I like your designs so far. I do think you are underestimating space needed for pilot to operate the plane, as well as fuel storage. Also, for such a small plane, launching a single AMRAAM missile would be a serious offload, and balance problem. At least it seems to me like that. Increase in 10-20% overall size would be a must in my opinion.
otherwise, i love the idea.
I kinda agree. I have a plane in 3 views that is just marginally smaller than Helwan HA-300 and slightly bigger than Folland Gnat…and have radar and twin engines and 6 missiles inside. But there is a one measurable fact that explains some of it; the air intake routes are much shorter. So the internal volume is not “wasted” on routing the air inside…hopefully the air speed is still manageably reduced to reach the super cruise by the offset to get the stealth feature in it. Also the nose cone is generally empty in many older jets.
The CG in this kinda lay out is pretty forward and a three piece wing ( like in Avanti Piaggio 180 ) is a stable platform ( enough leverage to cope with any situation ) when fly by wire is computer adjusted like in any stealth ( 4-5 gen ) nowadays. Certainly this needs a CFD ( computational fluid dynamics ) analysis and several aviation engineers input to get it further.
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