surface material, or even shape. To attenuate the issue, the Sariel's mission adaptive wing was used [see Airframe section], and all other discontinuities were either eliminated or sealed off with electrically conducting material. Ultimately, the travelling waves meet an unavoidable discontinuity, where the structure physically ends, but the amount of re-radiated RF energy is minimized by the extensive use of RADAR Absorbing Materials on the SB-22. Other physical features have been redesigned so as to provide much less RF reflection. Finally, the smooth shape of the aircraft leaves very little turbulent air in its wake.

The SB-22 makes use of an advanced RF absorbing material known as Schiff base salt. Derived from research by Carnegie-Mellon University, the materials, which is a fine black powder physically resembling graphite, consists of a long chain of carbon atoms, with alternating double and single bonds and a nitrogen atom interrupting the string near one end. The chain carries a positive charge, associated largely with the nitrogen atom. A negatively charged 'counterion,' made up of varying composition depending on the specific salt, sits nearby, weakly connected to the chain. The counterion prefers to sit in one of two locations near the chain. A single photon easily dislodges the counterion from one location and forces it into the other. A short time later, the molecule relaxes, and the counterion returns to its original position. Notably, certain salts required a very small amount of energy required to shift the counterion - they could be triggered by RADAR energy of certain frequencies. As a result, the Schiff base salts are able to absorb radio waves, and dissipate the energy as heat. This unique property is fully exploited in the Sariel's construction - a mixture of salts tuned to the frequency band used in Over the Horizon RADAR and other popular long-wavelength surveillance measures is dissolved in the Sariel's outer epoxyide, rendering it effectively undetectable by such measures.

However, RCS reduction was not the only issue for the development of the Sariel - research into the conflicts of the mid to late twentieth centuries uncovered a startling fact: more than 70% of all missile kills were inflicted by IR homing weapons. As a result, the SB-22 Sariel's TC-400V1 turbofan engines were developed specifically to reduce infrared signature. The air inlets are dorsally mounted, to reduce RCS when viewed by ground-based RADAR. They are engineered with anti-RADAR baffles, and a curved duct, which prevents RF energy from entering the inlet and passing down to reflect from the front face of the engine. A secondary inlet draws in extra air, which is used to surround the efflux with a shroud of cool air. The exhaust nozzles are located in recessed cutouts near the upper surface, which spreads the emission laterally to achieve reduced IR signature. The long ducts are lined with heat-absorbing Reinforced Carbon-Carbon, which prevents infrared energy from seeping into the rest of the airframe. A set of chemical injectors is also integrated into the powerplant, which utilizes chloro-flurosulphonic acid to suppress contrail formation and liquid nitrogen to chill the air used the shield the hot efflux during moments of high threat. The wide perimeter of the plume increases the rate at which the gases cool, and also reduces the intensity of the engine's heat signature. Improvements were also made to counter the now-ubiquitous all-aspect infrared seeker mounted on air intercept weapons. Heat from airframe friction is leached away via a network of thermal vents. The RCC lining in the Sariel serves to prevent engine heat from spreading into the aft fuselage. Also, the SB-22 features a fully closed-loop heating system, which dumps generated heat from the electronics and friction into the fuel instead of re-radiating it.

[Specifications]

Length: 56.45m
Wingspan: 44.2m
Height: 12.8m
Propulsion: 4x TC-400V1 turbofans, ea. with 18,000kg thrust
Empty Weight: 66,158 kg
Max. Takeoff Weight: 195,366 kg
Armament: up to 27,500kg of ordinance in internal bays
Combat Range: 7,850 km
Ferry Range: 14,520 km
Max. Altitude: 19,520 m
Max. Speed: Approx. 1065 km/hr

Price for Export: $1,500,000,000 USD

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TF-62 "SUZUME" (Sparrow) Multi-Role Fighter

Sixth Generation Tactical Aircraft of the Militaristic Federation

"Breastdown fluttering in the breeze,
The sparrow's full of air holes.
Let the winds of winter blow,
Let them crack a wing, two,
The sparrow doesn't care.

The air streams through him, free, easy,
Scattering feathers, bending legs.
He hops calmly, from branch to empty branch
In an absolutely spaceless world.

I'd catch, skewer, boil you,
But my every shot misses: you're impossible.
All at once there's the sound
Of breaking glass, and houses begin
To crumple..." - Shinkichi Takahashi

Abstract:

The roots of the TF-62 “Sparrow” lay with a Tyrandis Imperial Air Force contract for a new multirole tactical aircraft to replace the ancient and ill-designed TSA-12 “Kestrel”. Kestrel's performance since the project’s completion was quite dismaying to her builders at Kotoko Aircraft Corporation, both financially and on the battlefield. Exported in significant quantities only to the Real ALM organization, the Kestrel found itself horribly outclassed in the air superiority role, and took only marginal success in air-to-ground operations. TSA-12 pilots serving the RALM suffered an unacceptably high attrition rate by previous generation aircraft, resulting in the priority completion of the TSF-616 “Eidolon” project to replace the Kestrel.

Since displaced by the Eidolon as the premier Tyrandisan fighter, the aging Kestrels were redesignated attack planes. As the ravages of time passed, the TIAF found itself suffering a shortage of spare parts for the TSA-12s, as well as increasing flight costs per hour due to airframe fatigue. Burdened with this fiscal abortion of a jet, the branch contacted Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation to provide a suitable replacement. TPMI/EC, in a joint project with aerospace companies from MassPwnage, produced the TF-62 Sparrow some four years after the project's initiation.

The TF-62 is a highly capable, multi-role tactical aircraft, cutting down on production costs while maintaining a high level of performance. It combines the functions of existing roles into a compact, streamlined design. The synthesis of the best Pwnage and Tyrandisan aeronautical science has to offer, Sparrow brings the agility of an ASF and the payload of an attack plane in a single lethal package. TF-62 boasts excellent maneuverability, advanced sensor systems, a comprehensive electronic warfare suite, and low observable performance.

General Data:

Function: Advanced Multi Role Fighter

Contractor: TPMI/EC, MP Ordnance Corporation

Personnel: 1 (Pilot)

Airframe:

The TF-62 “Sparrow”'s construction was born out of a compromise between Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation's orthodox and MP Ordnance Corporation's radical designs. It is built for maximum resistance to wear and tear, as well as limited stealth features.

Like previously designed Tyrandisan tactical aircraft, Sparrow's frame is constructed primarily from Ti-1100, a high-strength, low-weight, near-alpha titanium/aluminum alloy. Small quantities of nanocrystalline heavy metals reinforce sixteen ribs built from this material at the joints to add additional strength. TPMI/EC-developed RADAR Absorbent Structure is then mated wherever possible to this frame. RAS is constructed from honeycombed Kevlar sections, treated with a proprietary glaze based on carbon, and then bonded to polyethylene/carbon fiber skins on its front and back, creating a rigid panel. Each honeycomb is 3cm in length, and absorbs incoming RF energy quite well; the relatively large gaps allow for the RAS to dependably absorb or at least weaken RADAR returns of all frequencies higher than 10 Mhz. A lightweight graphite-epoxy and metal matrix composite (silicon carbide whiskers embedded in an aluminum matrix) is streched across this skeleton.

The aircraft skins are composed of a combination of graphite-epoxy and carbon-fiber reinforced thermoplastics. Reinforced carbon-carbon panels are bonded beneath this exterior, further reducing thermal stress and improving stealth characteristics. The leading edges and nose of the Sparrow is built from reinforced-carbon-carbon and titanium.

The tail stabilizers are deliberately canted off-center to prevent formation of dihedral reflectors, an extremely radar-reflective surface produced whenever two metallic surfaces are positioned at 90 degrees to each other. They are a multispar, multirib structure constructed of Ti-1100 alloy with a reinforced carbon-carbon skin. Finally, the tail structure also serves to dissipate IR signature when viewed from behind, restricting tailpipe visibility to near-zero and thus improving the Sparrow’s survivability.

Wing structure for the TF-62 is in a canard + diamond wing layout, similar to that of the YF-23 technology demonstrator. This was chosen due to its inherent low-observable characteristics, as well as achieving wing/body blending, which improves the aircraft’s range (more fuel capacity). Saw-teeth along the trailing edge allow for the addition of more control surfaces. Like most modern designs, this shape makes the aircraft aerodynamically unstable, giving the TF-62 superior maneuverability. Beneath the exterior of the wing lie layers of Kevlar honeycombed graphite epoxy, for strength and reduced weight. Finally, the wings also boast a low cross-section to reduce drag.

The fighter also provides excellent performance at high angles of attack thanks to a forward fuselage chine, which maintains pitch and yaw stability.

Canopy:

The canopy of the TF-62 is manufactured of polycarbonate, backed by a rubber insulation layer and a thin strip of an indium-tin alloy. It is designed to provide pilots maximum protection against birdstrike and hostile fire. Traditionally, the cockpit has been the most problematic area for advanced stealth designers; because RADAR waves passes through the canopy as if it were transparent, an especially strong signal will bounce back to its receiver because any aircraft interior contains angles and shape that generate a substantial return. The InSn coating allows over 98.5% of visible light to pass through to the pilot, but will appear on RADAR as a semi-metallic surface. Another innovation is the addition of lumped circuit analogue RAM to the canopy, which weakens the resulting RF return. As a result of these advancements in the development of stealthy canopies, the TF-62 possesses a smaller head-on RCS than almost any other aircraft in its performance class.

Systems/Avionics:

The electronics core of the TF-62 is a fusion of MP Ordinance Corporation individual components and a TPMI/EC developed architecture. Sparrow uses the Peregrine-II avionics architecture, a package which can be split up into three parts: The MMS-8 Mission Management Suite, the SMS-3 Sensor Management Suite, and the VMS-11 Vehicle Management Suite, which are connected by a 2.5 GHz high-speed fiber optic bus, although the VMS-11 has its own bus for aircraft control.

The Peregrine-II architecture is manufactured in a full-custom ASIC design, utilizing Quasi-Delay Insensitive integrated circuits, which is a robust, asynchronous circuit that provides several major benefits as compared to traditional versions (circuits governed by an internal clock); these include early completion of circuits when it is known that the inputs which have not yet arrived are irrelevant, lower power consumption because transistors do not work unless performing useful computations, superior modularity and composability, adaptable circuit speed based on temperature and voltage conditions (synchronous chips are locked in at optimal clock speed for worst-case conditions), easier manufacturing processes due to lack of transistor-to-transistor variability, and less produced Electro-Magnetic Interference (Synchronous circuits create enormous amounts of EMI at frequency bands near clock frequencies). The entire avionics suite is driven by a Central Integrated Processor [CIP], which is a supercomputer built into the airframe. Because the integrated circuits operate under asynchronous logic, signals and instructions are processed near-instantaneously, without consideration for the restraints of a clock circuit.

MMS-8 - This subsystem of the Peregrine-II is composed of the terrain/navigation suite, fire-control, munitions management and Electronic Warfare equipment.

NGTRS-2 - Terrain Reference System, which relies on careful measurement of the terrain profile passing beneath the aircraft with a RADAR altimeter and comparison with digitally-stored geographic data. The primary advantage to using a TR system is that a standard TF (terrain-following) navigation scheme will alert enemy Electronic Survelliance Measures far sooner, due to the RADAR beam's direction. On the other hand, the TF-62's TRN's altimeter has an extremely narrow beam width whose energy is directed downwards, rendering virtually all ESM measures impotent.

FC3S-4 Fire Control System - The FC3S-4 is the TF-62’s fire control system. Its processors can keep track of more than 500 targets at once and maintain relevant data on them, in order to engage any of the targets at any given time. With distributed computing, the number of targets grows immensely. The FC3S-4 is linked to all of the sensors on the TF-62, including the control computer that determines what the pilot sees. According to sensor data, it rapidly calculates a firing solution and then updates this as necessary up to the last possible second right up until actual weapon discharge.

ASPIS-4 - Integrated Electronic Warfare System of the TF-62, which consists of the NLR-41 threat warning system, NRV-27 RF jammer, and XC-80 chaff/flare dispenser. The system provides a fully integrated solution to the active and passive electronic warfare (EW) suite requirements of the Sparrow and has flexibility for future development. The ASPIS is comprised of two major subsystems: a passive receiver, capable of detecting Low Probability of Interception signals, and an active jammer. The XC-80 dispenser is programmed to deploy multi-spectral expendable chaff/flares only in the direction of the threat, improving Sparrow's ability to defend against both RADAR and IR guided weapons.

SMS-3 - This subsystem of the Peregrine-II combines the TF-62's RADAR, IRST, integrated signal processing, encrypted data, communications, and the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System interface, allocating the fighter's processor power to the sensor subsystems as required.

Series V MAESA - The Series V Most Advanced Electronically Scanned Array active radar is an electronically scanned, ultra high resolution, wideband inverse synthetic apeture radar. The MAESA is mounted as a series of individual transmit/receive (T/R) modules that each scan a small fixed area, negating the need for a moving antenna, which further decreases ESM detection probabilities as well as aircraft volume issues. It is placed in the nose and in a tail aperture of the TF-62.

MAESA is rated as VLPI, Very Low Probablity of Intercept, due to its long pulse, wide band, frequency modulated signal, and low sidelobe energy.

As a bonus, MAESA can act as a radar reciever, a radar jammer, or a communications mast, all by changing the operation settings in the radar controls. The MAESA has a search range of approximately 575 kilometers, and a track range of 400 kilometers for fighter targets and a search/track range of 650/525 kilometers for bomber sized targets. Ground scan range is approximately 330 kilometers, and ground penetration range is 105 kilometers.

AN/RSI-1 - Inverse Synthetic Aperture RADAR of the TF-62 Sparrow, which processes the Doppler shift resulting from target motion as a means of improving RADAR resolution. Thanks to shared components with the Series V MAESA, the AN/RSI-1 is highly compact, and adds less than 30 lbs to the fighter's weight. By measuring the much larger Doppler shifts created by the Sparrow's own movement and the target's changes in attitudes, the AN/RSI-1 is able to extract the Doppler effects due to pitch, yaw, and roll of the different parts of the target aircraft, processing these to obtain a clear physical profile.

Infernus ODLIR - The TF-62 is equipped with the Infernus Omni-Directional Infrared system, which depends on two recievers mounted on the Sparrow to provide 360 degree video quality infrared/thermal imaging for the TF-62. The software modules on the Infernus system package allow it to differentiate between decoys and actual engine signatures on airplanes, and as such, can override the less advanced sensors on air to air missiles if the need arises. Also, Infernus is capable of ground imaging for targeting strikes. It has a search range of 120 km and a track range of 77 km.

ICNIA - Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics suite, which combines the functions of current communications equipment, such as HF SSB (High Frequency-Single Side Band), VHF/UHF, SINCGARS, Have Quick, EJS, JTIDS, various navigational aids and transponder/interrogator facilities compatible with NATO-standard IFF systems. Based on common digital and RF processing modules built up from asynchronous logic circuits, the system allows for all these functions to be seamlessly built into just one package. It also takes up half the volume and weight of the aforementioned equipment. The Central Integrated Processor filters much of the information being passed to the pilot, presenting him with only data necessary for the phase for the mission currently being flown, to prevent information overload (optional manual override).

VMS-10 - The Vehicle Management Suite is responsible for cockpit controls and displays, flight and manuver control, and engine/power control.

NACS Mk. II - The Sparrow is controlled by a centralized fly by light fiber optic system that takes both control input from the pilot and feedback from the various sensors and control surfaces around the airplane. This system gives the Sparrow far superior agility and maneuverability to any legacy fly-by-wire system, thanks to the improved transfer speed that light offers. Finally, it is virtually immune to electro-magnetic interference. The flight control system binds all of the control surfaces and canards together, giving the Sparrow’s pilot unmatched agility.

Stealth:

The TF-62 Sparrow boasts reduced RADAR Cross Section and environmental signatures thanks to a variety of technologies and materials incorporated in the fighter. Although it does not have the all-aspect low RCS enjoyed by dedicated air superiority fighters, Sparrow is nonetheless a difficult detection target. Here’s why:

*Carbon: Carbon threaded thermoplastics and heatproof carbon glazes are used heavily in the Sparrow, absorbing a great deal of enemy radar.

*Angular Shape: The TF-62 employs a geometrically based RADAR dispersing configuration, developed with computational RCS modeling. Its curves and angles serve to deflect RF energy away from hostile receiver sets.

*RAM: RADAR absorbent materials coat every potential irregular surface, such as the armament doors, engine ports and refuling ports.

*Low IR signature: The Sparrow’s flat exhaust nozzles dissipate heat in a “beavertail” of infared energy, spreading temperature intensity over a wide range. Its tail structure also restricts IR visibility.

*No Contrails: Sparrow’s powerplant produces no visible smoke, reducing probability of visual identification.

Cockpit:

The TF-62’s NACS flight control system is linked to an system display integrator which uses a holographic model to project all relevant data into the helmet in a single, easy to read display that also shows a composite of the outside environment according to the sensors on the exterior of the aircraft. The helmet itself is wired to several motion sensors, allowing the pilot to aim at a point on the display simply by looking at it. This way, the pilot can set mission waypoints, designate targets to destroy etc.

Internally, what the pilot sees is the a 3d composite map of the world outside, assembled by the plane's sensors. Both hostile and friendly objects are marked with a target number designation, its range, velocity, bearing and potential type. Friendlies are also marked with the name of the pilot, the mission of the pilot, what the pilot is currently doing, and the status of the plane and pilot. If the pilot requests it, flight data, such as velocity, altitude, fuel capacity, engine load etc. can be placed displayed at the touch of a button and will disappear when the button is released. This simple control scheme reduces pilot workload considerably.

Features:

2 task-switching Multi-Function Displays
Multi-node RADAR indication panel
Octo-functional HUD synchronized with MFD and helmet targeting
GPS synchronization panel
Topographic orientation TRV systems
Autopilot TRV/NRT based systems
JTIDs/A50 airborne intelligence/global targeting, guidance systems.
APEX 345 ejection seat, synchronized with primary turbine failures.

Powerplant:

The TF-62 utilizes two TC-250K low-bypass ratio turbofan engines. They feature a very high thrust-to-weight ratio, and enable the TF-62 to operate at speeds of Mach 1.6 during supercruise. The TC-250K’s mechanically simplistic design means that it requires very little maintenance time as compared to its contemporaries. Electronic control for the engine is provided by a fifth-generation triple-redundant FADEC, improving the engine’s reliability. Exit nozzles for the TC-250K are manufactured by MP Ordnance Corporation, and are built from metal-injected ceramic. These are 3D vectored with the use of Counterflow Thrust Vectoring (up/down: +/-60 degrees, side/side: +/-10 degrees), improving aircraft maneuverability. The flat shape of the nozzles also serves to reduce IR signature by spreading out the exhaust into a “beavertail” of heat energy that is very difficult to detect.

Each TC-250K provides 38,566 lbs of thrust individually (sum 77,132 lbs) to the Sparrow.

Armament:

Cannon:

The TF-62 has a 25x200mm ETC chaingun, developed by MP Ordinance Corporation, capable of firing 3100 rounds per minute. It holds 320 rds for its cannon and uses combustible casings in order to save weight. The cannon lies behind a retractable RAM coated door, and the edges of the cavity made the retracting door are also coated with RAM. The chaingun is capable of phenomenal muzzle velocities, making the TF-62 be able to hit a moving target with amazing precision.

Payload:

The TF-62 Sparrow has six internal hardpoints, and an optional two mounting pylons underneath each wing. Up to 5,450 kilograms of munitions of most air-to-air and air-to-ground types may be mounted on the aircraft. There are two wingtip mounts for IR-guided AAMs as well.

Dimensions/Performance:

Length: 20m
Wingspan: 14.2m
Height: 4.8m
Propulsion: ~35,000 kg
Empty Weight: 8,845 kg
Normal Weight: 17,801 kg
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 22,112.5 kg
Maximum Payload: 5,450 kg
Combat Range: 3100 km
Maximum Altitude: 18,600 m
Cruising Speed: Mach 1.6
Maximum Speed: Mach 2.5
Rate of Climb: 16,120 m/min
Crew (List): 1 (Pilot)

Price for Export:
TF-62A (Standard version) - $120,650,000 per unit
TF-62B (Navalized version, reinforced materials, shortened tail radome) - $135,000,000 per unit
TEF-62 (Electronic Warfare variant, fitted with jammer pods and has a second seat for a EW officer) - $160,000,000 per unit

FROM: DANTAG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
TO:IMPERIAL AEROSPACE CORPORATION

DANTAG Heavy Industries Would Like To Purchase 2xTF-62A "Sparrow" Multi-Role Fighter

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We were looking at around 10,000 aircraft delivered over a 10 year period. Seeing as the previous standard aircraft was a fighter bomber we were wondering if it would be necessary to have a half and half, 5,00 fighters and 5,00 bombers. We are particularly interested in the SB 22 as our standard bomber.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The order of two [2] TF-62A Multi-Role Fighters by DANTAG Heavy Industries Corporation has been approved for export. Shipment will commence pending receipt of funds.

OOC: Aurum, if you plan on replacing the Super Phoenix, I'd recommend TF-70 to take up around a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the total number of aircraft to be replaced, with multiroles (either GEM Aerospace's FA-16, which I highly recommend, or TF-62) filling the rest of the order.

OOC: In that case heres my order
IC:

Aurum Domus High Command

We would like to purchase

2500x TF 70
7500x FA 16

We would like this to be over a ten year period so we can slowly take the Su Phoenix out of service.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The amended Aurum Domnus order of 2,500 TF-70A Advanced Air Superiority Fighters, to be financed over a ten year period, has been approved. Production on each lot of fighters will commence as funds are received. TPMI/EC thanks the Aurum Domnus High Command for their respected business, and hopes for future sales at this storefront. The request for 7,500 FA 16s however, must be approved by either IAC or GEM Aerospace for release.

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OOC: Exactly how do I get approval for the FA 16s?

OOC: Exactly how do I get approval for the FA 16s?

OOC: Wait for the Candrian Empire or Doomingsland to approve you. I don't have authorization to sell that stuff.

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Aurum Domus High Command

Thank you for coming to IAC and selecting GEM aerospace. Your order has been approved by the Military Consulate for foreign export; expect the aircraft to arrive within the next several weeks pending manufacture and delivery. If there are any requests for modifications (IE changing the inflight refueling system or removing avionics) please tell us now while we may make the necessary changes. Thank you for selecting GEM aerospace.

OOC: Bump

Also, TRA-92 (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12923612&postcount=22) has been updated. Will be added to the storefront shortly.

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Official Corinthian Government Telegram

The West Corinthian Senate has approved the purchase of a significant number of aircraft to refit our aging air force. We wish to eventually replace the Saab Gripen with the TF-62 "Suzume" Multi-role fighter and the Corinthian Corsair with the TF-70 "Shukusei" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter. It is the latter of these two designs which first sparked our interest in your fine company. With your approval, we would the following transaction filled in as timely an order as is manageable for you:

x1000 TF-70B "Shukusei" ($200 Billion)
x1000 TF-62B "Suzume" ($135 Billion)

Total funds to be transferred: $335 Billion Krones

The government of West Corinthia has deep pockets, and if we are pleased with the product, you may see us again to replace more of our older aircraft.

Signed,
Valerius Ptolemy,
Chief Consul and Czar of West Corinthia

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

It is with great pleasure that TPMI/EC confirms the Government of West Corinithia's order of one thousand [1,000] TF-70 B-variant and one thousand [1,000] TF-62 B-variant aircraft. Production of this order will commence pending receipt of funds. Our humble corporation expects that our wares will serve the military of your state to the highest level of satisfaction. We thank the West Corinithian government for their decision to purchase at Imperial Aerospace Corporation's storefront, and hope for much future business.

Funds have been transfered

Thank You

The Iron Imperium of Jaredcohenia
Hail Cohenia!
Department of the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force (IJAF)

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation.

