February 22, 2004 at 11:56 pm
Ok I made this new design, what do you guys think of it
This Aircraft:
-Single Seat
-Weapons carried in Internal Bays with a some external underwing hardpoints. The internal bays are just on the sides besides the air intake.
-Powered by a powerful single TVC engine
-The wing is a delta wing(cranked arrow), very similar to F-16XL’s.
-There should be enough space for both internal fuel and internal bays
-It will be a bit bigger than LCA and maybe somewhere around the size of F-35, if not smaller, it’s RCS should be as big as LCA’s due to smaller airframe and no vertical tails to increase the RCS, if wanted it could be shaped for stealth
-Crosswind problem at take off/landing should be fixed by the TVC engines rederecting the thurst
-Not sure what it’s take off/landing distance will be
-It should have supercruise obviously due to low drag, lighter size and powerful engine, maybe something like the TVC AL-41F
-Shouldn’t be that hard to maintain.
-Should have very advanced FBW, some of the most advanced due to no vertical tails, it will be highly unstable