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A Guide to Third Spanish States Air Force Technology

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Image 1: Antonov An-2, used as the logistical workhouse of the Confederacy despite being more than a hundred years old design.

Historical Background

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Image 2: F-22 Raptor, former Air Superiority Fighter of the Confederacy now replaced by the CL-32 Buitre


2027

With the procurement of a hundred and fifty F-22 Raptor air superiority fighters to secure the fragile situation of being positioned close to an enemy which could rebuild the air force of continental Spain at any moment, the Milnet has established the FARC (Fuerza Aérea Revolucionária de la Confederación), also known as RAF (Revolutionary Air Force), initially with the only strategic purpose of defending Third Spanish States airspace from possible aggressions from the People's Republic of Spain. Deserters from the People's Republic of Spain Air Force and former pilots would serve to organize the foundations of the FARC. At its early years, the Revolutionary Air Force was prevalently made of a small amount of air superiority fighters, a mish-mash of old tactical and strategic transport planes, converted airliners and turboprop trainers, virtually lacking any significant close air support, suppression of enemy air defenses, anti-shipping, tactical and strategic bombing capabilities, serving for a purely defensive role.


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Image 3: The F-16XL Cranked Arrow, which basic airframe concept was improved by the CL-32


2032 to 2034

The Air Force priority shifts from exclusively home defense to also encompass power projection and extensive Air-Land coordination, while Aerospace Industry begins to boom in the Confederacy, leading to the start of multiple research projects, like the CLEX Light Fighter Program and the CBEX Strike Fighter program, where the basis of Confederacy Air Force technologies would begin its development phase. MilNet procurement is gradually reduced every year as all branches begin to become increasingly independent of foreign military technologies. Meanwhile, with the space program initiated, the Orbital Force is also formed as a parallel branch to the Air Force. Many radical and extreme airframe concepts were tested during this time. Oblique flying wings, tandem wings, joined-wings and even another attempt to achieve what the Sikorsky X-wing didn't were among the myriad of concepts that were researched. Some of them had succeeded.

2035

The Air Force conducts the first nuclear testing of the Confederacy, dropping a 2 kilotons tactical nuclear bomb into a desolate artificial island built in the middle of the Atlantic for such purpose with the aid of one of the still used B-1B Lancer strategic bombers.

2037-2039 (Note: or Timewarp because most designs are Modern Tech compatible)

Many of the projects succeed, and virtually every combat aircraft of the Confederacy is indigenous. Research shifts from improvement military performance to the development of viable alternate aircraft fuel sources after the Peak Oil of 2037, due to the environmental damages provoked by the aggressive expansion of algae biofuel plantations, culminating into the new project for a hydrogen-fueled heavy air superiority fighter in late 2037, which remains under development as of now. Meanwhile, the MilNet prepares to commercialize many of such technologies to the international market.

(Note: This is not a storefront, although it will be used by a future storefront as a reference, this is only a list of Third Spanish States homegrown aircraft designs and their specifications. Feel free to discuss any of them for a triple-check, as this is an essentially an OOC Information Thread)

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Full Description and Individual Sales thread (http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=554394)

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CL-32 Buitre Air Superiority Fighter / Interceptor

Overview

The CL-32 Buitre is a 5.5th generation, modular seat, single-engine, short take-off and landing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOL), stealth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_aircraft), medium air superiority fighter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/air_superiority_fighter), which possess limited point defense interception (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_aircraft#Point_defense) capabilities and can perform both land and carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aircraft_carrier)-based missions, designed and manufactured by the AEROCON Aerospace Industries Confederation and engineered for a balance between stealth and agility. It was intended as a more logistically flexible and cost-effective replacement for the aging and costly F-22 Raptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor), and capable of a much greater degree of force projection than the former. The CL-32 has two different models, a fully dedicated air superiority variant, and a cheaper variant able to conduct limited air-to-ground strikes at the expense of a less stealthy internal bay(CL-32E). The CL-32 early version used a passive radar as its main targeting system, while newer versions have an active radar capability as well, and can lock simultaneously on two different targets.

The CL-32 is based upon the CLEX-32, one of the two prototypes built for the Confederacy Light Fighter Program(CLFP), although as a full-fledged design, it does not share any fuselage or airframe modules with its predecessor, making of its airframe an integral cranked-arrow delta wing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16XL). It was entirely developed and funded by the AEROCON. Its prototype flew in 2036, while its first flight went on November 3rd, 2038.

Specifications


General characteristics


Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 16 m (52 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 9 m (29 ft 6 in)
Height: 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Empty weight: 12,000 kg (26,450 lb)
Loaded weight: 16,500 kg (36,370 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 21,800 kg (41,060 lb)
Powerplant: 1× EX-140 Biofuel-optimized Low Bypass Turbofan Engine

Dry thrust: 14,750 kg/f (32,518 lb/f)
Thrust with afterburner: 19,500 kg/f (42,990 lb/f)

Intercept payload weight: 18,050 kg (39,790 lb)
Fuel capacity: 7,000 kg (20,900 lb) or 12,000 kg (26,456 lb) with two fuel tanks

Performance

Maximum speed:

At altitude: Mach 2.4 (2,960 km/h, 1,840 mph)
Supercruise: Mach 1.55 (1,910 km/h, 1,185 mph)
Supercruise endurance: 15 minutes

Cruise speed: Mach .9 (1,110 km/h, 690 mph)
Range: 1,500 km (930 mi)
Combat radius: 800 km (500 mi)
Ferry range: 3,200 km (1,990 mi)
Service ceiling: 18,000 m (59,000 ft)
Maximum Altitude: 28,000 m (92,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 250 m/s (49,200 ft/min)
Thrust/weight: 1.18:1 at standard loaded weight

1.08:1 at intercept weight



Avionics


OJO-3A5 Passive Radar

Maximum Range(AWACS detection): 300 km.
Maximum Range(Fighter detection): 150 km

BUHO-3Z Automatic Target Recognition System

Maximum Range: 100 km

3x FSoft Quantix Integrated Processors(QIP) units w/ 7 processors each.
Fiber-optic Integrated Data Bus
AirLinux 3.0cm Integrated Operating System
FSoft Intelliview Air computerized displays
6 infrared complementary visual targeting cameras
FSoft Águila7 Full Authority Digital Engine Control(FADEC)
MTI/FSoft Airforce Standard Low Probability of Intercept Datalink
Digital triplexed fly-by-wire flight control system