From Tyrandis, we are interested in acquiring 150 Sariel bombers. The Sariel bomber has been proved by the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force to be a superior bomber, one that we wish to continue using. The total of this is $225,000,000,000. However, we have previously used the Sariel bomber, killing around 640 million citizens and 10 million soldiers, coming to a possible store credit of $9,850,000,000. With this store credit, the grand total comes to $215,150,000,000. The money will be wired at confirmation of order.

From the Candrian Empire, we wish to inquire towards the purchase of 1,000 FA 15 Cardinal D Air Superiority/Strike Fighter. The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in a new strike fighter, and reccommendations have lead us to the Candrian Empire's FA 15. Upon confirmation of order, the appropriate $141,334,000,000 will be wired.

Thank you,

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force Department of Purchases

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

Welcome back to TPMI/EC. The claimed scrip value of 9.85 billion USD as outlined by terms of the Armament Credit Rewards program has been duly applied and noted after confirmation by our third-party investigative services. As requested, the order of one hundred and fifty [150] SB-22 Advanced Strategic Bombers has been confirmed for export; production will begin pending receipt of funds. We thank the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force for their undeserved loyalty to our company and hope for continued sales in the future.

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Navy Purchase Order
Hello. As we are seeking a new carrier-borne fighter, our sources have directed us here. As such, we have decided to place an order for 8,000 Navalised Sparrow's. As this is an incredibly large order, costing trillions of universal standard dollars, we would like to pay this sum over the period of ten years. Furthermore, since it is a large number, we can produce these aircraft domestically, under the supervision of IAC personal, as before requested. We still await that decision for the Star of Fate and Cardinal machines as well. Thank you.

We would like to purchase five TF-70A "SHUKUSEI" Advanced Air Superiority Fighters for testing and technological research for one billion USD. For any sucessful [IE: Complete's government contracts] airframes using technology from these planes we will pay IAC $3 million dollars, they will also not be able to be exported.

Official Communication from the Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office

Greetings once again. We are pleased to report that the aircraft we purchased previously have met the Denomination's expectations and more. With that in mind, we would like to expand our initial order:

1,700 Star of Fate fighters, to round out the complement of aircraft already in service.
2,320 ACI-73E aircraft

Regards

The Iron Imperium of Jaredcohenia
Hail Cohenia!
Department of the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force (IJAF)

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation.
...
From the Candrian Empire, we wish to inquire towards the purchase of 1,000 FA 15 Cardinal D Air Superiority/Strike Fighter. The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in a new strike fighter, and reccommendations have lead us to the Candrian Empire's FA 15. Upon confirmation of order, the appropriate $141,334,000,000 will be wired.

Thank you,

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force Department of Purchases


OFFICIAL CORPORATE RESPONSE
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Dept of the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force

It's so wonderful to hear of the reputation GEM products have gathered over the years! Clearly, you've made the right choice. Your order has been approved by the Military Consulate for foreign export. Expect the aircraft within the coming weeks, pending manufacture and delivery.

The Republic of New Transvaal, seeking to modernize its aerial warfare capabilities in accordance with its departure from isolationist policies, sends its request (through the proper channels, of course) to purchase the following aircraft from the IAC:

48 FA-16 Priest Tactical Fighters
16 ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopters

for a total cost of just under 2.5 billion rand ($3,647,908,352USD). The Republic realizes that this is most likely a much smaller order than the IAC is used to processing, but due to budgetory restrictions the NTAF is unable to purchase more aircraft this fiscal year. However, if the reputation of IAC-produced aircraft is at all accurate, the IAC may expect more business from the Republic in future years.

[signed]Juriaan Gijs
Assistant Minister of Defense for the Air Force
Republic of New Transvaal

The Republic of New Transvaal, seeking to modernize its aerial warfare capabilities in accordance with its departure from isolationist policies, sends its request (through the proper channels, of course) to purchase the following aircraft from the IAC:

48 FA-16 Priest Tactical Fighters
16 ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopters

for a total cost of just under 2.5 billion rand ($3,647,908,352USD). The Republic realizes that this is most likely a much smaller order than the IAC is used to processing, but due to budgetory restrictions the NTAF is unable to purchase more aircraft this fiscal year. However, if the reputation of IAC-produced aircraft is at all accurate, the IAC may expect more business from the Republic in future years.

[signed]Juriaan Gijs
Assistant Minister of Defense for the Air Force
Republic of New Transvaal


OFFICIAL CORPORATE RESPONSE
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Juriaan Gijs, Assistant Minister of Defense for the Air Force, Republic of New Transvaal

Thank you for coming to IAC and selecting GEM aerospace. Your order has been approved by the Military Consulate for foreign export; expect the aircraft to arrive within the next several weeks pending manufacture and delivery. If there are any requests for modifications (IE changing the inflight refueling system or removing avionics) please tell us now while we may make the necessary changes.

As the Corvus is not our design, we are not cleared on confirming that order; it is a design of Doomani origin. We do not expect this order to be denied, however.

Thank you for selecting IAC and GEM aerospace.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

Welcome back to TPMI/EC. As discussed in private channels, the request for limited domestic production of 8,000 TF-62B Multi-Role Fighters for the PeoplesFreedom has been cleared by our corporation; we require however that these operate under strict scrutiny and supervision by TPMI/EC technical personnel and IAC-provided security.

The request of the Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office for the purchase of one thousand seven hundred [1,700] TF-70A Advanced Air Superiority Fighters has been cleared for immediate export. Production of this order will begin pending receipt of funds. As the ACI-73E is a design of IAC, TPMI/EC is unable to authorize release of sale; however, we do not expect difficulties. We thank the Government of New Manth for their continued support of our business.

As discussed in private channels, the Skyian order for five [5] TF-70A Advanced Air Superiority Fighter models for technology evaluation has been cleared for export. Production will begin pending receipt of funds.

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Official Government Message
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GEM Aerospace

We in The Silver Sky have been looking to replace our aging fleet of F-7/N1 Nightmares from Space Union Defense Industries. We do not need a big bulky multi-role fighter when a smaller single engine version would do just fine, so we went on a hunt. After much searching and research, we belive we have found the perfect plane for our needs.

We would like to purchase the FA 16B Priest STOL Variants, 23,760 of them for $66,434,330 each comes out to: $1,578,479,680,800 USD. We would also like to purchase domestic production rights for replacement parts as well as for 5,000 more FA 16Bs to be used as replacements for combat losses.

We will pay the cost up front.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

TPMI/EC apologizes on behalf of GEM Aerospace for its inability to personally provide a response to the order owning to bureaucratic logjam in their Military Consulate. However, we have been empowered (OOC: told to over IRC) to relay to the Government of The Silver Sky that their order of 23,760 B-variant FA 16 fighter aircraft is confirmed for export.

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TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter

[Abstract]

The TRA-92 (Tactical Rotary-wing Attack, Model 92) Light Attack Helicopter was developed by Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation to fill the Federal Ground Service's pressing need for an armed scout platform. With the gradual evolution of the TFGS towards a fully-modern, network-centric warfighting doctrine, this deficiency was identified as extremely critical; TRA-92 addressed this perceived issue by providing all-weather reconaissance capabilities that other tactical or strategic assets may be unable to furnish due to various factors. The design supplements and greatly enhances the lethality and effectiveness of its associated ground force with unmatched intelligence-gathering and combat capabilties. Officially nicknamed "Eiko" (Glory), these helicopters serve primarily as supporting elements of a larger deployment during coordinated air-land operations or through independent action. The overall function of the TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter is to ensure total dominance of the extant battlespace by facilitating the execution of division-level ground operations through timely reconnaissance and interdiction of engaged hostile forces. Combining superb low-observable performance, fully-integrated mission avionics, and an advanced sensor suite, the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter will ensure TFGS superiority in rotary-wing aviation on the battlefield of the future.

[Design/Airframe]

The physical frame of the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter was intended to maximize survivability and reduce vulnerability to detection by tactical air and ground based systems. The primary role of the helicopter entails the acquisition of accurate, valuable real-time intelligence of enemy manuever from standoff range while remaining unseen - TPMI/EC thus engineered Eiko to give off minimal levels of environmental and electro-optical signatures. This was achieved through an all-composite fuselage, constructed primarily from carbon fiber-reinforced polyketone thermoplastic composite. This material was chosen due to its outstanding toughness, impact resistance, damage tolerance, as well as superb high-temperature performance. However, the main advantage over a more conventional metal frame lay in reduced RADAR Cross Sectional properties. Additional efforts to reduce RCS are also evident - RADAR Absorbent Structure [RAS] panels of honeycombed Kevlar sections, treated with carbon glazing and bonded to carbon filaments on the front and back, are mated under the exterior layer. The RAS panels have very small gaps between honeycombs in order to improve structural strength, and are intended to absorb RF signals in the high-frequency region found on tactical short-range air defense systems. Areas of particularly high reflection on the fuselage are treated with circuit analogue RADAR Absorbent Material [RAM], thin sheets of copper wire arranged in complex geometric patterns that scatter RF waves and reduce return intensity. Finally, the fuselage incorporates a geometrically dispersing shape developed using computational RCS modeling techniques, and shunts incoming RADAR signals away its originating point through the application of Brewster's angle.

All elements of the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter's design emphasize its low observable characteristics. Instead of using a standard main and tail rotor, Eiko employs a NOTAR control scheme. The TRA-92 eliminates the need for a tail rotor to counteract torque by enclosing a variable pitch fan the aft fuselage section immediately forward of the tail boom. The fan forces low pressure air through two slots on the right side of the tailboom, causing the downwash from the main rotor to hug the tailboom, which produces lift with control assisted by vertical stabilizers and a jet thruster. Use of this unconventional system allows for significantly reduced acoustic signature; TRA-92 is believed to be approximately 60% quieter than existing designs by eliminating interaction between tail and main rotor wakes. Additionally, the design's operational envelope is increased by enabling the helicopter to fly much closer to landscape obstacles such as telephone lines or trees without fear of having its tail rotor shorn off. Landing gear and armament are carried internally to promote stealth characteristics, as well as improve aerodynamic performance by reducing drag. The combined wing-sponson assembly has sufficient capacity to house six hardpoints for a variety of munitions, and improves lift. The cannon is rotated 180 degrees and stored in a fairing behind its turret when not in use.

For crew protection, areas around the TRA-92's cockpit are secured against ballistic projectiles with lightweight Ti-6V-4Al titanium backed by aramid fiber. Vulnerable sections of the airframe, particularly near the tail assembly and powerplants, are reinforced with hybrid composite armor. These are metal composite foam panels, comprised of two outer layers of titanium metal matrices with interwoven monofilament silicon carbide whiskers, and an aluminum foam core sandwiched between them. Although expensive and difficult to fabricate, the hybrid composite has remarkable toughness values, can sustain multiple hits while retaining protective qualities, and is significantly lighter than materials with similar levels of performance. The cockpit is also sealed and pressurized to prevent chemical or biological weapons from incapacitating the TRA-92's operators.

Pilot and Weapons Service Officer are seated in a tandem configuration. The pilot is upfront, while the gunner sits behind him unlike most designs, a design choice inspired by the ACI-37B Corvus which currently serves as the Federal Ground Service's helicopter gunship platform. However, the WSO is seated in an elevated position relative to the pilot, in order to improve visibility and operational effectiveness in case of sensor or systems malfunction. Both seats are offset from the centerline in order to increase situational awareness in the forward hemisphere. This unorthodox arrangement serves to improve the pilot's ability to fly the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter while impacting the gunner's ability to operate his weapons minimally as he retains a clear field of view of his surroundings and unobstructed access to his weapons stations.

Layout of the crew stations on the TRA-92 was intended to keep workload minimal, allowing pilot and gunner to concentrate on mission objectives. The canopy is manufactured from ballistic plexiglass and polarized to eliminate optical glint. This lamination process improves both visibility and reduces visual signature. At each crew station lie four AMLCD Multi-Functional-Displays which render a variety of flight and sensor information. There is no conventional Heads-Up-Display; this is replaced in function with the use of Helmet Mounted Displays. The flight helmet utilized in the TRA-92 Eiko is an advanced, self-contained system, combining HMD, night vision equipment, microphone and headphones. Thanks to advancements in engineering techniques pioneered by TPMI/EC, the system is 20% lighter than previous-generation helmets even with the addition of the integrated electronic equipment, and provides the same level of protection. The HMD projects critical information onto a semi-reflective transparent visor in front of the pilot, and shares the symbology library used in the MFDs. Additionally, motion-tracking capabilities are built into the flight helmet with a full six-degrees of freedom. Targeting interfaces for fire control are slaved to the helmet, providing 'look-shoot' capability.

[Avionics]

In order to conserve developmental time and costs, TPMI/EC selected the MADHAT (Modular Advanced Dynamic Helicopter Avionics Suite) electronics architecture originally used in the ACI-37B Corvus for integration with the TRA-92 Eiko. Also, and of great significance, this design choice greatly simplified incorporation of the TRA-92 into overall TFAS force structure and inventories as common logistics facilities may be used in both helicopters. MADHAT is a comprehensive distributed computing solution which blends numerous and disparate sensor, mission-critical utility, and communications systems into a seamlessly integrated package. Every individual element of the TRA-92's mission equipment is centrally processed by MADHAT with built-in self-diagnostic capability to simplify logistics. The modular nature of the architecture additionally reduces TRA-92's maintenance requirements as most systems are packaged as easily-accessible line replaceable units.

Flight control for the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter is provided by a multiply-redundant, fly-by-wire electronic control system in order to improve pilot feedback responsiveness and reduce weight as compared to older hydraulic-assisted mechanisms of similar function. Although TPMI/EC considered implementation of fly-by-light for the design, the specialized and fragile tooling necessary to maintain such systems was deemed unacceptable. Establishing such facilities in suboptimal conditions that TRA-92 may encounter during the course of a combined air-land operation (for example, hastily erected Forward Air Bases to support a ground offensive) was determined to be unfeasible. However, FBL retains one critical advantage over the copper-wire system utilized in the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter - immunity to electromagnetic interference. In order to compensate for this issue, the control system utilized in Eiko is hardened against potentially harmful EMI through the application of Electric Wave Absorbing Material. EWAM is a non-woven, six-layer cloth comprised of stainless steel and polyethyl fibers, and protects the helicopter from influence by EMI. Additionally, the system reduces workload by enabling automatic hover or manuever while the pilot may focus his attention on other concerns.

As the primary role of the TRA-92 is armed reconnaissance, the helicopter features a wide variety of sensor systems providing acquisition, tracking, and, if necessary, fire control capabilities. All outputs from the helicopter's individual different subsystems are centrally processed by MADHAT, which implements sensor fusion for the TRA-92's crew in order to reduce workload and ensure data integrity.

Installed above the main rotor is a compact radome that houses a millimetric wave fire control RADAR, with range estimated at 34 km under optimal conditions. The elevated position enables the system to retain functionality while the TRA-92 remains concealed by physical obstacles. Under the same principle, the gunner sight is positioned in a mast assembly considerably higher than the main rotor. The sight is composed of a gimballed dual imaging infrared and electro-optical sensor system housed in a stabilized mount. A combined laser rangefinder/designator shares the assembly, and enables the TRA-92 to safely mark targets for on- or offboard weapons systems (such as ATGMs launched from supporting gunships) from standoff range. The IIR system includes a separate imager operating in Short Wave InfraRed (SWIR) frequencies which significantly degrades the efficacy of hostile optical camouflage. Every system is tightly integrated with cockpit displays, greatly enhancing the situational awareness of pilot and gunner.

The TRA-92 Eiko is only a single component in the network-centric force utilized by the TFGS, however, and as a result special attention was paid to the communications systems used by the helicopter. This is the domain of the Integrated Communication Navigation Identification Avionics system, which combines the functions of current communications equipment, such as HF SSB (High Frequency-Single Side Band), VHF/UHF, SINCGARS, Have Quick, EJS, JTIDS, various navigational aids and transponder/interrogator facilities compatible with NATO-standard IFF systems. Eiko enhances the situational awareness of its associated fast-moving forces by providing up to the minute tactical intelligence from its advanced sensor suite. Every output processed by the MADHAT central architecture may be transmitted to friendly forces via Joint Tactical Information Distribution System or other comparable battle management interfaces. In this way, data gathered by the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter may be analyzed and exploited by commanders on the ground.

[Countermeasures]

Due to the high attrition rate suffered by rotary-wing aircraft, TPMI/EC developed a sophisticated Integrated Electronic Warfare system to defeat tactical air defense systems in wide circulation. Internal design studies conducted by the company found that the primary threat to the TRA-92 would come from short-range surface to air missiles; Eiko thereby features a number of passive and active countermeasures designed to defeat these threats. Most effective is an infrared signature suppression system built into the airframe, that draws in cooler air from an inlet above the tailboom and mixes it with the hotter engine exhaust, which serves to reduce IR signature to approximately 1/4 that of extant designs. A super heterodyne RADAR Warning Receiver serves to alert crewmen if they are being illuminated by hostile transmitters, while a LASER Warning Receiver performs the same function for beam-riding weapons such as Starstreak. Housed in the tail assembly is an intelligent flares/chaff dispenser that is networked to the passive alert systems, deploying decoys in the direction of a perceived threat in order to maximize effectiveness.

The TRA-92 also includes a set of active jamming equipment. The ADN-2 infrared jammer makes use of a gimballed low-powered microwave laser to detect and jam incoming IR missiles. In order to preserve stealth characteristics, transparent lens covers manufactured from selectively permeable plastic shields the device from RADAR visibility when not in use. The system is capable of jamming multiple IR and UV frequencies simultaeneously to provide improved performance. The NRV-27 is the TRA-92’s RF jammer which emits radio frequency signals that interfere with hostile transmitter operation. The use of a directional, super heterodyne receiver in the TRA-92 enables it to engage in DRFM (digital radio frequency memory) jamming in addition to standard noise jamming modes. In the DRFM mode, the TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopter manipulates received radar energy and retransmits it to change the return the hostile RADAR sees. This technique serves to provide conflicting and confusing information for enemy interpretation. For example, the NRV-27 may change the range the transmitter detects through alterations in the delay in pulse transmission or the velocity the radar detects by changing the doppler shift of the transmitted signal. The combination of sensitive and precise passive monitors paired with directional active countermeasures improves the survivability of the TRA-92 platform by a significant margin.

[Specifications]

Personnel: 2 (Pilot, Weapons Service Officer)

Dimentions:
Length: 14.8m
Height: 3.5m, 4.8m including mast-mounted sensor system
Rotor Diameter: 12.6m

Weights:
Empty: 3,820 kg
Standard loadout: 6,250 kg
Max. takeoff: 7,200 kg

Speeds:
330 km/hr cruise, 350 km/hr dash

Rate of climb: 6.15 m/s

Powerplant: 2x TA-520 Mk. 20 gas turboshafts, each providing 2,788 SHP

Range: 540 km (internal fuel)

Armament:

Six internal slots mounted in combined sponson/wings; eight external slots on an optional Enhanced Fuel and Armament Management mounting attachment. All are capable of holding unguided rockets, IR-guided Air to Air Missiles, and Anti-Tank Guided Missiles. Each slot accomodates one ATGM, two AAMs, or a pack of four FFARs.

One 30x135mm CIGM-30-4 autocannon, firing Cased-Telescoping-Ammunition. The CIGM-30-4's projectile is surrounded with a high density molded propellant charge, enclosing the assembly in a cylindrical steel case. When the round is fired, a small charge located immediately behind the cannon round accelerates it into the TCIGM-1's barrel before the main charge ignites. This unorthodox arrangement serves to greatly enhance muzzle velocity and lethality against selected targets.

[Price for Export]:
$27,500,000 USD

We would like to redeem our own kills with IAC/TPMI products in light of the new Armament Credit Rewards policy. During our recent cleansing of Free Furry Islands, we recorded the fatalities induced by the SB-22 Sariel to be at least twenty million civilians dead.

In addition, we would like to purchase 2,000 TRA-92's to serve in select military divisions for the purpose of evaluation. Pending the results, we may order several thousand more.

-Reich Foreign Ministry-

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

Welcome back to TPMI/EC. Although we do not personally condone the massacre of civilians, our corporation makes an exception for deviant subhumans such as those that previously populated the Free Furry Islands. As a result, it is with great pleasure that the claimed credit of $300 million USD is applied to the order. The final cost of this order will be $54,700,000,000 for two thousand [2000] TRA-92 Light Attack Helicopters. We look forward to continued business with the Tocrowkian Reich.

OOC: Because I need to sell more stuffz.

Designation: F/A-84A 'Shadow'; F/A-84B 'Sea Shadow'; F/A-84E 'Shadow'
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Type: Advanced Air Superiority Stealth Fighter
Contractors: Scapa Military Aviation [SSNA], Aerone [Mekugi, now GEM Aerone], AVA [Mekugi]
Crew: 1 (Pilot)
Length: 23.75m
Wingspan: 17.25m
Height: 6.3m
Propulsion: 2x Aerone 3D Thrust Vectored Model 554 VBPC Augmented Turbofan
Engine Rating (Dry): 235kN (24,000 kgf)
Engine Rating (Afterburner): 260kN (26,500 kgf)
Empty Weight: 21,335 kg
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 52,038 kg
Minimum Fuel Weight: 13,335 kg
Maximum Fuel Weight: 18,213 kg
External Pylons: Two Outer Fuelsalage 'Plumbed' (2500kg)
Internal Pylons: 16 Hardpoints(400kg); 2 Hardpoints in both Side Weapon Bays (225 kg)
Gun Armament: 25x135mm AVA Archer A4 IRC (Impulse Revolver Cannon) [Mekugi]
Rate of Fire: 1200-2100 RPM
Gun Ammunition: 600 rounds (from two 300 round magazines, selectable)
Normal Payload: 3,304 kg
Maximum Payload: 12,300 kg
Normal Combat Weight: 42,852kg
Maximum Combat Weight: 51,848kg
Thrust-to-Weight Ratio[Combat Weight]: 1.24:1.00
Combat Range: 3,750 km
Maximum Combat Range (Drop Tanks): 4,650 km
Ferry Range(Drop Tanks): 9,325 km
Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 20,000 m
Maximum Altitude: 24,000 m
Initial Rate of Climb: 221m/sec
Airstrip take-off run: 350 m
Airstrip landing: >300 m
Fuel Efficient/Stealth Cruising Speed: 955kph (.8 Mach)
Fuel Efficient Supercruising Speed: 1,790kph (1.5 Mach)
Maximum Supercruising Speed: 2,267kph (2.1 Mach)
Maximum Speed: 3,461kph (2.9Mach)
Stall Speed: 160kph
G load limits: -6 / +15 [Human Positive G Limited to 12 G Due to Hydrostatic Pressure Suit]
AOA limit: 120*
In-flight Refueling?: Yes
Oxygen Generation?: Yes
Avionics:
AN/AYG-1012 DEATS CES
AN/AES-702V(3) Pulsed Laser Focal Plane Array [PLFPA]
AN/AEG-904V(2) Pulsed Laser Rangefinder [PLR]
AN/AAG-610 Thermal and Infrared Detection Suite [TIDS]
AN/APG-525 LPI AESA Multi-Function Radar
AN/APY-532
AN/APX-540 Short Range Composite ID Radar[SRCIDR]
AN/AVD-822 Recon/TV/IR Pod
AN/AXC-1211 'StrikeNet' Fed Strategic Video Data Link
AN/ARC-1309 UHF/(V)HF Tactical Radio
AN/ASN-1402 'Red Shift' ATAPS Advanced Tactical Positioning System
AN/AIFF-1523 IFF
ECM:
AN/APR-52 Radar Warning Reciever
AN/ALR-1642 Front and Rear Laser Warning Receivers
AN/APQ-1782 Multi-mode Radar Jammer
Counter Measures:
AN/ALE-1831 Decoy Dispensers (60x2)
AN/ALE-1832 Advanced Decoy Dispensers (6x2)
AN/AWE-1910 Missile Interceptor Dispensers (3x2)
RCS: 0.000008m^2[Front]
Production Cost: $105 Million USD
Domestic Profit/Split: $30 Million (30mil SSNA)
Domestic Price:$140 Million USD
Foreign Profit/Split: $55 Million (45mil SSNA)
Foreign Price: $160 Million USD [F/A-84E]

History:
The creation of the F/A-84 comes from two very unlikely places, Mekugi and Doomingsland. For years the Skyian Republican Air Force [SRAF] has been operating Space Union Defence Industry Aircraft, such as the F-6 Wraith and F-8 Phoenix. However, before that they operated the Doomi F-73A Aquila, and the Mekugian F-33 Raven, the shift from the smaller fighters to the absolutely gigantic SUDI fighters was they of what seemed to be nessecity. The SUDI craft, although much less stealthy then the F-73 and F-33 while also carrying a much more diverse and larger payload, something that the SRAF had wanted, they also did it without the maintence penalty of the Soviet Bloc F-63K.

