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MiG-107 Spectrum StarFighter
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3814/mig10511apr3.jpg
A MiG-107 Spectrum on display in an outdoors museum.
Designed by immigrant Pakistani scientists in Mikoyan, the MiG-107 Spectrum is a major contender versus other expensive and hard to operate space to space combat fighters. Instead of being built in space, or using horrifically expensive fusion torches it combines known and readily available technologies to produce an effective spaceplane.
Airframe
The MiG-107 Spectrum is constructed mostly of high quality tungsten, colombium, and molybdenum alloys to allow it to resist the massive heat of multiple Earth Reentries and the heat from the boosters that bring it into space. Instead of using expensive and wasteful ceramic plates, the MiG-107 uses 'scale plate armor' which is a series of metal panels hung by ceramic bearings that would expand from the heat upon entry into the atmosphere and resist burning up.
During launch and reentry, the wings of the MiG-107 are folded against the sides of the vehicle at a 60-degree angle, acting as vertical stabilizers. After dropping to subsonic speeds post-reenty, the pilot will activate a set of electric actuators which lowered the wings into the horizontal position, giving the MiG-107 better flight characteristics for its landing.
The landing skids, are mounted for safety reasons on the side of the airframe and come out and come under the aircraft. This is to not compromise the integrity of the bottom heatshield and can result in hard landings for untrained pilots flying 'deadstick' meaning no propulsion. The MiG-107 is also capable of landing in water, albeit roughly.
Propulsion
The MiG-107 is lifted aboard the relatively cheap Zenit-2M Fregat expendable Rocket Booster into Low Earth Orbit, when it detaches and fires its expendable RATO rocket, which continues its boost all the way up to Medium Earth Orbit. Both these expendable rockets will eventually drift back into the atmosphere and burn up.
From here the MiG-107 Spectrum can be flown under its own power for up to 25 orbits of the earth. The pilot must wear a full spacesuit as to save weight the MiG-107 cannot support breathable atmosphere and was only designed to return the pilot safely to earth. Its Klimov XD-23 3D Thrust Vectoring engines give it great maneuverability in space. For greater maneuverability during space combat, the MiG-107 has two onboard bottles of hydrazine monopropellant with 3 nozzles to execute rapid turns.
Hydrazine monopropellant engines function when the hydrazine is passed by a catalyst such as iridium metal supported by high-surface-area alumina which causes it to decompose into ammonia, nitrogen gas, and hydrogen gas. This powerful exothermic reaction produces a lot of hot ammonia gas for a relatively small bottle of liquid hydrazine and is very common on all space craft.
Sensor and Avionics Suite
The MiG-107 has a modern helmet mounted HUD and a glass cockpit, featuring 4 LCD screens that display all relevant flight data including an innovative 3D RADAR display that shows targets relative to the MiG-107's current position.
It mounts a coherent pulse-Doppler N-010 Zhuk-X look-around/shoot-around coherent pulse-Doppler radar and a Ts100.02-02 digital computer., which has a planar array antenna rather than a dish, improving range, and a much superior processing ability compared to other phased array radars.
It also uses a Y-M3 micropulse LADAR and uses a series of mirrors to deflect it to gain a full 3D display of detected targets.
The MiG-107 also features the S-31E2 KOLS, a combined laser rangefinder and IRST in an 'eyeball' mount forward of the cockpit canopy. This can be slaved to the radar or used independently, and provides exceptional accuracy.
Armament
Due to the need to reduce weight on the MiG-107, carry a useful payload and allow the MiG-107 to reenter the atmosphere the weapon's bay is hidden in the middle of the craft between the two fuel tanks and rocket boosters. It is a 4 round rotary launcher, which clamps onto each missile.
When the weapon is locked on and fired, the missile bay on the top opens up and the arm flicks out of the aircraft releases the missile, lights its pulsed rocket booster, and reenters the missile bay, the doors close, and the rotary launcher turns. All of this happens in a fraction of a second, resulting in a disconcerting 'popping' effect for observers unused to this system.