Armament

Guns: 1× AirMaster 20mm twin-barreled hypervelocity revolver autocannon, 700 rounds
Maximum Stealth Air Superiority loadout:

2x MAA-88 Eurojoto BVRAAM (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=5537) and
2x YCC Electro-optical SRAAM (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=5053) in internal drop cells

Maximum Combat Endurance Air Superiority loadout:

2x MAA-88 BVRAAM and
2x YCC Electro-optical SRAAM in internal drop cells
4x MAA-88 BVRAAM in external modular hardpoints

Intercept loadout:

2x MAA-88 BVRAAM and
2x YCC Electro-optical SRAAM in internal drop cells
2x Vympel R-37 VLRAAM in external modular hardpoints

Anti-shipping loadout:

2x MAA-88 BVRAAM and
2x YCC Electro-optical SRAAM in internal drop cells
2x AGM-84H/K HARPOON anti-shipping missiles in external modular hardpoints

Precision Bombing loadout(CL-32E and CL-32AE only):

4× Small Diameter Bomb in internal bay
4x MAA-88 BVRAAM in external modular hardpoints

Removable Hardpoints: 2x wet underwing pylons for very long range air-to-air missiles, SEAD, air-to-ground and air-to-sea missiles or 4x low RCS underwing pylons for BVRAAMs


Economic Data


Cost: US$ 85,000,000


Variants, Upgrades and Derivatives


CL-32E: Export Version uses conventional internal bay, rather than vertical launch pods, which also supports cold drop launch and features partial radar absorbing features.

Cost: US$ 80,000,000


Block A Upgrade: Primarily developed to to improve the asymmetric air warfar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare)e capabilities of the CL-32, and make of it better able to lock-on targets.

New Avionics:

ASA-3A5 dual-mode phased array radar, with passive and active modes.

Maximum Simultaneous Target Locks: 2

BUHO 3.0A Automatic Target Recognition System


CL-32A Cost: US$90,000,000

CL-32AE Cost: US$85,000,000

Derivatives: CE-32 Cuervo Electronic Warfare Fighter

Price: US$ 70,000,000




Development


Confederacy Light Fighter Program

The Confederacy Light Fighter Program was initiated in 2034 by the MilNet, with the goal of developing a viable replacement for the F-22 Raptor, and a fighter capable of carrier based operations for the recently commissioned Libertarian Class Cruiser-Carrier and Anarchy Class Supercarrier of the Revolutionary Navy, which would become an essential piece for the strategic goal achieving power projection capabilities. It led to the development of two concurrent projects.

Requirements

The CLFP greatest requirements was the development of a cost-effective and easy-maintenance full stealth technology that would be incorporated into its common design, allowing drastic economies in MilNet aircraft logistics and reducing the dependence on a limited number of specialized facilities that would likely be among major targets should an hypothetical invasion of the home islands occur, and to have a renewable source of fuel instead of oil derivatives like kerosene, due to strategic considerations regarding peak oil predictions that did not happen yet, back when it was first suggested. Alongside these primary goals, such fighter should also be extremely agile to allow for faster response capabilities and for maintaining tactical superiority, and have enough maximum altitude to bypass many widely used surface-to-air missile systems. Specifically, it was intended to have at least 1.1 higher acceleration capability than the F-22, 70% of its unit cost during its early production runs and the capability to house the same number of missiles than a F-22(six BVRAAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BVRAAM) and two SRAAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRAAM)) in its air-to-air loadout, and to be 1.5 times more effective than a F-22 in air-to-air combat.

Origins and Selection

The CL-32 was the result of concepts developed and perfected in the following concurrent prototypes, from 2034 to 2036.

The CLEX-31, developed independently by the Confederación de las Cooperativas Aéreas (Spanish: Confederation of Air Cooperatives), was a very expensive but lightweight flying wing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/flying_wing) air superiority fighter with a full stealth configuration, developed as an equivalent of the F-22 Raptor regarding most performance except for maneuverability, and for its greater focus on stealth. It was powered by experimental, EX-100 non-afterburning turbofans which gave to it a limited thrust:weight ratio, and its stealth technology development principle was very close to that of a B-2 Spirit. It was intended to not even be armed with an autocannon due to its poor maneuverability, compensated by its capability of locking on targets with beyond visual range missiles without facing their direction. It was discarded because it lacked the needed mobility for an effective air superiority fighter and due to its prohibitive costs and need of dedicated maintenance facilities, besides lengthy maintenance operations. Despite its cancellation, the CLEX-31 served as a testbed for innovative concepts, giving origin to the first biokerosene-optimized turbofan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_biofuel#Jet_biofuels), and to the first practical fluidic nozzle vectored thrust able turbofan of the Confederacy.

The CLEX-32, developed by the AEROCON, was intended to be a cheap and light air superiority fighter workhouse, with a very low radar cross section focused mostly on local defense, offering very little in practical power projection capabilities, and being de facto a smaller and modernized "copy" of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with stealth technology, built with cropped delta wings and leading edge extensions like the same. It had only two external pylons like the F-20 Tigershark, an internal bay able to carry only two missiles, and an extremely limited passive radar due to the volume limitations of its fuselage.

In consideration of the economy of scale and increased detection capabilities a medium fighter would provide, coupled with the rapid growth of the aerospace sector in the Confederacy, its development would eventually expand into a medium fighter, like what happened with the F-16 early development, thus the CLEX-32 would be scaled up as the primary basis for the CL-32.

Design Phase

The CL-32 relates to the CLEX-32 in a similar manner through which the F-16XL Cranked-Arrow relates to the F-16, with the difference it was built entirely anew, taking no modules from the CLEX-32 prototype, ensuring to it better aerodynamic properties as it lacked the nearly unswept section the F-16XL had, which was the front of the F-16 wing root module. Other major changes were the concept of an unified air superiority platform for both power projection and air defense, leading to the integration of a lifting fan with its engine and the addition of an unstable canard, lengthening even further its airframe, and giving to it practical STOL capability, and the capability to take-off and land from public roads, like a JAS 39 Gripen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAS_39_Gripen), coupled with the use of a tailless airframe to increase its stealth capability.