Things had gone well for a while, until the Red Tidean wars. The war began nearly a year after the introduction of the F-177A to the Skyian Arsenal, the first purpose designed Strike Bomber the SRAF had. Before the F-6 and F-8 had been given bombs and told to hit targets. Although the incompetence of the enemy AA kept casualites to almost nil, the pilots and commanders did not like the risk of sending big, unstealthy ASFs to strike at heavily defended targets. The F-177 gave them the ability to send out strike bombers, complete with EW suites and some stealth to strike at targets. This ment that the F-6 and F-8's large bodies were unneeded, as the F-177 could carry all of the larger weapons.

So, several year search began for a smaller, stealthier replacement for the F-6 and F-8. As an interm solution the F-73A was brought back into service replacing many F-6s, but it was too small to carry the larger Skyian AAMs, or many of the medium ones. While the F-33 was too slow for the SRAF's demands.

So came the F/A-84. It's orgins come from some designers and engineers from Scapa Military Aviation [designers of previous familes of Skyian Fighters and Trainers, minor partner in SSNA]. Shortly before the CAD-SL wars and the formation of APOC they recieved a message from the SRAF asking for domestic companies to come up with a design to fit their needs. Also contacted was Edwards Aircraft Corporation, a civilian aircraft building company. They were given 6 months to design an aircraft and build a mock-up, quite a tall task.

However, both companies were up for it. However, their was no clause in the contract forbidding the companies to contact outside sources. Scapa took advantage of this, contacting SCAPA Industries in ZMI, as well as GDT in ZMI, and the producers of the Mekugian Archer A4 Revolver Cannon, as well as the builders of the Mekugican VPCB Turbofan used on the F-33 and the defunct F-40 Horus. The result, after 3 years of testing, combat trials, and upgrades, is this.

Airframe/Construction:
The structural skin of the Shadow made of Duralex-314 boron fabric held together with Polyaryletherketones or PEEK thermoplastic resin. This ‘Thermofiber’ composite material provides structural stability, and protection without the added machining cost or weight of a metallic outer skin. The PEEK Thermofiber material has excellent mechanical properties due to the fiber imbedded semi-crystalline polymers, good thermal stability and good chemical resistance. the continuous service rating of 250°C. PEEK is also inherently fire retardant.

The outermost skin of the Shadow is a simple but effective carbon infiltrated rubberized polymer providing excellent structural ‘give’ while providing many overall benefits. The primary benefit of the polymer coating is durability, its ability to move with the plane without ripping, and its smoothing effect on the airflow around the plane decreases fatigue and increase aerodynamics. The other Benefit of the Polymer covering is IR and LIDAR Suppression, the matte non reflective coating prevents accurate readings by means of LIDAR, and its thermal properties remove entirely the Internal radiated IR signature of the aircraft, the carbon infusing also helps to quickly dissipate stress heat generated by the aircraft as it moves through the air at high speeds decreasing its enemies detection and engagement envelope significantly. It is in fact this graphite colored coating that gave the aircraft its name.

Underneath the composite a coating of radar absorbing materials is attached to the composite, but this is only the first step, below the skin lies thin cells of carbon aerogel infused with radar absorbing materials with carbon fiber plates set at intersecting angles according to their position on the aircraft. This arrangement creates a radar ‘echo chamber’ where a signal passing though the RAM material dampening it, then is reflected away from the enemy transmitter and again passes through the RAM layer before exiting further dampening the return to even semi-passive bi-static systems making the plane nearly invisible to high and low frequency radar system both ground and air based. This arrangement is not only highly effective but, is much more resistant to stress and heat build up as it is on the inside of the aircraft skin. An added benefit of this system is also a 10% reduction in sound and a 5% reduction in the Shadows IR signature, even without additional coatings this simple modular arrangement fills many of the complex needs of the aircraft without complicating or increasing aircraft general maintenance requirements. This has already been proven during the invasion of Iragia, where 72 F/A-84 pre-production models literally could not be seeing, allowing them to prey on enemy fighters, striking when and where they chose to erode enemy morale.

The lightweight skeleton of the Shadow are 36 titanium alloy ribs that are highly resistant to creep or thermal expansion yet allow the flexibility to survive high G maneuvers and ’spring back’ without causing stress fractures or other unwanted side effects of such an action. The composite structural skin over these ribs are actually under pressure and are connected sheet by sheet via ‘stress joints’ that expand when needed allowing the skin of the plane to act as a structural form decreasing the need for extensive ribbing and decreasing weight and costs drastically. The Cockpit and both Engines rest independently in composite armored and shock isolated ‘hammocks’ designed to protect the primary components (the engines, pilot, and avionics) from possible damage due to ground/air fire or hard landings and allows for higher survivability with very little increase in the airframes overall weight.

The aerodynamic benefits of unstable canard-delta-ruddervator design as chosen for the Shadow project; its shear volume available for fuel and internal weapon storage combined with the agility of the unstable close coupled canard make it ideal for an air superiority and strike fighter, unlike anything the world has seen.

Also unique to a large air superiority fighter is the Active Aeroelastic Wing.

Active aeroelastic wing (AAW) technology is a multidisciplinary, synergistic technology that integrates air vehicle aerodynamics, active controls, and structures to maximize air vehicle performance. The concept turns wing aeroelastic flexibility into a net benefit through the use of multiple leading and trailing edge control surfaces activated by a digital flight control system. AAW techniques employ the energy of the air stream to achieve this desirable wing twist with very little control surface motion. The wing then creates the needed control forces with outstanding effectiveness. At higher dynamic pressures, AAW control surfaces are used as "tabs" that promote wing twist for added control force capability instead of trying to overcome control surface losses due to wing elastic twist. At these high dynamic pressures, large amounts of control power can be generated using this approach. In the same design, the AAW control can also minimize drag at low wing strain conditions and/or minimize structural loads at high wing strain conditions. Fortunately, when AAW technology is applied correctly, an active aeroelastic wing will actually twist less, although in opposite direction, than a conventional wing during maneuvering.

The F/A-84 is a great canidate for this technology, it's lightweight composite and titanium wing structures although much stronger then the orginal F/A-18 wings used in the AAW concept, however, it still is able to reap many of the benifits of the AAW concept.

Modifications from the AAW concept from originally planned wings included leading edge acuation system and the inclusion of new flight control laws. AAW design philosophy provides wing structure for strength, buckling, and flutter constraints, but adds no structure to satisfy typical stiffness constraints for roll effectiveness. The high-rate, leading edge control actuation system was installed to drive the outboard leading edge flap as a control surface independent of the inboard flap. The inboard flap will also be used as a control surface. The AAW control laws actively command the control surfaces to optimal trim settings in order to control the aeroelastic twist of the wing and minimize loads at high speeds. By using the trailing edge control surfaces and leading edge flaps to control the aeroelastic twist of the wing, the aerodynamic forces on the wing provide the desired roll forces. A lightweight flexible wing will be beneficial to controllability.

AAW technology is a novel way of providing powerful rolling control forces for high performance aircraft. The technology is especially effective with thin, flexible wings and allows designers more freedom to exploit highly efficient, thin, higher aspect ratio aerodynamic wing planforms. Benefits to future air vehicles as a result of the application of AAW technology include substantially increased control power from conventional control surfaces by maintaining their effectiveness, reduced aerodynamic drag through programmed optimum control surface deflection, and reduced aircraft structural weight due to relaxed stiffness and hinge moment requirements. Other benefits include reduced wing and control surface deflection by allowing the wing deflection to help the control function, and an overall increased design latitude in terms of wing span, sweep, and thickness due to relaxed stiffness requirements. These benefits result in little added hardware complexity.

Also included are variable geometry canards, which function much like the F-14's wings, they extend during low speed flight and dogfighting to increase wing area, and lift, and retract into the body via serrated 'doors' during high-speed flight.

Electronics/Avionics:
The Avionics and Targeting Package of the Shadow allows it the enjoy a large edge over competitors aircraft, namely that of SUDI Orgin, which are several years outdated. This new brand of electronics package, nearly as deadly as the planes armament itself! The comprehensive electronic package is named AN/AYG-1012 'Digital Electronic Advanced Targeting System' [DEATS], and it really does what it says. It combines every threat detection, fire control, avionics, and active countermeasures into a single streamlined entity capable of truly awesome capabilities matched by none in the aerial arena. The system also allows it's data to be send to any other unit capable of processing the data, via Skyian Armed Forces StrikeNet, a three-dimensional composite system utilizing data from every threat detection system throughout the entire Armed Capitalist Republic. The system is made of almost fiber optic cables, and all things that must me metal are placed in faraday cages if possible.

The Shadow and its DEAT System is the embodyment of the Skyian Republican Air Force's 'See First, Kill First' Doctrine. With the Shadow's level of stealth it is capable of getting closer then ever to assure the pilot of a kill, without being detected. In test it was able to close head on to an F-6 Super Wraith up to 30km, before the Super Wraith detected it's approach. That's quite a bit against a powerful, proven radar set that's supposed to detect threats from over 470km.

The Advanced Threat Detection and Classification Suite [ATDCS] is a system that can provide an on-demand [to reduce computer loading] three dimensional map of the surrounding aerospace, and beyond when intergrated with StrikeNet. The ATDCS is a comprehensive set of detection systems. The initial set is the combined Photon Emission, Detection, and Ranging [PEDR] suite which utilizes two detection methods: Ambient Light [LIDAR] and Introduced Laser Detection [LADAR]. The two systems are intertwined. The AN/AES-702V(3) Pulsed Laser Focal Plane Array [PLFPA] provides an wide view, three dimensional composite imaging, increased frame rates [faster threat detection], and can provide up to nine centimeters of depth perception since it is a photon emission and ranging device and does not measure intensity of the laser/light that returns too it, but rather the time of flight of the photons to the target, and thereby giving the range, also while increase the system usefulness in smoke and precipitation, and letting it penetrate netting. Because information is encoded in each pixel, the system can produce a three-dimensional, or "angle-angle-range", image. Emitters are located through-out the aircraft. The suite is tied in with a AN/AEG-904V(2) pulsed laser rangefinder for determing accurate target distances in conjunction with the infrared search and track system, and is also capable of designating sites for laser guided weapons.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: <120 Aerial Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance: 121km [Forward Arc]; 113/105km [Rear/Sides]
Detail Scan: 105km [Forward Arc]; 97/89km [Rear/Sides]
Surface Scan[Ground Mapping]: 89km

However, this advanced suite is not the only system that provides the Shadow's Pilot with unparalleled situational awareness capabilities. It is further completmented by the AN/AAG-610 Thermal and Infrared Detection Suite [TIDS] which offers enhanced thermal and infrared viewing and threat classification. The system can be used passively like most IR suites or actively by using an active infrared imager to offer near-RADAR-like qualities. This system networks directly, as do all other systems, into the DEATS CES to provide an on-demand three dimensional view of the battlespace for the pilot. The infrared suite also has a IRST set-up to allow for scanning and tracking abilities at ranges of up to forty five miles pending atmospheric conditions and temperatures. Also, the TIDS is networked into the flare/chaff and active missile defence system on the aircraft [detailed later] by tracking incoming missiles and releasing decoys/AMMs at the precise moment.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: <120 Aerial Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance: 97km [Forward Arc]; 72km [Rear/Sides]
Detail Scan: 64km [Forward Arc]; 56km [Rear/Sides]
Surface scan [Passive][Surface-to-Air Threat Management]: 64km

The final portion of the infinitely dealy DEATS CES is the 'Omni-Light' RADAR Primary Threat Detection System [PTDS]. The primary system of the PTDS is the Combined Radar Suite, composed primarily of the AN/APG-525 Next Generation LPI [low/no probability of intercept] Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Function Radar with a full three hundred-sixty degree[360] range of four hundred thirty-four [434] kilometer courtesy of planar arrays through out the air-frame, including twin arrays in tail housing. The forward arc viewing range, due to an enhanced emission set and focusing of sets. is around five-hundred and seven [507] kilometers, especially with the bundled AN/APY-532. The whole system contains nearly 7,000 T/R tiles, 3000 in the front, 2000 for the rear array, and 1000 each for the wing arrays.

This is augmented by an AN/APX-540 short range composite ID radar, and the AN/APR-521 Panoramic Passive Radar Imager [PPRI] to offer a unique geo-location ability. The AN/APR-521 unit utilizes passive radar to obviously detect emitted radio waves and radiation; however, after this, it takes the data and from its incoming frequency and power-level, determines the range to target and actually calculates where the radar-emitting source is, as well as the effective range of its capabilities. This allows the Shadow to map the enemy's ground radar installations, or even track airborne sources of radar emission, to best avoid their effective ranges according to power levels and return signal power [as well as frequency, band, etc.].

Each radar has been updated with its counter-electronic, and even counter-counter-counter-electronic warfare system upgrade to allow for autonomous radar cycling in accordance with other aircraft and any airborne radar system. This is further enhanced with fibre-optics to allow for near-simultaneous frequency cycling. Again, this alows for the tracking of missiles to deploy countermeasures and AMMs.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: <120 Aerial Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance and General Threat Detection: 507km [Forward Arc]; 434km [Rear/Sides]
Detail Scan and Specific Threat Detection: 402km [Forward Arc]; 298km[Rear/Sides]
Surface scan [full power][Ground Mapping]: 338km
Surface scan [Stealth][Ground Mapping]: 113km

The only remaining system networked with the threat detection and management system is the electro-optical expansion set. This system, designated AN/AVD-822, is designed to fit snugly into the recessed hardpoints located on the underside of the Shadow aircraft and gives it the ability to both operate as a reconaissance aircraft and a ground attack aircraft. The AN/AVD-822 operates in both the visual and infrared spectrums and offers stereo dual-band imagery at a rate of up to twenty-five thousand square miles of imagery an hour. The dual band imagery will give tactical reconnaissance the ability to clearly distinguish man-made from natural objects. The ability to also display data from other targetting systems enhances the overall quality and effects of imagery taken in a reconaissance role. The actual AN/AVD-822 pod is designed to be of a low-RCS nature and does little to raise the total radar cross section of the aircraft.

Detection is but one part of the equation which results in the definite victory over an opponent, and fire control must be on par with your detection capabilities in order for the equation to truly be on your side. This is where the DEATS system rises above all. It provides unparalleled data consumption and utilization to ensure the complete and utter dominance of this truly amazing aircraft on the battlefield.

The heart of the DEATS Fire Control Suite [FCS] is the StrikeNet which links this singular aircraft to a database of immeasurable information and the computing power to process hundreds of separate targets per aircraft. The first thing the fire control suite does is turn all consumable data into the singular three-dimensional battlespace view which the system relies upon [an imaginary concept as all data is 'on-demand']. From there, the DEATS system actually assists the commander and/or crew in determining which targets to attack. Regardless of the commander's actions, the DEATS system observes friendly unit actions as well as opposing force actions to determine likely outcomes in all forms of attack and can advise the crew, or work in conjunction with him. Obviously, the system can be disengaged, but when engaged, it gives the crew a foresight into any potential maneuver or action. Supplementing this is the fact that each individual aircraft can track upwards of one hundred and twenty targets, ranking them according to type, threat level, range, and other factors and placing them in a prioritized fire list, which can be changed according to mission objectives and/or other factors [120 targets utilizing non-basic material. Cannot provide firing solutions, nor advanced tracking upon seventy of them without communicating with seperate aircraft]. Up to three hundred seperate targets can be detected and tracked at a basic level.

By using the StrikeNet and its computer system aboard, the DEATS system can fire on an unlimited number of targets if it had the armament [assuming a non-interrupted data-link]. This means that a single Shadow could fly ahead of a wing of similar aircraft, find and designate targets, relaying that data back to the rest while those aircraft open fire. Yet, chances are, this strategy wouldn't have to be used as the enemy aircraft wouldn't even know of any of their existance [the lead plane or the rest].

Even though the DEATS system can control other aircraft, how about its own? This is where it outperforms itself, avionics. The Enhanced Flight Control and Stability System [EFCSS] is an all-inclusive fly-by-light [fibre-optic] control system providing superb, fluid, and precise movement and maneuverability using all control surfaces available. The system links together every movement system together [including all control surfaces, canards, thrust vectoring, etc.] to give the aircraft maneuverability unmatched by even the swiftest bird in existance. The system is also very easy to get used to, due to its fluid and precise movement controls, allowing even newly released cadets fly the aircraft as though he'd been through hell and back with it. The EFCSS is triple redundant and utilizes a back up fly-by-wire system as well as an emergency mechanical linkage providing basic maneuvering capabilities.

Another system networked with DEATS the helmet used by Skyian Pilots, the HEads All Direction, Gunnery/Engagement and Attack Gear System [HEADGEARS] which provides a 180 Degree Off Bore-Sight Targeting Capability, allowing it to fire missiles at enemies above, to the sides, back and to some degree below provide a missile is capable of such feats.

The Foreign Version of the DEATS system has slightly lower power electronics, meaning a 5% reduction in range for all systems and the tracking capability of only 108 targets.

Counter-Measures/ECM

Beyond stealth, aircraft no matter how advanced can be vulnerable to enemy missiles. It was in this that the Scapa team set to make a very effective electronic and physical countermeasure suite.

First among the countermeaure system is the AN/APG-525 LPI AESA Multi-Function Radar, a broad spectrum low signature system designed to be used in high threat areas where radar signature is not as much of a concern, however, it does have a low strength scan mode for when EM signatures need to be kept low, but not off. In this role it provides nearly flawless detection of even stealthy high-velocity threats with an 98% sucess rate, although this rate goes up as the threat get's closer. A passive setting on the AN/APG-525 allows for radar lock warnings at long range and high speed allowing the pilot ample time and options in so far as countering the threat.

When radar emissions are not advisable, the AN/ALR-1642 Front and Rear Laser/IR Warning Receivers with launch detection cues allows for zero signature warning and tracking against beam riding, and MANPAD systems, this is tied into the AN/AES-702V(3) PLFPA and AN/AAG-610 [TIDS] for maximum effectiveness.

The second set of countermeasure systesm used by the F/A-84 follow a more direction approach, The AN/ALD ‘Laser Point’ Laser/Infrared Dazzler allows for the direct distraction and subsequent neutralization of IR or multi-mode seeking missiles. But as such is partially limited in its role, requiring missiles to get fairly (25-15km) before it becomes effective. The second and last system is not so much an independant system as a mode of something else. the AN/APG-525 has a third mode after active and passive. This mode focuses intense high power radar waves on a focal point identified on the missile/aircraft (generally the nose), bombarding it with intense microwaves, this has shown in that in aircraft, cruise missiles, and AAMs/SAMs without dedicated fly by light or secondary electronic systems that the microwaves can damage and even destroy electronics, much like the vaunted F-22 AN/APG-77 is supposed to be able to do. This allows for the F/A-84 to engage cruise missiles at stand off ranges even without weapons. It was proven using an SuF-6's radar on a Kahanistani MC-130 over Imperial Clandon. it can also jam enemy radars, especially older sets with varying degrees of effective, IE better against missiles, not so much against complex SAM ground radars.

The third and last teir of the F/A-84s countermeasure system is much more physical in it's approach. The systems are listed below.

*AN/ALE-1831 Decoy Dispensers: 30 Chaff and 30 Flares are arranged two 'metal storm' stacked arrays allow for high volume of countermeasures in a very compact area, and high exit velocity increasing the countermeasures ‘footprint‘ for increased effect.

*AN/ALE-1832 Advanced Decoy Dispensers: Located just fore of the AN/ALE-1831 system this system is based on ground based grenade launched countermeasures. It carries nine countermeasures per launcher, they are fired off under their own power, using a small rocket motor. They are designed to have a similar RCS and IR signature to a F/A-84. They streak away from the airframe in an attempt to distract the missile, and then explode in a flare like explosion. Also included is a capacitor and a large bundle of copper wire. Which, slightly before the the decoy explodes the shell around this comes off, the copper wire flows out and the capacitor fires, vaporising the wire and creating an EM 'Scream' similar to that of the F/A-84's radar, allowing it to draw off ARMs or missiles with a home-on-emissions mode. Effectiveness hovers about at 50%, varying missile by missile. The orginal concept is used in the 81mm 'Screamer' Grenade on the M160A2 'Phoenix' MBT, and that concept comes from ZMI.

*AN/AWE-1910 Missile Interceptor Dispensers: Last, but not least, is the last ditch defense against long range missiles. These 105mm 'Wasp' Missile Interceptors are pushed out of their tubes via a compressed air system, which also fires compressed air on the nose. This caused the munition to tumble, until the semi-active radar comes online and fins place the munition towards the incoming missile, at which time it fires the motor, streaks towards the target and via a proximty fuse explodes near the target with an expanding rod warhead, shearing the missile in half. This allows the system to engage targets front, rear, and sides. Effectiveness is debatable, hovering about 60-75% for long range unmanuverable missiles, all the way down to nearly 25% for short ranged dogfighting missiles. And is all but useless, with 8% effectiveness against missiles during a dog fight.

Propulsion
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The F/A-84 is powered by two Aerone Model 554 Thrust Vectored VPCB (Variable Post Compression Bypass) Turbofan engines. This engine was developed by the Aerone of Mekugi originally for the Horus project and is a derivative of the V653 twin-shaft VBPC turbofan engine as originally used on the F-33 Raven.The modular design includes a Five-stage, low-pressure (LP) compressor, Five-stage counter rotating high-pressure (HP) compressor, Advanced annular combustion chamber and dual-stage LP and HP turbines, afterburner, heat exchanger, and mixer.

Each engine can provide 235kN thrust dry and 260kN with the afterburner and is independently directable from -30 to +30 degrees along the vertical and -15 to +15 degrees along the horizontal plane. The nozzles are connected to the annular swivel and can be moved in the pitch plane by a set of three of hydraulic jacks. The thrust vector control allows maneuvers at speeds nearing zero without angle-of-attack limitations. The vectoring controls can be operated manually by the pilot or automatically by the flight control system as per the pilots preference.

The major objective for the Variable Post Compression Bypass Turbofan application is to provide some degree of engine cycle variability that will not significantly increase the cost, the maintenance requirements, or the overall complexity of the engine. In the past, variable-cycle engines were designed with large variations in bypass ratio to provide jet noise reduction. However, these types were complicated and did not perform well. Though the concept of an engine meeting the Supersonic performance of a Turbojet with the economy and subsonic performance of a Turbofan has lead down many interesting and varied roads in the past.

