Here is the Have Blue comparison with MINIKITE !

http://www.f-117a.com/Have.html

Not as stealth as Have Blue, but less observable than many other ( I figure ). :very_drunk:

I am waiting for the order for these impatiently by the phone.

Ejection seat:
SKS-94M2 (speed 70 – 400 km / h, 28 kg weight)
KSS-42-4 (speed 0 – 850 km / h, 68 kg weight)
K-36L 3,5YA (speed 0 – 1,050 km / h, 86 kg weight)

Sounds like you got interested Paralay ( and someone else as well since we just hit past 70 000 clicks ).

SKS-94M2 would be accetable in the weight frame I am after. I know GSH-301 is a good gun but a bit too big ( few ammo ).

I think I am after a bit more versatile ac…which is 4½ ft longer than P-51D/SABA.

I’d put a dose of “blue” in it.

I had to check what B-8M1 was; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-8_(Rakete) I bet that would be effective in CAS mode, but not very stealthy.

Slight enhancement to make it go Mach 2.

There is also Arado E.381 the smallest ever fighter !

I am pretty sure a stealth fighter cannot be made any smaller than the MINIKITE is now…with AESA radar and 2 concealed AMRAAMS and 2 semiburied Sidewinders.

Only thing to really study now is to make the rocket engines work ( possibly hydrazine and no LOX ).

if it only have fuel for a few seconds then it will lose to any modern aircraft ( because it cant sustain turn or sustain climb with them) or any smart pilot ( because they will simply climb when they see the E. 381, after a few second they will have an easy kill

Rocket planes of that era typically had fuel/propellant for few minutes…BI-1 flew 15 minutes max.

It would have been an easy prey if the target had seen it coming.

I figure Me-163 flew 3-4 minutes on rockets and thereafter glided another 10-15 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnwQcr8tnAw

The E.381 was supposedly designed to fly like them, but being jettisoned at high had more time to maneuver at the battle field ( 2-3 minutes perhaps ).

Soviet BI-1 was no less easy to operate; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLiYPWR3cLI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereznyak-Isayev_BI-1

Later ones not so much:
09 August 1952 One Hawker Sea Fury kills a MIG-15 with 20mm cannons.
10 September 1952 One F4U-4B (USMC) kills a MIG-15 with 0.50cal.
20 June 1965: Two A-1H share a kill of a MIG-17 with 20mm cannons.
09 October 1966 One A-1H kills a MIG-17 with 20mm cannons.

This was posted on another board by another person:

It was also noted that less than half of the Me-262s shot down were taking off or landing – most were hit by multiple Allied fighters while attacking bomber formations. Hard to evade 4-5 fighters at the same time, even if they are slower, if they are between you and your destination/target.

I had no idea Skyraider flew already early 1945; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-1_Skyraider

If you read carefully the E.381 was able to sustain massive G-loads and went ( on paper ) 900 km/h…that is considerably faster than a piston fighter at the end of WW III. Does that make a difference ?

I thought it was guns, at least that was the story on dogfights.

I think it was an A4 that got a kill using Zuni rockets.

Is radar able to detect a small craft like that Arado E.381 ?