Design

The CL-32 resembles a significantly streamlined F-16XL with canards and shorter wings, which trailing edges resemble those of earlier stealth aircrafts like the F-117 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-117) and the B-2 Spirit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-2_Spirit), but its most noticeable feature is how its airframe lies in-between a conventional and blended wing body (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body) due to the nearly seamless manner its wings join its fuselage, despite being fully separate components, and thus it is technically a conventional aircraft rather than a BWB. Its lift fan duct is much more compact than that of a F-35 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35), serving only as a take-off and landing aid coupled with thrust vectoring rather than allowing it to achieve VTOL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL) capability, for STOL capability was considered more than enough for its purpose.

Airframe

The CL-32 airframe was designed sourcing many different new and old ideas, most featured by being either innovative or virtually unexplored beyond flyable prototypes. A combination of nearly seamless connection between wings and fuselage, of external re-entrant triangles in its very wing configuration and of a reasonably maneuverable tailless aircraft give major benefits to its stealth capabilities without significant costs. It is an unstable design, due to its focus on stealth and agility. Also, its shaping takes benefit of the Coandã effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C3%A3_effect).

Cranked-arrow Wing

Once the properties of a Cranked-arrow configuration were researched for a possible supersonic transport prototype due to its aerodynamic benefits regarding agility, speed and supercruise capability. Such configuration allows for the replacement, or complementation, of rear horizontal control surfaces, an important factor for a tailless aircraft, and for an increased lift-to-drag ratio in both subsonic and supersonic speeds. Likewise, its configuration is a significant contribution for the CL-32 capability of reaching as high altitudes as an English Electric Lightning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning), for increasing supercruise sustainability, and optimal for high-altitude flight.

Tailless Agility Fighter

The CL-32 does not resort to the conventional tail surfaces, using instead a combination of its canard and split ailerons of its wings in combination with its vectored thrust capabilities as directional controls, based upon the results of the X-36 Tailless Agility Fighter research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-36). Theoretically, the addition of a tail would give to the CL-32 superb maneuverability if combined with such capabilities, but as the CL-32 focus, from its short wingspan to its streamlined airframe, was on agility and speed rather than maneuverability, a tailless airframe was more than enough for its needs, and it still is more maneuverable than a F-22.

Stealth

First, the entire CL-32 was shaped in accordance to Planform alignment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planform_alignment#Vehicle_shape), while the fluidic nozzles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planform_alignment#Propulsion_subsystem_shaping) of the CL-32 are blended into the fuselage, like in some stealth aircrafts and in the YF-23 prototype, rather than extruding from them like in conventional aircrafts, and covered below with heat ablating tiles. Internally, the CL-32 fuselage and wings feature re-entrant triangles behind their skin, which are able of trapping radar waves capable of penetrating it. The challenged to have an equal, or ideally superior stealth capability to that of a F-22 without the expensive materials was answered through a labor-intensive during its construction, but maintenance-easy airframe.

All the metallic components of its frame were built with an alumina-silica aluminum metal matrix composite, a material technology which was becoming quite commonplace in the Confederacy, and was already used for naval and small arms fabrication, and becoming increasingly cheaper due to economies of scale from its continual production, research and development, and potentially improvable in the near to medium future with thanks to the potential of nanotechnology, predicted to flourish industrially from two to four decades from now.

A dielectric fiberglass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fiberglass) composite also is involved in parts of its frame, while its skin is coated with a light refraction layer, which reduces drastically the capability of some bleeding-edge technologies like LIDAR and LADAR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDAR) against the CL-32, being technically less efficient for detecting its presence. Its primary radar absorbing material is an improvement over the Foam absorber concept, which has both anechoic chambers with long pyramids of carbon and sheets with increasing gradients of carbon black covering its entire internal frame to capture the radar waves which penetrate its composite skin and which were not absorbed by its re-entrant triangles. A Jaumann layer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaumann_layer#Jaumann_absorber) was suggested, but due to the fact it uses wave interfering to cancel the radar wave, it was considered too easy to be defeated by modern detection systems to be applied for it was limited for bypassing only a specific type of detection system.


Cockpit

The CL-32 cockpit is fitted with a bulletproof canopy built of aluminum oxynitride (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aluminum_oxynitride), which offers the same resistance of layered polycarbonate thermoplastic and glass laminates, with less weight, adding to the sum of the weight-reducing features which aid the CL-32's speed. Although usually single-seated, its size is more than enough for installing a modular second seat, and additional interfaces for a second pilot, although such configuration is only of use with CL-32s equipped for air-to-ground or for training new pilots.

Total awareness, in accordance to principles of network-centric warfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/network-centric_warfare), was one of the intended design goals of the CL-32, which features a fully electronic glass cockpit built using to the fullest the FSoft Intelliview technology, capable of recreating and filtering in the wide, heads-left, heads-right and heads-down displays connected to its generous heads-up display, by demand and without obstructing the vital indicators like the digital altimeter or the canopy view itself, the visual input from the points of the environment covered by five, wide-angle cameras with switchable infrared, points which would otherwise be, except for radar, blind spots. An additional camera also exists inside the cockpit for redundancy purposes and for electro-optical targeting, as the Intelliview technology is fully integrated with avionics. Speech-to-text is also supported, allowing the pilot to issue commands while keeping control over flight maneuvers.

A strange idea originated from the capabilities offered by such system was not approved, during the early stages of the CL-32 development, when was suggested the creation of an effective canopy-less manned aircraft, as it did not consider the risk of failure from such system.

Its pilot seat was developed to combine comfort and ergonomics with utilitarian principles, being a adjustable but solidly stable seat which can reclined from 15 to 45 degrees by the pilot, and provide an excellent, soft touch due to its impressively tender polymer fiber build, which helps to avoid distraction from any possible discomfort during a mission, for it is believed in the Confederacy that although prepared for less than optimal conditions, pilots tend to perform better in good conditions than in unpleasant configurations of seats. Air conditioning is present as well, logically.