The armament is a specially designed Vympel RX-100 'Asp' Space to Space Missile, SpSpM, that is programmed specifically to use the gravity of earth as part of its maneuvering capability. It uses a pulsed 3D thrust vectoring rocket motor, and a single bottle of hydrazine monopropellent exiting to 6 ports along a single axis spaced equidistantly along the side of the Asp.
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7180/aspmissilezf0.png
Upon the LADAR proximity fuse being tripped at 20km from the target, the pulsed rocket motor fires continually to build up speed, well over Mach 5 before terminal RADAR and LADAR guidance brings it close to its target for it to detonate its 45kg fragmenting warhead. It has a range of 1600-1800km depending on proximity to Earth.
Specifications
Crew: One Cosmonaut
Length: 15.4m
Wingspan at 60ยบ: 12m
Height: 2.75m
Max takeoff weight: 13,000kg
Powerplant: 1x Disposable RATO booster, 2x Klimov XD-23 rocket boosters, 6x Hydrazine Monopropellent maneuvering thrusters
Maximum speed: 6,448 kph
Range: 12-25 orbits of Earth depending on altitude
Armament: Rotary launcher that fits 4 weapons (preferred RX-100 'Asp' SpSpM), ships with 4 'Spiral' GSpSpRs
Cost: 75 million USD
MX70 'Spiral' Guided Space to Space Rocket
Developed by General Resources Conglomerate as the cheap weapon that fits in the launch rack of the MiG-107 'Spectrum' Starfighter, these are simple 70mm Infrared Guided Rockets with a uncomplex laser proximity fuse that causes the 10 kg warhead to detonate within a few meters of the enemy spacecraft.
The long rocket is guided inertially going straight forward using its 3D thrust vectoring motor, until it detects a significant heat source that isn't the Sun, Earth or the Moon, and homes in on it.
They fit into a 5 round pod that attaches to the arm of the the rotary launcher of the MiG-107 and can be fired individually or all at once in a massive salvo.
10,000 USD for one 5 round pod
MiG-107 Spectrum StarFighter
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3814/mig10511apr3.jpg
A MiG-107 Spectrum on display in an outdoors museum.
Designed by immigrant Pakistani scientists in Mikoyan, the MiG-107 Spectrum is a major contender versus other expensive and hard to operate space to space combat fighters. Instead of being built in space, or using horrifically expensive fusion torches it combines known and readily available technologies to produce an effective spaceplane.
Airframe
The MiG-107 Spectrum is constructed mostly of high quality tungsten, colombium, and molybdenum alloys to allow it to resist the massive heat of multiple Earth Reentries and the heat from the boosters that bring it into space. Instead of using expensive and wasteful ceramic plates, the MiG-107 uses 'scale plate armor' which is a series of metal panels hung by ceramic bearings that would expand from the heat upon entry into the atmosphere and resist burning up.
During launch and reentry, the wings of the MiG-107 are folded against the sides of the vehicle at a 60-degree angle, acting as vertical stabilizers. After dropping to subsonic speeds post-reenty, the pilot will activate a set of electric actuators which lowered the wings into the horizontal position, giving the MiG-107 better flight characteristics for its landing.
The landing skids, are mounted for safety reasons on the side of the airframe and come out and come under the aircraft. This is to not compromise the integrity of the bottom heatshield and can result in hard landings for untrained pilots flying 'deadstick' meaning no propulsion. The MiG-107 is also capable of landing in water, albeit roughly.
Propulsion
The MiG-107 is lifted aboard the relatively cheap Zenit-2M Fregat expendable Rocket Booster into Low Earth Orbit, when it detaches and fires its expendable RATO rocket, which continues its boost all the way up to Medium Earth Orbit. Both these expendable rockets will eventually drift back into the atmosphere and burn up.
From here the MiG-107 Spectrum can be flown under its own power for up to 25 orbits of the earth. The pilot must wear a full spacesuit as to save weight the MiG-107 cannot support breathable atmosphere and was only designed to return the pilot safely to earth. Its Klimov XD-23 3D Thrust Vectoring engines give it great maneuverability in space. For greater maneuverability during space combat, the MiG-107 has two onboard bottles of hydrazine monopropellant with 3 nozzles to execute rapid turns.