In the VPCB turbofan air enters the compressor and bypass vents as per a normal turbojet. The first noticeable difference between the engines however is that the VPCB design has no outerfan. This is difference does as they say, make all the difference. As air enters the center vane it is compressed to a higher level than those passing through the bypass. Air bypasses the main compressors by means of the outer ring and is 'injected' after the LP and HP compressors into the annular turbines increasing exit mass and improving overall compression by assisting in the rotation of the LP and HP Turbines (and thus the HP and LP Compressors) At lower altitudes the air is thicker and therefore the pressure is greater sucking more air in through the bypass generating the same overall effect of a turbofan. In higher altitudes the air is thinner and thus the compression is less allowing it to work more efficiently as a low bypass turbojet giving greater efficiency. In a conventional Seperated system the Turbines are on their own robbing thrust by the nesssecity of turning the compressors, there is no help to the turbines in this way, only overal thrust improvement. With this method the turbines recieve additional exit mass via bypass improving the compression ratios at lower altitudes, and allowing for better use of available atmosphere at higher altitudes it also allows for higher thrust. Because there is no fan there is less vibration, less noise and less stress on the turbines as the rotational mass is smaller. Likewise since there is no gear to the fan, the system is less complex and yet completely self adjusting according to the thickness of the air entering the turbines. Its this automatic adjusting without complex or easily breakable parts that allows the VPCB to perform superbly at all levels of requirements from subsonic to supersonic maneuvers, all the way to low altitude hat high speeds the VPCB can do it and is nearly uniformly efficient in all transitions.

In order to achieve the range necessicary by the F/A-84 Aerone sat down with their best fluid dynamicis (some fo which worked on the Unity project) and began to sketch otu ideas on how to achieve similar thrust at lower feul consumption the engineers began to study how feul reacts with the air inside the ingition section of the engine, it took over six months (and missed the deadline for the intial batch of F/A-84's) but Aerone developed a Pulsed Turbulent Interface or PTI for the engines fuel system allowing for afuel to be pulsedin and then let it mix in the turbulent air before hitting the flame holder and igniting, it was discovered that with the exception of taking off it only requires about a sixty percent of the fuel that had been used prior to sustain air speed, with only half the injectors firing at one time; this is nearly a savings of 30% while airborne. When used in conjunction with the engines supercruiseing ability this allows for mind blowing range, and breathtaking speed with very little increase in cost.

The aircraft is also fitted with dual-mode air intakes. During flight, the open air intakes feed air to the engines. While moving on the ground, the air intakes are closed and air is fed through the louvres on the upper surface of the wing root to prevent ingestion of foreign objects from the runway. This is particularly important when operating from poorly prepared airfields, and allow for the full use of the aircraft regardless of field conditions. Also the intakes a made into an S-duct for stealth.

Reduction of Thermal signature is provided by a pair of sub systems comprised primarily of; The fuel/exhaust heat exchanger, and the Mixer. The Fuel/Exhaust heat exchanger is quite simply an insulate coil of piping around the first stage exhaust of the aircraft, fuel enroute to the engine passes through this tubing and by means of thermal conduction warms up the fuel and lowers the exhaust temperature. Because Aviation fuel has a higher thermal density than air, it makes it a very efficient system overall, and with eight separate fuel cut off locations safety is maintained to prevent a possibly catastrophic malfunction. This pre-warmed fuel is then fed into the Shadows engine where the heated fuel allows for higher engine efficiency allowing longer ranges with less fuel than any other comparative system.

Though the heat exchanger is a highly efficient system its overall cooling effect is limited by the safety requirements of the aircraft and so its overall effect is somewhat limited. However a Inducted Air Mixer (IAM) that uses a separate fan assembly run by the one of the LP turbines. The IAM draws in outside air and mixes it with the heated exhaust providing drastic IR reduction to the already cooled exhaust. This exhaust then passes through a set of carbon screens that conduct heat away from the exhaust before exit giving it a remarkably tiny IR signature allowing for protection from even advanced MAPADS and Air to Air missiles

For landings and times when rapid deceleration is required a separate 'clamshell' system that for the majority of flight is open and is integrated into the intake system for the IAM in front of the fan to prevent collateral damage. on Landing or when a heavy brake is needed the clamshells come together diverting the thrust forward and up counter to the direction of the aircraft allowing the aircrafts full use on short runways or prepared stretches of highway without the need for a drag chute.

Armament

The armament of an airplane is just as important as it's avionics and powerplant, if not more so.

The armament of the F/A-84 starts out the same as with any fighter worth it's salt, with the gun. The F/A-84 mounts an AVA Archer A4 IRC (Impulse Revolver Cannon) in it's canted nose. Capable of a ROF of 2100RPM, the gun is fed from two 300 round removeable magazines, allowing the pilot to select the best round for the job. the Archer A4 is independently moveable within it's housing, guided by a radar gun director it is capable of correcting fire up to 5 degrees of center.

The primary weapon system of the Shadow lies within the belly of the beast. Straight down the middle of the fuelsalage lies the primary weapons bay, and 8.2m long, 2.5m wide and 1m deep monster.

In air-to-air combat load out, weapons are held by four rotating weapon stations, each about 4m in length and capable of holding 4 missiles with a diameter of less then .4m and a length of less then 3.9m, under a weight of 400kg. The stations rotate to the right missile and with a puff of compressed air the and the opening of the doors the weapon is released. An extra strong dose of compressed air is applied to the missile's nose, causing it's nose to pitch down a 'tumble' away from the aircraft, this allows the missiles to be launched during hard manuvers and even upside down (where the nose is pushed up rather then down). This allows the Shadow to carry sixteen AMRAAM type missiles.

In the 'interceptor' role the Shadow's four rotating stations are removed (modular mountings in the bay allow for easy removal) and replaced with a similar, yet longer rotating stations, for a total of two 7.8m long rotating stations, capable of holding 3 missiles under .75m diameter and 7.75m in length, and weighing under 800kg. Thus making the Shadow a formidable long range missile carrier, capable of putting the F-14 Tomcat to shame.

For the air-to-ground role the forward rotating stations are removed, and replaced with three traditional trapeze pylons, each capable of holding a 4m x .8m munitions. This allows the Shadow to carry all current types of JDAM guided munitions and the two smaller GBU series bombs. Also, this allows the Shadow to carry 12 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs, giving it the capability to strike stealthy with bombs from 111km away. In the event that a larger munition is needed (such as an ASM, the layout can be changed to two rotating stations on one side of the bay, freeing up the entire 8.2m length of the opposite side to a large munition.

They secondary weapon mounting for the Shadow is it's side internal bays. Each bay is capable of holding either two AMRAAM type munitions, wether they be simply long ranged dogfight missiles (Python 5) or medium range munitions (AMRAAM), they are released in a similar fashion as the main weapons bay, minus the rotating stations.

Also, two long removable pylons capable of holding 2500kg of weight have been fitted to the corners of the fuelsalage, they were put there for the purpose of holding conformal, stealth fuel drop tanks, at a cost of a drop in stealth. They are capable of mounting large munitions such as ASMs or ultra-long range AAMs, but are generally not used because of a loss of stealth, speed, range, and manuverability (stations can sustain up to 5g on a max load before failure of pumping system or breaking of joints).

Designation: ARV-94 'Black Eagle' Joint Stealth Attack/Recon Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Types:
ARV-94A Black Eagle
ARV-94B Sea Eagle
ARV-94E Export Version[Comm/Positioning Electronics replaced with local counterparts]
ARV-94T Eaglet Trainer
Roles: Gunship, Recon
Manufacturer: Scapa Military Aviation, SSNA, We Buy It Inc.
Sub-Contractors: Aerone; AVA (Mekugi)
Customers:
The Silver Sky Military [54,968]
We Buy It Inc./Hostile Takeover Inc.
Mekugian Military

[u]General Characteristics:
Crew: 2 [Pilot, Gunner]
Length: 17m
Lift Fan Blade Diameter: 3m
Lift Fan Housing Diameter: 4m
Width: 6m Clean; 7.5m w/Stub Wings: 7m w/Conformal Fuel Tanks
Height: 3.75 m
Empty Weight: 5,465kg
Fuel Weight: 2,018kg
Typical Weapons Load: 880kg
Combat Weight: 8,663kg
Max Takeoff Weight: 10,525kg
Powerplant: 2× Aerone ABNE-1002S Turboshafts, 2,750 hp [2,050 kW] each
Lift/Thrust System:
Aerone Model 654 Turboshaft Powered Contra-Rotating Lift Fan with 10 blades providing 10,200kgf [100kN]
NOTAR System Employing One Variable Pitch Fan and Two Side-Facing 3D TVC Nozzles providing 2,250kgf [22.1kN]
Maximum speed: 414 km/h (257mph)
Cruise speed: 328km/h (204mph)
Combat Radius: 575 km (357 mi); 825km (512mi) w/CFTs
Ferry Range: 1,511km (939 mi); 2,011km (1,250mi) w/CFTs
Service ceiling: 6710m (22,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 14 m/s (2,760 ft/min)
Power/Mass Ratio: 422W/kg (.257hp/lb)
Armaments:
Mounted: AVA 'Arbalest' A8 25x135mm Gas Revolver Cannon [GRC] (http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_NS_Draftroom/index.php?showtopic=3650) in trainable/stealthied turret.
Main Internal Bays [2]: 8 Pylons, each capable of holding missiles up to 2m*.2m and 50kg
Secondary Internal Bays[2]: 1 Pylon capable of holding missiles up to 4.2m*.5m and 670kg
External Options:
A: One Hardpoints on stub wing rated at 350kg per wing [Rocket Pods, AAMs, AGMs, etc]
B: One Conformal 400kg Fuel Tank on Each Side
Avionics:
AN/AYG-1013 DEATS CES
AN/AES-703V Pulsed Laser Focal Plane Array [PLFPA]
AN/AEG-905V Pulsed Laser Rangefinder [PLR]
AN/AAG-611 Thermal and Infrared Detection Suite [TIDS]
AN/APG-526 LPI AESA Multi-Function Radar
AN/APY-533
AN/APX-541 Short Range Composite ID Radar[SRCIDR]
AN/AVD-823 Recon/TV/IR Pod
AN/AXC-1211 'StrikeNet' Fed Strategic Video Data Link
AN/ARC-1309 UHF/(V)HF Tactical Radio
AN/ASN-1402 'Red Shift' ATAPS Advanced Tactical Positioning System
AN/AIFF-1523 IFF
ECM:
AN/APR-53 Radar Warning Reciever
AN/ALR-1643 Front and Rear Laser Warning Receivers
AN/APQ-1783 Multi-mode Radar Jammer
AN/ALD-900 'Laser Point'
Counter Measures:
AN/ALE-1831 Decoy Dispensers (60x2)
AN/ALE-1832 Advanced Decoy Dispensers (4x2)
AN/AWE-1910 Missile Interceptor Dispensers (4x2)
Export Cost:
$29 Million USD

Other:
In-flight Refueling?: Yes
Oxygen Generation?: Yes
RCS: 0.000025m^2[Front]
Production Cost: $25 Million USD [All Versions]
Domestic Profit: $10 Million USD [ARV-94A/B/T]
Domestic Price: $35 Million USD [ARV-94A/B/T]
Foreign Profit: $20 Million USD [ARV-94E]
Foreign Price: $45 Million USD [ARV-94E]


History:
The history of the 'Black Eagle' Project 123 was built upon personal requests from troops returning from the Red Tidean War. SAH-33s proved their effectives as an ATGM platform and gunship, slicing into MBTs, HTs and APCs with ease with their 30mm cannons and Roc KEM, while plastering infantry with rocket pods.

However, despite their relatively stealthy nature they made great targets for enemy IFVs and ADVs within range. The only thing that kept them from being slaughtered was their long range ATGMs, the ability to hide inside smoke and fire, and advanced decoys. But still the number of helos shot down was deemed to be excessive, and a study was commenced.

It was during the Generian Invasion of Southern Aralonia that the study, now called 'Project Black Eagle' really got a kick in the pants. The months prior had been filled with stalling, problems and funding issues. However, with images of SAH-33s being blow out of the sky by more manuverable craft, such as VTOLs, CAS and other helicopters, in the minds of army commanders everywhere the project forged ahead, using experience from Mekugian Engineers and the Shadow Project.

Airframe/Construction:
The structural skin of the Black Eagle is made of Duralex-314 boron fabric held together with Polyaryletherketones or PEEK thermoplastic resin. This ‘Thermofiber’ composite material provides structural stability, and protection without the added machining cost or weight of a metallic outer skin. The PEEK Thermofiber material has excellent mechanical properties due to the fiber imbedded semi-crystalline polymers, good thermal stability and good chemical resistance. the continuous service rating of 250°C. PEEK is also inherently fire retardant.

The outermost skin of the Black Eagle is a simple but effective carbon infiltrated rubberized polymer providing excellent structural ‘give’ while providing many overall benefits. The primary benefit of the polymer coating is durability, its ability to move with the aircraft without ripping, and its smoothing effect on the airflow around the plane decreases fatigue and increase aerodynamics. The other Benefit of the Polymer covering is IR and LIDAR Suppression, the matte non reflective coating prevents accurate readings by means of LIDAR, and its thermal properties remove entirely the Internal radiated IR signature of the aircraft, the carbon infusing also helps to quickly dissipate stress heat generated by the aircraft as it moves through the air at high speeds decreasing its enemies detection and engagement envelope significantly. It is in fact this graphite colored coating that gave the aircraft its name.

Underneath the composite a coating of radar absorbing materials is attached to the composite, but this is only the first step, below the skin lies thin cells of carbon aerogel infused with radar absorbing materials with carbon fiber plates set at intersecting angles according to their position on the aircraft. This arrangement creates a radar ‘echo chamber’ where a signal passing though the RAM material dampening it, then is reflected away from the enemy transmitter and again passes through the RAM layer before exiting further dampening the return to even semi-passive bi-static systems making the aircraft nearly invisible to high and low frequency radar system both ground and air based. This arrangement is not only highly effective but, is much more resistant to stress and heat build up as it is on the inside of the aircraft skin. An added benefit of this system is also a 10% reduction in sound and a 5% reduction in the Black Eagle IR signature, even without additional coatings this simple modular arrangement fills many of the complex needs of the aircraft without complicating or increasing aircraft general maintenance requirements.

The lightweight skeleton of the Black Eagle is composed of Ti-48Al-2Nb-2Cr Alloy ribs that are highly resistant to creep or thermal expansion. The composite structural skin over this 'skeletal frame' are actually under pressure and are connected sheet by sheet via ‘stress joints’ that expand when needed allowing the skin of the plane to act as a structural form decreasing the need for extensive ribbing and decreasing weight and costs drastically. The Cockpit and both Engines rest independently in composite armored and shock isolated ‘hammocks’ designed to protect the primary components (the engines, pilot, and avionics) from possible damage due to ground/air fire or hard landings and allows for higher survivability with very little increase in the airframes overall weight.

Tail design is a pair of tilited 'wings' and a single rudder all capped off at the top by a single cross 'wing'. Placement and size of the tilited wings conceals the unstealthy rudder from side view completely while the rudder allows for turning during forward flight without reducing the rear facing thrust.

However, the ARV-94 doesn't just rely on agility and stealthy for it's passive defences, but also on a grand armor scheme. The main armor of the ARV-94 is directly under the structual skin. It is composed entirely of XD Titanium Alloy, although the thickness varies by the sections vunerability. Here is a list of the various armor values around the helicopter, note, this does not take into account the outer skin or structual skin, which would generally add around 10-20mm of real thickness

Tail Boom Assembly: 35mm-25mm [Real Thickness]; 70-50mm [LOS Thickness]
Rear Tail Assembly: 25mm-12mm [Real Thickness]; 39-19mm [LOS Thickness]
Top/Bottom/Rear Side Body/Munitions: 45mm [Real Thickness]; 90mm [LOS Thickness]
Side Body: 50mm [Real Thickness]; 70mm [LOS Thickness]
Top/Bottom Body: 25mm [Real Thickness] 96mm [LOS Thickness]
Cockpit/Gun Turret: 60mm [Real Thickness] 122mm [Frontal LOS Thickness] 97mm [Side LOS Thickness]
Engine: 30mm [Real Thickness] 52mm [LOS Thickness] + Side Body LOS Thickness

The cockpit glass and cameras lenses are made of AlON Optical Ceramics, a strong, yet relatively light weight ceramic. Two 50mm layers of this tough ceramic and a 25mm layer of polycarbonate make up the canopy. Giving the cockpit canopy a total thickness of 125mm, or a LOS thickness of 176mm from the lower side/front and a LOS thickness of 250mm on the upper front/side.

All of this helps to make the ARV-94 'Black Eagle' a stealthy, agile and strong bird.

Electronics/Avionics:
The Avionics and Targeting Package of the Black Eagle allows it the enjoy a large edge over competitors aircraft, namely that of ARSB Orgin, which are several years outdated. This new brand of electronics package, nearly as deadly as the crafts armament itself! The comprehensive electronic package is named AN/AYG-1013 'Digital Electronic Advanced Targeting System' [DEATS], and it really does what it says. It combines every threat detection, fire control, avionics, and active countermeasures into a single streamlined entity capable of truly awesome capabilities matched by none in the aerial arena. The system also allows it's data to be send to any other unit capable of processing the data, via Skyian Armed Forces StrikeNet, a three-dimensional composite system utilizing data from every threat detection system throughout the entire Armed Capitalist Republic. The system is made of almost fiber optic cables, and all things that must be metal are placed in faraday cages if possible.

The Black Eagle and its DEAT System is the embodyment of the Skyian Republican Air Force's 'See First, Kill First' Doctrine. With the Black Eagle's level of stealth it is capable of getting closer then ever to assure the pilot and gunn of a kill without being detected.

The Advanced Threat Detection and Classification Suite [ATDCS] is a system that can provide an on-demand [to reduce computer loading] three dimensional map of the surrounding aerospace, and beyond when intergrated with StrikeNet. The ATDCS is a comprehensive set of detection systems. The initial set is the combined Photon Emission, Detection, and Ranging [PEDR] suite which utilizes two detection methods: Ambient Light [LIDAR] and Introduced Laser Detection [LADAR]. The two systems are intertwined. The AN/AES-703 Pulsed Laser Focal Plane Array [PLFPA] provides an wide view, three dimensional composite imaging, increased frame rates [faster threat detection], and can provide up to nine centimeters of depth perception since it is a photon emission and ranging device and does not measure intensity of the laser/light that returns too it, but rather the time of flight of the photons to the target, and thereby giving the range, also while increase the system usefulness in smoke and precipitation, and letting it penetrate netting. Because information is encoded in each pixel, the system can produce a three-dimensional, or "angle-angle-range", image. Emitters are located through-out the aircraft. The suite is tied in with a AN/AEG-905 pulsed laser rangefinder for determing accurate target distances in conjunction with the infrared search and track system, and is also capable of designating sites for laser guided weapons.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: >60 Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance: 52km
Detail Scan: 40km
Surface Scan[Ground Mapping]: 25km

However, this advanced suite is not the only system that provides the Black Eagel's Pilot and Gunner with unparalleled situational awareness capabilities. It is further completmented by the AN/AAG-611 Thermal and Infrared Detection Suite [TIDS] which offers enhanced thermal and infrared viewing and threat classification. The system can be used passively like most IR suites or actively by using an active infrared imager to offer near-RADAR-like qualities. This system networks directly, as do all other systems, into the DEATS CES to provide an on-demand three dimensional view of the battlespace for the pilot. The infrared suite also has a IRST set-up to allow for scanning and tracking abilities at ranges of up to 30km pending atmospheric conditions and temperatures. Also, the TIDS is networked into the flare/chaff and active missile defence system on the aircraft [detailed later] by tracking incoming missiles and releasing decoys/AMMs at the precise moment.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: >60 Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance: 35km
Detail Scan: 30km
Surface scan [Passive][Surface-to-Air Threat Management]: 16km
Gun Mounted IR/Night-Day Set Up: 8km

The final portion of the infinitely deadly DEATS CES is the 'Omni-Light' RADAR Primary Threat Detection System [PTDS]. The primary system of the PTDS is the Combined Radar Suite, composed primarily of the AN/APG-526 Next Generation LPI [low/no probability of intercept] Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Function Radar with a full three hundred-sixty degree[360] range of ninety-five [75] kilometer courtesy of a top mounted Apache Longbow type setup. The forward arc viewing range, due to an enhanced emission set and focusing of sets. is around ninety-seven[97] kilometers, especially with the bundled AN/APY-532. The whole system contains 1,500 T/R tiles.

This is augmented by an AN/APX-541 short range composite ID radar, and the AN/APR-522 Panoramic Passive Radar Imager [PPRI] to offer a unique geo-location ability. The AN/APR-522 unit utilizes passive radar to obviously detect emitted radio waves and radiation; however, after this, it takes the data and from its incoming frequency and power-level, determines the range to target and actually calculates where the radar-emitting source is, as well as the effective range of its capabilities. This allows the Black Eagle to map the enemy's ground radar installations, or even track airborne sources of radar emission, to best avoid their effective ranges according to power levels and return signal power [as well as frequency, band, etc.].

Each radar has been updated with its counter-electronic, and even counter-counter-counter-electronic warfare system upgrade to allow for autonomous radar cycling in accordance with other aircraft and any airborne radar system. This is further enhanced with fibre-optics to allow for near-simultaneous frequency cycling. Again, this alows for the tracking of missiles to deploy countermeasures and AMMs.

Total Number of Tracked Entities: >60 Threats [Total All Systems]
Aerial General Surveillance and General Threat Detection: 97km
Detail Scan and Specific Threat Detection: 75km
Surface scan [full power][Ground Mapping]: 55km
Surface scan [Stealth][Ground Mapping]: 40km

The only remaining system networked with the threat detection and management system is the electro-optical expansion set. This system, designated AN/AVD-823, is designed to fit snugly into the rotating turret located on the underside of the Black Eagle's nose section, in a stealthied turret, much like the RAH-66 and gives it the ability to both operate as a reconaissance aircraft and a ground attack aircraft. The AN/AVD-823 operates in both the visual and infrared spectrums and offers stereo dual-band imagery at a rate of up to twenty-five thousand square miles of imagery an hour. The dual band imagery will give tactical reconnaissance the ability to clearly distinguish man-made from natural objects. The ability to also display data from other targetting systems enhances the overall quality and effects of imagery taken in a reconaissance role. The actual AN/AVD-823 pod is designed to be of a low-RCS nature and does little to raise the total radar cross section of the aircraft.

Detection is but one part of the equation which results in the definite victory over an opponent, and fire control must be on par with your detection capabilities in order for the equation to truly be on your side. This is where the DEATS system rises above all. It provides unparalleled data consumption and utilization to ensure the complete and utter dominance of this truly amazing aircraft on the battlefield.

The heart of the DEATS Fire Control Suite [FCS] is the StrikeNet which links this singular aircraft to a database of immeasurable information and the computing power to process hundreds of separate targets per aircraft. The first thing the fire control suite does is turn all consumable data into the singular three-dimensional battlespace view which the system relies upon [an imaginary concept as all data is 'on-demand']. From there, the DEATS system actually assists the commander and/or crew in determining which targets to attack. Regardless of the commander's actions, the DEATS system observes friendly unit actions as well as opposing force actions to determine likely outcomes in all forms of attack and can advise the crew, or work in conjunction with him. Obviously, the system can be disengaged, but when engaged, it gives the crew a foresight into any potential maneuver or action. Supplementing this is the fact that each individual aircraft can track upwards of sixty targets, ranking them according to type, threat level, range, and other factors and placing them in a prioritized fire list, which can be changed according to mission objectives and/or other factors [60 targets utilizing non-basic material. Cannot provide firing solutions, nor advanced tracking upon seventy of them without communicating with seperate aircraft]. Up to three hundred seperate targets can be detected and tracked at a basic level.

By using the StrikeNet and its computer system aboard, the DEATS system can fire on an unlimited number of targets if it had the armament [assuming a non-interrupted data-link]. This means that a single Black Eagle could fly ahead of a wing of similar aircraft, find and designate targets, relaying that data back to the rest while those aircraft open fire. Yet, chances are, this strategy wouldn't have to be used as the enemy aircraft wouldn't even know of any of their existance [the lead plane or the rest].