Propulsion

Speed, efficiency, reasonable maneuverability, short take-off and landing capability and stealth were the five primary considerations of the development of the EcologiX modelo 140 fluidic nozzle turbofan, which is structurally less complex and with no moving parts or surfaces compared to a conventional vectored thrust system. Generating 19,500 kg of thrust with its afterburners, the primary feature of the EX-140 is strategic rather than operational: its structural optimization for jet biofuels produced from the massive algae farms in Confederacy territorial seas, instead of relying on a non-renewable resource the Confederacy depends heavily of imports and that as expected to once happen, peaked at the same year the CL-32 took its maiden flight. Although biofuels are far from a definite solution to the energy crisis mankind will have to go through, they remain the only viable, even if temporary, alternative to fossil fuels. Although a nuclear ramjet was suggested, and at first glance wouldn't be a bad idea, considering that more than ninety percent of Third Spanish States electricity comes from fission power, the damage provoked by such device would far outweigh the results of the ever reckless expansion of algae and other biofuel plantations.

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CE-32 Cuervo Electronic Warfare Fighter

Overview

The CE-32 Cuervo is the electronic warfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Warfare#Electronic_Attack), two-seater version of the CL-32 Buitre air superiority fighter, packing substantial changes from its original and a completely renewed view of tactical capabilities clearly pointed by the fact its fuselage and construction, although very similar in essence to that of the CL-32, does not involve application stealth technology due to its pointlessness in an electronic warfare aircraft, although still inheriting the first generation stealth features of the of the CL-32 and thus being only a reduced RCS aircraft, and this is evidenced by the fact that despite packing sophisticated modern electronics, it is cheaper than the CL-32. It offers a similar flight performance to the CL-32, and shares many common components with it as well. It is packed with the indigenously developed GE-36 Electronic Warfare System, which provides a full solution of EW while not interfering with allied communications and information lines. It can carry four missiles for self-defense in an internal bay and up to four EW pods in external mounts. An expansion potential for a more destructive SEAD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAD) role is also an aspect of it.


Specifications

Type: Short Take-off and Landing Electronic Warfare Fighter
Length: 16 m
Wingspan: 9 m
Height: 4.4 m
Airframe: Unstable canard, tail-less cranked-arrow delta-wing, Coandã effect capable.
Stealth: Only first generation stealth, as a low RCS aircraft
Planform alignment
Serration on exposed edge of the exhaust port

Propulsion:

1x EX-140 Afterburning, vectored thrust, fluidic nozzle turbofan.
1x VA-75 engine shaft driven, contra-rotating lift-fan
1x Auxiliary ram air turbine

Empty Weight: 10,000 kg
Normal Weight: 19,050 kg
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 25,000 kg
Fuel Weight: 7,000 kg
Thrust/Weight: 1.02 wet, 0.77 dry
Armament:
Standard Electronic Warfare
FSoft Jamming Integration Pod.
Internal bay with:
4x MAA-88 beyond visual range missiles (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=5537)
6 external modular hardpoints(2 inner wingtip) with:
4x GE-36 electronic attack pods
2x DA-92 multiple band receiver/high band attack EW modules

Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses
FSoft Jamming Integration Pod.
Internal bay with:
2x MAA-88 beyond visual range missiles (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=5537)
2x AGM-88 HARM Anti-radiation missiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM)
6 external modular hardpoints(2 inner wingtip) with:
2x GE-36 electronic attack pods
2x AGM-88 HARM
2x DA-92 multiple band receiver/high band attack EW modules


Combat Radius: 800km
Ferry Range: 3,200km
Radar range(AWACS/Fighter): 300km/150km
Electronic attack range: 250km
Avionics:
ASA-3A5 dual-mode phased array radar, with passive and active modes.
BUHO 3.0A Automatic Target Recognition System
3 FSoft Quantix Integrated Processors(QIP) units w/ 7 processors each.
Fiber-optic Integrated Data Bus
AirLinux 3.0ew Integrated Operating System
FSoft Intelliview Air computerized displays(8).
6 infrared complementary visual targeting cameras
FSoft Águila7 Full Authority Digital Engine Control(FADEC)
MTI/FSoft Airforce Standard Low Probability of Intercept Datalink
Digital triplexed fly-by-wire flight control system
PNTC-24 communications receiver and jammer
Economic Data

Price: US$ 70,000,000



Airframe

The airframe of the CE-32 is strikingly similar to that of the CL-32 in its shape, being built from the CL32AE variant, however, it is still different in its construction. Due to the needlessness of stealth in the role it is intended for, the CE-32 is built with an all-metal airframe instead, made of the same material used for the CL-32 airframe metallic components: the nationally ubiquitous Al alumina-silica metal matrix composite, which contributes significantly to reduce production costs and time, while at the same time also allowing certain modifications to the resistance of its wings which were essential for it to accomplish its intended role, allowing a greater quantity of supported payload per pylon than what a partially dielectric composite airframe would, while the lack of the need of applying radar absorbing anechoic chambers and ferrite plates to its interior has also contributed to an overall decrease of empty mass, thus improving slightly its maneuverability while reducing the strain on the wings as well. Equally, use of indium tin oxide coating on its optical and infrared targeting and visual acquisition cameras was not considered necessary.

Some of its father stealth features were maintained however, also related mostly to its airframe shape, particularly the serration and heat signature reducing shaping and build of the exhaust port for its single turbofan, due to the advantage of such design choice difficulting the tracking of infrared guided missiles against it, something which is already obviously not as simple as it would be with a more conventional fighter, for the role of the CE-32 in electronic warfare is not purely offensive, while the layer designed to refract and disrupt laser tracking systems was also maintained due to its tactical utility beyond stealth. Otherwise, the basic design and considerations taken regarding the CL-32 airframe also apply for this offspring.

Thanks to its design similarities, it is rarely not possible to perform maintenance on a CE-32 using the same infrastructure and processes developed for the CL-32, except when the maintenance also involves its new systems focused on electronic warfare. With a 70% ratio of shared production phases and components with the Buitre, swapping maintenance procedures between both thus become in most cases possible, saving significantly the needed logistics costs to operate both aircraft.