Hydrazine monopropellant engines function when the hydrazine is passed by a catalyst such as iridium metal supported by high-surface-area alumina which causes it to decompose into ammonia, nitrogen gas, and hydrogen gas. This powerful exothermic reaction produces a lot of hot ammonia gas for a relatively small bottle of liquid hydrazine and is very common on all space craft.
Sensor and Avionics Suite
The MiG-107 has a modern helmet mounted HUD and a glass cockpit, featuring 4 LCD screens that display all relevant flight data including an innovative 3D RADAR display that shows targets relative to the MiG-107's current position.
It mounts a coherent pulse-Doppler N-010 Zhuk-X look-around/shoot-around coherent pulse-Doppler radar and a Ts100.02-02 digital computer., which has a planar array antenna rather than a dish, improving range, and a much superior processing ability compared to other phased array radars.
It also uses a Y-M3 micropulse LADAR and uses a series of mirrors to deflect it to gain a full 3D display of detected targets.
The MiG-107 also features the S-31E2 KOLS, a combined laser rangefinder and IRST in an 'eyeball' mount forward of the cockpit canopy. This can be slaved to the radar or used independently, and provides exceptional accuracy.
Armament
Due to the need to reduce weight on the MiG-107, carry a useful payload and allow the MiG-107 to reenter the atmosphere the weapon's bay is hidden in the middle of the craft between the two fuel tanks and rocket boosters. It is a 4 round rotary launcher, which clamps onto each missile.
When the weapon is locked on and fired, the missile bay on the top opens up and the arm flicks out of the aircraft releases the missile, lights its pulsed rocket booster, and reenters the missile bay, the doors close, and the rotary launcher turns. All of this happens in a fraction of a second, resulting in a disconcerting 'popping' effect for observers unused to this system.
The armament is a specially designed Vympel RX-100 'Asp' Space to Space Missile, SpSpM, that is programmed specifically to use the gravity of earth as part of its maneuvering capability. It uses a pulsed 3D thrust vectoring rocket motor, and a single bottle of hydrazine monopropellent exiting to 6 ports along a single axis spaced equidistantly along the side of the Asp.
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7180/aspmissilezf0.png
Upon the LADAR proximity fuse being tripped at 20km from the target, the pulsed rocket motor fires continually to build up speed, well over Mach 5 before terminal RADAR and LADAR guidance brings it close to its target for it to detonate its 45kg fragmenting warhead. It has a range of 1600-1800km depending on proximity to Earth.
Specifications
Crew: One Cosmonaut
Length: 15.4m
Wingspan at 60ยบ: 12m
Height: 2.75m
Max takeoff weight: 13,000kg
Powerplant: 1x Disposable RATO booster, 2x Klimov XD-23 rocket boosters, 6x Hydrazine Monopropellent maneuvering thrusters
Maximum speed: 6,448 kph
Range: 12-25 orbits of Earth depending on altitude
Armament: Rotary launcher that fits 4 weapons (preferred RX-100 'Asp' SpSpM), ships with 4 'Spiral' GSpSpRs
Cost: 75 million USD
MX70 'Spiral' Guided Space to Space Rocket
Developed by General Resources Conglomerate as the cheap weapon that fits in the launch rack of the MiG-107 'Spectrum' Starfighter, these are simple 70mm Infrared Guided Rockets with a uncomplex laser proximity fuse that causes the 10 kg warhead to detonate within a few meters of the enemy spacecraft.
The long rocket is guided inertially going straight forward using its 3D thrust vectoring motor, until it detects a significant heat source that isn't the Sun, Earth or the Moon, and homes in on it.
They fit into a 5 round pod that attaches to the arm of the the rotary launcher of the MiG-107 and can be fired individually or all at once in a massive salvo.
10,000 USD for one 5 round pod