Even though the DEATS system can control other aircraft, how about its own? This is where it outperforms itself, avionics. The Enhanced Flight Control and Stability System [EFCSS] is an all-inclusive fly-by-light [fibre-optic] control system providing superb, fluid, and precise movement and maneuverability using all control surfaces available. The system links together every movement system together to give the aircraft maneuverability unmatched by even the swiftest bird in existance. The system is also very easy to get used to, due to its fluid and precise movement controls, allowing even newly released cadets fly the aircraft as though he'd been through hell and back with it. The EFCSS is triple redundant and utilizes a back up fly-by-wire system as well as an emergency mechanical linkage providing basic maneuvering capabilities.

Another system networked with DEATS the helmet used by Skyian Pilots, the HEads All Direction, Gunnery/Engagement and Attack Gear System [HEADGEARS] which provides a 180 Degree Off Bore-Sight Targeting Capability, allowing it to fire missiles at enemies above, to the sides, back and to some degree below provide a missile is capable of such feats. Also the [i]Black Eagle's AVA 'Arbalest' A8 25x135mm Gas Revolver Cannon [GRC]'s turret is slaved to the gunners helmet, feeding day/night camera vision and IR, literally letting the gunner look at and kill something, the system was named 'Death Glare' by it's users, but has no official name.

The Foreign Version of the DEATS system has slightly lower power electronics, meaning a 5% reduction in range for all systems and the tracking capability of only 55 targets.

Counter-Measures/ECM

Beyond stealth, aircraft no matter how advanced can be vulnerable to enemy missiles. It was in this that the Scapa team set to make a very effective electronic and physical countermeasure suite.

First among the countermeaure system is the AN/APG-526 LPI AESA Multi-Function Radar, a broad spectrum low signature system designed to be used in high threat areas where radar signature is not as much of a concern, however, it does have a low strength scan mode for when EM signatures need to be kept low, but not off. In this role it provides nearly flawless detection of even stealthy high-velocity threats with an 98% sucess rate, although this rate goes up as the threat get's closer. A passive setting on the AN/APG-526 allows for radar lock warnings at long range and high speed allowing the pilot ample time and options in so far as countering the threat.

When radar emissions are not advisable, the AN/ALR-1643 Front and Rear Laser/IR Warning Receivers with launch detection cues allows for zero signature warning and tracking against beam riding, and MANPAD systems, this is tied into the AN/AES-703 PLFPA and AN/AAG-611 for maximum effectiveness.

The second set of countermeasure systesm used by the ARV-94 follow a more direction approach, The AN/ALD-900 ‘Laser Point’ Laser/Infrared Dazzler allows for the direct distraction and subsequent neutralization of IR or multi-mode seeking missiles. But as such is partially limited in its role, requiring missiles to get fairly (15-10km) before it becomes effective. The second and last system is not so much an independant system as a mode of something else. the AN/APG-526 has a third mode after active and passive. This mode focuses intense high power radar waves on a focal point identified on the missile/aircraft (generally the nose), bombarding it with intense microwaves, this has shown in that in aircraft, cruise missiles, and AAMs/SAMs without dedicated fly by light or secondary electronic systems that the microwaves can damage and even destroy electronics, much like the vaunted F-22 AN/APG-77 is supposed to be able to do. It can jam enemy radars, especially older sets with varying degrees of effective, IE better against missiles, not so much against complex SAM ground radars.

The third and last teir of the ARV-94s countermeasure system is much more physical in it's approach. The systems are listed below.

*AN/ALE-1831 Decoy Dispensers: 30 Chaff and 30 Flares are arranged two 'metal storm' stacked arrays allow for high volume of countermeasures in a very compact area, and high exit velocity increasing the countermeasures ‘footprint‘ for increased effect.

*AN/ALE-1832 Advanced Decoy Dispensers: Located just fore of the AN/ALE-1831 system this system is based on ground based grenade launched countermeasures. It carries nine countermeasures per launcher, they are fired off under their own power, using a small rocket motor. They are designed to have a similar RCS and IR signature to a ARV-94. They streak away from the airframe in an attempt to distract the missile, and then explode in a flare like explosion. Also included is a capacitor and a large bundle of copper wire. Which, slightly before the the decoy explodes the shell around this comes off, the copper wire flows out and the capacitor fires, vaporising the wire and creating an EM 'Scream' of a frequency similar to that of the ARV-94's radar, allowing it to draw off ARMs or missiles with a home-on-emissions mode. Effectiveness hovers about at 50%, varying missile by missile. The orginal concept is used in the 81mm 'Screamer' Grenade on the M160A2 'Phoenix' MBT, and that concept comes from ZMI.

*AN/AWE-1910 Missile Interceptor Dispensers: Last, but not least, is the last ditch defense against long range missiles. These 'Wasp' Missile Interceptors are pushed out of their tubes via a compressed air system, which also fires compressed air on the nose. This caused the munition to tumble, until the Semi-active radar comes online and places the munition on the horizontal plane, which then it fires the motor, streaks towards the target and explodes showering the incoming missile with tungsten pellets. This allows the system to engage targets front, rear, and sides. Effectiveness is debatable, hovering about 50-60% for long range unmanuverable missiles, all the way down to nearly 25% for short ranged dogfighting missiles. And is all but useless, with 8% effectiveness against missiles during a dog fight.

Propulsion

The ARV-94 is powered by two Aerone Model 604 Turboshaft Engines which generate 2,750 hp [2,050 kW] each. The electricity supplied by the Turboshafts is harnssed and then used to power an Aerone Model 654 Turboshaft Powered Contra-Rotating Lift Fan via an eletric motor, which is equipped with ten blades, each 1.25m long and put in contra-rotating groups of five, allow for a large amount of power from a smaller amount of space then a helicopter rotor, also, because it is shounded in nature, being in the middle of the aircraft and all, it does not have to deal with problems of. This set-up allows for the removal of the conventional tail rotor set up or NOTAR set-up, as applies no torque on the ARV-94's body.

The air intakes for the turboshafts are given the usually stealthy S-curve, and a decent skin of same material that makes up the outermost skin with a backing of thin titanium to hide the compressor face from nosey enemy radars, moving the engine to the rear abit compared to helicopter designs. The whole main body is also given a decent amount of acoustic dampening, especially near the actual engine area. The blades of both the turboshafts and the lift fan are built of ceramics and given a small support rod of titanium and covered in the same material as the structual skin of the aircraft. The Lift Fan is also mounted in a moveable cacoon, it is capable of pitching the entire system around 12 degrees in any direction, allowing for what is basically 3D thrust vectoring, giving the craft incredible manuverability.

Reduction of Thermal signature is provided by a pair of sub systems comprised primarily of; The fuel/exhaust heat exchanger, and the Mixer. The Fuel/Exhaust heat exchanger is quite simply an insulate coil of piping around the first stage exhaust of the aircraft, fuel enroute to the engine passes through this tubing and by means of thermal conduction warms up the fuel and lowers the exhaust temperature. Because Aviation fuel has a higher thermal density than air, it makes it a very efficient system overall, and with eight separate fuel cut off locations safety is maintained to prevent a possibly catastrophic malfunction. This pre-warmed fuel is then fed into the Shadows engine where the heated fuel allows for higher engine efficiency allowing longer ranges with less fuel than any other comparative system.

Also the NOTAR and Lift-Fan system seriously reduces acoustic signature by eliminating the air vortexes usually caused by the interaction between a helicopters main rotor and tail rotor, which usually accounts for over 75% of a helicopters acoustic signature. Also, the Lift-Fan's location withinin the body instead of outside helps to reduce sound, and slightly different sized blades help to reduce the harmonic frequency usually produced by such systems, making it more likely to blend into the background noise.

A seperate variabe pitch fan assembly is the main part of the NOTAR maunvering system. It sucks in fresh air from two inlets on the top of the body and mixes it with the exhaust air from the turboshafts, and pushes it down the tail of the gunship through a single pipe and to two side mounted thrust vectoring nozzles. Each nozzle is capable of being aimed up/down 12 degrees from horizontal, while forward/rear/side thrust if directed via ceramic 'blinds' that can almost instantly turn from pushing the craft forward and then directing the thrust forward to slow the bird. Also, they can be closed completely, should the pilot want to face hard left the right 'blinds' would close directing the air to the left nozzle, thus pivoting the craft hard left.

[u]Armament

The armament of an aircraft is just as important as it's avionics and powerplant, if not more so.

The armament of the ARV-94 starts out the same as with any gunship worth it's salt, with the gun. The ARV-94 mounts an AVA AVA 'Arbalest' A8 25x135mm Gas Revolver Cannon [GRC] in a completely rotatable turret. Capable of a ROF of 760RPM, the gun is fed from four 375 round removeable magazines, allowing the pilot to select the best round for the job.

The primary weapon system of the Shadow lies within the belly of the beast. Straight down the side of the fuelsalage lies the primary weapons bays, twelve 2.15m long, .2m wide and .3m deep bays.

In ground attack combat load out, weapons are held by one 'pylon', about 2m in length and capable of holding missiles with a diameter of less then .24m and a length of less then 2m, under a weight of 50kg. With a puff of compressed air the and the opening of the doors the weapon is released. An extra strong dose of compressed air is applied to the missile's nose, causing it's nose to pitch down and 'tumble' away from the aircraft, this allows the missiles to be launched during hard manuvers, for smaller missiles like the ATA Stinger the operation is slightly different, with two missiles per 'pylon'. This allows the Black Eagle to carry 12 Brimstone type missiles, and 8 ATA Stinger type missiles(two to 'pylon'), for a very balanced load out.

They secondary weapon mounting for the Shadow is it's two bottom internal bays. Each bay is capable of holding either one AMRAAM type munitions, wether they be simply long ranged dogfight missiles (Python 5) or medium range munitions (AMRAAM), they are released in a similar fashion as the main weapons bay, minus the rotating stations. Weapons must be under 670kg, 4m in length, and .4m in diameter. This gives the ARV-94 the capability to hold long range AGMs such as the Mekugian AGM-43 Shinkai, US Maverick and the Omzian AGM-531A/B Bumblebee.

Also, two long 'hardpoints' have been positioned on the side of the helicopter, they have several uses. The main one is for the mounting of conformal fuel tanks to increase range. They other is for the mounting of stub wings with two mounting points, or one single mounting points. In twin mount mode, each mount can hold up to 120kg of munitions. In single mount, they can hold 350kg. This all comes at the cost of stealth though.

Generally, without the stub wing hardpoints, a typical load out in ground attack configuration is 12 Brimstone type missiles, eight ATA Stingers, and two AMRAAM type AAMs, for strike missions the loadout is usually the same except that the AMRAAMs are replaced with generall two AGM-43 Shinkais.

Official Purchase Request
Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office

Greetings once again. The Denomination is interested in purchasing the following additional aircraft:

700 TF-70 Shukusei
800 TAF-622B
250 TEF-622
100 SB-22 Sariel
300 B-22 Zeus
3,000 ACI-37B Corvus

Regards

We would like to add to our original order 20,000 FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters. We would like to divide that purchase over 6 years, so that each year we buy 3334 planes.

OOC: Also still waiting Doom's confirmation for that order (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12928242&postcount=25) (just to make sure that it will not be forgotten). Those two orders should be completed separately so the one which is confirmed firstly will be firstly completed and second purchase will start then first one is completed(assuming both are confirmed). So both orders combined will take 11 years to complete.

AC-91B Cornix-II Air-Launched Anti-Tank Guided Missile

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Overview

The AC-91B was designed to replace the older AC-67 air to ground missile along with the air launched version of the Gladius missile. Designed to be carried both by fixed wing and rotary aircraft, the Cornix has tremendous range for such a small package. The missile uses a variable thrust gel-propellant rocket motor and a tri-mode seeker with IIR (Imaging Infrared), laser homing and millimeter-wave (MMW) radar seekers. The missile is capable of being launched from the ACI-37 Corvus attack helicopter as well as the AG-6 Ballista, along with any other Imperial aircraft capable of launching air-to-ground ordnance. The missile's flight profile is typical among Imperial weaponry: A higher altitude cruising stage followed by a terminal dive into the vehicle's roof armor. One hundred yards above the target, the warhead of the Cornix splits open, releasing its four armor-defeating submunitions (which utilize their own imaging infrared to track their target as well as referencing from data gathered by the missile itself before releasing its payload) as well as two decoys (three decoys total counting the missile body, making for a total of seven inbound bodies for an enemy active protection system to have to engage). This ensures that enemy armor protected with APS can be effectively engaged and neutralized.

Length: 1.775 m (69.9 in)
Diameter: 17.8 cm (7 in)
Finspan: 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Weight: 110 lb
Speed: Mach 1.3
Cieling: 1500m (@ maximum range)
Range: 14km
Warhead: 4x 5lb IIR guided HEAT submunitions; 2x decoys
Powerplant: Variable thrust gel-propellant rocket motor
Guidance: Tri-mode seeker consisting of IIR, laser homing, and MMW RADAR; Datalink

Following discussions over private channels, we would like to purchase the production rights to the AC-91B . Appropriate funds will be transfered immediately upon confirmation of our order.

-Reich Foreign Ministry-

Official Corporate Transmission

All orders have been processed and confirmed. Thank you for choosing IAC.

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So doom... oyu ever planning on foldin my stuff in as well?

The Iron Imperium of Jaredcohenia
Hail Cohenia!
Department of the Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force (IJAF)

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation, mainly from the Candrian Empire's GEM Aerospace.

Firstly, we are interested in procuring 1,000 B-22 "Zeus" Strategic bombers. Aside from the current Sariel bomber being used by the Imperial Jaredcohenian Airforce, we need a cheaper strategic bomber. As you can expect, if a Sariel is shot down a lot of money is lost on our side. So, we are interested in purchasing the B-22 "Zeus" Strategic Bomber. The cost for this is $574,414,330,000.

Another thing we are interested in purchasing is 1,500 FA-16 "Priest" tactical strike fighters. The price for these is $96,497,136,000.

The final thing we are interested in purchasing are 9,000 FA-15 "Cardinal" D fighters. We have used these fighters before, and we have found them to be superior to other fighters we have used. The cost for this is $1,272,006,000,000.

The total for this is $1,942,917,466,000. However, we are elligible for 35% in discounts (5% from the Candrian Empire for purchasing a large amount of FA-16 "Priests", 30% from Doomingsland for being a preferred customer and allied state).

The grand total for this is $1,262,896,353,000.

Thank you,

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force Department of Sales and Orders

(order approved, too distracted to make the big elaborate reply, sorry)

The Imperial Kingdom wishes to purchase the following

3500 TF-70 Shukusei's-seven hundred billion
800 ARV-94's-forty-four billion

total price:seven hundred forty-four billion

payment wired upon conformation..

[Block II Upgrades]

In order to expand the lethality of the ATAIM-8 and ATAIM-9 Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munitions, Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation has released a series of general engineering improvements and enhancements to the base platform.

The ATAIM-9 "Rakurai" is now fitted with a completely new ducted-rocket RAMjet engine developed by TPMI/EC. This powerplant makes operation and maintenance of the missiles significantly easier and safer. Instead of using corrosive and bulky liquid fuel, the Block II ATAIM-9s use a solid-fuel rocket as its boost phase to high speed. The fuel produces an over-rich gas, and is diluted by fresh air rammed in through the inlets. This air/gas mixture then burns as an extremely efficient RAMjet to enhance range, and may be throttled over a thrust range of 18 to 1. This allows the ATAIM-9 to intelligently manage fuel stores to allow for higher speed at closer ranges relative to a target, and greatly improves hit probability. The propulsive is operative throughout the flight, so that even at extreme range, speed and manuverability remains at optimal levels.

Both ATAIM-8 and -9 include new guidance equipment allowing for Lock-On After Launch, enabling pilots to engage targets without illuminating their intended prey at close range. This functionality also allows for the weapons to be launched "over the shoulder", to attack targets at any aspect angle from the deploying platform. For example, a pilot may now snap a missile at a target to his lateral sectors and even behind him. Additionally, the Electro-Optical component of both seeker heads has been upgraded with target discrimination software able to distinguish between the different parts of a tracked aircraft. When given the opportunity, as calculated based on target attitude and aspect, the intelligent seeker will prefer to target the cockpit or wingroot over the engine in order to increase the probability of a lethal attack. Thus, a successful hit will not only achieve mission kill, but also stand a high chance of killing the crew of the targeted aircraft.

The Allied States Air Force (ASAF) of Green Hawk would like to purchase the following:

500 FA 15D Cardinal Air Superiority/Strike Fighters for 73,265,000,000 USD

800 FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters - for 51,465,139,200 USD

500 TF-62A Sparrow Multi-role Fighters for 36,195,000,000 USD

200 ACI-77 Atratus/TF-70 Shukusei 7th Generation Air Superiority Fighters for 40,000,000,000 USD

120 B 22 Zeus Strategic Bombers for 68,929,719,600 USD

Total: 269,854,858,800 USD

All products listed above will be used to defend Green Hawk and it's interest. Thank you.

President: Thomas Glower
Vice President: Wendy Feller
Secretary of the Treasury: Roy Propel
Secretary of Defense: Steven Grey

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The Imperial Kingdom of Gataway's orders for TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters is denied due to a blatant disregard for TPMI/EC export policy. Read the fine print before coming back. Or better yet, don't.

The Allied States Air Force of Green Hawk's order for five hundred [500] units of TF-62 Multirole Fighters and two hundred [200] TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters has been approved for export. Production will commence pending receipt of funds.

ooc:Its okay...one of the people who already has them has given me some..reverse engineering is a beautiful thing...cheers mate..

OOC: Oh, I doubt that making less-capable monkey models of an already dangerously unsafe plane is worth having you and yours utterly annihilated in a sea of nuclear fire.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12913157&postcount=10

ooc:Its okay...one of the people who already has them has given me some..reverse engineering is a beautiful thing...cheers mate..

OOC: I seriously doubt you'd want to do that. You'll find retribution from IAC to be a bit more... severe... than from most other storefronts.

There's also the OOC intellectual property rights deal that kind of prevents that in RL, but that's no fun when we could just chuck hypersonic 400 kt nukes from standoff range at your factories. And, as far as I'm concerned, all of your factories.

OOC: Generally SSNA wouldn't care about something like this happening to another company, but they do practice the same policy as TPMI/EC and seeing as TPMI/EC is one of their corporate buddies, I would have no problems letting Hostile Takeover Inc. destroy you with TPMI/EC.

ooc:Seeing as IC you have no clue I have them I have nothing to worry about...anyways Im done with this pointless argument...Im simply ignoring this all now....lol what a joke

It's not like Shukusei could be easily reversed engineered; it's a horribly complex machine built using horribly complex fabrication methods, many of which wouldn't be obvious to the observer.

Then there's the fact that IAC products are REGISTERED, and feature sat-linked RFID chips to prevent unauthorized technology transfer. We wouldn't let something like this get away that easy.

Even still, the moment you use them ICly, we know.

IC: All orders for GEM products are approved.

]OOC: By ignore I mean Im ignoring all this ooc stuff ICily of course u could come after me..understandable...and who said I was going to use them...it would be much more profitable for me to use them to design my own similar fighter..and then sell the originals..there's quite a large black market for things like this on NS you know..especially those Nakils with upgrades..and things of that nature..anyways good storefront..id like to stop clogging it with the ooc nonsense..

And what exactly did I not read...I needed approval from all 3 of you...and declare the use of the aircraft...I said I was going to use them to begin a gradual phase in to become the mainstay of my air force..for air superiority....before you moved them into this thread...I was assuming you read that already...if I must I will go waist 15 seconds of my life editing my post

OOC: Speaking of Nakils, are we going to see a main battle tank from one of you guys or are Nakils the best? I'm still using M1 Abrams tanks.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The Imperial Kingdom of Gataway's orders for TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters is denied due to a blatant disregard for TPMI/EC export policy. Read the fine print before coming back. Or better yet, don't.

The Allied States Air Force of Green Hawk's order for five hundred [500] units of TF-62 Multirole Fighters and two hundred [200] TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters has been approved for export. Production will commence pending receipt of funds.

Funds have been wired. Thank you and it has been nice doing business here. We'll be sure to stop by here to update our Air Force in the time to come. Thank you once again.

President: Thomas Glower
Vice President: Wendy Feller
Secretary of the Treasury: Roy Propel
Secretary of Defense: Steven Grey

OOC: Not for sale. Posted here for reference.

[TF-70A+ Variant]

Exact details surrounding the alleged “A+” variant of the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter remain shrouded in controversy and mystique. Although both representatives of TPMI/EC and high-ranking officers of the Federal Air Service claim that no such variant exists, reports from a number of myriad sources indicate that an advanced capability derivative of the basic design is operated by the TFAS. Preliminary foreign reporting of the TF-70A+ has found that this aircraft is significantly different from the other fighters in its designation family in many respects.

Instead of using the dogtoothed delta wing found in the A/B/C versions, A+ has a completely different aerodynamic layout apparently developed to improve safety and stealth features. The A+ is believed to use a mission-adaptive diamond wing configuration, which greatly enhances structural integrity compared to the baseline model. This shape concentrates the load force onto the strongest point of the airframe, where fuselage meets wing. The wing design also exhibits much less drag at transonic and supersonic speeds as it adheres to the Whitcomb area rule more rigidly than the dogtoothed delta. Further, the deletion of the dogteeth on the leading edge removes one of the few remaining RADAR reflective areas on the fighter and reduces RCS by a large factor when the fighter is viewed from the forward aspect. A totally new, supercritical airfoil is mated to this wing which provides significantly improved transonic performance, higher lift, and superior overall aerodynamic characteristics. The diamond wing exhibits much higher degree of blending with the fuselage and improves range and vortex lift performance, while retaining agility by reducing wing loading values due to its larger surface area. The wings are also believed to be physically lighter than the baseline model, enabled due to its more efficient distribution of load force and different airfoil design. All of this contributes to a significant increase in the TF-70A+’s flight performance as compared to the baseline models.

The TF-70A+ uses two trapezoidal ruddervators dihedrally canted at 40 degrees to increase flight stability. This elevated tail structure also shields the jetpipe from view by infrared systems when the fighter engages in evasive manuevers. The location of the canard foreplanes are adjusted in order to optimize airflow dynamics. These stabilizing surfaces contribute to a much higher degree of safety and improved ride quality for the pilot.

Unlike the A/B/C models, the A+ apparently uses flat, 2D vectoring nozzles. Although some horizontal attitude control is sacrificed, the use of these nozzles in place of the 3D systems is alleged to decrease infrared signature by an enormous factor as the exhaust plume forms a flat "beavertail" of wide lateral area that cools much faster than the high-intensity stream formed by round nozzles. Infrared signature is alleged to be further surpressed with the use of extremely expensive carbon-carbon foam injected into cavities surrounding the engine nacelles. This material is alleged to exhibit superb thermal absorption qualities, and also contributes to RCS reduction by weakening RF return.

Despite the slight loss of manueverability induced by using 2D vectored nozzles and a more stable platform, the TF-70A+ appears to compensate with the implementation of Direct Force Control capability in the Vehicle Management Suite subsystem. DFC allows for the digital electronic control system to adjust the motion of the fighter without having to change the attitude of its fuselage, greatly enhancing performance in air combat manuevering. An example of this functionality, cited by a defector from the TFAS, stated that a pilot may keep his nose perfectly on target when following a bogey through high-G manuevers at all times. The component motors of the DFC system are said to be linked to feedback sensors, and automated by overall flight control. The system is believed to be able to compensate for airflow buffeting and turbulence in addition to its agility enhancing functions.