Cockpit

Relatively little structural changes happened into the cockpit. One of them, as hinted, is the removal of indium tin oxide coating on its canopy, due to the overall irrelevance of full stealth for its intended role, which also contributes to an easier manufacturing process. Another, perhaps more important, is the addition of a new seat, followed by an additional set of FSoft Intelliview displays for the new crew member of the aircraft, because it is considered that dealing with electronic warfare and piloting an aircraft simultaneously would be problematic, even with the high level of information technology development and automation of modern times. These new display systems, as further explained on avionics, are fully integrated in their software component and specialized for the electronic warfare operator role, being directly linked to the GE-36 system. Otherwise, no differences remain, other than a needed repositioning of the internal optical/IR camera due to the new seat added to an space purportedly left vacant in the cockpit of the original CL-32 for a possible two-seater version, should one become useful, which has now been proved true.

Propulsion

The propulsion system is virtually unchanged compared to the CL-32, however, the weight-reducing structural changes to its airframe have made the propulsion system with its EcologiX modelo 140 fludic nozzle turbofan and Ventilador Arriba 75 contra-rotating lift fan slightly more efficient than in the CL-32, meaning an increased performance, and also, logically, a more than enough capability of accompanying the former during air superiority missions, or a CB-1 Miaja during tactical bombings among many others, in the role of escort electronic warfare.

A new increment however was the additional ram air turbine installed to provide, when necessary due to lack of power from its own propulsion systems, power to the electronic warfare systems added to the CE-32, making of them, when more convenient than the inevitable aerodynamic penalty from having such turbine active, fully power independent on demand from the aircraft primary powerplant.

Avionics

Much of what applies to the CL-32 and its A upgrade regarding avionics also apply to the CE-32. There are no changes on its used radar systems, and most of the upgrades have been increments to the systems that already existed in the CL-32 rather than modifications. The main exception to this is the new redundant operating system Airlinux 3.0ew, which is nothing more than an incremental modification over the 3.0cm source code and concept, for the reason that the used in the Buitre was optimized for air-to-air combat-centric avionics and processes rather than for the electronic warfare role, offering a new array of integrated decentralized modules for optimization of jamming, radar warning and allied wavelengths protection systems integrated with it, as part of the unique modus operandi of the Confederacy regarding avionics, based on the concept of integrated systems without common mode failure(ISWCF), where the OS is little more than a redundant processing optimization layer to which the avionics systems themselves, although being optimal with its presence, still can operate fully independent from it. The Airlinux 3.0ew also contains several modules for the potential expansion into the operation of some aircraft launched cruise missiles for the role of hard-kill suppression of enemy air defenses, combined of course with its electronic warfare capabilities.

As the CL-32 wingtips were already built with modular support for a pair of either smoke dischargers for recreational purposes or of electronic countermeasures, it was relatively simple to design a proper set of DA-92(Detector de Amenazas) multiple band receiver modules, which besides helping it to filter hostile jamming attacks, also give to it a much greater capability of detecting incoming threats to be jammed than that of the rear warning modules of the ASA-3A5 dual-mode phased array radar, and also boosting its own self-defense capabilities and those of nearby aircrafts. making of it a sort of operational early warning aircraft in addition to its jamming role, also providing support for high band jamming.

Another addition is the PNTC-24(¿Por qué No Te Callas? 24 horas) communications receiver and jammer, which support interference cancellation to allow the pilot and EW operator to communicate even while jamming enemy communications through electronic assaults, as the PNTC-24 was designed to cover the entirety of communications bands from military frequencies and bands to UHF, VHF, digital, satellite, FM and AM among many others, being very important in the action of disrupting hostile bombing runs or even, with properly done clever tactics, misleading enemy forces among a myriad of different utilities for an electronic warfare system. However, one of the most interesting features of the PNTC-24 is that besides the usual SIGINT capabilities it provides, it also supports communication intelligence data regarding captured IFF transceivers of the enemy or even their communication protocols regarding orders, allowing an excelling intelligence operation to branch into many other utilities besides those of immediate visibility through electronic deception, and also thus allowing, an allied CE-32, provided enough received data on enemy systems, to issue false-flag orders to enemy forces which are indistinguishable from legitimate ones, which, if coupled with a proper set-up of giving the enemy the illusion they managed to win the battle through the waves, could give many very interesting possibilities for a creative and ingenious tactician.

Armament

The Cuervo was built based on the Buitre E model for a single reason. The standard CL-32 drop cold-launch system based on internal trapezoidal bays for individual missiles, developed to minimize the probability of detection during their opening process, were logically useless in an aircraft not designed for being fully stealth due to its intended role being incompatible with such capability. Thus a conventional internal bay not only is less costly and easier to construct, but also more adequate and less heavy compared to the complex servomechanics involved in the CL-32. As a given choice of setting up of armament, due to the fact that an internal bay would be counterproductive to jamming pods, besides also lacking enough space for their storage, all its armament sought for self defense is stored in it, being composed usually of four MBDA Meteor beyond visual range missiles.

On the new, four reinforced external pylons which occupy a significant part of the usable wing area, up to four electronic warfare pods of the natively developed GE-36 (Guerra Electrónica) can be mounted. The GE-36, developed in partnership with the University of Tucker Engineering College, is close in concept to the AN/ALQ-99 used by the EA-18 Growler, with the difference, that due to the fact it was tailored for the more compact wingspan of the CL-32, a major effort went into going as far as possible into developing a compact jamming pod as possible without sacrificing performance. The end result was an significantly power-efficient system which will rarely need of its own power source to function properly.

The GE-36 pods, although directly linked to the avionics of the CE-32 where redundant backups of their control systems softwares can operate at any moment through Airlinux 3.0ew in case of failure of the other ones, have inbound all the necessary electronics and coded systems to filter, analyze and automatically jam signals, from radio-guided missile tracking to enemy communications. Being a primarily low band system, its capabilities are thus complemented by the already mentioned high band DA-92 on its wingtips. Finally, instead of the twin-barreled revolver autocannon of the CL-32, the CE-32 is equipped with an electronic pod which integrates both DA-92 and GE-36 systems for an all-around electronic attack capability, while serving as additional control units, in accordance to a well-established belief on the importance of redundancy to prevent errors.

Instead of four jamming pods, a combination of two jamming pods and of two anti-radiation missiles can be mounted on external underwing hardpoints, although conventional air-to-surface missiles can also be added to complement the CE-32 and allow it to operate in the SEAD role in an adequate manner, expanding its mission profile from jamming to more physically destructive capabilities. The research and development over non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse systems is still occurring, although as of now no efficient system has been developed yet, although it can be expected that once one is devised, any missile using it will likely enter to the roster of the multitude of additional weaponry used by the CE-32 besides its standard load.