TF-70A+ is said by a number of sources to include a "computerized associate", essentially a primitive artificial intelligence that serves as a combination of copilot and backseater. Allegedly designated the Advanced Mission-supporting Intelligent Assistant or AMIA, the AI is believed to improve the situational awareness and survivability of the fighter through a number of autonomous functions. The pilot of the A+ variant is, according to accounts from defectors, hooked up to health sensors which monitor blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing patterns, and electrical activity in the brain. Should the system determine that the pilot is incapacitated, due to red/blackout or other reasons, AMIA will automatically seize control and attempt to fly a safe, evasive route back to its pre-programmed base location. AMIA is also able to execute simple oral commands given by the pilot, such as display switching, stores management, or changing radio frequencies. Most interesting of all is AMIA's electronic warfare and countermeasures support functions, however. It is capable of intelligently analyzing strength, frequency, and location of hostile sensor sites through a data highway connection with the Sensor Management Suite. AMIA will render a display of these locations, estimate range of detection relative to the TF-70A+'s location, and advise navigational course for the pilot so as to evade detection. Also, AMIA is capable of limited assistance during offensive or defensive manuevering. For example, if the Missile Alert Warner systems detect a launch, AMIA will automatically cycle the NRV-27 RF jammer to the frequency band tracking the fighter and advise the pilot to activate said equipment. The flight envelope characteristics of the TF-70A+ are also programmed into AMIA's database allowing the AI to advise specific manuevers in response to a given situation.

Unfortunately, the technology behind AMIA remains immature and prone to software errors, as thirty-odd members of the Juuman Air Force discovered to their sorrow, and an undisclosed number of TFAS pilots. It is believed that the top echelons of the Federal Air Service care little for these development issues, as AMIA provides the TF-70A+ with the benefits of a second crew member at a minimum of added weight.

Aurum Domus High Command

We would like to purchase 3,000 ACI 73E Aquilas to be financed over a 10 year period.

[Official Diplomatic Communique from the Government of Labhekistan]

Greetings from the Democratic-Socialist Union of Labhekistan. We are currently in the process of expanding our Armed Forces, and as such, we require several hundred aircraft to round out our Air Force. We have ordered from GEM corporation in the past (The F/A-15 Cardninal, which we were extremely pleased with), and we are pleased to do so again.

Our order is as follows:

150 x F/A-15D Cardinal ($21,200,100,000)
200 x TF-62 Sparrow ($24,310,000,000)

The total sum of $45,510,100,000 USD will be wired upon confirmation.

Regards,


[singed]
Viktor Bogdanov
Minister of National Defense
Labhekistan

Official Purchase Request
Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office

Our regards to the Imperial Aerospace Corporation and its partners. The Denomination requires the following:

800 Star of Fate fighters. With this order, the Denomination intends to complete the rotation of the Shukusei into the Air Force in replacement of older aircraft.
5,500 FA-16 Priest strike fighters.
1,200 FA-16B Priest STOL fighters.
150 B-22 Zeus bombers
9,000 Corvus attack helicopters
150,000 Cornix ATGMs. We wish to produce most of this order (~100,000 or more) domestically under limited license if possible.

To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: Department of Defense
We would like to purchase 1,000 of the F/A 15D Cardinal, with the total to be wired upon confirmation.

( O_O

All orders for GEM products approved.

typing from brother's laptop, and can't post up the long version, sorry.)

Money wired. Btw, how much cash would I have to throw your way to get domestic production rights? I love the F/A 15D and E models. And yes, I am aware that your page says no production rights, however I'm the bargaining sort of guy :)

All orders for TPMI/EC products have been approved for export.

OOC: Busy buying shit for back-to-school and finishing a huge RP post.

Money wired. Btw, how much cash would I have to throw your way to get domestic production rights? I love the F/A 15D and E models. And yes, I am aware that your page says no production rights, however I'm the bargaining sort of guy :)

Sorry, man. No DPR = No DPR.

DPR contracts will be handled at a far later date.

Official Corporate Transmission

All orders for IAC products have been processed and confirmed. Thank you for choosing IAC.

Foreign Ministry of Cohenia
Hail Cohenia!

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation, mainly from the Candrian Empire's GEM Aerospace.

We would like the Cardinal E model (FA-15), five thousand of them to be exact. At $146,530,000 each it turns to $732,650,000,000. However, we are eligible for the combined 30% Preferred Customer and Allied State discount, so that makes it $512,855,000,000.

Thank you,

Her Imperial Highness the Princess Kristin Ferrin
Crown Princess of Jaredcohenia, Foreign Minister

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ATAIM-10 "HANABI" (Fireworks) Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munition

Cross-platform Long-Range Air-to-Air Munition (XLRAAM)

Analysis of foreign conflicts by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency found that enormous attrition was necessary to successfully interdict strategic airborne platforms, such as tanker or AEW&C aircraft. This was due to the invariably large numbers of escort planes that defended their critically valuable charges, which would assist in coordinating a response to an attack to deadly effect. As the Federal Air Service places great emphasis on denying access to these battle management resources in its doctrine, Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation was charged with developing a large air to air missile that would be able to engage these types of aircraft from an extremely long range. Ultimately, TPMI/EC developed a derivative of the abandoned Russian KS-172 project, in order to speed the arrival of these weapons to TFAS inventories. Designated "Hanabi", the ATAIM-10 XLRAAM allows pilots to safely engage and destroy hostile strategic assets from standoff ranges.

The airframe of the ATAIM-10 XLRAAM is almost identical to the KS-172, albeit with the implementation of grid fin stabilization, as these surfaces fold closer to the fuselage which enables carriage in internal bays. These fins allow for a smaller tail assembly which further reduces volume, while enhancing aerodynamic performance by a significant margin, especially at high angles of attack. The fuselage is also cut down by .45 m in length while preserving range with a completely new multiple-pulse rocket motor. Instead of the two-stage system used in the baseline KS-172, ATAIM-10 employs a single, pulsed rocket that relies on several different solid propellant mixtures to achieve optimal energy management over the course of the flight path. This new powerplant also reduces weight and volume as compared to the original it replaces. Like the smaller ATAIM-9 XMRAAM, the missile includes reaction jet controls for enhanced agility in the terminal phase.

TPMI/EC engineers found that the KS-172's guidance package was lacking severely, almost laughable in its primitive design. In its place, the ATAIM-10 Hanabi uses a system comparable to the ATAIM-9, with midcourse guidance provided by a strapdown inertial navigation system coupled to a datalink with the deploying aircraft and initial guidance from offboard systems including friendly AWACS or the deploying aircraft itself. The forward radome houses a solid-state active RADAR, operating in X-band with electronic beam steering to improve off-boresight capabilities. The missile also includes Home-on-Jam and Home-on-Emit modes. All elements of the ATAIM-10 XLRAAM's electronics are hardened against attack by high-energy emissions with silicon diode shielding and Electric Wave Absorbing Material. As the ATAIM-10 was never designed for maximum accuracy (due to the sluggish performance and large size of its intended targets), the missile relies on a large, continuous rod warhead to ensure a kill.

The ATAIM-10 XLRAAM's killing power relies on a 45kg cylindrical assembly of welded rods encasing a core of heptanitrocubane. When the laser-proximity fuze detonates the explosive, the rods rapidly expand outwardly and form a circular ring, which shreds any part of the targeted aircraft that it contacts. Although this system does not have the same blast radius a standard spherical HE warhead would have, the lethality of this weapon is much higher. However, this does mean that the ATAIM-10 is inappropriate for use against tactical fighters due to their much greater agility as compared to the missile's intended victims.

[Specifications]

Length: 6.95 m
Width (Fuselage): 0.51 m
Width (Fins): 0.78 m
Weight: 730 kg
Guidance: Multimode active RADAR, midcourse inertial navigation
Velocity: Mach 4.3
Range: 400 km
Warhead: 45 kg Continuous Rod

Price for Export: $1,250,000 USD

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To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: Department of the Air Force, Department of the Navy, Labhekistan

Several months ago, we recieved the TF-62 Sparrow multi-role fighters which we had previously order. It is my pleasure to say that we were greatly impressed with the capabilities of your aircraft, and furthermore, we wish to make it one of the front-role fighters of the Labhekistan Air Force. Also, as we are currently in the process of reorganizing and enlarging our Navy, we require a new carrier-based fighter.

Thus, we are pleased to make the following order:

1200x TF-62 Sparrow (navalized, to be redesignated the F/A-62B Sparrow)
1000x TF-62 Sparrow (standard, to be redesignated the F/A-62A Sparrow)

The order comes to a total cost of $282,650,000,000 USD, which will be wired upon confirmation.

Regards,

[singed]
Viktor Bogdanov
Minister of National Defense
Labhekistan

Illior* taps his foot in a dissapointment/waiting

OOC:Gah, I'll get to it tommorow...hopefully >.>

Air Force Purchase Order
The Air Force would like to buy three hundred thousand flowerfire missiles annually. These can be imported to us or we can produce this domestically under IAC supervision. The funds will be wired upon confirmation. Thank you.

All orders for TPMI/EC products have been cleared for immediate export, pending receipt of funds.

Likewise for orders for GEM products (IE Jaredcohenia...)

Coming soon from Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation...

SB-23 "Kageboshi" (Shadowdancer) - Advanced Strategic Bomber
TRU-91 "Komadori" (Robin) - Medium-lift Utility Helicopter
TF-71/ACI-73F "Tsume" (Talon) - Aquila Mid-life Upgrade Package
TRU-94 series "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) - Multirole Heavy Lift Platform (with associated derivatives)

Greetings
The Government of Vandaheim would like to purchase:

144 FA16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters (9.264 Billion)
72 FA15 Cardinal D Strike Fighters (10.177 Billion)

Total: 19.441 Billion USD

Payment Half in Advance, Half upon delivery,

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Military Material Command

Greetings
The Government of Vandaheim would like to purchase:

144 FA16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters (9.264 Billion)
72 FA15 Cardinal D Strike Fighters (10.177 Billion)

Total: 19.441 Billion USD

Payment Half in Advance, Half upon delivery,

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Military Material Command

OFFICIAL CORPORATE RESPONSE
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Carl Penderson, Director, VMMC

Thank you for selecting IAC and GEM aerospace. Your order has been approved by the Military Consulate for foreign export. As you've decided to purchase Priest fighters, your order is eligible for a 5% discount off GEM products. (Being II, purchasing power is actually irrelevant, but whatever.) May these aircraft serve proudly, be they for testing, or for regional air defense, or what ever role you have intended for them. And remember - if there are any modifications you would like to the designs, please - make your voices heard!
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Olmedreca wishes to purchase 2,500 B-22 bombers, as its quite large order we would like to divide purchase over next three years.

Greetings,

Pleased with the prompt and courteous servicing of our last order, I am pleased to announce that the Government of Vandaheim has selected GEM as the prime contractor for the Vandaheimian Airforce's fighter requirements, and would like to repeat last years order every year for the next 10 years, with annual payments.

Vandaheimian Fighter Group Package X10
144 FA16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters (9.264 Billion)
72 FA15 Cardinal D Strike Fighters (10.177 Billion)

Package price:19.441 Billion
Total price 194.41 Billion
Discount (5%)
Final Price: 184.6895 Billion
Annual Payment for next 10 years: 18.46895 Billion

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Military Material Command

OOC: Rather than bore you with an order every day, this seems easier

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TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platform

[Abstract]

Development of the TRU-94 (Tactical Rotary-wing Utility Model 94) began as a joint Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation and MP Ordnance project to replace the venerable C-130 Hercules in the tactical transport role due to high attrition from airframe fatigue. As low export revenues from the TF-70 fighter project strained available financial resources, the TRU-94/HH-20 was conceived as a low-risk long term project that would improve fiscal health and reserves for future programs. The proposal for initial research studies into the TRU-94 was an evolutionary development of mature tilt-rotor aircraft technology, pioneered by the infamous V-22. TPMI/EC and MP Ordnance were contracted for initial low rate production of four hundred aircraft, for evaluation purposes. Trials conducted by the Tyrandis Federal Air Service found that the TRU-94 was significantly more survivable and effective in the heavy lift role than the C-130 it was slated to replace by a significant margin; ultimately, the design was adopted by all three branches of the Federal Defense Service for frontline service.

The TRU-94 Multirole Heavy Lift Platform is a four engined tiltrotor aircraft designed by MP Ordnance, TPMI/EC and Imperial Aerospace Corporation. The TRU-94/HH-20's primary function is to carry up to 30 metric tons of cargo to and from irregular landing surfaces, such as dirt airfields and ship decks. It provides an extremely versatile VTOL platform for heavy lift, and is intended to replace the decades-old C-130 Hercules and CH-47 Chinook. The TRU-94/HH-20 has already seen service in the MP Basilisk Aspect Temple and the MP Navy as a platform to deliver troops and cargo quickly to unprepared landing zones. Civilian variants of the HH-20 are popular in MP as plaything for the wealthy, or as a short ranged commuter airplane. The TRU-94 is known as the ACI-20 Bovis in the Doomani Imperial Air Force (ACID). In Pwnage service, the aircraft is referred to as the HH-20 Mako. The official nickname for the design in the Tyrandis Federal Defense Services is Rekishichizu, or Atlas, referring to the mythical Greek titan who bore the weight of the world on his shoulders.

The robust and modular construction of the TRU-94 has resulted in the fielding of special-purpose derivatives from the baseline model, including tanker, Airborne Early Warning and Control, and gunship variants.

[Design/Airframe]

As a utility design, the TRU-94 was intended to promote fuel economy, stable performance, and structural integrity. To meet these ends, the TRU-94 employs a monocoque, tandem-wing layout with an engine nacelle on each wingtip. The tandem wing configuration allows for a stable center of gravity to be established on the aircraft, which promotes safe operation by establishing inherent flight stability. The airframe of the TRU-94 and its associated derivatives was developed by TPMI/EC in order to maximize reliability and reduce weight for improved range of the overall design. With this goal in mind, the ribs of the skeleton are constructed of Fibaloy, which is an extremely lightweight boron fiber composite that gets stronger as it cures from thermal stress, resulting in a longer airframe life. Frames and longerons are built from electron-beam welded 7475 zinc-aluminum alloy due to its outstanding toughness and strength qualities. These components are also superplastic forming to promote resistance to cracking, albeit at higher fabrication costs. Areas of the airframe that are under less stress are built from aluminum-lithium alloy for significantly reduced weight. The aircraft is skinned in a graphite epoxy laminate. A vertical stabilizer is present aft of the TRU-94, with spars and ribs manufactured from Al-Li and mated to Rohacell polymethacrylimide foam encased in graphite epoxy skin.

The TRU-94/HH-20 uses four MP Ordnance UPH-33 turboshafts each rated to 8,500 shaft horsepower. Each turboshaft has angled intakes for improved airflow dynamics. The turboshafts can run for limited amounts of time on diesel fuel, at the risk of severely reducing engine life. Each turboshaft may be broken down into several modular components for simplified maintenance and replacement of defective parts. The four bladed rotors are made out of Rohacell foam sandwiched between Kevlar honeycomb, edged with titanium. As the engine nacelles are the most vulnerable point of the aircraft, the TRU-94/HH-20 features hybrid composite armor around each nacelle to provide some level of protection against ballistic projectiles. This consists of two sheets of titanium metal matrix composite with a bismaleimide honeycomb structure sandwiched between the layers, is capable of sustaining multiple hits while retaining protective qualities, and is significantly lighter than materials with similar levels of performance.

In order to promote reliability of the TRU-94/HH-20 Multirole Heavy Lift Platform, an issue which dogged the V-22 tiltrotor program, the hydraulic lines on the aircraft are covered in Kevlar fiber to prevent electrical wiring from chafing through the lines and causing malfunctions. Additional efforts to improve the TRU-94's safety may be found through the implementation of triple-redundant digital engine control, which receives multiple input variables of the current flight condition including air density, throttle lever position, engine temperatures, engine pressures, and other relevant factors. The inputs are received by the computerized control unit and analyzed up to 70 times per second. Engine operating parameters are digitally computed based off this data and applied as appropriate. This system is fully autonomous, and ensures that the powerplant does not undergo activity that would induce catastrophic failure.

Survivability was a secondary concern of the TRU-94 - modular plates of titanium metal matrix composite backed by a Kevlar antispall layer may be mated to the airframe in a number of positions, but their use is generally discouraged due to the adverse impact of extra weight on aerodynamic performance.

[Specifications]

Personnel: 2 (Pilot, Co-pilot)

Dimensions:
Length: 30 m
Wingspan: 43.2 m
Height: 12.4 m (nacelles in vertical position)
Rotor Diameter: 12.8 m

Weights:
Empty: 33,450 kg
Loaded: 67,455 kg
Max takeoff: 80,500 kg

Speeds:
Cruise: 426 km/h
Max: 537 km/h

Powerplant:
4x MP Ordnance UPH-33 turboshafts, each rated at 8,500 shp

Range:
1,650 km combat radius
3,600 km ferry

Price for Export: $75,000,000 USD

The OoA is impressed with this Storefronts Fighters and is in need of the Following: ACI-77 Atratus 7th Generation Air Superiority Fighter - 450 Copies

These Fighters will be mainly used for the defense of OoA skies.

The OoA is impressed with this Storefronts Fighters and is in need of the Following: ACI-77 Atratus 7th Generation Air Superiority Fighter - 450 Copies

These Fighters will be mainly used for the defense of OoA skies.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The American order of four hundred and fifty [450] units of ACI-77/TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters is denied with extreme prejudice due to their poor government stability and atrocious disrespect of intellectual property rights.

OOC: Your bullshit in Dartia's storefront more or less killed any chance of buying my stuff.

Fixed the price doom, at 136 Million

Greetings to you, kind sirs. The order we will present you with today will be quite large for what we would normally place, so bear with us. First, we will require:

96 ACI-77 Atratus/TF-70 Shukusei 7th Generation Air Superiority Fighter - $19.2 billion USD

These planes (4 squadrons) will be used for the sole purpose of defending the skies around our capital, but may at times see offensive action. We would purchase more, however the Cardinal is far more cost effective. Second, we require:

200 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber - $300 billion

For years we have relied on the B-74 Shadowcaster as our stealth strategic bomber, and we figure that it is only time to step up to the best. Third, we wish to purchase these to compliment our existing force. We find that the Cardinal provides more bang for the buck than any other plane available today. As such, we wish to buy:

200 FA 15 Cardinal Air Superiority/Strike Fighter - $28,266,800,000 (D Model)
and
500 FA 15 Cardinal Air Superiority/Strike Fighter - $73,265,000,000 (E Model (Navalized D Model))

Continuing on, we find that your Eiko helicopters more than meet our needs as a light attack helicopter. Since our army relies heavily on speed at times, this helicopter will be perfect in unison. Thus, we will order:

3,500 TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter - $96.25 billion

We also wish to upgrade our non-stealth bomber fleet, and find the Zeus to be the best of the best. As such, we will purchase:

400 B 22 Zeus Strategic Bomber - $229,765,732,000 (200 for the past RP, as previously discussed)

Then, we wish to upgrade our transport fleet. However, we find the range of these aircraft does not suit them for long distance transport, and as suck will be keeping our C-130 Hercules. We do wish to use these to replace our V-22's and Chinooks however, and as such will be purchasing:

75 TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platform - $56.25 billion

Last but not least, we are interested in your Black Eagles, and wish to purchase some for trials:

25 ARV-94 'Black Eagle' Joint Stealth Attack/Recon Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft - $1.375 billion

In total, the order comes out to be: $804.372532 billion dollars

Thank you for offering such high quality goods. As we are very pleased with what we will be ordering, we will give you a small gratuity, making the order come out to $805 billion. Thank you once more.

OOC: Erm; out of idle curiosity and for referance on any products I might make in the future and deny selling him; what did OoA do? and I do plan to buy lots of things here in a bit :)

OOC: Erm; out of idle curiosity and for referance on any products I might make in the future and deny selling him; what did OoA do? and I do plan to buy lots of things here in a bit :)

Tried to sell Dartia a design made by DMG. Aside from his questionable taste in products, the baldfaced plagarism means that he's banned from this storefront (at least for items manufactured by TPMI/EC).

Official Corporate Transmission

Your order has been processed and confirmed. Thank you for choosing IAC.

Tried to sell Dartia a design made by DMG. Aside from his questionable taste in products, the baldfaced plagarism means that he's banned from this storefront (at least for items manufactured by TPMI/EC).

OOC: makes sense; whats the larges number of TF-70's I can order? so far I've clocked up I need around 16,000 of them for my airforce?

OOC: Limits on sale depend largely on what you're going to do with the fighters.

OOC: Limits on sale depend largely on what you're going to do with the fighters.

(OOC: it would become my primary land based Superiority fighter; replacing my F-22B King Raptors; which would then be syndercated to the national air guard)

(OOC: it would become my primary land based Superiority fighter; replacing my F-22B King Raptors; which would then be syndercated to the national air guard)

OOC: No limit then.

OOC: Please Cusing is Vulgar and inmature so please attempt to not cus in front of the Jubinial. They way Dartia treated my nation was in my opinion completely inappropriate as I was simply asking a question concerning his Accusations of Plagiarism so that I my adjust my Design appropriately.

You tried to sell him a design that was made by DMG. Period, end of story.

You're banned from this storefront, I suggest you take your business elsewhere.

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To: GEM Aerospace Corporation
From: Labhekistan, Department of the Air Force

We thank the Imperial Aerospace Corporation for their quick response to our previous order. Our Air Force has been greatly enhanced thanks to your fine aircraft. However, we wish to make one further purchase. Our strategic bomber wings are currently lacking in modernized aircraft, and as such, we wish to order the following:

288x B-22 Zeus Strategic Bomber

Our order comes to a total cost of $165,431,327,040 USD. We thank you once again.

Regards,

Viktor Bogdanov
Minister of National Defense
Labhekistan

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Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force Joint Purchase Order
Hello. IAC has made itself one of TPF's primary defense contractors, second only to Kreigzimmer, and we commend you for this. Your company has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Cup, winning defense contractor of the year. Congratulations. On another note, we wish to replace our Chinooks with 8,000 Atlas Heavy Lift Aircraft Thank you and congratulations once again.

Congratulations!

The TRU-94 has been selected out of a line up of possible replacements for the domestically produced An-12's! Therefore we wish to accquire domestic production rights for this fine aircraft, to be designated the "C-200 Prairie Chicken" in Izistani service. Funds shall be wired on confirmation of this order.

-Board of Procurement.
[I forget what my agency for this sort of thing is called. ;_;]

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The Joint Purchase Order of The PeoplesFreedom of eight thousand [8,000] TRU-94 Atlas Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms has been cleared for immediate export. Production of the requested aircraft will begin immediately, owning to the outstanding credit rating TPF holds with Imperial Aerospace Corporation. Further, a discount of 25% shall be applied. We thank the military of TPF for their loyalty to our humble wares.

The Izistani request for domestic production rights must be discussed over private channels.

OOC: talk over IRC

As discussed earlier, sale of domestic production rights to the TRU-94 Atlas Multirole Heavy Lift Platform will be the cost of one thousand [1,000] individual units and a 5% royalty for each aircraft produced in this manner.

Greetings,

The Government of Vandaheim would like to procure 100 TRU-94 Atlas Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms per year for the next five years (500 total AC). We will make payments of 7.5 billion USD per year until completion of the contract.

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Military Material Command

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import Export Corporation]

Welcome to Imperial Aerospace Corporation Storefront! The order of the Government of Vandaheim for one hundred [100] TRU-94 Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms per annum over the next five years has been approved for immediate export; production will begin pending receipt of funds. TPMI/EC thanks the Vandaheim Military Material Command for their patronage, and hopes that our products will serve to the expected grade of quality.

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Official Allanean Request

The Department of Education requests the following equipment:

1,000 XLRAAM missiles
40,000 AC-91B Cornix missiles

The total cost of this equipment will be 6.05 billion dollars.

Greetings,

Continuously impressed with IAC products and service, Vandaheim is pleased to order 400 TRA-92 Eiko Light attack helicopters for 11 Billion USD.