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CB-1 Miaja Close Air Support Fighter


Overview

The CB-1 Miaja is an unique, twin-seater subsonic fighter-bomber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighter-bomber) with short take-off and landing capabilities. Its primary role is close air support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_air_support), but it is also capable of air-to-air combat, naval bombing and interdiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_interdiction), engineered for being highly maneuverable, fuel-efficient and resistant. It uses a forward-swept wing with winglets, where it can continue flying even after the loss of the winglets, and packs a V-tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-tail) to reduce its drag. It's driven by two EP-91 engines mounted above the wings, which are tractor propfans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan) optimized for biofuels, combining efficiency with jet aircraft speed, and also explaining its heavily sound-proofed cockpit. Its armament consists in a heavy 40mm twin-barreled revolver autocannon able to wreak havoc against the top armor of most armored vehicles, in 8 under-wing hardpoints with pylons and in an internal bay capable of 3,500kg of payload in bombs which has actuators for otherwise loading 6 additional missiles. Like the CL-32 Buitre Air Superiority and Interceptor Fighter (http://forums3.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=554394), it offers a reliable build focused on ease and low cost of maintenance and re-supplying, which can be performed in less than optimal infrastructure conditions, and its capability of short take-off and landing on rough terrains, including even larger public roads, not restricting it to conventional airbases for operation, basic maintenance and re-supplying. It shares some avionics components with the CL-32, but instead uses a 3D radar as its main targeting system, which can also illuminate targets for the CL-32, and can in parallel lock on another target with its optical/infrared targeting system.

Specifications


Type: Short Take-off and Landing Fighter-Bomber
Length: 15.80m
Wingspan: 15.70m
Height: 5m
Airframe: Forward-swept wing w/ winglets, V-tail
Stealth: Not designed for, although V-tail reduces RCS
Propulsion:

2x EP-91 contra-rotating propfans, 11,200 kg each

Empty Weight: 12,000 kg
Normal Weight: 22,000 kg
CAS Weight: 25,000 kg
Bombing Weight: 28,500 kg
Maximum Take-Off Weight: 29,000 kg
Fuel Weight: 9,000 kg
Thrust/Weight Ratio: 1.01(Only AA missiles), 0.90(CAS), 0.79(Bombing)
Armament(Standard):

Revolutio 40mm twin-barreled revolver autocannon

Rate of Fire: 1000-1800 rounds per minute cyclic
Ammunition: 200 rounds

8 under-wing hardpoints with

2x MAA-88 BVRAAM
2x YCC Electro-optical missiles
2x SMI-14 PARS 3 LR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigat) anti-tank missile pods with 4 missiles each
2x BLA-19 APKWS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System) rocket pods w/ 11 rockets each

Internal bay with:

12 small diameter bombs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Diameter_Bomb)


Combat Radius: 600km
Ferry Range: 4,500km
Radar range(AWACS/Fighter/Ground target): 400km/250km/180km
Service Ceiling: 12,000m
Maximum Altitude: 18,000m
Airstrip take-off run: 410m
Airstrip landing: 360m
Cruising Speed: 920 km/h (MACH 0.75)
Maximum Speed: 1150 km/h (MACH 0.94)
Stall Speed: 170 km/h
Rate of Climb: 55 m/s
Crew:

Pilot
Bombardier

Avionics:
ECO-2A3 3D radar.
3 FSoft Quantix Integrated Processors(QIP) units w/ 7 processors each.
IEEE 1394c Integrated Data Bus
AirLinux 3.0cb Integrated Operating System
FSoft Intelliview Air computerized displays.
6 infrared complementary visual targeting cameras
FSoft Águila7 Electronic Control Unit(ECU)
MTI/FSoft Airforce Standard Low Probability of Intercept Datalink
Digital triplexed fly-by-wire flight control system
Redundant mechanical manual override flight control


Price: US$ 35,000,000


Operational Principle

Air-Ground Coordination is essential in modern warfare, specially for modern mobility warfare tactics, where speed makes the difference between a standstill where thousands die for the sake of a few miles and a successful campaign. The focus on multi-roles of the first decade of the 21st century was simply a result of an international geopolitic which made the investments of specialized aircrafts no longer necessary, and a multi-role is in no way as able as a specialized aircraft of similar technological capability, specially when it involves some as specific and technically exclusive as close air support. However, technological advances make the distinction between the roles of tactical bombing and close air support blurred, and thus, a fighter-bomber optimized for low altitude flight appears as the logical choice for supporting such operations. The capability of self-defense in air-to-air combat and the equivalent thrust:weight of interceptors on the other hand would give to such specialist fighter increased survivability and agility, with the latter being a small great boost to the velocity of an offensive in the bigger strategic picture.

Another change from the first decade, other than a much more turbulent political scenario where small and subcontinental scale conventional wars have already erupted and insurgents are no longer the greatest threat, is the slow reduction of global petroleum supply, which many military forces are still heavily dependent of, and predictions of a future energetic crisis becoming more true than ever. For such specialized role, thus, a biokerosene turbofan seems too inefficient to be adequate with the strategic implications of such fact, which would thus require an alternative able to reach speeds close to the speed of sound, with higher efficiency than a comparable turbofan.

History

If there is something the MilNet in Third Spanish States is known for is their disposition to embrace entirely new concepts, and as a plan to create their air force with entirely local technology which began in 2027, multiple projects, sharing information between each other, were ran in parallel with varying dynamically changeable degrees of priority. The crown of the jewel was the successful CLEX project for an air superiority fighter, which led to the CL-32 Buitre air superiority fighter with multi-role capabilities, which has overshadowed any procurement proposals, both due to its cost-efficiency and to ideological reasons.

As the second most prioritized project, relegated to such position for one singular reason, which was that the CL-32 was the most important development for ensuring a chance of aerial superiority in the Confederacy, but during mid of the process of development, both actually ended being considered to be equally important, for in certain ways, the proposed CBEX-1 (CazaBombardero EXperimental, Model 1) was a complementary aircraft to the capabilities of the first CLEX-31, and was a sharp contrast of engineering compared to it, where the CLEX-31 had a complex, aerodynamically unstable flying wing airframe fitted with weather-sensitive and expensive radar absorbing materials, and with major sacrifices done for stealth on its capabilities, the CBEX-1 was instead a rugged, simple airframe of conventional alloys focused on maneuverability and survivability, with no care about stealth, allowing it to have no aerodynamic sacrifices, using an innovative combination of low angle forward-sweep, winglets and a V-tail, which has shown to be much more interesting in wind tunnel tests for the desired features of the same compared to more traditional setups. Its role was to be a strike fighter complementary to the CL-32, providing the needed illumination of targets to the active radar lacking earlier versions of the CL-32, and capable, if necessary, of engaging in air-to-air combat against transport aircrafts, close air support aircrafts, helicopters, tactical and strategic bombers while the CL-32 was occupied with hostile air superiority and multirole fighters, and at last and as the most important feature, packing excellent capabilities of precision strike to be an exceptional close air support aircraft.

One of its most remarkable, and most arguable features is the choice to use a little explored alternative to a conventional turbofan, which combines the efficiency of a propeller with the capability of allowing a properly designed aircraft to have transonic cruise speeds like a jet engine, for the CBEX-1 was designed from grounds on as a highly maneuverable and agile propfan-driven aircraft, with an elevated thrust:weight ratio compared to dedicated tactical bombers and close air support aircrafts, or even matching that of air superiority fighters with a light payload, which would put it at an advantage against the aerial targets it was designed to strike for the role of protecting ground troops from air strike, while not being completely defenseless against supersonic threats, for it packs a full-fledged avionics suite developed in coordination with the CL-32 avionics development and also supports the Vympel R-37 missile, although for most missions it will probably not be fitted with one. Trainings made it clear how the bombardier and the pilot would focus on different tasks, with the first dealing with the ground strike while the latter dedicated in flight and air-to-air combat.

Its effective version, the CB-1 Miaja, named in honor of a general of the Second Spanish Republic during the first civil war, took its maiden flight in 2037, in a combined simulation with a twin-seated CL-32 where 40 decoys built of fiberglass and other dielectric composites were dropped in mid-air with parachutes and also laid on ground. By the combination of the 3D active radar of the CB-1 with the passive radar of the CL-32, and of their optical and infrared targeting systems, soon it was demonstrated how both effectively ended as complementary aircrafts. Where the topmost decoys were downed by CL-32, locking on two target simultaneously with the support of the illuminators provided by the CB-1, the CB-1 pilot downed all low altitude decoys and successfully destroyed the ground targets simultaneously, with the aid of the bombardier, in the alloted engagement time of 3 minutes, including a final demonstration with their revolver autocannons as all missiles were depleted.

Following the summer of 2038, it was finally formally considered as a fully approved fighter-bomber into the Air Force ranks, almost simultaneously with the CL-32. The CB-1 had also, as another major focus, a very high importance given on its avionics systems to have the least chance possible of collateral damage during tactical bombing or close air support missions, due to ideological reasons, for should in an unlikely event the Confederacy enter in an international war, a focus on trying to gain local support through the defense of freedom and sovereignty in face of imperialist interests would contradict any "acceptable margin of error" leading to bombs falling in hospitals, schools or residential areas.

Somehow, whenever one is seen flying, despite its slightly forward-swept wings, it draws memories of the prop-driven fighters of the Spanish Civil War and of the Second World War, and in certain ways is indeed an effective modern take on a propulsion system which was believed to be over for fighter aircrafts in the modern age, and it has acquired a sort of retro elegance and prestige among the population for what it represents, although people usually tend to be too busy running for their ear mufflers to pay much attention to them when they are flying at too low altitudes, to the point that they were even suggested as psychological weapons due to their very loud noise which could, for example, make difficult for an untrained operator of a MANPADS to keep aim on them. The CB-1 Miaja has already entered history as one of the few successful implementations of propellers in modern aircraft, now all that is hoped is that it shall not break the record of deafness problems among the unwary of its morale-breaking battle cry.

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ACA-1 Chapulín Sombreado UCAV

Overview

The Chapulín is a compact length, stealth, transonic unmanned aerial vehicle with a large wingspan designed for a multitude of roles from precision bombing to reconaissance, built of a combination of fiberglass and parkerized steel and with the inclusion of a 10mm thick layer of radar absorbent anechoic ferrite in pyramidal shape in its internal structure. It can operate both as a recon and light attack drone against aerial and ground threats, and is the most used option as the standard unmanned aerial vehicle under direct control of the M135 Librecielo CCM mobile command centers used at company level, for which its avionics were entirely adapted to, while its technologies allow an entire squadron of them to be controlled by a single operator from a CCM. Its primary feature is the use of an oblique flying wing airframe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_flying_wing#DARPA_Oblique_Flying-Wing_.28OFW.29_Project), which ensures optimal efficiency in transonic speeds while being favorable for reduction of RCS, coupled with its small size. It supports an internal payload of usually two PARS 3 LR missiles and of 4 GEM-3 lightweight ADATS missiles or of reconaissance equipment, and even have them replaced for a set of 4 small diameter bombs instead, however its wings would be negatively affected by external payloads. It is driven by a single EX-35 low bypass, fluidic nozzle turbofan, optimized for biofuels and specifically tailored for its compact dimensions. It is equipped with a LIDAR for target designation and with optical devices for reconaissance.

Specifications


Type: Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle
Length: 5m
Wingspan: 15m
Height: 2.5m
Airframe: Oblique flying wing
Stealth:

"Radar-transparent" dielectric composite frame combined with parkerized steel
Pyramidal ferrite RAM inside frame
Planform alignment
Serration on exposed edge of the exhaust port
LPI Datalink

Propulsion: 1 EX-35 low bypass, fluidic nozzle turbofan, 5,000 kg dry
Empty weight: 5,000 kg
Normal recon weight: 7,500 kg
Normal combat weight: 8,000 kg
Maximum weight: 9,000 kg
Minimum fuel weight: 2,250 kg
Maximum fuel weight: 3,150 kg
Thrust/weight ratio: 0.66 - 0.63
Armament(Standard):
2x PARS 3 LR anti-tank missiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigat)
4x GEM-3 lightweight airborne ADATS missiles (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=2090)