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Military Material Command

OCC: What can I say... you guys make darn good products..and I like to buy xD

Air Force Purchase Order
While our current strategic bomber force is highly capable and effective, these massive bombers are prone to interception. While we give them adequate fighter support, SAM sites count for a large majority of our losses. As such, we have decided to test the Sariel strategic bomber and the Zeus strategic bomber. We will buy 500 units of each, and if these proof satisfactory, we will purchase additional aircraft. Thank you.

We currently have a complete lack of any type of large bombing aircraft. Therefore, we would like to purchase,

500 S-22 ''Sariel'' at , 750,000,000,000 and;


This sum will be paid off as the aircraft are delivered.

OCC: What can I say... you guys make darn good products..and I like to buy xD

Air Force Purchase Order
While our current strategic bomber force is highly capable and effective, these massive bombers are prone to interception. While we give them adequate fighter support, SAM sites count for a large majority of our losses. As such, we have decided to test the Sariel strategic bomber and the Zeus strategic bomber. We will buy 500 units of each, and if these proof satisfactory, we will purchase additional aircraft. Thank you.


500 B22 Zeus approved. Busy w/ college stuffs atm, no long post.

Official Allanean Request

The Department of Education requests the following equipment:

1,000 XLRAAM missiles
40,000 AC-91B Cornix missiles

The total cost of this equipment will be 6.05 billion dollars.

Official Corporate Response

We are sorry, but we must deny your order as per Imperial Decree MMMCXXVI, which states that all sales to the blasphemous infidel communist homosexual heretic heathen Muslim Jew furfag regime of Allanea shall be blocked. Thank you for choosing Imperial Aerospace.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

All orders for TPMI/EC products have been confirmed for export.

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Olmedreca wishes to purchase 500 SB-22 Sariel bombers. Total price would be 750,000,000,000 USD. Due large size of purchase we would like to divide it into two parts, so that we would buy 250 this year and 250 next year.

To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: Prestonian Air Force

Being as our air force currently lacks a stealth fighter, we would like to fill that gap with one of your aircraft. We wish to purchase 500 TF-70 Shukusei for a total of $100 Billion. Money will be wired following confirmation of our order.

Greetings once again.

Today we wish to purchase:

500 ATAIM-10 "HANABI" (Flowerfire) Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munition - 625 million.

That will be all. Thank you.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The orders of the Governments of Olmedreca, Central Prestonia, and Kampfers have been approved for immediate export; production will begin pending receipt of funds.

Foreign Ministry of Cohenia
Hail Cohenia!

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases:

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation, mainly from the Candrian Empire's GEM Aerospace.

We require a large sum of B-22 Strategic Bombers, specifically 9,001 of them. The total comes out to 5,170,303,384,000. Yes, that is OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

We are sorry for such a large order, and would enjoy production be part speedy.

Thank you,

Her Imperial Highness the Princess Kristin Ferrin
Crown Princess of Jaredcohenia, Foreign Minister

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Final tallies into the performance of the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter during the Operation Vizionarian Freedom incident have proven its abject dominance. Seeing extensive combat against a Jarridian-led coalition, TF-70s used by the MPAF racked up an almost-unbelievable 8,000 air to air kills, to no losses.

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[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The orders of the Governments of Olmedreca, Central Prestonia, and Kampfers have been approved for immediate export; production will begin pending receipt of funds.

Funds have been wired.

Greetings, We would like to purchase the following product from IAC:

2,000 x ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters

350,000 x ACI-20 "Bovis"/TRU-94 "Atlas" Heavy Lift Platforms

1,000 x ATAIM-10 "HANABI" Missiles (Along with the DPRs of said missile, the terms of which we have discussed over private channels.

Funds will be transfered upon confirmation of our order.

-Reich Foreign Ministry-

Official Coproate Repsonse

Ur order iz confirmed.

Foreign Ministry of Cohenia
Hail Cohenia!

To whom it may concern in the Imperial Aerospace Corporation regarding sales and purchases:

The Imperial Jaredcohenian Air Force is interested in purchasing several aircraft from the Imperial Aerospace Corporation, mainly from the Candrian Empire's GEM Aerospace.

We require a large sum of B-22 Strategic Bombers, specifically 9,001 of them. The total comes out to 5,170,303,384,000. Yes, that is OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

We are sorry for such a large order, and would enjoy production be part speedy.

Thank you,

Her Imperial Highness the Princess Kristin Ferrin
Crown Princess of Jaredcohenia, Foreign Minister


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Olmedreca has succesfully reformed most of its airforce with high quality planes of this storefront. Only main weakness yet is our carrier based airforce, for solving that we would like to purchase:
5000 x FA 15 Cardinals
5000 x TF-62 Sparrows (Naval)
Total price would be: $1.261.650.000.000

As its rather large purchase we would like to divide it into 3 parts over 3 years.

Official Government Request

We hereby request 200 ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopters to be delivered to our country as soon as possible. The 7,000,000,000 USD will be wired upon confirmation.

Sincerely,
Arnold Nugeen
Sectary of Defense

Doom will be back shortly.

Official Corporate Transmission

Your order has been processed and confirmed. Thank you for choosing IAC.

Coming soon from Imperial Aerospace Corporation:

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/EB-15

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OOC: Do you guys do custom contracts?

OOC: Do you guys do custom contracts?

OOC: Depends on what you want, and if it overlaps with our own requirements. Eiko was a custom contract ordered by SEA, but I still needed a scout chopper for my Corvuses, so it was duly designed and put into production.

OOC: Depends on what you want, and if it overlaps with our own requirements. Eiko was a custom contract ordered by SEA, but I still needed a scout chopper for my Corvuses, so it was duly designed and put into production.

OCC: What about a high-speed bomber designed to take down AA defense sites and Early Warning RADAR before the main waves come crashing in, and also for high-risk precision strikes?

OCC: What about a high-speed bomber designed to take down AA defense sites and Early Warning RADAR before the main waves come crashing in, and also for high-risk precision strikes?

OOC: You mean something like the B-1 Lancer? Or maybe the Soviet Blinder?

But for high-risk precision strikes... I recommend buying Sariel. Expensive, but stealthy enough to defeat most any NS-grade air defense network.

OOC: You mean something like the B-1 Lancer? Or maybe the Soviet Blinder?

But for high-risk precision strikes... I recommend buying Sariel. Expensive, but stealthy enough to defeat most any NS-grade air defense network.

OOC: I have the Sariel, but most nations have that uber-radar junk, and I was thinking along the lines of the Lancer, but fast enough to outrun most missiles. Kind of like Wild Weasel but its a bomber, so it carriers heavier payload longer distances.

OOC: I have the Sariel, but most nations have that uber-radar junk, and I was thinking along the lines of the Lancer, but fast enough to outrun most missiles. Kind of like Wild Weasel but its a bomber, so it carriers heavier payload longer distances.

OOC: Uber-radar junk doesn't work against Sariel, given that the low-observable techniques I researched and implemented work across the entire RF spectrum. Although, carrier-free RADAR can find it... but that has a piss-awful range.

No plane can outrun missiles. This is physically impossible due to constraints on thermal stress on an airframe.

But you can hide in ground clutter. For your purposes, I've been working on a oblique-wing tactical bomber with ~Mach 2.4 dash, that has adaptive RCS (makes it blend in perfectly with terrain features).

OCC: Sounds good. I have literally no knowledge of aircraft design and thus I defer to you. I look forward to this product.

OOC: Uber-radar junk doesn't work against Sariel, given that the low-observable techniques I researched and implemented work across the entire RF spectrum. Although, carrier-free RADAR can find it... but that has a piss-awful range.

No plane can outrun missiles. This is physically impossible due to constraints on thermal stress on an airframe.

But you can hide in ground clutter. For your purposes, I've been working on a oblique-wing tactical bomber with ~Mach 2.4 dash, that has adaptive RCS (makes it blend in perfectly with terrain features).

OOC: /drool yep, I'll be buying that when it comes out.

Greetings:

The Vandaheimian Air Force is a stalwart user of IAC products, and has lobbied hard for the procurement of 12 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Bombers.
The full amount of 18 Billion will be paid in advance.

Furthermore, on the behalf of Vandaheim Fighter Command, we humbly apply for a purchase license for the TF-70 "SHUKUSEI" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter, we wish to purchase a limited number of these magnificent aircraft to equip our elite pilots in our home defense forces.

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheim Defense Material Command

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

It is with great pleasure that TPMI/EC welcomes the returning business of the Vandaheimian Air Force. The order of twelve [12] SB-22 Advanced Strategic Bombers has been cleared for export; production will begin pending receipt of funds. We hope for and expect that these aircraft will serve your purposes admirably, given its battle-tested record of superb performance against the modern air defense environment.

Domestic production rights to the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter are unfortunately unavailable at this time due to security concerns - note the attempt by the Government of Allanea to illicitly secure tooling and blueprint information. However, we are prepared to offer no-interest financing should the VAF continue to seek acquisition of TF-70 aircraft.

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[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

It is with great pleasure that TPMI/EC welcomes the returning business of the Vandaheimian Air Force. The order of twelve [12] SB-22 Advanced Strategic Bombers has been cleared for export; production will begin pending receipt of funds. We hope for and expect that these aircraft will serve your purposes admirably, given its battle-tested record of superb performance against the modern air defense environment.

Domestic production rights to the TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighter are unfortunately unavailable at this time due to security concerns - note the attempt by the Government of Allanea to illicitly secure tooling and blueprint information. However, we are prepared to offer no-interest financing should the VAF continue to seek acquisition of TF-70 aircraft.

Dear Sirs,

We understand your position on protecting your designs, and understand how you wish to keep such a bleeding edge design out of competitors hands. We would still like to purchase 240 TF-70's for a price of 48 Billion. We are sure these craft will serve admirably along side the Cardinals and Priests already in service.

Thank you,

Cal Penderson
Director
Vandaheimian Defense Material Command

The Empire of The Ryou Black Islands would like to buy

200 ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters (ACI-73D Version) - $90,000,000

100 FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters - $64,331,424

120 ARV-94 'Black Eagle' Joint Stealth Attack/Recon Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft - $55,000,000

200 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber - $1,500,000,000

We will wire The Money in Avance for these.

The Empire of The Ryou Black Islands would like to buy

200 ACI-73 Aquila Air Superiority Fighters (ACI-73D Version) - $90,000,000

100 FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters - $64,331,424

120 ARV-94 'Black Eagle' Joint Stealth Attack/Recon Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft - $55,000,000

200 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber - $1,500,000,000

We will wire The Money in Avance for these.

OOC: I don't think you really did the math correctly (if at all). That's just a little over 330 Billion USD, double what your defense budget is.

OOC: I don't think you really did the math correctly (if at all). That's just a little over 330 Billion USD, double what your defense budget is.

OOC: Stevid is helpping fund part of my budget

OOC: Stevid is helpping fund part of my budget

Some storefront owners might not accept that, however. It's always best to check with them before making any assumptions.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

The order of the Ryou Black Islands is denied with extreme prejudice, owning to an obvious inability to pay for such a large sum, as well as its laughably unstable government. Imperial Aerospace Corporation refuses to finance poorly-justified acts of aggression against sovereign nations; thus, we suggest the RBI look elsewhere for armaments. We will not implicitly condone blatant warmongering through sale of weapons to criminal regimes.

OOC: Stevid is helpping fund part of my budget

Do NOT bother buying from any Candrian-owned corporate entities; whole or part. THAT IS ALL.

The Tocrowkian Reich would like to acquire 2,000 TSF-624 "Shukusei" Fighters. Most of said fighters would be used exclusively to defend Tocrowkian Aerospace, while a small group of around thirty will be assimilated into our elite tactical strike squadrons for first-strike missions.

We also believe we have discussed the terms and specifications for a special variant of the TSF-624 for use by His Grace, Steward Mahone so that he may lead his forces into glorious battle.

Funds for both of these purchases will be transfered upon confirmation of order.

-Reich Foreign Ministry-

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[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

TPMI/EC welcomes the returning business of the Tocrowkian Reich. As requested, the order of two thousand [2,000] TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority Fighters has been confirmed for immediate export; production will begin immediately, due to the superb credit rating the Government of Tocrowkia holds with our company.

The Government of Vandaheim's amended order of two hundred and forty [240] TF-70 Advanced Air Superiority fighters has been cleared for export. Our corporation apologizes once again, Mr. Penderson, for our inability to provide production rights; we hope that the performance of the requested aircraft will compensate for this issue.

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The Holy Empire would like to purchase the following for our armed forces; As we are upgrading all our armed services

TF-70 Shukusei x 3500
TF-62 Sparrow Naval Multi Role Fighter x 2800
FA-16A Priest Tactical Fighter x 7400
FA-15D Cardinal Strike Fighter x 7000
ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopter x 1700
TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter x 1760
Tru-94 Atlas Multi Role Transport x 5200
SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber x 300
B-22 Zeus Strategic Bomber x 6000

Total: $7,006,896,517,600
Tip: $140,137,930,352
Grand Total: $7,147,034,447,952

We realise this is somewhat over our current budget however we would like to split payment over 4 years; with 1.8 Trillion USD paid annually; we would also like to sign an attrition contract so that our forces can be maintained at current levels from your storefront automatically even with potential wartime losses; As always a tip is added onto the total; some 140 Billion; in line with your export Policy the TF-70 will become the front line Air Superiority Fighter for our nation entirely replacing our F-22 Raptors currently in service.

As already agreed with TPMI/EC on private channels, Olmedreca wishes to purchase domestic production rights for ATAIM-8 "TASOGARE", ATAIM-9 "RAKURAI" and ATAIM-10 "HANABI" air-air missiles.
Total price will be 2,267,500,000 USD + 5% royalty on all produced missiles.

Gen - Approved (All)

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

As previously arranged, the Olmedracan order for Domestic Production Rights to the ATAIM-8, -9, and -10 series of air to air missiles has been approved for export. Tooling and blueprint information will be sent via secure courier ASAP.

The Holy Empire of Genites's large order for TPMI/EC products has been approved for immediate export; further, we are prepared to offer zero-interest financing. Thank you for your patronage of Imperial Aerospace Corporation Storefront - we expect that our aircraft will serve the defense needs of the Holy Empire flawlessly.

Thoroughly impressed by the products at this storefront, we are back for more!

500 ATAIM-10 "HANABI" (Flowerfire) Advanced Tactical Air Intercept Munition - 625 million.

3,500 ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopter - 122.5 billion

200 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bomber - $300 billion

TOTAL: 423.125 billion

We thank you for such good products!

Fuhrer Richtoff

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also: TF-71 Advanced Tactical Fighter is about 80% done, and will be added to this storefront sometime next week.

ACI-39 Bellicus

Advanced Helicopter Gunship/Transport

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5002/doomheloshow6gm3.png

Overview

The extremely high accident rate of the ACI-91 Gladiator meant that its term of service in ACID would be short-lived; unfortunately for the Exercitus (Imperial Army), this left a severe gap in its air mobile capability, with only the lightweight, relatively poorly armored ACI-18 utility helicopter (RSI AH-18 Draco) and the far heavier ACI-20 Bovis. A well-armored combination gunship/transport helicopter was needed to replace the ACI-91, one that would be able to bring a horrific amount of firepower down on enemy forces occupying a landing zone and the surrounding area as well as land, at the very least, a full squad of air mobile infantry.

Imperial Aerospace looked at its last major helicopter design, the highly successful ACI-37 Corvus, which had been in service for well over twenty years. The recent modernization package for the Corvus had a good deal of advanced electronics and other systems that IAC saw no need to be rid of, and as a result the ACI-37 and the newer ACI-39 shared a good deal of electronics components. Not only did IAC blow away the Exercitus' requirement for carrying a single squad by allotting room for two full squads, it also provided them with a degree of firepower that they previously could not have imagined coming from a helicopter. The armament packed into the Bellicus made that loaded on the Corvus look like a pea shooter, in the end, and the sheer amount of armor on the Bellicus made it the equivelent of a flying tank.

Imperial air mobile special forces operators, the primary users of the Bellicus, have recently taken to naming the aircraft "Hatredcopter" after a song by the popular metal band Dethklok. The first operational Bellicus units initially saw action in Kahanistan, and later in Iurarium against the Kregaians.

Design

The Bellicus was designed from the ground up to be as heavily armored as possible, while maintaining the ability to transport two infantry squads and support them with airborne gunfire. Secondary capabilities included the anti-tank role and air cover against enemy helicopters and fighters.

The Bellicus features armoring up to 30mm API in vital areas, including the cockpits (elaborated on later in this article), the engines, and the tail. The passenger compartment, also of vital importance, is rated for protection vs. 15.7x131mm FMJ. Armoring is accomplished through the use of a number of systems: ceramics are used extensively in the more heavily armored sections, with ballistic titanium and Spectra being used to supplement it.

Unlike the typical transport helicopter which tends to utilize a side-by-side seating configuration for its cockpit, the ACI-39 instead utilizes a tandem configuration as found in the majority of the world's dedicated attack helicopters. Unlike many attack helicopters, however, the Bellicus does not, in fact, have just one cockpit; the gunner and pilot are seated in their own cockpits (with the gunner in the furthest up cockpit and the pilot having the dominating view). This ensures far greater survivability in the event of a hit: a hit to the gunner's cockpit that kills the gunner will generally not kill the pilot, and as a result the helo would be able to make it home, and visa versa.

The individual cockpits themselves consist of all-digital touch screen OLED panels, displaying all vital flight and sensor data. The pilot and gunner both utilize helmet-mounted HUD systems, as well, which allow for them to target enemy units simply by looking at them.

The personnel compartment features bench seats for up to fourteen fully equipped infantrymen as well as two weapon stations for the door gunners, with armored compartments containing medical supplies and additional ammunition for the two doorguns. The bench seats are also capable of folding, making room for up to six stretchers. A winch system is also mounted to allow for the recovery of personnel on the ground and in the water.

In addition to these systems, the ACI-39 features a number of passive systems to prevent enemy infrared guided weapons from targetting the aircraft. The entire helo is covered in infrared absorbant paint to prevent enemy infrared from tracking the aircraft. The helicopter's engines are protected by an infrared filtering system, designed to eliminate the heat signature produced by the engines. Noise signature is greatly reduced thanks to the use of five rotor blades rather than four or two, as well as the use of a fan system for the tail rotor.

Armament

The primary armament of the pilot and most obvious armament of the Bellicus is the 23x135mm CTA D/ACU.230H Helicopter Advanced Gun System B (HAGS-B). The D/ACU.230H operates on the gast principal, mounting two barrels, with the recoil from one barrel chambering a round for the other, allowing for a tremendous rate of fire as well as relatively low recoil. The use of CTA ammunition also means that a greater amount of ammunition can be carried without sacrificing any power.

This weapon, designed to act as the pilot's personal weapon system (and is tied to his helmet-based HUD and slaved to its own FLIR, allowing for him to engage targets with the turn of his head), allows for the Bellicus to engage immediate threats, such as infantry and light armor. However, the cannon's penetration power allows for it to penetrate the roof armor of most contemporary armored vehicles.

Greatly increasing the firepower of the Bellicus are its twin 37x100mm CTA D/ACU.370H recoil-operated automatic cannons, each firing at a rate of three hundred rounds per minute with 150 rounds readily available for each gun. These are mounted in fixed positions on the fuselage and are intended for strafing. They are, however, adjustable for the range of the intersection of their respective lines of fire; the MADHAT system (described later) is capable of using range information to precisely adjust this arc to inflict maximum damage on the target.

The large wings of the Bellicus also allow for the carrying of a tremendous amount of ordnance: drawing on lessons from the Corvus, the Bellicus retains wingtip hardpoints for engaging enemy helicopters and fighters. An additional six underwing hardpoints are also available, with each being capable of carrying everything from a cluster of four Cornix-II ATGMs to FFAR pods to additional fuel tanks, or, in some cases, extra ammunition for the 37mm cannons (the cannons are capable of being dual fed, so an extra linkage from a wing-mounted ammunition magazine can be fed into the free side of the gun and shell casings ejectec downwards).

Finally, mounted in windows next to the doors to the troop compartment are two 7.8mm 4M3 medium machineguns. However, even these weapons have their own fire control systems: the weapon stations themselves feature infrared scopes with inbuilt laser range finders as well as a simple fire control computer tied to the aircraft's flight data system that show the gunner precisely how much to lead the target, as well as highlighting possible targets based on the Bellicus' target recognition software.

Propulsion

Unlike the Corvus which utilized contra-rotors, the ACI-39 uses a conventional layout. However, the tail rotor of the Bellicus is actualy a fan blade, which both improves protection in addition to reducing noise output. As for actual propulsion, the ACI-39 makes use of twin Imperial Aerospace I/T.XIIH turboshaft engines, propeling the helicopter to a maximum velocity of three hundred fifty kilometers per hour. The engines both feature vents over their exhaust that greatly reduce their infrared signature as well as IR absorbant paint (along with the rest of the aircraft)

Avionics

Once more borrowing from the Corvus, IAC equipped its newer helo with the Modular Advanced Dynamic Helicopter Avionics Suite. Blending numerous advanced tracking, electronics, and communications systems, this system creates a fully integrated, comprehensive, and easy to use electronics package.

Begining with the sensor section of the package, the Bellicus is equipped with numerous systems to make its duty of hunting both tanks and helicopters all the easier. First off is the AJDFLIR.IIB forward looking infrared system. This latest-gen FLIR system allows for targets to easily be picked up on via their heat signature and serves as the Bellicus' primary sensor. Also coming with the system is the ALDS-H-74A LPI millimetric wave RADAR mounted above the main rotor. This system is a low probability of intercept system, meaning that passive RADAR recievers will have a far more difficult time picking up the helicopter via its own RADAR emmisions. It also allows for the tracking and engagement of airborne targets with relative ease. Finally, there is the AEOS-48G short wave infrared electro-optical system mounted in tandem with the AJDFLIR.IIB. This system provides a backup to the FLIR in the detection of ground targets. These systems are all tied together with MADHAT, projecting a comprehensive yet easy to read picture of the battlefield to both the pilot and gunner, allowing for them to easily select and engage targets. Centralized target recognition software is also included in MADHAT, allowing for the system to aid the pilot and gunners in determining targets.

Both the pilot and gunner are equipped with the AHHDS.VIH combat helmet, which features a built-in heads up display (HUD) projected onto the helmet's visor. All weapon systems are slaved to the helmet giving the crew a 'look and shoot' capability'; in addition, the helmet also allows for the crew to see out of the numerous digital cameras embedded on the outer skin of the helo, giving them a full panoramic view of their surroundings and thus superior situational awareness in comparison to foreign helicopters.

In terms of flight controls, the ACI-39 utilizes the D/FCL.XIVH fly-by-light system. It was decided on to use fly-by-light due to the fact that it would allow for multiple reduncancy, making it less vulnerable to enemy fire than using conventional hydraulics, as well as being more responsive. The Bellicus' flight control system is in fact tripple-redundant, making it extremely difficult for the pilot of the Bellicus to lose control of the aircraft without having either the engines, main rotor, or tail rotor damaged, even when faced by overwhelming enemy fire.

In the area of communications, the ACI-39 features a number of systems. For normal communication with friendly units, it utilizes the HARS-64A digital radio system. This system is designed to be capable of rapidly switching frequencies as friendly units do so simultaniously, making jamming of communications or listening in far more difficult. For when you still need to communicate with friendly forces but need to maintain total radio silence, the aircraft has a DALBCS-H-7A communications system. This is a laser-based communications system designed to talk with units that had direct line of sight with the aircraft. When used together in conjunction with other friendly units, the helicopter can be linked with far away units by piggy backing on other systems of friendly units, allowing for full, silent integration of a force. The aircraft also features full GPS and satelite link up, allowing for the Corvus to be tied in with global defense networks, such as the Imperial BattleNet, making for integration all the easier and lethal.

Countermeasures

In order to survive on the modern battlefield and carry its precious cargo safely to their desination, Imperial Aerospace looked towards its Corvus attack helicopter for inspiration in regards to countermeasures. As a result, it was decided to retain the same countermeasures suite for the sake of commonality. This came in the form of the EADS-VI Combined Offensive/Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite.

The first and one of the most basic parts of the suite are a series of chaft, flare, and decoy dispensers located all around the helicopter's fuselage. They provide a reliable, last-ditch, 360 degree layer of protection from all threats. The EADS-VI suite is configured to automatically release chaff and flares as necessary when the launch of an enemy missile is detected. Passive detection of incoming threats is accomplished via the LWR.X laser warning reciever and RWR.XXVI RADAR warning reciever in addition to passive infrared detection via the Corvus' electro-optical and infared sensors. The next component in the suite are the ERJ-II radio jammer, the IRJ-IV infrared jammer (utilizing a microwave laser), and the MRJ-I radar jammer.

The combination of these three jammers provide a not-so-subtle defense and offense against threats to the helicopter. The MRJ-I, originally found on the Corvus attack helicopter radar jammer is a new radar jammer designed by Red Star Industries and IAC and is designed to confuse the seekers of incoming missile threats. It does so in two ways, one it creates multiple radar signatures of the helicopter and/or totally jams the seeker head with so much clutter that target recognition is virtually impossible.

Designation: ACI-39 Bellicus

Countries of Origin: Doomingsland

Builder: Imperial Aerospace Corporation

Role: Gunship/Transport

Personnel: 4 crew (pilot, gunner, two door (also serve as flight mechanic and crew chief respectively)) 14 passengers

Blades:
Main rotor: 5
Tail rotor (fan): 4

Rotor diameter: 17.8 meters

Wing span: 7.5 meters

Length:
Fuselage: 20 meters

Height:
Gear extended: 6.8m
Gear retracted: 6.6m

Engines: 2x Imperial Aerospace 3,000hp I/TS.XIIH Turboshafts

Weight:
Maximum Gross: 16,500kg
Normal Takeoff: 14,000kg
Empty: 10,500kg

Standard Payload: External weapons load: 3,500 kg on 6 under-wing stores points and 2 wingtip hardpoints.

Speed:
Maximum: 350km/h
Cruise: 280km/h
Sideward: 120km/h
Rearward: 120km/h

Turn Rate: unlimited

Ceiling:
Service: 5,000 meters
Hover (out of ground effect): 4,500 meters
Hover (in ground effect): 5,000 meters

Vertical Climb Rate: 15 m/s

Range (km): 450
Maximum Load: 5 hours flight time
Normal Load: 6 hours flight time
With Aux Fuel: Not Determined

Armament:

Fixed:
• 23x135mm CTA D/ACU.230H Automatic Cannon (nose-mounted, 1500rds)
• Twin 37x100mm CTA D/ACU.370H (fuselage mounted, one on either side 300rds each)
• Two 7.8x63mm 4M3 Medium Machineguns (Door guns, 1200rds ready each, 4,000 stored)

Optional (6 hardpoints):
• 82mm rockets (20 per pod)
• 57mm rockets (45 per pod)
• ATGM mounts (4 per mount)
• Air-to-Air missiles (2 per wingtip hardpoint or 3 on underwing hardpoint)
• Gun pod: 23mm autocannon
• Gun pod: 40mm grenade machinegun

Export Price: 30 Million USD

The Imperial Ezaltian Navy would like to purchase 2500 F/A-84 Sea Shadows for use on our carriers. The appropriate $406,400,000,000 USD shall be wired upon confirmation.

Confirmed.

Army and Marine Joint Purchase Order
Once again, IAC has out-done itself. This new product, the Bellicus, is indeed a very impressive machine. After some studies and internal wrangling, we have decided to purchase these fine helicopters for use with our military. Our intial order will be 3000 ACI-39 Bellicus the money will be wired upon confirmation of the order. In addition, we would like to buy production rights for the AC-91B Cornix-II Air-Launched Anti-Tank Guided Missile. If these are not allow, we ask to purchase 300,000 missiles.We thank IAC for this excellent new product and wish you good luck on future projects and successes.

OOC: Are you going to make a picture of this as well? It helps me imagine it better, although it is similar to the MI-28 or whatever that Russian one is called. Good work again.

OOC:Yeah I've got someone working on the pic now, not sure when it'll be done. Should look like a NSified Hind.

IC:

Order for the helos and 300k missiles is confirmed.

We would like to acquire 400 SB-22 "Sariel" Strategic Stealth Bombers to expand our own strategic bombing capability. As usual, we can promise IAC that the funds will be transfered upon confirmation of our order.

-Reich Foreign Ministry-

The United Kingdom of Ezaltia would like to purchase a million models each of the four missiles available, as well as 1,000 ACI-37B Corvus attack helicopters.

The total comes to $2,392,500,000,000 USD, which we would like to pay over the course of two years. Thank you for your service.

Official Kampferian Statement

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At this time, we have decided to purchase the production rights to the missiles that have long been in Kampferian service. They have served us well, and we have determined that the funds we will spend on them to get the production rights will be more than well spent. The order will come out as such:
1000 ATAIM-8 "TASOGARE" (Nightfall) Cross-platform Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XSRAAM) + 5% DPR Royalty - 376,425,000
1000 ATAIM-9 "RAKURAI" (Thunderbolt)/ AC.IX Sagitta Cross-platform Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (XMRAAM) + 5% DPR Royalty - 691,950,000
1000 ATAIM-10 "HANABI" Cross-platform Long-Range Air-to-Air Munition (XLRAAM) + 5% DPR Royalty - 1,312,500,000
Total: 2,380,875,000
As a sign of appreciation, we will be sending an extra 2 million dollars to TPMI/EC. Thank you for your products.

Sincerely,
Fuhrer Richtoff

Official Purchase Request
Denomination of Strategy Procurement Office

The Denomination has been intrigued by the ACI-39 Bellicus, and wishes to acquire a number of machines for live combat testing; the Bellicus will be deployed in a counterinsurgency role and, should it prove up to the tasks expected of it, much larger orders will doubtless follow.

For now, though, the Denomination has authorized the placement of an order for 500 ACI-39s.

Regards.

All orders for IAC products are confirmed.

The Armed Forces of Kargucagstan would like to procure 11,000 (eleven-thousand) ACI-39 Bellicus helicopters under the stipulation that all armaments be stripped in favor of domestic variations. The total cost should amount to 374,000,000,000 (three hundred seventy four-billion) USD, assuming the unarmed helicopters are 34,000,000 (thirty four-million) each. We request that the helicopters be put on reserve for us as we order 4774 per year over the next roughly two years.

-Kargucagstani Department of War

Confirmed.

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On behalf of the Divine Legion the Holy Church of Waldenburg wishes to inquire as to the purchase of 750 FA 15 Cardinals, for the creation of the first Divine Legion air Squadron. This would equal to 87,887,500,000 USD, however we require extended air power much into the future for matters of Church importance, to that extent we wish to make a purchase of 750 Cardinals for the next 4 years. If allowed our total would come to 351,990,000,000 USD over the course of five years.

Our if allowed we would be glad to take the planes immediately and pay in those aforementioned annual stages, however at the moment we are unwilling to pay interest for any product, and prefer the cheaper option.

Signed:
His Imminence Harold the Cardinal Thousis Cenobiarch of the Holy Church
His Imminence George the Cardinal Patrin Canoarch of Same

Aurum Domus Airforce

We would like to purchase 3,000 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bombers. We would like to receive them over a 15 year period to give us time to retire our current bombers. As usual, money will be wired upon order confirmation

OOC: I'm having trouble trying to contact The Candrian Empire to confirm your order, he's been gone for some time now.

The Empire wishes to purchase
1000 TF-70 "SHUKUSEI" Advanced Air Superiority Fighter $200 billion
40 SB-22 Sariel Strategic Stealth Bombers $60 billion
Total: $260 billion

The money will be wired upon confirmation.

General Kent

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Official Message from the Department of Defense[

We wish to purchase following goods from this IAC storefront:

30,000 ACI-37B Corvus attack helicopters in the single-seat modification, as previously developed in cooperation with the Doomani.

We are ready to pay the full price, 1,050 billion dollars, for this equipment.

The Allied Nations Air Force (ANAF) would like to purchase the following:

FA 16 Priest Tactical Strike Fighters - $64,331,424 X 200 = $12,866,284,800 USD

FA 15 Cardinal Air Superiority Fighters - 117,330,000 X 300 = $35,199,000,000 USD

TF-62 Sparrow Multi-role Fighter - $120,650,000 X 700 = $84,455,000,000

Total = $1.325 Trillion USD

Money shall be sent when the order is approved over a period of two years with 50% of dues being paid each year. If that is okay that is. Thank you.

The Katislovian order is denied for blatant disregard of TPMI/EC export control policy. LERN2REED before you come back here.

Encrypted Communication
Yes, hello, my name is borat. TPF is in need of teh uber pwnage missilez. This mizzles is teh ATAIM-9 "RAKURAI" we needz production rites. kthxbye. moni has been sent.

[Tyrandis Precision Machine Import/Export Corporation]

As discussed in private channels, the TPFian request for domestic production rights to the ATAIM-9 XMRAAM has been cleared for export; tooling and schematics will be transmitted via secure courier after receipt of funds. We sincerely hope that these weapons will serve your air force well in the worldwide crusade against Bolshevism.

IAC product orders confirmed.

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Imperial Communiqué

The Pictish Imperium is in need of a single aircraft which can perform the duties of both the Eurofighter Typhoon in terms of sheer manoeuvrability and dog fighting capability, and the F-22 Raptor in terms of stealth performance. Thus, we approach the Imperial Aerospace Corporation requesting advice on a suitable modern fighter [OOC: With PMT limits up to 2020, no technology significantly beyond that date] with the capacity to outperform both of said aircraft.

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Regards,
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Gaius Kadesh, Consul of the Pictish Imperium
High Commander of the Pictish Armed Forces
Warlord of the Utopian Crusades

We would recommend the ACI-73 Aquila series for what you have requested.

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Imperial Communiqué

Very well, prior examination of the designs produced the same choice by my most trusted advisers. We shall submit an order for two-hundred ACI-73D AQVILA @ 90,000,000 USD each, coming to 18,000,000,000 USD wired upon confirmation. Once the combat evaluation of the aircraft is complete, The Pictish Imperium would most likely prefer Domestic Production Rights to the craft.
OOC: Incidentally, why is it so cheap? I would expect an aircraft of this caliber to be more around the 130 Million USD mark
I also wish to inquire whether the naval variant is suitable for carrier-bound operations. Thank you for your time.

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Regards,
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Gaius Kadesh, Consul of the Pictish Imperium
High Commander of the Pictish Armed Forces
Warlord of the Utopian Crusades

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Official Department of Defense Order Form

Given the increase of our population, we now have more resources to protect our liberty. As such we require more firepower. As such we require the following equipment:


4,000 B-22 Zeus Strategic Bombers
20,000 ACI-73N Aquila ASFs
20,000 ACI-37ALN attack helicopters

Total Cost: $4,920 bn.

*BUMP*
I am absolutely itching to get my hands on that fighter...

All IAC orders confirmed.

OOC:Yah its carrier capable, hence it being called a naval fighter.

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Imperial Communiqué

The Imperium hereby requests the sale of Domestic Production Rights to the ACI-73D AQVILA.

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Regards,
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Gaius Kadesh, Consul of the Pictish Imperium
High Commander of the Pictish Armed Forces
Warlord of the Utopian Crusades

Production rights are currently not available to the Aquila.

OOC: Added Bellicus pic

OOC: Sorry, missed that. Last order from me for a whille, and the pics look ace by the way.http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/Retro_1989/ImperialSealUpload.png
Imperial Communiqué

To the Imperial Aerospace Corporation:
The Pictish Imperium hereby orders 4,500 ACI-73D Aquila Air Superiority Fighters and a further 1,200 ACI-73N Aquila Air Superiority Fighters for 500.2 Billion USD.


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Regards,
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Gaius Kadesh, Consul of the Pictish Imperium
High Commander of the Pictish Armed Forces
Warlord of the Utopian Crusades

Confirmed.

ACI-45 Audax Multirole Fighter

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Design Overview and History

The ACI-45 Audax was concieved by the Imperial Aerospace Corporation and the Gloster Aircraft Company as a lightweight, single-seat, low-cost, low-tech supersonic multirole fighter for export to foreign nations. The Audax was built from the ground up to be as simple and reliable as possible; however, engineers at IAC and Gloster still managed to build an aircraft with some impressive performance despite the low price.

This relatively small aircraft, featuring an Imperial Aerospace D/T.CXVI turbofan engine and low-set wings, has a high degree of agility and has a superb degree of reliability, requiring very little maintanence. The aircraft's powerplant is designed with maintainability in mind, and even relatively poorly trained aircraft mechanics will find them easy to work on; all in all, the Audax requires far less personnel to maintain then most contemporary aircraft. Despite this, it still manages to each put out a total of twenty thousand pounds of thrust. In addition, it was decided that due to the high availability of low-cost electronics in this day and age, it would be even more expediant to equip Audax with a more sofisticated fly-by-wire system. This both vastly improves the aircraft's agility and performance against similiarly priced aircraft in addition to making it more easy maintain due to the lack of hydraulics.

In terms of electronics, the Audax is surprisingly modern despite its low cost: featuring an all-digital cockpit and a modern side-mounted joystick similar to that found in the F-16, and has easy to read displays, keeping vital data at the pilot's eye level. Audax's sensor package consists of a nose-mounted IAC I/RM.XIV.E multimode RADAR, capable of tracking targets up to forty eight nautical miles away. The Audax also features a sofisticated D/INS.XA laser inertial navigation system to allow for easy navigation.

Despite its small size, the Audax does maintain a total of six hardpoints: two underwing and two fuselage, capable of carrying ordnance ranging from two thousand pound laser guided munitions to virtually any modern air-to-air missile, provided the proper software adjustments are made, and two wingtip hardpoints for carrying short range air to air missiles (export models of the Audax are capable of utilizing all medium and short range air-to-air weapons developed by TPMI/EC). In total, the aircraft is capable of carrying payloads exceeding 8,500lb. The Audax's gun armament comes in the form of twin Doomingsland Defense Industries D/ACU.23R automatic cannons. Chambered for the popular 23x135mm CTA cartridge, the cannons utilize a highly effecient gas-operated revolver action and boast excellent accuracy and rate of fire, with each cannon getting off some six hundred rounds per minute in this platform, although the cannons themselves are capable of vastly higher rates of fire (the reason for the limitation of the rate of fire is due to the relatively small amount of ammunition carried by the aircraft). Four hundred-fifty rounds of 23mm ammunition are carried by the Audax for its cannon.

Statistics:

Type: Light Fighter

Crew: One (Pilot)

Length: 14.15m

Wingspan: 8.2m

Height: 4.2m

Propulsion: Imperial Aerospace D/T.CXVI Afterburning Turbofan

Thrust: 20,000lb

Empty Weight: 5,000kg

Loaded Weight: 6,900kg

Maximum Take-Off Weight: 11,900kg

Armament:

2x 23x135mm CTA D/ACU.23R Revolver Cannons, 400rds
2x Under wing hardpoints
2x Fuselage hardpoints
2x Wingtip hardpoints

Maximum Armament Weight: 3,800kg

Combat Range [on internal fuel]: 600km

Operational Ceiling/Altitude: 16,800m

Maximum Altitude: 17,500m

Optimal Cruising Speed: Subsonic

Maximum Speed: Mach 2.3

Variants: ACI-45 (Air Force Version) ACI-45N (Navalized Version)

Price: $20 Million

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Official Government Message

For quite some time, the Orbathian Military has been for an attack helicopter that is well suited for urban use. Furthermore, upon finding it, we have found another helicopter that will replace heavier, less armed helicopters for airmobile operations. Therefore, we would like to purchase;

1000 ACI-37B Corvus helicopters and 1500 ACI-39 Bellicus helicopters.

We were wondering if either of these helicopters could be modified for carrier use?

Confirmed. Both helicopters are suitable for carrier operations in their basic configuration.

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Imperial Communiqué

To The Imperial Aerospace Corporation:
The Pictish Imperium wishes to purchase Thirty ACI-20 "Bovis"/TRU-94 "Atlas"/HH-20 "Mako" Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms for 2.25 Billion Universal Standard Dollars, wired upon order confirmation. Thank you.

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Regards,
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Gaius Kadesh, Consul of the Pictish Imperium
High Commander of the Pictish Armed Forces
Warlord of the Utopian Crusades

Confirmed.

To: IAC
Fr: The United Federation of Military Command

We would like to know if your corporation could design and provide us with specs and blueprints for a AC-130 Gunship for our nations Air Force we would also like to know if you could provide us with a C-130 style Transport Aircraft too. We would be willing to fund both programs and any production of said Aircrafts. Thank you very much.

Official Government Message

In an effort to further increase our nations airborne assault capabilities, we would like to purchase 4000 TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms.

To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: Siriusan Military Arm

Dear Sir/Madam (whomever it may concern):

We at the Siriusan Military Arm would like to procure 5,000 TF-70 Shukusei Air Superiority Fighters in order to phase out our older F/A-401 Birds of Prey. Our decision on the TF-70 is based on our positive reaction to the SB-22 "Sariel" bomber, designed by the same designer as the Shukusei, and the impressive summary of its capabilities and possibilities.

In addition, as we need a new Air Superiority Fighter for naval operations (a role for which the Shukusei is not designed), we also would like to acquire 5,000 F/A-84B Sea Shadows, the choice which we believe is the best to fill this specific niche in our military.

We have set aside the 1,800,000,000,000 USD necessary for the purchase. We will wire the funds upon the confirmation of this order.

Chang Hu
First High Advisor to the Prince
Head of Military Arm
Siriusa

Official Government Message

In an effort to further increase our nations airborne assault capabilities, we would like to purchase 4000 TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platforms.
Confirmed.

To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: Siriusan Military Arm

Dear Sir/Madam (whomever it may concern):

We at the Siriusan Military Arm would like to procure 5,000 TF-70 Shukusei Air Superiority Fighters in order to phase out our older F/A-401 Birds of Prey. Our decision on the TF-70 is based on our positive reaction to the SB-22 "Sariel" bomber, designed by the same designer as the Shukusei, and the impressive summary of its capabilities and possibilities.

In addition, as we need a new Air Superiority Fighter for naval operations (a role for which the Shukusei is not designed), we also would like to acquire 5,000 F/A-84B Sea Shadows, the choice which we believe is the best to fill this specific niche in our military.

We have set aside the 1,800,000,000,000 USD necessary for the purchase. We will wire the funds upon the confirmation of this order.

Chang Hu
First High Advisor to the Prince
Head of Military Arm
Siriusa
ORDER DENIED due to an emargo currently in place against all NEA nations.

To: Imperial Aerospace Corporation
From: HMG Military Procurement, War Office
Subject: Aviation Procurement and invitation into upgrade programme

Sir,

I invite the Imperial Aerospace Corporation into the upgrade programme for the Royal Navy's fleet air arm and the Royal Air Forces strategic upgrade. As part of the programme we are placing down several large orders. For the navy we be requiring the ACI-73N to replace our ageing F-401's. The preliminary requirement for these would total around 80,000 such aircraft for the entire fleet plus naval air stations, reserves.

On request of Air Command and STRATCOM I have been asked to lay down an order for 4000 of the B-22 Zeus bombers as part of the first order with a supplemental order of 6000 bringing a total of 10,000 aircraft. The air force also has requested an order of 8000 TSF-624 "Shukusei" for our elite front line stations if available for sale, His Majesty's Government hopes that the strong ties between Doomingsland will be favourable in the technology transfer. In addition to the naval order of Aquilas an order of 200,000 ACI-73D's are requested. For reserve forces and training purposes we request 20,000 ACI-45 Audax Multirole Fighters.

For the Joint Helicopter Consolidation order which incopses both the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Royal Army:

20,000x ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopter

60,000 TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter

12,000 ACI-20 "Bovis"/TRU-94 "Atlas"/HH-20 "Mako" Multirole Heavy Lift Platform

20,000 ACI-39 Bellicus Advanced Helicopter Gunship/Transport


Munitions wise we request munitions transfers of 2 million units a quarter for the duration of the project with extension if production rights cannot be requested. HMG also enquires about the sale of Doomani air to ground and cruise missile technology. With such a larger order we hope some sort of monetary discount or other arrangement can be arranged.


Yours Sincerely,

Sir Steven Ashdown

To: AIC
From: 1st Marine Division, Azahan Royal Marines

Request-550 ACI-39, with added prefabricated spare parts for all major components, with amount of an estimated supply duration of 30 years.
Cost: 16,500,000,000+cost of spare parts.

Separate Request-Should this or another request be denied. Schematics and prints for ammunition and ordinance for the ACI-39, and sample munitions for study and reverse engineering.
Cost: Unknown

Separate Request-Should this or another request be denied. Upgrade of all previously bought ACI-37A model rotary wing craft to the ACI-37B model.
Amount to be upgraded: 437
Cost: Unknown

~1st Marine Division, Commanding General, Azahan Royal Marines

Sent via email to IAC's Sales Division

Dear sir,

The Realm of Cotland has decided to replace its current AH-10 Stalker attack helicopter fleet, and it has been decided that the ACI-39 Bellicus is the best choice. Thus, we wish to place an order for a total of (2 880) helicopters of this type. The aircraft shall be known as the AH-39 Bellicus in Cottish service. We wish for the helicopters to be delivered without the 4M3 machine guns as we wish to put our own weapons (7.62x51mm Miniguns) into this position. The cost of $86.4 billion will be wired to your account upon confirmation of this order. We also wish to inquire as to the possibility of production license for the 37x100mm and 23x135mm ammunition used by the gun armament of the Bellicus.

[signed]
Viseadmiral Ørjan Bakke
Procurement Division, Defense Ministry
The Realm of Cotland

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FROM: The People's Republic of Kajerkistan, Department of Defense (Cody@kjk-dod.gov)
TO: Imperial Aerospace Corporation

The People's Republic of Kajerkistan would like to buy the following products to equip the armed forces.

45,000,000,000$ (x600) TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platform ($75,000,000)
12,000,000,000$ (x400) ACI-39 Bellicus Advanced Helicopter Gunship/Transport ($30,000,000)
13,750,000,000$ (x500) TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter ($27,500,000)

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Total

70,750,000,000$

All orders confirmed. Azahan requests for thirty years worth of spare parts have been approved for an additional cost of $500,000,000. All requests for ammunition data have been approved.

FROM: The People's Republic of Kajerkistan, Department of Defense (Cody@kjk-dod.gov)
TO: Imperial Aerospace Corporation

The People's Repiblic of Kajerkistan would like to purhase the following aircraft to equip its forces.

x400 TRA-92 "Eiko" Light Attack Helicopter ($27,500,000) = 13,750,000,000$
x2,000 ACI-39 Bellicus Advanced Helicopter Gunship/Transport ($30,000,000) = 60,000,000,000$
x600 TRU-94 "Rekishichizu" (Atlas) Multirole Heavy Lift Platform ($75,000,000) = 45,000,000,000$

The Binarian Empire needs a new heavy bomber. We have chosen the B 22 Zeus Strategic Bomber. We shall purchase 1000 of them for $574,414,330,000. Money wired upon confirmation of order.

OOC: Doom, I noticed you took it upon yourself to confirm Ezaltia's order of my plane for me, but can you tell me before you do it next time?

Tyre: Next time you're IRC on I need to talk to you ok?

The Astaterian military would like to purchase 100 ACI-37B Corvus Attack Helicopter for 3.5 billion USD. We will wire the funds when the order is approved. We have pruchased these 100 helicopters so we can upgrade out helicopter fleet.