Combat radius: 250km
Ferry range: 1,000km
Detection range: 80km
Limit per pylon: 4 internal loads at 30kg, 2 at 70kg, bombs carriage at 700kg
Normal payload: 180kg
Maximum payload: 800kg
Service ceiling: 8,000m
Maximum altitude: 12,000m
Airstrip take-off run: 100m
Airstrip landing: 75m
Launch Requirements: Prepared or semi-prepared taxiway or ZLL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZLL)
Cruising speed: 850 km/h
Maximum speed: 1,450 km/h
Rate of climb: 220 m/s
Crew: N/A
Avionics:

ECO-0A3 LIDAR
BUHO-3Y Automatic Target Recognition System. Range: 60 km
3 FSoft Quantix Integrated Processors(QIP) units w/ 5 processors each.
Fiber-optic Integrated Data Bus
AirLinux 3.0cu Integrated Operating System
3 infrared complementary visual reconaissance cameras
FSoft Águila5 Full Authority Digital Engine Control(FADEC)
MTI/FSoft Airforce Standard Low Probability of Intercept Datalink
Digital triplexed remote/semi-automated squadron flight control system

Cost: $20,000,000

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B-12 Luddite Strategic Bomber

Overview

The Luddite, also known as the "Stratobomber", is the largest military aircraft of the Confederacy, a low radar cross section, 5th generation, stratospheric (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere), supersonic, intercontinental strategic bomber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bomber) and heavy naval bomber, featured by another gambit into new concepts of airframes, as it possess a peculiar blended wing body uncommonly built with highly swept inner wings in tandem with variable geometry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_geometry_wing) outer wings which sweep gradually during flight according to speed, using a supercritical airfoil to improve performance and reduce the intensity of drag during transonic speeds, and by less costly design features to reduce RCS like the serrated edges of its engines exhaust ports, but not enough to classify it as an stealth aircraft. It is powered by an unconventional configuration of five, partly under-fuselage, above-body EX-340 fluidic nozzle turbofans with vectored thrust capability, which also using Coanda effect from the nozzles, offers a replacement for the massive tail it would need otherwise for control surfaces, working together with the elevons of the inner wing, and also a needed thrust capability for the relatively short runway length needed for it to take off and land, although logically it is not a STOL.

Focused on very long range precision bombing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_bombing) and naval interdiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Surface_Warfare) rather than carpet bombing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing) tactics, it can have up to 90% of its maximum take-off weight minus empty weight composed by fuel only, specially due to the increased fuel compartments on its blended wing body which are usually too small for armament payload, as its primary strength is its range, focused with a crew area built for effectively allowing flights and missions of more than 48 hours of length, by offering all facilities for all their basic needs and support for having the double of its needed crew for in-mission day and night shifts, with a hot seat principle to reduce the area dedicated for this role, coupled with entirely reclinable seats to allow the needed rest. Usually it is armed with the precision guided small diameter bombs, by a pair of cruise missiles or ACA-2 unmanned aerial vehicles, and by a significant quantity of deployable countermeasures.

For naval missions on the other hand it can be equipped with an entirety of air-to-ground anti-shipping missiles and cruise missiles into modular rotary launchers and missile pods that can be installed on it in any air field with infrastructure to perform its maintenance. It also functions, albeit at a very limited level, as an Airborne Early Warning and Command (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEW%26C) aircraft, due to its comprehensible avionics which include the Tactical Theater Datalink Relay System(TTDRS) used for creating a comprehensible, unified whole from all collected data nearby, including even ground based recon, and focused on giving additional information awareness to nearby escort fighters. While an active phased radar system for aircraft detection mostly, a 3D radar for ground based detection and an infrared/optical detection system based on FSoft Intelliview technology to support ground strikes from primarily TVR based cruise missiles sum its capabilities, guided through the triple-redundant GNU Hurd and SELinux based Airlinux 3.0 military operating system, or by their own hardwired systems.

Specifications


Type: Intercontinental Strategic Bomber / Heavy Naval Bomber
Length: 69.4m
Wingspan:

Unswept(10º): 85.3 m
Swept(75º): 39.3 m

Height: 15 m
Airframe: Blended wing body, gradually variable sweep tandem wing, supercritical airfoil.
Stealth: Reduced RCS, but not a stealth aircraft

Serration on exposed edge of the exhaust ports
LPI Datalink

Propulsion:

5x EX-340 low bypass, fluidic nozzle turbofans, 48,000 kgf each

Total Net Thrust: 240,000 kgf
Empty weight: 160,000 kg
Minimum fuel weight: 108,000 kg
Maximum fuel weight: 216,000 kg
Normal Combat Weight: 350,000 kg
Maximum take-off weight: 400,000 kg
Thrust/weight ratio: 0.60
Armament(Standard):
Internal bay with:
150 small diameter bombs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Diameter_Bomb) or 50 AGM-84 Harpoon Block III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-84_Harpoon) anti-shipping missiles
16 AGM-88 HARM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM)
500 chaffs/flares

Normal payload: 50,000 kg
Maximum payload: 60,000 kg
Service ceiling: 22,000m
Maximum Altitude: 40,000m
Airstrip take-off run: 650m
Airstrip landing: 600m
Combat radius: 6,000-8,000km, depending on payload
Ferry range: 22,000km
Detection range: 250km
Cruising speed: 1,000 km/h (MACH 0.82)
Maximum speed: 2,700 km/h (MACH 2.2)
Rate of climb: 120 m/s
Crew: 8 to 10

Field Commander (not essential)
Pilot
Co-pilot
Offense SysOp
Defense SysOp
Additional shift crew on "hot seat" configuration

Avionics:

ECO-2B1 3D High-resolution Radar
ECO 2C4 Active Phased Array Radar
BUHO-5A Automatic Target Recognition System. Maximum Range: 300 km
3 FSoft Quantix Integrated Processors(QIP) units w/ 7 processors each.
Fiber-optic Integrated Data Bus
AirLinux 3.0b Integrated Operating Systems
FSoft Intelliview Air computerized displays.
MTI/FSoft Airforce Standard Low Probability of Intercept Datalink
FSoft Tactical Theater Datalink Relay System
6 infrared complementary visual targeting cameras
FSoft Águila8 electronic engine control
Digital triplexed fly-by-wire flight control system
Multi-purpose ECM System
Narrow band ECM Jammer


Cost: $335,000,000